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Speaker 2: Welcome back to The Dan Caplis Show, being guest hosted
Speaker 2: by Weldkenny Shriff Steve Roims. This is day three of
Speaker 2: my hosting gig, and the last day of my hosting
Speaker 2: gig this particular go around, and hopefully I'll have his
Speaker 2: chance in the future. Dan's a busy guy and I
Speaker 2: know he's going to be in court a bunch in
Speaker 2: some upcoming weeks and months, So hopefully I'll be back
Speaker 2: on the air with you sometime in the near future.
Speaker 2: But I'm sure you're all waiting to hear Dan back soon. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: he won't be here the rest of the week, so
Speaker 2: tomorrow you'll have a different guest host for Thursday and Friday,
Speaker 2: and I'll leave that to Ryan and the rest of
Speaker 2: the folks to introduce who that person is going to
Speaker 2: be coming up tomorrow. But for today, we've got a
Speaker 2: jam packed schedule, and of course I packed the schedule
Speaker 2: as full as I could on a day that Ryan
Speaker 2: is definitely working single handedly behind the glass. So he's
Speaker 2: going to be as busy as he's as he can
Speaker 2: possibly be. But he's a man of many talents. I
Speaker 2: know we're going to make this work. Over the last
Speaker 2: few days, I've brought up several topics. Hopefully you've been listening.
Speaker 2: On Monday, we talked a lot about illegal immigration and
Speaker 2: kind of how that impacts your life where you stand.
Speaker 2: Are you part of the fifty six percent of America
Speaker 2: that says deport them all? Most of you that called
Speaker 2: in or texted in are definitely in that boat. In fact,
Speaker 2: I think all of you that called in, we're in
Speaker 2: that boat. We also talked yesterday about crime in Colorado.
Speaker 2: Do you feel safer today than you did a year ago?
Speaker 2: Or where you do you? Did you feel much better
Speaker 2: a few years back before all these liberal policies started
Speaker 2: kicking in, And again, I think most of you agree
Speaker 2: that Colorado's on a path to destruction. We're going in
Speaker 2: the wrong direction, and that's happening under Democrat leadership. Today,
Speaker 2: We're going to try to wrap all that up together
Speaker 2: and say, all right, Colorado's definitely gone to the to
Speaker 2: the blue side. We're a hardcore blue state. We can
Speaker 2: call ourselves a purple state. So is there a chance
Speaker 2: at getting back to purple? Is there a chance at
Speaker 2: getting back to red? And we've talked about the premier candidates,
Speaker 2: if you will, on the Democrat side for governor, those
Speaker 2: being Phil Wiser and Michael Bennett, and neither one of
Speaker 2: those folks being real high on my agenda by any
Speaker 2: sense of the word for a governor's seat. But we
Speaker 2: also have Jenna Griswold who's running apparently for attorney general,
Speaker 2: which is shocking to me. I didn't know she had
Speaker 2: gone to law school. I wasn't even sure she had
Speaker 2: graduated from high school. But all that being said, she
Speaker 2: seems to be the candidate for that particular seat. So again,
Speaker 2: in an upcoming election cycle twenty twenty six, where we
Speaker 2: have a chance at maybe starting to chip away at
Speaker 2: the state and maybe steal a couple of those seats,
Speaker 2: the governor seat, the attorney general seat, those definitely are
Speaker 2: ones that I think we should be targeting as a state.
Speaker 2: So what I'd like to ask all you guys that
Speaker 2: are listening and are willing to call in, is where
Speaker 2: do you think we can make the biggest Can we
Speaker 2: make the biggest leap. Do we have a chance of
Speaker 2: pulling that governor seat back? Do we have a chance
Speaker 2: at pulling any of those seats back? Secretary of State,
Speaker 2: Attorney General, that Senate seat, that hicken Looper's holding on
Speaker 2: to the treasure seat, any of them. Do you have
Speaker 2: a candidate in mind that you think, all right, this
Speaker 2: is the person who could be the dark horse. This
Speaker 2: is a person that could take it back that governor
Speaker 2: seat as well. For the Republicans, you can text in
Speaker 2: at five seven, seven thirty nine or call in at
Speaker 2: three zho three seven to one, three eight two five five.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have a wide variety of folks coming on
Speaker 2: the show today. We're, like I said, we're gonna have
Speaker 2: a jam pack schedule. A lot of you people, a
Speaker 2: lot of you will under you'll know some of these
Speaker 2: these characters that we're bringing in. Our first guest up
Speaker 2: after this first break will be a gentleman by the
Speaker 2: name of Art del Cueto. Art's pretty nationally known on
Speaker 2: Fox News and other premier news stations. He is a
Speaker 2: he's a big time border security guy. He works for
Speaker 2: Fair the Federation of American Immigration Reform, but he's most
Speaker 2: known for his career with Border Patrol and as the
Speaker 2: vice president and spokesperson for the National Border Patrol Council.
Speaker 2: Like I said, he'll be with us in that second segment,
Speaker 2: right around four to twenty. We're also going to have
Speaker 2: Congressman Gabe Evans from CED eight. He goes without much introduction.
Speaker 2: He's made quite a splash in his time out in
Speaker 2: Congress and probably well known on these airwaves. He's got
Speaker 2: a lot to educate us about about his efforts out
Speaker 2: in Congress and some of the tax he's already starting
Speaker 2: to get only four months into his tenure as the
Speaker 2: newly minted CD eight Congressman. After the break, we'll have
Speaker 2: Britta horn In or in the second hour, we'll have
Speaker 2: Britta horn In, the new Colorado State Republican Chairwoman. She's
Speaker 2: going to stay with us for quite a while. Again
Speaker 2: in studio, we'll ask her a lot of questions and
Speaker 2: kind of figure out does she believe if any of
Speaker 2: these seats can be taken back, and what are the
Speaker 2: strategies for doing so. Obviously, you know she's got to
Speaker 2: be supportive of all candidates, but we have to all
Speaker 2: be rowing in the right direction to try to at
Speaker 2: the Republican Party moving and hopefully in a winning position
Speaker 2: where we haven't been for quite some time. And then
Speaker 2: we're also going to bring in Sheriff Alan Cooper from
Speaker 2: Fremont County. A lot of you have heard about an
Speaker 2: arrest that was made over in Fremont of some individuals
Speaker 2: that were coming back from Utah believed to be illegal immigrants,
Speaker 2: and they were carrying a vast amount of AMMO with them,
Speaker 2: or hauling a vast amount of AMMO with them. Obviously
Speaker 2: they weren't legal residents, and so some questions abound about
Speaker 2: why did they travel to Utah to buy AMMO? Where
Speaker 2: were they taking it? And Sheriff Cooper's going to educate
Speaker 2: us on that incident and kind of where that case
Speaker 2: is going. But in the meantime, again, please send your
Speaker 2: text in five seven, seven three nine. Start your text
Speaker 2: out with Dan. Also, you can call in at three
Speaker 2: oh three seven one three eight two five five. Like
Speaker 2: I said, we're gonna have a jam pack show, So
Speaker 2: I don't know how many calls we'll get to, but
Speaker 2: if you're willing to wait, we'll try to squeeze in
Speaker 2: wherever we can. I already have a couple of texts here.
Speaker 2: First one is from Alexa, very loyal listener of the show.
Speaker 2: She says, Sheriff frames, if you can let the listeners know.
Speaker 2: The pro police Rally is holding the tenth Anniel law
Speaker 2: excuse me, Law Enforcement Appreciation Day on Sunday on April
Speaker 2: twenty seventh, from three to six pm at the Douglas
Speaker 2: County Fairgrounds. It's going to be a great time, she believed.
Speaker 2: Jimmy Singenberger will be performing. I know that event's happened
Speaker 2: for quite some time. I attended one that was down
Speaker 2: in Denver that got a little ugly when Antifa and
Speaker 2: others tried to attack. In fact, they came after Michelle Malkin,
Speaker 2: and I ended up being the person who evacuated her
Speaker 2: from that particular event so that she wouldn't get we'll
Speaker 2: just say damaged. So hopefully this rally and Douglas County
Speaker 2: will be a little bit more supported the environment. There
Speaker 2: is a little more pro police as the rally is
Speaker 2: intended to be, and we don't have the summer of
Speaker 2: craziness in twenty twenty like we did back then during
Speaker 2: the COVID and George Floyd Era. So I think that'll
Speaker 2: be a good event down Douglas County. I've attended that
Speaker 2: one as well a couple of times. So again, that's
Speaker 2: on four to twenty seven, from three to six pm
Speaker 2: at the Douglas County Fairgrounds. According to Alexa, if that
Speaker 2: information is wrong, you can text her and let her know.
Speaker 2: But so that we can get to our first guest,
Speaker 2: I do want to cut to the break just a
Speaker 2: little bit early. Again, feel free to send in those
Speaker 2: texts five seven, seven, three nine. Start them out with Dan.
Speaker 2: You know the drill we're looking to see. Do you
Speaker 2: have candidates that can run for any of these seats
Speaker 2: Secretary of State, Attorney General, treasurer, governor state or US
Speaker 2: Senator who can win that seat from the Republican side?
Speaker 2: How can we create a slate of candidates? And that's
Speaker 2: not to say that we don't already have the right
Speaker 2: governor's candidate in the race. There's several announced. But if
Speaker 2: if you've got a different idea, text it in and
Speaker 2: the call line is also three O three seven one
Speaker 2: three eight two five five. We'll cut to a break.
Speaker 2: Can we come back. We'll have Art del Queto on
Speaker 2: with us, and you're listening to the Dankplas Show here
Speaker 2: with Steve Reams as your guest host on six thirty
Speaker 2: K how.
Speaker 3: And now back to the dan Kamplas Show podcast. Welcome
Speaker 3: back to the.
Speaker 2: Dan Kapla Show being hosted today by Well County Sheriff
Speaker 2: Steve Reims. And what's us on the hotline? As I
Speaker 2: said before we went to break is art del quoto art?
Speaker 2: How you doing? I'm good, I'm doing great art. If
Speaker 2: you would tell the listeners a little bit about your
Speaker 2: background with Border Patrol and with the National Border Patrol Council,
Speaker 2: just to set the stage a little bit in your
Speaker 2: current role with the Federation for American Immigration.
Speaker 4: Reform of course. So I started with Borrow back in
Speaker 4: two thousand and three. So, and I just recently retired
Speaker 4: in December of this last year. I've been working the
Speaker 4: line for quite some time. I never was in management.
Speaker 4: I never did the desk two d's. I was just
Speaker 4: always out there on that line, working on the Tohuna
Speaker 4: Autumn Reservation, which is the Native American reservation along the
Speaker 4: US Mexico border. So, and that reservation, it's more or
Speaker 4: less a little bit over sixty linear miles with Mexico.
Speaker 4: It's the main corridor for drugs entering the country and
Speaker 4: it has been like that for decades. And then I've
Speaker 4: been working obviously with the National Board of PROCASSO with
Speaker 4: the local union. It's a union right for the lack
Speaker 4: of a better word, And what I tell people is
Speaker 4: the difference between that union and other unions is we
Speaker 4: bargain for the rights of the law enforcement agents. We
Speaker 4: don't strike based on pay or anything like that. So
Speaker 4: in that position, I've been lucky enough to work with
Speaker 4: various organizations. We work with various different administrations, obviously the
Speaker 4: current administration being the best one we've ever had to
Speaker 4: work with, and we worked with them back in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 4: And because of that, I had the opportunity to work
Speaker 4: various times with FAIR, the Federation of American Immigration Reform.
Speaker 4: I would constantly be a stapop in Washington, DC during
Speaker 4: their feet to the Fire events. And you know, I
Speaker 4: retired from the Agents, I stayed on with the Border
Speaker 4: Patrol Council, which the union, and then obviously now I
Speaker 4: picked up a fantastic spot with Federation for American Immigration
Speaker 4: Reform helping them as an advisor to the issues on
Speaker 4: the border, immigration and everything else. But I've been I've
Speaker 4: been in Arizona task for everybody, yes, sir, you know
Speaker 4: decades with the Border Patrol. Prior to that, I worked
Speaker 4: with the States as one of the gang Unit officers
Speaker 4: for the State of Arizona, right, And even prior to that,
Speaker 4: I did a couple of years as a Wildlin firefighter.
Speaker 2: Well, and the way that you and I got to
Speaker 2: know each other was through fair a few months back, yourself,
Speaker 2: Mark Lamb and I were up on Capitol Hill trying
Speaker 2: to lobby some of the congressmen and senators up there.
Speaker 2: We all kind of traveled around Capitol Hill there together.
Speaker 2: And I'll set the stage just a little bit because
Speaker 2: one of our first meetings was to go meet with
Speaker 2: Colorado Senator Michael Bennett. And when we were going to
Speaker 2: that office, I told you and Mark, I said, we're
Speaker 2: not going to get to meet the senator. We're going
Speaker 2: to get some staffer. I said, we'll be lucky if
Speaker 2: we get as janitor. Because that was about the fourth
Speaker 2: or fifth time that I had been scheduled to go
Speaker 2: meet with with Michael Bennett sometime in the last few years.
Speaker 2: Through fair, and it played out just that way. We
Speaker 2: walk in and we get a staffer. But I want
Speaker 2: you to back me up here. When we walked into
Speaker 2: the office, there was a former state senator from Colorado
Speaker 2: and there by the name of Alec Garnett, and he
Speaker 2: and I had a pretty lively exchange over the red
Speaker 2: Flag bill that he helped pass in the state of Colorado.
Speaker 2: Give me your impression of that exchange.
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, you called it exactly like like
Speaker 4: it was, and I'll give you what I'll tell you
Speaker 4: what man hats off to YouTube. Not only did you
Speaker 4: call it, not only was it like you said, but
Speaker 4: you let them know. Uh that's that was. What was
Speaker 4: fantastic that you're letting out leaving out is when we
Speaker 4: went in there and actually sat down, you told him.
Speaker 4: I knew this is the way it was going to
Speaker 4: pat out because I've been trying to meet with this
Speaker 4: individual for quite some time. He always, you know, sends
Speaker 4: somebody else. But when we were out there, it was
Speaker 4: a very eloquently put by you. You know, it was
Speaker 4: a lively exchange.
Speaker 5: But I think at the end, uh uh, we agreed
Speaker 5: to disagree conversation.
Speaker 4: You agreed to disagree, but uh, I don't think he
Speaker 4: had an answer for you.
Speaker 2: No, he didn't. We were talking about we were talking
Speaker 2: about how red flag laws are, in my opinion, unconstitutional,
Speaker 2: and uh, they're they're they're not good for the state
Speaker 2: of Colorado.
Speaker 4: But any common sense person would would agree with you.
Speaker 2: And you're a very common sense person. A common sense person. Yes.
Speaker 2: So in our travels around d C, it was pretty
Speaker 2: obvious this was a this was a red blue issue.
Speaker 2: You know, most of the most of the Republican congressman
Speaker 2: and senators were more than happy to meet with us.
Speaker 2: Most of the Democrats were not the only credit I
Speaker 2: would give. And maybe you, maybe you would agree with this.
Speaker 2: Mark Kelly's staff. While he didn't meet with a senator
Speaker 2: Mark Kelly out of Arizona, he did provide staff that
Speaker 2: seemed very engaged and knowledgeable about the about the issues
Speaker 2: that we were there to talk about. You do you
Speaker 2: agree with that?
Speaker 4: I mean, look, there's some that will sit there and
Speaker 4: agree with you, and it's it's it's funny because I
Speaker 4: talked to us, I've been dealing with this for quite
Speaker 4: some time with the different you know, politicians, and when
Speaker 4: what I've seen and I didn't really realize this as
Speaker 4: much as I do now. Is their staffers, you would
Speaker 4: think that, you know, if he's a left leaning politician,
Speaker 4: he's just going to hire left leading staffers or vice versa.
Speaker 4: Not necessarily like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it.
Speaker 4: Isn't necessarily like that, which I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 4: I think it would be difficult for me to be
Speaker 4: a staffer for somebody that I don't agree with on
Speaker 4: ninety percent of the issues. Yeah, but I respect those
Speaker 4: that can do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think you you lined it out right there.
Speaker 2: With Mark Kelly's staff, I don't think they necessarily all
Speaker 2: aligned with him politically, but otherwise it seemed like everybody
Speaker 2: we met with they were If they were Republican, they
Speaker 2: were very supportive of building the wall, funding border patrol.
Speaker 2: If they were Democrat, they were a little wishy washy
Speaker 2: on it. And then if if it was Michael Bennett's office,
Speaker 2: we got one just above the janitor in my opinion,
Speaker 2: just a bit.
Speaker 4: But I think it was informative. Look, it was it
Speaker 4: was good to be out there with to talk. I
Speaker 4: think it's fantastic with fair continues to do. They've been
Speaker 4: doing it for quite some time, Like I said, I've
Speaker 4: been very fortunate to work with them when I was
Speaker 4: doing the Feat to the Fire. I mean, it was
Speaker 4: just a fantastic event that they would put on each
Speaker 4: and every year. And they continue to move forward, they
Speaker 4: continue to try to get things done right and you know,
Speaker 4: and inform the people, informed our politicians in their lawmakers
Speaker 4: the right way. I'm extremely happy to be on with them,
Speaker 4: to be honest. It's like I said, I've worked with
Speaker 4: them for such a long time and it was fantastic
Speaker 4: to work with them before. Now I'm working even more
Speaker 4: so and more closely with them, and it's just it's
Speaker 4: a great organization.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So you know, in your in your work out there,
Speaker 2: you know in your interactions with this new administration, you know,
Speaker 2: you've got a lot of years on with border patrol.
Speaker 2: You were talking about that first term of Donald Trump,
Speaker 2: how that was one of the better ones that you've
Speaker 2: ever been with. But how much better is it right
Speaker 2: now for the border patrol agent that's on the border,
Speaker 2: And how much different or how much are we stopping
Speaker 2: at the border that we were just letting straight on through.
Speaker 2: When I say we as a nation, we're just letting
Speaker 2: straight on through. Five short months ago. How big of
Speaker 2: a dichotomy and change are you seeing down there on
Speaker 2: the border.
Speaker 4: Well, well, I think what makes it even a bigger difference,
Speaker 4: right is we had a great position with President Trump
Speaker 4: the first time that he was in office. We had
Speaker 4: the support, We knew what was going on. We had
Speaker 4: that open door policy with the White House. We were
Speaker 4: able to to you know, go back and forth and
Speaker 4: explain everything, and it was great. I mean it was
Speaker 4: really great.
Speaker 2: But when he left.
Speaker 4: Office and the new administration came on, and I'm talking
Speaker 4: about the Biden administration, it was such a one to eighty.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 4: It was devastating to the agents. Sure, it was devastating
Speaker 4: to the country. So because it was I mean.
Speaker 2: You hit rock bottom.
Speaker 5: That's where we were at.
Speaker 4: I mean, I hate to say it that badly, but
Speaker 4: we had hit rock bottom when we were arresting individuals
Speaker 4: that they knew they were breaking the law, and when
Speaker 4: they when you arrested them, they would look at you
Speaker 4: and they they would flat out tell you there's nothing
Speaker 4: you can do. Yeah, And so that was that's rockbot
Speaker 4: as a law enforcement off as when you're arresting people
Speaker 4: for drugs for you know, after vehicle stops where they
Speaker 4: lead you on vehicle chases and they finally stop and
Speaker 4: they look right at you.
Speaker 2: Said, there's nothing.
Speaker 4: That's the most demoralizing thing you can go. Absolutely, So
Speaker 4: we hit rock bottom. And now with President Trump back
Speaker 4: in office, day one, man, it was like a flip
Speaker 4: of a switch. Another one eighty twice over. Man, let
Speaker 4: me tell you because the numbers stopped coming across. I
Speaker 4: tell these there to a lot of individuals.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: It was it was rhetoric alone. Immigration laws still haven't
Speaker 4: been changed. Remember that it changed the laws. It was
Speaker 4: the rhetoric, and it was the policy and procedure where
Speaker 4: you're saying, okay, now if you come across, you're going
Speaker 4: to get detanged. You're not just gonna get released. You're
Speaker 4: going to have to prove your case. If you're gonna
Speaker 4: claim asylum. You can still claim asylum. The difference is
Speaker 4: you have to prove that you actually have an asylum
Speaker 4: creer right, right. You can't just make that blanket statement
Speaker 4: and get released. So those are the things that you've
Speaker 4: seen changing now because of that policy. And I remember
Speaker 4: I just said you can still claim asylum. But all
Speaker 4: of a sudden, the numbers dropped and no one's asking
Speaker 4: for asylum, So I might believed that President Trump fixed
Speaker 4: all the problems in the entire world because people aren't
Speaker 4: sing asylum, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of strange. How just a little policy change
Speaker 2: does that? Well, Art, I appreciate your perspective. We had
Speaker 2: a hard break here, but thanks for jumping on with us.
Speaker 2: I know you got a lot of important stuff in
Speaker 2: the queue, so we'll let you get back to that.
Speaker 2: But Art Ncuato, thanks for being on with us and
Speaker 2: representing FAIR the Federation for American Immigration Reform. You listen
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Speaker 3: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the dankapless Show. You got well, Kenny
Speaker 2: Sheriff Steve Reims setting in on the driver's seat for
Speaker 2: the last day of three here that I'm covering Dan's
Speaker 2: show and uh with us here. Shortly we'll be Congressman
Speaker 2: Gabe Evans. We're just waiting for him to call in.
Speaker 2: But in the in the meantime, if you want to
Speaker 2: send in a text that that numbers five, seven, seven,
Speaker 2: three nine, just start your text out with Dan or
Speaker 2: in the next break. We'll also take some calls, which
Speaker 2: is three oh three seven one three eight two five five,
Speaker 2: And I believe we have Congressman Evans on the phone
Speaker 2: with us right now.
Speaker 3: Congressman Evans sure, good to be on with you.
Speaker 2: Hey, Thanks Gabe, It's nice to hear from you. And
Speaker 2: before we even start this, I want to I want
Speaker 2: to have a little Mia Kalpa moment with the with
Speaker 2: the audience because a couple of a couple of years back,
Speaker 2: when you decided you were going to get in this race,
Speaker 2: you called and you were calling several people, and you
Speaker 2: called me at home and said, what do you think
Speaker 2: about me jumping into CD eight? And I got to
Speaker 2: tell you I was not very encouraging, not because I
Speaker 2: didn't think you'd make a good congressman, but I just
Speaker 2: I love the work that you were doing down at
Speaker 2: the State House. You'd only been there for a little while,
Speaker 2: and I wanted to see you stay down there as
Speaker 2: long as possible because that's what impacts me most directly.
Speaker 2: You're a pro police guy, and I thought, well, give
Speaker 2: him a couple more years down there, and then he'll
Speaker 2: really be able to make that shift, so I wasn't
Speaker 2: very encouraging. I apologize for that, but you definitely proved
Speaker 2: me wrong. You won that seat back and you and
Speaker 2: I think you'll keep defending that seat. So I wanted
Speaker 2: to expose that in front of all the listeners out there,
Speaker 2: that I wasn't very helpful to your initial run. But
Speaker 2: I'm so glad you're there now. So that sets the
Speaker 2: stage and Congressman Evans, tell us what you're doing out
Speaker 2: in DC, tell us the work you're doing. And I
Speaker 2: know it's a mighty push right now.
Speaker 5: Well, Sheriff, I mean, I remember that conversation too, and
Speaker 5: I guess maybe I'm stubborn and remembered it differently because
Speaker 5: one of the things that you specifically told me there
Speaker 5: was you know what gave Sometimes you got to go.
Speaker 5: You got to go to war with the soldiers that
Speaker 5: you have, not the soldiers you wish you had. And
Speaker 5: so for me, I took that as play the hand
Speaker 5: your dealt, not the hand you wish you had, And
Speaker 5: the hand that we were dealt here in Colorado is,
Speaker 5: oh my word. We need to get some balance back
Speaker 5: in the state. We need to get some of these
Speaker 5: just insane leftist Democrats voted out of office because of
Speaker 5: the lunatic things that they're doing. And so that's the
Speaker 5: work that I'm trying to do in Washington, d C.
Speaker 5: I think we all know that Colorado is a sanctuary state,
Speaker 5: that Denver has doubled down on being a sanctuary city.
Speaker 5: Of my line of questioning that Denver Mayor Mike Johnson,
Speaker 5: when he came before the House Oversight Committee, I waived
Speaker 5: on basically means I got permission from the committee chair
Speaker 5: to sub on, and I asked him, you know, Mayor,
Speaker 5: you and the governor in Colorado all the time say
Speaker 5: that you're totally willing to work with federal authorities to
Speaker 5: get illegal immigrants who are committing other crimes drug dealers, clark,
Speaker 5: the bank robbers, things like that. You're totally willing to
Speaker 5: work with the Feds to get these folks out of
Speaker 5: our community. And I don't buy that because as a
Speaker 5: cop for ten years, I know that when you arrest somebody,
Speaker 5: you have to go fill out the standard FBI fingerprint card,
Speaker 5: which asks the citizenship of the individual that was arrested.
Speaker 5: And so Denver Mayor, do you allow your officers to
Speaker 5: fill out the citizenship block and the standard FBI fingerprint
Speaker 5: card when you arrest somebody for other And of course
Speaker 5: the answer was no, because Colorado and Denver have doubled
Speaker 5: down on policies that prevent police from being able to
Speaker 5: collect that information. And so then the immediate response was, well,
Speaker 5: then if you can't even identify the people that are
Speaker 5: illegally present in your community committing crimes, how in the
Speaker 5: world are you going to work with the Feds to
Speaker 5: get them out of the community. And so that's some
Speaker 5: of the work that I'm doing in Washington. Reduced the
Speaker 5: Uplift Act unhandcuffing police to locate and interdict foreign transgressors, which,
Speaker 5: among other things, pushes back on these insane sanctuary city
Speaker 5: and state laws that Denver crafts. In Colorado continue to
Speaker 5: double down on.
Speaker 2: You mean, like two seventy six that they're pushing through
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 5: That is the latest in a long laundry list of
Speaker 5: sanctuary state bills. Two seventy six, of course, expands even
Speaker 5: further the places where Colorado won't allow people to work
Speaker 5: with Immigration and Customs and other federal authorities to get
Speaker 5: violent criminals out of our communities. Share if you run
Speaker 5: a jail where do you think if you've got a
Speaker 5: drug dealer that's illegally present in our community, where do
Speaker 5: you think that arrests should take place. Should I be
Speaker 5: able to go get that person out of a jail
Speaker 5: in a controlled setting, or should that person have to
Speaker 5: go out into the community to try to apprehend a
Speaker 5: combative and potentially armed individual.
Speaker 2: Well, I think that's a pretty obvious question, and I'm
Speaker 2: glad you're getting to play the interviewer, But yes, they
Speaker 2: should be able to come into my jail or any
Speaker 2: other jail and do that. And I will say that
Speaker 2: there are some there are some ways to work with
Speaker 2: ice that are a little unconventional even with some of
Speaker 2: the laws that have been passed. But two seventy six
Speaker 2: would stop that ability as well. So here you're on
Speaker 2: point with your Uplift Act. What effect would that have
Speaker 2: directly on the state of Colorado and kind of what
Speaker 2: would that How would that intertwine with something like two
Speaker 2: seventy six or a House Bill eleven twenty four.
Speaker 5: Yes, So one of the things that the Uplift Act
Speaker 5: acknowledges is that under the Constitution Supreme Law of the
Speaker 5: United States, the federal government has authority in things like
Speaker 5: providing for the common defense, establishing justice. Those are in
Speaker 5: the Preamble to the Constitution, and then under Article six
Speaker 5: of the Constitution, any laws federal laws made in an
Speaker 5: accordance with the Constitution or the supreme law of the land.
Speaker 5: And so when you have states like Colorado that are
Speaker 5: going rogue, literally trying to protect Ms thirteen gang members,
Speaker 5: trendy Aragua gang members, drug dealers, people that are committing
Speaker 5: violent crimes in our community, and they're protecting those people
Speaker 5: by prohibiting state and local law enforcement from working with
Speaker 5: the federal governments. Well, what the Uplift Act does is
Speaker 5: supersede all of that stuff by extending effectively immunity to
Speaker 5: any state and local law enforcement officers that choose to
Speaker 5: work with the federal government. And then if the state
Speaker 5: tries to go after those officers for violating state law,
Speaker 5: the officers are actually indemnified by the federal government. And
Speaker 5: so the federal government there is a defendant who will
Speaker 5: protect those officers state and local officers if the state
Speaker 5: tries for them by indemnifying them with the full weight
Speaker 5: and authority of the federal government.
Speaker 2: Man that would be a very welcome thing for probably
Speaker 2: every law enforcement line officer in the state of Colorado,
Speaker 2: and just about every law enforcement leader, if you could
Speaker 2: get them to be honest. Now, city councils and whatnot
Speaker 2: may not agree, but those of us that are out
Speaker 2: enforcing the law would definitely welcome something like that. And
Speaker 2: we just have a little bit of time left. I
Speaker 2: know you have a couple of other bills that you've
Speaker 2: gotten through committee. They might even have some bipartisan support.
Speaker 2: Can you tell us a little bit about those.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I've got actually introduced six bills in Congress already.
Speaker 5: Five of them are bipartisan, the Uplift Uplift Act. Of course,
Speaker 5: you know Democrats can get one, which is a shame.
Speaker 5: Colorado's number two in the nation for teenagers dying from
Speaker 5: fentanyl overdoses and other illegal drugs. So clearly a problem.
Speaker 5: Too bad that Dems don't actually want to take care
Speaker 5: of our communities. But the other five bills that I've
Speaker 5: introduced bipartisan bills. Three of them have actually passed out
Speaker 5: of committee already. They include things like transnational oppression. Fancy
Speaker 5: way of saying, if you have folks from China or
Speaker 5: Iran or Russia that have come to the United States
Speaker 5: for the freedom that the United States offers, and the
Speaker 5: secret polices of those oppressive regimes are still trying to
Speaker 5: oppress people, you know, part of their immigrant community in
Speaker 5: the United States. I've got a bill come into the
Speaker 5: House floor that gives state and local law enforcement more
Speaker 5: tools and outreach to those immigrant communities to make sure
Speaker 5: that you know, we saw the news a couple of
Speaker 5: years ago about how the Chinese were running a secret
Speaker 5: police department to go and you know, intimidate Chinese folks
Speaker 5: fleeing China and they're oppressing them in the United States.
Speaker 5: So it cracked down on that. There's also some bills
Speaker 5: around trying to permitting for a rural broadband access that
Speaker 5: broadband access has to go through federal lands.
Speaker 2: Okay, so kind of covering the gamut there. Well, Congressman Evans,
Speaker 2: I know your time is valuable, but we really appreciate
Speaker 2: having you on again. I couldn't be more proud to
Speaker 2: have you representing CD eight. I know you've got a
Speaker 2: couple of people on the other side of the aisle
Speaker 2: that are already stepped in to challenge you. So if
Speaker 2: the listeners want to get out there and get their
Speaker 2: support behind you donate to your cause. What's the best
Speaker 2: way they can they can do that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So the website is Electgabevans dot com. You can
Speaker 5: go visit that website that's got some more information. Electgabevans
Speaker 5: dot com. And then if you need any help on
Speaker 5: the official side with any you know, any federal agencies,
Speaker 5: i RS, veterans issues, anything like that, passports, you can
Speaker 5: visit Gabevans dot house dot gov to ease right next
Speaker 5: to each other. Gaveevans dot house dot gov.
Speaker 2: Awesome. Thank you again for being on the show. You've
Speaker 2: been You've been a breath of fresh air for CD
Speaker 2: eight and can't wait to see you get reelected seat.
Speaker 2: It's hard to believe we're talking reelection only four months
Speaker 2: into your your first term here, but unfortunately that's the
Speaker 2: way Congress works. So again, thanks for having thanks for
Speaker 2: being on with us, and enjoy the fight out there.
Speaker 5: Appreciated Sheriff, and like I said, I actually took what
Speaker 5: you told me as an inspiration to just fight hard
Speaker 5: or so appreciate it.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you. That was Congressman gave Evans with
Speaker 2: us here on the Dan Kaplas Show. We'll cut to
Speaker 2: a break you're listening to again to the Dankaplas Show
Speaker 2: with Well, Kenny Sheriff Steve Raims's guest host on six
Speaker 2: point thirty k how.
Speaker 3: And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Dan caplesh Show with Well kind
Speaker 2: of sure if Steve Reams setting in for the third
Speaker 2: day in a row here, third and last day of
Speaker 2: this week. It's been a pleasure to be with everybody
Speaker 2: for these three days. And man, that first hour goes
Speaker 2: by so fast. Ryan, you always talk about the fastest
Speaker 2: couple of hours in radio, but man, it's a blinding fast.
Speaker 2: Having said all that, when I was driving down here,
Speaker 2: it wasn't blinding fast. And I was having a rant
Speaker 2: while I was sitting in traffic, and I was listening
Speaker 2: to your rant about sports and different mascots for different
Speaker 2: sports teams, and you were talking about you want something
Speaker 2: that's mighty and it represents you know, strength, and something
Speaker 2: along those lines. And it came to my brain that
Speaker 2: where I grew up in Amarillo, Texas, they have a
Speaker 2: baseball team and you'll never guess the name or the
Speaker 2: mascot for that baseball team.
Speaker 3: What was the town where it hails from Amarillo, Texas.
Speaker 6: Amarillo Amarillos sod poodles, sod poodles.
Speaker 2: You know what a sod poodle is?
Speaker 3: Reference to sod as in grass.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, and poodle as in dog.
Speaker 6: Right, So their fur looks like sod. I'm not following this.
Speaker 6: One supposed to be a prairie dog. I guess that's like.
Speaker 6: So there are a lot of those around Amorello, Texas poodle.
Speaker 6: I don't know how they got to the name sod poodle.
Speaker 6: I don't live down there anymore that that team came
Speaker 6: along after I left. If you miss them, there's a
Speaker 6: whole bunch of them at the Cherry Creek Reservoir that
Speaker 6: I see all the time.
Speaker 2: When you speak of missing them, are you talking about
Speaker 2: it through target practice?
Speaker 3: They do carry a lot of diseases. Yeah, careful with your.
Speaker 2: Dogs around them. So I have a little acreage out
Speaker 2: east in Weld County and we have self erecting targets.
Speaker 2: We don't have sod poodles.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you don't have to pay for them or anything.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, they they reproduce much faster than what I can
Speaker 2: buy ammo.
Speaker 3: As they really do, and they burrow and they ruin nasty.
Speaker 2: Uh, They're just nasty. Anyways, I don't know how I
Speaker 2: got on that topic other than while I was ranting
Speaker 2: about traffic, you were ranting about sports teams. I just thought,
Speaker 2: you know, I got to tie that in somehow.
Speaker 6: Team names Amarillo the as.
Speaker 2: I gotta look up that logo. Yeah, it's it's a classic.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you it strikes fear in the hearts
Speaker 2: of their opponents. I'm quite certain. Anyways, Having said all that,
Speaker 2: I asked you guys during the show if you would,
Speaker 2: you know, text in some ideas about who you thought
Speaker 2: could run for particular offices. Do you think that do
Speaker 2: you think that the state can come back on the
Speaker 2: on the red side? Can we at least get it
Speaker 2: to purple? A couple of texts have come in. One
Speaker 2: here says, I'm a retired l e O from Fort
Speaker 2: Collins and Windsor. Always appreciated the bond schedule and sentencing
Speaker 2: coming out of the of the Weld County courts. Any
Speaker 2: chance we could get an AG candidate from Weld and
Speaker 2: the The district Attorney in Weld County is pretty well respected.
Speaker 2: His name is Michael Rourke. He's a no nonsense kind
Speaker 2: of guy. He took over after ken Buck left to
Speaker 2: go to Congress. Michael and I have a very good
Speaker 2: working relationship, mostly because he prosecutes the heck out of
Speaker 2: offenders and isn't big on plea bargains. For the most part,
Speaker 2: they're a natural part of having to run an office.
Speaker 2: But he goes after the bad guys to the degree
Speaker 2: that he can with the current system we have in
Speaker 2: Colorado for the judicial process, I don't know. He'd probably
Speaker 2: be a pretty reluctant AG candidate, but you could definitely
Speaker 2: give his office a call text and let him know
Speaker 2: you think that would be a great idea. And I
Speaker 2: will also share this information with him when I talk
Speaker 2: to him next. Another text here from Kimberly, she says,
Speaker 2: I think that Colorado can be shifted, but not without
Speaker 2: concessions from Republicans. More socially speaking, stick to the Second Amendment,
Speaker 2: gas and oil, civil liberties from a libertarian view, I'm
Speaker 2: sure that's talking about kids and schools and those kinds
Speaker 2: of things. And then there is a chance, and I agree,
Speaker 2: I think it's a long shot to bring Colorado back,
Speaker 2: especially all in one fell swoop. I think if you've
Speaker 2: got four or five good candidates running statewide, you got
Speaker 2: a chance at maybe picking up you know, one or
Speaker 2: two seats. Maybe not, but at least, you know, being
Speaker 2: competitive in those seats, which we haven't necessarily been. You know,
Speaker 2: we've got four or five announced governor's candidates, and I
Speaker 2: don't know that we've got any real strong candidates for
Speaker 2: any of the other seats that have announced.
Speaker 6: But I would add to Kimberley's list there to Steve,
Speaker 6: which you mentioned Second Amendment, love it because of the
Speaker 6: attack on our second am right that you and I
Speaker 6: have discussed.
Speaker 3: Gas and oil's big here.
Speaker 6: Civil liberty, sure, but I would add those eighty twenty
Speaker 6: issues of illegal immigration which have struck us hard here
Speaker 6: in Colorado. Crimes for certain, for certain from your perspective,
Speaker 6: but parental rights which are on your assault here in
Speaker 6: Colorado too.
Speaker 3: I think that's an eighty twenty issue.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's getting national coverage. Right. Like all of
Speaker 2: those issues, we're bad on all of them. You know,
Speaker 2: when Art del Cuato is on, you know he's talking about,
Speaker 2: you know, how different the border is. But something we
Speaker 2: talk about when I go out with fairs. Every state
Speaker 2: is a border state now and that's not by accident.
Speaker 2: You know, four years of Joe Biden, eleven million illegals
Speaker 2: coming across the border. Every state is a border state,
Speaker 2: and I think you can win with you know, focusing
Speaker 2: on that on that issue in Colorado if it's framed correctly,
Speaker 2: because as we saw from the Texters yesterday and the
Speaker 2: day before, there's plenty of folks that are not feeling
Speaker 2: safe in Colorado and there's definitely a large person whoe assist. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're on the right track when it comes to dealing
Speaker 2: with illegal immigration.
Speaker 6: Well, it's really burning me too on that. I know
Speaker 6: a lot of our listeners as well. Joe Biden, as
Speaker 6: you pointed out, Sheriff he let all of these illegals
Speaker 6: flood across the border, no vetting, no asylum hearings, just
Speaker 6: pouring in. But we have to go through a deportation
Speaker 6: process and hearing for every single one of them.
Speaker 2: Come on, how are you going to run eleven million
Speaker 2: people through a court process? I mean, so, you know,
Speaker 2: we don't even have enough of a court system to
Speaker 2: prosecute every offender that is here in the United States
Speaker 2: that we catch, and now we're going to add eleven
Speaker 2: million illegals to it. I mean, there's a reason that
Speaker 2: they use civil immigration detainers and not criminal immigration detainers
Speaker 2: because it does give them another method. When I say
Speaker 2: them ice, the punishment for that civil infraction is deportation.
Speaker 2: They're not sending them to jail. It's not a criminal charge.
Speaker 2: They're just saying, go back to where you came from.
Speaker 2: We're not holding you away from the country that you
Speaker 2: came from. We're just helping you get back there because
Speaker 2: you're not welcome here. You know that never gets talked
Speaker 2: about in the news. It is a civil immigration detainer
Speaker 2: because they're not being locked up in our country. They're
Speaker 2: being sent home. That is the punishment. It seems so rational,
Speaker 2: But yet again, you know who am I to speak
Speaker 2: rational when we're talking about policies that Democrats fight back
Speaker 2: on every day.
Speaker 6: And it's like Art said earlier, you don't have a
Speaker 6: right to asylum here. Your claim might not even be legitimate. Absolutely,
Speaker 6: we need to narrow that down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Well, coming back after break, we're going to
Speaker 2: have a quick guest on to talk about the wolf
Speaker 2: issue that we voted into the state of Colorado. Just
Speaker 2: a couple of minutes with that, but that'll be at
Speaker 2: the top of the next segment, And you're listening to
Speaker 2: the Dan Cafleis Show right here, with Well County Sheriff
Speaker 2: Steve Rains filling in his guest host. On six point
Speaker 2: thirty k out