Speaker 1: This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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Speaker 1: way is we stand up. We stand up to evil.
Speaker 1: We stand up to people who don't care about the
Speaker 1: lives of our children, our wives, anybody in our family,
Speaker 1: anybody in the community. And people better understand real quick,
Speaker 1: that's what's going on with the left. They don't care.
Speaker 1: They are pro criminal to the point where, hey, your child,
Speaker 1: they're an acceptable casualty. They're part of an acceptable casualty rate.
Speaker 1: So what the left has done is it has carved
Speaker 1: out this this big, gaping hole in Colorado criminal law.
Speaker 1: What's left of it after the Left got done right.
Speaker 1: But it's carved out this big hole so that some
Speaker 1: of the most dangerous offenders, killers, kidnappers, the most dangerous
Speaker 1: offenders can just get out of jail, just be released,
Speaker 1: not have to even go to trial. And it's something
Speaker 1: I was completely unaware of until this shocking story out
Speaker 1: of Aurora that we've been talking about so much over
Speaker 1: it the last few days where you have this guy,
Speaker 1: it's on video, trying to kidnap this girl from an
Speaker 1: elementary school, a convicted sex offender, by the way, also
Speaker 1: happens to be transsexual. But that's not at the heart
Speaker 1: of this story. And so what happens now now? You know,
Speaker 1: there are already grave concerns about the recently elected Democrat
Speaker 1: DA in Rapo County, and we've talked about some of
Speaker 1: those before. But now this individual isn't even going to
Speaker 1: have to stand trial. Why because as I understand, and
Speaker 1: we're waiting for the DA to comment, which the DA
Speaker 1: just doesn't seem interested in doing. Right, you think if
Speaker 1: you could defend yourself on something really important to the community,
Speaker 1: that you would do that and then probably not appear
Speaker 1: if you couldn't defend yourself in any case, in any case,
Speaker 1: So the Left has inserted in this law this provision that, yeah, hey,
Speaker 1: if you can, if you can quote prove that you're
Speaker 1: not mentally competent to stand trial and that it ain't
Speaker 1: going to get any better, you're not going to be
Speaker 1: quote restorable, Well, then guess what, they can't even put
Speaker 1: you on trial, and they got to let you go
Speaker 1: so that this is obviously an immediate threat to public
Speaker 1: safety at the highest level. You're going to learn about
Speaker 1: some more of these stories today on the show. You're
Speaker 1: going to learn about You're going to learn about a
Speaker 1: recent case down in the Spring is really good prosecutor,
Speaker 1: but it was one of these where the defense that
Speaker 1: they're able to quote prove that this person's mentally incompetent
Speaker 1: and not restorable, gets off killing a woman at a
Speaker 1: gas station. I mean, we got to be aware of
Speaker 1: this and we got to find a way to fix it.
Speaker 1: So we're going to spend some real time on that
Speaker 1: today and Michael Doherty really happy to see this. We've
Speaker 1: had him on the show before. He's been great. The
Speaker 1: DA Up and Boulder Democrat is going to join us
Speaker 1: at five oh six to talk about a piece he
Speaker 1: wrote to along with Michael. Another great DA happens to
Speaker 1: be a Republican DA and my good friend John Callner
Speaker 1: now my law partner when John was This piece was
Speaker 1: written when John was the DA for a rapo Douglas,
Speaker 1: Albert and Lincoln and it's talking in part about this big, gaping,
Speaker 1: dangerous hole. So Michael Daugherty will talk to us at
Speaker 1: five oh six about that. So we got that to
Speaker 1: do today. And this is one of those topics. You
Speaker 1: know how this works on this show. This is one
Speaker 1: of those topics where it's a cause we're talking about.
Speaker 1: It isn't enough. We need to find a way to
Speaker 1: change it. And one of the things I'm most proud
Speaker 1: of of our show over the decades on air is
Speaker 1: we can point to a lot of real concrete changes
Speaker 1: that have been made because the listeners of this show
Speaker 1: rallied around and once they heard about it all on area.
Speaker 1: This is a great launching pad get the information into
Speaker 1: Colorado's bloodstream. But once people hear about it, they say, no,
Speaker 1: this isn't right. This has to change. And so this
Speaker 1: is one of those And we've got a great track
Speaker 1: record of actually making concrete change, and this is one
Speaker 1: we need to edit that list three or three seven, one,
Speaker 1: three eight, two five five the number text d an
Speaker 1: five seven seven three nine. Let me open up with
Speaker 1: the KUSA version of this story. Before I get to that, Ryan,
Speaker 1: I want to assure you I'm okay. You were on air,
Speaker 1: so you were not part of this concern. Earlier, I
Speaker 1: came in for a meeting, had a meeting at three
Speaker 1: o'clock today at the station. So I'm walking in and
Speaker 1: people are like, man, are you okay?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I feel pretty good, but I'm I'm all covered in
Speaker 1: what appeared to at least one person to be blood.
Speaker 1: I had no idea it wasn't blood. Obviously, I feel great.
Speaker 1: It was red ink from a red pen. But it's like,
Speaker 1: look at my hands, right, And this is after an
Speaker 1: hour of scrubbing. Oh wow, So my clothes on, my clothes, everything,
Speaker 1: so it looked like d been shot and I was
Speaker 1: completely unaware of it. So meeting got canceled and I
Speaker 1: drive home and get all these new clothes on, try
Speaker 1: to scrub everything else. I'm sitting on a towel now
Speaker 1: in my car because it's all over my car. But
Speaker 1: here's what I learned, and we need to put it
Speaker 1: on the bar Clint Eastwood, Right, A man's got to
Speaker 1: know his limitations. I am not meant to work on cars.
Speaker 1: Because the way I got to the point where it
Speaker 1: looked like I'd been shot is I'm driving in, get
Speaker 1: the little light in the car, air pressure low in
Speaker 1: the tire, right, and I'm driving down to the mountains.
Speaker 1: I came in from the trial prep cabin to see
Speaker 1: my daughter has a film that's being shown over at
Speaker 1: Landmark tonight. She's part of a group that are going
Speaker 1: to have short film shown. So drive down for that
Speaker 1: low tire pressure. So what are you gonna do? Right,
Speaker 1: You're gonna go to the gas station and you're gonna
Speaker 1: pay your two bucks and you're gonna pump some air
Speaker 1: in your tires. Fine, all's finding good. Then I'm driving
Speaker 1: to my other meeting in Westminster and the alert comes
Speaker 1: on that there's too much air in the tires. So
Speaker 1: what are you going to do? Like a responsible citizen,
Speaker 1: You're going to take out a red pen and you're
Speaker 1: going to stick it into that little tire nozzle and
Speaker 1: you're gonna let some air out. Well, apparently, unbeknownst to me,
Speaker 1: as I stuck the pen into the tire to let
Speaker 1: the air out, it shot all the ink from the
Speaker 1: pen all over me, you know, like a spray can.
Speaker 1: But I was completely unaware of it because all I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about is my trial. So that's how I ended
Speaker 1: up walking into the building looking like I had blood
Speaker 1: all over me. So's wild. Yeah, it may take weeks, right,
Speaker 1: it may take weeks to get this stuff off me.
Speaker 1: Here's Mark Marshall Zellinger's version of this story, and I
Speaker 1: would like to get maybe you can give me some
Speaker 1: advice on this. I would like to get some advice
Speaker 1: on how to better figure out what the tire pressure
Speaker 1: actually is when I'm filling up instead of guessing.
Speaker 3: The person accused of trying to grab a fifth grader
Speaker 3: from a Cherry Creek school playground last year is incompetent
Speaker 3: to stand trial, and for the fourth time in seven years,
Speaker 3: that person will see the charges dropped because of incompetency,
Speaker 3: though they're being transferred to a mental health facility. Kids
Speaker 3: at black Forest Hills Elementary School yelled stranger danger. Solomon
Speaker 3: Gallaghan is accused of trying to grab a fifth grader
Speaker 3: at recess in April twenty twenty four, almost one year ago.
Speaker 3: Gallaghan was found incompetent to stand trial. Nine News investigates
Speaker 3: looked into Gallaghan's criminal history and found felony charges dropped
Speaker 3: twice in twenty twenty one and again in twenty eighteen
Speaker 3: because Gallaghan was found incompetent.
Speaker 1: To stand trial.
Speaker 3: A spokesman for the Arapaho County District Attorney's Office, which
Speaker 3: will be dropping the charges, tells us Gallagan is not
Speaker 3: being released to the public, but is being released to
Speaker 3: a mental health facility.
Speaker 1: I thought the story went on from there. Sounds like
Speaker 1: they needed to add to that story. Yeah, so anyway,
Speaker 1: that's our current understanding of the story. And then it
Speaker 1: gets complicated from there, right because released to a mental
Speaker 1: health facility for how long? Because one of the problems
Speaker 1: with this law that the Left put in place is
Speaker 1: is people with certain court findings. As I understand the law,
Speaker 1: and again I've read this law, it's particularly complex, probably
Speaker 1: by design, it appears, and it's it's I think my
Speaker 1: understanding from our conversation with George yesterday that there are
Speaker 1: some circumstances where people are entitled to simply be released
Speaker 1: obvious dangers, but as as long as their defense lawyer
Speaker 1: can prove up this in competence and not restorable, there's
Speaker 1: a scenario where they just get out. So yeah, this
Speaker 1: thing has to be changed. Three oh three someone three
Speaker 1: eight two five five. The number takes DA N five
Speaker 1: seven seven three nine. So we'll follow up on that,
Speaker 1: and again Michael Doherty, the Democrat DA from Boulder, will
Speaker 1: join us at five oh six. Been on the show
Speaker 1: before always a great guest, be good to have that conversation.
Speaker 1: And he had written a piece, as I mentioned, that
Speaker 1: addressed this before this crime even happens. So three or
Speaker 1: three someone three eight two five five. Also I want
Speaker 1: to talk about President Trump now President britt Yum on
Speaker 1: Fox News going after President Trump? What's that all about?
Speaker 1: You're on the Dankaplas Show.
Speaker 4: And now back to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 5: Sammy Hagar, Oh wow, wonderful song read just for your Dan.
Speaker 5: I really appreciate it's your favorite color. It is not,
Speaker 5: but thank you. That's the thing though, any other color
Speaker 5: pen let's say blue or black, different role and it's
Speaker 5: on You're like.
Speaker 1: Oh what happened to you?
Speaker 4: But it's red, Dan?
Speaker 1: Are you okay? Right then people are thinking, holy coow,
Speaker 1: they finally got you. Yeah, man, how about this one.
Speaker 1: Government and politics are top concerned for Coloraden's according to
Speaker 1: annual survey. Government corruption and political division are the top
Speaker 1: concerns among Coloraden's according to Colorado Health Fund Nation's twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five Pulse Survey for its sixth annual survey conducted
Speaker 1: April blot to my May Bla. They polled two, three
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty three Colorados from across the political and
Speaker 1: socioeconomic spectrum, and then it goes into some of the demos.
Speaker 6: On that.
Speaker 1: Thirty two percent identified government and politics as their top concern,
Speaker 1: a twenty one percent increase from last year's poll. Cost
Speaker 1: of living, which topped the list in twenty four, dropped
Speaker 1: by six and seven points. So all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: concern about government and politics is the top concern for people,
Speaker 1: above cost of living, above crime, above everything. None of
Speaker 1: us have to be a political scientist to figure that
Speaker 1: one out. Right, it ain't working. People can see that
Speaker 1: Democrat controlled Colorado. It ain't working. Now when you get
Speaker 1: into the guts of the poll, they claim that more
Speaker 1: people are upset with Republicans and Democrats, But that doesn't
Speaker 1: make any sense to the top line, right, because Democrats
Speaker 1: control everything. I mean, I think probably the only thing
Speaker 1: left is when we go to the bathroom, and pretty
Speaker 1: soon they'll control that too. But they control everything, and
Speaker 1: the people of Colorado say, even more than prices in crime,
Speaker 1: government is our top concern. Yeah, well, good sign. Right.
Speaker 1: If you're hoping that eventually conservatives come back and govern
Speaker 1: Colorado again, that's a good sign. Now, it's still a
Speaker 1: long way from there to people saying, Okay, I'm ready
Speaker 1: to turn to that Republican alternative. And again, I know
Speaker 1: from having been a Democrat for so many years, it
Speaker 1: is a long way from there because so many people
Speaker 1: and it's what's so interesting to me, Ryan and it's
Speaker 1: good and I understand it why so many Republicans just
Speaker 1: can't fathom this deeply ingrained, embedded negative stereotype of Republicans.
Speaker 1: Because if you're a Republican, what do you think the
Speaker 1: chances are what percentage ran of Republicans. We know registered
Speaker 1: Republicans were born into a family that was Republican, their
Speaker 1: parents were Republican. What do you think that percentages?
Speaker 5: I wouldn't even be able to hazard a guess because
Speaker 5: if I just look at my own background, my parents
Speaker 5: were Reagan Republicans, but they weren't always Republicans, and my
Speaker 5: dad hates Donald Trump did not vote for him, so
Speaker 5: it's tough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I would have to guess probably eighty percent
Speaker 1: of all Republicans are born into a Republican family. I
Speaker 1: just known't there are Republican parents, or at least one.
Speaker 1: So here's the point of course most Republicans. It's never
Speaker 1: going to occur to him that that Democrats and unaffiliateds
Speaker 1: could view the Republican Party so negatively and Republicans personally
Speaker 1: that way, because they know what Republicans are like. I
Speaker 1: had to leave the Democratic Party, become an affiliated, eventually
Speaker 1: become a Republican, and then get actively involved to figure out,
Speaker 1: you know, these are awesome people overall doing really good
Speaker 1: things that are doing more to help the causes I
Speaker 1: care about, like the Weekend defenses, the powerless, the unborn,
Speaker 1: than the Democrats, who professed to care about all well
Speaker 1: other than the unborn, care about all those things. So anyway,
Speaker 1: all I'm all I'm doing is just telling you the
Speaker 1: truth here, even though it's impossible to imagine, because you
Speaker 1: know that you're a good person and the Republicans you
Speaker 1: know are good people doing good things. The fact Colorado's
Speaker 1: are starting to get sick of Democrats is not enough.
Speaker 1: It's going to take some more on the GOP side.
Speaker 1: Speaking of which are good friend Dick Wadhams, who has
Speaker 1: been in the Winner circle a lot in Colorado when
Speaker 1: the past. Dick will join us at five six as well,
Speaker 1: going to talk about a PC he has published today
Speaker 1: abolished spending limits for political parties, brit You unhappy with
Speaker 1: President Trump. Let's listen to a little bit of that.
Speaker 7: Look, it's clear from what the President himself has said,
Speaker 7: although he wouldn't put it this way, that he got
Speaker 7: played by Putin and then Dragon.
Speaker 1: For months and he was being DeLong under.
Speaker 7: The impression that Putin had obviously given him, that Putin
Speaker 7: wanted to end the war and was prepared to negotiate
Speaker 7: from where we are. And it's pretty clear now that
Speaker 7: Putin didn't want to end the war where we are.
Speaker 7: He had more conquest in mind, and perhaps I wanted
Speaker 7: his his his whole original purpose of Ukraine, of taking Ukraine,
Speaker 7: to be fulfilled.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but one of the reasons for the popularity of
Speaker 1: President Trump, in the success of him is, you know,
Speaker 1: he's a straight shooter, very very often, much much more
Speaker 1: of a straight shooter than anybody else in politics. And
Speaker 1: President Trump acknowledges himself right now that that day but
Speaker 1: Putin lied to him, and he's very unhappy with Putin
Speaker 1: about that, et cetera. But it brings back the question
Speaker 1: I raised a few months ago, which is, wait a second,
Speaker 1: you know, evil unfortunately is sometimes smart, and Putin is smart,
Speaker 1: but uses that intelligence to do evil things. Putin had
Speaker 1: to have known far in advance that when he did that,
Speaker 1: when he lied to Trump and he ended up making
Speaker 1: Trump look bad, that it was going to cause Trump
Speaker 1: to triple down to triple down against Putin. So why
Speaker 1: do you think Putin played it that way knowing what
Speaker 1: is to come right where Trump is going to allow
Speaker 1: more arms to Ukraine, Trump's going to tough en up
Speaker 1: on Russia, and these negatives are not going to happen
Speaker 1: for Putin. So was it just a calculation that he
Speaker 1: could gain enough in the meantime to end up ahead.
Speaker 1: Was it Putin wanting to make it clear that he
Speaker 1: just wasn't going to allow Trump to waltz in and
Speaker 1: get this solved like Trump has solved so many other things.
Speaker 1: Whatever it was, you can be sure he saw this
Speaker 1: coming and it was a calculation. And I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: impressed Trump just stepping up and saying, yeah, okay, I
Speaker 1: misread this guy, and now he's going to pay a
Speaker 1: price for it. Steven Arvada, you're on the Dan Kaplis Show.
Speaker 1: Welcome than see.
Speaker 2: Do you have a costco membership by Jens.
Speaker 1: You know, I was talking to my dentist about that yesterday.
Speaker 1: I do not, and I need to get one.
Speaker 2: Well, because they've got a solution for your air pressure problem,
Speaker 2: because they all all of them have the little machine
Speaker 2: that you go in and set the pressure for what
Speaker 2: your car needs, which is usually inside the driver door,
Speaker 2: on the place where.
Speaker 8: On the left side of your your seat.
Speaker 2: It tells you what the pressure is on the tires
Speaker 2: and you just set that there and you plug it
Speaker 2: into the tires and it'll raise ower it to meet
Speaker 2: whatever you need.
Speaker 1: That is a beautiful thing. Can you remember what it's called?
Speaker 2: Just an air pressure station. It's over by the tire place.
Speaker 1: It's a station. It's not something I can actually buy there,
Speaker 1: but Costco's air pressure station. To it beautiful.
Speaker 2: It's actually really don't need a membership.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well that's good to know too. That's okay. I
Speaker 1: appreciate that, Steve, Thank you very much, which goes to
Speaker 1: one of the better text we've had and maybe forever
Speaker 1: quit lying.
Speaker 2: Dan.
Speaker 1: We know the die packet exploded on you. So that
Speaker 1: is a great tad a life of crime, Dad, is it? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm probably aren't Those things normally black, so I'm probably
Speaker 1: lucky it was a red pen. And if you just
Speaker 1: joined us. I've talked about this over the years. I'm
Speaker 1: good at some things, not good at other things. I'm
Speaker 1: not good at working on my car. I got my
Speaker 1: tires over inflated because they'd been underinflated. So I took
Speaker 1: out a red pen to stick it into the tire
Speaker 1: to let air out, and then that just caused all
Speaker 1: the ink in the red pen to be shot up
Speaker 1: all over me with great force, and our good friend
Speaker 1: Sheriff Steve Dan. Thanks. Now the state's going to outlaw
Speaker 1: red pace it's pretty no, no, they'll probably mandate red pens.
Speaker 1: And then everybody sprayed me with them. Wow, that's a guy.
Speaker 1: You should run for governor.
Speaker 5: It's funny you say that because he said the very
Speaker 5: same thing about you.
Speaker 1: Well, I you know what, I think the better argument
Speaker 1: is him.
Speaker 5: I think the better argument is the two of you
Speaker 5: together on a ticket with with.
Speaker 1: Him, he'd be a great governor. He'd be a great governor.
Speaker 4: The lawyer, the law man, I said, yeah, come on,
Speaker 4: think about it.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, you're the brand end. You are good. I
Speaker 1: know you are really good. I know, so hey, quick
Speaker 1: preview Democrat DA from Boulder, Michael Doherty, you'll join us
Speaker 1: at five oh six, uh, talking about this really big,
Speaker 1: dangerous hole that the leftist has put in Colorado law
Speaker 1: that it allow some people to escape ever facing charges
Speaker 1: for very very serious crimes, including killing, if you know,
Speaker 1: they can convince the court that they're not only mentally
Speaker 1: incompetent now, but they're quote unquote not restorable. Some of
Speaker 1: those people can even be put out and will be
Speaker 1: put out back onto the streets. So very dangerous situation
Speaker 1: that Michael wrote about a long time ago. You know,
Speaker 1: he wrote about this and other big problems in our
Speaker 1: criminal justice system when it comes to mentally ill people.
Speaker 1: So this is real and this puts you and your
Speaker 1: family and more danger each and every day. So it'd
Speaker 1: be great to have Michael Doherty at five oh six
Speaker 1: to talk about that. Dick wadhams in in the five
Speaker 1: o'clock hour as well. Three or three seven, one, three
Speaker 1: eight two five five the number techs dam five seven
Speaker 1: seven three nine. You're on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 4: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 9: This has been about y'all. This has been about y'all,
Speaker 9: because their messaging was always the same. Democrats have been
Speaker 9: angry at what this man tried to do the last time,
Speaker 9: they've been angry this time. So I am with much
Speaker 9: due respect to you both, I believe you are pointing
Speaker 9: the finger at the wrong person when you say democrats, are.
Speaker 5: You delineating between voters and elected official? Yes, sah, you're saying.
Speaker 9: Because I agree voters are very impassioned.
Speaker 1: She's whoopies all worked up because how Bama and Mark
Speaker 1: Human say, Hey, Democrats need to get tougher. Wow, it
Speaker 1: is so much fun to watch this. But it's what
Speaker 1: I predicted long long long before election day, right, which
Speaker 1: was a Trump was going to win, be the left
Speaker 1: was going to panic and expose itself, and then the
Speaker 1: left was going to start to disintegrate before our eyes,
Speaker 1: not completely go away, but start to reveal itself, which
Speaker 1: would mean it would then disintegrate. And that's exactly what's happening.
Speaker 1: And that's what's critical. Because Trump winning, thank you Lord,
Speaker 1: not enough in and of itself. People need to see
Speaker 1: what the left really is because trust me, I was
Speaker 1: a Democrat for years. So many Democrats have no idea,
Speaker 1: no idea, how radical and secular and anti American and
Speaker 1: anti faith any of the people who control the Democratic
Speaker 1: Party are today, and so they really need to see
Speaker 1: who these people truly are. So it's beautiful to see
Speaker 1: all of this infighting unfolding. Hey, lot's going on. Michael Doherty,
Speaker 1: DA from Boulder, will join us. Democrat will join us
Speaker 1: at five oh six to talk about this big problem
Speaker 1: we have in Colorado law where some folks who commit
Speaker 1: obviously commit heinous crimes can then just avoid ever being
Speaker 1: charged and sometimes just walk free under this gap in
Speaker 1: Colorado law. And Michael and others have real concerns, as
Speaker 1: they should, about how our criminal justice system is dealing
Speaker 1: with menal Io. People don't blame the judges, blame the
Speaker 1: lawmakers and the laws they have passed that tie the
Speaker 1: hands of people who want to protect the public. Let's
Speaker 1: go to vic and beautiful Brighton, Colorado. You're on the
Speaker 1: Dan Kapla show.
Speaker 8: Welcome, Thank you, Dan, I love your show. And Ryan's
Speaker 8: also thank you. I have a tip with regard to
Speaker 8: letting air out of your tire. Yeah, the saying it
Speaker 8: looks like a pin head that you put your pen on. Yes,
Speaker 8: what you do is you take like a corner of
Speaker 8: your thumbnail, okay, or your fingernail and just push on that, okay,
Speaker 8: and I'll release the air.
Speaker 1: Okay. Okay. That's good advice, man, And my day would
Speaker 1: have been much better if I'd done that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, no more inksclatters, to know?
Speaker 2: Do that?
Speaker 1: No, thank you, Vic. I really appreciate that. And Vic's
Speaker 1: right because what I did instead, because I'd overinflated, then
Speaker 1: I had to let them out. I stuck the lead
Speaker 1: end of a red pin in to let some air out.
Speaker 1: And of course what happened was you had this massive
Speaker 1: burst of air that then caused all of the red
Speaker 1: ink to just fly all over me. But the worst
Speaker 1: part is I didn't even know what happened. So then
Speaker 1: I'm walking into a meeting at the station here and
Speaker 1: they're all like, who's calling nine? One one? So three
Speaker 1: or three? Someone? Three eight two? If I have the number?
Speaker 1: Text or says Dan, did you have the red pen?
Speaker 1: Because you were correcting John keller House. I'm sure who
Speaker 1: ever said that it was more than tongue in cheek
Speaker 1: because they know it's quite the opposite. John is And
Speaker 1: you know John elected da for Repo and Douglass before
Speaker 1: this the GOP nominee for Attorney General, who got the
Speaker 1: top vote getter in the state. But John is now
Speaker 1: my law partner in our managing partner, and it is
Speaker 1: quite the opposite. He is truly just a brilliant cat.
Speaker 1: I have a man the stuff, the stuff he comes
Speaker 1: up with is I think tremendous.
Speaker 5: The person who sent that his initials are George Brockler.
Speaker 1: Oh he think that his is that his number head
Speaker 1: thought for sure, but it sounds like his cenciamre and
Speaker 1: George truly one of the funniest people ever in public
Speaker 1: life in Colorado. Dan, in the future, you can flip
Speaker 1: the valve cover over and push it with that instead
Speaker 1: of using a pen. Believe me, I have learned my lesson.
Speaker 1: We'll never use that pen again. Dan. You can always
Speaker 1: stop at discount tires. Wow, that's a good idea. They'll
Speaker 1: always check your tire pressure for free. That from our
Speaker 1: friend Alexa. And you know, the tire pressure thing. I'm
Speaker 1: not going off on that rant. Let me get back
Speaker 1: to the topics. The tire pressure thing really is critical
Speaker 1: because you know, and that's one reason I was so
Speaker 1: concerned about getting it right. You would think I would
Speaker 1: have had a tool to do that. But the truth
Speaker 1: is I normally have this car in for service so
Speaker 1: oft like half the time I've owned it that that
Speaker 1: you know, it always gets worked out there. But I
Speaker 1: know from the catastrophic injury work I do in my
Speaker 1: law practice that tire pressure is key to a vehicle
Speaker 1: operating properly on the roadway. So that's why I was
Speaker 1: so obsessed with it, and I paid the price with
Speaker 1: an ink bath. All right, let's get back to some
Speaker 1: of the hot stuff of the day here. Three h
Speaker 1: three someone three eight two five five takes d an
Speaker 1: five seven seven three nine. Dick Wadhams joins us in
Speaker 1: the five o'clock hours, well hopefully earlier, to talk about
Speaker 1: his piece today on abolishing spending limits for political parties.
Speaker 1: I had no idea till I read the piece that
Speaker 1: the laws have now been worked out in such a
Speaker 1: way that it really kind of neuters the impact of
Speaker 1: political parties, which I don't think is a good thing
Speaker 1: for Republicans. And then just a little preview of Michael
Speaker 1: Doherty who's going to join us at five h six.
Speaker 1: He's the Democrat DA from Boulder. We always enjoy having
Speaker 1: them on the show to talk about this issue of
Speaker 1: wait a second, are you telling me Colorado law now
Speaker 1: allows really dangerous criminals who obviously committed the crimes to
Speaker 1: just walk out if they can show they're not competent,
Speaker 1: and they're never going to be competent. I mean, that
Speaker 1: is such a gaping hole in public safety. It has
Speaker 1: to be fixed. George Brockler with a comment one that yeah, it's.
Speaker 6: A super troubling one. And keep in mind that before
Speaker 6: this person went to try to go kidnap this young boy,
Speaker 6: I was already a registered sex offender. Now that can
Speaker 6: only happen if you've been convicted of a prior sex offense.
Speaker 6: So somehow this person navigated the legal waters in order
Speaker 6: to become a registered sex defender, but now is incompetent
Speaker 6: to stand trial. Now, there was a change in the
Speaker 6: law as recently as I think it was twenty twenty four.
Speaker 6: And remember there's just the Dems in charge who books
Speaker 6: this getting through and they change the law significantly so
Speaker 6: that I'll give you an example on all second class
Speaker 6: misdemeanors and below, and that includes some pretty serious misdemeanors,
Speaker 6: some domestic violence, some lower level child abuse, thataped all
Speaker 6: this other stuff.
Speaker 2: If you get a report back.
Speaker 6: From the state hospital it says that this person is incompetent,
Speaker 6: the DA must immediately dismiss the case again to that
Speaker 6: person and just send them right back.
Speaker 1: At that's just insane. And George went on from there
Speaker 1: and just true insanity, right, And this is a perfect
Speaker 1: segue to Dick Wantums because I didn't mean it the
Speaker 1: way that sounded Dick, but perfect segue to Dick Watums
Speaker 1: Because Okay, at what point, obviously that the left in
Speaker 1: Colorado has openly now sided with criminals and against innocent people,
Speaker 1: and they don't even try to hide it. So at
Speaker 1: what point do the voters start to push back on that,
Speaker 1: because there's no sign that they're ready to do that.
Speaker 1: How you doing, my friend?
Speaker 10: Hey Dan, what an amazing story about your red shirt?
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Yeah, I sympathize with you. A man's
Speaker 1: got to know his limitations, right, Yes, there are some
Speaker 1: things I'm actually good at. Yeah, but fixing cars for whatever,
Speaker 1: It's not that I haven't tried. I mean, from the beginning,
Speaker 1: I've tried to fix.
Speaker 10: Cars, you and me both, Like my first car.
Speaker 1: Costs seventy five dollars. I wanted to fix a car,
Speaker 1: I didn't have the money to take it to the shop.
Speaker 1: My brain doesn't work.
Speaker 10: Then, no, no, I sympathize with you. I'm the same way.
Speaker 10: Thank God for mechanics and places that do that.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, I'm even worried about putting the washer fluid in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, am I going to put it in the
Speaker 1: wrong spot?
Speaker 10: Pressure is very important, and man, it is something that
Speaker 10: even you and I can deal with. But but people
Speaker 10: forget how important that is, especially in really cold weather
Speaker 10: and really hot weather.
Speaker 1: Oh it's you. Yeah, and I know it from the
Speaker 1: law practice, you know, because you work with all these
Speaker 1: eng ears and all these big pre crashes. The entire
Speaker 1: pressure matters a lot. It's interesting you get so many
Speaker 1: Californians to come here, right, and and they just think,
Speaker 1: if I've got a four wheel drive and snow tires,
Speaker 1: i can go up the side of a building. Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean, and no, your tire's got to be right
Speaker 1: and all that. So I was well intentioned, poor execution.
Speaker 10: I understand.
Speaker 1: I will never again use a pen And then what
Speaker 1: I did later was I used the eraser side of
Speaker 1: a pencil. Ah, yeah, okay, but it's still imprecise. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: it is is. So that's why you were here. Okay,
Speaker 1: you talk about it that pressure I ran, you know,
Speaker 1: So I wish you'd been here at three o'clock when
Speaker 1: I came in from the meeting because I was totally
Speaker 1: app and the eyes got widen, the man you okay,
Speaker 1: do you need to call somebody?
Speaker 10: I thought it would be a startling thing to see. Yeah,
Speaker 10: and you were going into a court room.
Speaker 2: Is that No?
Speaker 1: I was coming in here for a meeting at the stage.
Speaker 10: Oh okay o yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and some wise guys said they finally got you. Yeah.
Speaker 10: I love what Steve Reams said. Oh, Steve knows.
Speaker 1: Steve knows, Steve would be a great candidate for governor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got to run for something.
Speaker 10: He did a great job filling in for you while
Speaker 10: you were gone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I keep hearing that from people.
Speaker 10: Yeah he did.
Speaker 1: When are you going to do that again?
Speaker 10: I will do it. That was the week that you
Speaker 10: were gone. I was just tied up that week.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so yeah, no, Steve has been great. And
Speaker 1: he was a listener suggestion because I was going to
Speaker 1: miss all this time for trials, right, and we wanted
Speaker 1: to add to our tremendous roster. Yeah. Yeah, he's been tremendous. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he got Tom Homan on that ain't easy.
Speaker 10: Not at all. Yeah, he knows Tom, I think doesn't
Speaker 10: he doesn't. Don't they know each other.
Speaker 1: It seems like they be buddies. Yeah. But the thing is,
Speaker 1: and we don't have time to talk about it now,
Speaker 1: but I'd like to get your take. Is I see
Speaker 1: where Phil Wiser Now his latest crusade is against ice
Speaker 1: agents wearing masks. Yes, so have to that sad, So
Speaker 1: all these Antifa nuts out there, you know, just just
Speaker 1: ready to do all of their arm to all these people.
Speaker 1: Know where are your masks?
Speaker 2: Where?
Speaker 1: Two or three? And just the irony of Democrats saying
Speaker 1: don't wear masks.
Speaker 10: It seems like it is a daily story that he
Speaker 10: is signing on to another lawsuit against the Trump administration.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Really amazing part of the campaign. Yeah, yeah, the campaign
Speaker 1: to nowhere. Dick Wadham's with us here on the Dan
Speaker 1: Caplas Ship.
Speaker 4: And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Bill Doherty, Democrat Y and Boulder joins us at five
Speaker 1: oh six. Always a great guest talking about a real
Speaker 1: danger lurking within Colorado law right now, that needs to
Speaker 1: be fixed. And then the broader issue of come on,
Speaker 1: you've got so many people right to You've got so
Speaker 1: many people in the criminal justice system, we have mental illnesses,
Speaker 1: and so they pose this danger, they pose this danger
Speaker 1: to the public, right and yet the system isn't set
Speaker 1: up to get the care they need to be able
Speaker 1: to protect the public. And it just insane stuff literally.
Speaker 1: So and you like Michael Doherty, I think I do.
Speaker 10: I think he's been a great DA Now that's probably
Speaker 10: the kiss of death for him and the Democratic yeah, primary,
Speaker 10: but I think he's outstanding. I don't ever, don't know
Speaker 10: everything about him, but I think he's been a really
Speaker 10: solid day.
Speaker 1: And running against Jenni Griswall.
Speaker 10: Yeah who, I just who. I don't I'm not going
Speaker 10: to say despise her, but I think she's horrible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but horrible with a ton of money, yes, and
Speaker 1: in a party that you know, it just talks about
Speaker 1: how enlightened they are, but you know, where's the governor
Speaker 1: of color where's the female governor, where's the female center?
Speaker 1: All that stuff. I mean, there's such phonies when it
Speaker 1: comes to this Holier than thou Dei stuff, and then
Speaker 1: he ended up with three boring old white guys in
Speaker 1: the top job.
Speaker 10: She all she talks about in her campaign is how
Speaker 10: much she hates Trump. She doesn't talk about any of
Speaker 10: the issues. I mean, Doherty would actually be an attorney general.
Speaker 10: I think she would just use the office for her
Speaker 10: anti Trump crusade.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean, think of the irony hair. You
Speaker 1: have somebody whose mission was to to deprive Colorado voters
Speaker 1: of the chance to vote for Trump. And I know
Speaker 1: you're not a Trump fan.
Speaker 10: But deprive voters even wrong about that?
Speaker 1: When is the US Supreme Court nine zero? They're not
Speaker 1: nine zero on ordering ice cream? Oh?
Speaker 10: I found that very repulsive, the nine.
Speaker 1: Zero against Jenna griss I agree. Yeah, wow, and she
Speaker 1: has a very good shot to be attorney general and no.
Speaker 2: Doubt about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Unfortunately, Dan and Ryan, could you tell traffic folks
Speaker 1: that Waterton Canyon Road is closed? Wow? Yeah? Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: Dan called Tom Martino next time. Good advice for just
Speaker 1: about anything, right, Yeah, So tell us political parties. Now,
Speaker 1: I didn't realize until I read your piece. They just
Speaker 1: can't do much money wise for candidates.
Speaker 10: No, and this goes back to nineteen seventy four with
Speaker 10: the post Watergate to reforms, and parties have kind of
Speaker 10: lived with it. But the Supreme Court now will consider
Speaker 10: a lawsuit that was started by the National Republican Senatorial
Speaker 10: Campaign Committee and at that time Senator JD. Vance that
Speaker 10: was filed before he got elected Vice president, and it
Speaker 10: would basically remove the limits from political parties and how
Speaker 10: much they can spend on their candidates. And so it's
Speaker 10: been around, but it goes. I think the Court will
Speaker 10: agree with this. I think they'll pull the limits down Dan.
Speaker 10: But more importantly, I think this is the first step
Speaker 10: towards eliminating all limits on all contributions and all expenditures
Speaker 10: for candidates and political parties. One of the reasons, of
Speaker 10: the biggest reason in fact that we have all this
Speaker 10: money going into the shadowy super PACs is that the
Speaker 10: parties and the candidates can't raise money because of these limits. Now,
Speaker 10: they won't go away if we remove the limits on them.
Speaker 10: But I will tell you the money will gravitate back
Speaker 10: towards parties and candidates and they are accountable. The trouble
Speaker 10: with super packs they always sound like Citizens for Better
Speaker 10: America or you know, Americans for puppies and kittens and
Speaker 10: that kind of name. People have no idea who they are,
Speaker 10: what they do, and who finances them. When people hear
Speaker 10: an ad from the Democratic Republican Party, they say they
Speaker 10: know what that is, or or Dan Capalists for governor
Speaker 10: or whatever. I mean, they know what that is. And
Speaker 10: so I have always felt, and this is the first
Speaker 10: step the Supreme Court case, we need to get rid
Speaker 10: of all these limits on candidates and political parties in
Speaker 10: this day and age of the Internet and social media,
Speaker 10: instantaneous and full disclosure of all these things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And isn't that where the Supreme Court is clearly,
Speaker 1: because you know, free speech, you got to be able
Speaker 1: to support who you want the way you want within
Speaker 1: the law and ub but you can't be anonymous. I
Speaker 1: don't see any constitutional right people have to be anonymous
Speaker 1: in the candidates they support. And so just get it
Speaker 1: all up there.
Speaker 10: Just just make immediate, full and complete disclosure. And these
Speaker 10: limits they treat voters like their dah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 10: And voters do not need to be caudled.
Speaker 1: Well, And it's the opposite right, and it's one reason
Speaker 1: I think the Supremes are about to do exactly what
Speaker 1: you said. Now, maybe it's a two step dance, but
Speaker 1: they're about to do it is because there was this
Speaker 1: concern before, which doesn't justify on constitutional stuff, but this
Speaker 1: this valid concern before that. Wait a second, then you're
Speaker 1: just going to have the big money people, you know,
Speaker 1: picking everybody and all this and that. But now, as
Speaker 1: you pointed out, with the Internet and the ability of
Speaker 1: small donors to gather together and fund like Trump's campaign,
Speaker 1: massive levels, Supreme Court's not going to have that concern
Speaker 1: anymore because small donors can get behind a candidate and
Speaker 1: make the difference.
Speaker 10: Well, it's interesting too. The University of Denver, they had
Speaker 10: a policy committee that did a deep dive in the
Speaker 10: campaign finance reform in twenty thirteen. They spend months looking
Speaker 10: at it. University of Denver is not exactly a conservative
Speaker 10: bashi this. This committee that looked into this was not
Speaker 10: populated by a bunch of conservative Republicans. Their conclusion was
Speaker 10: that the state of Colorado should take away all limits
Speaker 10: on contribution of contributions on political parties and candidates. And
Speaker 10: it didn't get near the attention it should have.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's it's a end of academic conversation for
Speaker 1: most people, right right, But you've lived it. I mean
Speaker 1: you've lived it when in Big Raiss you've lived it
Speaker 1: as party care. So on the ground, and we'll run
Speaker 1: out of time here quick. On the ground. What kind
Speaker 1: of difference does it make for the Colorado GOP if
Speaker 1: these limits didn't exist.
Speaker 10: Well in a good year, Republicans did raise a lot
Speaker 10: more money and spend it directly on behalf of candidates.
Speaker 10: Right now, a US Senate candidate in Colorado, a Republican
Speaker 10: can only have about six hundred thousand spent on it
Speaker 10: by the Colorado Party. Now that's now in the past, Dan,
Speaker 10: I will tell you that that's happened, but it could.
Speaker 10: It should be more. Should it should be unlimited, should
Speaker 10: be unlimited, and welcome back.
Speaker 1: Continue that conversation. Now we are going to take Michael Doherty,
Speaker 1: Democrat d from Boulder at five six to talk about
Speaker 1: something he wrote on before. He wrote on before this
Speaker 1: big gaping hole in Colorado law that puts you and
Speaker 1: your family in more danger and how do we fix it.
Speaker 1: Michael Daugherty at five oh six, you're at Dan Caplis
Speaker 1: and Dick Wadhams on the Dan Capler show