Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen in this corner from the University of Colorado,
Speaker 1: thirty years in Lorraine, fighting for truth, justice and the
Speaker 1: American Way.
Speaker 2: Dan Glasses, this is not Dan campus. This is Heidigan
Speaker 2: All filling in for Dan. Hope he's having a great
Speaker 2: New Year's Eve. Hello Dan, if you're listening. I'm so
Speaker 2: excited to be with everyone this afternoon to wrap up
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four and look forward into twenty twenty five
Speaker 2: and see what's ahead. I've invited lots of folks to
Speaker 2: come on and tell us their predictions and talk about
Speaker 2: the crazy stuff that happened in twenty twenty four. Ellie Reynolds,
Speaker 2: you're on the line. What do you think is going
Speaker 2: to happen in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, I guess what I think is going to
Speaker 3: happen is I think that the Democrats are going to
Speaker 3: have a realization that they could lose even more seats
Speaker 3: in these upcoming years if they don't moderate, And then
Speaker 3: I think they'll be also a little bit of fight
Speaker 3: with some of the Democrats as the legislator to go
Speaker 3: further less than they've ever got before to fight a
Speaker 3: Trump administration. So I think we will see more progressive laws,
Speaker 3: which is not surprising, but I think we all should
Speaker 3: be on the lookout for it.
Speaker 2: That's pretty insightful, Elie. I agree with you, and I
Speaker 2: think it's going to be a lot of infighting in
Speaker 2: the Democrat Party in Colorado is my prediction. But you know,
Speaker 2: you're on the front lines. You've been in politics a
Speaker 2: long time, but you're on the front lines of the
Speaker 2: education battles right now. You're a mom of a little guy, Teddy,
Speaker 2: he's adorable, and you recently had quite a win in
Speaker 2: Douglas County. Can you tell us a little bit about
Speaker 2: that battle and what's going on down there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we actually just did another interview today really on
Speaker 3: the success but also a lot of the unexpected pushback
Speaker 3: that we got. So I live in a place called
Speaker 3: Stirling Ranch, Douglas County, the Master playing community that's really
Speaker 3: growing and fastly growing, and we don't have any schools
Speaker 3: out there. While there is a neighborhood school that there
Speaker 3: was a bond that passed for. I was really passionate
Speaker 3: about bringing a classical charter school to Sterling Ranch for
Speaker 3: my little guy, Teddy, who I looked around and I
Speaker 3: thought there's great classical charter schools in Douglas County, but
Speaker 3: I don't want to drive thirty minutes for it. So
Speaker 3: I thought, I can do this. I can start a
Speaker 3: school and I can model it after a great classical education,
Speaker 3: and I know there's a want here. And so we
Speaker 3: brought it to the Douglas County School Board and we
Speaker 3: asked to be released to the States. We were successful
Speaker 3: with the Conservative majority actually releasing the application to CSI,
Speaker 3: which is the Charter School Institute. But some of the
Speaker 3: things I had I didn't really expect through this process
Speaker 3: is that people that were hired by the conservative board,
Speaker 3: like the superintendent and other people really in the district
Speaker 3: bought us tooth and nail, and it was something I
Speaker 3: was surprised. I was surprised that a conservative board, that
Speaker 3: their staff and really would fight us over and over
Speaker 3: on a charter school. So that was surprising. So I
Speaker 3: see more education fights.
Speaker 2: Coming, Yeah, I mean it's going to be a big
Speaker 2: year for school boards. We've got lots of races across
Speaker 2: the state. What is your take on how we approached
Speaker 2: the school board races? There are there any issues that
Speaker 2: we should stay away from that we should veer towards
Speaker 2: what's your gut on that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean my gut is what made us successful
Speaker 3: in Douglas County by getting the majority of those conservative
Speaker 3: seats was that we were able to mobilize people around
Speaker 3: a certain issue. And at the time, it was a
Speaker 3: masking issue, right It was dividing parents, and it was
Speaker 3: putting kids at home and they weren't learning, and it
Speaker 3: was really one issue that they were around they could
Speaker 3: center around. And I think that's lost right now. I
Speaker 3: think that all of the school boards really across don't
Speaker 3: have something to grasp onto and run. You know, we
Speaker 3: joke all the time that's Democrats right now are having
Speaker 3: They're a party that stands for nothing, Like what do
Speaker 3: they stand for? We don't know right well, we have
Speaker 3: to figure that out. As conservatives, especially for the school boards,
Speaker 3: what are they going to run on? And right now
Speaker 3: I don't know, but my suggestion would be they figure
Speaker 3: out one issue they can rally around. Personally, I think
Speaker 3: it should be school choice and it should be supporting
Speaker 3: charter schools. The schools have done amazing things for our
Speaker 3: kids and rallying around it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you, Ellie, and I think there's
Speaker 2: going to be a lot of conversation in the coming
Speaker 2: months about who the right candidates are, how we turn
Speaker 2: some boards and flip them. They've done a great job
Speaker 2: down in Pueblo and some other areas that we can
Speaker 2: look to to see how that's going to play out.
Speaker 2: Douglas County is going to be an important couple of
Speaker 2: races there. So thanks for all you do, Ellie. I'm
Speaker 2: really excited about the new potential school in staf Ranch
Speaker 2: for all the families down there to have a classical
Speaker 2: option and keep up the good work.
Speaker 3: Thanks, Happy New Year, Happy.
Speaker 2: New Year to you too. So we've got a couple
Speaker 2: of text messages. One of the text messages says, Heidi,
Speaker 2: thanks for all you do. Thank you. That's very sweet.
Speaker 2: How do we educate consumers to understand that you when
Speaker 2: you tax a business, the business has to pass it
Speaker 2: on to the consumer, increasing inflation and prices, the same
Speaker 2: as increasing minimum wage, increasing the cost of goods. It's
Speaker 2: tough to own a business in Colorado, man, Do I agree?
Speaker 2: Every morning I'm waking up with an alert that another
Speaker 2: restaurant is closing, mostly in Denver, and a lot of
Speaker 2: great restaurants are really struggling with the regulations and taxes
Speaker 2: and new fees and new policies that are layering on
Speaker 2: all of these small business owners. And you know, honestly,
Speaker 2: it's really frustrating as an entrepreneur to see that happen
Speaker 2: in Colorado, where I started my business Can't Bow Wow
Speaker 2: back in two thousand and grew it to the largest
Speaker 2: pet care franchise in the country. I don't know that
Speaker 2: I could have done it today with the rules and
Speaker 2: rugs the way they are. So we've got another caller, Cary,
Speaker 2: Are you on the line?
Speaker 4: H Hi, Heidi, Happy New Year?
Speaker 5: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm good, Happy New Year, Cary Man. You are on
Speaker 2: the front lines of education in Colorado, Carri Hebbll you
Speaker 2: work with ACE Scholarships and really involved in the school
Speaker 2: choice movement. What does that look like in Colorado and
Speaker 2: nationally in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4: Well, it's an exciting time, and I think certainly on
Speaker 4: account of school choice really elevating at a national level,
Speaker 4: particularly with the incoming administration looking to put more emphasis
Speaker 4: on not only the quality the education that we're providing
Speaker 4: to our kids, but also giving parents a choice. Ultimately,
Speaker 4: as far as what would be in the best interest
Speaker 4: of their child. So it's an exciting time. I love it. It's
Speaker 4: a phenomenal organization, and certainly it's a shout out to
Speaker 4: any and all of our donors who really put their
Speaker 4: money where their mouth is. So bravo and keep up
Speaker 4: the good fight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean A Scholarships is one of the just
Speaker 2: one of my favorite nonprofits in Colorado and nationally doing
Speaker 2: great work helping kids that normally couldn't afford to get
Speaker 2: a private education get one and get out of the
Speaker 2: public school system if they need to. And the families
Speaker 2: are just amazing. They do. They just do an amazing work.
Speaker 2: So thank you for all you do, Cauri. What are
Speaker 2: some of your other predictions? Do you have any other
Speaker 2: big ones for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, it's interesting because I think, you know, certainly,
Speaker 4: with all that's happened over the past you know, a
Speaker 4: few years, you know what's sort of been shocking to
Speaker 4: watch and to listen to is you know, certainly with
Speaker 4: the Hunter Biden situation and the fact that we've been
Speaker 4: lied to over the past few years, and you know,
Speaker 4: it looks like, you know, Hunter will probably get away
Speaker 4: with his crimes that he committed and he'll get a
Speaker 4: full pardon. So, you know, I think that's really drawing
Speaker 4: criticism from both sides of the aisle, as it rightly should.
Speaker 4: But I think, you know, certainly for Colorado and at
Speaker 4: a national level, where you know, the voters really spoke
Speaker 4: out this past election and the migration crisis. The immigration
Speaker 4: crisis right now is impacting you know, across the country.
Speaker 4: Every city, every state is feeling the border crisis, and
Speaker 4: I think Colorado in particular, and the scenario that we
Speaker 4: had play out uh in Aurora, where we had you know,
Speaker 4: gang activities in our backyard, you know, trendy to a
Speaker 4: dagua uh. You know, we're threatening and forcing you know,
Speaker 4: residents to leave their properties, leave their home, putting threats
Speaker 4: on the management companies, you know, and even earlier this month, Hei,
Speaker 4: you know, we saw one of the gang members torture,
Speaker 4: torture residents. And you know, I got to say that
Speaker 4: I'm really really disappointed with, you know, certainly the response
Speaker 4: that our elected leadership gave to this community. You know,
Speaker 4: since when is it acceptable to turn your back or
Speaker 4: to make you know, residents of Colorado feel that they've
Speaker 4: been abandoned? You know, since when, and maybe it's because
Speaker 4: of you know, sanctuary city laws, but you know, a
Speaker 4: lot of these gang members have are part of these cartels,
Speaker 4: and you know, the laws that they think may have
Speaker 4: been legal with the cartels that they were under or
Speaker 4: abiding by, that shouldn't be tolerated in this country. And
Speaker 4: the fact that you know, we've got you know, some
Speaker 4: of our elected officials, the mayor of Aurora who basically
Speaker 4: had walk back his comments, you know.
Speaker 2: And our governor says, it's in our imagination.
Speaker 4: You know, it's our imagination. And you know, poor Danielle Jurinsky,
Speaker 4: who you know, was screaming at the top of her
Speaker 4: lungs to get some attention to this, and thank goodness
Speaker 4: she did. But that's you know, that should not be
Speaker 4: acceptable in any of our communities, regardless of your socioeconomic situation.
Speaker 4: No one should, no one should be left to feel
Speaker 4: abandoned by their city officials or by their you know,
Speaker 4: police or anything. I mean, this was just horrific to
Speaker 4: watch this, you know, certainly play out, and I thought
Speaker 4: it was you. I don't know when JD. Van sort
Speaker 4: of shot back at Martha Raddit's and said, you know,
Speaker 4: when she said, oh, it's just a couple of apartment buildings,
Speaker 4: and he said, Martha, you are you hearing yourself? I
Speaker 4: mean this should not be acceptable. So I don't know.
Speaker 4: I think great change should be on the horizon. It
Speaker 4: feels like it's going to be very disruptive, if you will,
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty five, which I don't know. I don't
Speaker 4: think that's such a bad thing. I'd like to see
Speaker 4: certainly more efficiency when it comes to how our tax
Speaker 4: dollars are spent, you know, certainly for our kids. As
Speaker 4: you mentioned earlier, I'm a huge advocate for school choice
Speaker 4: and really really giving kids a quality education and letting
Speaker 4: parents decide what's in their children's best interests. So I
Speaker 4: think between education, you know, efficiencies in our government, and
Speaker 4: hopefully getting this migration crisis under control would be you know,
Speaker 4: certainly a god sense for this country at this point.
Speaker 2: Wow, Carl, you just did a great job of wrapping
Speaker 2: everything up. We've got to go to break, but thank
Speaker 2: you for all you do at ACE. Check it out
Speaker 2: if you're online listening, check out ACE Scholarships. We have
Speaker 2: a few hours left. You can get a tax right
Speaker 2: off and donate. It's a C three very true. But
Speaker 2: thanks for all you do. Have a wonderful New Year's
Speaker 2: even We'll catch you after the New Year.
Speaker 4: Sounds great, a right, everybody.
Speaker 2: This is Heidi Ganal filling in for Dan Caples. We'll
Speaker 2: have more talk about twenty twenty five and twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: looking back and forward after the break. Happy, Happy New Year, Colorado.
Speaker 2: It's Heidi Ganal filling in for Dan Caples. I like
Speaker 2: your choice of music, Jesse. It's very upbeat. Getting everybody
Speaker 2: ready to go out and party tonight. Are you? Do
Speaker 2: you have any plans.
Speaker 6: Laying logan and watching football with the fellas, eat some pizza.
Speaker 6: I'll be in bed by ten if everything goes accordingly.
Speaker 2: Good news is you can watch like a head, so
Speaker 2: you can watch New York and there you go.
Speaker 6: Yep, exactly.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I like watching the network stuff. I'll watch the ball
Speaker 6: drop East Coast time and call it a night.
Speaker 2: I know what, Remember Dick Clark's rocking New Year's He
Speaker 2: he was the best. He was that nobody does it
Speaker 2: like him.
Speaker 6: I can't do the Seacrest thing but ever, but yeah,
Speaker 6: Dick Clark was the best.
Speaker 2: No and Anderson Cooper and whoever. Else he's with get
Speaker 2: drunk on TV and make fools of themselves.
Speaker 3: Pass. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Most of the network stuff is pretty woke, pretty crazy.
Speaker 2: I just I don't get into it. But I have
Speaker 2: four so new Ye's Eve was kind of crazy. They
Speaker 2: all want to stay up. It's very cool to stay
Speaker 2: up till midnight. My older one is twenty nine, so
Speaker 2: you know, she's a little over it. But I have
Speaker 2: a fifteen year old and twins that are twelve. They
Speaker 2: have big plans tonight, big plans.
Speaker 6: It's exciting.
Speaker 2: Well, you know that non alcoholic champagne is a really
Speaker 2: big Yeah.
Speaker 6: You get a little Martinelli's going and get them all
Speaker 6: hopped up on sugar. Good times.
Speaker 2: Ah, you know, Jesse one of them. One of the
Speaker 2: cool things I'm looking forward to with Trump coming in
Speaker 2: the presidency in twenty twenty five is him following through
Speaker 2: on his promise to release all kinds of confidential information,
Speaker 2: whether it's the JFK shooting or yeah UFOs now.
Speaker 6: He threatened to do that JFK stuff last time until
Speaker 6: he got a look at him and then he said
Speaker 6: it was a good idea that he didn't do it,
Speaker 6: So hopefully he follows through this time. Because I'm I
Speaker 6: think I know what's in there, but I need to
Speaker 6: know the whole thing.
Speaker 2: I think everybody's ready to hear it, regardless of what
Speaker 2: the fallout is. But I also want to know about UFOs.
Speaker 6: This is bothering, totally totally COVID kind of ruined that
Speaker 6: they basically told us UFOs exists during and nobody paid
Speaker 6: any attention to it.
Speaker 2: So minor detail.
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly, They're just like, yeah, well, whatever, man, do
Speaker 6: they have COVID or not? Like, so hopefully we can
Speaker 6: get to the bottom of all that stuff.
Speaker 2: Now, do we do have the bird flu coming our way?
Speaker 6: That's what they tell us.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. They actually think they're gonna be able
Speaker 2: to just lock everybody down just in time for the inauguration.
Speaker 2: We're gonna shut the whole country down for bird flu.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if you watched the Sunday shows,
Speaker 2: but Face the Nation had this doctor on. We talked
Speaker 2: a little bit about it yesterday. She was touting how
Speaker 2: everybody needs to get the vaccination for the bird flu,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, are you kidding me? Did you just
Speaker 2: watch the election? And RFK Junior getting promoted across the
Speaker 2: country is the leader of the Maha movement. People aren't
Speaker 2: putting up with that stuff anymore.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 6: I saw that lady on TV too. She wants everybody
Speaker 6: to get tested and inoculated for something that doesn't exist
Speaker 6: for very many people.
Speaker 2: Well, and the media here in Colorado is blaming the
Speaker 2: egg shortage on bird flu, which is bunk. It's their
Speaker 2: bad policy. They just don't want to own it because
Speaker 2: people are ticked off. They don't want to pay eight
Speaker 2: nine dollars for a carton of eggs if they can
Speaker 2: find them.
Speaker 6: I can't imagine. I mean, if you were a family
Speaker 6: of five or six that eats a lot of eggs.
Speaker 6: I don't eat a little ton of eggs, so it
Speaker 6: really didn't affect me that much. But I saw those
Speaker 6: pictures and those shells were barren.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we eat a lot of eggs in our households,
Speaker 2: so we're feeling it. I also want to see the
Speaker 2: Ditty and the Epstein stuff released. I mean, obviously Ditty's
Speaker 2: going through it right now, but I think half a
Speaker 2: Hollywood's going to be in trouble. And Epstein, why have
Speaker 2: they not released any of those files? Why has no
Speaker 2: one gotten in trouble except whatever.
Speaker 6: Powerful people on that list, So host we'll see.
Speaker 2: The other thing I want to see happen is Donald
Speaker 2: Trump came out with a very strong statement about releasing
Speaker 2: the hostages in Gaza. And there's a hundred hostages that
Speaker 2: they are still amasa's holding, seven of which are American citizens.
Speaker 2: They've been there four hundred and fifty one days in captivity.
Speaker 2: It is time to play hardball and get those folks
Speaker 2: out of there.
Speaker 6: They'll get that done. Heath Daddy tell them that they'll
Speaker 6: be hell to pay if they didn't release them or something.
Speaker 2: I'd believe them. Yeah, I do too. Something else I
Speaker 2: think this year in Colorado, I think the Democrats are
Speaker 2: gonna have to own the homelessness issue and deal with it.
Speaker 2: Denver is putting more and more and more money into
Speaker 2: solving the problem. It's not getting solved. It's getting worse,
Speaker 2: and people are getting more and more fed up about
Speaker 2: not being able to go to a Rockies game, go
Speaker 2: out to dinner because most of the restaurants are closing,
Speaker 2: and just enjoy our capital city. So I think that's
Speaker 2: gonna be a big topic in Colorado. Is it enough
Speaker 2: to make people vote differently? I don't know, but I
Speaker 2: think I think they're gonna have to deal with it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you're right. The homeless less problem downtown,
Speaker 6: especially around the Union Station area, is rough, and it
Speaker 6: just seems to be getting rougher. And I don't know
Speaker 6: what the answer is, because the more money they throw
Speaker 6: it at, the worse it gets.
Speaker 2: So you live down there, right, I do.
Speaker 6: I love pretty close right by course, few just up
Speaker 6: the block a little bit, and I've lived down there
Speaker 6: for the last five or six years, and it's I mean,
Speaker 6: I'm in no danger down there, but I wouldn't want
Speaker 6: to raise a family down there.
Speaker 2: No, you know, or go out for a night and stay.
Speaker 2: I mean we used to when I was younger. We'd
Speaker 2: go out dancing and go to the clubs and you're
Speaker 2: walking around at two am in the morning and it
Speaker 2: was fine. It wasn't a big deal. That still happens
Speaker 2: down there.
Speaker 6: It's I mean, if you're in a group of people,
Speaker 6: I think you're fine, but it's still not as pleasing
Speaker 6: to the eye as it used to be. As as
Speaker 6: far as how much danger you're actually in, I don't know.
Speaker 6: I think sometimes thinks that gets blown out a little proportion.
Speaker 6: But I wouldn't, you know, want to take a young
Speaker 6: family down there to watch the Christmas lights and all
Speaker 6: that stuff. You know, don't think twice about it.
Speaker 2: Nope, not doing it. Not doing that. I think another
Speaker 2: thing that's gonna gonna blow up A Richard Holtorf talked
Speaker 2: a little bit about it as he was closing out.
Speaker 2: Is the deficit, Like we've got almost a one billion
Speaker 2: dollar deficit that the legislature has to figure out here
Speaker 2: in Colorado. That may constrain the Democrats from doing some
Speaker 2: of their crazy stuf. I doubt it, but I'm interested
Speaker 2: to see if Pols is going to use that veto pen.
Speaker 2: If he does, he's going to tick off his progressive left,
Speaker 2: and if he doesn't, he's not going to have a
Speaker 2: good shot at running for president. So we'll talk more
Speaker 2: about the upcoming year. This is Heidi Ganall filling in
Speaker 2: for Dan Caples. Happy New Year, Everyone will see you
Speaker 2: after the break. Happy New Year, Colorado. It's Heidi Ganal
Speaker 2: filling in for Dan Caplis, And I have a caller
Speaker 2: Kevin on the line. Kevin, I'm so sorry for leaving
Speaker 2: you hang and I got all fired up about what's
Speaker 2: happening welcome to the show.
Speaker 5: That's okay, I got a question for you. Yes, the
Speaker 5: most egregious financial fraud perpetrated on the United States citizens
Speaker 5: occurred in nineteen thirteen in violation of the US Constitution
Speaker 5: and every state constitution, as well as God's law as
Speaker 5: discussed in the Old Testament. And that's when the bank
Speaker 5: treasonous banks, the treasonist Congress, and the treasonist President Wilson
Speaker 5: signed into law the Federal Reserve Act, which stole our
Speaker 5: gold standard without amending the Constitution and gave the power
Speaker 5: of creating counterfeit currency to the banks which own the
Speaker 5: Federal Reserve and stole the gold standard away from the
Speaker 5: people which own the notes issued under the gold standard.
Speaker 5: I'd like to know when these public so called public
Speaker 5: servants in DC, which are now the masters and we
Speaker 5: are the public servants, are going to stop being beholden
Speaker 5: to and afraid of the banks and restore our gold standard.
Speaker 2: That's a great question, Kevin, and I know there's been
Speaker 2: a lot of discussion about the gold standard in the
Speaker 2: last couple of years, and I mean, our money seems
Speaker 2: to be becoming more and more or less valuable, our dollars,
Speaker 2: So what is Trump said about a gold standard? Yeah,
Speaker 2: do you know what Donald Trump is said about this?
Speaker 2: If anything, I.
Speaker 5: Believe I heard mention of him making some kind of
Speaker 5: comment about possibly restoring or doing something in favor of
Speaker 5: the gold standard.
Speaker 2: What would the implications of that be. You seem to
Speaker 2: know a lot about this on a like an actually
Speaker 2: tactical basis.
Speaker 5: The Federal Reserve is the ninety nine percent dictator of
Speaker 5: inflation and deflation because with the Federal Reserve they can
Speaker 5: inflate and deflate counterfeit currency at will. Under a gold
Speaker 5: standard that is impossible. And proof of that is the
Speaker 5: absolute fact that the same amount of gold or the
Speaker 5: same amount of goods that one ounce of gold bought
Speaker 5: two hundred years ago still costs the same or you
Speaker 5: can still buy those same amount of goods with one
Speaker 5: ounce of gold, because gold and silver maintain their true
Speaker 5: value under an honest system, whereas we're in a debt
Speaker 5: based system where you need more and more notes Federal
Speaker 5: Reserve notes to buy the same amount of goods, got it,
Speaker 5: so you would need all It restricts the government and
Speaker 5: the banks from doing things like going to war or
Speaker 5: all of them waste that they create, and you wouldn't
Speaker 5: have all this need for yearly pay raises because the
Speaker 5: value of the money would be real and honest as
Speaker 5: opposed to debt based currency.
Speaker 2: Got it. Well, thanks for calling in, Kevin. That's a
Speaker 2: really interesting discussion to have, and I maybe be part
Speaker 2: of the doge discussion. You know, I think Elonovivek are
Speaker 2: all about reducing spending and getting back to fiscal responsibility,
Speaker 2: you know, raining in our budget. I believe Donald Trump
Speaker 2: wants to do that. I know we talked about increasing
Speaker 2: the debt ceiling. He wanted to do that so that
Speaker 2: he could put his make sure his tax cuts get in,
Speaker 2: because tax cuts actually count as spending. So it's all
Speaker 2: really confusing. I mean, I went to public schools. I
Speaker 2: had you know, I had a public school education. So
Speaker 2: maybe I'm just not getting it. But I think the country,
Speaker 2: we know the country's in trouble financially. We know we've
Speaker 2: got to control spending. We know we've got to stick
Speaker 2: to our budget. We've got to have a balanced budget.
Speaker 2: I mean in Colorado we were just talking about the deficit.
Speaker 2: A billion dollar deficit they've got to figure out. So
Speaker 2: we've got it. We've got to do the right things
Speaker 2: for our economy, for our country going forward, for our
Speaker 2: kids and our grandkids, and if it means making some
Speaker 2: tough decisions around things that we need to stop spending on.
Speaker 2: It think there's plenty of fluff. I don't know if
Speaker 2: you're following Elon and Doge and Vivek's posts, but they're
Speaker 2: giving example after example after example of ways that we
Speaker 2: can reduce the spending. I think the bureaucracy is another
Speaker 2: big issue. Man. When I was running for governor, I
Speaker 2: had a policy position that I wanted to reduce the
Speaker 2: size of our state bureaucracy by ten percent a year
Speaker 2: in my first term, so forty percent in my first term.
Speaker 2: And some of the old school folks in politics were like,
Speaker 2: it's never going to work. You can't do that. I'm like,
Speaker 2: think of how amazing it would be if we put
Speaker 2: all that money back into the pockets of the taxpayers
Speaker 2: and they could actually spend more in the economy and
Speaker 2: spend more on, you know, things that they love and
Speaker 2: building businesses and investing in their kids and their future.
Speaker 2: It would all pay off in the end, because hiring
Speaker 2: more bureaucrats doesn't pay off in the end. It does
Speaker 2: nothing to make our life better. In my estimation, look
Speaker 2: at education, we've seen an incredible and the administration hires.
Speaker 2: When I was a regent at University of Klorada for
Speaker 2: six years I spent I was the chair of the
Speaker 2: audit committee, chair of the finance committee. The number of
Speaker 2: administrators we hired, especially around DEI. When I left, I
Speaker 2: believe we had seventy eight administrators that were just focused
Speaker 2: on diversity, equity and inclusion. And I kept asking, like,
Speaker 2: what is the expected outcome? What does success look like
Speaker 2: for this investment in administration. Could never get a straight answer,
Speaker 2: And I think the same things happening in K through twelve.
Speaker 2: We're putting all this money into creating layers and layers
Speaker 2: of administration. And yet if we put the money into
Speaker 2: the classroom so that teachers had smaller class sizes, they
Speaker 2: had more resources, they didn't have to buy books and
Speaker 2: supplies out of their own pockets, that would be amazing.
Speaker 2: So why don't we do that? Well, because these politicians
Speaker 2: and these bureaucrats get a little taste of power, they
Speaker 2: get good jobs, good paying jobs. They don't want to
Speaker 2: give those up. It's tough you go in and try
Speaker 2: and take back the size of the bureaucracy in Colorado
Speaker 2: by forty percent. That's a lot of jobs. But the
Speaker 2: free market, if you let it do its thing, will
Speaker 2: take care of those folks and everyone will be better
Speaker 2: off for it. And for all the talking that Jared
Speaker 2: Polost does about how libertarian he is, that's bunk. He's
Speaker 2: grown the size of government in Colorado a tremendous amount,
Speaker 2: and the budget in Colorado, I think you heard Richard
Speaker 2: Holdorff talking about the billions and billions of dollars that
Speaker 2: have been added to the budget, and they still act
Speaker 2: like they don't have enough money. They're doing everything they
Speaker 2: can to get rid of tabor. And if you don't
Speaker 2: know what tabor is, if you're new to the state
Speaker 2: or you're just hearing about it, it's one of the
Speaker 2: reasons that Colorado's economy survived doing well as long as
Speaker 2: it did while the Democrats took over rule over the
Speaker 2: last couple decades, and they're chipping away on it. Taber
Speaker 2: basically controls the government's the bureaucrat's ability to spend based
Speaker 2: on population growth and inflation, and they have to ask
Speaker 2: the taxpayers if they want to increase spending and they're
Speaker 2: allowing that to happen at the local level. So tho,
Speaker 2: as more and more counties get more and more blue,
Speaker 2: they're voting out of tabor, which is really voting out
Speaker 2: of their best interests. I don't understand why they do
Speaker 2: that as voters, unless they just don't understand the implications.
Speaker 2: But you know, I'm on my soapbox about bureaucracy and
Speaker 2: administrative bloat and the crazy things we spend our money
Speaker 2: on in government. And you know, I truly believe we
Speaker 2: could have reduced the size of government dramatically with a
Speaker 2: change and who we voted in office. We still can
Speaker 2: do that going forward Colorado, if you want to, but
Speaker 2: it's not going to happen under Democrat rule here in
Speaker 2: our beautiful state. So we've got to make some different decisions.
Speaker 2: Let's start at the school board level this year, in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, not this year. We've got a few
Speaker 2: more hours of this year twenty twenty five. I've branded
Speaker 2: it the Year of the school board Races, and I
Speaker 2: want to do everything I can to help people all
Speaker 2: over the state run for school board flip wards, get
Speaker 2: more fiscal responsibility in place, stop hiring so many administrators,
Speaker 2: put more money back into the classroom, pay teachers better,
Speaker 2: make the classroom smaller size so the kids get more
Speaker 2: individual attention, and hopefully we'll see grades go up, more
Speaker 2: success in the classroom, more attention by the teachers so
Speaker 2: that they can prevent a lot of the mental health
Speaker 2: issues that are going on by you know, engaging the students,
Speaker 2: giving them hope, giving them excitement about learning. Again, that's
Speaker 2: one thing Ellie talked a little bit about was classical schools.
Speaker 2: My favorite thing about classical schools is you walk in
Speaker 2: and the kids love to learn. They're there, they're excited,
Speaker 2: they're engaged. It's really a sight to see. So I
Speaker 2: will I'll save some more comments till after the break.
Speaker 2: This is Heidiganal filling in for Dan Kaplis back in
Speaker 2: just a few minutes for our last segment of the year.
Speaker 2: Talk to you soon.