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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Dankplas Show here on the last day
Speaker 2: of June. And if you can't tell you you're not
Speaker 2: actually listening to Dan today, you got Sheriff Steve Riems
Speaker 2: filling in again. I'll actually be with you Monday through
Speaker 2: Wednesday as Dan does some trial prep for another one
Speaker 2: of his big cases, you know, driving down Heroes, kind
Speaker 2: of listening to Ryan's show, and there was the talk
Speaker 2: about the discussion or the incident that happened on I
Speaker 2: seventy with the truck crash and the people who died
Speaker 2: in that fiery incident, and whether or not Dan had
Speaker 2: represented some of those victims. And I believe he did,
Speaker 2: but you know just how long how much he's been
Speaker 2: gone lately for trial prep. And if you know what
Speaker 2: Dan's practice is focused on, which is, you know, car crash,
Speaker 2: does it result in injury or death to others? You know,
Speaker 2: if that's what his absences are coming from is all
Speaker 2: this work that he's getting it kind of highlights just
Speaker 2: how bad this state is. And then I get stuck
Speaker 2: in traffic on my way down here from beautiful Weld
Speaker 2: County down through the Denver metro area on I twenty five.
Speaker 2: I mean traffic stopped for I don't know miles going
Speaker 2: northbound on I twenty five. It's stop and go on
Speaker 2: southbound I twenty five. And you think, all right, who
Speaker 2: lives in this mess and says this is what I
Speaker 2: want to be in, And it's even more of a
Speaker 2: slap in the face. This is my first day back
Speaker 2: to work after a fourteen day vacation in Hawaii, and
Speaker 2: I got to tell you, you know, island time, island schedule
Speaker 2: is way superior to what I just drove through to
Speaker 2: get down here.
Speaker 3: Now, quick question, I want to get you in trouble, sheriff,
Speaker 3: but I mean you're the sheriff. So do you take
Speaker 3: the squad car down here or your own personal vehicle?
Speaker 2: It's a mix of either one. It kind of depends
Speaker 2: on whatever I have going before or after this.
Speaker 3: So you wouldn't do anything like, you know, throw your
Speaker 3: lights on to be able to go cruising through traffic, and.
Speaker 2: What good would it do down here? They probably make
Speaker 2: traffic worse and people would freak out. They wouldn't know
Speaker 2: what it was like to have a cop on the
Speaker 2: highway down here. I mean, that's a shot at the
Speaker 2: Denver Police Department. Yeah, a little bit. But you just
Speaker 2: don't see traffic enforcement on the highway very much.
Speaker 4: And I get it.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you would in a safe in
Speaker 2: a safe manner, I think again, you probably might make
Speaker 2: things worse trying to trying to deal with traffic down here,
Speaker 2: because it's just a nightmare.
Speaker 4: I mean we have every time I come down here.
Speaker 4: Just it's it's maddening.
Speaker 2: And you guys live down here, you guys, most of
Speaker 2: the listeners live in this area. You think, yeah, we
Speaker 2: see this every day. You're just you know, you're you're
Speaker 2: speaking into the wind. But it's maddening. Again, coming from
Speaker 2: a state where I was on island time. The whole
Speaker 2: island that I was on, and I went to the
Speaker 2: big Island of Hawaii, the whole thing is the size
Speaker 2: of Weld County.
Speaker 5: It's well, I remember where I told you to go.
Speaker 4: You've told me to go to all kinds of Well, what.
Speaker 5: Was the one place I told you to.
Speaker 4: Kind of you told me to go some turtle beach
Speaker 4: h and did you go? Yes, thank you, But not.
Speaker 2: On purpose, if I'm just being honest, Kelly, it wasn't
Speaker 2: on purpose. My son is an avid hiker. He loves
Speaker 2: to find the worst trails to try to punish his
Speaker 2: family with. And so he decides we're going to do
Speaker 2: this jungle hike. And I call it a jungle hike
Speaker 2: rainforest whatever. We're along the coast, but I mean it's
Speaker 2: heavily wooded jungle conditions. We hike through this tunnel of
Speaker 2: forest for like, I don't know, an hour and a half,
Speaker 2: and then we pop out on this beautiful beach and
Speaker 2: there are sea turtles everywhere. I mean they're just everywhere.
Speaker 2: It was. It was beautiful, nothing like I'd ever seen before.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's if you haven't been to Hawaii, it's
Speaker 2: worth going. Uh it's expensive, save your money, save for
Speaker 2: a long time because it is not a cheap adventure,
Speaker 2: but definitely worth seeing.
Speaker 4: Again.
Speaker 2: Is weird to be on a on the big island
Speaker 2: of Hawaii knowing that the whole thing is about the
Speaker 2: same size as Weld County and far fewer roadways, so
Speaker 2: I don't know. Interesting times. I learned something about Hawaii.
Speaker 2: The cops over there and on most of the islands
Speaker 2: drive their home personal cars. They're not issued agency cars.
Speaker 2: Most of them have some kind of lease option that
Speaker 2: they get a car, and they transport prisoners in their
Speaker 2: personal car. They drive their personal car for work. It's
Speaker 2: definitely a strange environment. But we didn't have any police contacts,
Speaker 2: so I only know that from googling it when we
Speaker 2: saw cars that were marked funny. But yeah, fourteen days
Speaker 2: in Hawaii, back to work today and back here doing
Speaker 2: the dan Caplis show. What more could you want? But
Speaker 2: on the way down here again, I's listened to some
Speaker 2: of the news updates and kind of what's been going on.
Speaker 2: And boy, I missed a lot when I was I
Speaker 2: shouldn't say I missed it. There were things that happened
Speaker 2: in the news that were not necessarily in the front
Speaker 2: of my vision while I was in Why so getting
Speaker 2: caught back up has been kind of a little bit
Speaker 2: of a struggle. I mean, the United States bombed, I
Speaker 2: ran pretty heavily, took out some nuclear facilities. Polis tried
Speaker 2: to force some of his employees to violate his sanctuary
Speaker 2: laws and then got sued using his own laws against
Speaker 2: him and lost. I mean, that's a head scratcher. A
Speaker 2: Democrat socialist wins the primary for the New York mayor's race,
Speaker 2: and I got to listen to him on Meet the
Speaker 2: Press this weekend, and I can't understand why anyone would
Speaker 2: vote for that man, but apparently New Yorkers do. We
Speaker 2: heard today that a victim from the Boulder fire bombing
Speaker 2: incident has passed. Very sad, it's very sad news to hear.
Speaker 2: I believe she was eighty two years old. Karen Diamond,
Speaker 2: I believe is her name. You know, that's just it's
Speaker 2: a tragedy. But that will increase the charges against the suspect.
Speaker 2: Not that it matters a lot in Colorado because we're
Speaker 2: so soft on crimes, but hopefully federally that changes things
Speaker 2: a little bit. And then last week I came back
Speaker 2: to hear Ryan and Dan talking about the team takeover
Speaker 2: that was happening down at City Park in Denver and
Speaker 2: how that was impacting the potentially impacting the Denver Zoo.
Speaker 2: In fact, I think Ryan sent me a text message saying,
Speaker 2: what would that look like in Weld County, and my
Speaker 2: response was, we ain't closing the zoo, but it sounds
Speaker 2: like they didn't need to. So that thing was kind
Speaker 2: of a nothing burger, which you know, a little bit
Speaker 2: of credit to Denver Pde if they got ahead of
Speaker 2: that and got it slowed down or stopped. It's good
Speaker 2: that we didn't have a bunch of kids go act
Speaker 2: unruly and ridiculous and tear a bunch of stuff up
Speaker 2: for no necessary reason. But you know, again, that highlights
Speaker 2: where we're at in the state of Colorado. Lawlessness and
Speaker 2: even when it's down to the teenage level of these
Speaker 2: kids taking over malls or taking over city parks or
Speaker 2: potentially taking over city parks, it tells you that our
Speaker 2: state has a problem. And I'll tie that back into
Speaker 2: what I witnessed on my vacation. So Colorado's becoming more
Speaker 2: and more blue. It feels like every day Hawaii is
Speaker 2: definitely it's governed as a blue state. Luckily, the big
Speaker 2: island of Hawaii is pretty sparsely populated, only about two
Speaker 2: hundred thousand residents on the entire island. That's completely different
Speaker 2: than if you go to Hawahu, where most of the
Speaker 2: population is. We traveled to a Wahu for a day
Speaker 2: to go see the USS Arizona the memorial there, go
Speaker 2: see the USS Missouri Pearl Harbor, the whole experience. And
Speaker 2: we got a pretty conservative tour guy his name was Ozzie,
Speaker 2: and drove our little tour bus around. Great guy, obvious,
Speaker 2: obvious native to Oahu. And once he kind of figured
Speaker 2: out that we were also pretty conservative in the van,
Speaker 2: he started giving us the real deal. And we found
Speaker 2: out that the homeless situation in Hawaii is probably tenfold
Speaker 2: over what you're seeing in the Denver metro area because
Speaker 2: fourteen different states, we're one buying one way tickets for
Speaker 2: homeless people and sending them to Honolulu. And it just
Speaker 2: it goes exactly what we're talking about when we say
Speaker 2: Colorado is a sanctuary state. If you build it, they
Speaker 2: will come. If you create policies, they will come. We
Speaker 2: have a sanctuary state in Colorado, we get trendy arragua,
Speaker 2: we get all kinds of illegal immigration issues coming here.
Speaker 2: You know, they build a i'll say, a homeless sanctuary
Speaker 2: in Honolulu and in the island of a Wahu, and
Speaker 2: everybody takes advantage of it.
Speaker 4: So it's just it's.
Speaker 2: Interesting to see what we're experiencing here in Colorado on
Speaker 2: a little different scale in Hawaii, but it goes to
Speaker 2: government mismanagement, and that's kind of where I want to
Speaker 2: kick off the show today a little bit about how
Speaker 2: do we take this state back. I've talked about this
Speaker 2: a few times when I was filling in, and it's
Speaker 2: really a matter of how do you get some statewide
Speaker 2: elected officials from the other side of the aisle, the
Speaker 2: Republican side of the aisle, back in back in charge
Speaker 2: of this place. How do we get the adults back
Speaker 2: in charge, because most certainly they aren't.
Speaker 4: Right now.
Speaker 2: What we're seeing coming out of our state legislature, what
Speaker 2: we're seeing coming out or Governor's office, is not beneficial
Speaker 2: to the state of Colorado. So I've told you guys
Speaker 2: before when I'm setting in on the show that I
Speaker 2: was going to try to get governor's candidates on. We're
Speaker 2: going to have one on in the in the second hour,
Speaker 2: But before we do that, at about the four point
Speaker 2: thirty six mark, we're going to have Dick Wadams on.
Speaker 2: And I know some of you consider him a controversial,
Speaker 2: controversial figure. You may not believe that he's the best
Speaker 2: Republican out there, but I think he gives you the
Speaker 2: dirt on do we have a candidate in the race
Speaker 2: that has the potential of winning? And you know, whether
Speaker 2: you like the way he calls balls and strikes, I
Speaker 2: think he usually calls it pretty accurate. He's been wrong
Speaker 2: on a few but more times than not, he's pretty accurate.
Speaker 2: So we're going to go over in just a little
Speaker 2: bit some of the candidates. We've interviewed, some that I
Speaker 2: plan on trying to get on here, and I want
Speaker 2: you I want to hear from you guys who can
Speaker 2: win that's in the race now, and if the person's
Speaker 2: not in the race now, who should it be? You
Speaker 2: can text in text Dan to five seven seven three nine,
Speaker 2: or you can call in three O three seven one
Speaker 2: three eight two five five. I want to get that
Speaker 2: conversation going before I have.
Speaker 4: Dick on the line.
Speaker 2: That way, we can say, all right, this is what
Speaker 2: the callers believe, this is what the texters believe. This
Speaker 2: person can win or this person can't win. You know,
Speaker 2: I think the most notable name in the race right
Speaker 2: now is Greg Lopez. You know, there's a Mark Baisley,
Speaker 2: Scott Bottoms, We've had both of those folks on. Jason Michel,
Speaker 2: we had on, Alexander Mugatu we had on, and today
Speaker 2: we're going to have a Will McBride on. And you know,
Speaker 2: quite honestly, I mean, they're all great people, but I
Speaker 2: don't see any of them punching at the same weight
Speaker 2: as Michael Bennett just yet. And of course any candidate
Speaker 2: can catch fire and get things rolling, But where do
Speaker 2: you think we're at, listeners, I mean, who's the person,
Speaker 2: who's the person in the arena that can do this again?
Speaker 2: Text in five seven, seven, three nine or call in
Speaker 2: three zho three seven, one three eight two five five.
Speaker 2: We'll go to break. But when we come back, I'm
Speaker 2: going to go through the Republican candidates for governor. I
Speaker 2: just read off four or five that we've we've interviewed
Speaker 2: on the show. But I want to know the rest
Speaker 2: of this list. Who is the winner in this list?
Speaker 2: And if they're not there, who who's that person that's
Speaker 2: going to step into the arena and take charge. We'll
Speaker 2: go to break. When we come back, hopefully we'll have
Speaker 2: those texts coming in and we'll start interacting with what
Speaker 2: your take is on who can be our next governor
Speaker 2: here in the state of Colorado. You're listening to the
Speaker 2: Dan Capless Show here on six point thirty k how
Speaker 2: with Well Kenny Sheriff Steve Reims setting in on the.
Speaker 4: Driver's seat.
Speaker 6: And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2: You know we were before we went to break, I
Speaker 2: was talking about some of the candidates in the in
Speaker 2: the governor's race on the Republican side, and I asked, you, guys, hey,
Speaker 2: text in, tell me which one of these guys that
Speaker 2: you know of you think can win? And I say, guys,
Speaker 2: because I don't think there's a female on the Republican
Speaker 2: side that's in the race yet. So I'm not saying
Speaker 2: that collectively. I'm saying that I think that's all we
Speaker 2: have is male candidates. But it's been crickets. You guys
Speaker 2: must not think anybody can win. And that's concerning because
Speaker 2: right now we're getting kind of down to the wire
Speaker 2: for time for folks to get into the race. I mean,
Speaker 2: I think there's probably a couple more months that can
Speaker 2: be played with, but if we're going to have a
Speaker 2: realistic chance at winning winning a governor's race, when I
Speaker 2: say we the Republican Party have a realistic chance of
Speaker 2: winning a governor's race in the state of Colorado. It's
Speaker 2: going to take a full court press, and it's going
Speaker 2: to take a candidate working their tail off. And it
Speaker 2: may also take having some good candidates in the other
Speaker 2: state wide races, whether that's for treasure or attorney general
Speaker 2: or oh gosh, we'll get to those those races.
Speaker 4: Here in just a minute.
Speaker 2: But did get one good text here from Alex And
Speaker 2: I always like to say her name out loud because
Speaker 2: I wonder if it makes people's their little listening devices
Speaker 2: go off. But she asked how the vacation was Hawaii. Again,
Speaker 2: it was fantastic. Got to go see volcanoes and turtle
Speaker 2: beaches and jungle jungle hikes. I mean, if you haven't
Speaker 2: been to Hawaii, I highly recommend it, but again, save
Speaker 2: your money. She also asked a little bit about you know,
Speaker 2: isn't it kind of interesting how Mayor Mikey and our
Speaker 2: gutlass governor have said nothing about this team takeover that
Speaker 2: happened at shops at Northfield or the planned one that
Speaker 2: was going to happen to shut down the Denver Zoo.
Speaker 2: You know, I haven't been paying attention to the Denver
Speaker 2: media as I haven't been back for very long from
Speaker 2: my vacation, but I haven't heard anything from either either
Speaker 2: of them. A heck, the news hardly even covered it.
Speaker 2: I think the most I heard about this, this whole thing,
Speaker 2: was from Ryan Schuling show and Dan.
Speaker 4: Kapos's show last week.
Speaker 2: So again, if you want the real scoop on what's
Speaker 2: happening in the news, you got to tune into AM
Speaker 2: radio most of the time. But again, if you got
Speaker 2: a name that you think, hey, this person can win,
Speaker 2: even if they're not an announced candidate, shoot it to
Speaker 2: me five seven, seven, three nine, start your text off
Speaker 2: with Dan or call in three o three seven one
Speaker 2: three eight two five five if you've got an idea
Speaker 2: for a person that you think can win. I mean,
Speaker 2: I think I've said it many times on this on
Speaker 2: these airwaves that I think Dan Kaplis would be a
Speaker 2: fantastic candidate for governor. I think he would have a
Speaker 2: very good puncher's chance at getting the Republicans back in power.
Speaker 2: But again, it's going to take a lot of work
Speaker 2: and lightning in a bottle for that to happen. But
Speaker 2: over the last few times, that I've covered for the show.
Speaker 2: I don't know what number we're on here yet, but
Speaker 2: I think I've interviewed four or five of these candidates.
Speaker 2: But I'm just going to go down the Republican candidates
Speaker 2: and we'll say if we've interviewed him or if we're
Speaker 2: about to interview him. Mark Baisley, we had him on
Speaker 2: the show. He's a state Senator. Scott Bottoms, we had
Speaker 2: him on the show. He's a state rep. Jason Clark
Speaker 2: I have scheduled for the show. I believe tomorrow, actually
Speaker 2: know he might be. Yeah, he's tomorrow. We've got a
Speaker 2: Bryson Garrison Stephen guests, John Gray, Ginsburg, Joshua Griffin, mister
Speaker 2: Greg Lopez, and I've reached out to Greg to see
Speaker 2: if I could get him on the show, and he's
Speaker 2: he's not been responsive. William McBride, he will be on today.
Speaker 2: And then Jason Michael he's been on a couple of
Speaker 2: times actually, Robert Moore, Alexander Mugatu he was on with
Speaker 2: us a little while back, and then Jim Runberg and
Speaker 2: Daniel Thomas. And these are pretty unknown names by most
Speaker 2: I think by most accounts, which means if if any
Speaker 2: of them are going to win. One, they got to
Speaker 2: get their name recognition way up. And two, you know,
Speaker 2: the winds have to be at their back, the winds
Speaker 2: have to be in their sales. So they've got to
Speaker 2: have a platform that energizes the electorate. You know, I
Speaker 2: think Dan's got the name recognition that he could get
Speaker 2: in the race and instantly start having some juice to
Speaker 2: a campaign. But we all know he's been a pretty
Speaker 2: reluctant guy to want to jump in the race and
Speaker 2: duke it out so far. But you know, maybe we
Speaker 2: keep talking about it will fulfill a p officey here.
Speaker 2: But on some of the other statewide races, you've got
Speaker 2: the Treasure's race, which right now there's four Democrats and
Speaker 2: one other candidate, no Republican. For attorney general, you've got
Speaker 2: five Democrats, one Republican. That one Republican being a Connor Pennington.
Speaker 2: I don't know where Connor Pennington comes from, but I'll
Speaker 2: reach out to him too and see if we can
Speaker 2: get him on to talk a little bit about the
Speaker 2: attorney general's race. And then we have Secretary of State,
Speaker 2: and that's the only one that is kind of equally represented.
Speaker 2: You have one dim one Republican and one other, and
Speaker 2: the Republican is a Ross Terra Borelli. So again not
Speaker 2: familiar with that name. If you guys, as listeners, know
Speaker 2: these people talk to him, to them to call in
Speaker 2: and explain to us why they can why they can
Speaker 2: win a particular race. Yeah, let's go for it.
Speaker 3: I've got it, Okay, Dan kaplis sare Steve Reims ticket Boom,
Speaker 3: there we go go.
Speaker 4: I screwed myself on that.
Speaker 6: No, I think that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I think the Dan caplis.
Speaker 6: Part of this. The lawyer and the law man come on,
Speaker 6: this is it?
Speaker 4: Oh boy, here we go.
Speaker 6: I love it. Well, Kelly likes it too.
Speaker 2: So the lieutenant governor's job's got to be pretty good, right,
Speaker 2: because that that.
Speaker 6: You would be a kick ass lieutenant governor.
Speaker 2: So that that part you could probably talk me into,
Speaker 2: because I think that the one that's in there now,
Speaker 2: if I'm not mistaken, is pulling two salaries for doing for.
Speaker 6: Doing that much of anything we're getting, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean, I've worked as a as a cop my
Speaker 2: whole life, for a sheriff my whole life, I've done okay,
Speaker 2: but you know, double income wouldn't be bad. That's a
Speaker 2: that's a good opportunity.
Speaker 4: We did get a.
Speaker 2: Text here says Greg Lopez is terrific. And you know,
Speaker 2: from what I've interacted with Greg, he's a nice guy.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think this is his third attempt at governor.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that that's a bad thing. He's obviously persistent.
Speaker 2: He did that little stint where he covered the remainder
Speaker 2: of Kim Buck's time at Over in CD four before
Speaker 2: Lauren Bobert won the election and took the seat. You know,
Speaker 2: I guess as a normal election process. But you know,
Speaker 2: gregs he's been a yeoman for standing by the Republican
Speaker 2: Party and being involved. You know, maybe this is the
Speaker 2: time he finds lightning in a bottle. I really wish
Speaker 2: he'd come on the show, but he's, like I said,
Speaker 2: he hasn't been responsive to me. So we'll see if
Speaker 2: he comes on at some point in the future. But
Speaker 2: when we come back from break, we'll have Dick Wadhams
Speaker 2: on again. That maybe that'll light you guys up as
Speaker 2: to some comments. But get ready, we'll get to hear
Speaker 2: what he has to say about who can win and
Speaker 2: can this state come back from the brink of extinction.
Speaker 2: We listened to the Dan Caplass Show here with well
Speaker 2: Kenny Sheriff Steve Rms.
Speaker 6: You're listening to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 2: I mean that's the only one that's only one of
Speaker 2: the most popular songs. But you know whatever, Well again, callers, texters.
Speaker 2: You know, if you also want to send in your
Speaker 2: condolences for Kelly Heaven to attend the Metallica concert, you're
Speaker 2: welcome to do that too. You can text in at
Speaker 2: five seven, seven, three nine, start your text off with Dan,
Speaker 2: and we're starting to get some of them rolling in here.
Speaker 2: For some governor's candidates, you can also call in three
Speaker 2: oh three seven one, three eight, two five five. But
Speaker 2: right now we're going to go to our semi controversial
Speaker 2: figure with some of you, and that's mister Dick Watams. Dick,
Speaker 2: how are you doing? Mister Watams?
Speaker 4: Do we have you.
Speaker 7: See?
Speaker 4: How are you doing? Okay? Good? Long time no talk.
Speaker 2: But you know, I was on vacation for a little while,
Speaker 2: came back and I was hoping that we would see
Speaker 2: a governor's candidate that was really starting uh to catch
Speaker 2: some speed on the Republican side, and it's still kind
Speaker 2: of crickets, and that that got me to thinking that
Speaker 2: maybe it was time to talk to the old wise
Speaker 2: one by many people's measure, and see what you thought.
Speaker 2: You know, is there a candidate in this race of
Speaker 2: fifteen candidates right now on the Republican side? Are you
Speaker 2: do you do you have confidence that there's a candidate
Speaker 2: in the race right now that can take this the
Speaker 2: whole distance?
Speaker 7: Well, I think the candidates themselves are going to have
Speaker 7: to answer that question, Steve, because running for governor is
Speaker 7: a it's kind of a cliche, I guess, but it's
Speaker 7: it's a major undertaking. Yeah, yeah, And we've seen over
Speaker 7: and over in Colorado how not to run for governor.
Speaker 7: We've only elected one Republican governor in the past fifty
Speaker 7: four years, and that was Governor Bill Owens in nineteen
Speaker 7: ninety eight, and then he was re elected by a
Speaker 7: large margin in two thousand and two. So essentially we've
Speaker 7: had five consecutive elections of Democrats and someone's who left office.
Speaker 7: But what I do think these candidates how to do, Steve,
Speaker 7: is even though it was nineteen ninety eight, Owen run
Speaker 7: that election and the state has changed campaign technology has changed,
Speaker 7: but I will tell you I still think it's worthwhile
Speaker 7: if every one of these candidates would take a very
Speaker 7: hard look that why Bill Owens won and everybody else
Speaker 7: is ast in the last fifty four years.
Speaker 2: Well, and you might you might have some insight into
Speaker 2: that if I'm not mistaken, because I think you were
Speaker 2: pretty pivotal in that governor's race. What are some of
Speaker 2: the things that Owens did that you're not necessarily seeing
Speaker 2: from these candidates.
Speaker 7: Well, I had the owner of being the governor's campaign manager,
Speaker 7: and ninety eight courch Is his press secretary for three
Speaker 7: years in the governor's office after that. The fact is
Speaker 7: that Steve, is that Owens ran on a very clear
Speaker 7: agenda and an agenda that won a primary against a
Speaker 7: very strong opponent, the Senate President Tom Norton of Greeley,
Speaker 7: with the opponent's in that primary, but he ran and
Speaker 7: then we won against the Lieutenant Governor Gale Scheddler, who
Speaker 7: as the lieutenant governor under Roy Romer, who was immensely
Speaker 7: popular leading office that year. But Owens ran on three issues,
Speaker 7: to cut taxes, to reform education, and to improve transportation.
Speaker 7: And he had very clear policy positions behind every one
Speaker 7: of those points, and they were issues that people cared about.
Speaker 7: They knew cutting taxes is obvious, and reforming education, he
Speaker 7: wanted to improve school choice. Owen one of the main
Speaker 7: instigators of chartered schools when he was in the legislature.
Speaker 7: And in terms of highways, we laid out a plan
Speaker 7: to dramatically increase and accelerate twenty six key projects around
Speaker 7: the state. And the reason why he got re elected,
Speaker 7: by the way, is because he implemented every one of
Speaker 7: those things. But I cannot stress enough, Steve, that these
Speaker 7: candidates have got to think long and hard why they
Speaker 7: are running for this office, because even more than a
Speaker 7: US Senator running for governor, Pepe require specificity in terms
Speaker 7: of the agenda. They want to know what the heck
Speaker 7: are you going to do for me? So they inherently know.
Speaker 7: Governors do impact the lives.
Speaker 2: Call red you have and the ability to directly deliver
Speaker 2: on what you're.
Speaker 4: Promising you do.
Speaker 7: And I'll tell you what the difference between the US
Speaker 7: Senator and governor. And I loved working for a bunch
Speaker 7: of US senators in my life, the governor really has
Speaker 7: the ability to impact every citizen in Colorado, every day.
Speaker 7: And so if candidates, if all they can say to
Speaker 7: the answer to the question, why do you want to
Speaker 7: be governor? Well, I think i'd do it's a good job,
Speaker 7: or that ain't going to cut it. And so I
Speaker 7: don't care what their agenda is. Necessarily, they just got
Speaker 7: to figure out what it is and they've got to
Speaker 7: determine if if it relates to what people want in
Speaker 7: the governor, and then they've got to run on it.
Speaker 7: And they've got to be disciplined. And by the way, Steve,
Speaker 7: if they think they can run to the far right
Speaker 7: in the primary and then dive back to the middle
Speaker 7: of the general, that does not work. You've got to
Speaker 7: have an agenda that can win the primary and win
Speaker 7: a general election and whatever that is.
Speaker 2: Well, so you named us some things that Owens ran on,
Speaker 2: one of those being I'm going to you said, you know,
Speaker 2: traffic or road conditions, roadways, I'm going to call that infrastructure.
Speaker 2: I think that's still an issue that can be won
Speaker 2: on in this state. In my opinion, One that you
Speaker 2: didn't necessarily mention with Owens, but I think is hypercritical
Speaker 2: now is the out of control crime that we have
Speaker 2: in Colorado. Do you think that's a winning issue as
Speaker 2: well for Republicans.
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 7: And you know it's interesting, Steve, because well, crime was
Speaker 7: an issue back in ninety eight is it's always an issue,
Speaker 7: but it didn't have the prominence we have today.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't think we.
Speaker 2: Were the most We're the second most dangerous state in
Speaker 2: the nation right now. I mean by every measure.
Speaker 7: Exactly. And so frankly, if I was developing an agenda
Speaker 7: today for a campaign for governor, I crime would be
Speaker 7: one of those three issues. I still think that education
Speaker 7: is still a big deal. Sure, that's just it just is.
Speaker 7: And we now know so many of our elementary school
Speaker 7: kids cannot read at grade level. I mean, the education
Speaker 7: system continues to fail our kids. And so I think
Speaker 7: I think crime is definitely one of the major issues
Speaker 7: going into this campaign.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, again, we've had several other candidates on here,
Speaker 2: and they've they've all, you know, they've had some talking points,
Speaker 2: but a clear direction for where they're going. I haven't
Speaker 2: necessarily heard that yet. And again, I think in the
Speaker 2: early days of any candidacy, you know, you're kind of
Speaker 2: feeling things out and trying to figure out where you
Speaker 2: want to go and you know, that's why they do
Speaker 2: the interviews they do and try to get some feedback.
Speaker 2: But you know, to the point you made, you're gonna
Speaker 2: have to come out swinging. You're gonna have to come
Speaker 2: out swinging pretty hard, I believe. Do you do you
Speaker 2: think there is a pathway for the right Republican candidate
Speaker 2: to get there and get across the finish line or
Speaker 2: do you think this state.
Speaker 4: Is just gone?
Speaker 7: Well, let me mention one other thing that I didn't
Speaker 7: really steve is that you also have to run a
Speaker 7: strong contrast campaign with a democratic campaign. We ran a
Speaker 7: very aggressive campaign pointing out our agenda versus our opponents,
Speaker 7: and so we did not sit around thinking that all
Speaker 7: we had to do is talk about all the good
Speaker 7: things about our agenda. We ran a very aggressive contrast campaign.
Speaker 7: Some people call that negative. I call it contrast. People
Speaker 7: have got to know what the choice is and if
Speaker 7: we hadn't done that, we wouldn't have won. And so
Speaker 7: you've got to have a strong agenda, and then you've
Speaker 7: got to run. You've got to run right as your opponent.
Speaker 7: In terms of drawing the contrast to your question, yeah,
Speaker 7: I listen, you never know about politics and what could happen.
Speaker 7: The fact is that Democrats have been on a real
Speaker 7: run lately. But you know what, I think the sense
Speaker 7: of the public is starting to get tired of the
Speaker 7: crimes you point out earlier that they're tired of the
Speaker 7: of the excesses of this of these democrats to the
Speaker 7: run the legislature and the and the governorship, and and
Speaker 7: and the arrogance of the of those Democrats. They they
Speaker 7: are conveying right now that they are going to be
Speaker 7: enshrined in the majority forever. I think I think voters
Speaker 7: will reject that. And so I think the the the
Speaker 7: the the potential is there for a very strong challenge
Speaker 7: to win an open seat for governor, probably against Michael Bennett.
Speaker 7: That maybe Wiser, that's pretty general. Wiser can pull off
Speaker 7: an upset, But I think I think a strong candidate
Speaker 7: who has run on a strong agenda should win. And
Speaker 7: then the other thing, you got to raise money. And
Speaker 7: that's that's hard. That's hard.
Speaker 2: That's really hard in this state, considering some of the
Speaker 2: history we've had with a few of the past chairs.
Speaker 2: But Dick, you gave the insight that I was looking for.
Speaker 2: I really appreciate you coming on the show. Kind of
Speaker 2: a short segment, but you've got the text line going
Speaker 2: a little bit because you're always a controversial figure with
Speaker 2: some of these folks and for that, I appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you, and thank you.
Speaker 4: Dick.
Speaker 2: Stay stay involved in the fight. I'm sure we'll we'll
Speaker 2: see you somewhere around this governor's race as it continues on.
Speaker 2: And again thanks for coming on the show. We're gonna
Speaker 2: cut the brake. You're listening to the Dan Capless Show
Speaker 2: here on six point thirty k how with Wilkan Sheriff
Speaker 2: Steve Reims setting in on the driver's seat.
Speaker 6: And now back to the Dan Kaplass Show podcast.
Speaker 4: Blue Hawaii.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're a man un Blue.
Speaker 5: Well, I see tiny bubbles.
Speaker 4: Just so you know, i'd run other here Metallico for
Speaker 4: just being hot. So if you were with us.
Speaker 2: In that last segment, we had Dick Adams on talking
Speaker 2: a little bit about you know, does a governor does
Speaker 2: a Republican candidate have a chance for a governor in
Speaker 2: this state? Uh, you know, I didn't expect him to
Speaker 2: really pick a candidate and say this is the guy
Speaker 2: that can win, and he didn't. He said, you know,
Speaker 2: these guys got to define their own and and kind
Speaker 2: of go forward. But again, I just want to go
Speaker 2: through the names again. We had Mark Baisley on, Scott
Speaker 2: Bottoms on, We're gonna have Jason Clark on tomorrow. There's
Speaker 2: a Bryson Garrison that we'll have on on Wednesday, Steven Guests,
Speaker 2: John Gray Ginsburg, Joshua Griffin, Greg Lopez, William McBride, which
Speaker 2: we'll have on today, Jason mike Sel he's a sheriff
Speaker 2: down and teller. We've had him on a couple of times.
Speaker 2: Robert Moore, Alexander who got to we had him on,
Speaker 2: Jim Runberg, and Daniel Thomas, And again I'll try to
Speaker 2: get as many of them on as I can, just
Speaker 2: so we find out, Hey, is there one of these
Speaker 2: people that is that lightning in a bottle? Do they
Speaker 2: resonate with the listeners the way you want them to?
Speaker 2: But you know, having Dick on, I know is always
Speaker 2: going to be a little bit controversial because sometimes he
Speaker 2: says things that people don't want to hear. Yeah, or
Speaker 2: you don't you just flat out don't agree with him.
Speaker 2: So some of the texts it says when Watams comes on,
Speaker 2: I go off. We'll be back when this rhino goes away. Yeah,
Speaker 2: everybody's got an opinion.
Speaker 6: He takes so much heat. He's like a pro wrestler
Speaker 6: though he is heel and he just draws the heat.
Speaker 2: He just he's got he's got to take the slap right.
Speaker 2: Another one here says, I will tell you right now,
Speaker 2: I'm one of those that doesn't necessarily like Dick Wadhams,
Speaker 2: but because you have him on sheriff, I will listen.
Speaker 4: So I hope you. I hope you got through the segment. There.
Speaker 2: Another one here that this person's obviously been drinking really early,
Speaker 2: because it says, as a.
Speaker 4: Well county resident, I'd.
Speaker 2: Seriously like to see I'd seriously like to see you Steve.
Speaker 4: Reims move from sheriff to governor. That person's been drinking.
Speaker 6: Well, it's five o'clock somewhere and almost here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I'd have to join him in order to
Speaker 2: make that move. And then someone actually gives you a
Speaker 2: little bit of credit. Ryan, They say they like the
Speaker 2: idea of the Dan and sheriff ticket. You know, I'm
Speaker 2: not going to say you couldn't talk me into it,
Speaker 2: but you have to do a lot of talking and
Speaker 2: maybe some of that drinking.
Speaker 4: Yeah, to get thing.
Speaker 6: You and me a couple of bruise. Yeah, who sounds
Speaker 6: like a better and better idea? You Ryan lawyer and
Speaker 6: the lawman. You were right.
Speaker 4: I think we got this.
Speaker 6: It suddenly turns into Stay Brothers.
Speaker 4: That's so for activities, just.
Speaker 5: So I can say I did not object.
Speaker 2: Well, but you also haven't watched Step Brothers, so I
Speaker 2: don't know if your opinion matter is true.
Speaker 5: That is true, I am not.
Speaker 4: You're not allowed to have on this on this topic.
Speaker 8: I've also never seen an episode of seinfeldcase has been
Speaker 8: more of.
Speaker 3: A literal communist Kelly for that for those reasons, or
Speaker 3: Zora and Mamdani.
Speaker 2: Well, so let's play let's play eight just to see,
Speaker 2: let's get a comparison.
Speaker 4: Cut eight.
Speaker 5: But do you actually condemn it? I think that's the.
Speaker 9: Question and the outstanding issue that a number of people,
Speaker 9: both of the Jewish faith and beyond have Do you
Speaker 9: condemn that phase globalize the indefado, which a lot of
Speaker 9: people here is a call to violence against Jews.
Speaker 10: I've heard from many Jewish New Yorkers who have shared
Speaker 10: their concerns with me, especially in light of the horrific
Speaker 10: attacks that we saw in Washington, d C. And in
Speaker 10: Colder in Boulder, Colorado, about this moment of anti Semitism
Speaker 10: in our country and in our city. And I've heard
Speaker 10: those fears, and I've had those conversations, and ultimately they
Speaker 10: are part and parcel of why in my campaign I've
Speaker 10: put forward a commitment to increase funding for anti hate
Speaker 10: crime programming by eight hundred percent.
Speaker 6: I don't believe that the role of the.
Speaker 10: Mayor is to police speech in the manner, especially of
Speaker 10: that of Donald Trump, who has put one New Yorker
Speaker 10: in jail who's just returned to his family, Mahamud Khalil,
Speaker 10: for that very supposed crime of speech. Ultimately, what I
Speaker 10: think I need to show is the ability to not
Speaker 10: only talk about something, but to tackle it and to
Speaker 10: make clear that there's no room brandy Semitism in the
Speaker 10: city and we have to root out that bigotry and
Speaker 10: ultimately we do that through the actions, and that is
Speaker 10: the mayor. I will be one that protects Jewish New
Speaker 10: Yorkers and lives up to that commitment through the work
Speaker 10: that I do.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing, all right, maybe he's seen step brothers,
Speaker 2: so you know, give him a little bit of credit there.
Speaker 2: But this guy is running to be the mayor of
Speaker 2: New York. This ground zero for the nine to eleven
Speaker 2: attacks in two thousand and one, and you know, we
Speaker 2: went around saying we will never forget. This guy can't
Speaker 2: even condemn the idea of globalizing the Inada. Look, he
Speaker 2: can't even he can't even come out and just say
Speaker 2: I am against violence against Americans, something that simple.
Speaker 4: I can't believe it.
Speaker 2: I don't know where I don't know where the voters
Speaker 2: in New York are coming from. But this guy is
Speaker 2: being held up as like the road map for Democrats
Speaker 2: to win, and we have to hope, we have to
Speaker 2: hope they follow his lead. I think that I don't
Speaker 2: think that's a winning combination outside of very many areas.
Speaker 2: I don't think that that is a winning combination in
Speaker 2: the in the state of Colorado. And I don't think
Speaker 2: Michael Bennett could be any more hated unless he started
Speaker 2: following this.
Speaker 4: Guy's Am I gonna am I gonna globalize?
Speaker 3: Well, Kelly's losing for zero Mamdani And you watched this
Speaker 3: if I mentioned that, and Kristen Welker asked him Nott once,
Speaker 3: not twice, but thrice. Yes, can you condemn the phrase
Speaker 3: globalize the end to fado?
Speaker 6: It's a yes or no question. He never said yes.
Speaker 6: He so that's no.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he can't say it because he doesn't believe that
Speaker 2: that's something that is. There's a it's not a problem
Speaker 2: for him, and he's just gonna walk around. He's gonna
Speaker 2: whistle past the graveyard on that one. But back to
Speaker 2: our original topic, Kelly, how is it that you cannot
Speaker 2: have watched step Brothers? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Why not?
Speaker 6: Adam's seen it right?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, is her husband?
Speaker 4: Why didn't you watch it with him? It's fun.
Speaker 6: There's so much room for activities like the.
Speaker 8: Sheriff's I also didn't see that other one that you
Speaker 8: like that you always give me crapa Achermoon. I haven't
Speaker 8: seen that one, and I haven't seen Dumb and Dummer.
Speaker 5: That's the one.
Speaker 4: Just turn the microphone off.
Speaker 6: It's off.
Speaker 4: We're gonna go to break.
Speaker 2: When we come back in the next hour, we'll have
Speaker 2: our our governor's candidate on board, Will McBride, and we'll see,
Speaker 2: uh if he's got lightning in bottle. You're listening to
Speaker 2: the Dan Kaplo Show here with Steve Reims. The Sheriff
Speaker 2: of Weald County, setting in on the driver's seat. Thanks
Speaker 2: ALS