Speaker 1: You all know how I feel about the current leadership
Speaker 1: of the Colorado Republican Party, so I'm excited about the
Speaker 1: prospect of not having that leadership in place after March
Speaker 1: and joining me now is a happy warrior who has
Speaker 1: thrown her name officially into the ring to be the
Speaker 1: next chairman of the GOP. Britta Horn is on the
Speaker 1: horn as they say, Hi, Britta, how you doing?
Speaker 2: Hello Miss Mandy. I'm doing great. How are you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm doing fantastic. And you know, Britta, you I said
Speaker 1: it earlier on the show. Whenever I see you, you
Speaker 1: have a smile on your face. You're You're an upbeat,
Speaker 1: optimistic person. Why in the world would you want to
Speaker 1: take on this situation right now?
Speaker 2: Well, because I need we need to unite the party.
Speaker 2: I mean, right We've got to talk about the things
Speaker 2: that are important to me, which are relationships and resources
Speaker 2: and responsibility, and it's about the future and delivering results
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six that we're going to start on
Speaker 2: day one.
Speaker 1: So right now, the party has some significant issues. And
Speaker 1: I'm not pointing fingers in anyone, but here are the
Speaker 1: issues as I see them. Number one, to your point,
Speaker 1: the current party leadership seems to want to run people
Speaker 1: out of the Colorado Republican Party right at a moment
Speaker 1: when people are moving towards the Republican Party across the country.
Speaker 1: So if you become chair of the Colorado GOP, first
Speaker 1: of all, what do you do to woo back disaffected
Speaker 1: Republicans frankly like me? And what do you do to
Speaker 1: convince Independence that they need to join the party in Colorado?
Speaker 2: Well, exactly, you're absolutely right. We got to get the
Speaker 2: independence back. We have to get the Republicans back. I mean,
Speaker 2: right now, we know that only twenty two point seven
Speaker 2: to six percent of voters are active, inactive or pre
Speaker 2: registered as Republicans and the unaffiliated. It's just like you said,
Speaker 2: forty nine point seven percent are unaffiliated. Sometime this year, Mandy,
Speaker 2: we're going to the unaffiliates are going to be bigger
Speaker 2: than both the Democrats and the Republicans combined in Colorado.
Speaker 3: So how do you fix it? What do you do?
Speaker 3: What's the outreach look like? What's the message?
Speaker 2: Okay, so the message is definitely I have, like you know,
Speaker 2: all these things that I could have a background in
Speaker 2: and fundraising and grassroots and building relationships. I have this huge,
Speaker 2: long history, and I know you know this about my
Speaker 2: successful organizing of volunteers and having putting my heart in
Speaker 2: and my soul to help elect Republicans. I know we
Speaker 2: can get all these We have all these different groups
Speaker 2: out there. Everybody's doing their own thing, everybody's in their silo.
Speaker 2: We're still all conservative in nature, but we're doing everything
Speaker 2: in silo and not good at putting it together. So
Speaker 2: with maybe I go back to that happy warrior, you know,
Speaker 2: getting everybody to come in and be a part of
Speaker 2: the fold. And those are the majority of the people.
Speaker 2: So we'll snuff out the negative nancies and get work done.
Speaker 2: We've got to rep you know, elect Republicans.
Speaker 1: Well, to your point about happy warriors, I think this
Speaker 1: is one of the things that people sort of overlook about.
Speaker 1: By Ronald Reagan is so revered by so many people,
Speaker 1: not just because we had a booming economy and really
Speaker 1: asserted ourselves on the world stage under Ronald Reagan, but
Speaker 1: he himself. You wanted to be a part of whatever
Speaker 1: movement he was a part of because he was a
Speaker 1: happy warrior. He was upbeat and optimistic and shining beacon
Speaker 1: on a hill. I mean he had all of these things,
Speaker 1: and I love that about you, but I wonder if
Speaker 1: you're going to be able to convince the people who
Speaker 1: are entrenched in the party you have been actively working
Speaker 1: to get other people out of the party, to put
Speaker 1: down their arms and become happy warriors instead of angry
Speaker 1: people that people don't want to be around.
Speaker 2: Well, I think the reason how it's gonna happen is leadership,
Speaker 2: and we're not seeing that leadership. They wanted us trying
Speaker 2: to follow that north star, that beacon. I love all that.
Speaker 2: And Ronald Reagan was the first person I ever voted
Speaker 2: for us, and as I turned eighteen, and at the
Speaker 2: time in Chicago where I grew up, I was a Democrat,
Speaker 2: I thought my parents would kill me. So thank you
Speaker 2: for that for Ronald Reagan. But the thing is they're
Speaker 2: looking for leadership, though, and this leadership is just firing down,
Speaker 2: fying down, getting smaller and smaller by the minute. Because
Speaker 2: I'm every day Mandy. Every day people are coming up
Speaker 2: to me, people who have been Republicans for generations. I've
Speaker 2: been around here since nineteen eighty nine, and they're saying,
Speaker 2: we're thinking of going independent because we don't want to
Speaker 2: be any part of this anymore, which is only going
Speaker 2: to make that group bigger. They're my independence. We have
Speaker 2: to keep them. So leadership and something positive and working
Speaker 2: towards the greater good. There's something about that. Did we
Speaker 2: not see that? Whatever it was, shut up and then
Speaker 2: we voted for Trump? How hand over fist did we
Speaker 2: were able to do that?
Speaker 1: I don't disagree with you on that, but here's my concern.
Speaker 1: I'm concerned that the current leadership will somehow maintain control.
Speaker 1: So what is the way to get more optimistic and
Speaker 1: upbeat people like you elected?
Speaker 3: What needs to happen?
Speaker 1: What are Republicans who are out there listening right now
Speaker 1: who say, you know what, I like Britain's attitude, maybe
Speaker 1: I'd like to vote for What is that process?
Speaker 3: And how can they get involved?
Speaker 2: Oh, it's definitely getting involved into their county and going
Speaker 2: to their reorganizational meeting in February. So the first three
Speaker 2: Saturdays in February, it's the first of the fifteens. It
Speaker 2: all happened one weeknights two in some of the smaller counties,
Speaker 2: and you have to go in and you have to
Speaker 2: be a bonus member. You have to be able to
Speaker 2: be either be the chair, the vice the secretary. There's
Speaker 2: three votes right there, and the rest of the votes
Speaker 2: are come from the bonus members based on the number
Speaker 2: of population of your county. So small counties like Summit
Speaker 2: and Route Well only have three, but bigger counties, you know,
Speaker 2: even bolder, you know, has eight bonus members. And you
Speaker 2: have to be involved. You can't just be on the sideline.
Speaker 2: If you really want to make this happen, You've got
Speaker 2: to put your time in and put your effort in
Speaker 2: and saying we want to make this change. And we're
Speaker 2: having a people every day saying we want to join,
Speaker 2: we want to join. What do we need to do?
Speaker 2: And it's going to your county parties, finding out when
Speaker 2: they are and going and making sure your voice is heard.
Speaker 1: I think Britta Horne, who wants to be the next
Speaker 1: chairman of the GOP, that's who I'm speaking with. I
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of opportunities right now in Colorado
Speaker 1: where the Republican Party could make really good arguments that
Speaker 1: the path we're headed on and the policies that have
Speaker 1: been adopted have been disastrous. I mean the Colorado that
Speaker 1: I moved to, wait how many years ago? Now I
Speaker 1: don't even know is not the Colorado that we're living
Speaker 1: in now. So, as the party chair, what issues do
Speaker 1: you think would be winning issues for the Republican Party
Speaker 1: in Colorado?
Speaker 2: Well, then let's major in the majors that we could
Speaker 2: all agree on. Obviously, rule of law. We all want
Speaker 2: rule of law yet and that could be a pleasor
Speaker 2: of things. Rule of law. We're following the rules and
Speaker 2: being good citizens. The second one is cost of living.
Speaker 2: We could call it economic, but we're everybody's having a
Speaker 2: tough time even finding eggs. I mean, how are we
Speaker 2: going to make sure we have you know, cost of
Speaker 2: living is taking care of And third, I think it's
Speaker 2: now education the you know what I said, the sorry,
Speaker 2: the curtain has been pulled back and said that somebody's
Speaker 2: trying to call me. I apologize. And we're finding out
Speaker 2: what's really going on in the public schools that I
Speaker 2: never had when I was in a public school. We
Speaker 2: never saw that in Illinois, and I don't know about you,
Speaker 2: they have totally changed. So we really need major in
Speaker 2: the majors and then where we define our differences. To
Speaker 2: stay in your corner and we'll figure out where to
Speaker 2: go and make sure we're getting the right constituents, having
Speaker 2: the right the candidates to run in their area to
Speaker 2: win as a Republican.
Speaker 3: Well, Bretta, I'm rooting for you. Like I said before.
Speaker 1: If there's anybody else that's running, I'm going to give
Speaker 1: them airtime as well, because I just want I just
Speaker 1: want good leadership for the Colorado Republican Party because the
Speaker 1: state is going to continue to move in the wrong
Speaker 1: direction when you look at the agenda items that the
Speaker 1: Democrats have already put forth, more gun control, easier union force, unionization.
Speaker 1: I mean, there are things that are going to make
Speaker 1: Colorado an even worse business environment that is going to
Speaker 1: continue to chip away our gun rights.
Speaker 3: I mean, things are not going well.
Speaker 1: We have to have not just a functioning Republican party,
Speaker 1: but a robust Republican party.
Speaker 3: And I want someone like you.
Speaker 1: I believe that you can do it, and I hope
Speaker 1: that the Republicans choose wisely in this go round.
Speaker 3: Britta Horn. I appreciate you coming on the show today.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much for your time. I appreciate it
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 1: Hopefully, hopefully we'll talk to you after and I'll be
Speaker 1: able to say Chairman Britta Horn, we'll see
Speaker 3: All right, Brenda, thank you,