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<v Speaker 1>A man who is running for the Colorado House District

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<v Speaker 1>in the twenty eighth House district.

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<v Speaker 2>Peter Body.

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<v Speaker 1>Of course, Peter, I chose to pronounce your name incorrectly

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<v Speaker 1>before you came on the air with me, but never fear,

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<v Speaker 1>I have corrected myself and welcome to the program.

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<v Speaker 3>Thank you, Thank you for having me on.

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<v Speaker 2>So, first of all, I.

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<v Speaker 1>Want to ask you why did you decide to run

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<v Speaker 1>for the twenty eighth House District seat.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, I love Colorado and I love my country, and

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<v Speaker 3>we have some problems that need to be addressed, and

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<v Speaker 3>our Colorado legislature is out of control and I want

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<v Speaker 3>to repair some of the damage and change things down there.

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<v Speaker 3>So it's costing people money, and there's all kinds of

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<v Speaker 3>problems that are being caused by an out of control legislature.

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<v Speaker 1>So what specifically got your attention? And I'm directing you

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<v Speaker 1>to the big backflow blunder which you are out there publicizing.

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<v Speaker 1>Tell my listeners what happened when one word changed, literally,

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<v Speaker 1>one word change destroyed businesses and jobs.

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<v Speaker 2>Explain how this has happened.

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<v Speaker 3>Sure, well, I call it the big backflow blunder, and

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<v Speaker 3>it was caused by my opponent the incumbent in House

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<v Speaker 3>District twenty eight, and it was a change to the

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<v Speaker 3>state Plumbing Board Law, which had to be renewed because

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<v Speaker 3>of sunset. And it was a change that the Plumbing

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<v Speaker 3>Board law addresses licensing of plumbers and the regulations for plumbing,

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<v Speaker 3>which is a necessary law and needed to be renewed. However,

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<v Speaker 3>at the last minute they changed a couple words involving

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<v Speaker 3>what's called the back flow prevention device testing, and they

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<v Speaker 3>changed it so the previous law said backflow testing shall

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<v Speaker 3>be exempt from being performed by licensed plumbers, and they

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<v Speaker 3>change that too, are not exempt from plumbing license plumbers. Well,

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<v Speaker 3>backflow devices are on all commercial buildings and large irrigation

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<v Speaker 3>systems and even most of your backyard irrigation systems have

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<v Speaker 3>a backflow device. And what that does is it prevents

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<v Speaker 3>if you have a break in your system, in your

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<v Speaker 3>building or in your irrigation system, there's a big loss

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<v Speaker 3>of pressure, something happens. It prevents potentially contaminated water in

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<v Speaker 3>your system, in your system from going back into the

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<v Speaker 3>public water supply.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, it's a stopgap.

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<v Speaker 3>It's been around for decades.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, it's a stop gap to prevent cross contamination if

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<v Speaker 1>something goes wrong in one.

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<v Speaker 2>Place exactly okay.

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<v Speaker 3>And so there's been a whole industry built up of

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<v Speaker 3>backflow tester certify backflow tester. They have to be take

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<v Speaker 3>training and perform these tests once a year on all

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<v Speaker 3>the commercial operations. Those have to be submitted to the

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<v Speaker 3>water utilities and submitted to the state Health Department. And

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<v Speaker 3>if you don't get the testing done, that creates a

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<v Speaker 3>potential health violation. And so by changing it from not

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<v Speaker 3>requiring licensed plumbers at the behest of a plumber's union

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<v Speaker 3>and a plumbers organization, which my opponent readily to come

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<v Speaker 3>to their request, put it in without anybody knowing, and

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<v Speaker 3>all of a sudden, hundreds of backflow testers who had

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<v Speaker 3>been doing this work for decades were potentially crushed out

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<v Speaker 3>of business, couldn't perform the tests. And that went into

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<v Speaker 3>effect July first, but nobody noticed, didn't till the laws

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<v Speaker 3>started to take effect, and then it just created problems besides.

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<v Speaker 1>Go ahead, So these companies specifically do this one thing.

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<v Speaker 1>They're not like doing this, and then I will take

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<v Speaker 1>care of this plumbing issue. They have one job and

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<v Speaker 1>they focus on this one thing because.

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<v Speaker 2>I want to make sure.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, if they have all this other training, what

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<v Speaker 1>would be the necessity of having.

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<v Speaker 2>It be a plumber.

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<v Speaker 3>There is no necessity. It's been working fine for decades.

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<v Speaker 3>And these businesses, some of them do there's fire pressure

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<v Speaker 3>testing and big buildings and things, so some of them

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<v Speaker 3>do some other work. But the backfloat there are some

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<v Speaker 3>that that's all they do, is the backflow of testing.

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<v Speaker 1>To Peter, if you're elected to the House of Representatives,

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<v Speaker 1>what do you want to do here?

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<v Speaker 3>Well, the first thing is to resend this this provision

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<v Speaker 3>in the bill, correct it, and it has to be

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<v Speaker 3>corrected by April first. Everybody panicked because it caused so

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<v Speaker 3>much trouble that they postponed implementation till April first, which

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<v Speaker 3>would give me a chance to propose a bill, and

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<v Speaker 3>others propose a bill to fix the problem. Denver Water

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<v Speaker 3>is so concerned about Denver Water Department, which serves a

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<v Speaker 3>million and a half customers, I think, and they have

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<v Speaker 3>forty four thousand of these devices that need to be

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<v Speaker 3>tested every year. Because of the law going and effect

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<v Speaker 3>July first, they were already behind on their testing. And

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<v Speaker 3>if they get a notice from the State Health Department

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<v Speaker 3>that they're in violation. They have to and out of

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<v Speaker 3>public notice. It costs a quarter of a million dollars

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<v Speaker 3>per notice.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh good grief.

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<v Speaker 3>For them to mail for postage and mailing and printing.

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<v Speaker 3>I just then you multiplied that by every water utility, right,

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<v Speaker 3>and you have a big blunder.

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<v Speaker 1>I got this text message, Peter body who I'm talking

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<v Speaker 1>to right now, Mandy. I just heard from a friend

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<v Speaker 1>You're going to be doing a backflow segment on your

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<v Speaker 1>show in about ten minutes because of the new law.

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<v Speaker 1>I ended up selling my backflow business that I've had

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<v Speaker 1>for eight years, and I'm a master plumber, still very

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<v Speaker 1>active in the backflow community. But the way, oh hang on,

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<v Speaker 1>some just updated there but them. But the way that

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<v Speaker 1>the politics screwed with the entire system was enough for

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<v Speaker 1>me to get out of it. I was doing over

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<v Speaker 1>sixteen hundred tests a year, and whichever party decided to

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<v Speaker 1>change this law really screwed this industry up. I know

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<v Speaker 1>for a fact that I asked you once to look

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<v Speaker 1>into it, and it was before the nine News interview

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<v Speaker 1>with Colleen Morrison, who was a good friend of mine.

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<v Speaker 1>So yeah, this is having real life effects here.

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<v Speaker 3>Peter.

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<v Speaker 1>Let me ask you this aside from this, like this

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<v Speaker 1>can't be the only thing that has you running. And

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<v Speaker 1>people are asking where is the twenty eighth House district?

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<v Speaker 2>What is that encompass? What's your biggest areas?

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<v Speaker 3>It's the very south edge of Lakewood in Jefferson County.

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<v Speaker 3>South edge of Lakewood down to about Coal Mine west

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<v Speaker 3>to Sea four seventy and on the east is where

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<v Speaker 3>parts of Denver and Arapahole County, Littleton kind of weave

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<v Speaker 3>in and out on the east edge. Okay, so I

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<v Speaker 3>call it central South Jefferson County.

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<v Speaker 1>So let me ask you this, what does it take

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<v Speaker 1>to become a licensed plumber? Because somebody said so these

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<v Speaker 1>black backflow companies can just become licensed plumbers to continue

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<v Speaker 1>this business. How easy is it it to become a

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<v Speaker 1>licensed plumber?

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<v Speaker 3>Well, I think it takes years. You have to become

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<v Speaker 3>an apprentice, and I'm not that familiar with becoming a plumber.

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<v Speaker 3>I just no electricians plumbers. They have to spend years

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<v Speaker 3>training as an apprentice and testing and then you know,

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<v Speaker 3>moving up to become a I guess a journeyman plumber

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<v Speaker 3>and the master plumber. So it's not something that you

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<v Speaker 3>do overnight and at the same time, the backflow testing

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<v Speaker 3>requires a forty hour training and the passing a test.

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<v Speaker 3>So in the past the plumbers didn't want to bother

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<v Speaker 3>sending one of their plumbers to get that test right.

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<v Speaker 3>The plumber could do it, and it just was such

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<v Speaker 3>small potatoes as some An attorney at the Denver Water

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<v Speaker 3>Department told me that the plumbers never wanted to do

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<v Speaker 3>it in the past because it wasn't sexy enough. It's

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<v Speaker 3>just a small test.

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<v Speaker 2>Peter, we're out of time.

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<v Speaker 1>Why should people vote for Peter Body in the twenty

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<v Speaker 1>eighth House district.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, as I've said, the legislature, the Democrats and legislature

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<v Speaker 3>are are drunk on power, and you need to elect

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<v Speaker 3>sober republic.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, Peter, Yeah, exactly Body.

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<v Speaker 3>For Colorado dot Com.

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<v Speaker 1>I put a link on the blog to your website, Pody, Peter,

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<v Speaker 1>so people could see what you're up to.

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<v Speaker 2>Best of luck to you. Hopefully we'll talk to you

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<v Speaker 2>when you become a member of the House.

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<v Speaker 3>Thank you, thank you, Peter.