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Speaker 2: I'm Christy Burton Brown and for Dan today.
Speaker 3: If you haven't heard, California had a new law take
Speaker 3: effect this week. It was signed last year by Democrat
Speaker 3: Governor Gavin Newsom, and the law controls local governments, which
Speaker 3: I guess is not surprising for California, who likes to
Speaker 3: control anything and everything they can get their hands on.
Speaker 3: But it specifically bans local governments from requiring IDs to vote.
Speaker 3: A very wide ranging law that would say no city,
Speaker 3: no county, no municipality that has its own election can
Speaker 3: have a different view than the state on this. So
Speaker 3: the state went in and banned any voter ID requirements whatsoever.
Speaker 3: Troubling law, I think the Gavin Newsom path and that
Speaker 3: just came into effect this week. But also interesting when
Speaker 3: you take in context the fact that Nevada had a
Speaker 3: similar law on their ballot in this last November as
Speaker 3: their voter statewide on a ballot measure whether or not
Speaker 3: they would like to impose voter ID requirements, and over
Speaker 3: seventy percent of Nevada and said yes. Now, this law
Speaker 3: also had voter ID requirements even for those who vote
Speaker 3: by mail. It required them, I believe, to submit a
Speaker 3: driver's license or social security number that could then be confirmed.
Speaker 3: So Nevada is a mixed voting state. You can vote
Speaker 3: in person or you can vote mail in ballot. Colorado,
Speaker 3: of course, is an all mail in ballot state. So
Speaker 3: that would actually be a way that Colorado could impose
Speaker 3: voter ID requirements, something we haven't done, but a lot
Speaker 3: of people on both sides of the aisle think we
Speaker 3: should because it makes our elections even more secure, or
Speaker 3: I should say, gives people confidence that they are secure,
Speaker 3: which in many cases is what people want to need.
Speaker 3: Ornea always has to lead the nation in the opposite direction,
Speaker 3: this time banning any local government from imposing any form
Speaker 3: of voter ID. In other news, Mike Johnson has been
Speaker 3: reelected Speaker of the House. Now, many people thought it
Speaker 3: might take a couple of ballots for this to get done,
Speaker 3: and in fact, when it came down to it, when
Speaker 3: the vote was happening on the floor. It did actually
Speaker 3: look like it was going to a second ballot. Some
Speaker 3: of the main reporters that cover all the happenings in
Speaker 3: Congress actually had even tweeted out that a second ballot
Speaker 3: was happening, and then suddenly it didn't, and he was
Speaker 3: a reelected speaker on the first ballot. What actually happened
Speaker 3: is he had lost enough Republican votes initially to not
Speaker 3: be re elected on the first ballot. I believe he
Speaker 3: had lost five votes, but two of those people got
Speaker 3: a call from President elect Donald Trump flipped their votes
Speaker 3: before the tally was called, and he was then re
Speaker 3: elected speaker. I'm going to play a clip that Mike
Speaker 3: Johnson had said, of course all the news surrounding him
Speaker 3: on his way into the Capitol today, and here was
Speaker 3: his take on what was going to happen.
Speaker 2: Next part of the process.
Speaker 4: But I expect that we'll get it done.
Speaker 5: What about what has Trump done to help you here in.
Speaker 6: This after well you've seen his statement simul time, get
Speaker 6: these posolate members.
Speaker 2: How many members as he spoken in this point to day,
Speaker 2: I don't know how we hope, So we hope, so
Speaker 2: would you grind.
Speaker 3: From so basically, Mike Johnson's take was, we're getting it done.
Speaker 3: He said he was in there for the long haul.
Speaker 3: He also basically said, you know, maybe Trump's going to
Speaker 3: help us out, maybe he's not, but he believed he'd
Speaker 3: had the votes, counted the votes, and obviously, either way
Speaker 3: he got it done. Even Marjorie Taylor Green, who has
Speaker 3: been an interesting ally of this speaker, sometimes speaking out
Speaker 3: in his favor, sometimes pushing on him from the other direction,
Speaker 3: had released a video the night before the vote saying, Hey, Republicans,
Speaker 3: we have to come together. We have to actually have
Speaker 3: a working Congress and get this done. I found it
Speaker 3: funny that a number of the Democrat representatives also went
Speaker 3: on TV, which of course everyone does before speakers vote,
Speaker 3: claiming that the people wanted Hakeem Jeffries and that's who
Speaker 3: should actually be elected speaker. And one of them, Democrat
Speaker 3: Representative Clark, specifically said, we have heard lay and clearly
Speaker 3: from the American people. They want good public schools to
Speaker 3: send their children to and to make sure we're continuing
Speaker 3: to have clean air and clean water in this country.
Speaker 3: And apparently she added all that up to somehow indicate
Speaker 3: that they wanted Hikeem Jeffries to be Speaker, even though
Speaker 3: the popular vote across the nation elected Republicans in the House,
Speaker 3: in the Senate, and in the presidency.
Speaker 2: So I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: Which people she's listening to, but it's not the majority
Speaker 3: of the American people, and that was confirmed by the
Speaker 3: vote in Congress that re elected Mike Johnson as Speaker.
Speaker 3: I think a lot of people question Mike Johnson's abilities
Speaker 3: and wonder sometimes why he loses votes, say on the
Speaker 3: Continuing Resolution, had to remake that deal before the end
Speaker 3: of the year. My opinion is that he actually knows
Speaker 3: what he's doing the entire time, that he has a strategy,
Speaker 3: that he knows he's going to lose specific votes but
Speaker 3: needs to take them anyway, and that he actually has
Speaker 3: the end goal in sight the entire time. I think
Speaker 3: he's very smart. Used to be an attorney for Alliance
Speaker 3: Defending Freedom. That's an excellent organization that defends constitutional rights,
Speaker 3: religious liberty, equal protection, pro life, pro family policies across
Speaker 3: the nation. They've won many victories at the US Supreme Court,
Speaker 3: and Mike Johnson used to be an attorney working for them.
Speaker 3: In addition to a number of other things he's done
Speaker 3: in his career, but they don't hire people who aren't
Speaker 3: extremely smart and strategic. I think Mike Johnson definitely fits
Speaker 3: the bill, and sometimes even the things that appear to
Speaker 3: be losses for him, I think are actually strategic losses
Speaker 3: that lead toward a win in the end. If you
Speaker 3: have different thoughts or seated to cerently, you can always
Speaker 3: call in during the show eight five to five four
Speaker 3: zero five eight two five five. I'm Christy Burton Brown
Speaker 3: in for Dan Kaplis today. Another interesting happening after the vote.
Speaker 3: Chip Roy, Congressman Chip Roy kind of loves to, I
Speaker 3: don't know, get himself and the indius and have his
Speaker 3: own thoughts and opinions. Many respect him for his extremely
Speaker 3: conservative viewpoint and the way he pushes on Congress to
Speaker 3: actually deliver for the American people, to cut the budget and.
Speaker 2: To actually keep their word. A lot of good things
Speaker 2: that he does.
Speaker 3: But he sent a letter and was only able to
Speaker 3: get ten other Congressmen to sign onto it with him,
Speaker 3: So I'm not really sure how effective this is going
Speaker 3: to be. But they signed a letter saying that members
Speaker 3: in the House should work at least as hard as
Speaker 3: the Senate. During the first portion of President Trump's second
Speaker 3: term in office, and that for the first ten weeks
Speaker 3: they should all.
Speaker 2: Work five days a week.
Speaker 3: If you weren't aware, Congress typically meets three days a
Speaker 3: week on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. They meet Mondays and
Speaker 3: Fridays as needed. Sometimes there's committee meetings that happen on
Speaker 3: either or both of those days. Certainly a lot of
Speaker 3: talks and negotiations and all of those things that go
Speaker 3: on among the leadership on those days. But your average
Speaker 3: congressman is in DC for votes on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
Speaker 3: So chip Roy thinks that should change, and that they
Speaker 3: should show up five days a week, just like the
Speaker 3: Senate to get it done.
Speaker 2: I would have a.
Speaker 3: Different argument if his goal is to be more effective.
Speaker 3: I think instead, perhaps some of their colleagues should limit
Speaker 3: the number of speeches they give on the House floor.
Speaker 3: Perhaps they should limit some of the theatrics in committee,
Speaker 3: and perhaps they should actually do the work to get
Speaker 3: the right bills passed and do the right negotiations behind
Speaker 3: the scenes. I personally find it somewhat interesting that it's
Speaker 3: chip Roy calling for Congress to do more work when
Speaker 3: he's been one of the main congressmen to actually delay
Speaker 3: the work of the House when Kevin McCarthy was in charge,
Speaker 3: and when Mike Johnson has been in charge, And however
Speaker 3: you may feel about Kevin McCarthy specifically, or even Mike
Speaker 3: Johnson as Speaker of the House, it's always very interesting
Speaker 3: to be when someone who has been one of the
Speaker 3: biggest delayers out there is now saying, oh, now, I
Speaker 3: think we should show up more days to get work done. Well,
Speaker 3: I think there's other ways to get more work done,
Speaker 3: and it would probably be called not doing some of
Speaker 3: these delay tactics and not enjoying listening to yourself talk
Speaker 3: so much on the House floor. You know, I think
Speaker 3: there's a whole lot of speeches that happen that don't
Speaker 3: necessarily need to happen. If you want to speak out
Speaker 3: on an issue that resonates with your district, you're representing
Speaker 3: your district. Maybe you should spend more time in district
Speaker 3: talking to your people instead of giving a speech on
Speaker 3: the House floor that almost no one hears.
Speaker 2: But anyway, I'm.
Speaker 3: Not so sure his letter is going to get that far.
Speaker 3: One of funny thing that happened before the speaker vote
Speaker 3: Jim Jordan, who most people know who he has a
Speaker 3: congressman from Ohio who's been out to Colorado to speak
Speaker 3: at Lincoln Day Dinners friends with Congresswoman Lauren Bobert. He
Speaker 3: actually had to correct the media today. They were all
Speaker 3: up in arms over a tweet from Representative Bob Good
Speaker 3: saying that he was not going to vote for Mike
Speaker 3: Johnson as speaker. And so of course the media is like, oh,
Speaker 3: maybe he's not going to get the votes, maybe he can't,
Speaker 3: you know, bring this home. And Jim Jordan had to say,
Speaker 3: Bob Good is no longer a congressman. The media literally
Speaker 3: said to him, are you sure that he's not a congressman?
Speaker 3: Can you double check that? And he said he lost
Speaker 3: his primary last June. He's definitely not a congressman anymore.
Speaker 3: So his opinion on Mike Johnson as speaker actually has
Speaker 3: a relevant to the discussion. So always fun when the
Speaker 3: media has to be corrected. You're on the Dankpla Show.
Speaker 3: I'm Christy Burton Brown. When we come back, I'm go
Speaker 3: we give you an update on the Jeffco Public school
Speaker 3: situation with a chief of schools being fired for possession
Speaker 3: of child pornography.
Speaker 2: Keep it here on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 7: And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast.
Speaker 3: As an update, if you were listening to the show
Speaker 3: oh yesterday, you might have heard that the Chief of
Speaker 3: schools in Jefferson County Public Schools was terminated by the
Speaker 3: district roughly a month ago when there was an active
Speaker 3: investigation into him by the Jefferson County Sheriff's office, but
Speaker 3: the Jeffico Public Schools had not updated parents on what
Speaker 3: was going on. And it's particularly due to the long
Speaker 3: string of arrests by employees of the Jefferson County Public Schools,
Speaker 3: including a school counselor a social worker, a number of
Speaker 3: whom were arrested for sexual assault on a child by
Speaker 3: a person in a position of trust. This happened at
Speaker 3: least five times last year in Jefferson County Public Schools.
Speaker 3: Parents were obviously concerned when the chief of schools, who
Speaker 3: is in charge of a lot of the employees, was
Speaker 3: terminated with no explanation. Yesterday, County in Maryland, their Sheriff's
Speaker 3: office released to details that David Weize, who was the
Speaker 3: chief of schools, had killed himself and committed suicide in
Speaker 3: Maryland over the holidays, and so the Jefferson County Sheriff's
Speaker 3: Department released a statement on that and then today or actually,
Speaker 3: you know what, I think it actually happened yesterday.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the email right now.
Speaker 3: So on January second, the superintendent and board president finally
Speaker 3: released an email to parents in the district. But the
Speaker 3: way they explain it, I think is very concerning for
Speaker 3: any parents who are concerned about the priorities of this
Speaker 3: district when it comes to the.
Speaker 2: Protection of children.
Speaker 3: So they say, dear jeff Co staff and families, we
Speaker 3: learned yesterday of the passing of Jeffco's former Chief of Schools,
Speaker 3: David Wice, who he terminated last month.
Speaker 2: And here's the part you shoulday attention to.
Speaker 3: As soon as we learned of an active investigation into
Speaker 3: a personal legal issue by the Jefferson County Sheriff's office,
Speaker 3: and they go on to write more, but no explanation
Speaker 3: to parents of what this personal legal issue was. I
Speaker 3: can understand that a sheriff's department might ask the school
Speaker 3: to be cautious in the information it provides, and often
Speaker 3: you're not allowed to give a whole lot of details
Speaker 3: when there's an active investigation going on.
Speaker 2: I get that.
Speaker 3: But when you are putting out an email because there
Speaker 3: already is information out there that parents are able to
Speaker 3: see on social media, and you are in charge of this,
Speaker 3: You're the board chair of the school district, you're the
Speaker 3: superintendent of the school district, and you want to call
Speaker 3: the possession of child sexual assault material also called child
Speaker 3: pornography as a personal legal issue that he was being
Speaker 3: investigated for. I think that right there shows any parent
Speaker 3: who has a child in the Jefferson County School District
Speaker 3: the priorities and concerns of the leadership of that district.
Speaker 3: And if I were a parent who lived in that
Speaker 3: district personally, I would be very, very concerned with the
Speaker 3: way they're handling the situation, especially again when you consider
Speaker 3: all of the arrests that have happened in Jefferson County
Speaker 3: schools last year for the exact same reason. Every single
Speaker 3: arrest that I'm aware of in the Corral. Republic Radio
Speaker 3: detailed this in an article yesterday, was for sexual assault
Speaker 3: on a child by a person in position of trust, or,
Speaker 3: in the case of the chief of public schools, possession
Speaker 3: of child sexual assault material. So Jefferson County Public Schools
Speaker 3: has a whole lot to deal with right now, and
Speaker 3: I think top of their list should be being transparent
Speaker 3: with parents so they can actually figure out how to
Speaker 3: protect children and what the world is going on with
Speaker 3: employees in that district who are committing these crimes against
Speaker 3: children over and over again.
Speaker 2: Another bit of news.
Speaker 3: Since the legislative session is about to start next Wednesday,
Speaker 3: it will be in full swing. Tom Sullivan, he is
Speaker 3: a senator from a Rapahoe County known to be against
Speaker 3: gun rights pro gun control. He has set Supposedly, this
Speaker 3: has not been confirmed. I've not seen a copy of
Speaker 3: the bill, but it is being reported that he is
Speaker 3: going to bring back the assault weapons ban under a
Speaker 3: different name, and specifically.
Speaker 2: It's going to be a very long bill.
Speaker 3: I think ban control restrict a whole lot of things
Speaker 3: related to firearms. But he wants to ban firearms that
Speaker 3: accept detachable magazines. So if you have a gun that
Speaker 3: accepts those kind of magazines that you could use, he
Speaker 3: wants to ban all forms of that. That's the report
Speaker 3: the kind of bill he is expected to drop. He
Speaker 3: moved from the House to the Senate recently, so the
Speaker 3: Senate's a little harder to get that kind of legislation
Speaker 3: out of But while the Democrats were held back from
Speaker 3: having a super majority in the Senate, and while the
Speaker 3: super majority in the House was removed in November's election,
Speaker 3: they still have a definite majority control the House, the Senate,
Speaker 3: and the Governor's office. If an assault weapons ban of
Speaker 3: any form is able to get through the two houses,
Speaker 3: I'm very curious to see what Governor Polis would do
Speaker 3: with this. He's been very cagy, i would say about
Speaker 3: his take on assault assault weapons bans in the past,
Speaker 3: made a variety of statements, But when Elizabeth EPP's, a
Speaker 3: representative from Denver who lost her primary last year, ran
Speaker 3: the assault weapons ban during her term in office, it
Speaker 3: appeared the guner Poles did not support that version. But
Speaker 3: it also seemed like, based on his statements, that he
Speaker 3: might be open to other versions of assault weapons bans.
Speaker 2: So we'll see where this goes.
Speaker 3: I have no doubt that there are organizations in the
Speaker 3: state like Rocky Mountain Gun Owners and the Colorado Shooting
Speaker 3: Association who would be very willing to take these kind
Speaker 3: of laws to.
Speaker 2: Court if they pass. So plenty of.
Speaker 3: Things to watch out for in the next legislative session,
Speaker 3: like another thing that's important for people to watch out
Speaker 3: for is more attacks on charter schools. Last session, we
Speaker 3: saw a bill called a Charter School Accountability Act, And
Speaker 3: as someone who's evaluated a lot of laws and policy,
Speaker 3: and I'm a constitue lawyer as well, I definitely suggest
Speaker 3: you don't ever just take a bill title at its
Speaker 3: audit face value. They can set whatever bill title they want.
Speaker 3: I mean, sure, it has to be relevant to the
Speaker 3: subject of the bill, but they could absolutely make a
Speaker 3: bias title that's framed in the way they want to
Speaker 3: present it to the media and to people. So when
Speaker 3: we looked last year at the Charter School Accountability Act,
Speaker 3: it was very clear that it was not about accountability
Speaker 3: for charter schools.
Speaker 2: It was about shutting charter schools down.
Speaker 3: In fact, one of the main sponsors of the bill,
Speaker 3: Lisa Cutter, went around and said that the goal of
Speaker 3: this bill was to create the beginning of the end
Speaker 3: of charter schools in Colorado. Now, Colorado has the second
Speaker 3: highest charter school population in the entire nation. We have
Speaker 3: a long history of bipartisan support for charter schools school
Speaker 3: choice options for families across our state. But the Teacher's
Speaker 3: Union likes to jump into the mix and mess around
Speaker 3: with it every so often and try to take away
Speaker 3: options from parents. So they would love nothing more than
Speaker 3: to create the beginning of the end for charter schools
Speaker 3: here in Colorado. We really need to be on the
Speaker 3: watch for bills like this. Thankfully, this bill got killed
Speaker 3: in committee last year. There was a bipartisan opposition to
Speaker 3: the bill. But again, when you look into the details,
Speaker 3: you look at the states that the Democrat reps on
Speaker 3: the House Education Committee made, it wasn't a definite support
Speaker 3: for charter schools or school choice. They just thought this
Speaker 3: particular version of the bill needed work and they weren't
Speaker 3: going to go for it. I do think there's a
Speaker 3: very good piece of news in who the Democrats chose
Speaker 3: to elect as the Senate president this year.
Speaker 2: James Coleman as Senate President.
Speaker 3: He actually is a supporter of school choice, and it
Speaker 3: probably would be hard to get a bill like this
Speaker 3: flat out attacking charter schools and trying to close them
Speaker 3: down through the Senate with James Coleman as the president. Now,
Speaker 3: as we've seen with Governor Polis all the time, you
Speaker 3: can have a particular position as a Democrat if you
Speaker 3: want to that's opposed to the majority of your party,
Speaker 3: but then often and your party tries to hold you
Speaker 3: in line and make you vote with their majority, whether
Speaker 3: or not it's your personal position. We've seen Governor Polis
Speaker 3: cave numerous times on that, and then sometimes we see
Speaker 3: him vetoing bills that his party really wanted. So I
Speaker 3: think we'll see where Senator Coleman comes down on it.
Speaker 2: I have in the past.
Speaker 3: I've spoken at an event with him on the topic
Speaker 3: of school choice, and he is a strong supporter. Has
Speaker 3: run a nonprofit organization helping to get more school choice
Speaker 3: options into Colorado community.
Speaker 2: So I would expect him to be a strong supporter
Speaker 2: of that.
Speaker 3: But we will have to watch and see, as with
Speaker 3: everything else in the legislative session in Colorado, I'm Christy
Speaker 3: Burton Brown. You're here on the DANKPLA Show. When we
Speaker 3: come back from the break, we're going to welcome newly
Speaker 3: elected state.
Speaker 2: Representative Jarvis Caldwell.
Speaker 3: Who is bringing what I think is one of the
Speaker 3: most important bills of the next session to stop violent
Speaker 3: and repeat criminals from getting back out on the streets
Speaker 3: immediately after they're arrested.
Speaker 2: Keep you right here, on the Dankpla Show.
Speaker 7: And now back to the Dankaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2: We have a great guest with us for this segment.
Speaker 3: Newly elected State Representative Jarvis Caldwell, representing Colorado Springs, is
Speaker 3: bringing what I think is one of the most important
Speaker 3: bills of this session. I'm going to bring him into
Speaker 3: the Dan Caplis Show. Now, welcome to the show, Representative Caldwell.
Speaker 4: And Christy, thanks so much for having me on.
Speaker 3: Absolutely and I know you've worked on a lot of
Speaker 3: good issues over the years in various capacities and now
Speaker 3: you get to do it at the State House representing
Speaker 3: Colorado Springs. And so I'd love for our listeners to
Speaker 3: hear about your bill banning pr bonds and maybe you
Speaker 3: could explain what those are exactly for violent and repeat criminals.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, so just to get your listeners some context here.
Speaker 6: Governor pull Us has said repeatedly that he wants when
Speaker 6: he leaves office for Colorado to be a top ten
Speaker 6: safe state. And the reality of said is is one
Speaker 6: of the number three most dangerous state right now, and
Speaker 6: we rank in the top five for a lot of things.
Speaker 6: You don't want to be ranked in the top five.
Speaker 6: Four whether that's carsift, whether that's property crime, I think
Speaker 6: we're number two nationally, whether that's cocaine use, bank robbery.
Speaker 6: I mean, we're just completely on the other end of
Speaker 6: the spectrum here. And so one of those issues we're
Speaker 6: ranked number ace nationally and violent crime, which is extremely
Speaker 6: disturbing and everybody should be concerned about that. And so
Speaker 6: what we're seeing right now with current Colorado law is
Speaker 6: that repeat violent offenders can get arrested for committing a
Speaker 6: violent crime and just bond themselves out basically. I mean
Speaker 6: you think of it as cashless veil when you think
Speaker 6: of the PR bonds, which stands for personal Recognizance bond.
Speaker 6: They get arrested and they basically sign a piece of
Speaker 6: paper saying, you know, yes, I won't commit any more
Speaker 6: crimes before my court date.
Speaker 4: And I'll show up to my court date. So they're
Speaker 4: getting arrested.
Speaker 6: For a violent crime. Remember this is a violent crime.
Speaker 6: This is not getting arrested for jaywalking. This is doing
Speaker 6: something against someone else, getting arrested for it, and then
Speaker 6: just bailing themselves out with no kind of bail whatsoever.
Speaker 6: And so what my bill is going to do is
Speaker 6: it's going to stay that that if you've been convicted
Speaker 6: of a violent crime in the last two years, or
Speaker 6: you are currently pending two or more violent crime charges,
Speaker 6: you cannot get a PR bond. Now, constitutionally, we have
Speaker 6: to have some level of bond, So it's going to
Speaker 6: set it at seventy five hundred dollars, which is pretty steep,
Speaker 6: but I think also reasonable. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And that's actually an interesting point that you bring
Speaker 3: up what level you would set that bond at, because
Speaker 3: I've been told by law enforcement officials across the state
Speaker 3: that when PR bonds aren't allowed some of the judges,
Speaker 3: we'll just get around it by granting one to two
Speaker 3: dollars bonds.
Speaker 2: Which is pretty much the same thing as a PR bond.
Speaker 2: So I'm glad that you have a little.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, and what kind of you know, this incentive is
Speaker 6: that for a riki violent criminal. You know, we've got
Speaker 6: to turn things around in the state. It's interesting someone
Speaker 6: had posted earlier today about u HAUL said that we're
Speaker 6: one of the states that are actually losing citizens, and
Speaker 6: I had commented that, you know, I was campaigning, I
Speaker 6: was going around door knocking. I would see realtor signs
Speaker 6: in people's front yard and I would say to them,
Speaker 6: you know, are you.
Speaker 4: Coming or going?
Speaker 6: Are are you buying the house or are you selling
Speaker 6: the house? And almost always they said, this is my house,
Speaker 6: I'm selling it and I'm leaving Colorado. And when I
Speaker 6: would ask them, well, why is that, it's usually cost
Speaker 6: of living and crime, and crime is something that we
Speaker 6: can address that there's not going to be a big
Speaker 6: cost to it, because right now we all know that
Speaker 6: we're in a budget crisis, which I have opinions on
Speaker 6: that as well, but this is a bill that it's
Speaker 6: not going to most likely it's not going to carry
Speaker 6: any kind of physical notes. So this is something we
Speaker 6: can get done and it's not going to cost state.
Speaker 3: Anything absolutely, and we'll keep our communities safer. We're talking
Speaker 3: with Representative Jarvis Caldwell, who is a newly elected state
Speaker 3: representative representing an area of Colorado Springs. He'll start the
Speaker 3: legislative session on Wednesday along with all the rest of
Speaker 3: the legislators. But so I agree with you that it's
Speaker 3: been very clear from voters if you look at the
Speaker 3: ballot in November, that they want criminal justice measures that
Speaker 3: keep communities safe, that are pro law enforcement to pass.
Speaker 3: And when the legislature isn't willing to do it. The
Speaker 3: people will do it for themselves. But I am curious
Speaker 3: with this particular bill. I know State Rep. Gave Evans,
Speaker 3: who's now Congressman, had run a similar bill last year.
Speaker 3: It had gotten some Democrat support, but not enough to
Speaker 3: get out of committee. So how are you feeling about
Speaker 3: your bill when it comes to bipartisan support?
Speaker 4: Absolutely so, Yes.
Speaker 6: Congressman gave Evans originally ran this still earlier this year.
Speaker 6: Like you said, it had some support from Democrats that
Speaker 6: got killed in Judiciary Committee, which I imagine is where
Speaker 6: it's going to go back to.
Speaker 4: I am going to be a member of.
Speaker 6: The Judiciary Committee, so I'm going to try to use
Speaker 6: those Yeah, thank you. I'm going to try to use
Speaker 6: those relationships on the Judiciary Committee to try to win
Speaker 6: some people over. And I appreciate that you brought up
Speaker 6: the point about the invalid initiatives that just passed recently,
Speaker 6: because that is a signal from the people of Colorado
Speaker 6: that they want to support our law enforcement and they
Speaker 6: want to clean up our streets, and so that's going
Speaker 6: to be a huge issue that I'm pushing there. As
Speaker 6: far as the bipartisan support. So Representative Shandon Bert, a Democrat,
Speaker 6: was on that bill which Congressman gave Evans earlier this year.
Speaker 6: She has signed back up on this bill. She is
Speaker 6: one of the prime sponsors. I have a Republican and
Speaker 6: the Senate signed on Senator Byron Pelton, and I'm working
Speaker 6: to secure a Democrat on that side. But the big
Speaker 6: thing I want to push here and the idea that
Speaker 6: I want to push to heered listeners. If you've been
Speaker 6: around the legislature at all, you know that if Governor
Speaker 6: Polis wants something passed, it's going to get passed, right,
Speaker 6: whether it goes to Judiciary and those are some tuck
Speaker 6: on crime members on there or not. If he wants
Speaker 6: it passed, it will get passed, even if it has
Speaker 6: to get assigned to a different.
Speaker 4: Committee to make sure it passes.
Speaker 6: So I think we really need a pressure the governor
Speaker 6: as well as the members on the Judiciary committee if
Speaker 6: that's where the bill ends up, to pass this bill.
Speaker 6: And as I told the governor's people when I met
Speaker 6: with him a few weeks ago, but the governor has
Speaker 6: two years left on his term, so yeah, he's got
Speaker 6: two years to turn things around. And all was straight
Speaker 6: up with these people, and I said, we all know
Speaker 6: it's the worst cut secret at the capital that the
Speaker 6: governor has higher ambitions one day most likely.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and so you know, here's.
Speaker 6: His chance to try to turn things around in his
Speaker 6: last two years and be able to telt that one
Speaker 6: day when he pursues something different.
Speaker 2: Well exactly.
Speaker 3: And I do think that's a huge piece of what
Speaker 3: he's missing is the crime side. He hasn't done a
Speaker 3: whole lot other than say, in his State of this
Speaker 3: date addresses that his goal is to move Colorado to
Speaker 3: the tenth one of the top ten most safe estates
Speaker 3: in the nation, and as you pointed out, we are
Speaker 3: extremely far from that right now. So yeah, it'll be
Speaker 3: interesting to see if he actually gets behind these kind
Speaker 3: of bills, especially seeing the verdict from the people on
Speaker 3: last year's ballot.
Speaker 6: Right, that's exactly right. I mean, the people have spoken.
Speaker 6: When they have a chance to do this, when they
Speaker 6: have a chance to vote on cracking down on crime,
Speaker 6: they do it overwhelmingly. You know what, Let's let's save
Speaker 6: a BALLID initiative and r hit all the money and
Speaker 6: time and resources that go into getting a balid initiive
Speaker 6: pack let's just do it from a legislature.
Speaker 4: Let's do our job.
Speaker 6: We can have this thing passed and it'll be done
Speaker 6: here in a couple of months, and we can start
Speaker 6: cracking down on violent crime.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and I think the fact that you're focusing on
Speaker 3: violent and repeat criminals should be a no brainer for
Speaker 3: any elected official to want to keep those people off
Speaker 3: the streets. And you know, if they pay bond, they
Speaker 3: can still get off, but.
Speaker 2: At least they're hearing.
Speaker 3: You know, they have to have to stand in front
Speaker 3: of a judge and they have to be held accountable
Speaker 3: instead of just let out on the street immediately after
Speaker 3: being arrested.
Speaker 2: Giant problem in Colorado.
Speaker 3: If you live anywhere in the state, or you talk
Speaker 3: to any law enforcement and represent a call. Well, I know,
Speaker 3: I'm a little bit putting on the spot right here.
Speaker 3: We have one minute left. I'm curious. You said you
Speaker 3: had thoughts on the budget shortfall. Do you want to
Speaker 3: could you share a few of them in a minute?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 6: So the bottom line is is we keep hearing that.
Speaker 6: You know, the governor says it's six hundred million dollars
Speaker 6: budget deficay. Our JBC people are a Republicans they're saying
Speaker 6: it's more like one point three one point four billion dollars.
Speaker 6: Just I want the listeners and the people have called rather.
Speaker 6: Keep in mind, it's a one billion or however much
Speaker 6: shortfall from a record high budget, right from a forty
Speaker 6: two billion dollar budget.
Speaker 4: So while it is a.
Speaker 6: Deficit, it's a deficit from a record high budget. And
Speaker 6: so what I'm doing with other Republicans, we're putting together
Speaker 6: a list of what we feel is wasteful spending, kind
Speaker 6: of like Ran Paul does with his Best of this
Speaker 6: Year in December. And so whenever we want a public
Speaker 6: safety build to pass, like securing our schools more or
Speaker 6: helping our police officers, when we're told that there's no
Speaker 6: money for that, we're going to push forward a list
Speaker 6: and say, okay.
Speaker 4: Well what about all these?
Speaker 6: A budget is a replection.
Speaker 4: Of your priorities.
Speaker 6: Yes, it's a replection of your priorities and your commitments
Speaker 6: to constituents.
Speaker 4: So where are your priorities?
Speaker 2: Love it?
Speaker 3: That's an excellent question to ask any elected official, where
Speaker 3: are your priorities?
Speaker 2: And then make sure they can prove it out.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 3: We have to take a break on The Dankapa Show
Speaker 3: but Representative called, well, well, loved having you here.
Speaker 2: I hope you come back and talk to us during
Speaker 2: the session.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, thanks so much for having me. Christy.
Speaker 3: All right, that was Representative Jarvis Caldwell. I'm Christy Burton
Speaker 3: Brown here on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 7: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Dan Kaplis Now. I'm Christy Burton
Speaker 2: Brown and for Dan.
Speaker 3: Today, the US Surgeon General is coming out with a
Speaker 3: new warning today, claiming that alcohol is the third leading
Speaker 3: cause of cancer now behind tobacco and obesity. I on
Speaker 3: to play a clip for you, but the Surgeon General
Speaker 3: is basically recommending that they're actually have warning labels placed
Speaker 3: on alcohol products.
Speaker 2: Now, which would be a huge, huge change. But here
Speaker 2: you go, all.
Speaker 8: Right, the US Surgeon General is sounding the alarm about
Speaker 8: the link between alcohol and increased cancer risk in a
Speaker 8: new advisory. He's linking alcohol consumption to seven of cancer
Speaker 8: and is calling for warning labels on alcoholic beverages just
Speaker 8: like the ones you see on cigarettes. Stenen's Meg Trell
Speaker 8: is joining us now with the details. This is quite something.
Speaker 8: I'm very curious to hear. What these links are.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Sarah, I mean, this is the direction that the
Speaker 9: scientific research has been headed for some time. We've increasingly
Speaker 9: been hearing that no amount of alcohol is really recommended
Speaker 9: for your health, and that really goes against the suggestions
Speaker 9: we've been hearing since the nineties that maybe alcohol, at
Speaker 9: least in moderation, maybe red wine, maybe it's good for you.
Speaker 9: Increasingly that's been going in the opposite direction, and so
Speaker 9: today the US Surgeon General is issuing this advisory, noting
Speaker 9: that alcohol is the third leading preventable cause of cancer
Speaker 9: in the United States, after tobacco and obesity.
Speaker 3: So if you're making New Year's resolution still, if you're
Speaker 3: a little bit behind and creating your list, maybe staying
Speaker 3: away from alcohol could be a good thing to add
Speaker 3: to your list. With this new warning, I'm curious when
Speaker 3: it comes to all the health and nutrition topics, if
Speaker 3: there's going to be a shift towards I don't know,
Speaker 3: healthier living, more nutrition encouraged by the government once Trump
Speaker 3: takes office, If Robert F. Kennedy Junior RFK is appointed
Speaker 3: as Health and Human Services Secretary, if the Senate decides
Speaker 3: to confirm him or not, you know, there's a lot
Speaker 3: of debate over some of his positions and whether he
Speaker 3: goes too far in some regards. Certainly I have issues
Speaker 3: with his stances on the life and abortion issue. However,
Speaker 3: I have also seen that President Trump is appointing pro
Speaker 3: life people to the positions that typically will deal with
Speaker 3: the abortion pill and planned parenthood funding and other issues
Speaker 3: like that. So presuming pro life people actually get to
Speaker 3: say in those areas, then I think RFK Junior's appointment
Speaker 3: is an interesting decision because it really would push the
Speaker 3: conversation towards real health. There's so many areas when you
Speaker 3: look at health and nutrition that Europe is so far
Speaker 3: ahead of the United States on, and companies that manufacture
Speaker 3: cereal and basic foods that we're all eating and feeding
Speaker 3: our kids on a daily basis are produced in a
Speaker 3: very different way in Europe and the United States, proving
Speaker 3: that these companies actually can create this food with fewer chemicals,
Speaker 3: fewer dies, and all these things that clearly lead to
Speaker 3: giant health risks for people. So this alcohol warning I
Speaker 3: found interesting actually coming from the Biden Administration's surgeon General,
Speaker 3: and as a reporter was indicating from CNN, research has
Speaker 3: been pointing in this direction for quite some time. But
Speaker 3: now finally it's just clearing everyone in the face. So
Speaker 3: the Surgeon General recommending that those warning labels actually get
Speaker 3: put on so that people know the risks when they
Speaker 3: are consuming alcohol. And I'm a big fan of people
Speaker 3: being aware of what they're doing. I think transparency accountability,
Speaker 3: whether it's from corporations, companies, whether it's from the government.
Speaker 3: Elected officials almost can never have enough transparency or accountability.
Speaker 3: People should be aware of the risks of what they're
Speaker 3: engaging in. And I'm all four people researching and figuring
Speaker 3: it out for themselves. But there's no reason that companies
Speaker 3: or the government shouldn't disclose known risks when they are
Speaker 3: putting something in front of people. That tends to make
Speaker 3: society better, when people have more information rather than less.
Speaker 3: I'm Christy Burton Brown. You're on the Dan Kapla show.
Speaker 3: You can call in anytime eight five to five four
Speaker 3: zero five eight two five five. Let's see. I think
Speaker 3: today some of the biggest news really was Mike Johnson
Speaker 3: getting reelected a speaker, not a huge surprise to a
Speaker 3: lot of people. He claimed he had the votes counted
Speaker 3: and he did. President Trump coming in at the end
Speaker 3: to call to Republicans who flipped their votes away from
Speaker 3: Johnson back to him before the tally was actually counted.
Speaker 3: But I'll play this other clip from Democrat Representative Clark
Speaker 3: claiming that she had really heard from the American people
Speaker 3: before the vote.
Speaker 5: Jeff Raes, yes to belt, Happy new year to you,
Speaker 5: and the Democrats are going to be at full strength
Speaker 5: at two point fifteen and committed to voting for Haking
Speaker 5: Jeffries First Speaker, because he has shown time and time
Speaker 5: again that he is committed to bringing the concerns the
Speaker 5: American people have to Congress and returning solutions to them.
Speaker 5: And we have heard loudly and clearly from the American people.
Speaker 5: They are concerned with the cost of living, whether that
Speaker 5: is housing or childcare, making sure that we have affordable groceries.
Speaker 5: They want good public schools to send their children to,
Speaker 5: and make sure that we are continuing to have clean
Speaker 5: air and clean water.
Speaker 2: In this country.
Speaker 5: Those are the issues we need to get to work on.
Speaker 5: Those are the issues that Haking Jeffries has been a
Speaker 5: leader on. That is why he'll have one hundred percent
Speaker 5: Democratic support today.
Speaker 8: Joining us now is Democratic conson We made.
Speaker 3: Hair repeat of that, but What's interesting about that clip
Speaker 3: is that if that is actually what Democrats have been
Speaker 3: focused on in the November election, maybe they would actually
Speaker 3: be in control of Congress right now and actually able
Speaker 3: to elect a speaker instead of having Mike Johnson, a
Speaker 3: Republican as speaker. Those issues that are representative Clark brought up,
Speaker 3: like affordability issues, education issues, are not the ones that
Speaker 3: Democrats were campaigning on. They were campaigning if you looked
Speaker 3: at Kamala Harris's campaign largely on abortion and largely on
Speaker 3: criticisms of President Trump and Republicans, not with new ideas
Speaker 3: on how to solve affordability and education and crime issues
Speaker 3: across the US. So that is exactly why we do
Speaker 3: not have Speaker hackem Jeffries and instead have Speaker Mike
Speaker 3: Johnson re elected today on a first ballot, which many
Speaker 3: people are saying is very very impressive, especially when you
Speaker 3: see how many ballots it took to actually elect him
Speaker 3: originally when there was that big fight over the speaker
Speaker 3: and how Kevin McCarthy was let go. Oh, one extra
Speaker 3: change was actually made in the rules, because they make
Speaker 3: a lot of rule changes when they real x speakers.
Speaker 3: Is that now instead of one Republican or Democrat being
Speaker 3: able to ask to remove the speaker and have a
Speaker 3: vote on it, and the party would be determined on
Speaker 3: who the speaker is. Democrats can't ask it for a
Speaker 3: Republican speaker. It actually got moved to nine members. Now
Speaker 3: you have to have nine people asking for a vote
Speaker 3: to remove the speaker. So a small change on that,
Speaker 3: but I think that's definitely better than one. I'm not
Speaker 3: sure how they arrived on nine, but one is definitely
Speaker 3: overkill and just delays the process of actually getting things
Speaker 3: done for the American people. If you stay tuned here
Speaker 3: on the Dan Kapla Show, I'm Christy Burton Brown and
Speaker 3: in the next hour I'm going to.
Speaker 2: Bring in State Senator Barbara Kirkmeyer, one of.
Speaker 3: The most powerful Republican senators at the Capitol, who sits
Speaker 3: on the Joint Budget Committee and can bring a lot
Speaker 3: of insight into the state's budget shortfall debates between Democrats
Speaker 3: and Republicans of exactly how big that shortfall is.
Speaker 2: Is it six hundred million or is it over a
Speaker 2: billion dollars?
Speaker 3: Senator Kirkmeyer will definitely shed light on that when she
Speaker 3: joins us at the top of the next hour, keep
Speaker 3: it here on the day and capital.
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