WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.520 This is Dan Kaplis and welcome to today's online podcast 2 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:05.719 edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to 3 00:00:05.759 --> 00:00:08.240 give us a five star rating if you'd be so kind, 4 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:11.599 and to subscribe, download and listen to the show every 5 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:14.240 single day on your favorite podcast platform. 6 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:15.880 Here on the Dan Kapla Show. 7 00:00:15.880 --> 00:00:18.000 I'm Christy Vernon Brown and for Dan today because he's 8 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:18.559 at trial. 9 00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:19.920 Thanks for joining in. 10 00:00:20.079 --> 00:00:23.440 We have been talking about bills down to state legislature 11 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:26.600 and just a huge variety of crime bills that would 12 00:00:26.679 --> 00:00:31.559 keep Colorado safe that have been killed almost entirely on 13 00:00:31.640 --> 00:00:36.039 a party line vote in committee after committee retail, THEFT bills, 14 00:00:36.039 --> 00:00:39.880 bill's fixing pr bonds, bill's fixing our sanctuary state status, 15 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:42.600 and they just are they're run. 16 00:00:42.439 --> 00:00:44.759 By good legislators. They would be supported by the. 17 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:46.520 People, as we saw on the Truth and Sentencing and 18 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:50.920 other public safety ballot measures run last year. But when 19 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:53.600 you come down to a committee that is controlled by 20 00:00:53.640 --> 00:00:57.000 the Democrats right now, they are being criminal friendly, not 21 00:00:57.240 --> 00:01:00.240 victim friendly. And we see this in every single one 22 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:03.240 of these votes that we've been talking about. Right now, 23 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:06.159 we are joined by Representative Brandy Bradley Hooman to bring 24 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:08.879 on in just a second. She was running a really 25 00:01:08.879 --> 00:01:12.079 good bill this year that would have stopped Colorado's insane 26 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:15.599 standard for giving probation to child rapists. And yes, you 27 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:20.040 heard that right, that's what Colorado does. Representative Bradley, thank 28 00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:22.200 you so much for joining me on the Dan Kapla show. 29 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:24.400 Oh thank you Christy for having me. 30 00:01:24.439 --> 00:01:26.439 I appreciate it absolutely well. 31 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:30.159 I think I was reading George Brockler's article talking about 32 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:32.680 your bill and he calls it probation for child rape 33 00:01:32.719 --> 00:01:33.359 in Colorado. 34 00:01:33.560 --> 00:01:35.799 Question mark, yes, really, and. 35 00:01:35.799 --> 00:01:37.719 Goes on to explain how this is something that actually 36 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:40.519 happens in Colorado. Can you explain the situation a little 37 00:01:40.519 --> 00:01:41.640 bit before we get into your bill. 38 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:46.920 Absolutely. We were approached by a Brockler's office. I'd done 39 00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:48.920 some town halls and said, hey, what can I do 40 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:53.040 to run some bills for public safety? And his deputy 41 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:57.480 chief DA who is a godsend, was like, did you 42 00:01:57.599 --> 00:02:00.000 know in our state that you can rape a child? 43 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:03.599 So you can rate ten children once and creed down 44 00:02:03.640 --> 00:02:06.799 to probation. And I was like, there's no way that's true. 45 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:09.240 And we started digging in on it, and yeah, sixty 46 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:13.080 nine people got probation only seventy percent of child rapists 47 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:14.520 get probation only in our state. 48 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:16.680 That is absolutely insane. 49 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:18.319 And so the standard is if you do it once 50 00:02:18.479 --> 00:02:21.280 to the specific child, you can get out of probation. 51 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:23.360 But if it's more than once to that specific child, 52 00:02:23.439 --> 00:02:24.039 then you can't. 53 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:25.159 That's the same. 54 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:27.879 Well, that is what that's what they say. But there's 55 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:30.960 they say that it's more than three times that you 56 00:02:31.039 --> 00:02:34.520 actually get an actual sentence in the DOOC. 57 00:02:34.840 --> 00:02:37.719 Oh my goodness, that's horrible. And so what I mean, 58 00:02:37.879 --> 00:02:39.840 obviously your bill fixed it. Can you give a few 59 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:41.639 more details on what your bill would have done. 60 00:02:42.199 --> 00:02:44.960 Yeah, so we already have indeterminate sentencing for soolity four 61 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:48.000 and Solony three child assaults sexual folks on a child. 62 00:02:48.360 --> 00:02:50.759 And so what Representative English and I have great by 63 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:53.479 person bill, we have by person people in the Senate 64 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:55.520 that were going to cover it. We were just removing 65 00:02:55.639 --> 00:02:58.599 probation because we knew that seventy percent of these people 66 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:00.719 get probation only, and so we were going to make 67 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:04.639 sure that these sick individuals go to jail and then 68 00:03:04.719 --> 00:03:08.000 go through sex offender treatment program and then are released 69 00:03:08.039 --> 00:03:10.639 instead of a slap on the wrist. And the Democrats said, no, 70 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:14.000 that's not fair. We want determinate sentencing because criminals need 71 00:03:14.039 --> 00:03:16.120 to know when they'll go to jail and how long 72 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:17.039 they'll spend in jail. 73 00:03:17.639 --> 00:03:18.360 Oh my goodness. 74 00:03:18.439 --> 00:03:21.280 And so indeterminate sentencing, I think that's probably a term 75 00:03:21.319 --> 00:03:23.680 that not everyone is familiar with. 76 00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:25.719 Can you explain it a little more? 77 00:03:26.240 --> 00:03:29.680 Yeah, So for a selenty four, let's say position of trust. 78 00:03:30.439 --> 00:03:32.039 You know, the public defenders try to come to the 79 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:33.759 scene and say, this is going to happen if you 80 00:03:33.800 --> 00:03:37.400 stroll past someone on a bus and accidentally touch their buttocks. 81 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:39.800 That's not true in the state of Colorado. Soelenty four 82 00:03:40.199 --> 00:03:43.919 I saw on a child is inappropriate touching through clothing, 83 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:48.240 but it's for sexual gratification, arousal, or abuse, and that's 84 00:03:48.360 --> 00:03:50.960 really hard to prove in a court of law. So 85 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:52.520 you have to be the worst of the worst to 86 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:55.520 do that. So for that crime you get two to 87 00:03:55.599 --> 00:03:58.599 six years. So it's an indeterminate amount of sentencing that 88 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:01.680 the judge uses his describe two sentence and we know 89 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:05.039 the majority of people's sentence for that crime served less 90 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:07.719 than a year on that. So then the public defender said, well, 91 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:10.800 these people are going to send their whole life because 92 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:13.520 the sentencing is to their natural light sometimes as well. 93 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:16.759 And we know that the person that has served the 94 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:20.079 worst amount of time is the worst offender served less 95 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:22.040 than twenty five years the sentencing. 96 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:24.199 Wow, no, it's crazy. 97 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:27.279 And it seems like time and time again, we have 98 00:04:27.399 --> 00:04:30.120 the majority of the Democrats in the legislature, at least 99 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:33.120 those who are on the committees, voting on the side 100 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:35.959 of criminals and not on the side of victims. Apparently 101 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:39.079 not even when it comes to children. Now we're talking 102 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:42.240 to Representative Brandy Bradley, who is actually my state representative 103 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:45.199 in Douglas County. You're on the Dane Capel Show with 104 00:04:45.240 --> 00:04:47.000 Christy Burton Brown. And this is a bill that I 105 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:49.560 believe just died yesterday in committee. 106 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:50.040 Is that right? 107 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:53.079 Well, this morning it went till two thirty am. And 108 00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:55.720 I'll tell you that we didn't get witnesses to be 109 00:04:55.759 --> 00:04:58.480 able to testify these people that signed up the testify. 110 00:04:58.519 --> 00:05:00.839 It started at one point thirty the committe Sure, my 111 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:03.800 bill did not start until ten PM. And what a 112 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:07.639 disservice to the people that wanted to tell their story 113 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:11.879 in committee to wrap up at two thirty in the morning. 114 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:14.759 Right, instead of just continuing the next day or something 115 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:15.160 like that. 116 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:17.240 Right now, that's insane. 117 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:20.000 Did you get was anyone allowed to testify on the bill? 118 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:23.600 Well, they were allowed to testify, but the public defenders 119 00:05:23.959 --> 00:05:27.120 took so much of the time with their mistruths and 120 00:05:27.160 --> 00:05:29.519 their false facts. I mean, one of the public defenders 121 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:33.879 talked about an autistic child that inappropriately touched someone that 122 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:35.959 was going to go to jail for forever. Well it 123 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:37.560 turns out he didn't go to jail because he went 124 00:05:37.639 --> 00:05:40.800 to trial and a judge didn't find any proof. But 125 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:43.879 he neglected to talk about these. Another man a youth 126 00:05:43.959 --> 00:05:47.240 pastor that raped many children in his church that he 127 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:50.839 got probation for. So these are the mistruths they bring. 128 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:53.279 They bring. There's plenty of people on the wait list 129 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:56.120 waiting in there. It's not fair that these criminals aren't 130 00:05:56.120 --> 00:05:58.399 getting their treatment and getting out of jail, and it's 131 00:05:58.439 --> 00:06:01.680 not fair to these criminals do not have determinate sentencing 132 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:04.240 in You know, we don't know that the recidivism. We 133 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:06.959 know that keeping these people in jail for longer periods 134 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:10.000 of time increases their recidivism. You know what it does, Christy, 135 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:11.920 You keep these people in jail It keeps them from 136 00:06:11.959 --> 00:06:14.319 raping more children, is what it does, right. 137 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:16.279 I mean, that's a fairly obvious conclusion that I think 138 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:18.639 the general public would agree with you on if they knew. 139 00:06:19.319 --> 00:06:20.600 And that's one thing I think. 140 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:23.120 As completely unfortunate as it is that these kind of 141 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:25.480 bills don't pass committee because even though, as you mentioned, 142 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:28.680 Representative Bradley, you did have a Democrat co sponsor on 143 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:30.879 this bill, I think when it comes to the committees, 144 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:33.720 we are almost always seeing a party line vote on committees, 145 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:35.199 and then it's not going to the floor and the 146 00:06:35.240 --> 00:06:37.560 majority of people aren't getting to talk about it. But 147 00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:40.600 I think the fact that both you and District Attorney 148 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:43.439 George Brockler are talking about this issue, and I'm sure 149 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:45.800 you're not going to stop even though they're killing the bills. 150 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:49.240 I think the more these things get exposed. 151 00:06:48.759 --> 00:06:52.240 To people, the more outrage is created, because the majority 152 00:06:52.240 --> 00:06:55.319 of people actually do want to protect kids public defenders aside. 153 00:06:55.560 --> 00:06:57.600 So I think this is just such an important issue 154 00:06:57.600 --> 00:06:59.920 to highlight and thank you for your work on this. 155 00:07:00.040 --> 00:07:03.399 Yes, well, I appreciate one more note that the Public 156 00:07:03.399 --> 00:07:08.959 Defender's office actually said that they have criminals who can't 157 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:12.120 stand being on lifetime probation, So they actually asked to 158 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:15.680 go to jail, and Representative Codwell actually said, you're telling 159 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:18.199 me that someone that is accused of raping a child 160 00:07:18.199 --> 00:07:19.199 would actually rather. 161 00:07:19.040 --> 00:07:19.560 Go to jail. 162 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:21.959 I mean, this is the senseless stuff that they come 163 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:24.519 and speak about that the people of Colorado need to 164 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:27.879 understand that they're actually sitting there telling the committee members 165 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:33.360 that these poor people that rape children violently actually would 166 00:07:33.439 --> 00:07:35.600 rather go to jail because probation is just too much 167 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:36.759 for them to endure. 168 00:07:37.560 --> 00:07:37.959 Wow. 169 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:42.959 No, that's yeah, just an insane outlook when you're completely 170 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:46.920 focused on criminals in their needs when they've already made 171 00:07:46.920 --> 00:07:49.879 their own choice and they need to be punished for it, 172 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:50.560 and victim. 173 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:51.720 People completely forget victims. 174 00:07:51.720 --> 00:07:55.000 I think in this whole equation, too many legislators obviously 175 00:07:55.040 --> 00:07:57.279 not yourself and not some of your allies in the legislature, 176 00:07:57.680 --> 00:07:59.519 but too many forget the victims and are like, oh, 177 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:02.040 we got to do the criminal justice system perfectly for 178 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:04.920 the criminal, but not take care of the victims and 179 00:08:04.959 --> 00:08:08.319 stop people from being revictimized because we just give people 180 00:08:08.399 --> 00:08:10.600 chance after chance after chance, and it just doesn't work. 181 00:08:10.639 --> 00:08:12.920 I mean, no wonder Colorado is the third most dangerous 182 00:08:12.920 --> 00:08:14.800 state in the nation right now, according to US News 183 00:08:14.839 --> 00:08:17.639 and World Report, because bills like yours and so many 184 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:20.000 others that would keep our states safe are shot down 185 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:20.839 time and time again. 186 00:08:21.439 --> 00:08:23.639 Well, and we're four highest for rape and we're ten 187 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:27.000 highest for human trafficking. So what are the Democrats doing? 188 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:28.959 You know, they come to the table and this bill 189 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:30.839 is not the answer. Well, what's the answer? 190 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:34.879 Because certain, right, what are you wating? Yeah, no, it's 191 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:36.039 so true, so true. 192 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:37.559 Well, we have to take a break here on the 193 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:40.279 Dan Kaplo Show. But thank you Representative Brandy Bradley for 194 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:42.519 joining us and telling us about your bill that would 195 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:45.039 have kept kids safe but got killed in committee. 196 00:08:45.720 --> 00:08:47.879 Hey, thank you, Christy. I appreciate you getting the word. Oh, 197 00:08:47.919 --> 00:08:48.559 thanks so much. 198 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:53.240 Absolutely, that was Representative Brandy Bradley from Douglas County. If 199 00:08:53.279 --> 00:08:54.840 you have thoughts on this bill or and the others 200 00:08:54.840 --> 00:08:56.639 we've been talking about, you can call in eight five 201 00:08:56.720 --> 00:08:59.799 five four zero five eight two five five or text 202 00:09:00.519 --> 00:09:02.279 to five seven seven thirty nine. 203 00:09:02.639 --> 00:09:04.519 Of course, the criminal Justice laws. 204 00:09:04.320 --> 00:09:06.559 Are only one of the entire set of laws that 205 00:09:06.600 --> 00:09:09.639 are being considered by the legislature through the middle of May. 206 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:11.799 Their rights back in the middle of the legislative session 207 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:14.639 right now, Tabor of the taxpayer bill of rights a 208 00:09:14.799 --> 00:09:17.000 huge issue. What do they get to cut in the 209 00:09:17.039 --> 00:09:20.279 budget because of the shortfall, That's a huge issue. And 210 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:22.759 then of course public safety because despite all the claims 211 00:09:22.759 --> 00:09:24.720 to make Colorado one of the top ten safest states 212 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:26.240 of the nation, which I think Polus has said for 213 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:29.200 the last few years, that's not what's happening. Instead, we're 214 00:09:29.240 --> 00:09:32.639 the third most dangerous. Share your thoughts over the break. 215 00:09:32.759 --> 00:09:34.799 You're on the dan CAAPLA Show. I'm Christy Burton Brown. 216 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:39.399 And now back to the Dan Kaplass Show podcast. 217 00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:42.480 You're back on the dan CAPLA Show. I'm Christy Burton Brown. 218 00:09:42.759 --> 00:09:45.480 I'm going to go to what a text is asking. 219 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:48.200 He said, is there anyone in conservative Colorado looking at 220 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:51.519 all the laws and taxes figuring out what adjustments need 221 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:54.919 to be made with federal departments like education being dismantled 222 00:09:55.200 --> 00:09:57.960 if any laws are no longer valid. You know, Polis 223 00:09:57.960 --> 00:10:00.559 and the liberals won't willingly stop trying charging us. 224 00:10:00.600 --> 00:10:02.679 That is a very good point. They certainly won't do 225 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:03.879 it of their own accord. 226 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:08.440 I think though, often what the laws that come down 227 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:11.120 from the federal departments, assuming there are laws there issue, 228 00:10:11.159 --> 00:10:14.399 it would be regulations technically coming down from federal departments 229 00:10:14.440 --> 00:10:17.840 that attach to the states. Often those rules and regulations 230 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:21.039 have funding attached to them, so it's like funding strings 231 00:10:21.120 --> 00:10:24.320 per string, so they say, basically, if you comply with 232 00:10:24.360 --> 00:10:27.600 this regulation, you get more money from the federal government. 233 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:28.360 That's often how. 234 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:32.799 It works, or regulations you have to comply with them, 235 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:37.279 but it doesn't necessarily charge the average person money. It 236 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:40.840 may require, like the state Department of Education to comply 237 00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:43.120 with the rules and maybe to hire more staff people, 238 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:45.039 which of course, in the end our taxpayer dollars pay 239 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:47.600 for that, so in a roundabout way, we're paying for it. 240 00:10:48.759 --> 00:10:52.679 But I think I'm not aware of anyone right now 241 00:10:53.159 --> 00:10:55.519 where we could get rid of, like taxes and fees 242 00:10:55.559 --> 00:10:57.519 that are connected to the federal government, if that's what 243 00:10:57.559 --> 00:11:01.559 you're asking. Taxes and fees generally imposed by the state 244 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:04.960 here in Colorado, other than of course, are federal income 245 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:08.519 tax filing, and so that's a little different. So I think, yes, 246 00:11:08.559 --> 00:11:10.559 it's something to watch for, but I think it'll more 247 00:11:10.600 --> 00:11:12.759 be about the regulation side of things, like are there 248 00:11:12.919 --> 00:11:16.399 regulations that the state continues to comply with that are 249 00:11:16.440 --> 00:11:19.960 no longer rules under the new federal government. I think 250 00:11:19.960 --> 00:11:22.039 those kind of things will take a little more time 251 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:24.440 to work through and figure out. But you're definitely right 252 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:26.159 that someone needs to be on top of it and 253 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:28.799 make sure that there's not a lot of busy work 254 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:30.960 still being conducted by the state that in the end 255 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:32.720 is costing taxpayers money because we have to pay for 256 00:11:32.759 --> 00:11:35.360 the people who do it. So good question, and I 257 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:38.679 think Ryan had asked it in a different segment of 258 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:40.960 the show. What I think is actually going to happen 259 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:43.919 to education here in Colorado if the federal Department of 260 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:47.320 Education does get dismantled, what are the effects here? And 261 00:11:47.399 --> 00:11:50.159 so I think the effects really will be to restore 262 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:54.000 a lot of control to the state and to local districts. 263 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:56.320 In Colorado, we're one of the few states in the 264 00:11:56.399 --> 00:12:00.120 nation that actually put into our constitution local control of education, 265 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:03.559 which means that the local boards in school districts get 266 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:06.799 to choose curriculum. The state may not mandate that on them. 267 00:12:06.799 --> 00:12:09.159 They can set standards, but can't tell them exactly how 268 00:12:09.200 --> 00:12:11.519 to teach it and what books to use, for example. 269 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:14.840 So I think a state like Colorado that focuses so 270 00:12:14.919 --> 00:12:17.440 much on local control, should welcome the dismantling of a 271 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:21.519 federal Department of education because it means less rules and regulations, 272 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:25.960 less bureaucracy, more decision making on the state because if 273 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:28.639 you eliminate some of those purse strings and you just 274 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:31.559 get the money because it's the federal allocation that goes 275 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:33.879 to the state, instead of the federal government being able 276 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:36.960 to say, well, only if you take these tests, will 277 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:40.120 we give you money. Only if you have like DEI 278 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:42.720 in your curriculum, will we give you this set of money. 279 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:46.039 Like you eliminate that when you eliminate bureaucracy, because there 280 00:12:46.039 --> 00:12:49.000 aren't the people to make the rules and regulations and tie. 281 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:49.600 Money to that. 282 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:53.240 In my view, instead, the federal portion of money should 283 00:12:53.279 --> 00:12:54.720 go to the states and say, hey, you have this 284 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:59.960 many students in your state, therefore you get this much money. 285 00:13:00.039 --> 00:13:00.720 And so cutting. 286 00:13:00.519 --> 00:13:03.639 Bureaucracy actually opens up the ability for that to happen, 287 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:06.759 and more money to flow directly into the state, into 288 00:13:06.799 --> 00:13:09.840 the local districts, into the classrooms, hopefully increase the teacher 289 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:12.519 pay that we can do. And so I think anytime 290 00:13:12.559 --> 00:13:16.879 you're cutting administration, you're dismantling bureaucracy. It's not dismantling education. 291 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:20.320 It's not dismantling funding. It's dismantling bureaucracy. It's a really 292 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:23.600 really important point we need to emphasize, and it actually 293 00:13:23.639 --> 00:13:28.000 often allows funding to be way more clear and go 294 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:29.279 directly where. 295 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:31.159 It needs to go instead of passing through all these layers. 296 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:33.480 Oh, we need to hire this person to enforce this rule, 297 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:36.399 and hire that person to create this rule, and then 298 00:13:36.440 --> 00:13:38.559 this person to process that funding. 299 00:13:38.679 --> 00:13:39.879 Like, that's not what we need. 300 00:13:40.279 --> 00:13:43.080 And for anyone who's concerned about like special ed funding 301 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:44.960 that comes from the federal level, or like the Free 302 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:48.360 and reduced lunch program or things that help families or 303 00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:50.840 kids who really are in need, there has been no 304 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:55.000 talk at the federal level of cutting those kind of funding. 305 00:13:54.559 --> 00:13:56.080 Streams to the states. 306 00:13:56.600 --> 00:13:59.960 And you don't need the Department of Education to give 307 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:02.679 that funding to the state, like there are other federal 308 00:14:02.679 --> 00:14:06.600 departments that grants to the states can come through. So again, 309 00:14:06.840 --> 00:14:08.720 I think the main I keep repeating it, but the 310 00:14:08.759 --> 00:14:12.440 main foundational line here is cutting bureaucracy is not the 311 00:14:12.480 --> 00:14:15.279 same as cutting funding, and people need to stop claiming 312 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:18.080 that it's the same thing. Not yet, if you're listening. 313 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:20.200 You probably already don't think that's what's happening. But there's 314 00:14:20.200 --> 00:14:22.000 a whole lot of people out there just listening to 315 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:24.600 the headlines and not reading the actual executive orders and 316 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:27.960 the actual things that are coming from officials themselves. And 317 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:30.320 if I could change something, I would love to change 318 00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:32.639 the people would actually go to the original source and 319 00:14:32.720 --> 00:14:36.000 read what's actually happening and what's actually being said, not 320 00:14:36.320 --> 00:14:40.080 how it's being reported and explained by the media. If 321 00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:41.840 you have thoughts, you can call in eight five five 322 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:44.440 four zero five eight two five five, or you can 323 00:14:44.440 --> 00:14:48.039 text your thoughts to Dan at five seven seven three nine. 324 00:14:48.600 --> 00:14:52.600 Here's another text saying, I'm not surprised that the child 325 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:55.759 rapists are not getting jail time. I mean, Colorado allows 326 00:14:55.799 --> 00:14:58.519 abortion up until birth. The Democrats don't care about children. 327 00:14:58.759 --> 00:15:00.960 Why would they care about children getting raped and holding 328 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:02.159 the rapists accountable? 329 00:15:02.440 --> 00:15:03.279 And this is in reference. 330 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:05.480 If you missed our last segment, we had Representative Brandy 331 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:07.440 Bradley on and she was talking about a bill that 332 00:15:07.519 --> 00:15:10.399 she ran. A District Attorney George Brockler is all over 333 00:15:10.480 --> 00:15:14.080 this issue talking about how in Colorado, if you rape 334 00:15:14.120 --> 00:15:17.120 a child, you can get out on probation, and apparently 335 00:15:17.120 --> 00:15:20.159 that probation was great to sixty nine individuals last year 336 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:22.360 who did this to kids, and they were just immediately 337 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:24.159 right back out on the streets, right back out in 338 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:27.240 those homes and those schools wherever they were attacking children, 339 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:30.639 not sent to jail at all. So to the Texter's comment, 340 00:15:31.159 --> 00:15:32.960 you know, I think you're right that when we create 341 00:15:33.039 --> 00:15:36.960 a culture that devalues children, that doesn't view them as 342 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:40.440 the precious gifts that they are, and doesn't view ourselves 343 00:15:40.519 --> 00:15:43.559 as having some sort of responsibility to protect them so 344 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:46.039 that they can grow up with all the opportunities that 345 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:49.120 they should be given in this life, it does bleed 346 00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:52.799 over into other areas. And if you have a general 347 00:15:52.879 --> 00:15:55.440 view that you know, children are only worthy of protection 348 00:15:55.559 --> 00:15:59.279 at this age or in this environment, what is to 349 00:15:59.320 --> 00:16:02.759 stop you from setting your own standards of when a 350 00:16:02.879 --> 00:16:06.039 child becomes eligible for that kind of protection, or when 351 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:09.120 they're viewed as a fully equal human and what level 352 00:16:09.120 --> 00:16:11.559 of protection we really want to give them. So I 353 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:15.480 will agree with you that when you see people choosing 354 00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:18.840 abortion until birth, they are choosing adults over children. When 355 00:16:18.840 --> 00:16:22.080 you see people choosing probation for child rapists instead of 356 00:16:22.120 --> 00:16:24.879 putting them in jail. You are seeing them choose adults 357 00:16:24.919 --> 00:16:28.279 over children, and I think instead we need to view 358 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:31.039 children as equal human beings with equal rights that ought 359 00:16:31.080 --> 00:16:33.480 to be protected at every stage of their life against 360 00:16:33.480 --> 00:16:36.360 any adults who would cause them harm. So thank you 361 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:39.159 for that comment. If you're listing and you have other thoughts, 362 00:16:39.240 --> 00:16:41.440 text them to five seven seven three nine. Start it 363 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:45.399 with Dan. I think though it'll be interesting to see. 364 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:47.639 We talked really early in the show about the Continuing 365 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:49.399 Resolution at the federal level. So going back to the 366 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:52.559 federal level, now, if John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennett are 367 00:16:52.559 --> 00:16:55.840 going to split in their votes, Chuck Schumer actually just 368 00:16:55.879 --> 00:16:57.799 announced that he is going to be voting with the 369 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:00.279 Republicans on the not actually sure if it's the cure 370 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:02.960 vote or the Continuing Resolution vote what, but he's yeah, 371 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:04.680 I just saw that in the break. I'm gonna look 372 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:06.079 it up again in this break to make sure I. 373 00:17:06.079 --> 00:17:08.839 Read the headline right. The heck just tappened. How did 374 00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:10.119 he do that? 375 00:17:10.319 --> 00:17:12.039 I don't know, but I literally saw headlines. 376 00:17:13.279 --> 00:17:16.400 I will say I've been using AI for some research 377 00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:18.920 and it will summarize things for me and give me 378 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:21.880 headlines and I go research it and it is completely wrong. 379 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:23.880 I was listening to a cl because I'm a layer 380 00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:26.039 and I have to do these continuing education classes, and 381 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:29.200 it said AI wants to please you, so it will 382 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:32.079 often give you the answers that thinks you wants you want, 383 00:17:32.200 --> 00:17:33.279 not the answers that are real. 384 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:35.240 Tell you what you want to hear, tell you exactly. 385 00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:35.559 That's it. 386 00:17:35.599 --> 00:17:37.000 So I'm gonna double check. At the break, We'll see 387 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:38.799 if Chuck Shrumer really has come over, if that was 388 00:17:38.799 --> 00:17:41.839 a fake AI headline, we'll find out. I'm Grauzy Burden Round. 389 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:43.519 You're on the Dan Caplass Show. You can call in 390 00:17:43.599 --> 00:17:46.240 eight five five four zero five eight two five five 391 00:17:46.359 --> 00:17:51.680 or text five seven seven three nine. 392 00:17:56.359 --> 00:17:59.640 You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast here. 393 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:00.599 Back to the Day A Capital of show. 394 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:02.759 I'm Christy Burton Brown, and yes, I was able to 395 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:06.319 confirm that Chuck Schumer has indeed come over to the 396 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:09.799 dark side and announced that he will be supporting the 397 00:18:09.880 --> 00:18:14.240 Republican bill and to continue I guess continue resolution to 398 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:15.960 not shut down the government. And of course it's not 399 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:17.559 the dark side, it's the light side. But this is 400 00:18:17.599 --> 00:18:20.000 what he would say. Oh, It's troubling and terrible, but 401 00:18:20.039 --> 00:18:22.279