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Speaker 2: Welcome back to The Dan Caplis Show and with you
Speaker 2: today as well Kenny Sheriff Steve Reims as your guest host.
Speaker 2: If you weren't with us in the first hour, shame
Speaker 2: on you. But in this second hour, we're going to
Speaker 2: recap a little bit of some of the stuff we've
Speaker 2: talked about because we have some breaking news. And if
Speaker 2: you weren't with us in the first hour, you probably
Speaker 2: didn't hear Ryan shuling live. But you'll definitely want to
Speaker 2: go back and listen to the podcast of that show
Speaker 2: if you weren't listening to it today, because we had
Speaker 2: a little bit of a hubbub breakup over the over
Speaker 2: the night at the Colorado State Capitol, not actually at
Speaker 2: the Capitol, but involving the folks down there on the
Speaker 2: Republican side of the aisle. The Representative Ryan Armagos stepped
Speaker 2: down a few days ago, or he's making his step
Speaker 2: down effective September one, when he was the House Minority
Speaker 2: so in accordance with leadership down there, they needed to
Speaker 2: elect a new whip, which is the person who kind
Speaker 2: of gets the votes together down at the Colorado State House.
Speaker 2: That person ended up being Representative Carlos Baron out of
Speaker 2: the forty eighth district, the Fort Lupton area of Wild County.
Speaker 2: Congrats to him. But in the process of all that occurring,
Speaker 2: there were a couple other candidates that jumped in the
Speaker 2: race for that particular position within leadership, Representative Ron Weinberg,
Speaker 2: excuse me, Ron Weinberg, and Representative Brandy Bradley. And as
Speaker 2: all this stuff was kind of, I guess building up,
Speaker 2: some information got put forward from different folks accusing Representative
Speaker 2: Ron Weinberg of some sexually harassing comments and actions either
Speaker 2: at the Capitol or even outside of the Capitol in
Speaker 2: years past. So that kind of blew up and turned
Speaker 2: into a back and forth between Representative Ron Weinberg wife
Speaker 2: defending him on Facebook and other social media platforms, and
Speaker 2: then Represented Brandy Bradley kind of coming back at him
Speaker 2: on Ryan's show. So it's been a day for those
Speaker 2: of you that aren't necessarily involved in state level politics.
Speaker 2: This may be why, but for those of you who
Speaker 2: haven't been or who even are involved in the day
Speaker 2: to day stuff, you have to kind of look at
Speaker 2: this and shake your head a little bit. Again, I
Speaker 2: had planned on speaking quite a bit about the Big
Speaker 2: Beautiful Bill and the goods and the bads that are
Speaker 2: in that bill, but sometimes you have to go with
Speaker 2: where the fire is for a particular show. So we're
Speaker 2: going to continue to talk a little bit about this
Speaker 2: Ron Weinberg story or this allegation against Ron Weinberg. We
Speaker 2: will get to the Epstein stuff. We will get to
Speaker 2: the Big Beautiful Bill. We're also going to have a
Speaker 2: candidate for governor on at five point thirty six. Robert
Speaker 2: Moore will be on with us. Again, I'm trying to
Speaker 2: get as many of these people on the record so
Speaker 2: you guys can have some idea of who they are
Speaker 2: and why they're running. But the breaking news of it
Speaker 2: is the Day Today with Representative Ron Weinbergen and Ryan
Speaker 2: Schuling Show Ryan Schuling Live. He had one of the accusers,
Speaker 2: Jacqueline Anderson, on, and she gave kind of a rundown
Speaker 2: about what happened and why she decided to put her
Speaker 2: story forward, and I think it's pretty compelling and I'd
Speaker 2: like to play that interview if we could. It's cut
Speaker 2: twenty three.
Speaker 3: When my husband and I both were a part of
Speaker 3: the leadership program of the Rockies. I was class of
Speaker 3: twenty one in which Ron was our class president. My
Speaker 3: husband is class of twenty twenty two. So the two
Speaker 3: incidents in my victim statement reports were both at events
Speaker 3: hosted by LPR. We you know, similar to this. Unfortunately,
Speaker 3: it's one of those things where fortunately I would say
Speaker 3: I wasn't sexually assaulted. It wasn't like he physically did
Speaker 3: anything to me, so it wasn't anything I felt like
Speaker 3: I could report to the police and have anything done
Speaker 3: about it. But similar if you're being harassed at work,
Speaker 3: you take it to your HR. So when I heard
Speaker 3: of some incidents is happening in twenty twenty two, my
Speaker 3: husband and I decided to go forward and deal and
Speaker 3: speak with LPR leadership, bring forward to them the attention
Speaker 3: of what had been happening, you know, with his harassments.
Speaker 3: And at that time they had a zoom call with
Speaker 3: us and they had told us that they had decided
Speaker 3: the disciplinary action for Ron would be that he would
Speaker 3: be no longer allowed to attend any future LPR events,
Speaker 3: and at that time we felt that was satisfactory. You know,
Speaker 3: we sord appreciate that we don't have to be in
Speaker 3: any spaces with him, and that's great. So we just
Speaker 3: kind of moved on with our lives, you know, unfortunate
Speaker 3: that you know it happened, but you move on. Even
Speaker 3: though my husband and I have stepped out of the
Speaker 3: political space over the last few years and just led
Speaker 3: very quiet lives, I know a lot of people still
Speaker 3: in the space who are still fighting for our freedoms
Speaker 3: here in Colorado, and I respect that they do. But
Speaker 3: when I hear stories of young girls, young age who
Speaker 3: are being harassed and afraid to come forward. And then
Speaker 3: when I had found out that he was running for whip,
Speaker 3: I said, enough is enough, And sometimes we just need
Speaker 3: to go ahead and be bold and step forward and
Speaker 3: speak our truth and say this is what happened, and
Speaker 3: hopes that people will feel saith in coming forward and
Speaker 3: telling their stories. And I got to tell you, there
Speaker 3: are people in our dms with information about their experience
Speaker 3: on the house floor, in the offices, and they're very
Speaker 3: scared to come forward. And we're trying to help them,
Speaker 3: you know, be able to do that in a safe space.
Speaker 3: But I'm tired of hearing how you know, at the
Speaker 3: end of the day, Listen, there's definitely a culture of
Speaker 3: burying harassment in politics, and I'm just not willing to
Speaker 3: be complicit in that anymore. And so that's why I
Speaker 3: came forward with my statement.
Speaker 2: So that's the statement from Jacqueline Anderson on Ryan Schulings
Speaker 2: Show earlier today. That kind of sets the groundwork for
Speaker 2: the allegations against Representative Weinberg. And to make things clear,
Speaker 2: you know, these things were put out on social media
Speaker 2: starting last night through mainstream media. They kind of got
Speaker 2: repeated in several different stories. So I reached out to
Speaker 2: Representative Weinberg early this morning, round five point thirty this
Speaker 2: morning through Facebook, offered him an opportunity to come on
Speaker 2: the show. We kind of had a little bit of
Speaker 2: back and forth throughout the day and ultimately he elected
Speaker 2: to just provide a statement, and that statement reads, I'm
Speaker 2: taking this very serious under the advice of legal counsel.
Speaker 2: I will respond when it is appropriate to do so.
Speaker 2: So that's the statement I have. We've left the show
Speaker 2: open if Ron wants to come on and say his
Speaker 2: side of the story at any point during the show.
Speaker 2: He's welcome to do so.
Speaker 4: And there's one point here, Sheriff, that I want to
Speaker 4: kind of refocus on, based on what Jacqueline said, And
Speaker 4: I'd be very curious to hear both the response from
Speaker 4: Representative Weinberg himself and his wife Carolyn, who so vociferously
Speaker 4: defended him in a Facebook post subsequent to what Jacqueline
Speaker 4: Anderson put on that platform, and that is he has
Speaker 4: been banned from LPI. That is a provable fact or
Speaker 4: a disprovable fact that either happened or it didn't right,
Speaker 4: So he would have to acknowledge that, and then Representative
Speaker 4: Weinberg would have to get into the reasons why, Well, then,
Speaker 4: why did that happen? Why would they have banned you
Speaker 4: if you didn't do anything wrong? And I think that
Speaker 4: is a slippery slope for him personally.
Speaker 2: Well to that point, Ryan, you know, there's a third
Speaker 2: story that was provided as a victim impact story, and
Speaker 2: it's rather lengthy. I'm not going to read it all
Speaker 2: on air, not because it's not important, but I think
Speaker 2: I can summarize it pretty well. Also, the author of
Speaker 2: said statement didn't want her name release. She just used initials.
Speaker 2: The initials are BD, and it says at the end
Speaker 2: of the retreat in twenty twenty two, and I'm inferring
Speaker 2: that's LPR. They were celebrating a win at the bar
Speaker 2: with a room packed full of people. I don't know
Speaker 2: exactly what they want, but it infers that alcohol was involved.
Speaker 2: Everybody's hanging out at the bar, and as the thing starts,
Speaker 2: the event starts to wrap down for the night, this
Speaker 2: BD says she's approached by Representative Weinberg who's kind of
Speaker 2: in a jovial mood and says, Hey, let's go steal
Speaker 2: a flag over there, and tries to get her to
Speaker 2: go with him, and she thinks he's a little nuts
Speaker 2: from what I'm inferring from the story, and kind of
Speaker 2: blows him off. He makes a comment again, and then
Speaker 2: he starts kind of turning this into more of a hey,
Speaker 2: would you like to come hang out for the evening?
Speaker 2: I think you're you know, you're interested, You're an interesting person,
Speaker 2: you know, a little more sexual in nature. And when
Speaker 2: she doesn't respond in the way that it appears that
Speaker 2: Representative Weinberg would allegedly hope she would then beade receives
Speaker 2: a kind of a scream from Representative Weinberg, is explained
Speaker 2: to her with a very you know, coarse tone that
Speaker 2: basically uses the efford and she begins to get very threatened.
Speaker 2: At that point, according to her story, she gets another
Speaker 2: person to escort her back to her room. And you know,
Speaker 2: that's the story that she tells in a nutshell. It's
Speaker 2: far more detailed than that. You can find it on
Speaker 2: social media, but it kind of kind of goes along
Speaker 2: with the narrative that you were just explaining Ryan that
Speaker 2: you know, there's a little bit of alcohol going on,
Speaker 2: there's some back and forth, there's some comments being made,
Speaker 2: and you know, it just sounds as if a lot
Speaker 2: of this nexus is around LPR and drinking. And I
Speaker 2: think that takes us to cut twenty four that I'd
Speaker 2: like to play. That's a follow up to Jacqueline Anderson's
Speaker 2: first comments.
Speaker 3: I want to talk about that first instance a little
Speaker 3: bit because it does bring into Rod's wife, especially if
Speaker 3: she just went to social media this afternoon to say
Speaker 3: that they are false accusations. She was there when my
Speaker 3: husband confronted Ron the day after and had a little
Speaker 3: discussion about his behavior and how inappropriate it was. And
Speaker 3: I was quite stopped that she seemed very disconnected your husband,
Speaker 3: Like Carolyn standing there next to her husband Ron, and
Speaker 3: you have another man telling him it's inappropriate for you
Speaker 3: to say these things to my wife. You need to
Speaker 3: step back, you know, give them the what for. And
Speaker 3: she's just standing there like nothing's going on. How disconnected
Speaker 3: do you have to be to completely shut down? So
Speaker 3: for her to claim that they're false, she was there,
Speaker 3: she was a part of it.
Speaker 2: So that kind of just sums it up right, like
Speaker 2: there's there's witnesses to this. To your point, Ryan, I mean,
Speaker 2: there's way more to this story. And as I said earlier,
Speaker 2: you know, Ron's side of the story is important to
Speaker 2: We need to hear all sides so we can figure
Speaker 2: out what is the absolute truth. But the absence of
Speaker 2: a story is just giving the narrative over to the
Speaker 2: accusers right now. And again, I have no reason to
Speaker 2: disbelieve what they're saying. I think they're both reputable people.
Speaker 2: But you know, there's there's my my law enforcement, my
Speaker 2: law enforcement skepticism that says, you know, there's a little
Speaker 2: little something more here. We're gonna go to break. When
Speaker 2: we come back, we'll clean this up just a little bit.
Speaker 2: We'll dive into the Epstein stuff and the Big Beautiful
Speaker 2: Bill and get ready for our big interview with Robert Moore.
Speaker 2: You're listening to the Dan Caplas Show here on six
Speaker 2: point thirty k HOW with Well County Sheriff Steve Dreams.
Speaker 5: And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Dan Caplas Show here with Well
Speaker 2: County Sheriff Steve Riams as your guest host. This is
Speaker 2: day two of two for me. Tomorrow you'll have Heidiganaal
Speaker 2: and then Dan the Big Man will be back in
Speaker 2: the seat for Thursday and Friday, I believe, hopefully crowing
Speaker 2: about a win that he had in court. But you know,
Speaker 2: we've kind of been talking about a lot today. There
Speaker 2: was some breaking news with Representative Ron Weinberg being accused
Speaker 2: of some we'll say sexual misconduct, both at the state
Speaker 2: Capitol and outside of the state Capitol, maybe at the
Speaker 2: leadership program of the Rockies. We've also talked with Congressman
Speaker 2: Gabe Evans about some of the benefits of the Big
Speaker 2: Beautiful Bill that he helps sign or get through Congress,
Speaker 2: I shouldn't say signed. Trump signed that on July fourth,
Speaker 2: under a lot of fanfare. And then we've also kind
Speaker 2: of revisited a little bit about the Epstein files, and
Speaker 2: you know how the Trump administration is handling this particular issue.
Speaker 2: And if you think they're being upfront with us or not,
Speaker 2: you can call in and text on any of those topics.
Speaker 2: You can text Dan at five seven seven three nine
Speaker 2: or call three O three seven one three eight two
Speaker 2: fivey five. I'd love to hear your comments on any
Speaker 2: of the aforementioned topics. But one of the texts we
Speaker 2: got in here says Sheriff Frames. Long ago, Julian Assan
Speaker 2: said the Epstein list would never be released because the
Speaker 2: US alphabet agencies would lose their lose their control over
Speaker 2: all the powerful people that spend decades setting it up.
Speaker 2: At this point, I don't give a flying bleep underage
Speaker 2: girls or sex trafficked being raped many times over. Pam
Speaker 2: Bondi said they would arrest anyone committing criminal acts. Well,
Speaker 2: they have thousands of hours of videos from Epstein's New
Speaker 2: York home, New Mexico ranch, and Epstein Island, which most
Speaker 2: likely shows many crimes you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: truth to that. That's from one of our faithful listeners, Alexa.
Speaker 2: You know, I can't. I can't argue with any of that.
Speaker 2: And when I when that, I guess that's where I'm
Speaker 2: coming from, Like, how can there not be more out there? Yeah,
Speaker 2: Epstein's dead. You can't press charges on a dead guy.
Speaker 2: But there's a lot of information out there that we
Speaker 2: just don't know. And we do know that there was,
Speaker 2: you know, flight logs on the Lolita Express. There had
Speaker 2: to have been tons of other people contacted in the
Speaker 2: course of this investigation if it was done even remotely
Speaker 2: like what would be expected in my law enforcement circles.
Speaker 2: And I just can't believe that there aren't more people
Speaker 2: either on a formal list or an informal list, or
Speaker 2: as a list of witnesses or a list of suspects.
Speaker 2: It's just hard for me to wrap my brain around it. Then,
Speaker 2: I also want to cover some of the points that
Speaker 2: gave Evans made. Congressman gave Evans from the eighth Congressional
Speaker 2: District about the Big Beautiful Bill. He highlighted a lot
Speaker 2: of the stuff that they've been pounding the table about.
Speaker 2: It's one of the largest tax cuts in history, should
Speaker 2: save families making less than fifty thousand dollars a year
Speaker 2: the most. On average, you may see about ten thousand
Speaker 2: more in your paychecks because of the reduction on tips,
Speaker 2: no tax on tips, tax on overtime, no tax on
Speaker 2: social Security, or at least a credit up to I
Speaker 2: think six thousand dollars for people earning less than seventy
Speaker 2: five thousand on Social Security, twelve and a half billion.
Speaker 2: Modernization of our air traffic control system. I hope that's enough,
Speaker 2: because we've heard some pretty bad stuff. Permanently increasing the
Speaker 2: child tax credit for more than forty million families. Securing
Speaker 2: our borders by finishing the border wall and hiring thousands
Speaker 2: of new ICE officers and border patrol agents. I think
Speaker 2: there's ten thousand ICE officers in this bill, in two
Speaker 2: thousand border patrol agency our agents. Driving down energy costs
Speaker 2: with massive expansion of domestic and oil and gas production,
Speaker 2: to a tax deduction for American made automobiles, and protection
Speaker 2: for two million family farms from punitive double taxation. A
Speaker 2: lot more in here, about one point five trillion in
Speaker 2: cost savings by not giving some not giving medicaid to
Speaker 2: folks who don't deserve it aren't here legally, whatever the
Speaker 2: case may be. And I think one part that I
Speaker 2: like the most is there is no longer a tax
Speaker 2: credit for electric vehicles. You will not get the seventy
Speaker 2: five hundred dollars tax credit for a new vehicle or
Speaker 2: four thousand dollars tax credit for a used vehicle. I'm
Speaker 2: tired of subsidizing that crap. And no longer are you're
Speaker 2: going to be subsidized for putting a charging station in
Speaker 2: your home. I think that one kicks in in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six. That's not listed on this page here, that
Speaker 2: came out from the White House, but that one personally,
Speaker 2: I'm tired of helping other people buy cars. You know.
Speaker 2: John Caldera is famous for having bought a Nissan Leaf,
Speaker 2: and I say, you should always turn in his man
Speaker 2: card for driving that thing. And I've told him that personally,
Speaker 2: so we're not airing any dirty laundry here. But he
Speaker 2: did it because, hey, he took advantage of the tax
Speaker 2: credits and apparently he doesn't care about driving a car
Speaker 2: that a man should drive.
Speaker 4: Yes, but think about though, who that tax credit benefits.
Speaker 4: This isn't like a child tax credit for your absolutely family.
Speaker 4: This is for high end, wealthy individuals. It's another write
Speaker 4: off for them.
Speaker 2: And that's why it pisses me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, same you and me, both sheriff, because this is
Speaker 4: not something that's going to affect the average American working
Speaker 4: men and woman. These are the people that are in
Speaker 4: the higher tax bracket anyway. So what are you actually
Speaker 4: doing here. You're giving them more free money to invest
Speaker 4: in these electric vehicles. You're trying to push that into
Speaker 4: the market. And that's where President Trump, I think, has
Speaker 4: it exactly right, Like let the market, with the market
Speaker 4: dictate it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know that's exactly it. How many people
Speaker 2: do you know that own an electric car is their
Speaker 2: primary vehicle. I'm sure there are some out there, but
Speaker 2: most people it's a secondary vehicle. If you live in
Speaker 2: Weld County, it's surely not your primary vehicle because it's
Speaker 2: a four thousand square mile county. Good luck. It just
Speaker 2: doesn't make sense, and in the Western United States it
Speaker 2: really doesn't make sense. And quite frankly, I just I
Speaker 2: don't want to help my neighbor buy a car. You know,
Speaker 2: I don't mind helping my kid buy a car, but
Speaker 2: I don't want my tax dollars going to things that
Speaker 2: are just ridiculous. Let the market dictate it. And I
Speaker 2: don't know if that's what's driving the hatred between Elon
Speaker 2: Musk and Donald Trump. But regardless, I'm sure y'all have
Speaker 2: thoughts about all of this. Maybe I'm I'm the one
Speaker 2: that's all wet. If you want to make a comment
Speaker 2: about it, you can text in five seven seven three nine,
Speaker 2: start your text with Dan, or you can call in
Speaker 2: it three oh three seven one three eight two five five. Again,
Speaker 2: I'd love to dice it up with you a little bit,
Speaker 2: but maybe not call in just right away, because we're
Speaker 2: about to have a Governor's Canada and we're gonna have
Speaker 2: Robert Moore. I don't know much about him, but we're
Speaker 2: gonna find out everything we need to know and more. Uh,
Speaker 2: get the play on words there when we come back
Speaker 2: from break. You're listening to Dan Capleas Show here with
Speaker 2: Weld County Sheriff Steve Raims as your guest host on
Speaker 2: six point thirty k how.
Speaker 5: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Dankfa Show here with well kind of shriff Steve Raims
Speaker 2: as your guest host, and we'll get right to this.
Speaker 2: We've got another candidate for governor up. You know, we've
Speaker 2: tried to serve up as many as we could. I
Speaker 2: think Robert will be our tenth candidate to have as
Speaker 2: I've been substituting in for Dan. That leaves us with
Speaker 2: I think four or five more to go if they
Speaker 2: ever decide to come on, but with us at this
Speaker 2: time as candidate for Colorado governor on the Republican side
Speaker 2: of the aisle. Robert Moore, Robert, how are you doing.
Speaker 6: I'm good and thanks so much for having me. I
Speaker 6: appreciate the time, you bet. Thanks to your listeners for
Speaker 6: taking part of their valuable time to listen to us.
Speaker 2: You bet so, Robert, if you would, you know, I've
Speaker 2: googled you. I've tried to do a little bit of research,
Speaker 2: but it's probably better for you to just tell the
Speaker 2: listeners what your background is and kind of where you
Speaker 2: come from and what made you decide you're going to
Speaker 2: throw your hat in this crazy race for Colorado governor.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well it certainly is crazy. And thanks thanks for
Speaker 6: that question. And we've got a lot of candidates and
Speaker 6: before we started that get into that maybe I can
Speaker 6: just say, you know, a hearts and thoughts and prayers
Speaker 6: go out to those folks that are down there in
Speaker 6: Central Texas with all the flooding, because that's been really tragic.
Speaker 6: I've been watching that like many of you have on
Speaker 6: the national news with the loss of life. So yeah,
Speaker 6: our sympathy and empathy with them for sure. For me,
Speaker 6: I was born and raised in Colorado here, so I'm
Speaker 6: quite proud of the state of Colorado. I graduated from
Speaker 6: high school actually right here in Lakewood. My father was
Speaker 6: in business, also state representative. My mother was a nurse
Speaker 6: at the Denver Health Hospital. After graduation from high school,
Speaker 6: I was accepted to the Military Academy, West Point and
Speaker 6: I earned my bachelor's degree there in physics, and then
Speaker 6: was commissioned. Of course, as a result of that, and
Speaker 6: I was commissioned in the Army corp of Engineers. While
Speaker 6: I was in the Army, earned professional engineering license that
Speaker 6: came in handy later as I was helping design the
Speaker 6: rebuilding the infrastructure both in Iraq and Afghanistan. Did the
Speaker 6: Army then transition to the inactive reserve so I could
Speaker 6: get into the private sector. I went to work and
Speaker 6: helped build a small startup company, got in on the
Speaker 6: ground floor. Company was called Compact Computer at that time,
Speaker 6: which was purchased by Hewley Packard in about two thousand
Speaker 6: and one. So that was pretty enjoyable and exciting about
Speaker 6: that time. Then I was wanting to go to graduate school.
Speaker 6: Was accepted Yale, and actually ended up going to your
Speaker 6: University of a Michigan for a master's degree in business
Speaker 6: through their executive program, so I could keep working at HP.
Speaker 6: After HP spun off, the Printed division became HPE. I
Speaker 6: worked there as an executive responsible for the marketing of
Speaker 6: our service software security products. And then while I was
Speaker 6: at HPE, the Army reactivated me and I deployed as
Speaker 6: active duty officer to Iraq. Later attended the Army Cammanda
Speaker 6: General Staff College. Finally Afghanistan whereas Commander of the Southern
Speaker 6: part of Afghanistan in Kandahar. Culminated my Army career, my
Speaker 6: Army Reserve career as an Army Special Operations Command Officer
Speaker 6: Fort Bragg, and then later about that same year about
Speaker 6: twenty twenty, left HPE to work for super Micro, director
Speaker 6: of marketing for our AI systems AI computer systems that
Speaker 6: we built there. So, yeah, I've accumulated a little bit
Speaker 6: of experience in both the business sector as well as
Speaker 6: the military.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you for your service. I shouldn't go on said,
Speaker 2: So it sounds like you've you've done pretty well for yourself.
Speaker 2: Why in the world would you decide to throw your
Speaker 2: hat in the ring to run for Colorado governor.
Speaker 6: That's a great question. Thanks for that. You know, I think,
Speaker 6: as I've watched Colorado, I think we just deserve a
Speaker 6: whole lot better here, and a whole lot more than
Speaker 6: what we've had in the past eight years. And some
Speaker 6: of this really gets awfully personal for me because you know,
Speaker 6: my parents raised five of us here in Colorado, and
Speaker 6: all all but myself, all the other four my siblings
Speaker 6: have either moved out or will moved out because it's
Speaker 6: just cost of living is too high, cost of housing
Speaker 6: is too high. My own mother is looking at moving
Speaker 6: out because she can't afford the property taxes and the
Speaker 6: cost of living anymore. So, you know, that makes it
Speaker 6: personal for me. We've got to have more affordability in
Speaker 6: this state for the essentials of life. We've got to
Speaker 6: have more protection from the increasing taxes, We've got to
Speaker 6: have more affordable housing for sure, and I could give
Speaker 6: you some. I've been talking to some home builders and
Speaker 6: I can see what's the problem is there, and well
Speaker 6: we can maybe do solve that. We've got to have
Speaker 6: more safety and security. As I talk to people in
Speaker 6: different counties, they're actually setting up their own home watch
Speaker 6: programs because the crime has gotten so bad. We need
Speaker 6: a more business friendly environment here of the you know,
Speaker 6: we've got to be able to attract and retain business
Speaker 6: for the incremental revenue that that brings into the state.
Speaker 6: You know, on the Fortune five hundred list, Colorado's got
Speaker 6: eight great companies on that Fortune five hundred. The next
Speaker 6: state that's about our same size, the same electoral votes.
Speaker 6: Minnesota's got over twice that number of businesses. So we
Speaker 6: should do a lot more to help small, medium, in
Speaker 6: large businesses, and then more support for Colorado citizens as
Speaker 6: well as our senior citizens that are leading a state
Speaker 6: in droves it seems like because they just can't afford
Speaker 6: it here. So yeah, that's why I got in the race.
Speaker 6: You know, while we have these really big issues to solve,
Speaker 6: our state government has been, in my estimation, focused on
Speaker 6: these superfluous and somewhat ludicrous bills trying to strip parental
Speaker 6: rights away if you don't use their proper pronouns. So
Speaker 6: I think we really got to focus and help colorado
Speaker 6: Ons rather than these fringe issues that our government seems
Speaker 6: to be focused on.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I will second that the left side of
Speaker 2: the aisle right now is they're running a lot of
Speaker 2: bills that I don't think resonate with mainstream Collorado. Maybe
Speaker 2: I'm wrong, but whether that's republican, independent Democrat, I just
Speaker 2: don't think that the normal voter is really in touch
Speaker 2: with what's going on down at the state capitol. All
Speaker 2: that being said, you know, you've got a platform there.
Speaker 2: How do you plan on getting your message out? You know,
Speaker 2: I've asked this of every candidate. You know, how do
Speaker 2: you how do you overcome the left leaning media that
Speaker 2: is here in Colorado? How do you you know, how
Speaker 2: do you get those that airtime? How do you how
Speaker 2: do you intend to do just that?
Speaker 6: Well? You, for one, for starters, this is a really
Speaker 6: great platform to start getting the message out. Social media
Speaker 6: is another one, uh, you know, to make sure that
Speaker 6: you get your message out through there, because the media
Speaker 6: in general, or you know, the left leaning media that
Speaker 6: seems to be so far slanted that they really don't
Speaker 6: resonate our message very well out there. So we've got
Speaker 6: to rely on those other things that we can use.
Speaker 6: And there's some platforms that we've got out there. Heidi
Speaker 6: Ganal's got a platform out there that helps get our
Speaker 6: more conservative message out. So I think it's possible. I
Speaker 6: just think it takes a lot of work. It takes
Speaker 6: a lot of posting on social media, a lot of
Speaker 6: these things like on your radio talk show here, as
Speaker 6: well as some of those other outlets that are more
Speaker 6: conservative leaning.
Speaker 2: So what if you had that one driving thing in
Speaker 2: your campaign? What is the one thing that just I mean,
Speaker 2: it's your issue.
Speaker 6: It's affordability. I mean, I cannot believe that our state
Speaker 6: has gone this far and not address major issues of affordability.
Speaker 6: People are leaving the state affordability, costs of living homes.
Speaker 6: You know, when as I talk to these because we're
Speaker 6: short depending on what study you read, we're short like
Speaker 6: between one hundred thousand two hundred thousand housing units. As
Speaker 6: they talk to the builders around, they tell me we're
Speaker 6: the fourth most regulated state in the Union when it
Speaker 6: comes to developing homes and getting permits and all that.
Speaker 6: Another example that they told me when they build new
Speaker 6: homes and they want to tap into the city water supply.
Speaker 6: Depending on the size of the subdivision or area they're building,
Speaker 6: of course, it's about one hundred thousand. I can give
Speaker 6: you an example another state that's south of here, the
Speaker 6: same place that they have the big tragedy, it's four thousand,
Speaker 6: so it's a whole lot more affordable to develop homes.
Speaker 6: That same state has the fourth largest city in the country,
Speaker 6: and they're just reducing their permitting length of time to
Speaker 6: get a new house permit down to thirty days. You know,
Speaker 6: according to the twenty twenty three study in the city
Speaker 6: of Denver, it was three hundred and eighteen days. It's
Speaker 6: ten times longer to get a house permit to build
Speaker 6: new homes. It's no wonder we're short houses, and it's
Speaker 6: no wonder they're too expensive for people because of all
Speaker 6: these extra permitting costs and all these regulations and stuff.
Speaker 6: And safety. I think is that we need more security
Speaker 6: and safety. We can't afford to have what's been going
Speaker 6: on we saw up in Boulder and other locations. We've
Speaker 6: got to be able to make sure our citizens feel safe.
Speaker 6: That's probably one of the biggest responsibility of government, Robert.
Speaker 2: Just the few seconds we have left. If people want
Speaker 2: to find you out there, where can they look for you?
Speaker 2: Do you have a web page? Do you have a
Speaker 2: social media site that they can find you on?
Speaker 6: Sure? Do got a website that's easy to remember? Colorado
Speaker 6: deserves more? Or dot com? Colorado deserves more dot com.
Speaker 6: You get there and you can see my platform and
Speaker 6: get the links of the social media sites there as well.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, thank you, Sar, and good luck to you.
Speaker 2: Thanks for being on the show, and we appreciate you
Speaker 2: getting your word out to the voters. Hopefully they'll see
Speaker 2: you out there on the campaign trail and you'll attract
Speaker 2: a few of them along the way.
Speaker 6: Again, thank you for your time, Thanks so much, thanks for.
Speaker 2: Being on the show. You're listening to the Dan Capless
Speaker 2: Show here on six thirty k how with Well Kenny Sheriff,
Speaker 2: Steve Rings.
Speaker 5: And now back to the Dan Kapless Show podcast. Welcome
Speaker 5: back to.
Speaker 2: The Dankapless Show. In this last segment of hour two,
Speaker 2: today's show didn't exactly go the way I thought it
Speaker 2: was going to go. I spent quite a bit of
Speaker 2: time planning to cover The Big Beautiful Bill. We were
Speaker 2: going to have Representative Gabe Evans kind of cement all
Speaker 2: that home, and then breaking news happened. We had the
Speaker 2: and the allegations against Representative Ron Weinberg. That kind of
Speaker 2: came to the surface with three named persons and one
Speaker 2: anonymous person accusing Representative Weinberg of inappropriate sexual conduct. I
Speaker 2: don't know if that's the right wording to say, but
Speaker 2: inappropriate sexual comments. Maybe that's the better, the better terminology.
Speaker 2: I invited Representative Weinberg to come on the show. We
Speaker 2: had a little back and forth. He left a statement
Speaker 2: with me that says, I'm taking this very serious under
Speaker 2: the advice of legal counsel. I will respond when it's
Speaker 2: appropriate to do so. So the invitation still stands. If
Speaker 2: he wants to come on this station. I'm sure Dan
Speaker 2: will have him on. I'm sure Ryan will have him on.
Speaker 2: I will not be back on this week, so if that,
Speaker 2: if that opportunity arises, it will be with another host.
Speaker 2: During the downtime, we had to said, how about a
Speaker 2: segment or entire show on the five best and five
Speaker 2: worst parts of The Big Beautiful Bill. That's kind of
Speaker 2: what I intended to do, but again, you kind of
Speaker 2: got to go with where the news is for the day.
Speaker 2: And that takes us to a comment from Representative Brandy
Speaker 2: Bradley when she was on Ryan Schuling show, just to
Speaker 2: kind of seal home how inflammatory this whole thing has
Speaker 2: kind of become cut twenty six if you would.
Speaker 7: Ryan, I just think it's funny that Carolyn is speaking
Speaker 7: for her husband, is going to slander me after I
Speaker 7: announced my candidacy for whip. I didn't even know he
Speaker 7: was going to run for minority Whip. And I certainly
Speaker 7: haven't talked to any of these women coming forward. I
Speaker 7: don't know anyone in Larimer County, and I find these
Speaker 7: accusations maybe I should get my own lawyer, Ryan, because
Speaker 7: I'm not going to sit here and be the problem
Speaker 7: child or the witch hunt coming after me. I mean,
Speaker 7: they also blame me for someone looking into his Tracer account.
Speaker 7: You know, he's not coming forward and having accountability and transparency.
Speaker 7: He's hiding behind a lawyer, and he's hiding behind slander
Speaker 7: me through his wife, and I will not see him
Speaker 7: for you. I will not tolerate it. It's like he's
Speaker 7: met me before.
Speaker 2: That's Representative Brandy Bradley kind of firing back at an
Speaker 2: accusation that was put out on Facebook by Carolyn Weinberg,
Speaker 2: Representative Ron Weinberg's wife, saying that they kind of believe
Speaker 2: that Representative Bradley put these may have put these women
Speaker 2: up to making allegations against Ron Weinberg through Facebook, and
Speaker 2: you know, it's just it's become a complete mess. And
Speaker 2: I hope that it gets put to bed. And I
Speaker 2: think the best way that that happens is for Representative
Speaker 2: Weinberg to face this head on and say, here's what happened.
Speaker 2: You know, here's my statement. I'll say no more or
Speaker 2: no less, and you know, then everything just goes away
Speaker 2: from that point in my opinion. You know, but you
Speaker 2: can't you can't not respond. And maybe that's what he's
Speaker 2: looking to do, but he wants to do so in
Speaker 2: the most appropriate way. I don't know. For the Republican
Speaker 2: Party in the state of Colorado, this isn't great. In fact,
Speaker 2: it's terrible. And I can tell you as a lifelong
Speaker 2: Republican this is this has been tough to tough to see.
Speaker 2: This is one of those things that I would definitely
Speaker 2: call an unforced error and I'm sure the listeners out
Speaker 2: there think the same way. Uh, we need to get
Speaker 2: stuff done down at the state Capitol. And and this
Speaker 2: ain't it. This is not what it looks like as
Speaker 2: far as progress down in lawmaking. And I know that
Speaker 2: it's a tense situation, but you know, when you have
Speaker 2: representatives taking shots at each other and uh, you know,
Speaker 2: unsavory allegations against one another, man, it's it's tough. And
Speaker 2: that's no knock on the on the women who have
Speaker 2: come forward to report what they have. If if these
Speaker 2: allegations are true, they deserve to be recognized and it
Speaker 2: deserves to be handled correctly. I don't know where you
Speaker 2: go from here if these allegations are even remotely true. Uh,
Speaker 2: to me, that seems as if I don't know if
Speaker 2: there's a way for Representative want Weinberg to keep serving.
Speaker 2: I'm not calling for his resignation by any sense the word,
Speaker 2: but I think those are things that'll have to be considered. Ryan,
Speaker 2: in your take on your show today when you were
Speaker 2: interviewing your individual folks, what do you think the outcome
Speaker 2: of this ends up being.
Speaker 4: I don't know how he gets around all these numerous accusations.
Speaker 4: We see this sometimes you know, and I don't, not
Speaker 4: drawing a straight line comparison. But when allegations like this
Speaker 4: come forward, and more women come forward, whether it's Harvey
Speaker 4: Weinstein or Bill Cosby or Larry Nasser, it becomes more
Speaker 4: and more difficult to refute the accounts of several different
Speaker 4: women who have no association or connection to one another.
Speaker 4: The only thing you would have as a defense is
Speaker 4: some kind of vast conspiracy, which seems to be what
Speaker 4: Carolyn Weinberg is alleging with Representative Brandy Bradley. I doubt
Speaker 4: there's any veracity to that. So it's what Representive Bradley said,
Speaker 4: and I think you did as well. The longer this
Speaker 4: continues to fester for Representative Weinberg with him not making
Speaker 4: public comment in an interview or otherwise holding a press
Speaker 4: conference or addressing it head on, then you're allowing these
Speaker 4: allegations to fill the void in the vacuum, and they
Speaker 4: then determine the outcome of the story. Meaning if I
Speaker 4: was his comms director at say Ron, come hell or
Speaker 4: high water, no matter which way this goes, you got
Speaker 4: to get in front of it, and he's not getting
Speaker 4: in front of it.
Speaker 2: Well not yet and again, I think that opportunity exists,
Speaker 2: whether it's when I'm filling in, or when Dan's got
Speaker 2: the show, or even if Heidi's in the guest set.
Speaker 2: I'm sure she would offer that same opportunity, and I
Speaker 2: know you would as well. So you know, hopefully in
Speaker 2: the next couple of days this gets settled, whether he
Speaker 2: does a press conference or comes on one of the
Speaker 2: individual radio shows. But it's got to be put to bed,
Speaker 2: and I don't think that happens without a very direct
Speaker 2: conversation to the listening public or the Colorado public. At
Speaker 2: this point, it's been put out in this in the
Speaker 2: sphere and it's not going away, there's no doubt about that. Well.
Speaker 2: I have enjoyed myself thoroughly over the last two days
Speaker 2: and some days last week when I filled in. It's
Speaker 2: always a pleasure to fill in for the Dan Caplis show,
Speaker 2: and I appreciate you guys for tuning in and listening. Dan,
Speaker 2: we'll be back with you on Thursday tomorrow. You have
Speaker 2: Heidi Ganal filling in and hopefully she'll have a fiery
Speaker 2: show as well. Thanks for listening. Welcome the Sheriff Steve
Speaker 2: Riems as your guest host signing off, Thank you,