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Speaker 2: Welcome back to The Dan Capliss Show. An hour two
Speaker 2: of the show with Weld County Sheriff Steve Reims. It's
Speaker 2: this day two of two for me. Dan's off to trial,
Speaker 2: so you'll have some guest hosts the rest of the week,
Speaker 2: but it will not be me. I'll go back to
Speaker 2: my regularly scheduled program as the Sheriff of Weld County.
Speaker 2: And I got to tell you this is always a
Speaker 2: treat to come down here just because of nothing else.
Speaker 2: It's a change of pace, get a chance to interact
Speaker 2: with the listeners, take a few texts, answer a few
Speaker 2: questions about gun laws, because every time I come on here,
Speaker 2: I get one or two or twelve or one hundred.
Speaker 2: So during our break we did get one text message
Speaker 2: about a gun law that I'll address here in just
Speaker 2: a second, or a question about gun laws. But if
Speaker 2: you want to text in the numbers five, seven, seven,
Speaker 2: three nine, start your text off with Dan so that
Speaker 2: it comes to me. Also, if you want to call in,
Speaker 2: we still have a bit of time for a call
Speaker 2: in this first segment three h three seventy one, three
Speaker 2: eight two five y five. You can talk about governor's
Speaker 2: candidates who you'd like to see run or whatever. Whatever
Speaker 2: scratches your fancy is something you want to talk about.
Speaker 2: But this question came in, Sheriff, can you tell me
Speaker 2: what will change and the reciprocity laws for Colorado gun
Speaker 2: owners through the other states which do allow Colorado conceal
Speaker 2: weapons permits. And essentially the best answer I can give
Speaker 2: is none. There's no change with some of the recent
Speaker 2: gun laws that have passed. The conceal weapons permits that
Speaker 2: are being recognized from Colorado and other states will likely
Speaker 2: still be that unless there's a change in that individual
Speaker 2: states laws. Having said that, there's a bill that went
Speaker 2: through in twenty twenty one that very few people paid
Speaker 2: attention to outside of law enforcement, and it's a concerning
Speaker 2: one that Centate Bill twenty one two fifty six. That bill,
Speaker 2: which was passed and signed into law, allows for local
Speaker 2: governments to create their own patchwork of gun laws. If
Speaker 2: you will so Boulder can have its own restraint of
Speaker 2: gun laws as compared to I say, Boulder, Boulder County,
Speaker 2: the City of Boulder. You could have competing gun laws
Speaker 2: even in those two areas, and those could be vastly
Speaker 2: different from Weld County. So if you're driving along with
Speaker 2: your concealed weapons permit from Weld County, where we love
Speaker 2: for you to own a conceal weapons permit, and you
Speaker 2: cross county line road and drive over into Boulder, Let's
Speaker 2: say they were to change their gun laws there, They're
Speaker 2: not going to put up a sign that tells you that.
Speaker 2: And when you drive into another jurisdiction, the expectation is
Speaker 2: that you know the law. So ignorance of the law
Speaker 2: is not a defense of it. So it's always important
Speaker 2: to know the laws out there that impact you, especially
Speaker 2: when it comes to gun rights, because in this state
Speaker 2: it's navigating a landmine. To say the least. This is
Speaker 2: not a gun friendly state. It's not a police friendly
Speaker 2: state anymore either. So whoever the text was there, that's
Speaker 2: the best answer I can give you. Another one here
Speaker 2: from one of our favorites, Steven Littleton, retired law enforcement officers,
Speaker 2: says Sheriff I keep thinking that Colorado voters will stop
Speaker 2: voting for the purveyors of the Marxist healthscape, but but
Speaker 2: they keep doubling down. Boy, that's pretty accurate, unfortunately, especially
Speaker 2: the scorched earth that we just saw coming out of
Speaker 2: this last legislative cycle. This was painful for me as
Speaker 2: a law enforcement guy. I was happy to see that
Speaker 2: they didn't focus in on the anti cop legislation quite
Speaker 2: as much as as we've seen in the past. But
Speaker 2: there's always next session, so I don't hold my breath
Speaker 2: too much because every time I think we've we've escaped
Speaker 2: some kind of attack, they come back to next go around.
Speaker 2: This time it seemed more to be on parental rights
Speaker 2: and gun laws, So who knows, next session will probably
Speaker 2: be anti cop again. And even though it is an electioneer,
Speaker 2: it doesn't seem like the Democrats even care anymore. I
Speaker 2: think they believe they're untouchable. And there's a part of
Speaker 2: me that says, go as far as you want to
Speaker 2: the left to give a Republican a chance at winning
Speaker 2: in a state wide race, you know, show show the
Speaker 2: voters who you really are, and hopefully they'll come around
Speaker 2: and say as Steven Lyttleton has said they're the purveyors
Speaker 2: of the Marxist healscape, and hopefully people realize, you know,
Speaker 2: it's time for us to vote a different direction. Having
Speaker 2: said all that, we're having some governor's candidates on today.
Speaker 2: In the first hour we had Alexander Mugatu and Jason Michel,
Speaker 2: who's the sheriff down in Teller County. You know, it's
Speaker 2: always hard to know how these races are going to
Speaker 2: shake out. Those are two of four that we're going
Speaker 2: to have on today. After this upcoming break, we'll have
Speaker 2: on Mark Baisley, and then in the towards the end
Speaker 2: of the show, we'll have on Scott Bottoms. Mark Baisley
Speaker 2: is a senator out of Senate District four at the
Speaker 2: state Capitol, and Scott Bottoms representative out of HD fifteen.
Speaker 2: So they'll give you their bio when they come on.
Speaker 2: But it's important to hear from these folks as they're running.
Speaker 2: You know, it's the early stages of the campaign. I
Speaker 2: believe it's about one year, seven months and sixteen days
Speaker 2: away or something like that. And I only say that
Speaker 2: because that's how much time I have left in my
Speaker 2: office of sheriff. So when polis Lee I leave and no,
Speaker 2: I'm not running to replace him, and there'll be someone
Speaker 2: else that will replace me, as in many seats around
Speaker 2: the state of Colorado, and hopefully we'll see a Republican
Speaker 2: jump into that seat and have a successful run for
Speaker 2: statewide campaign in Colorado for governor. But we need one
Speaker 2: for attorney General, we need one for Secretary of State,
Speaker 2: and the list goes on. So what we're going to
Speaker 2: do is go ahead and jump to break. When we
Speaker 2: come back, we'll have Mark Baisley on with us. We
Speaker 2: want to make sure we give him plenty of time.
Speaker 2: You're right here on the Dan Caplas Show with Well
Speaker 2: Kunny Sheriff Steve Riams as your guest host.
Speaker 3: And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Steve Riams sitting in as your guest host and going
Speaker 2: back to our lineup for today. Like I said at
Speaker 2: the top of the show, we're going to have some
Speaker 2: governor's candidates on and it's a distinct pleasure to have
Speaker 2: this next guest on. I've had a chance to testify
Speaker 2: down at the State House when he was setting in
Speaker 2: on a few committees and whatnot through the years. But
Speaker 2: we have on the line. Senator Mark Baisley from Senate
Speaker 2: District for Mark, Welcome to the Dan Kessler Show.
Speaker 4: Thank you. It's great to be on with you. I
Speaker 4: appreciate your including me.
Speaker 2: You bet, And you know, I think a lot of
Speaker 2: people know your name. They probably know a little bit
Speaker 2: about you, but let's educate those that don't, so a
Speaker 2: little bit about your background. I know you've been down
Speaker 2: at the state House for a while. Educate the voters
Speaker 2: as to kind of what your background is and how
Speaker 2: you got there.
Speaker 5: Sure. So, first and foremost, I'm a husband of a
Speaker 5: wonderful wife, my high school sweetheart, married forty seven years.
Speaker 5: We've got four kids, seven grandkids. And then after that,
Speaker 5: I made my living as an aerospace engineer. So I
Speaker 5: live in Colorado because Luckie Martin now Knockie Martin, back
Speaker 5: when they were just smart and Marietta. I've moved me
Speaker 5: out here.
Speaker 2: Thirty six years ago.
Speaker 5: So that's my professional background. My international upbringing is what
Speaker 5: got me interested in preserving what the founders created for us.
Speaker 5: So I had always tried to kind of ledge along
Speaker 5: get the right people into office. And so one day
Speaker 5: I made eye contact at just the wrong moment, and
Speaker 5: all of a sudden, I'm in the state legislature myself.
Speaker 5: So I served for four years as the state representative
Speaker 5: and now I'm in my third year as a state senator,
Speaker 5: and I represent the heart of the state, the center
Speaker 5: of the state, eight counties that goes from Leadville to
Speaker 5: Franktown and Douglas County, and it goes from kim Carroll
Speaker 5: Valley in Jefferson County all the way down to Westcliff
Speaker 5: in Custer County.
Speaker 2: So just a tiny little area there, right, Well, you
Speaker 2: got a lot of driving to do to cover your
Speaker 2: voting district. So you know, I know that you've been
Speaker 2: heavily involved in this last legislative session, and I don't
Speaker 2: want to give you PTSD, so we'll jump straight into
Speaker 2: the governor's race and kind of you know, you're down
Speaker 2: there in you're down there in the fight, and I
Speaker 2: know that as a legislator you see it daily and
Speaker 2: it's got to be a frustrating point to be at.
Speaker 2: So how do you go from there to say? And
Speaker 2: you know what, this isn't frustrating enough, I think I'll
Speaker 2: run for governor.
Speaker 4: You know, I think you just answered my question. Well,
Speaker 4: it's you know, the emphasis that I've had, and I've.
Speaker 5: Found ways to be successful in spite of being in
Speaker 5: the super minority. You know, we, as everybody knows, we
Speaker 5: don't control the House, the majority in the House, we
Speaker 5: don't control the majority in the Senate, or do we
Speaker 5: have the governor's office the three legs of the stool
Speaker 5: for laws being our bills being.
Speaker 4: Passed into law. But in the ways that I can
Speaker 4: use my.
Speaker 5: Position as a state Senator to advance good things in Colorado,
Speaker 5: I've been bringing in business.
Speaker 4: I've been focusing on the economics because.
Speaker 5: I figure if people can can have the dignity of work,
Speaker 5: if they can feed themselves well in their families and
Speaker 5: have a little left over to take care of church
Speaker 5: and others, then all those other things that are annoying,
Speaker 5: that are challenging, they seem to diminish. And so that's
Speaker 5: been a focus of mine. So working on bringing the
Speaker 5: Chips Act semiconductor work into Colorado led the charge to
Speaker 5: bring in to Land the Tech Hub designation for quantum computing.
Speaker 4: So we've brought in We've had some real successes.
Speaker 5: In bringing in some work, including most recently the bringing
Speaker 5: the Sundance Film Festival to Colorado.
Speaker 4: So that's one that I was very.
Speaker 5: Heavily involved in anyway. In the meantime, yes, we're just
Speaker 5: losing the battle daily in the state legislature, and the
Speaker 5: frustration level just seems to be, well, you know, while
Speaker 5: we have our mini wins, it feels like holding up
Speaker 5: a glacier. You know, the glacier is still going and
Speaker 5: still going in it, and while it's coming slowly, it's
Speaker 5: still going and you're still walking backwards. So after suggestions
Speaker 5: from the folks that I've been working with in the
Speaker 5: business community, especially the advanced technology community, a lot of
Speaker 5: nudging from them, I said, well, yeah, let me rethink
Speaker 5: all this, because it doesn't make sense to keep playing
Speaker 5: the game as best you can if you're guaranteed to lose.
Speaker 4: So I just want to go on offense.
Speaker 5: For a change. And I'll tell you Steve, as I'm
Speaker 5: thinking about it, I don't want to simply win the
Speaker 5: governor's office in twenty twenty six. I want to gain
Speaker 5: back most of the seats that we need. So we
Speaker 5: need six in the Senate to take the majority, and
Speaker 5: in the House as well, we need eleven seat fare
Speaker 5: and by twenty twenty eight, it is my determination to
Speaker 5: have the majority in the House, the majority in the Senate,
Speaker 5: and the governor's office.
Speaker 2: So in order to get there, I mean, obviously you've
Speaker 2: got to have a plan of action. You talked about
Speaker 2: wanting to restore business in the state of Colorado, so
Speaker 2: that's obviously one of the planks of your candidacy. What
Speaker 2: are some of the other things that you think resonates
Speaker 2: with the voters out there? And knowing that Colorado is
Speaker 2: is not really a third a third and a third anymore.
Speaker 2: I mean, independents make up a large portion of voters
Speaker 2: in Colorado. How do you resonate with those folks outside
Speaker 2: of just that business plank?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know another big one that's related to business,
Speaker 5: but I'll just spend a moment with it, and that's education.
Speaker 5: So sure I have I've been fa on being on
Speaker 5: the Education Board for.
Speaker 4: Six years and.
Speaker 5: The committee, excuse me, Education Committee and getting to know
Speaker 5: the presidents and chancellors of our flank ship universities, trying
Speaker 5: to move the needle there from being anything of an
Speaker 5: indoctrination camp, but to instead partner with industry to prepare
Speaker 5: those students for those high tap jobs. But the bigger
Speaker 5: two is in the area of safety. So safety, I
Speaker 5: break that down into three areas. One of those is
Speaker 5: yours law enforcement. I have run a bill, as you
Speaker 5: well know, because you've testified in favor, but trying to
Speaker 5: get the trying to pull the government, state government's monkey
Speaker 5: off your back and let you work with ice, let
Speaker 5: the law enforcement because they're restricted, as you know better
Speaker 5: than I do, and what you can do in dealing
Speaker 5: with the federal government, Yes, forty cent a bill forty
Speaker 5: seven and then yes, that's right.
Speaker 2: And then then the.
Speaker 5: Other two facets of safety or wildfires.
Speaker 4: So I've been working on the Wildfire.
Speaker 5: Task Force within the state Senate and for one working
Speaker 5: with the folks for mitigating properties, and we just passed
Speaker 5: a bill that helps delineate where's the responsibility cut off
Speaker 5: from a neighborhood to open area and the Forest Service
Speaker 5: and so on. But then aircraft, So we have acquired
Speaker 5: two helicopters, two Blackhawk helicopters that have been outfitted as
Speaker 5: Firehawk helicopters with a thousand gallon tank on the billy.
Speaker 4: And then we've.
Speaker 5: Acquired four more fixed wing aircraft about three years ago
Speaker 5: in a kind of a fire sale, no pun intended,
Speaker 5: and then I just led a group of fifteen of
Speaker 5: us in the state Senate. We all signed a letter
Speaker 5: to the federal government to really the agencies. They're asking
Speaker 5: them Department of Defense to outfit the C one planes
Speaker 5: or eight of them parked down in Colorado Springs, outfit
Speaker 5: them with tanks so they can be duty of dropping
Speaker 5: water on the fires.
Speaker 2: Well, anybody who lives in the state of Colorado knows
Speaker 2: how important the wildfire issue is here, especially over the
Speaker 2: last few years. It seems like half of the state
Speaker 2: was on fire for the last few years. So all
Speaker 2: those are good efforts. As a candidate, what makes you
Speaker 2: different from every other candidate? How do you how do
Speaker 2: you distance yourself from every every other Republican candidate or
Speaker 2: any of the candidates they're in the race.
Speaker 5: Sure, well, it's because I'm not going to I'm not
Speaker 5: promising that I'm going to be doing things that that
Speaker 5: are hopeful matters.
Speaker 2: These are I'm i.
Speaker 5: Am promising that I'm going to do things that I've
Speaker 5: already been doing. But from a weekend so I've been
Speaker 5: making advances in these areas I'm talking about in education
Speaker 5: and in the economy, and in safety, and the last
Speaker 5: thing I'll say is in property tax. That's that's my
Speaker 5: last plank, big plank. And so I have I have
Speaker 5: submitted bills, run bills and had some success is with
Speaker 5: some but as you all know, they will kill my
Speaker 5: bills because it was a Republican who couldn't get a
Speaker 5: Democrat to co sponsor on something. And that's the frustration.
Speaker 5: But the difference between me and my friends who are
Speaker 5: also running for the position is that I'm already doing
Speaker 5: this work. I work with the Governor's office daily. I'm
Speaker 5: in there all the time and working with them, we
Speaker 5: aligned on quite a few things, so I've gotten to
Speaker 5: know that job. I know, I know where we are inefficient.
Speaker 5: I serve on the Joint Technology Committee, and I already
Speaker 5: have the have folks who work in the technology areas
Speaker 5: coming to me saying, hey, when you're ready to clean
Speaker 5: this place up, I'm ready.
Speaker 4: To be on your team. And I've even had.
Speaker 5: The former chief of staff to Governor Polis he has
Speaker 5: offered to me to help me set up the office.
Speaker 5: So I'm already ready.
Speaker 2: Well, Mark, I know, Senator Baisley, I know that you're
Speaker 2: trying to get your name out there in this particular
Speaker 2: race and the race for governor. If people want to
Speaker 2: find find your name out there and figure out how
Speaker 2: to support you, learn more about you, where do they go? Look?
Speaker 2: What are your social media pages? How do they find
Speaker 2: more value?
Speaker 5: So Mark Baisley dot com is the place to start.
Speaker 5: Just on the Internet, Mark Baisley dot com and r
Speaker 5: K B A I, S L E Y dot com
Speaker 5: and yes at Mark Baisley on X and also on
Speaker 5: Facebook Instagram.
Speaker 2: Pretty easy to find, Okay, no TikTok though, right, I'm
Speaker 2: not a TikTok guy either. I don't know how well
Speaker 2: that works for governor, but it worked pretty well for
Speaker 2: Trump as a presidential candidate. So who knows. We have
Speaker 2: just a few minutes left. I got to ask you
Speaker 2: some of the tough questions that always get asked. Where
Speaker 2: do you stand on the Second Amendment? What did you
Speaker 2: think of Senate Bill three? Going through Bill three?
Speaker 4: Let me think about that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the gun band. No, what an awful bill.
Speaker 5: I mean we fought that thing till till midnight and
Speaker 5: for days, and yeah it is. You know what, there's
Speaker 5: there are some people in the state legislature who are
Speaker 5: obsessed over particular things, and that makes them a bad legislator.
Speaker 5: We should not have people who obsess over matters to
Speaker 5: try to pass alack because they passed one law after
Speaker 5: the other after the other. You know, it was anything
Speaker 5: that could have been considered reasonable was passed ten twelve
Speaker 5: years ago. Now they're just making stuff up like Senate
Speaker 5: Bill three, and it's highly unreasonable and it just serves
Speaker 5: to diminish one's ability to defend their castle, which to
Speaker 5: me is in support of what might also be asking
Speaker 5: me about still thirteen twelve.
Speaker 2: Mark, I'd love to get into that, but we got
Speaker 2: to go to a heartbreak here. You did great on
Speaker 2: the show. We'll make sure that people know where to
Speaker 2: find you out there. You're listening to the Dankapitla Show.
Speaker 2: We just got finished with Mark Baisley right here with
Speaker 2: Well County Sheriff Steve Riams as your guest host.
Speaker 3: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2: The Dan Caplas Show with Well County Sheriff Steve Riams
Speaker 2: setting in on the driver's seat, Day two of two
Speaker 2: and we're with our last candidate of the day for
Speaker 2: Colorado Governor on the Republican side of the House, but
Speaker 2: before we announce his name, please, if you're listening out
Speaker 2: there and you want to call in or text in,
Speaker 2: you can text in at five seven seventy three nine.
Speaker 2: Start your text out with Dan, let us know what
Speaker 2: you think about the candidates we've had on or the
Speaker 2: one that we're about to have on. Or you can
Speaker 2: call in for our last segment at three o three
Speaker 2: seven one three eight two five five, but without further
Speaker 2: Ado on the line with us, we have Scott Bottoms,
Speaker 2: current representative out of HD fifteen and candidate for governor
Speaker 2: for the state of Colorado on the Republican side. Scott,
Speaker 2: welcome to the show.
Speaker 6: Yeah, thanks for having me. How are you enjoy it?
Speaker 2: You bet? And you know we just had Mark Baisley on.
Speaker 2: I'll say the same thing to you as I did
Speaker 2: to him. I don't want to give you a PTSD
Speaker 2: for talking about the legislative session, but you just got
Speaker 2: out of that mess. How are you feeling after getting
Speaker 2: through that session?
Speaker 6: Well, the biggest thing is I'm glad I'm not in
Speaker 6: the building. Every day we do not meet as a
Speaker 6: legislature is good for the people of Colorado.
Speaker 2: I can totally agree with that. So for the people
Speaker 2: who don't know you out there, Scott Representative Bottoms, what's
Speaker 2: a little bit about your background. Where do you come
Speaker 2: from and what area do you currently represent in your HDC.
Speaker 6: Yeah, currently I represent I'm out of Paso County, the
Speaker 6: east side of Colorado Springs. Okay, so almost the whole
Speaker 6: entire east side. And my background. Have been a pastor
Speaker 6: since I was twenty years old and so thirty five
Speaker 6: years just about. And I was also in the Navy.
Speaker 6: Went into Navy at seventeen, and I spent a few
Speaker 6: years there and and then I've done a bunch of
Speaker 6: stuff that on board, worked with grooves, worked with anti
Speaker 6: trafficking groups, quite a few of those, and and so
Speaker 6: just kind of overall been in positions of leadership and
Speaker 6: working with with some people State of Colorado, younger people,
Speaker 6: all all these kinds of things. And then obviously my charge.
Speaker 2: Okay, so how long have you been down at the
Speaker 2: State House as a representative.
Speaker 6: This is my third year. I was re elected back
Speaker 6: in November, and okay, and are our.
Speaker 2: Terms are two years? Sure? Soea, one more session and
Speaker 2: you're running for governor at the same time. So you're
Speaker 2: you're down there, you're seeing how the sausage gets made.
Speaker 2: You're part of the the lawmaking process or you know,
Speaker 2: trying to prevent some of these laws from being made.
Speaker 2: And you make the decision to run for governor. What
Speaker 2: inspired you and what's the thing that you champion? You know,
Speaker 2: what's your primary thing that you champion.
Speaker 6: See the whole running for governor thing, it's really a
Speaker 6: spiritual decision. First, just what we've been praying about it.
Speaker 6: I am sick and tired of watching them come after
Speaker 6: our kids and destroy parental rights. And you know, literally
Speaker 6: we will debate for hours whether a twelve year old
Speaker 6: should have mutilation surgery. But what we're debating is not
Speaker 6: where they should. We're debating whether it should happen with
Speaker 6: or without parental consent or even knowledge. And these kind
Speaker 6: of things are just they're two egregious for that, I
Speaker 6: believe for the average person in the state of Colorado,
Speaker 6: but definitely for me, and so definitely children, children are
Speaker 6: the biggest issue for me. There's too much there's too
Speaker 6: much abuse, pedophilia, grooming, surgeries, all this kind of stuff
Speaker 6: going on in the state of Colorado. And I'm done
Speaker 6: with this, and so that's that's why I'm going to
Speaker 6: be the next governor, We're going to shut some of
Speaker 6: this stuff down.
Speaker 2: Well, So on those lines, House built Third teen twelve.
Speaker 2: That was one of the most controversial bills of the session,
Speaker 2: if not the most controversial bill of the session. What
Speaker 2: was the crowd like that showed up for that? And
Speaker 2: does that crowd tell you that you're in this race
Speaker 2: for the right reason?
Speaker 6: It does the you know, the more interesting site. So
Speaker 6: there was the people that were for the bill, and
Speaker 6: this was very discouraging to watch this. It was like
Speaker 6: a circus inside the capital. People shoving. I mean, this
Speaker 6: is a transgender crowd shoving some of our representatives and
Speaker 6: spitting on people and cussing a people. And the people
Speaker 6: that were against the bill very calm, seleected group of
Speaker 6: people and people that were for it was about seventy
Speaker 6: people and there was about eight hundred people that wind
Speaker 6: up to testify against it. Now Here is part of
Speaker 6: what I'm seeing which is important to that conversation is
Speaker 6: I'm getting emails, text phone calls all the time from
Speaker 6: Democrats that are fed up with this. They do not
Speaker 6: believe this is okay to not mess with their children.
Speaker 6: But the Democrats in the House and the Senate are
Speaker 6: so far left. They are leftist Marxists that they first
Speaker 6: they don't care about what people think. They're going to
Speaker 6: run their ideologies. But they have left the Democrats in
Speaker 6: the state of Colorado behind there. The Democrats are not
Speaker 6: behind all of this stuff for the most part, They're
Speaker 6: not behind this stuff. And we could even see that
Speaker 6: there were many many Democrats that were testifying against this
Speaker 6: bill and against this ideology. Remember, transgenderism is an ideology,
Speaker 6: LGB is a sexual preference, t Q plus is an ideology.
Speaker 6: And it's been crazy to watch all this stuff going down.
Speaker 2: Sure, so I think we know where you stand on
Speaker 2: this issue. This is probably your primary issue. What are
Speaker 2: some of the other major major issues that you take
Speaker 2: up with the state of Colorado. I think we've got
Speaker 2: a crumbling infrastructure. We've got some law enforcement folks that
Speaker 2: are that are working from behind the eight ball. I
Speaker 2: can say that from my own perspective, the tides have
Speaker 2: definitely been turned against this crime is out of control
Speaker 2: in the state. We've got centinels out of control. What
Speaker 2: are some of those other things that you would focus
Speaker 2: on as the governor of the State of Colorado or
Speaker 2: as the candidate on the Republican side for the state
Speaker 2: of Colorado.
Speaker 6: Well, most people in Colorado don't realize how bad crime
Speaker 6: is in Colorado, specifically if they're in more rural communities.
Speaker 6: But we are one of the highest crime states in
Speaker 6: the entire United States. We rate one, two three in
Speaker 6: almost every category. We're also the sixth most regulated state
Speaker 6: in the United States, and the Federal Reserves just released
Speaker 6: a couple of weeks ago that now, per capita, Colorado
Speaker 6: is the most expensive state in the United States to
Speaker 6: live in.
Speaker 4: So when you're processing all.
Speaker 6: This information, you're already in a crumbling problem. Then when
Speaker 6: you add the illegal immigrant crime on top of that,
Speaker 6: and the fact that we we have drug cartels in
Speaker 6: Venezuela and drug cartels that are now combining with and
Speaker 6: this is and you would be in privy to some
Speaker 6: of this information. Now we know MS thirteen is combining
Speaker 6: with them, and that's what was going on in that
Speaker 6: raid down in Carra Springs here that they're trying to
Speaker 6: set up that cartel now in Springs too. We're in
Speaker 6: a very difficult situation for the average citizen, and I
Speaker 6: believe it starts with the policies of our governor and
Speaker 6: the House and the Senate. They have propped up illegal
Speaker 6: immigrant crime, they have propped up criminals. They make it
Speaker 6: almost impossible to put a pedophile in jail. We've done
Speaker 6: everything we can to stop pedophilia or at least give
Speaker 6: them jail time. Right now, they're getting off on formation
Speaker 6: almost every single time they are caught with a small
Speaker 6: child raping that child. This is crazy stuff. And then
Speaker 6: the financial infrastructure is tied directly into all this stuff.
Speaker 6: We're spending five hundred million dollars on it to prop
Speaker 6: up illegal immigrant crime, taking it away from a law
Speaker 6: enforcement and you know, because of the law, you as
Speaker 6: a sheriff cannot even call ICE when you arrest somebody.
Speaker 6: They can be a horrible, violent criminal and you have
Speaker 6: to let them go and you cannot call ICE. This
Speaker 6: stuff has got the stomp. This is part of the
Speaker 6: crumbling of our financial infrastructure in Colorado too, as we're
Speaker 6: profit up all these other things that are destroying businesses,
Speaker 6: attacking business owners. And then the regulations. I've tried to
Speaker 6: lower the income tax twice with through bills and they
Speaker 6: just vote unanimously against it. We need to go at
Speaker 6: every single piece. There is not one system in Colorado
Speaker 6: that is working well, and we have to start with
Speaker 6: the crime. We have to start with the illegal immigrant issue,
Speaker 6: and then we have to work on protecting our children,
Speaker 6: giving rights back to parents. All these things all work together,
Speaker 6: and then as we change taxes and regulations, we can
Speaker 6: free up the businesses. There's not one part of it
Speaker 6: that's not directly connected to the other.
Speaker 2: That's that's very fair. Representative Bottoms Scott Bottoms on with
Speaker 2: this candidate for governor Republican here in the state of Colorado.
Speaker 2: If people want to get out there and support you,
Speaker 2: you know, we've got several candidates running twelve on the
Speaker 2: Republican side. Where do they find you and how do
Speaker 2: they how do they how do they go out and
Speaker 2: support you? On the social media's and whatnot?
Speaker 6: Where?
Speaker 2: Where are you? Where are you at?
Speaker 6: My website is Scottbottoms dot com and all my social
Speaker 6: media has the same tag, It's Scott bottom COO. But
Speaker 6: you can find all that on my website. You can.
Speaker 6: There's giving portals on my website, there's volunteer portals. We
Speaker 6: are going to have a Republican sitting in the governor's seat.
Speaker 6: And I believe that everything in me. It's me. I
Speaker 6: know I can beat Bennett. He'll be the Democrat that
Speaker 6: rises through the mist. And we have got to mobilize
Speaker 6: the people of Colorado to get out and vote and
Speaker 6: make and and this is both Republicans and Democrats make
Speaker 6: their voices known.
Speaker 2: I couldn't agree with you more. Scott. Is great to
Speaker 2: have you on Representative Bottoms out of HD fifteen running
Speaker 2: for Republican governor candidate here in the state of Colorado. Again,
Speaker 2: thanks for coming on the show and hopefully people will
Speaker 2: reach out to you. Yeah. Again, thanks for coming on
Speaker 2: the show. Hopefully people will reach out to you and
Speaker 2: show some support and good luck in your campaign. And
Speaker 2: again thanks for being on with us. We'll cut the break.
Speaker 2: We'll use our last segment to wrap up. But you're
Speaker 2: listening to Dan Caples's show here with Weld, can't you,
Speaker 2: Shriff Steve Raims as your guest host.
Speaker 3: And now back to the Dan Kapless Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Ran Thanks for playing that song. Coming back to this
Speaker 2: last and final segment. You know that's an honor of
Speaker 2: George Went better known as Norm from Cheers. Iconic song,
Speaker 2: iconic character. The guy was full of one liners and
Speaker 2: just one of the favorites of the show I passed
Speaker 2: away today. I got a you know, not to be
Speaker 2: tongue in cheek. I was honestly not aware that he
Speaker 2: was still alive. But it is sad to know that
Speaker 2: he has officially passed away again because that's one of
Speaker 2: my childhood favorite shows or young adult favorite shows, and
Speaker 2: he was just an iconic character.
Speaker 3: He was, That's a perfect way to put it.
Speaker 2: He had his spot at the bar.
Speaker 7: There was another scene I was looking through and putting
Speaker 7: some clips together for my earlier show here in Denver,
Speaker 7: and it was too visual so I wouldn't translate as
Speaker 7: well audio only, but a couple had sat down.
Speaker 3: Where he and Cliff normally I know the show episode.
Speaker 3: I don't mean a norm get.
Speaker 2: The heck out of the way. Well and his sidekick
Speaker 2: Cliffy you know yeah, well, I mean those are you
Speaker 2: know those are those are tied together in infamy.
Speaker 7: Well, you were telling me during my program, might as
Speaker 7: well share with these listeners that you have a colleague
Speaker 7: who reminded you a bit of Cliff.
Speaker 2: He is Cliff Clayton and that's that's Chief Brian Skaggs
Speaker 2: down at the Dakono Police Department he's a good friend,
Speaker 2: known him for a long time. I've called him Cliffy
Speaker 2: for years. Uh, and he listens to the show religiously.
Speaker 2: He'd better be listening today because this is his shout
Speaker 2: out that his partner, his long term partner in crime
Speaker 2: at the bar, has finally gone off to the Angels.
Speaker 2: So sad day to see George went past. But you know,
Speaker 2: in some other news, we did have some some rather
Speaker 2: intriguing stuff come out from on the national level. You know,
Speaker 2: Trump's announcing the Golden Dome project to create a missile
Speaker 2: defense system for the United States. And if Trump says
Speaker 2: it's going to happen, He's probably going to figure out
Speaker 2: a way to make it make it work. That's obviously
Speaker 2: copying the israel Iron Dome system. But just like in
Speaker 2: everything Trump, it'll be bigger and better.
Speaker 7: I'm sure we're gonna get plenty of gold, all right,
Speaker 7: And what if Notre Dane's going to have an issue
Speaker 7: with that, you know, I don't.
Speaker 2: Know, that'll be maybe maybe they can sponsor it since
Speaker 2: he's pulling so much money away from all the colleges,
Speaker 2: So who knows.
Speaker 3: Because of me, we have an America Pope, don't forget that.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, the orange smoke. And then I heard and
Speaker 2: I don't. I haven't confirmed this. I just saw a
Speaker 2: few teasers. But Bill Belichick may be engaged.
Speaker 7: Now congratulations, Although that looks like a nightmare, I must say,
Speaker 7: did you watch the sixty minutes?
Speaker 2: I watched what I could of it, of course, what
Speaker 2: she allowed to play of it. Oh goodness, man, I
Speaker 2: think that guy's in for a world to hurt. But
Speaker 2: you know, to each his own whatever.
Speaker 3: Well, it's the age difference, for one.
Speaker 7: It just has that Anna Nicole Smith vibe of you
Speaker 7: know who's calling the shots here.
Speaker 3: She's waiting for the geezer to keel over.
Speaker 7: Yeah, kind of write herself into his will as kids
Speaker 7: are freaking out.
Speaker 2: The creepy factors off the charts. But I want to
Speaker 2: grab just a couple of texts here. One of them
Speaker 2: is a classic. This one actually came in on my
Speaker 2: cell phone. So it's somebody I know talking about some
Speaker 2: of these governor's candidates, because I was really hoping we'd
Speaker 2: see we'd get the fire. And it said, just like
Speaker 2: Michael Bennett, some of these guys could bore wet paint
Speaker 2: back into a can you know, I know, I know
Speaker 2: it's a tough one, but you send them, we read them.
Speaker 2: And another one here that's trying to remind people what
Speaker 2: the Second Amendment is really about. This isn't about self defense,
Speaker 2: but it's mostly about finding off a tyrannical government. And
Speaker 2: this is precisely why the Democrats want want guns out
Speaker 2: of our hands. You know, that's pretty pretty on point.
Speaker 2: And the more you say it, the more people think
Speaker 2: you're radical. But if you think about the founding of
Speaker 2: our country and the Bill of Rights and how those
Speaker 2: Bill of Rights were written and put into effect, that's
Speaker 2: very much the point here. And then we also have
Speaker 2: Donna who texts it in. As she said many times before,
Speaker 2: she would volunteer to help Dan's campaign for governor with
Speaker 2: all of her energy. She says, even Amy's coming your way,
Speaker 2: been waiting for you to run forever. Your debating will
Speaker 2: knock them out. Yeah. Absolutely. You talk about a guy
Speaker 2: that I think could bring the fire and you couldn't.
Speaker 2: I will say this. I think Mark Bailey and Scott
Speaker 2: Bottoms both hinted that Michael Bennett was probably going to
Speaker 2: be the Democrat or Democrat candidate. You couldn't ask for
Speaker 2: a better opposition, especially if Dan were to jump in
Speaker 2: the race. Watch those two go at each other.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Bluss, I can impersonate Michael Bennett and do a
Speaker 7: debate right here in the show with Dan.
Speaker 3: Like I said, come on, Jami's not that big a deal, right.
Speaker 2: To be Come on, just talk through a yawn. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's what that guy does consistently.
Speaker 3: He walked through a yawn. Is that a rock album?
Speaker 2: It would be a loud, big one. Hey, It's been
Speaker 2: a pleasure to be here for day two of two
Speaker 2: of many that I've got to cover for Dan in
Speaker 2: the recent history. Hopefully I'll be back for some more
Speaker 2: in the future. Thanks to Ryan, Thanks for Kelly on
Speaker 2: the other side of the glass for making this so
Speaker 2: much fun. And maybe when we come back the next time,
Speaker 2: we'll have a few more governor's candidates, maybe even Dan Caplis.
Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to the Dan Capless Show here with
Speaker 2: Well Kenny Sheriff Steve Raims as your guest host.