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Speaker 5: Welcome to the Dan Caplis Show. We're starting off with
Speaker 5: something like that because the show can only go up
Speaker 5: from here. As you can tell you're not listening to
Speaker 5: Dan Capless and Self today, you have Sheriff Steve Riams
Speaker 5: filling in for a second day in a row here,
Speaker 5: but I just couldn't help but started to show off
Speaker 5: with such a low note with tampon Tim getting ready
Speaker 5: to take on all the Republicans. You know, I don't
Speaker 5: know if he's looking for volunteers to get into the
Speaker 5: ring with, but I'm more than happy to be the
Speaker 5: first on the agenda. Oh, I can't think of anything
Speaker 5: more that I would like to do than to wrestle
Speaker 5: or box tampon Tim. Make him use one of those
Speaker 5: to fix his bloody nose.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 6: Keep going with that. And also, if you remember the
Speaker 6: JD Vance Jim from the office side eye look during
Speaker 6: the debate and then the wide eyed look by Tim Walls,
Speaker 6: that would be the look he had when Sheriff Steve
Speaker 6: Reams is coming into the ring.
Speaker 5: I would love to see his wild hands trying to
Speaker 5: figure out how he's going to amaze me with everything
Speaker 5: he's going to do.
Speaker 6: There's gestures and waves and gallivanting.
Speaker 5: This guy has no tough guy status whatsoever, but he's
Speaker 5: trying to flex tough guy status. And look, you know,
Speaker 5: you either do or you don't. But he has to
Speaker 5: have a family around him that just looks at him.
Speaker 5: And says, yeah, you're a dad guy. Don't try to
Speaker 5: be the tough guy. Lean into that. Don't try to
Speaker 5: get into a boxing room. You're going to get your
Speaker 5: butt kicked.
Speaker 6: You're right, But you think about the family around him.
Speaker 6: Wasn't his wife Gwen the one that she doesn't blink
Speaker 6: and then she was just looking at the audience, going
Speaker 6: turn the page, turn the page. It was like a
Speaker 6: villain from a Stephen King movie or something.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, when Harris picked him as her vice
Speaker 5: presidential running mate, she used the same playbook that Biden
Speaker 5: did and said, who could I pick that would be
Speaker 5: worse than me? And she found him, I mean, the
Speaker 5: most awkward guy ever, and yeah, the most awkward family ever.
Speaker 5: I don't know. I kept thinking this guy would go away,
Speaker 5: but he keeps trying to be relevant.
Speaker 6: So you look at the diminishing returns of the domino
Speaker 6: effect you described their sheriff and Obama of course picked
Speaker 6: Biden for the reason you obsoluted. So then Biden picks
Speaker 6: Kamala for that reason, and then Kamala picks Walls for
Speaker 6: that reason. Where do you go from Walls aoc lower?
Speaker 5: I don't know. I think at some point you're picking
Speaker 5: like a bean bag or a trash bag or something.
Speaker 5: You know, sack up a Yeah, it's a mess, but hey,
Speaker 5: as long as they're in free fall, let's let him
Speaker 5: stay that way. And you know, hopefully the Democrats in
Speaker 5: Colorado will take a page out of that playbook and
Speaker 5: they'll they'll start pushing to those crazy far leftists to
Speaker 5: run for the highest office. And I didn't I don't
Speaker 5: think you can. I didn't think you could get much
Speaker 5: farther to the left than Jared Polis. But I have
Speaker 5: a feeling in this next election cycle we're going to
Speaker 5: see some we're going to see some weirdo's come out
Speaker 5: of the woodworks. But when we're talking about candidates for governor,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm worried about what's going to come from
Speaker 5: the left, but I'm pretty I'm pretty hopeful with what's
Speaker 5: going to come from the right. And uh here recently
Speaker 5: we had a candidate that announced that he was going
Speaker 5: to run for governor on the Republican side. He's a
Speaker 5: guy that I've known for a little bit of time.
Speaker 5: He's the sheriff in Teller County. His name is Jason
Speaker 5: mike Sel And we're going to start off the show
Speaker 5: with giving Jason Mikexel some time to kind of talk
Speaker 5: about why he's getting in the race and what he
Speaker 5: can bring to the state of Colorado. Jason, how you doing.
Speaker 4: I'm good, Steve, how are you doing today?
Speaker 5: I'm doing great. Hey, thanks for coming on the show.
Speaker 5: You know, like I said, I've known you for a
Speaker 5: long time. I think a lot of people in southern
Speaker 5: Colorado know you. Here. Recently, you've made a splash in
Speaker 5: the news taking on the ACLU and pushing some immigration
Speaker 5: bills at the state capitol that obviously took a fiery
Speaker 5: demise from the Democrats. But why don't you take just
Speaker 5: a few minutes to introduce yourself as a candidate and
Speaker 5: kind of give your background a little bit so that
Speaker 5: we can get to know you and so the listeners
Speaker 5: can get to know you.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Absolutely so.
Speaker 4: My name is Jason Mike sol I'm a third generation
Speaker 4: Colorado and I grew up in the car Springs area,
Speaker 4: born in car Springs. I'll tell you, I love Colorado.
Speaker 4: I grew up here and I remember running the woods
Speaker 4: and just being a part of everything that had to
Speaker 4: be Colorado at the time, just the freedoms that we
Speaker 4: were given. And you know, I've been in law enforcement
Speaker 4: almost thirty years now. I left law enforcement, retired for
Speaker 4: a short time, started my own companies. I've had both
Speaker 4: big companies that I've had to scale and I've had
Speaker 4: small companies now that I wanted to create an environment
Speaker 4: within my own county that they have people had places
Speaker 4: to go, and so I and my wife actually invested
Speaker 4: back into our local community. And really, I love business
Speaker 4: and I love all the things to do that, and
Speaker 4: I love being a sheriff and protecting a community and
Speaker 4: just being part of that community. And really, Colorado is
Speaker 4: home and it is my community all across Sport everywhere
Speaker 4: I go, and I meet such great sheriffs and people.
Speaker 4: So that's one of the reasons I wanted to run,
Speaker 4: and really I want and we have a tagline, so
Speaker 4: it's I want my Colorado back, and I truly do.
Speaker 4: But I want it back for our children, and I
Speaker 4: want it back for the freedoms that they should be
Speaker 4: able to get. And I want young people to be
Speaker 4: able to buy homes and go to state parks and
Speaker 4: not have to pay all these crazy fees and be
Speaker 4: able to drive down a highway and Colorado do not
Speaker 4: have to pay a toll just because so hunting fishing
Speaker 4: has been a big part of my life also and
Speaker 4: really enjoying our outdoors, and it's really coming under fire lately.
Speaker 4: And I just finally woke up with more and said,
Speaker 4: you know, it's time to stand up and just do
Speaker 4: the right thing. And knowing that I was going to
Speaker 4: get blasted by the Democratic side, a very leftist Democrat side,
Speaker 4: but I think there's a large part of Colorado that
Speaker 4: just really wanted to be a Colorado where you can
Speaker 4: be free and enjoy what we have here in the states.
Speaker 5: All those things are I think things that resonate with
Speaker 5: a lot of the voters here in Colorado. And to
Speaker 5: make things clear, you're going to be running on the
Speaker 5: Republican side. I don't think there's any doubt about that.
Speaker 5: But just for the listener's sake, where do you see
Speaker 5: your pathway to winning? I mean, what's the message that
Speaker 5: you have that no one else does? Well?
Speaker 4: I think leadership, clear leadership. We haven't really had a
Speaker 4: clear leader in Colorado in a mayor position, are in
Speaker 4: a governor position for a very long time. And here's
Speaker 4: the thing I have dealt with large Colorado wildfires. I've
Speaker 4: dealt with mine incidences within my own county that have
Speaker 4: been the international incidences. You know, you steal so many
Speaker 4: things as a and Colorado when it deals with leadership
Speaker 4: and making decisions, and I think, you know, that's that's
Speaker 4: something you can't teach. It's something that you have to
Speaker 4: have that badge of ownership and have earned. And the
Speaker 4: other side owning businesses and understanding, you know, how you
Speaker 4: treat employees, how you deal with things, and how you
Speaker 4: grow companies because Colorado has really got to grow, right,
Speaker 4: We've we've got a lot of crisises within Colorado budget crisises.
Speaker 4: You know, we're one three one point three billion dollars
Speaker 4: shortfall for the year, and in any business they would fire.
Speaker 7: The leadership for doing that.
Speaker 5: Sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So you know, there's so many different things steve
Speaker 4: that that really I think is a path to win
Speaker 4: in this state. And a lot of it has to
Speaker 4: do with our crisis in law enforcement, our mental health,
Speaker 4: the fact that we're just taking tax payer money and
Speaker 4: throwing it out the door and we're given it to
Speaker 4: people that have come here undocumented and illegally into the state.
Speaker 4: That that's an issue.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we have Jason Michael on the line as candidate
Speaker 5: for governor, Republican candidate for governor, just giving us a
Speaker 5: little bit of his background and his reasoning for getting
Speaker 5: into the governor's race. You hinted to it just a
Speaker 5: little bit about, you know, kind of the attack on
Speaker 5: law enforcement or the general tone towards law enforcement. You know,
Speaker 5: you've you've been a sheriff for what six years? Eight
Speaker 5: years somewhere in there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, what have you seen that?
Speaker 5: What have you seen that the tone change in your
Speaker 5: time of not just as sheriff, but in law enforcement
Speaker 5: in general. And where do you think that takes the
Speaker 5: state of Colorado in general?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 6: Where to start?
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I remember back in the day
Speaker 4: law enforcement was able to do what was needed to
Speaker 4: protect the citizens. I look at it now and I go,
Speaker 4: you have a group like the ACLU that's firing off
Speaker 4: letters to sheriffs basically saying they're going to go after
Speaker 4: deputies who they believe are doing the wrong things. You've
Speaker 4: got more lawsuits that are happening towards law enforcement because
Speaker 4: current legislation is opening the door for that. You have
Speaker 4: a state legislature that's reducing laws in Colorado, like we're
Speaker 4: dealing with one today. I have people testifying on which
Speaker 4: is extreme indifference. So if somebody shoots in your house
Speaker 4: as they drive by, or temps skill a law enforcement
Speaker 4: officer but they miss, they're going to reduce that from
Speaker 4: a Class two felony down to a classify phony so
Speaker 4: that those people can be released on parole. Sure, we're
Speaker 4: shutting down prisons at a record pace and then we're
Speaker 4: releasing them back into parle which then go after communities.
Speaker 4: And I hear a lot of issues about well, you know,
Speaker 4: the single moms and the mothers are trying to buy
Speaker 4: eggs because the cost of groceries. Don't totally get that.
Speaker 4: But when they go back to their car and their
Speaker 4: car has been broken into, it doesn't help there either.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think there's a lot of issues I've seen that
Speaker 4: far are far beyond the pale. And problem is not
Speaker 4: going to get any better. With the candidates on seeing
Speaker 4: that are running and the lack of understanding of what
Speaker 4: the second order of impacts are when they produce these laws,
Speaker 4: it's just going to get worse.
Speaker 5: Absolutely. So you hinted a little issue about the ACLU.
Speaker 5: We're going to take a break, if you'll stand by
Speaker 5: with us through the break. When we come back, I
Speaker 5: want to open up with kind of your battles with
Speaker 5: the ACL you I've had my own. We can commiserate
Speaker 5: over that just a little bit. But we'll go to break,
Speaker 5: hang out with us, Jason, and as soon as we
Speaker 5: come back, we'll dive right back in. You're listening to
Speaker 5: the Dan Caplis Show and you have Sheriff Steve Reims
Speaker 5: as guest host.
Speaker 2: And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 5: Welcome back to the Dan Caplis Show. You got Sheriff
Speaker 5: Steve Reims setting in for day number two. Real pleasure
Speaker 5: to be here filling in for Dan. Like I said yesterday,
Speaker 5: he's a person I love to listen to. He and
Speaker 5: Ryan both big fan and it's just really cool to
Speaker 5: be sitting in the seat today. But when we went
Speaker 5: to break, we were talking with with Sheriff Jason mike
Speaker 5: Sel from Tuller County who's announced that he's a candidate
Speaker 5: for governor, And before we went to break, he was
Speaker 5: talking a little bit about some of the issues he's
Speaker 5: faced as sheriff, and I know one of those is
Speaker 5: dealing with the ACLU which I like to call the
Speaker 5: Alien Civil Liberties Unit, Unit Union, whatever you want to
Speaker 5: call him. They certainly don't represent Americans too much anymore.
Speaker 5: And I know Jason had quite a run in with him.
Speaker 5: So Jason, let's come back with how did you end
Speaker 5: up dealing with the ACLU and what was the issue
Speaker 5: that you were fighting to push for your agency?
Speaker 4: Well, really it started like two days after I became
Speaker 4: a sheriff. I had the first call from the ACA
Speaker 4: you basically killing me. Hey, listen, are you going to
Speaker 4: get on board like other shriffs? So I started calling
Speaker 4: around to find out what had happened. And what they're
Speaker 4: wanting me to do is sign a letter saying that
Speaker 4: I would not detain, I would not arrest, I would
Speaker 4: not assist ice in any operations. And part of the
Speaker 4: problem that I ran into was that when we had
Speaker 4: the black market marijuana epidemic that was running, and we
Speaker 4: had lots of cartels in my county because they just
Speaker 4: grow marijuana, and every time I ran into one of
Speaker 4: these places, we were dealing with criminal, illegal aliens, And
Speaker 4: really that was driving a lot of the FEN and
Speaker 4: a lot of sexual traffic and a lot of issues
Speaker 4: in the Colorado and into my area as well. So
Speaker 4: when we started arresting these folks for doing crimes in Colorado,
Speaker 4: we started contacting ICE. Well, when I was doing the
Speaker 4: detentions on these people the Aco, you became very unhappy
Speaker 4: because they wanted me to basically bond them and release
Speaker 4: them and not contact ICE. But when I start talking
Speaker 4: to ICE, some of these people were, you know, they're
Speaker 4: pretty nasty criminals. They had criminalistories from everywhere.
Speaker 5: That's shocking they don't.
Speaker 4: It was just shocking to me and I went, why
Speaker 4: would I want to release this person back in my
Speaker 4: community right? And really what they try to do is
Speaker 4: they didn't even call around the restaurants in different areas
Speaker 4: in my county to find out how I treated, you know,
Speaker 4: Hispanic population or other populations. And what they got back
Speaker 4: from people is they liked me. And there was this
Speaker 4: false narrative push constantly, and we were winning in court
Speaker 4: with them. We were running willing in the legislatures because
Speaker 4: they weren't able to get their bills across. And even
Speaker 4: when we had the appeals court decision that said, hey,
Speaker 4: the sheriff can't arrest people, they still upheld that I
Speaker 4: could actually still having a two eighty seven G program
Speaker 4: with ICE, and that we could still go and work
Speaker 4: with ICE, and that prior to that, they'd put out
Speaker 4: a letter saying that, you know, I had lost the case,
Speaker 4: and they knew I couldn't say anything because we're right
Speaker 4: in the middle of it. Yeah, you have the letter,
Speaker 4: and it shocked me because they knew I couldn't say anything.
Speaker 4: So when it finally ended, I put out a statement, Hey,
Speaker 4: you know we're still standing. We won because we did
Speaker 4: and I'm still doing the two eighty seven G program.
Speaker 4: But what they really did was they pushed this far
Speaker 4: false narrative that I was out to get every illegal
Speaker 4: immigrant in Colorado and that wasn't the case. And actually,
Speaker 4: I've been to so many countries and illegal immigrants or
Speaker 4: immigration isn't a bad thing. You want people to come here,
Speaker 4: you want them to work, you want them to enjoy
Speaker 4: it with just want them to do it the right way.
Speaker 4: And what the Aco you really doesn't like is that
Speaker 4: we arrested someone not very long ago who was a
Speaker 4: criminal illegal alien. The person that makes the arrest is
Speaker 4: from another country here on a work visa, working for me,
Speaker 4: and he makes the arrest. The person does a two
Speaker 4: eighty seven G program, came to America, ended up getting
Speaker 4: their work visas, getting their American citizenship. They got to
Speaker 4: swear under oath to be an American citizen in my uniform.
Speaker 4: And they're the ones I sent the two eighty seven
Speaker 4: G program, and they're the ones that did the two
Speaker 4: eighty seven G program. So it's hard for them to
Speaker 4: argue with me that I hate immigrants, but I just
Speaker 4: wanted to do right dealing with this criminal illegal aliens.
Speaker 5: So Jason from that, I think that kind of puts
Speaker 5: you in the action of trying to push Senateville forty
Speaker 5: seven that we saw die a fiery death this legislative season,
Speaker 5: but it wasn't without remark and if you would kind
Speaker 5: of form the listeners about what Senate Bill forty seven
Speaker 5: was aiming at doing.
Speaker 4: Well, some of Bill zero forty seven basically it went
Speaker 4: after dealing with criminal illegal aliens only, and we even
Speaker 4: talked about the fact that we wouldn't be able to
Speaker 4: do stop and ask for papers, We wouldn't be able to,
Speaker 4: you know, just arrest people because they're Hispanic, we wouldn't
Speaker 4: be able to do round up operations. But what it
Speaker 4: did say is that we could work with ICE. It
Speaker 4: allowed the State of Colorado actually to speak with ICE
Speaker 4: about people that incarcerated in jails and allow us to
Speaker 4: jail people for ICE so that that we could house
Speaker 4: more criminal illegal aliens in the state of Colorado. And
Speaker 4: that bill, which really had a horrible death because it
Speaker 4: was party line vote. Again, weird people testifying against it
Speaker 4: that really didn't even know what the bill said. Their
Speaker 4: whole testimony was, well, you're going to do round up operations. Well,
Speaker 4: it says in the bill you can, and on and
Speaker 4: on and on and on, and it just it was
Speaker 4: amazing to me that we want criminal illegal aliens. And
Speaker 4: you know, Steve, I didn't know if you know this,
Speaker 4: but Colorado actually had a bill it passed two years
Speaker 4: ago that funds legal operations for illegal aliens. Yes, to
Speaker 4: fight these things. Yeah, yeah, we have our taxpayer dollars
Speaker 4: are doing that.
Speaker 5: We have a taxpayer funded organization or taxpayer fund that
Speaker 5: helps defend illegals from the deportation process. It's it's absurd,
Speaker 5: it's obscene, but that's what the State of Colorado is.
Speaker 5: And in a narrative in this where we're seeing you know,
Speaker 5: apartment complexes being taken over, which by the way, actually happened,
Speaker 5: despite the mainstream media trying to tell everybody that it didn't.
Speaker 5: You come forward with a common sense bill. You you
Speaker 5: found some sponsors down at the state House said look,
Speaker 5: we're just trying to get rid of the bad ones.
Speaker 5: Let us do our job, and they killed it on
Speaker 5: a party line vote. I mean, if it died a
Speaker 5: very fiery death, but it wasn't without note. I mean,
Speaker 5: you know, sometimes message bills are exactly that, and I
Speaker 5: think you delivered a loud message.
Speaker 4: Well I appreciate it, Steve, just I tell you that
Speaker 4: was a tough road.
Speaker 5: Well, we're talking with Sheriff Jason Michel from Teller County.
Speaker 5: He's a candidate for governor here in the state of
Speaker 5: Colorado or Colorado on the Republican side. We got just
Speaker 5: a few minutes left, Jason, if you want to take it,
Speaker 5: you know, this last minute and a half and kind
Speaker 5: of explain to the listener where they can find more
Speaker 5: about you, some of your key points for your campaign,
Speaker 5: and if they want to support you, how they can
Speaker 5: do so the best.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Absolutely so.
Speaker 4: I have a campaign platform. It's on It's a web page.
Speaker 4: You can go to Mike School. It's m I K, E,
Speaker 4: S E L L or gov the number four gov
Speaker 4: dot com. All my platforms are there. It has all
Speaker 4: the information that you need. You can make donations there.
Speaker 4: You can actually ask to help us on that site.
Speaker 4: So if you would just go to it, you can
Speaker 4: see everything you have and I can answer any questions
Speaker 4: you may have for it.
Speaker 5: Well, that's that's a good start. I got one question.
Speaker 5: Are the roads in Tyler County and Colorado Springs as
Speaker 5: bad down there as they are everywhere else in the state.
Speaker 4: I'd say our roads are atrocious. It's it's a travesy.
Speaker 4: I come from other states. I'll drive in the state
Speaker 4: of Colorado when I'm when I'm out visiting family and friends,
Speaker 4: and you know, when you cross into Colorado there's no missing.
Speaker 5: I just have to say, if any if any one
Speaker 5: pillar of your campaign can be fixing the roads, please
Speaker 5: add that in. Jason, we really appreciate you coming on
Speaker 5: the show. You know, it's great having a candidate jump in.
Speaker 5: I'm sure there'll be some more on the radio show
Speaker 5: before too long. But again thanks to Jason Michel from
Speaker 5: Teller County for getting on with the Dan Kapla show.
Speaker 5: You have Steve Raims his guest host.
Speaker 2: Thank you you're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 5: Welcome back to the Dan Caples Show. You're here with
Speaker 5: Steve Raims, Weld County Sheriff as the guest host today.
Speaker 5: And before we get to the next guest, I just
Speaker 5: want to throw out a couple of numbers here. If
Speaker 5: you want to call into the show, it's three oh
Speaker 5: three seven one three eight two five five or the
Speaker 5: text line start your text with Dan at five seven,
Speaker 5: seven thirty nine. Our next guest is Ty Winter. And
Speaker 5: if you were paying attention to the song that Ryan played,
Speaker 5: that should have been a prelude. But Ty Winter is
Speaker 5: the state rep from HD forty seven. He's also the
Speaker 5: assistant Minority leader. But I knew him first as the
Speaker 5: Las Animus County GOP chair, and quite honestly, he represented
Speaker 5: what I believe is the polar opposite of a guy
Speaker 5: like Tampon Tim who we led to show with. Ty
Speaker 5: Winter is a true rock star. He's a solid guy
Speaker 5: for the Republicans and I'm glad to have him on
Speaker 5: the line.
Speaker 4: Ty, how you doing good, Sheriff?
Speaker 7: It great to be with you. And thank you for
Speaker 7: all the compliments, and right back at you, sir, I
Speaker 7: appreciate what you do for Wild County in the state
Speaker 7: of Colorado, and it's an honor to be on with
Speaker 7: you today.
Speaker 5: Well, we have a chance to get to know each
Speaker 5: other during the Red Flag saga, and you invited me
Speaker 5: down to speak to your GOP group down there, and
Speaker 5: I was blown away with the amount of turnout that
Speaker 5: you produced down there in the southern part of Colorado.
Speaker 5: You had a following, and I'm sure you're continuing to
Speaker 5: foster that today with your work down at the State House.
Speaker 5: But I won't eat up too much time sending praises
Speaker 5: your way. You've earned all those. As the assistant Minority leader,
Speaker 5: you've kind of got a little bigger burden to carry
Speaker 5: down there, and I know you're pushing a bill that
Speaker 5: I think is good for all of Colorado. That's House
Speaker 5: Bill twenty. Tell us about that.
Speaker 7: Bill, Yes, sir, it's really exciting. I mean, it's important
Speaker 7: in some ways. It doesn't do a whole lot in
Speaker 7: some ways, but I think it's huge first and foremost,
Speaker 7: as we see our oil and gas industry being killed
Speaker 7: here at the state Capitol. That's unfortunate. But at the
Speaker 7: end of the day, we know the wind and solar
Speaker 7: aren't going to be the only things that power this state.
Speaker 7: We need base load power and we just aren't going
Speaker 7: to get it with intermittent power. So myself and Representative
Speaker 7: Eldez out of Denver, we ran House Bill ten forty.
Speaker 7: And what that does is that first and foremost, it
Speaker 7: brings federal language and state language together. It takes nuclear
Speaker 7: energy out of green energy and puts it in clean
Speaker 7: That's the first part of the bill. But the most
Speaker 7: important part of the bill is it it's going to
Speaker 7: replace that severage tax that we've lost through oil and gas.
Speaker 7: And you know, these small modular reactors and these microreactors,
Speaker 7: the technology is unbelievable. Uses left land a lot less water,
Speaker 7: and I think that you know, unfortunately the end date
Speaker 7: that the Colorado Democrats have set on oil and gaps
Speaker 7: in this state. This is our only next true step
Speaker 7: to being able to power Colorado.
Speaker 5: And where do you see that bill going? Is it
Speaker 5: gonna Is it going to get the support it needs
Speaker 5: or are we gonna Are we gonna see nuclear energy
Speaker 5: welcomed into the state of Colorado.
Speaker 7: It's on the governor's desks, or made it out of
Speaker 7: the House, that made it out on the Senate. We're
Speaker 7: just waiting for it to be signed.
Speaker 5: Do you mean a bill with bipartisan support made it
Speaker 5: to the governor's desk? Say it's not.
Speaker 7: So it did start, and it's exciting. You know, we
Speaker 7: had myself and Ret Valdez here in the House, and
Speaker 7: we had Senator Robertson Senator Listing over in the Senate,
Speaker 7: and it's an exciting new day for Colorado. And you know,
Speaker 7: basically what this is is a conversation. This is the
Speaker 7: cornerstone to foundation. This opens up talks and then hopefully
Speaker 7: they still get people excited and investors excited to come
Speaker 7: in and you know, have these conversations and see what
Speaker 7: communities actually want these in their community and hopefully we
Speaker 7: get some build outs started.
Speaker 5: Well, I got to tell you it's good to have
Speaker 5: just a little bit of positive news. Even if this
Speaker 5: isn't you know, seeing nuclear energy start tomorrow, at least
Speaker 5: it's a pathway to a future here in Colorado. We
Speaker 5: know energy demands are going to continue to go up,
Speaker 5: and at least you're creating that pathway. So we went
Speaker 5: from talking to the good and you know, we got
Speaker 5: to shift gears a little bit. Let's talk about the bad,
Speaker 5: which I'm sure there's a lot of it down there.
Speaker 5: What's the bill that you've seen just be the worst mess?
Speaker 5: I'm guessing Senate Bill three, but maybe you've got a different.
Speaker 7: One, you know, sir, when it comes to you know,
Speaker 7: constitutional rights, by far, Senate Bill three is the biggest
Speaker 7: mess that we face. I mean, we could be on
Speaker 7: here for the next forty eight hours to try to
Speaker 7: pick out every bad bill that rolls through the Yeah. No, kid,
Speaker 7: to be honest with you, there's a there's a ton
Speaker 7: of bad legislation.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 7: Actually, I don't know if you saw what happened in Pueblo.
Speaker 7: Chief Noler just did a press conference that three officers
Speaker 7: were shot in Pueblo last night. Yeah, and you know
Speaker 7: somebody that had, you know, been a career criminal basically.
Speaker 7: So we see a lot of anti law enforcement, soft
Speaker 7: on crime legislation. You and I both know that, you know,
Speaker 7: we believe if you commit a crime, you should be
Speaker 7: punished for it. I know you strike the same vein
Speaker 7: so all the anti law enforcements, soft on crime legislation
Speaker 7: is bad. But I would have to say Senate Bill
Speaker 7: three is probably the most egregious attack on our amendments
Speaker 7: in this building by far since I've been here.
Speaker 5: What's the tone been like as that bill has traveled
Speaker 5: through the House and the Senate. Yeah, I know, you
Speaker 5: said on at least one of the committees that heard
Speaker 5: that bill, what was the testimony like, what was the
Speaker 5: back and forth like between the Republicans and Democrats?
Speaker 7: You know, basically it's what you could expect, sir. You know,
Speaker 7: you have Republicans fighting for constitutional rights, fighting for life,
Speaker 7: basically the ability to protect protect life, liberty, and property.
Speaker 7: We see the crime issues and we understand how you
Speaker 7: know important the Second Amendment is. You know, like Colonel
Speaker 7: Colt said, you know, God made man that Colonel Colt
Speaker 7: made them all equal, and that's huge. I think that's
Speaker 7: really big. So, you know, it was a big fight
Speaker 7: in the Senate, and my roommate, Senator Palton, him and
Speaker 7: Byron Pealton fought it really hard. The Senate committee and
Speaker 7: of course the Senate Republicans gave it a pretty good
Speaker 7: beating on the floor. It's been amended a million times, right,
Speaker 7: you real.
Speaker 5: Completely changed a couple of times really.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's to make it palatable for the governor. That's
Speaker 7: the talk in the building. You know. I think that
Speaker 7: the far left Dems would have pushed it through the
Speaker 7: way it originally was, but I think they knew the
Speaker 7: only way that the governor would think about even signing
Speaker 7: it is with these amendments. That way, you know, he could,
Speaker 7: you know, make it palatable for himself. So right now
Speaker 7: we heard it in committee, then we have it in finance.
Speaker 7: That was on Friday, and the rumor is is that
Speaker 7: I'm pretty sure it's scheduled for Friday, this Friday on
Speaker 7: the House floor. You know, we'll gabble in and you
Speaker 7: know we're going to go to work on this thing.
Speaker 5: Well, it's got to have a huge appropriation tag to it,
Speaker 5: our fiscal note, I would think. And with the state
Speaker 5: legislature being so up down, upside down for the state budget,
Speaker 5: do you think there's any chance that that kills the
Speaker 5: bill or are we just going to have to see
Speaker 5: if this goes to the governor's desk and we can
Speaker 5: talk him out of signing it.
Speaker 7: I think it's going to make the governor's death or
Speaker 7: he housed it in CPW, you know, he's put a
Speaker 7: ton of responsibility back on the sheriffs testified. I said,
Speaker 7: it was unenforceable. Now you guys are going to be
Speaker 7: hit with an you know, unfunded mandate, which then you're
Speaker 7: going to have to hit your folks with is another
Speaker 7: unfunded mandate. But some of the huge things that you know,
Speaker 7: we listen to a lot of people testify, and I learned,
Speaker 7: you know, we usually hear you know, Second Amendment arguments, constitutional,
Speaker 7: you know, come and take it, but the arguments were
Speaker 7: so much different this time, Sheriff. I mean, we had
Speaker 7: folks talk about how gun rights or civil rights, how
Speaker 7: are people with learning disabilities, how's this going to limit
Speaker 7: their assets of firearms? The financial barriers. This is almost
Speaker 7: creating a class system where the rich will have guns
Speaker 7: and the poor won't. It's just disgusting. I mean, we've
Speaker 7: talked about we talked about source causes, whether it be
Speaker 7: mental health or lack of morality and family values. Like
Speaker 7: I said, we heard from the sheriffs who were totally
Speaker 7: ignored and then can CEPW do the job in a
Speaker 7: timely fashion? And I think the one thing that we've
Speaker 7: learned about this, sir, is that it's death by a
Speaker 7: thousand cuts. They want to skirt up against the Second
Speaker 7: Amendment because they.
Speaker 4: Know effectually, through serious.
Speaker 7: Legislation, they can't kill it, so they just keep making
Speaker 7: They put putting paywalls and roadblocks and death by a
Speaker 7: thousand cuts. So you know, it's just hard to see
Speaker 7: this play out with anti gun bill after anti gun bill.
Speaker 5: It seems like every session that you know, they stack
Speaker 5: one on top of the other. You already have a
Speaker 5: three day waiting period, you already have a background check
Speaker 5: when you go to buy a gun. Now you're going
Speaker 5: to have a class and a certificate, another background check,
Speaker 5: I mean your card that you have to carry so
Speaker 5: you can buy a gun. I mean, it just it
Speaker 5: gets to the point where it's it's utter ridiculousness. And
Speaker 5: all the while, do criminals follow any of that?
Speaker 7: No, sir, no, sir, such a such a yeah, no, no, no,
Speaker 7: they don't care about it. This was just disarm law
Speaker 7: biting citizens. And what makes it even more disgusted than
Speaker 7: anything because they're taking a god given, unalienable right and
Speaker 7: creating and making it a government privilege. And that should
Speaker 7: scare every American because we know when we lose the
Speaker 7: second the first isn't far behind.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, Ty, you can have said it better. Hey, we
Speaker 5: really appreciate the work that you're doing down there. You've
Speaker 5: been a fighter, you've been a yeoman down at the
Speaker 5: state Capitol. I hope you stay down there for as
Speaker 5: long as they'll have you. Maybe there's a Senate run
Speaker 5: in your future. Like I said, I think you are
Speaker 5: truly one of those guys that represents the future of
Speaker 5: this party. You are a hard working dude, and I've
Speaker 5: seen it from before you made it to the State House.
Speaker 5: I mean, you set your county up to foster success
Speaker 5: amongst the Republican Party and I couldn't be prouder to
Speaker 5: know you.
Speaker 7: Same here, Shirp. I appreciate you, my Brotherren. You know,
Speaker 7: most importantly, let's fix this state in God bless America.
Speaker 5: Thanks for being with us, Ty, and we're going to
Speaker 5: cut to break. You're listening to The Dan Kaplas Show
Speaker 5: with Steve Reims as guest host.
Speaker 2: And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 5: If you're listening to the Dan Kaplas Show, have Steve Reams,
Speaker 5: the Well County Sheriff filling in for day number two
Speaker 5: for Dan and you know We've had some guests on already.
Speaker 5: We had Jason Mike sel Teller kind of sheriff. He
Speaker 5: was the he's running for a Republican governor seat. And
Speaker 5: Ty Winter, the HD forty seven rep and assistant minority leader,
Speaker 5: kind of talking about you know, what's going on down
Speaker 5: to the State House and if there are any wins,
Speaker 5: you know, what do they look like? And we know
Speaker 5: they're thin, but at least we got a few guys
Speaker 5: fighting for us. So yesterday after the show, I got
Speaker 5: a couple of text messages and messages through Facebook, and
Speaker 5: one that I couldn't ignore was is there anything good
Speaker 5: that came from the police reform movement in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 5: twenty twenty twenty twenty one. Was there any one good
Speaker 5: thing that surfaced? And I had to scratch my brain
Speaker 5: a little bit. Send it Bill two seventeen, House Built
Speaker 5: twelve twelve fifty, or the two bills that come to
Speaker 5: mind most. But there is one positive that I think
Speaker 5: has come out of that legislation, and it's a little
Speaker 5: thing called the post Portal. And for those of you
Speaker 5: that are interested in knowing, you know, good cops versus
Speaker 5: bad cops, which is very important to me, especially if
Speaker 5: we're potentially hiring a new person. Anybody in Colorado can
Speaker 5: can do a Google search to the Colorado Post Portal
Speaker 5: and you do a little do a little deep dive,
Speaker 5: and it doesn't take much, but you can get to
Speaker 5: a page that will show you you can find I
Speaker 5: think it's tad to here, find action on individual officers,
Speaker 5: and you can just start scrolling through officers that have
Speaker 5: been placed on the on the i'll say bad cop list,
Speaker 5: and it goes by most recent to you know, most
Speaker 5: I guess most historical, and I couldn't help. But when
Speaker 5: I logged in today and I was kind of looking
Speaker 5: at the looking at the page, I noticed there were
Speaker 5: two Department of Corrections folks that have been put on
Speaker 5: that screen. And it's the first time I've seen anyone
Speaker 5: from DC in there for a very long time. And
Speaker 5: it looks like they're both put on there for forgery,
Speaker 5: which I'm assuming that has something to do with training records.
Speaker 5: But I say that because initially this post Portal and
Speaker 5: Senate Bill two seventeen wasn't going to apply to anything
Speaker 5: other than county officers and local officers, and we actually
Speaker 5: the rest of us kind of fought and said, now
Speaker 5: this needs to be equally applied. You know, you can
Speaker 5: have bad cops anywhere, and to see those two doc
Speaker 5: officers on there was a little shocking. I think one
Speaker 5: of them, if memory serves me right, was connected to
Speaker 5: Evan Ebel as the parole officer when the former Director
Speaker 5: of Prisons, Tom Clements was killed by that individual. So
Speaker 5: a lot of ties there. I hope that someone does
Speaker 5: a deeper dive into why those two people appeared on
Speaker 5: the post portal. As a law enforcement officer, I want
Speaker 5: to make sure we get rid of bad cops, and
Speaker 5: hopefully someone will dig into those names. I obviously don't
Speaker 5: have the time to do that today, but as we're
Speaker 5: going through kind of what the tone of the day is,
Speaker 5: you know, we had a governor's candidate on here. I'm
Speaker 5: sure a lot of you have an opinion about who
Speaker 5: could run for governor in the state of Colorado. And
Speaker 5: when I happen to have an opinion, I'd love to
Speaker 5: hear your ideas of who you think run for governor
Speaker 5: here in Colorado. And let's stick to the Republican side.
Speaker 5: I don't care about the Democrat side, but if there
Speaker 5: is anyone on the Republican side that could win. Who
Speaker 5: would it be? You can text in at five seven
Speaker 5: seven three nine, or you can call in at three
Speaker 5: o three seven one three eight two five five. I
Speaker 5: happen to think Dan Kaplis would make a great candidate,
Speaker 5: but I think he probably thinks I have a hit
Speaker 5: injury like I described him as having when he gave
Speaker 5: me opportunity to take this show over. But I think
Speaker 5: Dan would be a great candidate for a statewide race,
Speaker 5: whether that was governor Senate, whatever that may be. I mean,
Speaker 5: he's got quite a broad background and a definite name
Speaker 5: recognition and good listenership.
Speaker 3: So why not.
Speaker 5: You know, you can get with me if you want
Speaker 5: and help try to push Dan into the political arena.
Speaker 5: But I'm sure he's going to tell me to kiss off.
Speaker 6: On your behalf and also suffering from a head injury myself.
Speaker 6: Who would you rather want litigating the case in literal
Speaker 6: terms right for our party, for our point of view,
Speaker 6: oh than Dan Caplis. I mean, there is no stronger
Speaker 6: advocate for the truth and for what we stand for
Speaker 6: here on this platform, on this show.
Speaker 5: I think Dan does a great job of you know,
Speaker 5: if he's if he doesn't agree with someone on a
Speaker 5: particular topic, he defends his stance and he lets you
Speaker 5: have your piece, and you know, we agree to disagree
Speaker 5: and move on. And there's plenty of things that Dan
Speaker 5: and I probably don't see eye to eye on, but
Speaker 5: I can respect him because I know where he stands,
Speaker 5: and I think that's important in a candidate. But you know,
Speaker 5: I'd love to hear what other people think. If it's
Speaker 5: Dan Caplis or if it's whomever. You know, we got
Speaker 5: to find that person to hold up and say this
Speaker 5: is this is our guy to get behind. You know,
Speaker 5: I've heard all kinds of names coming out of the woodworks,
Speaker 5: and you know, Jason Michael may be the guy too.
Speaker 5: I think time will tell is as competition, you know,
Speaker 5: makes men stronger, makes women stronger.
Speaker 8: And we're going yes, I did broach this subject with
Speaker 8: one mister Dan Caplis.
Speaker 5: Oh boy, what's the answer, And.
Speaker 8: He basically said, wow, little girl, you have a very
Speaker 8: interesting imagination.
Speaker 5: Well you know that's coming from you, though, Kelly. I
Speaker 5: mean he's not wrong, am I right?
Speaker 6: I about her imagination? Well, all of those things, all
Speaker 6: of those things that's true.
Speaker 5: So here on the text, while you know, we started
Speaker 5: out with tampon Tim's comments, and somebody says, hey, I
Speaker 5: find Tim Wall's extremely creepy. He really gives me super
Speaker 5: icky vibes. There's nothing, there's nothing, there's something wrong with
Speaker 5: him that I think. That's pretty on point. And then
Speaker 5: a carryover from your show, it says Dan Steve Ryan,
Speaker 5: a little nauseating to hear Richard Holdtorf on Ryan's show
Speaker 5: channeling his inner h W. Bush with kinder gentler pablum.
Speaker 5: It looks weak, it sounds weak. And if Trump has
Speaker 5: shown anything, it's that smash mouth Conservatism wins and limp
Speaker 5: wristed Republicanism is a loser. But some folks will never learn,
Speaker 5: Like I've never thought of Richard Holdtorf as being a
Speaker 5: quiet man. No, no, you know that's this one tech opinion.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of things that Richard Holdtorf and I
Speaker 5: don't agree on, but I if that was the kinder
Speaker 5: gentler Richard Holdtorf that you had on, I guess I missed.
Speaker 6: It well, maybe by his standard, but I think the
Speaker 6: Texter's right on one point, and that is, you know,
Speaker 6: taking the action to the opponent the way that Jamie
Speaker 6: Vance has learned to do, I think under the tutelage
Speaker 6: of Donald Trump and then also governor around De Santa
Speaker 6: same thing. I mean, he went from a razor thin
Speaker 6: winning margin in his first gubernatorial race to a twenty
Speaker 6: point margin in his run for reelections. So I think
Speaker 6: there's something to be learned from that as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I think this it's good to have
Speaker 5: a strong opinion. I think it's good to take on
Speaker 5: the you know, take on the naysayers. And you know,
Speaker 5: Richard Holdtorf is never back down from too many fights.
Speaker 5: I don't know what the pathway is to becoming the
Speaker 5: GOP chairman, and I think he's trying to figure that out.
Speaker 5: So time will tell. We go down to the state
Speaker 5: the state reorganization meeting on the twenty ninth, and it
Speaker 5: should be a bloodbath. So we're going to see how
Speaker 5: that goes. In the next hour, we're gonna have several
Speaker 5: more guests on. We'll start off with Senator Byron Pelton
Speaker 5: in the next hour. Right now, you're listening to The
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