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Speaker 2: What a beautiful day to fight? Huh.
Speaker 1: It's just something like spring. I mean, every nice days nice, right,
Speaker 1: but there's something like those first few really nice days,
Speaker 1: and yeah, it's going to cool off over the weekend,
Speaker 1: but at least we're getting some of these now, right.
Speaker 1: So I think we're falling into that time of you're right,
Speaker 1: where it's going to pop up and down and then
Speaker 1: the trend line will gradually get better and it's light
Speaker 1: out every day and my life is good. Eight five
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Speaker 1: you just joined, thank you. We're talking at the moment
Speaker 1: about the Sixteenth Street Mall and kind of the doom
Speaker 1: spiral it's been in since Colorado legalized marijuana and since
Speaker 1: other lefty pro criminal policies, et cetera made it a
Speaker 1: place people don't want to go, and the left just
Speaker 1: won't face that reality, right, So they keep trying to
Speaker 1: put perfume on a pig with taxpayer money and other monies,
Speaker 1: and then it reaches kind of a new level of
Speaker 1: enjoyable absurdity. Can you go trademark that for me? Enjoyable absurdity?
Speaker 1: Should that be the new name of the show? But
Speaker 1: see it reaches this new level in this story. We're
Speaker 1: about to play you off of KUSA where they try
Speaker 1: to blame the failure of the mall on the right.
Speaker 2: On conservatives for misleading people.
Speaker 1: That's the implication misleading people into believing it's dangerous down there.
Speaker 1: And I know, I mean, you'd never conclude that from
Speaker 1: the flight attendant him in her throat slit and broad
Speaker 1: daylight and dying on the mall on a Saturday as
Speaker 1: she visits from Phoenix.
Speaker 2: It never concluded from any of.
Speaker 1: That kind of stuff, right, So it's fascinating that they
Speaker 1: just won't admit the root cause and they continue you
Speaker 1: to just try.
Speaker 3: To put perfume on the pig.
Speaker 1: And one of the questions I'll have for you at
Speaker 1: the end of this so I play this more for
Speaker 1: your own enjoyment on the way home, But at the.
Speaker 2: End of the day, is it ever going to change, or.
Speaker 1: Will it just be this downhill spiral until it all
Speaker 1: is just like Armageddon? Or at some point is Denver
Speaker 1: going to elect a Republican? Now it won't be somebody
Speaker 1: who's labeled a Republican, right, it would have to be
Speaker 1: somebody who says they're unaffiliated but they're really a conservative.
Speaker 3: Is Denver ever going to be willing to.
Speaker 2: Do that to save itself?
Speaker 4: So enjoy the story, Denver Sixteenth Street Mall has some
Speaker 4: real problems. First off, Americans general disinterest in spaces like
Speaker 4: that that used to be far more popular.
Speaker 2: Do you mind if I stop you there, Ryan?
Speaker 1: I just did a quick little mental survey of all
Speaker 1: the places I've been on cases and on vacation where
Speaker 1: there are areas like the sixteen Street.
Speaker 5: Mall that are thriving. Can I name one day? You
Speaker 5: could name twenty the Riverwalk in San Antonio? There's one
Speaker 5: for you. There's one for you. I mean, I'm trying
Speaker 5: to think of a city that doesn't have one. I
Speaker 5: mean that they're thriving all over America.
Speaker 6: The Magmiele and Chicago still even well say.
Speaker 3: I would quitval with you on that.
Speaker 1: I think the lefty policies have it's worst destroyed that.
Speaker 1: I think they have had the pro crime stuff and
Speaker 1: not great. Yeah, I think they've destroyed that one. But
Speaker 1: but yeah, no, there are plenty of these that are thriving.
Speaker 1: You cannot take Denver off the hook once you decide.
Speaker 1: I mean, what did Denver used to be known as?
Speaker 1: How did you envision Denver before you actually came here?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 5: Like it used to be, right, and I it was
Speaker 5: thirty years ago, might maybe much more like Billings, Montana was,
Speaker 5: And that's what I was described like.
Speaker 7: It'd be like a bigger version of Billings where I
Speaker 7: had worked before.
Speaker 6: And I'm like, well, that's great.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Envisioned it as a city of great use and health,
Speaker 1: and Colorado was known as the state of health, and
Speaker 1: now it's known as the state of drugs, and Denver's
Speaker 1: known as the drug capital of the world.
Speaker 3: I remember as a.
Speaker 1: Little kid and walking to the basement and my dad
Speaker 1: on this little TV is watching a game and it
Speaker 1: says mile high stadium, And I pictured this stadium literally,
Speaker 1: you know, straight up at the top of a mile,
Speaker 1: you know, and then it's a mile drop off.
Speaker 2: On either side.
Speaker 1: I was young then, but you always picture Denver as
Speaker 1: healthy and all about health, and then the left decided
Speaker 1: to make it all about drugs, and then the mall
Speaker 1: started going downhill. But they don't want to admit that.
Speaker 1: They say, oh no, no, not all these spaces around
Speaker 1: the country are plagued like this.
Speaker 3: Not true.
Speaker 4: Then you layer on vacant storefronts, long term construction, some
Speaker 4: high profile crimes, and a political narrative that cities are
Speaker 4: to be feared political narrative.
Speaker 1: So the reason people aren't going down there is not
Speaker 1: because they are to be feared because of lefty policies,
Speaker 1: which mean any sane person would fear them. I bet
Speaker 1: the family of the flight attendant or throat slit noon
Speaker 1: on the mall when she's just down there shopping wish
Speaker 1: that they.
Speaker 3: Had feared it.
Speaker 1: Oh no, but it's really conservatives misleading people. And think
Speaker 1: of that worldview of this report, that people are dumb
Speaker 1: sheep who can't figure out for themselves what's safe and
Speaker 1: what's not.
Speaker 4: As construction finally wraps up, our Mark Salinger looks at
Speaker 4: Denver's next challenge, convincing people to come back to the
Speaker 4: Sixteenth Street mall.
Speaker 8: After spending one hundred and seventy five million dollars on
Speaker 8: construction on the sixteenth Street mall. The concern now is
Speaker 8: making sure people actually come back to enjoy it.
Speaker 1: The experience today is not the ultimate experience that we
Speaker 1: want on sixteenth, and we need to do a lot
Speaker 1: to change that perception.
Speaker 8: The price tag for new art activities and marketing was
Speaker 8: set at one point nine million dollars today in Denver
Speaker 8: City Council money the Johnson Administration and the Downtown Denver
Speaker 8: Partnership argue.
Speaker 3: Is vital to mat I'm sure if people return to a.
Speaker 8: Street that's been filled with fences and hard hats for years, how.
Speaker 1: Do we bring drug caller to the spaces that just
Speaker 1: feel like someone's taking care of it.
Speaker 8: The nearly two million dollars would go towards trying to
Speaker 8: get people to visit downtown again. It would fund events
Speaker 8: like live music and street markets. It would pay for
Speaker 8: security to make people feel safe in an area that's
Speaker 8: seen several high profile crimes recently, and it would allocate
Speaker 8: money for art to cover up empty storefronts where businesses
Speaker 8: have moved out.
Speaker 3: This is part of.
Speaker 6: High profile crimes like al Capone or what are we
Speaker 6: talking about here. It's a high profile crime.
Speaker 3: This is just part of covering up for the left.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like, oh, the stabbing spree, right, the flight attendant
Speaker 1: with the throat slit, and then even though the city.
Speaker 3: Knew about this, they didn't put up this five of
Speaker 3: our morning to the public. So you know, a guy
Speaker 3: gets stabbed and killed the next day.
Speaker 1: No, it's not about a couple of high profile crimes.
Speaker 1: It's about policies of the left, pro drug, pro criminal
Speaker 1: policies that have made this a place people don't want
Speaker 1: to go.
Speaker 2: And I'm sorry I up two million bucks with that.
Speaker 1: You could put fIF fifty million bucks worth of art
Speaker 1: and guess what people are going to see? What's your
Speaker 1: favorite artwork? Ryan ever? Not like the Rocky statue?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Really, that's my favorite.
Speaker 9: Statue of liberty. Maybe be another way, Yeah, Mona Lisa Okay, okay,
Speaker 9: you could put the.
Speaker 2: Mona Lisa on the sixteen Street mall.
Speaker 3: Sure right now.
Speaker 1: Maybe if it heavy, heavy security, you get people to
Speaker 1: go down there for a little bit. But what people
Speaker 1: are going to see is they're going to see the zombies.
Speaker 1: They're going to see the zombies, right, like the zombie
Speaker 1: who who slashed that flight attendant's throat and killed all
Speaker 1: those others. They're going to see all these zombies who
Speaker 1: at one time were healthy, little kids, and they were
Speaker 1: people with the future, and they've been made zombies by drugs.
Speaker 3: They've been made zombies by alcohol.
Speaker 1: You throw in mental illness, and then policies of the
Speaker 1: left that protect criminals. Even with the Mona Lisa down there,
Speaker 1: that's what people are going to see because guess what,
Speaker 1: the Mona Lisa ain't worth dying for.
Speaker 2: Broader strategy for downtown. Council members had concerns.
Speaker 3: Just it pains me to see what it currently is.
Speaker 8: And serious questions about how to move forward from the
Speaker 8: challenges that the area has faced since the construction started.
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter how you make something, if it still brings
Speaker 1: up memories for people, we're never going.
Speaker 3: To break through that.
Speaker 8: Downtown Denver has seen a thirty five percent decrease in
Speaker 8: property and sales tax revenue since the beginning of the
Speaker 8: pandemic that'scrossed the city forty pandemic.
Speaker 1: Go back to legalization in marijuana, Go back to every
Speaker 1: important stat in Colorado starting with the legalization of marijuana.
Speaker 2: And what do you see, more bad stuff less good stuff.
Speaker 2: I've million dollars. Vacant dark retail space is not good
Speaker 2: for anyone.
Speaker 8: The money has already been spent on construction. Now the
Speaker 8: city needs to convince people to come back.
Speaker 1: This is about how do we really make the most
Speaker 1: of this infrastructure investment by being able to show how
Speaker 1: is there no discussion whatsoever is piece about drugs and
Speaker 1: about legalization of drugs.
Speaker 3: And about all of these drug.
Speaker 1: Addicted people particularly, And they're all said cases my heart
Speaker 1: breaks from true. But when you've just had fourteen very
Speaker 1: prominent restaurant tours who have walked the talk, put their heart,
Speaker 1: their soul, their money into their restaurants down there, and
Speaker 1: they're saying, mister Mayor, it's falling apart.
Speaker 2: You're making it worse.
Speaker 1: You know, people aren't going to come down here and
Speaker 1: watch somebody defecate in the street outside the restaurant. And
Speaker 1: it all goes back to these pro drug, pro crime policies.
Speaker 6: Clean it up and clear it out. That's the answer.
Speaker 6: I mean, there's about all these ancillary issues and that
Speaker 6: the construction.
Speaker 9: And people don't want to come down because the businesses
Speaker 9: aren't there the tax revenues.
Speaker 5: Now, why are all those things happening It's exactly what
Speaker 5: you're talking about.
Speaker 1: And they will never change. The Left will never change
Speaker 1: those policies. So where does it end? I would love
Speaker 1: your take, what is the fix? Where does it end?
Speaker 1: Because we aren't darkess cursors were candle lighters three or
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Speaker 3: You're on the Dan Kapla Show.
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Speaker 1: BOMBI yeah, and please I don't. I hope nobody ever
Speaker 1: thinks when I talk about the reality of downtown Tenver
Speaker 1: now and just so many people who act like zombies,
Speaker 1: that I'm ever making fun of any of.
Speaker 2: Those people or denigrating them or anything.
Speaker 3: Not at all.
Speaker 1: My heart breaks for all of them. And you know
Speaker 1: I said thereby but for the grace of God go I.
Speaker 2: Kind of thing.
Speaker 1: And and because no matter how strong willed the person
Speaker 1: is or anything else, you talk about the the you know,
Speaker 1: you talk about this Krakawana or so now you talk
Speaker 1: about other drugs, talk about this fent, and all the
Speaker 1: Left is let pour into the country. I mean that
Speaker 1: stuff can can grab and ruin the strongest willed person
Speaker 1: in a heartbeat. So this human disaster. You see in
Speaker 1: downtown Denver, you see eating away at downtown Denver. Look
Speaker 1: at what the restaurant tours wrote, you know, to Johnston.
Speaker 1: Mike Johnson very critical of him, saying it's all falling apart.
Speaker 2: No, I'm never ever.
Speaker 1: Doing anything other than being sad and respectful and praying
Speaker 1: for you know, the people in that situation. What drives
Speaker 1: me crazy are these lefties who pass all these policies
Speaker 1: because they have their own political motives and they know
Speaker 1: it's going to wreak this kind of human devastation, but
Speaker 1: they don't care at all about these people as long
Speaker 1: as it furthers their political ends. And so that the
Speaker 1: perfect example of that is now that you have a
Speaker 1: six Streen Street mall, it ain't coming back until they
Speaker 1: do away with these pro drug, pro crime lefty policies.
Speaker 1: The mall isn't going to come back. You know, you
Speaker 1: can put Mona Lisa down there. I've seen Mona Lisa.
Speaker 1: I'm glad I saw Mona Lisa, but she ain't worth
Speaker 1: dying for. So you can do anything you want to.
Speaker 1: It ain't coming back until they change those policies. But
Speaker 1: then you get these stories that try to blame it
Speaker 1: on the right for saying there's crime in the cities.
Speaker 2: No people can figure that out. So what is the fix?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: What is the fix?
Speaker 1: Three h three someone three eight two five five The
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Speaker 2: I'm giving you mine.
Speaker 1: They've got to and this doesn't take any rocket science
Speaker 1: or archaeologist or anything like that. You go back and
Speaker 1: look at when it was better than this. Oh when
Speaker 1: was that, well before you legalize drugs and put all
Speaker 1: these pro criminal laws in Yeah, right, yes, so yeah,
Speaker 1: So what do you think the fix is?
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Speaker 9: I just googled it and the first thing comes up
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Speaker 2: Well that's that's progress. They've listened to our Texter.
Speaker 1: Dan, I was down in downtown Denver yesterday and saw
Speaker 1: at least five people shooting up drugs right there in
Speaker 1: the middle of the park. There's no way I'd bring
Speaker 1: my family down there. And I was thinking, how sad
Speaker 1: it is. I mentioned it Tamy the other day. We
Speaker 1: used to go down to the mall. We used to
Speaker 1: go down to the mall, like before all of this
Speaker 1: legalized drug and legalized crime.
Speaker 3: Or you know, pro criminal laws.
Speaker 1: We used to love. We took the kids down there.
Speaker 1: We'd go Remember they used to have big ESPN zone
Speaker 1: on the mall.
Speaker 3: I think that's what it called.
Speaker 1: We go there and we get a pizza in we'd
Speaker 1: you know, play some of their arcade games. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: can drag me down there right now. I mean every
Speaker 1: now and there I have to go down there for
Speaker 1: a case.
Speaker 6: I love the.
Speaker 1: Courthouse down there by the way, But every now and
Speaker 1: then I got a meeting on the mall or something.
Speaker 2: I just absolutely dreaded Dan.
Speaker 1: Denver's trying to put lipstick on a pig and make
Speaker 1: you think all is well in downtown that from Alexa.
Speaker 1: There ain't enough lipstick in all of America for that one.
Speaker 2: So why do you think they keep doing this?
Speaker 1: They just keep pouring millions and millions and millions into
Speaker 1: redoing this and that, and then the people don't come,
Speaker 1: and they keep doing more of it. They denial is
Speaker 1: not just a river in Egypt, right. I mean, they
Speaker 1: will not admit what is at the heart of all this, Dan.
Speaker 1: They're all thriving pertaining tom al like areas, except the
Speaker 1: ones run over by crime, like Santa Monica Promenade. Oh,
Speaker 1: that is so true in Santa Monica, you know. And
Speaker 1: again it just comes back to those lefty policies. So, Dan,
Speaker 1: While I regret my vote for the legalization of recreational
Speaker 1: marijuana in Colorado, mostly because I believe it put a
Speaker 1: destination target on Colorado for stoners from around the country
Speaker 1: and many of the issues that accompany them, I would
Speaker 1: still consider voting for national legalization.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 1: I would love to hear the rationale behind that, because
Speaker 1: I to say that aside. I also believe that while
Speaker 1: marijuana may contribute to suicide rates teen and others, and
Speaker 1: then it gets into much bigger issues. Whoa wait a second,
Speaker 1: shouldn't that be the end of the conversation. I mean,
Speaker 1: once the society acknowledges and people in Colorado just don't
Speaker 1: know it right now, right because much, not all, much
Speaker 1: of the media buries these marijuana horror stories because I mean,
Speaker 1: I think the media has a vested interest in getting
Speaker 1: that cash someday. But that aside, and much of the
Speaker 1: media right is just affiliated with the left that wants
Speaker 1: more drugs, wants more stoners because then they're more dependent
Speaker 1: on government and they vote left. But once the people
Speaker 1: of the state of Colorado would tell me, if you
Speaker 1: agree with this premise, ride, if every voting Colorado now
Speaker 1: for a fact that teen suicide has dramatically increased his
Speaker 1: legalization of marijuana and almost half the kids who kill
Speaker 1: themselves in marijuana in their system, what do you think
Speaker 1: the vote would be to repeal Amendments six four if every.
Speaker 9: Voter knew that, if they knew that and were informed,
Speaker 9: then yeah, I mean, that would be overwhelming sixty forty, Elisa.
Speaker 1: People are good in Colorado. Vast majority of people are good.
Speaker 1: I don't care what party they're with. And if they
Speaker 1: knew that fact, yeah, people would say that's too high
Speaker 1: a price to pay. That is too high a price
Speaker 1: to pay, and there are a lot more prices than that.
Speaker 1: So three or three someone three eight two five five
Speaker 1: text d an five seven seven three nine. We have
Speaker 1: another candidate for GOP chair coming up right, Darcy Shanning's
Speaker 1: going to join us at five thirty six yep.
Speaker 6: And she just appeared with Kyle Clark online next.
Speaker 1: And the reason that we keep doing these hits with
Speaker 1: GOP chair candidates is I think it's really really important
Speaker 1: to saving the state that we elect Republicans to these
Speaker 1: big state wide offices, and that's not going to happen
Speaker 1: without a healthy Colorado or GOP.
Speaker 2: Maybe there's some math out there.
Speaker 3: I'm not familiar with, Ryan, but I.
Speaker 1: Don't see how a Republican candidate wins statewide without a
Speaker 1: unified GOP in Colorado and a unified GOP electorate.
Speaker 3: It.
Speaker 1: If somebody's wearing some new math, hey turn me on
Speaker 1: to it. But I think that's what it's gonna take.
Speaker 1: So that's why I think this party chair race is
Speaker 1: so important, and so that's why we keep popping these
Speaker 1: candidates on. And I thought the last interview was absolutely
Speaker 1: fascinating and hopefully you'll tune into that.
Speaker 2: Uh one of the something else I want.
Speaker 1: To discuss here, some else I want to dis Guy
Speaker 1: and I know it's not local, but it is so important,
Speaker 1: and it's local in that sense, right, affects all of us.
Speaker 1: I don't have time to play this hit right now.
Speaker 1: But John Bolton, who has sat here in studio with
Speaker 1: me when he was the US Ambassador to the United Nations,
Speaker 1: and John Bolton coming out and seeing this ceasefire is
Speaker 1: bad for Ukraine.
Speaker 2: What in the world's the alternative.
Speaker 3: Trump's just say? See.
Speaker 1: I think John Bolton hates Trump so much right now
Speaker 1: that's getting in the way of his thinking. And it's
Speaker 1: a person think between John Bolton and Trump. Trump's just
Speaker 1: trying to stop the bloodshed. It's Europe that abandoned Ukraine
Speaker 1: and allowed evil Putin.
Speaker 3: To gain territory.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna tell Ukraine to just keep fighting and dying.
Speaker 1: You're on the Dan Caplis Show.
Speaker 7: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 11: Like current up Chairman Williams, like President Trump, use name
Speaker 11: calling as a political strategy, right. I mean, you've called
Speaker 11: former President Joe Biden a pedophile. You've called the mayor
Speaker 11: pro tem of monumental terrorists, You've called the governor communist,
Speaker 11: You've called the Attorney general communists, You've called me a communist,
Speaker 11: which is fine because we get along. But why is
Speaker 11: name calling a winning political strategy in this state?
Speaker 12: You know, I don't think it's always I don't think
Speaker 12: it's always correct. It's not always a winning strategy.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it is.
Speaker 10: Sometimes it helps us because you know, you've got.
Speaker 12: That you get that attention online, you get that media
Speaker 12: around you, and that, by and large a lot of
Speaker 12: the time is what affects Shange.
Speaker 2: That's Darcy Shine.
Speaker 1: In our next guest with Kyle Clark, Darcy of course
Speaker 1: running for GOP chair.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, Darcy. How you doing.
Speaker 10: I'm good. How are you? Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: Dan, Oh, my pleasure anytime. How goes the battle?
Speaker 9: Good?
Speaker 10: I'm having so much fun. So just going out seeing
Speaker 10: everybody and you know, getting in the media and I'm
Speaker 10: enjoying interacting with everybody. It's been great.
Speaker 2: It looks like you're having fun.
Speaker 1: And I mean your decision to go on with Kyle Clark,
Speaker 1: I think that's great. I mean, that's the difference right
Speaker 1: between the right and left. You know, it's left scared
Speaker 1: of its own shadow. You know, it won't come on
Speaker 1: a show like this or anything else. And conservatives, Eh,
Speaker 1: you want to talk, let's sit down.
Speaker 2: If it's a fair fight, we'll win exactly.
Speaker 10: Yeah, No, it was so much fun. When he was
Speaker 10: originally texting me about the Tina Peters comments that I
Speaker 10: had made on Jeff and Bill. You know that I
Speaker 10: called on Pam Bonny to look into the judge and
Speaker 10: so then he said, Hey, I'm going to have everybody on.
Speaker 10: Do you want to come on? And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 10: I do, and I want.
Speaker 1: To take that spot too, And so tell everybody what
Speaker 1: at this point the election is, when, and how's it
Speaker 1: shaping up?
Speaker 2: And above all, I think everybody agrees, right, you have to.
Speaker 1: Have a unified GOP to have a chance to win
Speaker 1: the state wide races, and how do you get it there?
Speaker 10: Yeah, So the election is March twenty ninth, and that
Speaker 10: is nine o'clock in the morning. It's a hybrid online
Speaker 10: and then in the spring. I can't remember the exact location,
Speaker 10: they just I think figured out the location because it
Speaker 10: was moved from Castrock, but we'll post that it actually
Speaker 10: posted everywhere anyways. So yeah, unified DOP. I mean, listen,
Speaker 10: like I've said in the past, we're never nobody's ever
Speaker 10: going to be totally unified. But I've been working really
Speaker 10: hard to build an infrastructure and build fundraising already that
Speaker 10: we can be proud of. So about going into the
Speaker 10: twenty twenty five school board races with my Build our
Speaker 10: Benches initiative, We're able to have momentum, donor confidence, volunteer confidence.
Speaker 10: We're going to launch SUD into twenty two twenty six
Speaker 10: and take back state seats and can We're going to
Speaker 10: We're building something so I believe candidates and elected officials
Speaker 10: and volunteers and activists and everyday voters can be proud of.
Speaker 10: And that's what I'm most proud of right now. That's
Speaker 10: why I'm having so much fun going around seeing everybody
Speaker 10: at the meetings, because I mean, I just can't imagine
Speaker 10: doing anything else right now. This is like this is
Speaker 10: we have to build something that we can take Colorado
Speaker 10: back with.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm glad you used that Prouder phrase because
Speaker 1: I really do think it's important that you know, and
Speaker 1: you're right, Listen, you're never going to have short of heaven.
Speaker 1: You're never going to have pertinent, perfect unity or coherence.
Speaker 1: But I think you got to get the color or
Speaker 1: gop to the point right where where the vast majority
Speaker 1: of Republicans, at least in the state are proud of
Speaker 1: the Colorado GOP because I don't with the maths, I
Speaker 1: don't know how any of our candidates win statewide without
Speaker 1: a roll bust, you know, lovel of support from Republican.
Speaker 10: Voters exactly exactly, And that's why we have to have,
Speaker 10: Like I said, when I stay building, I mean everything
Speaker 10: from our g O TV efforts, our outreach, our Hispanic outreach,
Speaker 10: our black outreach, going into the high schools, capturing the
Speaker 10: young Republicans. I mean, it's everything. It's having on point
Speaker 10: data and right now we just we don't have any
Speaker 10: of those things. So that's what I want to work
Speaker 10: really hard to build to that. You know, whether I
Speaker 10: am eventually taken out one day or get hit by
Speaker 10: a bus or whatever, that when I'm not share anymore,
Speaker 10: the GP can look back and say, you know what,
Speaker 10: like she lest it better than she found it, and
Speaker 10: I say the same thing about the state of Colorado
Speaker 10: in our country. That's that's our duty.
Speaker 13: That's what we do as leaders, one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what we're put on the planet for,
Speaker 1: right So yeah, how can people learn more about you.
Speaker 10: So you can go to my website Rcy for chair.
Speaker 10: That's THEA r C y f O rshare dot com.
Speaker 10: Twitter is Darcy and then the number four CEO. But
Speaker 10: if you just start typing my name and Google like
Speaker 10: Darcy sc h O E M I n G, I
Speaker 10: come right up because I have such an uncommon name.
Speaker 10: And listen, you guys have heard me for a month
Speaker 10: and a half now talk about my platform. But it's
Speaker 10: not all about me. Everyone is welcome in my Colorado gup,
Speaker 10: our Colorado gup. So I want to sit down and
Speaker 10: talk to you, have a phone call, you know, go
Speaker 10: out to coffee, whatever it may be. So send me
Speaker 10: a text and we'll get together. And I want to
Speaker 10: hear everyone's vision for our state.
Speaker 1: You are the energizer, Darcy. There is no doubt about that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, no, Well.
Speaker 3: I appreciate the time.
Speaker 2: I'm sure we'll talk again soon.
Speaker 10: Thank you, Dan, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: Have a good night, sure saying you too.
Speaker 1: That is at Darcy Shanan And now it's great to
Speaker 1: have these chair candidates on because it's really really going
Speaker 1: to matter, right if the GP is going to have a.
Speaker 2: Chance, and it should have a chance. The way these
Speaker 2: things are shaping up, it should have a chance. Wow,
Speaker 2: if you just joined us.
Speaker 1: Thank you nice to have it so light out and
Speaker 1: warm and sunny this time of night. It just makes
Speaker 1: everything better, doesn't it. Hey, let me get to this.
Speaker 1: This is Representative Keith's self and he's the Republican.
Speaker 2: Committee chair.
Speaker 1: I believe when he introduces this Representative Sarah McBride is
Speaker 1: mister McBride, and everything goes crazy. And what would you
Speaker 1: have done if you were chair? How do you think
Speaker 1: this situation should be handled? When you have a male
Speaker 1: who is identifying as female and wants to be referred
Speaker 1: to as a woman, and it's in a congressional setting
Speaker 1: like this, how do you think it should be handled?
Speaker 3: Three?
Speaker 2: Or three? Someone three eight two five five takes d
Speaker 2: an five seven.
Speaker 11: Seven three Now Hena's the representative from Delaware, mister McBride, Thank.
Speaker 12: You, madam, Chair ranking Member Keating also wonderful Chairman.
Speaker 3: Could you repeat your instruction again, please?
Speaker 9: Yes, we have set the standard on the floor of
Speaker 9: the House, and I'm simply what.
Speaker 3: Is that standard? Mister chairman? Would you repeat what you
Speaker 3: just said?
Speaker 1: You introduced a duly elected representative from the United States
Speaker 1: of America, Please, I will Does the fact that the
Speaker 1: individual is a duly elected congressperson change biology?
Speaker 2: Does it change science? Right now?
Speaker 1: I think there's a solution here and I want to
Speaker 1: get to it. But is that the suggestion from this
Speaker 1: democrat here that because somebody rises to a certain rank
Speaker 1: of power, you have to lie about what their gender is?
Speaker 2: The representative from Delaware mister mcbriene.
Speaker 3: Mister chairman, you are out of order. That's a shaman.
Speaker 3: Have you no decency?
Speaker 2: The original I mean, I have come to know you
Speaker 2: a little bit, but this is not decent.
Speaker 3: We will continue this. You will not continue it with me.
Speaker 2: Unless you introduce a duly elected.
Speaker 6: Representative the right way.
Speaker 2: The right way.
Speaker 3: This hearing is adjourned.
Speaker 1: It's obviously just childishness because you couldn't describe. But what
Speaker 1: is the right way? Listen, don't you avoid this whole
Speaker 1: thing by first? You can't lie, right. I'm never going
Speaker 1: to say any committee chair or anybody else should ever
Speaker 1: ever ever be required to lie and say that east
Speaker 1: is west, or north is south, or black is white
Speaker 1: or anything like that. So nobody should ever be forced
Speaker 1: to lie and say that man's a woman or that
Speaker 1: woman's a man. No, this is America. You can't force
Speaker 1: somebody to do that. Now, don't you just avoid all
Speaker 1: of that or just avoid the gender reference. Just you
Speaker 1: can use the name.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's anything wrong with you in the name,
Speaker 2: but you can't require people to lie. And that's to
Speaker 2: me Ryan, that that's what's.
Speaker 1: Behind ninety nine percent of this transcendity from the left,
Speaker 1: because the trans people I know, Like, how many trans people.
Speaker 3: Do you know? Personally? Four or five more than I do.
Speaker 2: But but the trans people I know every single good people.
Speaker 3: They just want to live their life.
Speaker 1: They they're not looking to change our politics or change.
Speaker 2: The world or anything like that. I think what's happened here.
Speaker 1: Is is you've got these lefties who have seized on
Speaker 1: this issue so they can establish the precedent that's necessary
Speaker 1: for the left win, which is that that people are
Speaker 1: at through this issue willing to say things they are
Speaker 1: they know are not true in order to avoid being canceled,
Speaker 1: in order to avoid the different penalties the left wants
Speaker 1: to win fly. I think the left has seized on
Speaker 1: this issue and they're losing it. Thank Heavens. They've seized
Speaker 1: on this issue to try to force Americans to bend
Speaker 1: the knee and.
Speaker 2: Be willing to.
Speaker 3: Separate from the way they were.
Speaker 1: Raised as children, separate from their core values, separate from
Speaker 1: their faith, and be willing to lie, be willing to
Speaker 1: say things that they know are not true in order
Speaker 1: to avoid being canceled and otherwise punished. That's why I
Speaker 1: think the left has seized this issue, and thank god,
Speaker 1: people have risen up against it. Not against trans people,
Speaker 1: that's not the point, but that risen up against being
Speaker 1: forced to say things you are no, we're not true,
Speaker 1: being forced to say things that are against your faith.
Speaker 1: People have risen up against that, and it's beautiful to see.
Speaker 1: And that's why this whole play by the left is
Speaker 1: crumbling before our eyes.
Speaker 3: You're on the Dan Caplis Show.
Speaker 7: And now back to the Dan Taplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Barado Springs, Colorado. Chris, you're on the Dankaplas Show.
Speaker 13: Welcome, Hey Dan, thanks for having me back on. You
Speaker 13: know three things that a state party should chair should
Speaker 13: do is raise money, fine candidates for open seats, and
Speaker 13: not think you're in charge of anything. Pardon I was
Speaker 13: just run. I was just out there walking.
Speaker 10: No.
Speaker 13: Yeah, they've off the grabber, my friends. But my point
Speaker 13: is is that they party chairs not in charge of anything.
Speaker 13: The people who actually get elected to office and receive
Speaker 13: votes or in charge of the things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but.
Speaker 2: Truly, and you know one of the things.
Speaker 1: And you get to a good point, Chris, is the
Speaker 1: up in Colorado is going to come back. And I
Speaker 1: think the key is going to be winning that one
Speaker 1: big statewide race because then that elected official, that senator
Speaker 1: or governor, becomes the face of the party. And here
Speaker 1: he you know, right, I mean that they become the
Speaker 1: de facto leader of the party, no matter how good
Speaker 1: your GOP chair is.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: That person's not getting elected statewide unless you've got a
Speaker 1: really well functioning Colorado GOP and all the grassroots support.
Speaker 1: Because you and I both know, I'm assuming you know
Speaker 1: this that it is those grassroots folks working real hard
Speaker 1: in the trenches all the time, who you know, never
Speaker 1: show up in the headlines. If you don't have that
Speaker 1: in place, you're not winning.
Speaker 13: Yeah. Well, you know who's not going to help us
Speaker 13: win at that, Darcy lady, Because you know I've got
Speaker 13: texts her from her to me calling me disgusting. She
Speaker 13: called me something about I took blood money from somebody?
Speaker 3: What's what's behind all this? What's the issue?
Speaker 13: All right?
Speaker 2: What's what's the issue? I mean why she.
Speaker 13: Was Darcy is holy and she doesn't have the state
Speaker 13: party or any party chair of anything. Yea, he is.
Speaker 3: Basically there's something going.
Speaker 13: On her congressional distort.
Speaker 1: I can tell you that she obviously has a beef
Speaker 1: with your I was just trying to get a better
Speaker 1: understanding of what what's underlying that. But but Chris appreciated, Well,
Speaker 1: it's not just me that she called disgusting and part
Speaker 1: of the Pueblo mafia whatever that is.
Speaker 13: But she's called a number of other people these sort
Speaker 13: of things. And she's wholly she's wholly unqual unqualified. But
Speaker 13: she doesn't have the temper in charge you can, I mean,
Speaker 13: you know, I mean, she's think leader from the edge
Speaker 13: of the counting telling me that I'm disgusting and that
Speaker 13: I've taken bloody What kind of party leader is that?
Speaker 2: What's behind the blood money thing?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 13: You have to ask her.
Speaker 2: Okay, well yeah, but I wasn't aware of this. So
Speaker 2: the next thing, know, yeah.
Speaker 13: Next thing you know is I go to I go
Speaker 13: to a U a debate between uh her uh pray
Speaker 13: Williams and that way. You start screaming at me, Well, it.
Speaker 3: Sounds like there's something between you two. Can you educate
Speaker 3: us on that? What's what's the underlying beat?
Speaker 13: But she starts screaming to me at such an extent
Speaker 13: that the police had to come over and separate her.
Speaker 2: Okay, Chris, I would love to eat.
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to shut you down.
Speaker 1: I just want to know what's underlying this is anybody
Speaker 1: listening once to know, and if you're willing to tell me, great,
Speaker 1: If you're not, I respect that, But otherwise we don't
Speaker 1: know what you're talking about.
Speaker 13: What's underlying is that? I mean, you don't have to
Speaker 13: ask her?
Speaker 1: Well, okay, you're telling me you've never met her before. Boss,
Speaker 1: You have no idea who she has, no idea what
Speaker 1: she's talking about, So we have to ask her.
Speaker 3: I mean, okay, then what is it?
Speaker 2: What's what's underlying all this?
Speaker 13: What's the youn't have to ask her?
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, my friend.
Speaker 3: It's grateful for the call, but we are.
Speaker 1: Getting a little circular because I've got to ask the
Speaker 1: questions that people in the car would be asking, and
Speaker 1: they want to know what the beef is so they
Speaker 1: can weigh this and evaluate it. Chris, welcome to give
Speaker 1: us a call back text or Dan. Can the GOP
Speaker 1: win without being more libertarian than conservative Christian? The latter
Speaker 1: is a turn off to a good chunk of the
Speaker 1: middle and wants government out of personal lives and decisions.
Speaker 3: Boy, I'd love to have.
Speaker 1: That conversation, Texter, because my belief is this that if
Speaker 1: Colorado's vote their faith, and that doesn't mean Catholic voting
Speaker 1: for Catholic or anything like that, but if they vote
Speaker 1: for candidates who who are going to act consistent with
Speaker 1: the core principles of one's faith, that's how the GOP
Speaker 1: wins for the Democrats to win in Colorado right now,
Speaker 1: And I think Polis has implicitly acknowledged it that the
Speaker 1: Democrats have to separate voters from their faith. So I
Speaker 1: don't think the GOP should be striving to move away
Speaker 1: from people of faith or people voting their faith. I
Speaker 1: think the GOP should be trying to convince everybody in
Speaker 1: the state, no matter what party they're in, no matter
Speaker 1: what faith they have, Hey, if you vote your faith,
Speaker 1: which you really should, right if it's really your faith,
Speaker 1: you can't vote for the left, but they were left
Speaker 1: ended on that note.