Speaker 1: As much as I hate it, the governor's race has begun.
Speaker 1: And I'm not mad that there's a governor's race. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying it feels like we're always in political season.
Speaker 1: But next year we will have the opportunity to make
Speaker 1: a change in the governor's office. And I don't just
Speaker 1: mean the human being, I mean policy wise. It could
Speaker 1: be massive. And joining me now is one of those candidates.
Speaker 1: Representative Scott Bottoms has thrown his hat in the ring.
Speaker 1: He will be participating in the debate that Ryan Schuley
Speaker 1: and I from our assist our brother Station K Howe
Speaker 1: will be moderating January tenth and Greeley if you want
Speaker 1: to find out more information about that. And he joins
Speaker 1: me now to not only talk about his run for governor,
Speaker 1: but also a little deverbal kerfuffle that we're having right
Speaker 1: now between he and another candidate. First of all, Representative Bottoms,
Speaker 1: welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you for having me. Always enjoy it.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about why you decided to put your
Speaker 1: face in the wood chipper for this election cycle and
Speaker 1: decide to run for governor. What is your motivation?
Speaker 3: Well, I've never heard that description but it's not a
Speaker 3: bad one. This is so I've been a representative now
Speaker 3: for two terms, but I've been a pastor all my
Speaker 3: life since i was twenty years old. I'm fifty five now,
Speaker 3: and that's that's who I am. That's what I've done.
Speaker 3: But a few years back, I realized, through a bunch
Speaker 3: of different things and really praying about it, that I
Speaker 3: needed to be running for representative. And that was a
Speaker 3: crazy journey. And now I really felt the same thing
Speaker 3: we declared about this time last year. Actually, I've been
Speaker 3: in the race for a year. I'm the first person
Speaker 3: to have declared, and I just really feel like I
Speaker 3: have to do this. This is a spiritual journey for
Speaker 3: me too. But this is also very much we have
Speaker 3: got to reclaim Colorado. We're losing our state and everybody's
Speaker 3: just sitting around watching it happen. And I'm not one
Speaker 3: of those kind of people.
Speaker 1: So I want to start. I'm glad you brought up
Speaker 1: the fact that you're a pastor and that you're a
Speaker 1: man of faith, and this is a spiritual journey because
Speaker 1: I I'm going to be perfectly frank. One of my
Speaker 1: biggest concerns about a general election for you is how
Speaker 1: secular Colorado is. We have a higher percentage of atheists
Speaker 1: and agnostics, we have many people, we have a slight
Speaker 1: majority that identify as Christian. I looked up all this
Speaker 1: data today, But we have a lot of people who
Speaker 1: are like, yeah, there's probably a God, but it's not
Speaker 1: centered in my life. Do you feel like that is
Speaker 1: going to be a drawback and how do you reach
Speaker 1: out to those people who may not only be non religious,
Speaker 1: but maybe a little hostile towards religion.
Speaker 3: Well, being a pastor for thirty five years, I've experienced
Speaker 3: hostile toward Christianity. I've experienced that over and over and
Speaker 3: I've had many conversations with so many different atheists, agnostics,
Speaker 3: humanist people that just really are you know, they just
Speaker 3: don't care different religions. I travel all over the world,
Speaker 3: I'm preaching, teach and those.
Speaker 2: Kind of things. So this is not new to me.
Speaker 3: But the interesting thing is about being a pastor is
Speaker 3: I actually understand them better than most people do because
Speaker 3: I've been having the conversations for so many years and
Speaker 3: I know, and here's a big thing, is I respect
Speaker 3: people's rights and I respect people's individual ability for free
Speaker 3: speech and free expression and spiritual expression. I do believe
Speaker 3: that Jesus is God. I do believe that, and I
Speaker 3: do believe that the Bible is the guidebook for all
Speaker 3: of humanity. But I can't force that upon anyone. I've
Speaker 3: never forced that. If I could do that, my church
Speaker 3: would be in Colorado would be five million people.
Speaker 2: I can't even do. I can't even get people in
Speaker 2: my church, for the.
Speaker 3: Most part, to do some of the things that I
Speaker 3: think the Bible is telling.
Speaker 2: Us, which is called job security as a pastor.
Speaker 3: But when you're so broken and society is so sinful,
Speaker 3: it is job description. I mean, is job security. But
Speaker 3: here's the thing with that is my personality, my lifestyle.
Speaker 3: Who I am is truly a Christian. It's not just
Speaker 3: something I do on the side. And so I am
Speaker 3: very much a moral person. I'm a person I don't lie,
Speaker 3: I don't cheat, I don't steal. I don't even drink.
Speaker 3: A lot of pastors drink. I'm not picking on that,
Speaker 3: but I don't drink. I don't do anything like that.
Speaker 3: And so when I have this conversation with people, I'm like,
Speaker 3: what in that area makes me a bad guy? They
Speaker 3: think I'm going to somehow force I'm going to somehow
Speaker 3: force people to go to church or so. I don't
Speaker 3: know what people are thinking that I'm going to accomplish.
Speaker 3: I do pray for the state. I pray for the
Speaker 3: state for years. That's going to continue. I pray in
Speaker 3: the capital that will continue. I don't force anybody to
Speaker 3: pray any of that stuff. So it's kind of a
Speaker 3: strange question that I get, but I get it all
Speaker 3: the time.
Speaker 1: Well, I think part of it is, and this is
Speaker 1: just why this is just me spitballing here. I think
Speaker 1: part of it is when people do have a bad experience,
Speaker 1: maybe they had a church that didn't live up to
Speaker 1: the standards that they were putting forward. Maybe they have
Speaker 1: a negative view of religion. They're just putting that on you, right,
Speaker 1: because then you become the representative of whatever it is
Speaker 1: that they don't like. And that's the part that I
Speaker 1: that concerns me. Not because I think everything you just
Speaker 1: said was really smart from a pastor's point of view,
Speaker 1: but I'm concerned that it's going to be more challenging
Speaker 1: to say, Look, I am a Christian, I believe in God.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming that you pray for guidance you know, as
Speaker 1: most Christians that I know do. But there are people
Speaker 1: who are not Christians who say, oh, he wants a theocracy,
Speaker 1: which is absurd. But I do think that criticism is
Speaker 1: going to be there.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's already there, and I don't shy away
Speaker 3: from it. I'll answer those questions. It doesn't bother me.
Speaker 3: Everybody's got a thing that somebody's going to try to
Speaker 3: pick on or do whatever, and this is going to
Speaker 3: be the thing they pick on with me. That the
Speaker 3: other side of this is people don't realize that I
Speaker 3: have years and years and years worth of preaching online.
Speaker 3: They can and go find what I actually believe. Most
Speaker 3: of the other candidates you're not going to get that.
Speaker 3: You have to take them at their word at a
Speaker 3: and I'm not saying just Republican, saying both sides of
Speaker 3: the aisle.
Speaker 2: You have to take them at their word at a
Speaker 2: town hall or.
Speaker 3: Something like that, that this is who they are and
Speaker 3: this is what they believe. I have three years of
Speaker 3: a voting record in the House, I have speeches on
Speaker 3: the floor.
Speaker 2: All this is on my website.
Speaker 3: I have sermons online that you can go back and
Speaker 3: listen to for years. I'm consistently been out in the
Speaker 3: public arena, and it doesn't scare me, it doesn't bother me.
Speaker 3: I don't have the ability to turn Colorado into theocracy.
Speaker 2: It's just not possible.
Speaker 3: But I will be a very good, solid, consistently moral
Speaker 3: looking out for people. A lot of my job as
Speaker 3: a pastor is the widows and the orphans. That's scriptural,
Speaker 3: taking care of people, taking care of homeless. I've done
Speaker 3: that for years and years and years. I sat on
Speaker 3: the board of a group that after the girls were
Speaker 3: rescued out of human trafficking, we rehabilitated them for two years.
Speaker 3: I've been working in these arenas forever, feeding people, homeless shelters.
Speaker 3: I go all over the world, helping people get water
Speaker 3: and food and buildings and stuff, and so I if that,
Speaker 3: if somebody sees that as a negative, there's nothing I
Speaker 3: can do about that.
Speaker 2: But I'm actually a good guy.
Speaker 1: That's a great response, that's a solid response. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about the issues facing Colorado right now. What do you
Speaker 1: think is the number one issue facing the state.
Speaker 3: I think the number one issue, and this, by the way,
Speaker 3: is backed up by statistics, but it's also my personal
Speaker 3: number one issue is mental illness. We have a huge
Speaker 3: problem across the state and all kinds of things. And
Speaker 3: here's part of the problem is where we're taking money away.
Speaker 3: There was just one bill last session this last spring
Speaker 3: took one hundred and eighty million away from mental health.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: I think there's some intentionality there that does seem a
Speaker 3: little devious and I'm not okay with it, But we
Speaker 3: don't want to have good stuff of mental health. We
Speaker 3: don't want to put money in there. I think there's
Speaker 3: only one institution in the state of Colorado that is
Speaker 3: a penal type of mental health institution, and we're shutting
Speaker 3: all those down because why a couple of things we
Speaker 3: don't want to actually deal with mental illness. I've dealt
Speaker 3: with that for thirty five years. That's like the biggest
Speaker 3: thing that a pastor does is spiritual slash mental illness.
Speaker 3: And we're shutting these things down in Colorado. I think
Speaker 3: part of the reason is the same thing with the
Speaker 3: bill that people have been talking about HB twenty four,
Speaker 3: ten thirty four, where we're now letting criminals out much
Speaker 3: more consistently because we're saying they're incompetent to serve trial.
Speaker 2: I voted against that.
Speaker 3: I was one of the few people that voted against
Speaker 3: that because that's a mental illness issue as well as
Speaker 3: a prosecutorial issue.
Speaker 1: I do think the tide has shifted a little bit
Speaker 1: on that conversation because of the horrible, high profile crimes
Speaker 1: that have been committed by people who have been let
Speaker 1: out after being deemed and competent. Are you hopeful now?
Speaker 1: Are you you'll be back in the House this legislative session.
Speaker 1: Are you hopeful that meaningful change will happen there and
Speaker 1: that you may be able to lead the reversal of
Speaker 1: some of that funding that has been shortchanged outa mental
Speaker 1: because for me, I agree with you. I think it's
Speaker 1: an issue that doesn't just affect the people that are
Speaker 1: suffering from it. We obviously to see the quality of
Speaker 1: life in Denver, in Colorado Springs that has been impacted
Speaker 1: by this stuff. Do you have or are you working
Speaker 1: on a bill to address some of the stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've tried to do this. When it was voted in.
Speaker 3: We had a lot of discussions in our caucus about this,
Speaker 3: and I was telling the cocus, look, we've got to
Speaker 3: vote no on this. When it first came through the House,
Speaker 3: there was only two no votes, me and one other representative.
Speaker 3: It went to the Senate. Luckily, the Senate amended it,
Speaker 3: which means it can come back to the House. If
Speaker 3: the Senate went amended it, it would have passed with
Speaker 3: two no votes me and Representative de Graf. When it
Speaker 3: came back to the House with amendments, then twelve Republicans
Speaker 3: got on end, which I was very thankful for, but
Speaker 3: it wasn't enough. The bill passes. We've already got plans
Speaker 3: to do some things with that. But interestingly, some Republicans
Speaker 3: and some Democrats got together. I did a press conference
Speaker 3: in front of the Supreme Court a few months ago
Speaker 3: about this bill. I've done three press conferences about it,
Speaker 3: two of them in front of the Supreme Court.
Speaker 2: And interestingly, the people that the.
Speaker 3: Democrats and the Republicans that got together and had a
Speaker 3: meeting about this did not include me in the meeting.
Speaker 3: I didn't even know what was happening. They kept me
Speaker 3: out of it, and the first round I was one
Speaker 3: of two people that voted no. I knew I could
Speaker 3: see down the road, I know what this is going
Speaker 3: to do, and I was telling people this is going
Speaker 3: to put people at risk, and they're going to be
Speaker 3: more criminals attacking people in Colorado because of legislation, and
Speaker 3: they've left me out of the meetings.
Speaker 2: I don't know what to do with that.
Speaker 1: Well, sounds like they didn't want you there, going hey, guys,
Speaker 1: you should have listened to me the whole time. I
Speaker 1: knew what I was talking about. No, I'm just kidding secondary.
Speaker 2: I told you so kind of guy. But I got
Speaker 2: to say I told him so.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So the second thing I want to talk about
Speaker 1: with you specifically is affordability in the state.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 1: You know, we've got Excel shutting down power lines right now,
Speaker 1: and in my mind, there are a lot of people
Speaker 1: who have tried to politicize that and make it into
Speaker 1: some kind of political issue, when in reality, it's a
Speaker 1: liability issue for Excel. But it does make me ask
Speaker 1: questions about when we are one hundred percent renewables, which
Speaker 1: is the green dream in Colorado, we are going to
Speaker 1: have reliable power, right, I mean, it just stands to
Speaker 1: reason that renewables are not reliable, so we're not going
Speaker 1: to have reliable energy. If you become governor, what would
Speaker 1: your energy policy be and what would that look like
Speaker 1: in terms of trying to bring down the cost of
Speaker 1: everything in Colorado.
Speaker 2: Right, So that's you know, that's a two hour conversation. Though.
Speaker 2: Let me throw some quick things out.
Speaker 3: So first, the shutdown of the electricity, I don't think
Speaker 3: that is actually I don't think that was nefarious. I
Speaker 3: think there was some legitimate reasons why they were doing that.
Speaker 3: But with that being said, this is something that's important.
Speaker 3: Two years ago, we voted in a law that said
Speaker 3: that there are going to be entire neighborhoods in the
Speaker 3: state of Colorado that will be electric only they will
Speaker 3: not supply gas to them. Gas will not be available
Speaker 3: because the leftist in the House and the Senate hate gas.
Speaker 2: Okay, the hate oil, they hate coal, the hate gas,
Speaker 2: and they.
Speaker 3: Have stood up at the well in the Capitol and said,
Speaker 3: we will shut down oil, we will shut down coal. Well,
Speaker 3: the problem is is solar and wind will never accomplish
Speaker 3: what needs to be accomplished with the grid. And now
Speaker 3: you add AI to this, that is going to be
Speaker 3: putting the demands. I read an article a few weeks
Speaker 3: ago that said, for our federal government to accomplish the
Speaker 3: demands that AI is going to put on electric grids
Speaker 3: across the United States that we're going to have to
Speaker 3: spend five one hundred billion dollars a year to be
Speaker 3: able to accomplish that. Well, in Colorado, we think we
Speaker 3: can do this through wind power. Come on, this is
Speaker 3: this is craziness. That is it is wind power and
Speaker 3: solar are not even making positive one penny positive net
Speaker 3: games yet and so the government's subsidizing at all. The
Speaker 3: answer to that long term is small nuclear reactors. We
Speaker 3: need this in Colorado. This is going to be part
Speaker 3: of my energy plan. But we also need to drill
Speaker 3: for oil again. We also need to open up some
Speaker 3: of these coal mines that have been shutting down, and
Speaker 3: we've got to go back to coal providing electricity and
Speaker 3: also natural gas. I've been talking a lot with the
Speaker 3: energy industry and some of the natural gas distributors.
Speaker 2: We're getting another line.
Speaker 3: We have one gas line in Colorado sports all of Colorado.
Speaker 2: That's not okay.
Speaker 3: We need more, and there's another one coming through eastern
Speaker 3: Colorado that just got approved by the federal government.
Speaker 2: So so some of this we're going to be able
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 3: But my desire is long term for Colorado. We need
Speaker 3: data centers in Colorado. We need to put them on
Speaker 3: mountain streams and rivers so that the natural cold of
Speaker 3: the mountains and the water will help cool these things.
Speaker 3: But we have to have small nuclear reactors to support them.
Speaker 3: And I believe that small nuclear reactors need to be
Speaker 3: voted on at the local level, not by the federal level.
Speaker 3: Right now, Senator to Lee out of Utah, which I
Speaker 3: like the guy. I think he's a good guy. But
Speaker 3: he's trying to just plant these in the national forest
Speaker 3: and then just kind of mandate it. And I think
Speaker 3: I think local control is always the thing when it
Speaker 3: comes to affordability and housing and things like that. We've
Speaker 3: got to stop the taxes, and we've got to stop
Speaker 3: the regulation. We're the sixth most regulated state in the
Speaker 3: United States. We've lost forty percent of our businesses under
Speaker 3: the Police administration in the last five years. Okay, these
Speaker 3: are direct decisions the governor Police is making, and that
Speaker 3: the House and the Senator making. We've gone after private
Speaker 3: property ownership with about twenty bills in the last three years.
Speaker 3: We're going we are raising taxes. The big beautiful bill
Speaker 3: that Trump came up with, this horrible, bad bill actually
Speaker 3: said that people that get tips and overtime should not
Speaker 3: be taxed for those and we went into special session
Speaker 3: so that Governor Poulos could could could tell the House
Speaker 3: to make sure that we're taxing people with their tips.
Speaker 2: Why are we doing this.
Speaker 3: This is attacking people, This isn't helping people, And we
Speaker 3: just got to take the regulations off. We just now,
Speaker 3: after an eight year hiatus, we just now last year
Speaker 3: started building townhomes and condos again. Yeah, because they had
Speaker 3: we had regulated so much and put so much legislation
Speaker 3: to make it easy to sue all of these people
Speaker 3: that they just stopped building. We went eight years without
Speaker 3: building townhomes and condos, and that is a that's a
Speaker 3: transitionary housing and concept.
Speaker 2: That's how people actually get affordable housing. But we just
Speaker 2: we just took.
Speaker 3: It off the table and said it's not a there's
Speaker 3: I mean, I could go on and on. We are
Speaker 3: passing too many laws that are attacking the consumers in Colorado,
Speaker 3: and I'm going to change that starting day one.
Speaker 1: All right, so let me finish this interview. We got
Speaker 1: about four minutes left. Representative Scott Bottoms is my guest.
Speaker 1: By the way, I put a link to his website
Speaker 1: if you want to learn he's actually got policy positions
Speaker 1: on his website, which I'm excited to see. And honestly,
Speaker 1: you had me at small modular reactors. I talk about
Speaker 1: them a lot, and I think they're the future of
Speaker 1: energy period. But let's talk about the gossipy reason why
Speaker 1: unfortunately you're here. And that is part of an interview
Speaker 1: that was between my colleague grind Shuling from KJOWR, our
Speaker 1: next door neighbor, and Victor Marx yesterday and I grabbed
Speaker 1: this one little snippet. Can I buy audio a rod?
Speaker 2: Please?
Speaker 4: Here's why I'm running. No one else can win in
Speaker 4: the general but me. If Senator Kurtmeyer could, if she
Speaker 4: really could, I wouldn't be running. If Scott Bottoms who
Speaker 4: I know, and I've called her friend, I text someone
Speaker 4: his father passed away. I wrote on his Facebook page
Speaker 4: it was his anniversary thirty five years with him and
Speaker 4: his bride yesterday.
Speaker 2: God can't win the general.
Speaker 4: He called me the night before I announced and he said, Victor,
Speaker 4: don't announce.
Speaker 2: I said why why?
Speaker 4: And I'm talking to him as a friend who I've
Speaker 4: spoken at his church, Ryan and my life's not been
Speaker 4: anything but normal, So I'm like, what's going on?
Speaker 2: What do I need to know, Scott?
Speaker 4: And he said, I've been trying to get a hold
Speaker 4: of you because you know, I'm running for governor and
Speaker 4: I want you to be my lieutenant governor.
Speaker 2: Ask him direct, So.
Speaker 1: I'm asking you direct. Did you ask him to be
Speaker 1: your lieutenant governor?
Speaker 3: No, Ryan asked me direct earlier today too, the same question,
Speaker 3: played the same clip.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing.
Speaker 3: I never asked Victor to be my lieutenant governor, and
Speaker 3: he knows it. I called him and it wasn't the
Speaker 3: night before, is the day of, about two hours before,
Speaker 3: three hours before.
Speaker 2: He declared, And I said, and I was trying to
Speaker 2: get a hold.
Speaker 3: Of him for a long time because I needed his
Speaker 3: help on some human trafficking stuff. And I think providentially,
Speaker 3: now that we're seeing all of the the stuff that's
Speaker 3: coming out about who he really is as a human
Speaker 3: trafficking you know, savior guy or whatever, you know, when
Speaker 3: the truth is coming out, it's I think it's providential
Speaker 3: that he didn't help me because there's a lot of
Speaker 3: bad stuff come out. So but no, I told him,
Speaker 3: I said, Victor, I've been trying to reach you. I
Speaker 3: need some help on this human trafficking stuff. And I said,
Speaker 3: plus I wanted to talk to you about my campaign
Speaker 3: and maybe even possibly being lieutenant governor. I said, but
Speaker 3: now you have scuttled that whole thing. You've you've taken
Speaker 3: that off the table. I said, because you don't know
Speaker 3: what you're doing. And I said, there are three people
Speaker 3: that are using you. They're propping you up and using
Speaker 3: you so that they can gain some of the notoriety
Speaker 3: or money because their nonprofit or their political whatever is broke,
Speaker 3: and including our state party. That's one of the people
Speaker 3: as our state party chair. And I said, these people
Speaker 3: are using you and you don't even know this. And
Speaker 3: then he calls me, leaves a message a week or
Speaker 3: two ago saying that he wanted me to give money
Speaker 3: from my governor campaign to the state party because the
Speaker 3: state party's broke and they need seventy thousand dollars to
Speaker 3: have a state assembly.
Speaker 2: It is by law they have to have a state Assembly.
Speaker 3: So I'm actually looking at some stuff, maybe some legal
Speaker 3: action or something, because they're not letting us know anything.
Speaker 3: But Victor is the one they're sending out to try
Speaker 3: to raise money. Well, he's trying to use my friendship,
Speaker 3: which I did think we were friends, but he lied
Speaker 3: about me and he allied to me, and I'm not
Speaker 3: okay with that. And then you use my church also,
Speaker 3: and now we're finding out a bunch of stuff about
Speaker 3: the human trafficking where it looks like he's conned my
Speaker 3: church too, And so when you put all that stuff together,
Speaker 3: this is really bothered me. I called him because we
Speaker 3: were friends. I called him to try to help him
Speaker 3: and to warn him. And I never I never said,
Speaker 3: would you please be my lieutenant Governor. What I said was,
Speaker 3: I had considered that a couple months ago when I
Speaker 3: reached out to you. But there's no way that's gonna
Speaker 3: happen now. It can't because you are jumping into something
Speaker 3: that is gonna hurt you. It's gonna hurt the human traffickings,
Speaker 3: rescuing arena, all this kind of stuff. And now he
Speaker 3: did say toward the end of the conversation, because I
Speaker 3: told him, Victor, you're never gonna win, Governor, it's not possible.
Speaker 3: And he did say, well, you can't win. But here's
Speaker 3: the thing, because he said this on the radio yesterday, right,
Speaker 3: But here's the thing. I'm the front runner in every
Speaker 3: single category in any kind of social media, any kind
Speaker 3: of anything. My team is constantly doing analytics. I've had
Speaker 3: Democrats reach out to me because I am the front runner,
Speaker 3: and not just the front runner, but I am so
Speaker 3: far ahead of all the Republicans it's not even same race.
Speaker 3: I'm more than twice as far ahead as all of
Speaker 3: the rest of the Republicans put together. The second place
Speaker 3: person behind me is Barb Kirkmer, Senator Kirkmer, and she's
Speaker 3: the only one in double digits, and it's barely into
Speaker 3: double digits. I'm in the seventy five to eighty percentile.
Speaker 3: She's in double digits. All the rest of the Republicans
Speaker 3: are in single digits, including Victor Marx. And so when
Speaker 3: when he comes out and he uses me or tries
Speaker 3: to leverage some kind of conversation and twist it and turn.
Speaker 2: It that that that's.
Speaker 3: First, I don't think a friend should do that, and
Speaker 3: so I really question I don't I don't I think
Speaker 3: he was using my friendship.
Speaker 2: I don't think we were really ever friends.
Speaker 3: All of that has really bothered me, and so that's
Speaker 3: why I came out and I'm saying this is this
Speaker 3: is not okay. Yeah, run your governor campaign. But don't
Speaker 3: try to don't try to leverage me by by changing
Speaker 3: a conversation saying I say something I didn't say.
Speaker 1: Representative Scott Bottoms, I have to cut you off there.
Speaker 1: I'm running late. Right now, we'll be talking again. It's
Speaker 1: a long race. You said a lot of stuff that
Speaker 1: I really like. So thank you for your time today.
Speaker 1: And if people want to get more information about Representative
Speaker 1: Scott Botoms up a link to his website Scottbottoms dot org,
Speaker 1: correct dot org dot com, Scott Bottoms dot com, check
Speaker 1: him out. Scott, thank you for your time today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, Mandy,