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Speaker 2: Of the show with welcoming Shriff Steve Reams as your
Speaker 2: guest host today. And as I've been saying over the
Speaker 2: last few days, I want to try to get as
Speaker 2: many governor candidates on as we can, and I know
Speaker 2: that we've had some hits or misses with some of
Speaker 2: these folks. The guy we had on yesterday, Jason Clark,
Speaker 2: was definitely an entertaining character. But you know, I think
Speaker 2: it's important we keep talking about we want to see
Speaker 2: things come back in the state of Colorado. We want
Speaker 2: to make sure we get a candidate out there that
Speaker 2: can represent us and maybe bring some normalcy back to
Speaker 2: this state. So it's important to give these guys a platform,
Speaker 2: and that'll be our transition to our next guest, which
Speaker 2: is Bryson Garrison. He's a candidate for governor and he's
Speaker 2: also a fire chief out of Brighton. Bryson, how you
Speaker 2: doing doing great?
Speaker 3: Srif Raams. Thanks for having me on the show.
Speaker 2: You bet, And you know, normally I take a few
Speaker 2: swipes that my brothers who are on the fire services,
Speaker 2: but today you're you know, you're on here for a
Speaker 2: different purpose. So I want to ask you for your chill,
Speaker 2: your recipe or anything. We'll just ask you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3: I want to ask you for the doughnut resident.
Speaker 2: That's perfect, that's great. I don't like to share it. Bryceon.
Speaker 2: So obviously you're a fire chief down in the Brighton area.
Speaker 2: But what made you decide, Hey, I think I'm gonna
Speaker 2: throw my hat in this competition for governor. And what
Speaker 2: do you bring to the table.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I certainly appreciate the question. You know, the why
Speaker 3: behind what we do is always really important for me.
Speaker 2: Of course, I.
Speaker 3: Loved my fire service career and I still have some
Speaker 3: distance to go there. But what I'd really like to
Speaker 3: do is serve more people. That's what we do in
Speaker 3: public service. We're here to serve others and to help
Speaker 3: in times of need. Those are the things that come
Speaker 3: to mind for me when I say, you know the
Speaker 3: reason for the governorship is I've got some great skill sets.
Speaker 3: I look at Colorado almost in a state of emergency
Speaker 3: at times, and you know exactly what that looks like.
Speaker 3: And when you've got these emergencies, you've got to have
Speaker 3: somebody that knows how to handle them, put them in
Speaker 3: order to prioritize what needs to be done sometimes recognize
Speaker 3: some of the most important things are what are we
Speaker 3: going to stop doing so that we can stop this
Speaker 3: problem from getting worse and then work through the remediation
Speaker 3: process of finding ways to improve it. So I bring
Speaker 3: some of those skill sets to the table. But in reality,
Speaker 3: you know, what drives me is just family. I have
Speaker 3: a lot of family in the state. We have a
Speaker 3: lot of friends in the state, as all of us do.
Speaker 3: And I think what we're seeing is something where the
Speaker 3: state's becoming unrecognizable for a while, a lot of us
Speaker 3: came here or grew up here.
Speaker 2: I think about that.
Speaker 3: I picture what Colorado used to be and it's changed dramatically.
Speaker 3: I'd love to bring that back for today's generations.
Speaker 2: Yeah I can't, I kind of help, but think I know,
Speaker 2: you know, through my travels in law enforcement, I'm seeing
Speaker 2: things now that are just their gut punch, you know,
Speaker 2: for the way Colorado has become versus where it was,
Speaker 2: I have to believe that you're seeing the same thing
Speaker 2: in the emergency service aside on the fire on fireside,
Speaker 2: What does that look like in the day to day
Speaker 2: life of what you do and kind of how does
Speaker 2: that propel you to move forward?
Speaker 3: Well, it certainly is a motivator for me. You know,
Speaker 3: there's things that I can share with you. For example,
Speaker 3: with Colorado being a sanctuary state, and if we don't
Speaker 3: follow some of the government federal government guidelines, we're not
Speaker 3: receiving grant money that impacts every single community in Colorado.
Speaker 3: If your emergency services don't have some of the federal
Speaker 3: funds that have helped us along the way to provide
Speaker 3: the services that we provided, we're not going to be
Speaker 3: able to meet those missions, the mission in the public
Speaker 3: of really taking great care of people. So that's one
Speaker 3: thing I think about. You know, from a state legislative side,
Speaker 3: we've seen the state legislator have some emergency sessions and
Speaker 3: an effort to find ways to reduce the taxable burden
Speaker 3: on our citizens, which is a great thing, but they're
Speaker 3: doing that in a way that's also compromising some of
Speaker 3: the emergency services ability to respond in the field. So
Speaker 3: those are a couple you know, more professional concern that
Speaker 3: I've got. But you know, I think there's a lot
Speaker 3: more to it than that. I think we're you know,
Speaker 3: we're seeing things that you know, just from Colorado, where
Speaker 3: we have a lot of trouble with losing some economic
Speaker 3: freedom in general for our businesses and especially law enforcement
Speaker 3: because we're partners and everything we do out in the field.
Speaker 3: And I see law enforcements hands getting tied to be
Speaker 3: able to do the right thing and make our community safe.
Speaker 3: I think that's a big, a big negative impact for
Speaker 3: our communities and a place where we could certainly do
Speaker 3: things to make our community safer by untying that those
Speaker 3: hands are law enforcement to get out there and do
Speaker 3: what they're meant to do.
Speaker 2: I think one thing that the average citizen doesn't understand
Speaker 2: the person who's not the first responder. And I'm sure
Speaker 2: you see it in the fire services as well, the
Speaker 2: impact of the legalization of marijuana and then the openness
Speaker 2: of drug use in this state, the reduction of penalties
Speaker 2: on drug use in this state. You know, my deputies
Speaker 2: are constantly responding to overdose calls as well as I'm
Speaker 2: sure your fire service guys are, and you know, while
Speaker 2: you may bring that person back, or you may get
Speaker 2: them the emergency tree they need, you don't get all
Speaker 2: of them. And at the same time that's impactful to
Speaker 2: the people who are responding, it's traumatic to those people
Speaker 2: who are saving those lives as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, we call it moral injuries. You know,
Speaker 3: the firefighters, the police officers, everybody that's out there that's
Speaker 3: trying to help people in the community, and they're trying
Speaker 3: to make an impact, but we aren't stopping the main
Speaker 3: source of the problem. We're going to put a Fennel
Speaker 3: machines out in public for people to go use satanel
Speaker 3: as needed or nar can excuse me, just to overcome
Speaker 3: these overdoses, But in reality, we need to do things
Speaker 3: further upstream than that they stop that problem from happening.
Speaker 3: We want a society that doesn't rely on drugs to
Speaker 3: find their satisfaction. I think we all agree with that,
Speaker 3: and we know there's a lot of reasons why that happens.
Speaker 3: But I think in reality what we want to do
Speaker 3: is probably you and I both we want to go
Speaker 3: further upstream as legislators and make some changes that would
Speaker 3: be able to enforce the laws to stop people from
Speaker 3: using drugs that don't impact and make a positive, a
Speaker 3: positive impact in their family or their community, or you know,
Speaker 3: as far as as far as US as responders will
Speaker 3: certainly always go out and help those.
Speaker 2: That are in need.
Speaker 3: That will never change. But I think what that what
Speaker 3: that means is we need to go further upstream to
Speaker 3: help those folks that are in need.
Speaker 2: Sure, well, you've outlined some of the some of the
Speaker 2: tenets of your of your of your campaign, but what
Speaker 2: would you consider the major platforms that you're running on.
Speaker 2: I mean, what makes you different from the other candidates
Speaker 2: in the race.
Speaker 3: That's a that's a great question. And part of it is,
Speaker 3: you know, I don't know enough about some of their
Speaker 3: campaign platform two to say that. But what I what
Speaker 3: I could share with you is a couple of things
Speaker 3: that are just important. So for example, I've heard some
Speaker 3: things out there that we're going to eliminate the state
Speaker 3: income text, which is a great thing if we were
Speaker 3: able to do that, But but that requires a lot
Speaker 3: to make that happen, and maybe there's a pathway to
Speaker 3: get there. But but if that's the campaign, and I'm
Speaker 3: not saying that to everybody's but that you know, those
Speaker 3: are those things I think about that's not a reality
Speaker 3: of today. Or even eliminated property taxes, I think is
Speaker 3: a great thing. We should try and find ways to
Speaker 3: reduce that burden, the taxable burden on our communities. But
Speaker 3: we also have to make sure we're supporting the services
Speaker 3: that take care of them as well. But I think,
Speaker 3: you know, I've had a few things just to say.
Speaker 3: We've got to start with kind of restoring some economic
Speaker 3: freedom in the state. We've got some of the highest
Speaker 3: regulations in the state. We've got to find ways to
Speaker 3: attract the good paying jobs to Colorado's We've got to
Speaker 3: be able to start businesses in Colorado so that people
Speaker 3: want to live and work here. Of course, to do that,
Speaker 3: we've got to fix some of the housing prices, which
Speaker 3: you know, some of that has to do with some
Speaker 3: of the red tape that's being put out there. You know,
Speaker 3: some of that is just that we've got a lot
Speaker 3: of young people that are really struggling to figure out
Speaker 3: how to get in a home ownership. We've got to
Speaker 3: help that group out as well. I've kind of shared
Speaker 3: I would love to see communities that are safe to
Speaker 3: be in again that people don't feel like that it's
Speaker 3: dangerous for them or their children will be out in
Speaker 3: the streets. And I think we've got some of that
Speaker 3: in Colorado. And then, of course, I think education is
Speaker 3: a place where we could always do a little bit
Speaker 3: of reform. I know some folks that are in they're
Speaker 3: doing a great job, but I think there's some things
Speaker 3: that are in the education system that really don't belong there.
Speaker 3: And I think refocus, refocusing, reprioritizing on teaching things that
Speaker 3: are really actionable and usable for our youth would be important.
Speaker 3: And then the Colorado has got just some great things,
Speaker 3: our open spaces, protecting our water is important. But at
Speaker 3: the same time, we've got some great resources with oil
Speaker 3: and gas in Colorado that we also need to support
Speaker 3: them because I'll tell you what, they do a great
Speaker 3: job of supporting this state. And I think those are
Speaker 3: a lot of things that I think about of what
Speaker 3: we could start doing in Colorado to make a difference.
Speaker 2: You bet We've got Bryson Garrison On as a guest today.
Speaker 2: He's running for governor in the state of Colorado. Background
Speaker 2: is bright and he's a fire chief in Brighton. Bryson,
Speaker 2: you know, to get to the finish line. I mean,
Speaker 2: even to win the primary in this state, it takes
Speaker 2: a lot of cash. How do you how do you
Speaker 2: get out there to the voters? How do you how
Speaker 2: do you get your message out? And what's your plan
Speaker 2: for overcoming how much money those Democrats are going to
Speaker 2: throw at their various races.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's you know, I've been to a
Speaker 3: couple events and there's some pretty pretty staggering numbers thrown
Speaker 3: out there. What it's going to take to win this
Speaker 3: race in Colorado. So so one things like your opportunity.
Speaker 3: You know, Shaffing's having me on here. It's just this
Speaker 3: is great to get a chance to reach the audience share.
Speaker 3: You know, I would love to be your governor to
Speaker 3: do that. It's going to certainly take some funding for
Speaker 3: us to get there. That's with any of the candidates,
Speaker 3: and it seems like there's a few more even still
Speaker 3: entering the race. I think what I what I would
Speaker 3: like to share is as I make connections with different groups,
Speaker 3: different county GOP parties, they're they're finding pathways to create resources.
Speaker 3: I know the state gops reorganizing and finding ways to
Speaker 3: collectively help the group with some of their resources and funding.
Speaker 3: And I'm very fortunate that there are some people that
Speaker 3: I think, when they're ready and they kind of get
Speaker 3: a good idea of what's out there, that they'll be
Speaker 3: looking to support the right candidate. I know for a
Speaker 3: few of those folks on that right candidate. So I've
Speaker 3: got some some things I'm working on in the background
Speaker 3: to get those resources to support the campaign. But you're right,
Speaker 3: this is no small mountain to climb.
Speaker 2: No, it's not something you just write a check for
Speaker 2: like Governor Poulis did. Most of us don't have those
Speaker 2: means to do that. So if the listeners want to
Speaker 2: go out and find out more about you, if they
Speaker 2: want to find you on social media, where do they go.
Speaker 3: Well, that's a great question. And what I'm working on
Speaker 3: is building the campaign website as we speak. So I
Speaker 3: don't have that up and running just yet, but I'll
Speaker 3: get it out there. I'll get it to everybody. I
Speaker 3: think you can look for me at some of these
Speaker 3: local events. You'll start seeing me. We'll be talking, and
Speaker 3: I really I kind of like the face to face discussion.
Speaker 3: I'm not a person that puts out yard signs or
Speaker 3: makes T shirts. I what I am is I'm a
Speaker 3: face to face kind of person that loves to share
Speaker 3: the message and hear what's important to the voters in
Speaker 3: Colorado and champion those causes because that's who we inevitably
Speaker 3: work for, is the people that we're serving. It seems
Speaker 3: like it's kind of gone a little stuwid at times
Speaker 3: in Colorado. But I will work on in that campaign.
Speaker 3: Website finalized up and finished up so I can get
Speaker 3: it out there, so it's a finished product. But anyway,
Speaker 3: that's where I'm at on that part of it.
Speaker 2: Okay, Is there an event coming up that people could
Speaker 2: could kind of plan for if they want to meet
Speaker 2: you or ask you some questions in person?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we just had a couple events in Well County.
Speaker 3: There's another one that'll be coming in some of the
Speaker 3: next few things will be in and there's smaller events
Speaker 3: and local committees. But there's another one coming up in
Speaker 3: September that'll be downtown Denver. Where'll we come a forum
Speaker 3: where you can do some Q and A. And I apologize,
Speaker 3: I don't have that date offhand. I'm trying to find
Speaker 3: it quickly so I could share that. But but but
Speaker 3: there are some events that are coming up, and once
Speaker 3: we get those, well, I think what's really going to
Speaker 3: be helpful is if we start accessing that that goop website.
Speaker 3: Are trying to get some of that code in one place,
Speaker 3: but we don't have it all just yet put together.
Speaker 3: So but I would share that I'll be attending as
Speaker 3: many of these local groups meetings as possible so that
Speaker 3: I can at least share the message, get to meet
Speaker 3: the folks here what's important, and see how much a
Speaker 3: candidate that resonates with the.
Speaker 2: Voters sounds good. Well, I'm sure most of those groups
Speaker 2: know that if they want to find you, the Secretary
Speaker 2: of State's website provides some contact information, which is how
Speaker 2: I reached out to you. So at least there's that
Speaker 2: out there, and hopefully as time goes on, you get
Speaker 2: that website put up, and we just appreciate you coming on.
Speaker 2: I hope you had an opportunity. I am glad you
Speaker 2: had an opportunity to put a little bit of information
Speaker 2: out here, and good luck to you as you continue
Speaker 2: on down this pathway.
Speaker 3: I definitely appreciate the time and the opportunity to kind
Speaker 3: of reach some of the folks out there. I'd love
Speaker 3: to have that follow up conversation and we'll make some
Speaker 3: of those ability to have that contact put out there
Speaker 3: pretty quickly.
Speaker 2: So all right, great, Well that was bryceon Garrison. He
Speaker 2: is a candidate for governor, current Brighton fire chief, and
Speaker 2: we'll see how this all plays out. That's one more
Speaker 2: in the race and one more that you've got to hear.
Speaker 2: With that, we'll go to break and when we come back,
Speaker 2: we'll kind of do a little bit of clean up
Speaker 2: before we have another governor Canada. On at five thirty six,
Speaker 2: you're listening to the Dankaplas Show here with Well Kenny
Speaker 2: Sheriff Steve Riams as your guest host.
Speaker 4: And now back to the Dan Tapless Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Today and Brian, thanks for playing that song. Coming back
Speaker 2: in for a break fourth of July weekend. What could
Speaker 2: be more patriotic than Lee Greenwood singing that song? And
Speaker 2: I've had the pleasure of seeing him sing that in
Speaker 2: person a couple of times, whether it was at a
Speaker 2: Trump rally, I think there was one when Mitt Romney
Speaker 2: was running for president, But regardless, it was still cool
Speaker 2: to hear to hear Lee Greenwood belt in that song
Speaker 2: out and even though he's getting older, he still does
Speaker 2: a pretty darn good job with it, So thank you
Speaker 2: for that.
Speaker 3: Ryan.
Speaker 4: You know that he's the same age as Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: Right, Wow, boys, some people age better than others.
Speaker 4: William Shatner was on Cape.
Speaker 2: Yeah I heard him. I heard him. Yeah ninety four. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's great and sound sixty four. Yeah, he's crisp as
Speaker 2: could be. He brount circles around me. I'm not asking
Speaker 2: him to be a guest on the show. While we
Speaker 2: were away at break, We've got a couple of text
Speaker 2: messages come in. One I really want to get to here.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I can answer it accurately, but
Speaker 2: the question was, I'm not considering one of those burn
Speaker 2: up pepper spray launchers since the new can still carry
Speaker 2: law went into effect. What are the downsides of these tools?
Speaker 2: And I've never used one. I've researched them a little
Speaker 2: bit for some other folks, and I would say that
Speaker 2: the biggest downside is, you know, it's the old adage
Speaker 2: if you never want to bring a knife to a gunfight,
Speaker 2: it's it's close to a gun, but it's not a gun.
Speaker 2: So someone's got a gun on you returning fire with
Speaker 2: one of those. You know, it's better than nothing, but
Speaker 2: I think you're going to want to get the first
Speaker 2: shot off, and they look and sound a lot like
Speaker 2: a regular weapon, so that may result in someone firing
Speaker 2: back at you. But as a home defense weapon, if
Speaker 2: you're not really wanting to go through the hoops of
Speaker 2: having to try to buy a gun and some of
Speaker 2: the new restrictions that will go into place, those actually
Speaker 2: kick in next I believe September one. But yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know. I mean, I can't, I can't tell anybody
Speaker 2: it's a bad idea to figure out a way to
Speaker 2: protect yourself. I mean a lot of people carry, you know,
Speaker 2: a n eye for our pepper spray or whatever. That's
Speaker 2: just one more tool than the tool belt. But a
Speaker 2: firearm is always the great equalizer. And that's why I've
Speaker 2: said many times over an arms society is a polite society.
Speaker 2: And in Colorado you still can open carry. So depending
Speaker 2: on where you're at, you you know, a lot of
Speaker 2: times it's pretty it's pretty accepted, but depending on your
Speaker 2: particular community, it may not be. If you want to
Speaker 2: move to Weld County, we got a lot of we
Speaker 2: got a lot of space and we're very accepting of
Speaker 2: open carry because it happens all the time and people
Speaker 2: are very accustomed to it. So that I guess that's
Speaker 2: my long answer to a short question and one of
Speaker 2: these others. I think we're just going to skip over
Speaker 2: because I don't want to bring that out on an air.
Speaker 2: But you know, as we lead into the fourth of July,
Speaker 2: the weekend here, I do want to make a little
Speaker 2: public service announcement for everyone out there, for those of
Speaker 2: you that you know, you get ticked off and you
Speaker 2: hear fireworks going off in your neighborhood, and you know,
Speaker 2: you got that kid that keeps popping, you know, black
Speaker 2: jacks out on the corner and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: I get it. That stuff's annoying, and it's sometimes it
Speaker 2: gets on your nerves. But this is the time of
Speaker 2: the year where dispatch centers get overwhelmed, and they get
Speaker 2: overwhelmed with those kind of calls. And I'm saying that
Speaker 2: because I'm starting to see it even in my own office,
Speaker 2: where you know, our dispatchers are just getting inundated, and
Speaker 2: then when those really important calls come in, you know,
Speaker 2: a traffic accident with injuries or you know some kind
Speaker 2: of in progress emergency that needs law enforcement there. You know,
Speaker 2: in an absolute crunch, it's harder and harder for those
Speaker 2: those real calls to get get taken care of. What
Speaker 2: I would encourage people to do is go out and
Speaker 2: talk to your neighbors if you're not if your neighbor's
Speaker 2: doing something you don't necessarily agree with, or lighting off fireworks,
Speaker 2: making an opportunity to go out and say hi. And
Speaker 2: I know that may sound crazy, especially in today's society,
Speaker 2: but don't expect law enforcement to come fix everything. And
Speaker 2: I'm saying that as a public service announcement for a
Speaker 2: guy who's worked in law enforcement for almost twenty eight
Speaker 2: years now. So many of these issues just get worse
Speaker 2: when you ask law enforcement to come fix them. And
Speaker 2: oftentimes when we get there, they say, I wish you
Speaker 2: had just come over and said something. We just stop
Speaker 2: popping them. So take that to heart, take it for
Speaker 2: what it's worth. And when we come back, we will
Speaker 2: have yet another governor's candidate, mister Greg Lopez, probably the
Speaker 2: most notable candidate in the race so far as far
Speaker 2: as name recognition goes. So we'll get back with him
Speaker 2: in just a few minutes. But you're listening to Dan
Speaker 2: Caplis Show here with well Kenny Sheriff Steve Reims as
Speaker 2: your guest host.
Speaker 4: You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2: And without further ado, we'll just go ahead and jump
Speaker 2: right into this next guest, which is our I don't
Speaker 2: know eighth or ninth candidate for governor that we've had
Speaker 2: on in the last few few days, and that is
Speaker 2: Greg Lopez. Greg has been the former mayor of Parker.
Speaker 2: He filled in at the end of Congressman Bucks term
Speaker 2: and I guess won the election for that fill in
Speaker 2: spot for CD four and has been a candidate. Now
Speaker 2: this is your third time running for governor, and probably
Speaker 2: that third time might be the charm. Is that correct?
Speaker 3: Greg?
Speaker 5: Hey, Steve, how are you doing.
Speaker 2: I'm doing well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, actually this is the third time that
Speaker 5: I'm seeking the nomination to be the Republican candidate for governor.
Speaker 5: So yes, this is the third time I'm seeking the nomination.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, more power to you. I don't know how.
Speaker 2: I don't know how anybody musters up the strength to
Speaker 2: want to do it once yet alone three times, But
Speaker 2: here we are. So with that being said, I mean
Speaker 2: you've you've obviously been in this fight for a little while.
Speaker 2: What makes this candidacy different from the other two.
Speaker 5: Well, look, as you did it earlier. You know, I'm
Speaker 5: a former congressman. I have the most name recognition throughout
Speaker 5: the state, and people truly understand that I care. Both candidates.
Speaker 5: After they lose, you never see them again. You don't
Speaker 5: see them back in the battlefield. You know, for the
Speaker 5: last seven years, we've seen what a single party control
Speaker 5: can do.
Speaker 2: It's terrible.
Speaker 5: It's terrible, and Colorado's in the crisis. Look, I've been
Speaker 5: my wife and I have been here in thirty eight years.
Speaker 5: The Colorado that we know and love is being a race.
Speaker 5: And I'm here to tell you that it's time for
Speaker 5: Colorado to make a comeback, to make Colorado Colorado again.
Speaker 5: And the way we do that is we put people
Speaker 5: over politics, and I am going to do that. I've
Speaker 5: been traveling the state and this this is what's different,
Speaker 5: is that people are truly understanding the severity of what
Speaker 5: is happening here in the state of Colorado, and they
Speaker 5: are looking for a voice that they've heard before, a
Speaker 5: voice that they can fully believe that will never go away.
Speaker 5: As long as we're having to deal with, you know,
Speaker 5: our brothers and sisters on the left side that have
Speaker 5: seen to be lost and what they're doing.
Speaker 2: So, what do you think are the major issues you
Speaker 2: would address if elected as governor of Colorado? What would
Speaker 2: be those things you would focus most focus on.
Speaker 5: Well, let me tell you. Look, you know, Colorado's in
Speaker 5: the crisis everywhere you look. But one of the things
Speaker 5: that I will do is so this sanctuary state, this
Speaker 5: needs to go away. We are not a we cannot
Speaker 5: be a sanctuary state. The sec that we are has
Speaker 5: raised our crying levels, has caused a lot of have it.
Speaker 5: So local control is another thing. I want to give
Speaker 5: local control back to the counties, back to the cities
Speaker 5: where the government doesn't tell them what to do or
Speaker 5: how to do it, how to live their lives. The
Speaker 5: state needs the stay out of local control of regulations.
Speaker 5: I'm the former director of the United States Small Business Administration.
Speaker 5: I know the importance of small business and how regulations
Speaker 5: through DORA is crippling small business, which means we're not
Speaker 5: able to hire people, We're not able to live that
Speaker 5: American dream that everybody wants. And so there's a lot
Speaker 5: of things crime. I mean, it can go on and
Speaker 5: on and on about all the things that are happening,
Speaker 5: but local control, sanctuary state, removing regulations, making governments back,
Speaker 5: put government back into lane where they belong, and allowing
Speaker 5: everybody to live that quality of life that we can
Speaker 5: all be proud of Colorado once again.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you this question. Greg. You know,
Speaker 2: there's been a lot of candidates saying I'm going to
Speaker 2: eliminate state income tax. I'm going to eliminate this tax
Speaker 2: or that tax. You haven't made those comments. But I
Speaker 2: don't think Colorado has a revenue issue. I think Colorado
Speaker 2: has a spending issue. And when I say spending issue,
Speaker 2: it's not that they're spending too much. It's necessary necessarily,
Speaker 2: it's that they're spending things, in my opinion, on stuff
Speaker 2: that the voters don't prioritize. I mean, I can't tell
Speaker 2: you how many times driving down here to the studio
Speaker 2: from Weald County, I've just about rattled my teeth out
Speaker 2: of my head. If elected as governor, what would your
Speaker 2: priorities be for spending in this state? Where would you
Speaker 2: focus the government moneyes too?
Speaker 5: Look, you just said it. Look, transportation infrastructure is what's
Speaker 5: going to bring jobs to Colorado. It what it allows
Speaker 5: us to get to where we need to go. This
Speaker 5: traffic and congestion is unbelievable. Look, when I served in Congress,
Speaker 5: I said on the Budget Committee, I sat on the Science,
Speaker 5: Base and Technology Committee, and I was also one of
Speaker 5: the first people to sit on the Dose Committee. Government
Speaker 5: is spending way too much money. You know, the state
Speaker 5: was one point two billion over budget. Did right here
Speaker 5: right here to tell you it's going to be worse
Speaker 5: next year because they're spending too much money, like you
Speaker 5: just said, and nobody's watching it. How can you not
Speaker 5: know that you're one point two billion dollars over budget
Speaker 5: until the JBC gets together. I mean to me, that
Speaker 5: just shows lack of executive experience, lack of administrative oversight,
Speaker 5: and the bureaucrats are just running them up. Well, I
Speaker 5: got to stop that.
Speaker 2: And I think there's a lot of pet projects that
Speaker 2: on the left side of the aisle likes to feed
Speaker 2: and they don't. It's at any cost. I mean, that's
Speaker 2: that's my personal opinion.
Speaker 5: So hey, look at the governor. The governor wants to
Speaker 5: build a twenty million dollar bridge from the front steps
Speaker 5: of the Capitol over to Liberty Park twenty millions. Talk
Speaker 5: about these pet projects that you're talking about. The whole
Speaker 5: introduction of the wolf, that is a pet project of
Speaker 5: Governor Polis.
Speaker 2: And it's cost a lot of mind. Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 5: And they're hurting rule Colorado. They're hurting our ranchers, our farmers,
Speaker 5: They're causing havoc up in the western Slope. You know,
Speaker 5: I can't even go into the water issue and how
Speaker 5: Governor Polish is ignoring our water issues. I mean, she's
Speaker 5: out to lunch. And a governor that truly understands the
Speaker 5: importance of how to be an executive administrator and put
Speaker 5: people in for the politics.
Speaker 2: Well, I got a challenge one of the points you made.
Speaker 2: You said that Colorado isn't a sanctuary state. All right,
Speaker 2: you said it is a sanctuary state, but Governor Polis
Speaker 2: keeps saying it's not. So how can those two things
Speaker 2: be the same?
Speaker 5: Well, look, I would say you this. I know it's
Speaker 5: legal to smokes here in Colorado, but I think he's
Speaker 5: looking way too much of it because we all though
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 3: That it is absolutely yeah, you know.
Speaker 5: So he's just trying to mislead the voters. And I'm
Speaker 5: here to tell you that the voters are now recognizing
Speaker 5: that a lot of stuff that he says it's not true.
Speaker 2: Well, and I won't limit this to one party. I
Speaker 2: think you have to be careful. You know, politicians of
Speaker 2: both walks have been guilty of just making outlandish statements
Speaker 2: and boldface lies. But I've not seen a governor who
Speaker 2: just so willingly will just tell you something and pretend
Speaker 2: as if it's the truth. Is what Governor Polus does.
Speaker 2: And I hope that that's not anything we see from
Speaker 2: any of our Republican candidates. That just can't be a
Speaker 2: tenant of anyone who's running to be a Republican candidate
Speaker 2: for governor.
Speaker 5: I totally agree with you. And look, you know, you
Speaker 5: know me, what you see is what you get. I
Speaker 5: haven't changed my messaging, I haven't changed where I stand
Speaker 5: on my issues. You know, I'm a veteran. I would
Speaker 5: just say, well that, you know, and we are in
Speaker 5: a war. We're in a war in Colorado for a worldview,
Speaker 5: and the worldview that they have had is on in
Speaker 5: the last seven years. It's not the worldview that most
Speaker 5: colorado want to see. And that's why it's time for
Speaker 5: a comeback. We've got to make Colorado Colorado again. And
Speaker 5: that's exactly what I'm going to do, is I'm going
Speaker 5: to make Colorado a state that we can all be
Speaker 5: proud of.
Speaker 2: Well, so to that point, you said, you haven't changed
Speaker 2: your messaging, You're still the same Canada that you've been before. Well,
Speaker 2: with that being said, how do you get that message
Speaker 2: to resonate differently than maybe it has in the first
Speaker 2: couple of campaigns? And how do you get that message
Speaker 2: out to a broader spectrum? You know, I don't want
Speaker 2: to see I don't want to see you go the
Speaker 2: same path and not become the candidate. How do you
Speaker 2: get there? How do you how do you get over
Speaker 2: that finish line?
Speaker 5: Well, here's the difference, right, The difference is that you
Speaker 5: know what we're now because we are very well recognized
Speaker 5: and people across the nation are a where what I'm
Speaker 5: doing here in Colorado? We are now focusing on the
Speaker 5: urban corridors. Look, you just know, sure, if that it's
Speaker 5: the urban corridor, that's where the battle is. The battle
Speaker 5: is in the urban corridor. As if it chains to
Speaker 5: the vote. Sure, they focused on twenty one counties and
Speaker 5: they throw away forty three. They throw them away because
Speaker 5: they don't need the vote. You know of the other
Speaker 5: forty three counties. Be the former president of the Denver
Speaker 5: Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, being on the board of the
Speaker 5: Martin Luther King Awards Committee, and being the director of
Speaker 5: Fault Business. I've been in the urban corridor talking to
Speaker 5: the voters, listening to their concerns. Two weeks ago, I
Speaker 5: was at the Lote Riders show at the Complex and
Speaker 5: they were like, we're so glad you're running. And I
Speaker 5: would tell them, look, I'm a Republican and they're like,
Speaker 5: we could care less who you are, whether you're a
Speaker 5: Republican or Democrat. We like what you're saying. You're one
Speaker 5: of us. We're going to vote for you.
Speaker 2: I got you, Okay. So if you're if you're a
Speaker 2: listener out there, If if we got a listener out
Speaker 2: there that wants to find out more about your campaign, Greg,
Speaker 2: where do they go? What's your website? What are your
Speaker 2: social media platforms? Where do they find out more about you?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Look, they need to go to Greg Lopez dot c
Speaker 5: O just like Colorado not an m Greg Lopez dot
Speaker 5: c And here's where I'll tell everybody. The next governor,
Speaker 5: it's going to be the forty fourth governor that this
Speaker 5: state has ever had. So I'll encourage everybody go to
Speaker 5: my website make a forty four dollars contribution every month.
Speaker 5: For anything lower than forty four dollars, it really doesn't matter.
Speaker 5: Look at the end of the day, we are going
Speaker 5: to be the next owner of this state because the
Speaker 5: people deserve a new chapter and I'm going to write
Speaker 5: it alongside with them, because it's time to Colorado.
Speaker 4: Made that comeback, and now back to the Dan Kaplas
Speaker 4: Show podcast.
Speaker 2: It always flies by so fast, and the whole week's
Speaker 2: gone by fast. It's been a pleasure to be here
Speaker 2: with you filling in for Dan as he does his
Speaker 2: trial prop I just want to read a few text
Speaker 2: messages as we close out the show, a couple of
Speaker 2: little points of feedback from some of our governor's candidates.
Speaker 2: One of them here says, mister Lopez is right. Everyone
Speaker 2: else has been one and done when they run for office.
Speaker 2: He's been representing the people at various levels for several
Speaker 2: elections cycles. I appreciate that he's been there consistently. I'd
Speaker 2: vote for him as governor if he maintains, I'll be
Speaker 2: promoting him for sure. And here's another one. This is
Speaker 2: probably geared at Bryce and Garrison. I would assume it
Speaker 2: always worries me when a candidate for governor jumps in
Speaker 2: the race and does not have a website or a
Speaker 2: Twitter or Facebook or any anyway for someone to reach
Speaker 2: out to them. Just makes me a little worried. And
Speaker 2: then my favorite text of all of the day, Steve
Speaker 2: has cut out to be a full time host. Awesome job.
Speaker 2: That person must be a family member or something, and
Speaker 2: they just don't want me to be home very much,
Speaker 2: or they think there's some kind of hour like midnight
Speaker 2: that needs to be filled on some obscure radio station.
Speaker 2: But either way, I appreciate the feedback. And it's always
Speaker 2: good to have the listeners dialing in or texting in
Speaker 2: to the show and letting us know that you're paying
Speaker 2: attention out there. Again, you know, as we roll into
Speaker 2: the fourth of July holiday, and this is my favorite.
Speaker 2: This is the one where people get to let their
Speaker 2: hair down a little bit, celebrate the celebrate our country.
Speaker 2: You know, remember what's important about our freedom here and
Speaker 2: it's unlike anything else anywhere else. You'll find in the world.
Speaker 2: Fourth of July is just it's a phenomenal way to
Speaker 2: celebrate our nation's independence and for kicking some button, having
Speaker 2: our own country. And now we're rolling into the two
Speaker 2: hundred and fiftieth anniversary of this country. I think President
Speaker 2: Trump's going to be in Iowa. He was either there today,
Speaker 2: I don't know. He should have asked him Ryan when
Speaker 2: he was on earlier how his trip to Iowa was
Speaker 2: shaping up all that being said, miss it, Yeah, you know, opportunities.
Speaker 2: But I think you know, this next year is going
Speaker 2: to be full of some exciting stuff as we get
Speaker 2: ready to celebrate the two hundred and fifty year anniversary.
Speaker 2: And I'm looking forward to what Fourth of July will
Speaker 2: look like next year, as obviously there's going to be
Speaker 2: a grand, a grand celebration I would assume in Washington,
Speaker 2: d C. With President Trump being in office. And most importantly,
Speaker 2: I want to think Ryan and Kelly behind the glass,
Speaker 2: who made sure I didn't make a complete full of
Speaker 2: my just a partial fool of myself, but important that
Speaker 2: you do the partial fool. Yeah, you know, you got
Speaker 2: to have a little bit of fun, you know. Kelly
Speaker 2: set up Greg Brox Greg George Brockler to come on
Speaker 2: yesterday afternoon, and that guy and I probably shouldn't sit
Speaker 2: next to each other at any event that we're at.
Speaker 2: In fact, we usually are separated because we act like
Speaker 2: school kids. But it's always fun having him on the
Speaker 2: show and cutting it up with him a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yesterday afternoon was good, and you know, Kelly made that happen,
Speaker 2: so again, thanks Kelly. And I've been told that I'm
Speaker 2: going to get some kind of dinner because of because
Speaker 2: of my distaste for one of Kelly's restaurants.
Speaker 3: You we've never been to a cheriscaria, You've never been
Speaker 3: to Texas Day Brazil, so we got to take you.
Speaker 2: We're going to make that happen. Well again. That's wrapping
Speaker 2: up day three of this two hour show and it's
Speaker 2: just been a pleasure to fill in here for Dan Kaplis,
Speaker 2: and I look forward to seeing you sometime in the
Speaker 2: near future. Well, Kenny Sheriff Steve Reams signing off,