Join Kim Monson and her dynamic team as they unravel the intersections between climate narratives and public policy. Discover engaging stories on energy use, mobility rights, and the surprising debates about insect protein as a food source. This episode sheds light on impactful legislation, the importance of informed voting, and the essence of maintaining our freedoms amidst changing political landscapes.
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With what is happening down at the Statehouse, I used to think that it was above my pay grade to read the legislation, and it’s not.
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I see big danger in as much as we will be giving an unelected bureaucrat the power to make rules about what we inject into our bodies.
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Indeed, let’s have a conversation and welcome to the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You’re each treasured, you’re valued, you have purpose. Today’s drive for excellence, take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. Thank you to the team I get to work with. That’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Thursday, Producer Joe. Happy Thursday, Kim. Yes, and lots going on here. I just looked over. Somebody just added something to the studio here on the back of the door. We’ll have to check that out. It says jail, something on that. So we’ll have to get the story on that. But be sure and check out our website. That is kimmonson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter that goes out on Sundays. You’ll get first look at all of our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. You can email me at kim at kimmonson.com. The text line, and I love hearing from you, I’m trying to stay on top of that as much as possible during the show, is 720-605-0647. Thank you for supporting us. We are an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you shouldn’t have to force people to do it. And it’s never compassionate to take other people’s stuff. Taking other people’s stuff is called stealing. So it’s not compassionate to take their stuff, whether or not it’s their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunities, childhood, or their lives via force. And force can be a weapon, policy, unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, this agenda by the World Economic Forum. playing out with the globalist elites, the United Nations. The Colorado State Legislature is certainly carrying the water for that agenda with the help of the governor here in Colorado. But then we’re also seeing land use codes and zoning regulations and forced fees, conservation easements, national monument designations, these transmission corridors, all these things. are taking control of our property. And if you can’t control your property, you don’t own your property. So that’s why we are kicking the tires on all of these ideas. The show comes to you 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday. The first hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon. Second hour, 10 to 11 at night. And that’s on all KLZ 560 platforms. And so that’s KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, and the KLZ app. So that is all the hot skinning on all that stuff. Our word of the day is verbose. And it’s spelled V-E-R-B-O-S-E. And I think I pulled this. I’m trying to listen to words throughout the day and write them down if I think it might be a good word of the day. And I think that Colonel Rutledge had used this in one of our conversations. And it could be using or containing more words than are necessary. Okay. And it seems like those that are wanting to make excuses for all the fraud, waste, and abuse that’s been going on in our country have been very verbose in their explanations. So when you have to use a lot of words, you might want to be cautious of what it is that they’re really saying. And our quote of the day, thank you to Ginny. from George Washington. I’ve been doing George Washington quotes for most of the week because he was born on February 22nd, 1732. He died February 11th, 1731. He was American founding father. He was the first president of the United States, commander of the Continental Army, the only six-star general that we have, and presided over the Constitutional Convention. So he is known as the father of our country. And he said this. He said, freedom and property rights are inseparable. You can’t have one without the other. And that is George Washington. Let’s see. I think we’re going to talk about the bill of the day in the next segment. So just stay tuned on all of that. And I want to say thank you to Richard, one of our listeners. I was trying to give information about this. I was something that I thought was pretty exciting I just I had I’d been talking with it somebody about it now is this US this four nations face-off final and hopefully I’m gonna get this right so Richards listing let me know bet in I guess instead have the all-star game for hockey that professional hockey they decided to do this four nations face-off and the very first game last week was U.S. and Canada, and I think it’s the goalie had, for Canada, had a perfect record almost. And the U.S. actually won that game. And interestingly enough, this was played in Canada. I can’t remember if it was Montreal or Toronto. And the Canadians won. uh booed during the national anthem so tonight is the final game and it works out that it’s going to be canada and the u.s again and i think the game is being paid played in boston and my colleague that i was talking with said i hope that the americans uh show some real class And do not boo during the Canadian National Anthem. So that’s tonight. It’s going to be a big game and pretty exciting. And so I was trying to do a search for it. And what came up was these Invictus games. And I was trying to connect the dots. I couldn’t figure out what it was. But the Invictus games, I think, were just occurring around the same time. And this is for people that are handicapped. And so that was going on at the same time. So I got a little mixed up and I thought I better try to correct things. Hopefully, Richard, I got it right. So just let me know if you’re out there listening this morning. Let’s see. First headline that I wanted to get to was that and this is so we talked with this about this with Lauren Fix yesterday. And this is regarding these emission rules. And she said that there had been an executive order, but that Congress needed to do something about it. So as I was going through headlines last night, I was trying to connect the dots on this. And this is from Reuters. It says the U.S. EPA submits Biden approval of California EV plan to Congress. And this is what Lawrence said needed to happen. And it says it says on Wednesday, it has submitted the Biden administration’s approval of California’s landmark plan to end the sale of gasoline only vehicles by 2035 to Congress for review and potential repeal. The decision by the Trump administration, which may still face legal challenges, gives the Republican-led Congress a chance to repeal the Biden decision under the Congressional Review Act. As a candidate, President Donald Trump vowed to rescind approvals granted by the EPA to California to require more EVs and tighter vehicle emission standards. Those rules have been adopted by another 11 states. And so this is really huge. We heard it first yesterday on the show. And so that is, I think, one of the first headlines. And I think that that’s really important because this has really been an assault upon our freedom of mobility. And so stay tuned on this. This is why elections are so important. And I’m going to be up in Steamboat on Sunday. I have the great honor to deliver the keynote for the Routt County Lincoln Day Brunch. And they’ve asked me to talk about the documentary, A Climate Conversation, which I have the honor to be the narrator on that. It’s the project of Walt Johnson. Walt and Rami are good friends of mine, and Walt is a geophysicist, and he just really wanted to have a conversation about this narrative regarding climate change. And so we brought in experts and scientists and just went through some Socratic questioning. And so if you’ve not seen the film, you can watch it for free by going to aclimateconversation.com. But what we’re realizing is they are using this climate narrative to really go after the things that have made our modern lives so prosperous and that we can thrive. We’ve taken it for granted. But it’s important to understand that. So up in Moffett County… There’s one of the coal-fired plants that they want to, here in Colorado, they want to close that within the next few years. And here it is providing reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy. And so all these things, our freedom of mobility, we’re seeing our food source under attack, our power source is under attack. And so that’s why we have an opportunity right now. But I also want to talk about elections a little bit when I’m up there as well, because I think Colorado is at the tip of the spear of all of the. Things that are just very curious regarding elections, and that is mail-in ballots going everywhere, not cleaning our voter rolls, not being able to audit our elections, questions about how the machines tabulate the votes, how those votes get uploaded to the Secretary of State, no signature verification audits, questions at the post office. This, all these things ask, we have to question our elections. And when we had Peter Berneger on with the Wisconsin Center for Election Justice a few weeks ago, and again, thank you to all of you who contributed so that we have the lawsuit there with Wisconsin Center for Election Justice that was filed on November 1st, questioning the cleanliness of our voter rolls, and then also with United Sovereign Americans. uh… we have that lawsuit filed as well that was filed in september that our elections aren’t are not meeting the minimum minimum standards as set forth by congress uh… but peter said that there were five races in california congressional races that were very suspect just think about how that uh… that uh… changes the balance of power so as we’re looking here in Congress to reverse the rules that they put in regarding EVs. Well, gosh, just those little different numbers of congressmen and women, whether or not they’re Republicans or Democrats, makes a big difference. So these elections really, really do matter. And we’ve got a lot of work to do on ours here in Colorado. Next headline I wanted to mention, and this is from Fox News. And although I don’t find this so shocking, but this was the headline on this. It says shocking government report reveals national debt crisis grew much worse under Biden. Well, I’m not really sure that. we needed anybody to tell us that. But in fact, that is the case. And it says data included in a new report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office shows that America’s debt crisis grew substantially worse under President Joe Biden. Without significant changes, the United States will face unprecedented budget challenges over the next decade, difficulties that could cause a large economic crisis. And we’ll talk with Daniel Turner here in the first hour as our featured guest regarding all of this money that the Biden administration was pushing out the door before Trump, too. Well, Trump took office. 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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. And thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you shouldn’t have to force people to do it. And as many of you know, I’ve got this volunteer gig that I’m doing. as president of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. It’s an all-volunteer group since 1976, has been watching legislation and taking a stand for the taxpayer down at the state legislature. And we’d love to have you join us. It’s $25 a year. You can do that by going to coloradotaxpayer.org, and you will receive the email that we send to all of the legislators and the governor regarding positions on a variety of bills each week. It’s really an amazing group that I get to work with and really pleased to have Corey Onizorg on the line with us. He’s a new board member. He’s also our claim to fame. Corey, welcome to the show.
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Thanks a lot, Kim. Appreciate it. Always great to start the morning with you on air.
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And we are so jazzed to have you on the board with us at the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. And when I say claim to fame, you had a stint in the NFL.
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Yeah, that’s right. It feels like a couple of lifetimes ago, but, you know, the American dream is to is to go with what you’re passionate about and reach for the stars. And I was able to go from a Division III college to an NFL experience, and not many people get to do that. So I feel really blessed.
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Well, I think that is so cool, and it’s a great story. But let’s move over here to a public policy, and that is what we’re doing at the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. And you’re a new board member, and you’ve just jumped in and really embraced this, and we really appreciate that. But this Bill Track 50 that we use is a pretty cool tool. technology, and it has all of the bills and the continuing resolutions that are being proposed down there. And, Corey, as of this morning, we have a total of 481 bills or resolutions that’s been introduced down at the statehouse. That’s crazy.
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Yeah, I’m a little disappointed, Kim. I thought they hit 500 by our phone call today. I mean, it’s not even two-thirds of the way through February. It’s crazy. There are busy beavers down there at the Capitol.
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Well, they are, and we have taken positions on 116 of the bills so far. And what we do is we look at the bills that are scheduled for the next week for hearing, and we take positions on that. And taking positions on those 116, it’s a lot of work on what the team does. But we had our board meeting last week, and there’s this really interesting bill, and I’m the one that initially goes through all the bills for the next week and determines which bills, I think, regarding either property rights or taxes or school choice or TABOR, our Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights. If it seems like it’s affecting those things, I’ll then put that out for the team to review and take a position. It could be yes, no, or do not rate. But I did not put this one on there for everybody’s review, and that’s Scott Bottoms’ bill. House Bill 25-1134, insect production for human consumption, because I didn’t see government subsidies or anything like that. I didn’t see tax dollars. And I thought, well, it should compete in the free market. And so we had a discussion about it, and you’ve really delved into this. So what’s your thoughts on this House Bill 25-1134, basically the bug for human consumption bill?
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Well, you’re right, Kim. There isn’t a whole lot of fiscal impact, and I generally err on the side of free market. When it comes to where we’re at today, I think I’d start with the Bible. And Leviticus 1120, all flying insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you. And I think we’ve gotten a long way away from our Judeo-Christian values, especially here in Colorado and the USA in general. And I think we’re returning to that. But I always start there in such crazy times as these. But as far as just the general health implications, so over 7 million people in the United States of America have shellfish allergies. And are susceptible to anaphylactic shock when ingesting this chitin in the bug protein. And if you don’t have an EpiPen handy, you could easily die. That’s one of the bad downsides of this that we have to acknowledge. So labeling is a must, 100%, starting there. And then You know, as far as chitin is concerned, you know, the parasites in our body that can lead to disease and cancer, I mean, it’s a really tough, tough environment to live in a healthy human body for those guys. But when, you know, when you have, I guess, 80% of Colorado here has been infected, injected with a spike protein that has affected people’s immune systems. So immune systems are generally down. People are constantly needing boosters from it. And then you add in this chitin concept where these parasites are going to be feeding on this and protecting themselves with it. They’re going to proliferate. And then you look at big pharma. I mean, they’re preparing for cancer outbreaks, not just here in America, but throughout the world. And You know, something that’s not really very well studied. And, you know, when you go on Google, you do a Google search for is bug protein poisonous for humans, you’re going to get a very different result if you go to, say, Yandex, right, the Russian search engine, or you go to Brave. I always use Brave browser and search engine. I like it. It’s more private. But anyway, you know, looking through all of this, you know, we haven’t done a you know, I think to myself, we’re running, you know, towards a place that, and look who’s behind it. You’ve got, you know, the U.N., UNESCO, you’ve got the World Economic Forum behind this. I mean, the people that I certainly detest that want to shut off our energy, you know, and they’ve said publicly they want us to eat bugs and they sell it as a climate thing. But what are we going to do if we try to do this on an industrial standard, you know, for the environmentalists out there? We all watch Jurassic Park, you know, and the quote, life finds a way. I mean, these bugs are going to Potentially get out and have an impact on our environment. And you think about it, one cow was that maybe hanging weight of 750 pounds. You know, one grasshopper or cricket, I’d say, is… 0.4 grams it’s gonna it’s 90 000 of these bugs to equal one cow oh my gosh you know on the shelf and how are you going to do quality control on that many little bugs and the parasites and whatever else may be in them so you know i don’t think it’s unhealthy you know i ride motorcycles and like to chase trains and all that stuff in the countryside and and sure you’re going to eat bugs sometimes if you know especially if you’re not wearing a helmet but uh And it’s not going to kill you. But, you know, to have this as a primary food source I think is a really big mistake for humanity and for Colorado.
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Well, so, and I’ve not talked to Representative Bottoms about this. Where I was coming down on this, Corey, was I always am looking at far-reaching consequences of government overreach. So what I was concerned about is if we pass a law because we say bugs are not good for us, that we will limit bug production. My concern is that somebody’s going to come at it with a narrative of beef is not good for you. it causes blah blah blah and that we would see a movement to try to outlaw beef so that’s that was the reason i didn’t put it out for our review was because i was looking at it from this freedom issue so what would you say to that you know at the end of the day you know the thought of
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when I look back on this, I think of two things. I think of Lion King and I think of, you know, Simba going out and having to eat bugs, you know, the king of the jungle and kind of the… I don’t know. It’s just kind of a weird thought there. That was back in 1994. And then you had Joe Rogan eating bugs and that was a weird thing. And… To me, I get a gag reflex when I even think about bugs and eating them. I have no interest in it whatsoever. It’s completely against my faith. But at the same time, if people want to eat the bugs, the estimated population by 2050 is supposedly 9 billion, and they think it’s good to have an emergency food supply. I just don’t want them to keep killing off bugs. Gaggles of chickens for false PCR tests, swine flu, and same thing with herds of cattle. I mean, this is ridiculous. I mean, they’re killing our food supply, and they’re manufacturing the demand for this really overall unwanted source of protein. So that’s kind of my take on it.
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Okay. Corey, I really appreciate that. And good conversation on this. And that bill, and I don’t think we will take a position on it from the cut standpoint. And I doubt that it’ll make it through any of these hearings because of just the makeup down there at the Statehouse. But I really everything that you say makes so much sense, Corey. And that’s Corey Onizorg with the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. And we’ve got some exciting things that we’re working on. I know you’re working on we’re going to try to take over our X account and start to have a bigger presence there. And so I’m excited about that, Corey, because you seem to know what you’re doing with that. And I love that.
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Yeah, I agree. It’s an honor to be on the board. I ran for House District 23. So it’s really like being a legislator. And I feel for these people in the Capitol, both Democrats and Republicans. I mean, this is a huge workload, you know, but really there’s I mean, there’s there’s some serious lunacy going on on these bills. And we try to highlight that. And we will be launching X and connecting with you there. But really, this isn’t a Democrat or Republican or I mean, everyone’s a taxpayer. Everybody should support this. It’s an amazing cause. We get the information out. We help inform Colorado, and it takes an informed Colorado to have a quality Colorado and go back in the right direction.
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Absolutely. Corey Onozorg, we are so delighted that you’ve joined the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, the CUP Board, and thank you for sharing all this research on this. This is really good stuff. That’s regarding House Bill 251134. We’ll talk again very soon.
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Have a blessed day, Kim. Thanks again.
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Welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice, and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And a nonprofit that I dearly love is the USMC Memorial Foundation. And they are raising money for the remodel of the Marine Memorial, the official memorials right here in Colorado. And this would be a good week to make a contribution in honor of two great heroes that just passed on. One is Jack Thurman. He passed on. He was a veteran of the Battle of Iwo Jima. He’s a Marine veteran. And he just passed on. And he’s actually in that gung-ho photo after the American flag was raised on Mount Suribachi. And he’s standing right behind Ira Hayes, his friend who got him into the picture. And so we’re going to rebroadcast one of the interviews that I did with Jack this Sunday on the America’s Veterans Story show. And then C.R. Cusack also just passed on, a veteran of the Vietnam War, and interviewed him as well. And so we’ll be broadcasting that very, very soon. So it would be a great week to just make a contribution in honor of those guys. And you can do that by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. That’s usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And pleased to have on the line with me the founder of Power the Future, Daniel Turner. Daniel, I’m so excited to have you on the line. Welcome.
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Kim, it’s always great to be on your program. Thank you.
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It’s been a little while. A lot’s happened. We’re in Trump 2 now. Trump’s in office. And things are changing. And I just wanted to get your read on it. And at Power of the Future, you’d written this piece or you guys had published this piece regarding all this money that Biden was pushing out the door. And so I thought, I need to get Daniel Turner on. So first of all, a lot’s happening, huh? Yeah.
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Lots happening, and there’s a lot to be excited about. It’s going to take a little time. I’ve told people, you know, you don’t steer this ship or you don’t right this ship in a matter of weeks. The Biden administration had four years to put in place innumerable energy regulations and punishments at the agency level, at the White House level, and not just undoing them in the actual presidential act of repealing those executive orders or reversing that regulation, But for that to take hold in the industry itself, it’s going to take a little while. If you go back to the first President Trump term, he was inaugurated in January 2017. We felt energy kick in in early 18. And it may take just as long. It may take even longer this time. for the effects to be felt. So a little bit of patience is required, but change will come and prices will get lower. The economy will improve. There’s a lot to be optimistic about. We just need to bide our time a bit.
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Well, and yesterday we had Lauren Fix on with Car Coach Report. She’s everything automobiles. We always talk about freedom of mobility. And she mentioned that there was the executive order to reverse Biden’s rules or California’s rules on cars. pushing us all into EVs, but that something needed to be done in Congress. And then I was going through headlines last night, and the Trump administration actually is trying to work that through with Congress. So he’s doing all these executive orders, but I think he’s trying to do it within the confines of the Constitution and does want to get these things ultimately through Congress. What do you think?
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Yeah, and that’s essential because otherwise we’re just playing ping pong. And we were never really meant to rule the government or run the government through executive fiat, right? The founders put… the Congress as the first article of the Constitution for a reason, and they wanted it to be the strongest branch because that is where the people, through their elected leaders, make their voices heard. But what we’ve found is most Congress people are a little bit cowardly, and I hate accusing anyone of that, but quite frankly, they are. No one wants to put their name on a piece of legislation. to force people to drive an EV, or look at some of the Doge findings that they’ve brought to light. No one wants to put their name on the legislation to appropriate $50,000 for a transgender puppet show in Mexico. They know that would be bad for their reelection cause. So what they do is they appropriate money for democracy or for fixing the climate, and they give them these nebulous phrases, and then they throw this pot of money at the administration, at the agencies. And then a little bunch of bureaucrats get to decide, how do I spend $50 million for democracy? You know what? Trans puppet shows in Mexico. Or how do I spend $50 billion to fix the climate? You know what? force everyone to drive an EV. So what we need to do is we need to have Congress actually take back its power and say, if you want people to be forced to drive an EV, and there are members of Congress who want that, If you want people to be forced to drive an EV, have the courage to actually write a bill and propose it and let people vote on it and debate it. But no one is that stupid. So they’re cowardly, but they’re not dumb. They want to get reelected, but they also want to influence your life. They just don’t want their fingerprints on it. So, yeah, if Congress can start doing their job again, a lot of these problems would be resolved.
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So, Daniel, what do you think? I think that the left was not ready for Trump, too. My gosh, day one. What a day he had. And the executive orders before he went to the inaugural balls that evening, it was remarkable. I don’t think that – because they’re not that organized normally. I don’t think that they had any idea what was coming at them. We’re now seeing now four weeks later, and there was a headline that I saw last night up here at CSU, that a whole bunch of – there was a protest against Doge and Trump and getting rid of DEI. It’s taken them four weeks to get organized on this, but I think they’re starting to look kind of dumb. It seems like they want to be out in the streets saying, we do want to support waste, fraud, and abuse. So what do you think about all that?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, exactly. You have to pick a side at this point. You can’t say we don’t want waste in the government. We don’t want to waste taxpayer dollars. I’m amazed at the number of Democrat politicians I’ve seen on TV talking about this huge debt that we have. And you say, well, where have you been for the last four years? When you have someone like Secretary Pete Buttigieg on TV just a couple of months ago saying that, yes, we spent $7.5 billion on charging stations. We only built eight But, you know, this is a good step. No one was outraged at wondering where the rest of the billions of dollars went. So the Democrats have been very comfortable with spending money and wasting it so long as they get to spend it and waste it. And now that you’re calling them out on it and exposing to light what some of these grants have been, they’re getting a little flustered. So, yeah, they don’t know what side to pick. Do we support Democrats? trimming back fat? Do we support not wasting tax dollars? Or do we like these big buckets of slush fund money that we can operate in and give grants to our friends? They’re completely caught off guard. It doesn’t help also, they don’t really have a winning message, and they don’t really have a leader. Their leader was Kamala Harris, who was thoroughly defeated. There is no visible head right now of the who kind of look just like lunatics, screaming about waste, screaming about money, screaming about Elon Musk, and they’re on a losing side of the argument.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, and Daniel Turner, Americans, well, this is the thing with the left, is there’s no sense of humor. But somebody sent me a meme, or texted me a meme yesterday, and the cartoon character Spongebob Squarepants, and it had two different frames. And the first one was SpongeBob, you know, skipping along, really happy. And it says Democrats, what Democrats did when federal workers or workers were fired because they would refuse the vaccine. And then the next frame is SpongeBob SquarePants losing his mind and saying, and now this is what the left is concerned about now that Doge is in effect. And I thought, Huh. I hadn’t really thought about that, that they didn’t really care at all when people lost their jobs because they refused the vaccine. But now, my gosh, they’re so concerned about all these federal workers.
SPEAKER 12 :
I thought, yeah, that’s a great point. And I have an op ed coming out on that in the Federalist, hopefully today or tomorrow on that exact point. But on energy workers, don’t forget the very first day of the Biden administration. He announced he was canceling the Keystone pipeline. And I relay my experiences. I went to the terminus of the pipeline, which was in North Texas. And I sat down with these guys and we put them on video and we brought in and I sent raw footage to Fox News and Dana Perino’s show said, can we go live right now and have these guys on camera? Power of the Future made an effort to let their stories be heard because it was tragic that these people overnight, 14,000 of them, lost their job and not just their current job. And this is what your audience knows because they don’t live in D.C. So they live in the real world. They didn’t just lose their current job, but they lost their future jobs. Right. Everyone. I get a lot of nonsense. People saying, well, but Keystone guys, that was temporary anyway, because it was a construction job. Well, every job is every construction job is temporary. And what you do when you’re on a construction job is you’re building out your next one. four months, five months, a year, those Keystone guys said they had five years of work lined up. But when Biden canceled the pipeline, every pipeline company said, well, we’re not building a pipeline now. I’m not going to start laying pipe, have the Biden administration come in and shut me down. So they lost years of future work and remained unemployed for most of the Biden administration. No one shed a tear for them. They never went on 60 Minutes the way USAID workers were on Sunday night. They never got stories in the paper. They said, well, you know, that’s the cause of the climate change. There you go. Necessary casualty. So I don’t rejoice that my fellow Americans ever suffer. But I just wonder where the sympathy was for thousands of energy worker, coal workers, et cetera, who Biden put out of a job for his green agenda.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, gosh, that is such a good point. So you said that’s going to come out in the Federalist today, Daniel?
SPEAKER 12 :
Today or tomorrow, I hope. Yes. And that’s the point I want to make is, you know, if you want me to elicit sympathy for federal bureaucrats who lost their job, then you need to be sympathetic for energy workers. How about members of the military? Eight thousand of them who refused the vaccine and Biden not just fired them, took away their pensions because they didn’t want to get a shot. where was the sympathy for any of those guys as well? So, yeah, it’s very hard for me to muster up, especially knowing, and this is where maybe I’m being a little bit contradictory here, it’s a little bit hard for me also to muster up the sympathy for the federal bureaucrats who implemented a lot of this nefarious agenda on vaccines, on EV mandates, on Green New Deal, et cetera. So, you know, I think maybe some of the bad guys are getting their comeuppance. Sorry.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, and thank you for connecting that dot because I hadn’t really thought about it that way because I am concerned. Those people at the top that have been pushing this agenda, I’m not really that concerned. I’m glad that they’re no longer being paid by taxpayers to push an agenda that’s anti-American and that hates Americans. I do feel badly for everyday people, but we get this economy going, And over in the private sector, I think that there will be all kinds of great new opportunity. And I think we need to look at it that way. So, Daniel Turner, I want to continue the discussion. And all this happens because I get to work with amazing people. And he’s going to be in next hour as well. And that’s Lauren Levy for Everything Mortgages.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice, and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, shouldn’t have to force people to do it. And a nonprofit that I dearly love is the Center for American Values. And the center is located in Pueblo, right on the beautiful Riverwalk, and focused on several things, honoring our Medal of Honor recipients, some great educational programs for kids, civics education, looking at these foundational principles of honor, integrity, and patriotism. The center is nonpartisan. It’s nonpolitical, just doing great work. More information, be sure and check out their website. That’s AmericanValueCenter.org. I’m talking with the founder of Power of the Future, and that is Daniel Turner. And Daniel, you’re doing such great work. And you recently published a piece about all of this money that the Biden administration pushed out after the election but before Trump was inaugurated. And we wonder how we have all these deficits. Well, the Biden administration was pushing money out like crazy. So bring us up to speed on that.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, it’s remarkable that there was this much money laying around that bureaucrats have the ability to shuffle to their different friends or their different allies. What happened at the EPA is probably the most egregious because even if we disagree with a grant, we acknowledge that groups receive government funding and government’s allowed to write a grant. And as long as no laws are broken… You know, that’s the consequence of having the Biden administration in power. But what the EPA did is a little different. They realized that they had money. There weren’t any grants ready to go. So they offshored it in a Citibank account, $20 billion. And they gave access to that account to seven or eight different green banks, green groups, so that they could draw from the money and then they could spend the money as they wanted. And that’s just flat out fraudulent. And Lee Zeldin, the new EPA administrator, has talked a lot about this on media and on social media, and there definitely will be investigations. And I sincerely hope that people go to jail, because this is not done for the good of the American people. This is not done for the good of even the climate. This was done specifically to try to create obstacles to the incoming Trump administration and knowing that if we give crazy green groups. And Colorado’s got a lot of crazy green groups. If we give them access to $20 billion, then they can do a lot of muckraking and stop the Trump energy agenda before it begins. It’s just awful that things like this are allowed to happen and people need to be punished for it.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, and so your blog here at PowerTheFuture.com says EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin finds Biden’s gold bars. So is he going to be able to get that back?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes, it seems like he is going to get it back. It hadn’t been or most of it had not been spent yet. And that money will be recuperated. One of the groups that received two billion dollars, which is and this was just broken the story yesterday, the famous Stacey Abrams, who ran for governor in Georgia and then refused to concede the election for years. claimed that it was stolen. I think she ran for Senate as well, lost that election, claimed it was stolen. Stacey Abrams is a politician who has run for office unsuccessfully many times in Georgia. In 2023, Stacey Abrams and friends created a green group to do, you know, they always make up the phrases, right, Kim? We’re promote environmental integrity and respect for diversity, whatever it was. They made up some name. They had $100 in their bank account, ready to go. And right before the Biden administration left, they got a $2 billion grant. And that is billion with the word B, as in boy. This is a group that has never done any environmental work. It has no record in environmental, no experience. But they created it, and they got $2 billion That is absolute fraudulent. If I got a $2 billion grant, even though I have seven years of power in the future trying to fight for jobs in rural America, if I got $2 billion from the government, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren would have me arrested and hauled before Congress and explaining that that is a large sum of money, $2 billion. and yet we’re supposed to accept that this is going to fly under the radar. There have to be prosecutions. People have to be punished for abusing the taxpayers to this level of criminality.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh my gosh, that’s absolutely terrible. And you mentioned Colorado, and Colorado is out of its mind. And I’m going to be up in Steamboat on Sunday delivering the keynote for the Lincoln Day brunch. And they want to talk about A Climate Conversation, our documentary that is the project of Walt Johnson. And you are one of our great podcast guests in that podcast series, Daniel. Really good stuff on that. But so I’ve been doing some research on it and here and you have a blog here at Power of the Future, Colorado Kills Coal. And so what they’re saying up in Craig, Colorado, they want to close down the coal fired plant there and they’re going to replace it with tourism, with people kayaking. And what do you think about all that?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, and that’s going to be really bad when Coloradans want reliable, affordable energy because tourism is great, but tourism doesn’t turn your lights on. And the overall 30,000-foot conversation on all of these issues, whether it’s fighting the climate or renewable energy or all of this stuff, the 30,000-foot perspective is terrible. How much of your current status in life are you willing to compromise for this agenda? The American people had four years of going green. We have not lowered emissions nationwide. In fact, emissions are slightly up year on year. But electricity prices are up 30%. And nationwide. And as we know, our gas prices are up, too. And so the question for America was in the last election, how much more suffering are you willing to endure for, as Joe Biden called it, the existential threat of climate change? When you see the toll it is taking on your day to day and the American people said not much more. But you look at places like Europe where they’re doing this for 25 years and they’re saying any day where you ever watch those European leaders talk about climate and they scream about how they haven’t met their climate goals. And they haven’t. They haven’t come close to their climate goals, but they have inflicted tremendous amount of pain on their on their citizens and on their economy. So how much longer does the pain have to last before the good part kicks in? Right. If you can go on a treadmill every day and sweat and sweat and sweat, but eventually you look at yourself in the mirror and you say, hey, not bad. I’ve gotten a lot of the pain has been worth it. when do we ever get any of the worth it part? And the Greens can never answer that question. And the reason why is because it’s never good enough. It never satiates them. Green groups in Colorado are famous for that. The suffering has to continue forever. And as soon as you think you’ve won, they’ll point out, nope, you really haven’t. We need to move on to the next target. They’re never a satiated group. It’s why you can’t deal with the climate folks. You have to just defeat them.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, and that’s why shedding light on this, the truth and clarity. For example, what you just talked about, Stacey Abrams, this $20 billion that got pushed out the door and that she received $2 billion. And to push this agenda, which… And it’s all about money. I think that’s the thing that I really have really learned in all that we’ve done with the climate conversation is the green and the Green New Deal is the green that is going to PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats and interested parties going into their pockets. That’s what it is all about, Daniel Turner.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, it always is. It always is. And one of the things why Colorado should be optimistic is that you have one of your own in the new energy secretary and Chris Wright and Chris is an amazing pro-energy advocate, but he’s pro-energy because he’s pro-humanity. If you listen to Chris Wright speak, if you ever had the chance, you can find videos of him on YouTube. It sounds like this conversation. He only loves energy because he loves humanity. He wants humanity to be free and to be prosperous, and he knows that energy and especially reliable, affordable American fossil fuels are the best way. Even your Colorado senator’s who are Democrat, both of them, Bennett and Hickenlooper, voted for Chris Wright, probably because they know him. And as a fellow, I’m sure they’ve known him for years, and even if they disagree with his position on whatever, they know that he’s a good guy and he wants what’s good for Colorado. Those are the types of middle grounds I’m willing to find. based on personal knowledge and personal relationship. And to have an energy advocate from Colorado will help Colorado because you have tremendous oil and gas and coal reserves. You know how to develop responsibly with deep environmental concern and community concern, but also building jobs, building prosperity, building opportunity for the people of your great state. And there’s a lot to be optimistic about.
SPEAKER 16 :
Daniel Turner, I always feel so optimistic after I talk with you. And again, people can find you at PowerTheFuture.com. Very important blogs there. You’re just doing great work. And it’s always a pleasure to talk with you.
SPEAKER 12 :
Pleasure is mine, Kim. You’re my favorite. So thank you so much for having me on.
SPEAKER 16 :
Have a great day. We’ll talk soon.
SPEAKER 12 :
God bless.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. And our quote for the end of the show is from George Washington. And he said this, perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages. So my friends today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you. God bless America. Stay tuned for our number two.
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Happy Thursday, Kim.
SPEAKER 16 :
And hail, hail, the gang’s all here.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yes, ma’am. It’s a round table in here.
SPEAKER 16 :
In studio, my great friend Karen Levine for Everything Residential Real Estate. Great to have you here. It’s great to be here. And Lauren Levy for Everything Mortgages. Great to have you here as well.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thank you. Good to be back.
SPEAKER 16 :
You guys have been sponsors of the show for, well, we’re starting our seventh year. And Karen, you’ve been with me before then. And Lauren, you came on right about that time. And for both the Kim Monson Show and America’s Veterans Stories, I really appreciate you guys.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thank you. I was thinking about that today, how fast time goes.
SPEAKER 16 :
It does. It does. And America’s Veterans Stories, it’s so important. A couple of things. I had interviewed Michael Keller, a Vietnam veteran, and I saw him this weekend. And he said that he was talking with, I think, a colleague. We’ll just put it that way. And he said that she said, Michael, I listened to your interview on America’s Veterans Stories, and I learned more about you in that hour than I have in all the years that I’ve known you. And he said it really touched my heart. And so the fact that both of you sponsor that show, Karen, I really appreciate it.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, I think it’s a great show, and it does shed a lot of history that we need to keep alive. And I have a girlfriend and her husband are heading to Vietnam, and he’s a Vietnam vet. He was a medic, which I just learned about all of that yesterday. And there’s some nervousness and apprehension but some excitement to go see the beautiful country of Vietnam because, you know, it too has changed over these decades.
SPEAKER 16 :
We probably need to see if we can arrange an interview. I was just thinking about that. Yes, I think so. And, Lauren, again, I thank you for this because we’ll be rebroadcasting an interview this Sunday with Jack Thurman, who was at the Battle of Iwo Jima, just a young kid. And he ended up in that gung-ho photo. And his friend Ira Hayes, a co-talker, grabbed him and got him into that photo after they raised the flag at Mount Suribachi. And so we’re going to rebroadcast one of the interviews that we did with him. And again, it’s because of you guys that we’re able to do this. And I thank you for that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, it’s my pleasure. These guys deserve the respect they get, and it’s probably not often they get to talk about it just directly about their past.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, and it’s changed my life sitting across either the table or on the other end of the phone line with them. So with that, I was thinking, Karen, I think the word of the day is something that typically Lauren is not. Oh, and that is verbose. And that would be to use or contain more words than necessary. I would say that and it’s spelled V E R B O S E. And I would say that actually Lauren just kind of gets to the point has a great sense of humor. But verbose is not something I would say about Lauren Levy. What would what do you think?
SPEAKER 19 :
I would agree. He’s very direct, very kind, and very knowledgeable, but verbose, no. Not one of those things.
SPEAKER 16 :
And it just kind of happened that that was the word of the day, Lorne.
SPEAKER 10 :
That was perfect. Tomorrow I’ll be chit-chatty.
SPEAKER 16 :
I don’t have chitchat on there. Okay. President’s Day was on Monday, honoring the birthdays of both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, who were both born in February. Ronald Reagan was also born in February.
SPEAKER 19 :
And Karen Levine was born in February.
SPEAKER 16 :
And Karen Levine was born in February, too.
SPEAKER 10 :
That might be why they made the holiday.
SPEAKER 16 :
February 18th is Karen Levine’s birthday. And so I’ve been doing George Washington quotes for most of the week. And he was born February 22nd, 1732. He died February 11th, 1731. And he had returned. I think this is my understanding. He had returned back to Mount Vernon, which he loved. And he had gone out to take a look at the property on horseback, got into a storm, and ended up getting probably pneumonia. And then he gets back, and then the doctors back then, one of the things they did was they would do bloodletting. And so they actually had that treatment, and he died. And so that’s why. So February 11, 1731. hold on here no he’s born february 22nd 1732 and died december 14 1799 they had some different dates here but he was our founding father first president united states commander of the continental army and presided over the constitutional convention i think you both will love this and this is from jenny she submitted this freedom and property rights are inseparable you can’t have one without the other karen Right? Property rights, homeownership. Creates freedom. Creates freedom. And both of you help people do that. Our bill of the day, and I had Corey Onizor gone in the first hour to talk about this. We did not take a position on this for the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. This is Scott Bottoms’ bill, House Bill 25-1134, to prevent additional insect production for human consumption. And I’ve been on the freedom side. I thought, okay, you want to let that compete in the free market? Because I was concerned if people say that bugs are bad for you, that then they might say stuff I like, like beef is bad for you. And so I was concerned about government involved in that. But Corey had some really good points about for sure we’ve got to have labeling on this. And putting parasites into our body, that doesn’t seem like a good idea. But anyway, that’s a bill down at the state house. I don’t think it’s going to go anywhere. But that is a bill down at the state house. So, yeah, you both are looking like.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. No other stuff.
SPEAKER 19 :
I’m like, why? Why? But I also have a question about I don’t know if it’s a bill yet, but I heard it on Monday after it took me six and a half hours to get from Leadville back to the front range because of weather and vehicles that did not put on their chains. And that this particular representative wants to put a bill forth to allow the private sector to provide chains and the installation of chains along I-70. And I thought to myself, why do we need a bill? Can you not just do that if there’s a market for that service and product? Good point. I don’t have an answer, but.
SPEAKER 16 :
Good point. Okay. Okay. So, okay. Well, I’ll let you know. And let’s see, I had quoted this today, and this was how many bills and resolutions have been introduced down at the Statehouse. Lorne, were you listening in the first hour? Did you hear that number that I gave?
SPEAKER 10 :
I did not.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 10 :
Again. I’m going to make one up.
SPEAKER 16 :
Mr. Verbose. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Make one up. How many bills?
SPEAKER 10 :
I know it’s many, many, many, many. Yes. So if I had to guess, I don’t want to be crazy, but there are ones about bugs. So 3,000.
SPEAKER 19 :
That’s verbose.
SPEAKER 1 :
481.
SPEAKER 16 :
Which is a lot. We don’t need another law.
SPEAKER 19 :
Last year was 700 and some by the time they got done.
SPEAKER 16 :
So we’re on track to do more.
SPEAKER 10 :
We don’t need any more.
SPEAKER 16 :
That is for sure. And so headlines, let’s see. I thought this was super interesting. I got to get to this. And Mary, thank you for getting this over to me. There’s this piece of legislation that Hickenlooper has his name on. And this is such an interesting thing. Now I got to get to, I have too many things open here. And that is regarding ICE and people… Darn it, I had it here. Well, okay. Oh, I know where it is. And that is to try to protect people that are here illegally if they’re going to a church or… Here, I got it. going to a church or school or all these different places that they want to protect them from ice, if you will. So on page 17, it says that it would protect them at any federal, state, or local courthouse, including the office of an individual’s legal counsel or representative and a probation office. Then it says could not… Arrest them at any congressional district office, any social security office, any public assistant offices, including locations where individuals may apply for or receive unemployment compensation or report violations of labor or employment laws. The indoor or outdoor premises of Department of Motor Vehicles. But get this one. Polling place, including any building or infrastructure where voting takes place during an election. I thought illegals aren’t supposed to be able to vote. And this is at Congress right now.
SPEAKER 19 :
Great. And that would be an individual that led some of the things here in Colorado.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so I thought that was super interesting. Thank you for Mary for getting that over here on my desk as well. And then there’s a big, you’re a sports guy. Are you excited about this hockey game tonight?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 16 :
You are?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 16 :
Mr. Verbose.
SPEAKER 10 :
I am. It’s going to be fun.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 10 :
If you watched the last one, did you watch the one the other night?
SPEAKER 16 :
I didn’t, but somebody was telling me about it. And apparently within the first nine seconds, there were three fights.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, it was premeditated, which was kind of cool. Because I watch a lot of this stuff. So fill me in. So this is USA versus Canada, right? So in hockey, Canada’s a powerhouse, the powerhouse usually. And the U.S. has always been up and coming. But these two brothers that played for the U.S. decided that the game was in Montreal. So they already were underdogs. So to inspire their team, they just said… We’re coming out right away, and as soon as they drop the puck, we’re fighting. So that’s what they did. They fought these two other guys, and they won. They inspired. The team won. The team won the game. So now Canada knows that it was pre-planned. It’s come out, and so now the game’s in Boston tonight. Uh-oh. And this one’s for the championship, and it’s a revenge game for Canada. So it’s going to be interesting to see how they handle it, if it’s a lot of fights or not, because hockey’s gotten rid of fighting pretty much over the last number of years because they figure it wasn’t family-friendly. Their audience is a boom. There’s no doubt about that. But fighting hasn’t been around much.
SPEAKER 16 :
So now my understanding is that instead of the All-Star Game, that they’re doing this thing, right?
SPEAKER 10 :
I can’t confirm that because I don’t know about the All-Star Game. But if that is the plan, I think it’s brilliant because – The All-Star game, even the NBA one this past week, the basketball has been – I don’t know anybody that watched it.
SPEAKER 09 :
It’s kind of lame, huh?
SPEAKER 10 :
I don’t know anybody that watched it. Yeah. Even my dad is a huge NBA guy. I thought it was terrible. That’s just one person’s opinion. So these All-Star games have become kind of where they don’t try and they don’t want to hurt anybody. They don’t want to get injured. So this has been awesome. Yeah. I think a lot of people weren’t sure what this would do, if people would be interested in it. But from what I’m hearing, the tickets in Boston, even NHL players can’t get them. They’re just so expensive. They can buy them, but they can’t get in. So it’s really caught on. It’s huge.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, and apparently I think the goalie for Canada has had this great record, like he’d not been defeated. So this was his first defeat. So Canada’s going to want to play.
SPEAKER 10 :
They’re looking for revenge tonight. And they have a lot of good players. It’s a who’s who. So it’s going to be awesome, I think. So, yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, okay.
SPEAKER 10 :
There’s verbose on sports. I can do that all day.
SPEAKER 09 :
You can do that all day.
SPEAKER 16 :
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SPEAKER 16 :
Welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. Thank you to the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. And in fact, Susan Harris will be our featured guest on one of the shows next week. So I am excited about that. And as you all know, one of the nonprofits I dearly love is the USMC Memorial Foundation. And I mentioned that we’ll be rebroadcasting an interview with Iwo Jima. battle of Iwo Jima veteran Jack Thurman who just passed on and Richard thank you yesterday was the 80th anniversary of Iwo Jima and he Richard said President Trump had a proclamation about it and it was a battle that they the guys were told it wasn’t going to be that long because they’d been What had happened over in the Pacific is we were doing kind of island hopping, and the Japanese were on a whole bunch of different islands, and we were needing to capture these different islands so that we could start to build air bases so ultimately our bombers could get to Japan to bomb Japan. And so Iwo Jima was the real critical one. And the Japanese… General Commander, had actually studied in the United States. So he knew our military strategy. And he guessed that Iwo Jima was going to be one of the islands that we were going to go after. And so the Japanese had built tunnels. It’s basically just volcanic rock. But they built tunnels, and they were prepared. So we had shelled the island for, I think, several days. And so they’re thinking that it’s softened up. Well, our guys go onto the beach. There’s no cover. And it not softened it up much at all. And so it was a very difficult battle went on for quite some time. And it is amazing what these what these guys did. And so Jack Thurman, rest in peace. We’re excited to be. rebroadcasting that interview yesterday. The 19th was the eighth anniversary of the initial attack in the Battle of Iwo Jima. So really grateful for all of that. So thank you, Richard, for telling us that. And then regarding the Marines, the USMC Memorial Foundation is a nonprofit I dearly love. And on March 15th, USMC Memorial Foundation President Paula Sarles will climb 426 steps at Red Rocks to honor the Marine Corps. Iwo Jima veterans turning 100 and her birthday. And she’ll climb 250 steps for the Marine Corps birthday and 100 for the Iwo Jima veterans and 76 for her own birthday, finishing with a celebration at the top. Last year, she jumped out of an airplane for her birthday. What do you think about that, Karen?
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, I’ve done those stairs at Red Rocks several times, and here’s to her. It’s a lot. I did the 9-11 climb, and I think you had to do it 10 circles. Anyway, it’s the number of stairs that the firemen had to do on 9-11. Oh, wow. And I don’t think my knees could do that now.
SPEAKER 16 :
but hail to Paula yeah and so more information all the details will be at the website usmcmemorialfoundation.org and um yeah good for her Lauren I think that’s great it’s amazing yeah I will uh I wish her all the best and I will be watching from afar won’t be doing those 276 steps
SPEAKER 10 :
No, or 400 or whatever, just 470.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, 426. Yeah, that’s worse. Yeah, there you go. Okay. Yeah, I don’t want a short change.
SPEAKER 10 :
276, maybe.
SPEAKER 16 :
Maybe. Maybe.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay. Not the 400.
SPEAKER 16 :
So, Lorne Levy, let’s talk about the economy. We haven’t really talked a lot about Doge since you – I think that that’s really occurred since the last time you guys were here.
SPEAKER 10 :
it’s pretty remarkable i find it crazy these protests that are starting that basically like they’re to me they’re saying we want waste fraud and abuse we’re standing for that what do you think i saw a video yesterday and i again i’m careful on social media because i don’t know what’s ai and what’s real but it was a video of a press conference with al gore back way back with clinton and they were talking about creating a department It wasn’t called Doge, but it was called something government restructuring something. And as he was talking, he was basically saying the same thing. He’s like, we’ve got to eliminate waste, eliminate, you know, things like this for bloat. And it was so this is not a new idea. It’s just actually doing it.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s the new idea.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. And so, you know, I’m all for it. I also read something. I’ve been talking about this forever. I think if you want to, we don’t need to spur the economy. The economy is doing great. But I think about all the fraud that’s in like Medicare and these places. And it’s like you could hire a bunch of people and pay them a minimum salary and then pay them commission on the money they reclaim from the fraud they find, you know. And clean up Medicare probably. That would do a lot too.
SPEAKER 16 :
Did you see the headline? I talked about it on Monday. Epic Times that Doge, Elon Musk, that they found on the Social Security rolls over 12 million people that are over 100. They’re eligible for over 120 years of age. There’s one guy or one person. That’s in that over 240 years old. And I was talking with someone and said, I said, he would have been in the Revolutionary War. And my friend said, well, we should be taking care of that veteran.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right. You’ve got to think there’s a lot of ways. I don’t have any answers. I haven’t looked into this stuff. But even just technology-wise to cross-reference when these people pass away that they – You know what I mean? There’s got to be a way that they fall off the list somehow that it covers across. You know, even when they talk about the airline, what are they talking about, the air traffic controllers and how outdated the system is, and they’ve been talking about fixing that for 40 years and have just never done it. With all the technology we have, we think you could streamline some of these things and save money that way.
SPEAKER 16 :
One would think so. What do you think about this, Karen? Doge has all occurred since the last time you were on the show.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, I do find it interesting that people are protesting saving their own tax dollars, that they would rather spend that. I mean, they don’t get to spend it, that they give it to the government to spend unwisely. So I’m kind of confused about the temperament or the The thinking of the people.
SPEAKER 16 :
But I wonder if they’ve been on these protesters because it takes – so I did take one for the team. I did go down to the statehouse and testify on a bill. But if you did that every day, the day shot. And I was thinking of all the work that I had to do. So how is it that they have this time – and money to be able to go and protest. Unless, ah, maybe they’ve been paid, and maybe the money they’re being paid with is the money that we’ve been, has been being taken from us. And I think that’s what Elon Musk is finding.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yes. Well, and I know I have family that lives in a small community, a very conservative community, and their town square had protesters. And My family member was a bit curious about where they came from. And I said, well, maybe the university. And she said, oh, no, they were not of that age. So it wasn’t community members, to her knowledge. So I think you are correct.
SPEAKER 16 :
They’re organizing that. They are. And so, Lorne, I have in my hand one of our listeners. Who gave this to me? I think this was Mary. Executive Order 13576, Delivering an Efficient, Effective, and Accountable Government. So this is an executive order, and… I’ll put you on the spot again. You want to guess who signed this and what year this was?
SPEAKER 10 :
What’s the topic?
SPEAKER 16 :
Delivering Efficient, Effective, and Accountable Government.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, I’m going to say… It’s probably going to be way older than I thought. No. Okay.
SPEAKER 16 :
So… I’ll give you a hint. I was going to say Obama.
SPEAKER 10 :
I was going to say Clinton, but then when you said not as old, I said Obama.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah. So Obama, June 13th, 2011. And apparently… He put in place everything he put there. He says this is what was put in place that that Trump and Musk are using to get Doge going. And it was put in by an executive order by Obama. And that’s one, three, five, seven, six. So I thought that was pretty interesting.
SPEAKER 10 :
I’ve always maintained that it’s hard to take back what you give people once you give it to them. That’s what we’re seeing. I don’t think anybody doesn’t think there’s bloat in the government. But once you give them all the jobs, then now you’ve got to take them back. And that’s tough.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, and I’ve been concerned about that. And Daniel Turner in hour number one had an excellent point. And somebody sent a meme over to me regarding SpongeBob SquarePants. The first frame is, you know, skipping along, really happy. And that is the left’s reaction when government workers walk. lost their jobs because they wouldn’t take the vaccine the second frame is going crazy and now it’s the left’s reaction to government workers losing their jobs because of waste fraud and abuse and daniel turner said he’s got a piece that’s coming out in the federalist either today or tomorrow and he really focuses on the people that feed and fuel us and and he said no nobody on the left cried at all on day one when Joe Biden canceled the Keystone Pipeline and 14,000 people lost their jobs. Karen, I thought that was a really interesting point.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, and that was providing energy to us nationwide, right? Yeah, reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy. Right, and it was the private sector. And so it’s what we had a conversation over the weekend, had some friends up to our cabin and we were talking and she said she comes from a background of corporate America and she said layoffs are part of running an efficient, profitable business. As things change in the business marketplace, we as corporate employees know that there’s going to be trimming back when maybe our product isn’t meeting a need and we need to restructure. But also there are hires when we are growing and building. That should be understood in the government as well. And she said government employees have had it so comfortably in many cases that they don’t understand the give and take of an economy. And this is just part of the beauty of what America offers us.
SPEAKER 10 :
This is just an anecdotal piece because I always watch and we talk about the unintended consequences of a lot of the things that these guys try to do. I took my buddy. We were out looking for a commercial space for my other business that I do. And he’s like, just run me through McDonald’s real quick. The guy got two cheeseburgers and a Diet Coke, and it was $9.00. I remember when that used to be like $3. And I couldn’t believe how many he paid. I’m like, you just paid $9 for that? That’s because the workers are making $20 an hour. And now I’m like, who’s going to go to McDonald’s? And those are supposed to be starter jobs for usually teenagers and young adults and how they get rolling, right? And learn how to be somewhere on time. Yeah. Those jobs are going to go to computers.
SPEAKER 16 :
Because of forced minimum wage.
SPEAKER 10 :
But they don’t see that coming. They just think McDonald’s is going to pay all their workers all this money when in reality they’re going to install computers.
SPEAKER 16 :
I saw a headline last night. 24 Dairy Queens in Texas, the franchise owner, is just going to close them. And I’m a Dairy Queen connoisseur. I love Dairy Queen. And it’s like, ah! One of my favorite Dairy Queen’s closed here.
SPEAKER 10 :
There’s one on Arapahoe Road that’s closed. Yeah, that one. Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
I know.
SPEAKER 10 :
I drove by it yesterday. And then I read all the time about restaurants closing in Denver. And, you know, they reference food, you know, input costs, but they always come back to labor costs.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yep. And here in Colorado, this legislature has made labor more and more expensive. for businesses and Colorado used to be in the top 10 in economic growth and the CU lead school of business said that we are now 41st in the nation and it’s because of what is happening not only down at the state capitol but in counties and municipalities as well. We’re going to continue this discussion with my great sponsors and friends, Lauren Levy and Karen Levine. And all this happens because of all of our sponsors. And for a great protein source in your diet, Lavaca Meat Company can provide that steakhouse experience at home.
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SPEAKER 16 :
And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter, and you can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And do check out the Center for American Values located in Pueblo, Colorado. And they do these great On Values presentations. The most recent one was with one of the co-founders, Drew Dix, Medal of Honor recipient, and it was about his time in Greenland, and the subject was the real Cold War. And you can find that presentation at their website, AmericanValueCenter.org, but they’ve got two great ones that will be coming up in March and April as well, so stay tuned. And again, that website is AmericanValueCenter.org. Lauren Levy, just give us an update regarding mortgages. We’re just sitting here. Anything you think is going to happen with that?
SPEAKER 10 :
I think we’re in a period now where rates are going to – I don’t know. It’s going to take something to move them one direction or the other versus just everyday stuff. I think the economy is doing well. We haven’t seen any mass layoffs. Unemployment number is holding strong. And so the Fed is hinting at the fact that they’re on hold for quite some time. Their biggest fear is to have to raise rates if inflation peaks back up. And we’ve seen gas go up here in the last just week, jump again. So they worry about that stuff. They don’t want prices to get back to where they were. So I think they’re going to hold, which means rates are probably going to hold for a while. Unless we don’t want something news driven to happen, which that’s usually bad news for whoever that happens to, you know, like a 9-11 type thing. So we don’t want it to happen that way. So hopefully, well, I think people are getting used to where they are. And there’s other opportunities like you and I always talk about, like banks are getting creative even more with like second mortgages and where people don’t have to give up their really good rate on their firsts. if they need to access their home equity because home values are holding for the most part. I mean, there’s been a few maybe decreases here and there. But I think one of the biggest problems we’re having now we’ve talked about is homeowners insurance, and I think that’s becoming a real thing that I’m seeing because it’s gone up so much. It used to be just a component of getting a loan, and it was nothing. Now it’s a real number. And I was just listening to someone the other day talking about the fact that there’s certain markets where, where they think in the next 10, 15 years, it’s going to be almost impossible to get a mortgage in those markets because the insurance companies won’t insure. Kind of like what happened in the Palisade buyer in California. Like insurance companies won’t be willing to come in. And if you can’t get insurance, you have to either pay cash for the house and figure it out or not get a mortgage.
SPEAKER 16 :
So that’ll push people into renting then. Yes.
SPEAKER 10 :
I don’t know what it’ll do. It’ll either make it so unaffordable, like only the rich can really live there, right, because they can self-insure, or it’ll make it for the regular person that just won’t be able to live there in that area. It’s mostly coastal stuff, you know, really rural with fires and hurricane zones, things like that, where insurance companies are just kind of tired of getting wiped out.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah. Yeah. So I would recommend that people give a call to Roger, State Farm Insurance, because I know that – well, this was several months ago. But bundling insurance together, one of my friends was able to save, I think, $1,000. I know that – and Roger and I have talked about it. It is challenging. And, of course, you don’t want – as you say, you don’t want insurance companies to be wiped out with – You know, all the things that are happening. And some of this is public policy as well. Not being good stewards of our forests. When I drove up to Grand Lake for Grand Lake U.S. Constitution Week, looked at the whole mountainside. It was all dead beetle kill and not doing anything to get coal back at all. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist, Warren, to figure out that that could be a really bad forest fire.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, and I think a lot of people used to think, well, I live in Littleton, Colorado. This doesn’t affect me, but these insurance companies pass these increases off across the country. And then, God forbid, we see what happened in like Broomfield a few years ago.
SPEAKER 09 :
Superior.
SPEAKER 10 :
Superior, yeah, that area. Those people probably didn’t think it would affect them either until some underground flare happened. But insurance is – you double whammy that with the property tax increases that we had, and now you have a component of a mortgage that’s a lot of money. It’s not just a rate.
SPEAKER 16 :
And so are you seeing this – there’s more inventory now here in Colorado, right, Karen, regarding houses? Yeah, there is more choice. Okay.
SPEAKER 19 :
And it’s not a saturated market as far as choice. It is – moving towards a more balanced market. We had been in a seller’s market for quite some time, eight to 10 years. And now buyers have more choice, a little more opportunity for negotiating. But as Lauren was talking, insurance is a challenge because the component to the payment is becomes larger and then taxes have gone up because of values going up so that component is larger and then lauren we add the cost of solar and you add that component to the overall payment and that causes affordability again to be more and more challenging what do you mean the cost of solar i Well, we have promoted solar in our marketplace. There has been public policy that has given incentives for putting solar on your home. When you go to sell your home, there is typically a loan or a lease of which the new buyer will need to assume. Yes, ma’am.
SPEAKER 10 :
Very few people that have solar pay for it outright. They usually treat it like a car. It has a loan against it, and it goes as a lien on the home, and it has a monthly payment. So it’s important for us doing loans and for Karen to tell us, by the way, this home has solar, so it’s not a surprise. We have to find out if it’s paid in full, which I actually had one of those the other day. which was beautiful. It happened to be in Texas. But the person had been there long enough that their payments had ended. Because or else you might find out, oh, you just qualified for this loan. Oh, but we have $180 a month solar payment. Oops. And there’s no getting around that. They have to assume it.
SPEAKER 16 :
So, Karen, I guess I had always thought, because they talk about how solar would reduce your energy costs, but you do have to factor in the fact that you’ve got to pay for it. You’ve got to pay for it. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 19 :
And what’s interesting is some of this new business models of the solar companies are not allowing you to pay for it, like pay for it in full. How so? They are making you lease it or pay for it over time. So that encumbrance is on the property for 20 years. So then the burden falls on the buyer.
SPEAKER 16 :
Gosh, this goes back to if you can’t control your property. If somebody else is controlling your property, you don’t really own your property, Lorne.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, no, and solar is a real thing, especially when it’s a surprise. If people don’t have experience like Karen, that’s happened to me before where they just didn’t find out they had solar until the appraisal was done. The appraiser goes out there and is like, okay, and they make a note of the solar panels, and then all of a sudden lenders understand that there’s probably a loan. And then they start asking questions like, where’s the documentation? Show us these are paid off. And then you show them there’s a lease and people can maybe not qualify and blow up the whole deal.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, gee. Okay.
SPEAKER 16 :
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SPEAKER 19 :
Yes, definitely. If you’re considering new construction, reach out to me to make sure you have representation at the table.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And a nonprofit that I dearly love is the Center for American Values in Pueblo. They are just doing amazing work on a variety of things, honoring our Medal of Honor recipients, as well as great On Values presentations. There will be a really interesting one in March with author Walt Laramore about his father. a World War II veteran who saved the famous French horses from the Nazis. It’s a really interesting story. And we interviewed him for America’s Veterans Stories. And then also great educational programs. Find out what they do by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. In studio with me, great sponsors. That’s Karen Levine for Everything Residential Real Estate. Great to have you here. It’s been a great hour. 303-877-7516 is your number. And Lorne Levy for Everything Mortgages. Great to have you. Great to be here. 303-808881 is how you reach Lorne. And so pleased to have on the line with me Representative Dan Woog. He is a Colorado representative representing House District 19. Representative Woog, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 11 :
Thank you, Kim. It’s really great to be here. I appreciate it.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, good to have you. And House District 19, what area does that encompass, Representative Woog?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, that is a sliver of the eastern part of Longmont, some unincorporated Boulder County there. And then it includes all of Firestone, Frederick, Dakota, and Erie. So it is a district that has, you know, generally conservative Weld County and then some Boulder County as well. So it’s a very split district.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. And really pleased to have you down at the Statehouse. This is a monumental job that you guys are doing because the Democrats have a majority in both houses and, of course, the governorship as well. And with CUT, Colorado Union of Taxpayers, we’re watching this legislation. And with bills and resolutions, there’s been 481 pieces of legislation that’s been passed.
SPEAKER 11 :
introduced so far we don’t need another law but this is this is monumental it’s a bill mill down there representative wug it is and uh we i personally was here and i know there were others here just as long from 9 a.m to 9 p.m last night and the nights get shorter the further we go and you’re right i think over 600 almost 700 bills actually got passed last year which As I know the listeners know that generally the more bills passing, the less freedoms we have. So it’s just amazing how many laws we have to go through. And, of course, we’re limited on time on how many we can even read to the full extent. We have aides that are helping us and interns some of us have. But it is nearly impossible to keep up on all these bills that we have to vote on for the people.
SPEAKER 16 :
Right, and it’s irresponsible—I want to make sure—it’s irresponsible to put into law something that our representatives have not had the time to read, ruminate on it, think about the consequences of that. This is totally irresponsible of what’s happening down here at this legislature that’s being controlled by these radical extremists. But— I love the creativity, particularly of a bill that you just had introduced. Getting rid of something, that’s what we need to be doing, and that’s House Bill 25-1144, repeal retail delivery fees. Thank you, Representative Wu, for bringing this forward. But when people talk about affordable Colorado, when we have Democrats talk about affordable Colorado, they’re just kidding, aren’t they?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, they are not showing us that they really, truly want to lower the cost of living for Coloradans. And it’s very frustrating for all of us to sit through committee meetings and sit through floor work and hear them say how they want to lower the cost of living. But yet the things they are doing are only increasing it. So, yeah, the retail bank fee, it was just something I felt, you know, let’s tackle this one thing at a time. You know, it really disproportionately affects so many rural Coloradans, senior citizens, those who are immobile. I mean, they really rely on so many deliveries. And, of course, you know, delivery fees come in the form of Uber, Uber Eats, Lyft, Rideshare, groceries, pizzas, pharmaceuticals, so all kinds of things that people are paying this cost. And a lot of people don’t even realize that these fees just keep getting tacked onto multiple industries, really.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, and like, for example, Amazon deliveries, are those also have a delivery fee?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, Amazon deliveries do. And it’s a 29 cent delivery fee. And these are, you know, the Democrats argue that we need these fees because they’re going towards the highway users tax fund, bridges and tunnels. And that’s very important. But Unfortunately, even a third of it goes to clean transit projects. And frankly, what I ask is, are we really seeing improvements in our roads? I mean, these fees are apparently being directed towards our highways and roads, but they don’t seem any better. And also, Kim, there are so many funding sources that pay for these things. So as we know, Democrats really don’t want to give up any new fees, and we’re paying the price for it.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, they’re supposed to be going to those roads. Karen Levine, I think there’s some potholes that I drive across that I could lose a car in.
SPEAKER 19 :
That is true. For someone who’s on the road a lot, I would agree with that. And I’ve noticed that we don’t seem to stripe our roads anymore, which I don’t know that that’s very safe.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, that’s pretty important. How about you, Lauren Levy? When I get on to I-25, the entry road, it is pretty darn rough.
SPEAKER 10 :
I know the one you’re talking about.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, I think you do.
SPEAKER 10 :
I just did it today. I find that when they’re repairing roads, all they’re doing is one of those trucks that just drives around with asphalt in the back and just fills the holes and tamps them down. And that probably lasts until the next time it snows instead of replacing. There’s so many roads that they’ve just filled in all these holes and it just made it bumpier.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
So they say they’re going to do something, Representative Woog, but we driving around realize that they’re not doing that. And again, I saw that when I was on city council 2012 to 2016, that they were shaving money out of money that like the gas tax that was supposed to go to roads. Part of that was going to transit and some of these pet projects, Representative Woog.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yep. Yeah, you’re absolutely right. And like I said, I don’t think the focus should be with a third of the fees going to clean transit projects. There’s a greater need than that. And like everyone just mentioned, we’re literally feeling it. We’re driving on the roads, and it’s starting to actually affect people’s pocketbooks. And yeah, they’re just across the board, nickeling and diming people to death. But yet, yeah, that’s the Democrats’ answer. We need these funds to provide repairs for our roads and bridges and tunnels and all that, but we’re just not seeing it. So the proof’s not in the pudding, and frankly, I told them we need to tighten our belts up. We’re in a budget deficit this year. We have to tighten things up, and sometimes you’ve got to suffer a little, but Clearly, they’re not going to listen, and they’re just moving forward, saying they want to lower the cost of living, but not really. The proof’s not in the pudding. They’re not putting that in the bills that are actually helping Colorado.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. So they killed your bill, right?
SPEAKER 11 :
They killed my bill. It was a party-line vote.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. As you were saying this about clean transit, I’m thinking, actually, the transit that I see, the trains are dirty and dangerous. So there’s nothing clean about that transit right now, Representative Woog?
SPEAKER 11 :
You know, you’re absolutely right. We had RTD come give a presentation in some other departments and learn that well over 50% of users on the train, they are not comfortable using it right now. So unclean, unsafe, unused, really. I mean, very, very few people use those. So it’s just, it’s a failed system. But again, they refuse to look at the data and the numbers and recoup and admit that, hey, maybe we were wrong about this and maybe these funds shouldn’t be going this direction.
SPEAKER 16 :
And I was talking with someone yesterday, said you’re going to be on the show regarding this retail delivery fee. And I would say my friend was not very political in his comment was. Well, how much money have they taken in on that? It’s got to be millions of dollars, and where has the money gone? That’s the real key question. So, Representative Woog, thank you so much for taking the time to let us know about this, and thank you for having such a great, creative bill. I really appreciate it.
SPEAKER 11 :
Thank you, all of you. It was great to be on the show, and have a blessed day.
SPEAKER 16 :
And you as well. So Karen, we’re just about to the end of the show here. So always learn a lot about property rights and all the work that you’re doing to help people get into that home so that they can create wealth for themselves and their families. And thank you for all that you do.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, thank you. And I was going to ask Representative Woog that when the bills that the Colorado Association of Realtors is working on with regards to the unintended consequences of the construction defect legislation from 15 years ago, that he would help us move forward. to make it easier for the construction of condominium units, which would create more opportunity for homeownership in the Front Range and in the state.
SPEAKER 16 :
So you have to reach out to them. Yeah. Okay, sounds great. Great to have you, as always. 303-877-7516. And Lauren Levy, your verbose final thought.
SPEAKER 10 :
My final thought with the representative is it must be tough for those guys. I feel like they’re banging their head against the wall all day long just knowing that they don’t have the votes most of the time.
SPEAKER 09 :
I know.
SPEAKER 10 :
But you’ve still got to try to do it and push forward. And then you know that the people over there are, what do they call it, passively listening. Yeah, if they are. Looking at you like they’re listening, but they’re not listening. Then they just lose on party lines.
SPEAKER 16 :
I know. And nine to nine, it’s exhausting to be doing that. So I really do appreciate all that they’re doing. And also because of you guys, we get to bring these voices on. This is so important that people hear what’s going on because otherwise people wouldn’t know. Thank you, Lauren Levy, 303-880-8881. Karen Levine, 303-877-7516. Our quote for the end of the show is from George Washington, and he said this, Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages. So today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
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