Welcome to the Kim Monson Show podcast. Kim Monson is your host. Across America, municipalities, counties, and states are rewriting land use codes and zoning regulations that undermine private property rights. Successful realtor Sophia Georges connects the dots and explains why she is running for New Jersey Franklin Township Council. Col. Bill Rutledge (Ret. USAF) continues our discussion regarding Typhoid Mary and parallels to the reaction to COVID. Jody Hinsey with Mint Financial Strategies addresses personal economic freedom. State Farm agent Roger Mangan notes the importance of proper insurance coverage. ————————————————————————————– The Kim Monson Show airs on KLZ 560
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let’s have a conversation.
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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, strive for excellence, take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. And thank you to the team. That’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Monday, Producer Joe, and happy anniversary. This is your two-year anniversary as working as the producer of The Kim Monson Show. Congratulations.
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Thank you, Kim, and happy Monday to you as well.
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And it’s gone by so quickly, it’s hard to believe. Two years.
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It really has. It feels like I blinked and it’s here now.
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So congratulations. Good for you. And I want to say thank you to the Harris family for their gold sponsorship of the show. It is because of their sponsorship, all of our sponsors, all of your support that we are on the air. We are an independent voice on an independent station. searching 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 it’s never compassionate nor altruistic to take other people’s stuff, whether or not it’s their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunity, their childhoods, or lives via force. And force can obviously be a weapon, but it could be policy, unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, government-induced inflation, the agenda of the world economic forum and globalist elites plays out through the united nations the colorado state legislature this colorado governor also we’re seeing it at the municipal and county levels as well and so we really need to understand what’s going on out there And we’re seeing this through land use codes and zoning regulations, forest fees, easements, a whole variety of things. And if you cannot use your property, if you don’t have control of your property, then you don’t really own your property. And property rights are inherent in the American idea. And so we need to continue to protect our property rights. And we shed light on this on a regular basis. Our word of the day is posit, and it is to dispose or set firmly, to fix. Number two, to assume or affirm the existence of, to postulate. Or number three, to propose the explanation or suggest. And I would posit all of you, or I guess I would posit to say that – There is a directive that is coming from I’m not quite sure where regarding these land use codes. And a very interesting headline that I pulled was why – and this is from the Tacoma News Tribune. It says, why are protesters in downtown Pulliup outside City Hall? A large rally is planned. And it says residents who argue that recent changes to Pulley Up’s comprehensive plan will make the city less inclusive plan to protest downtown. This was this last weekend. Penny Psalm, one of the organizers, said that she expects to have at least 100 protesters at 11 a.m. Saturday, August 2nd, this last weekend outside City Hall, and another 100 on the 7th Street southeast overpass above State Route 512. Psalms said that local groups sound changemakers and indivisible. Pulling up a local chapter of the national organization as well as the 25th Legislative District Democrats are organizing the protest. They’re turning out Saturday as part of a national rage against the regime protest against the Trump administration, but also specifically to call for city leaders to reverse the changes to the comprehensive plan. And the city council voted 4-3 on July 22nd to pass the city’s comprehensive plan with controversial changes. Mayor Jim Castema, Deputy Mayor Dennis King, and Councilmembers Dean Johnson and Renee Gillum voted to approve the amended plan. Councilmembers, they give the names. it says customer proposed the changes that got the most attention according to the city’s website including angley language that the city will follow federal executive orders including when they go against state law reducing the word equality with the word equity in many sections changing language about the history of the polyop tribe and changing language that identifies race as a barrier to housing Okay, so connect these dots with what we’re seeing with all these land use codes and zoning regulations that are changing as well as this is the comprehensive plan. There’s been comprehensive plan rewrites across the country. Now that you see this indivisible as a far left group with the Democrats that are protesting the changes to this plan, I think it’s important to connect these dots on the directive that’s occurring with these comprehensive plan rewrites. We’re seeing it in Lakewood. We’re seeing it across the metro area, across the country. And, in fact, in hour number two, we will be talking with a woman who is running for township council in New Jersey just because of this. So it’s really important that we connect those dots. Our quote of the day, I went to Maggie Thatcher. Because on Mondays, we talk with Jody Henze with Mint Financial Strategies. And Maggie Thatcher understood the importance of economic freedom. And one of the most important is personal economic freedom. So I went to Maggie Thatcher because she said that you can’t have political freedom if you don’t have economic freedom. But she was born in 1925. She died in 2013. She was a British stateswoman who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. Was a leader of the Conservative Party as well. She was the longest serving British prime minister of the 20th century. And she said this, I do not know anyone who’s got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near. And that is Maggie Thatcher. Another headline that I wanted to mention was General Flynn. As I think many of you have seen that there are, they found some burn bags at the FBI. And you wonder why they would be burning information, why they would be in burn bags. But this is from the Western Journal. General Flynn caught one of the most important details of newly found FBI burn bags. details a few people are talking about. And it goes on to say that on those classified documents that are in those burn bags related to this whole Russiagate issue, that there should be fingerprints there. And so that will be very interesting to see who had their hands on those burn bags. And so stay tuned on all of that. As I mentioned a little earlier, it is Monday, and that means we’re going to get an update from Jody Henze with Mint Financial Strategies. Happy Monday, Jody Henze. Thanks, Kim. Always glad to be here. Well, it’s good to have you. You’ve got something big happening in your life right now.
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I do. I do. I’m taking my son to college here in a couple of weeks. He’s my one and only. How are you doing with that? Mixed emotions for sure. Definitely proud, but also sad.
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You know, certainly emotional for sure. It always really is. And so I’m sending you hugs on all that. But planning for college is really important. It’s a big part of proper financial planning. So tell us a little bit about what people should know.
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yeah i mean the average cost of a four-year degree has just skyrocketed i mean it’s over six figures now a hundred thousand dollars in state 182 000 out of state and so we as parents really have to do a good job of starting early so our kids don’t get in this student loan trap that we’ve seen i mean the average student loan today is over 41 000 i mean that’s just crazy So one of the things that my husband and I did early for our son was set up a 529 plan. And 529 plans are one of the best ways that you can save for college. In fact, Colorado started something pretty cool a couple of years ago. It’s called the First Step Program. And if you happen to know anybody who just recently had a baby, you should check this out. You get $118 just for opening the account. You don’t even have to put anything into it. You just get $118 just for opening the account. And for the first five years, for every dollar that you put in it, up to $500, the state of Colorado is going to match that. So that’s $500 per year for the first five years matching. So if you total that up, that’s $2,618 that you’re going to get in the account. So after five years, you should already have 5,000 plus in the account. It’s pretty cool.
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Wow. And that is really interesting. So is it only for babies or how about toddlers and younger children?
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That is a great question, Kim. So the program started right after COVID. So it’s any babies born after January 1st of 2020. And so if you weren’t aware of the program, you can go back and open up an account even though your kid might be five years old now. So it’s State of Colorado Residence. Check it out. It’s collegeinvest.org. That’s collegeinvest.org. And it’s called the First Step Program.
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Okay. Gosh, that’s one of the reasons why working with a financial professional like you, that people will, there’s things out there they don’t even know anything about, which can really help with their financial planning.
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yeah and you know i’ve done the numbers and if you just crunch the numbers with just that matching alone that pays for at least one year of tuition and room and board with compounding for a four-year degree so just that state match you’ve got one year out of the four covered and college isn’t necessarily for everybody and a 529 plan can be used for apprenticeship that can be used to learn a trade. And so going back to your quote of the day from Maggie, I mean, talking about getting to the top, this is one way that we can help our kids and our grandkids really get that process started early.
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Well, that is really cool. And what about the First Step program? Is that only for college or can that be for trade schools as well?
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Both, both. 529 plans have become really flexible over the last couple of years. And the qualified youth has really broadened. So you can use it for apprenticeship, you can use it for trade school, you can use it for a lot of different things that are designed for secondary education or to learn a trade to better yourself for a career.
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Oh, that is so cool. Okay, and to talk with you, to talk about working with Mint Financial Strategies, you have a complimentary appointment or a phone call, right?
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Yeah, absolutely. All you have to do is reach out. You can get a hold of me through our phone or text line, which is 303-285-3080. Again, that’s 303-285-3080. Or you can contact us and check us out on the web. It’s MintFS. That’s MintFS for FinancialStrategies.com.
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Well, and Jody Henze, I wish you and I wish your son great success as he’s going off to college and hugs to you as life is changing at your house. But it’s all good. All good. Thanks, Kim. Have a good one. Okay. Have a great day. And again, that’s Jody Henze with Mint Financial Strategies. And a great sponsor of the show and also the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team is another great sponsor of the show. And they want you to feel safe and well-served and to understand your insurance coverage. And their office will respond to your caller text 24 hours a day. So for that 24-hour peace of mind, call Roger Mangan at 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor, Roger Mangan’s team is there.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That’s kimmonson.com. And also check out the website for the USMC Memorial Foundation. They are going to celebrate their 48th anniversary for the memorial on August 23rd. And you can buy tickets by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. It’s going to be a great evening. I’m going to be there. And David Bray will be performing. It’s going to be a great evening. And Great way to say thank you to those who have given their lives, have been willing to give their lives for our liberty, is to support the USMC Memorial Foundation. And again, that website’s usmcmemorialfoundation.org. On the line with me is Anne Lowe. And we got connected through Josh Lowenstein. And she lives in Iowa and lives near some wind turbines. And things have changed in her life. So Anne Lowe, welcome to the show. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Now, you live in Iowa, and rural Iowa, or where do you live exactly, Ann?
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I live about two and a half miles out of Northwood, Iowa.
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Okay. And so in a rural area? Yes. Okay. And your life changed when you started to have some industrial wind projects near you, correct? Correct. So tell us about that.
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It changed drastically. As soon as these projects started going up, started spinning, myself and several of my neighbors became sick. We’re sick. We’re sick every day. Every day. What’s the symptoms? Symptoms are pain and pressure in your head. Okay. Ringing, ear ringing, nausea.
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How many wind turbines, well, how close are the turbines to you?
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The closest ones to me are 1.6 miles.
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Okay. And you can hear them whirring on a regular basis? Yes, yes, you can.
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They sound like a jet that never lands.
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And how many are in close proximity to you, Ann Lowe? Oh, gosh.
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I would say at least 25 in total. There’s probably 180, you know, surrounding. Goodness.
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And to put in this project, has it taken farmland? Oh, yes, prime farmland. So the property where these wind turbines have been erected, who owns that land? Is it fellow neighbors, people from town, or is it corporations that own the land where they put these up, or is it a variety? It’s a variety.
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Mainly landowners signed on, and some of them are very sorry that they did, but it’s too late now.
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Okay. So have you gone to the doctor about this?
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Yeah. I’ve been a patient of Mayo Clinic for most of my life.
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Okay.
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And… There’s documentation of my symptoms.
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Has any health professionals connected the dots between your symptoms and the wind turbines?
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They don’t exactly want to put a finger on it. This rabbit hole runs really deep, so… I don’t think they want to say absolutely that that’s the cause.
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Okay. What about your neighbors? Have they also gone to the doctor on this?
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Oh, yes, several of them.
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Okay. Several of them. So is the community divided regarding this industrial wind project that’s in your community now?
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Very much so. Very much so.
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Okay. Because the landowners receive payment for having those wind turbines on their land, yes?
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Yes. Yes, they do.
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Okay. And where is the energy that is generated by this industrial wind project? Do you know where that electricity is going? Okay.
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It’s not going around here because all of our electricity went up.
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The cost of your electricity?
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Yes, it went up.
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That seems to be the case across the country as well. So what are you and your neighbors hoping to do about this? It’s probably difficult now to sell where you live. And have you lived there a long time, Ann?
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My late husband and I bought this the fall of 1997. So we’ve been here a long time.
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And it’s probably, what would you say, or do you know, has this industrial wind project caused a decrease in your land value?
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Oh, definitely. It definitely has.
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Okay. Do you know how long the land has been leased for these wind turbines by your neighbors that have these now on their property?
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That I’m not sure. I know it’s Invenergy, which is affiliated with Alliant Energy.
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Okay. Invenergy. Okay. I just talked about them the other day because there’s a grain belt express transmission lines that the Trump administration just rescinded loan guarantees on that. So that’s interesting that that’s who that is. What else do you want people to know, Ann Lowe, about what is happening to you and your neighbors regarding the continual sounds from the wind turbines?
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Just if anybody is planning knocking on doors or whatever, think it through, really. Because it will change your life 100%, you know, either good or bad. Mainly bad.
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Okay. Well, Ann, first of all, I’m sorry to hear that you’re having health challenges and correlating that with when these wind projects came up. You didn’t have any of this ears ringing or pain and pressure in your head before the wind turbines went up?
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No, no, none of it.
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Okay. And your neighbors have the same symptoms that you do?
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Some of them do, yes. And I talked to a physician. She’s retired now. But she fought against wind turbines when they were first trying to weasel their way in. And she told me that the infrasound is a lot like car sickness. You either get it or you don’t. And if you get it, you get it bad. And that’s, that’s what I have. I’ve got it bad.
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Okay. Well, Ann, I am so sorry to hear that. And, you know, we want to figure out a solution on this, but I don’t have one that I can say exactly right now, Ann. But I appreciate you sharing your story. And you live outside of Northwood, Iowa, correct? Correct. Okay. Well, I think that we’re learning more and more about these industrial wind projects. And, Ann, I really appreciate you sharing your story.
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Thank you very much.
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And one of the things about these industrial wind projects, these industrial solar projects, is the amount of land that has to be taken, prime farmland. And we had Robert Bryce on on Friday and he released this weekend. You can find it at his Substack. That’s spelled B-R-Y-C-E, Robert Bryce at Substack. And he just released his. documentary called Sunblock regarding the amount of land that is being taken for these industrial solar projects. And again, it was riveting when you saw just the acres and acres of solar panels in Texas on again, on prime farmland. Something’s not good about taking farmland that provides food for us and putting industrial solar and wind projects on that. So we’ll continue to shed light on this. We do really thank Anne Lowe for sharing her story with us as well. These are important stories. And all of it comes to you because of our sponsors. For everything residential real estate, reach out to Karen Levine.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That’s kimmonson.com. On the line with me is Colonel Bill Rutledge, 97 years young. And last week he was on, and we were talking about Typhoid Mary. Colonel Rutledge has traveled the world. He has just a curiosity for people and places in history. And I love these special interviews that we do, which… talks about history and connects the dots. So last week we had talked about a typhoid Mary and this she lived in the early late 1800s early 1900s and she was a carrier typhoid. She wasn’t sick with it but she was a carrier and so Colonel Rutledge welcome because I wanted to connect some dots about typhoid Mary and COVID. So welcome to the show.
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Well good morning. Yes, there are some correlations. I think it’s important that the listeners understand that Typhoid Mary was born in Ireland, 1898, 1869, in County Tyrone. And as a young girl, almost 15, she immigrated to America by herself. We don’t know a thing about her background. In Ireland, we don’t know if she ever might have had typhoid. There’s no records of that. She had an aunt and an uncle who lived in metropolitan New York City, so she came and lived with them for a few years, and then they were rather old, and they died, and she was on her own. When you’re a young teenager and you’re having to make your way in a large city like that, it’s very difficult. But Mary had learned to be a good cook. And in that era, if you were a good cook, you were employable, especially by some of the wealthier families in Manhattan and on Long Island. So for the first few years that she was there, she worked through an employment agency that placed her and she was very successful and early in the 1900s that first decade there there was another outbreak of typhoid in the city and the city realized that this was an ongoing problem so they established an office for research and they hired individuals that were called actually sanitary engineers. They were trained actually in some of the medical schools because they had to be multi-talented. They had to know how to detect things, how bacteria was developing and whether or not it might be a contagion. There was a big difference in doctors’ opinions. Some of the doctors didn’t believe in bacteria at all or viruses, and it was really a mixed bag. But nevertheless, this gentleman went to medical school, and he prepared himself. His name was George Soper, S-O-P-E-R. And so George was given the responsibility to of trying to track down the source of some of these outbreaks. There was a general understanding that typhoid was quite frequently transmitted through water, but they didn’t know exactly how. And so he was in the process of doing that. And what happened is he encountered an outbreak and he went to the home where Mary was working and he talked to Mary and briefed her on the concept that there were a small number of individuals who were considered carriers of the typhoid bacteria and that They would show no symptoms. However, the only way that they could resolve this matter was to conduct a medical test and to determine whether or not she might be one of those individuals. And so he asked her very, very politely if she would come with him to the hospital and be tested. And then what they did, they did a test of the blood the urine and the feces. Well, she was indignant. First of all, she was a very intelligent young lady and she had never heard of any concept like this. So she was not happy with the idea and she was in the kitchen at the time and she had a great big fork that she was using in her preparation and so he talked to her and she got so mad She ran him out of the house, and he moved as fast as he could because he was frightened that he might be obscured by one of her kitchen appliances. So anyhow, he went and he found a lady doctor, and he figured that would be the best way to go. And the lady doctor, in turn, got some police because she’d been warned that Mary was strong and was not going to come willingly to be tested. So they actually came down with an ambulance and four policemen, and they got Mary, and it was not easy. Mary fought all the way, but they finally put her in the ambulance and took her to the hospital. And they still had to stay with her until the tests were done, and she was very reluctant, but… nature as it was, and she couldn’t wait forever. So within a day or so, they did the test. The test proved that she did have typhoid in her system. Now, they did not know where it was. They didn’t know what organs might be storing this. So they wanted to do some experimentation, and they even considered doing some They thought maybe in the gallbladder. Mary was going to have none of this, so at her first opportunity, Mary left. She got out of the hospital, and she was gone. She was eventually traced down, and then when she was, they brought her back, and then they decided that they would confine her on a small island out in the East River. where they had some small individual homes, but they also had a general hospital. And it was a place where it was mostly for ladies, run by the city. And what struck me was I saw some pictures, and it was like a ward instead of individual rooms. So they had people with many and varied contagions, but they had them lined up in beds, in a long war. It was almost like a battlefield situation. So it was not very healthy, but Mary was okay. So she was on the island, and then after about a year, she resisted it all the way. But then what Mary did, she wrote a letter to one of the larger New York City papers and explained that she had been kidnapped by the city, and she was being held as a virtual prisoner on a small island in the East River, and she had done no crimes. She had no symptoms. She was not sick, and she was very articulate in her letter, and there was a young attorney who read it, and he volunteered to do to take her case really she didn’t have any money but he was moving up in the industry and thought it would be great recognition plus he he had he felt that mary was being mistreated so he acted as her representative and they approached the legal authorities within the city And they reached a compromise. And the compromise was that she would be released. She would be on her own. She could have her own independence. But she could not work as a cook because they were convinced that the transmission was in the kitchen and food and water because of her skills. And this lasted for approximately five years. Then Mary… decided she couldn’t live very well just doing housework. She needed to be back in the kitchen. She liked it, and she made much better money, and she was also assigned to more prosperous homes. So Mary went back to the placement office, but this time she changed her name. This time she was Miss Brown, Mrs. Brown. So Mrs. Brown was employed, and by a quirky coincidence, Mrs. Brown got a job at a hospital, and before long, several of the doctors and nurses came down with typhoid. This made it pretty easy to figure out that Ms. Brown was not Ms. Brown at all. It was only Mary Brown. So she was picked up and taken back out to the small island, and that’s where we got to last week.
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Okay. Now, just quickly, if people did not hear that show, typhoid, the symptoms are sustained high fever, headaches, stomach pain, weakness, loss of appetite, diarrhea, or constipation, and some individuals may also develop a rash. And it’s a bacteria from salmonella, correct?
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Yes, correct.
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Okay.
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And also, it can be fatal. actually every year several thousand people would die of it, and many thousand would catch the disease in New York City in the metropolitan area every year. It was quite dangerous. From my own personal experience, my father and his three siblings all had typhoid fever, and my father almost died with it.
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And so let’s go to break. I’m talking with Colonel Bill Rutledge regarding Typhoid Mary. And this happened around the turn of the century, the early 1900s in New York City. And so we are going to continue the discussion because… I wanted to talk with Colonel Redledge about then what happened with COVID and the narratives there as well. So that’s why we’re continuing this discussion. And it happens because of our sponsors. And for everything mortgages, reach out to Lauren Levy.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That’s kimmonson.com. Also, check out the website for the Center for American Values. That website is americanvaluecenter.org. And Drew Dix, co-founder of the Center, Medal of Honor recipient, has started a new podcast series and would highly recommend that you check that out. He posts a new podcast every Wednesday. You can find that at americanvaluecenter.org, americanvaluecenter.org. Talking with Colonel Bill Rutledge, he’s retired United States Air Force, is 97 years young, and a great curiosity about people and places in history. And he had read a book about typhoid Mary, and he said, Kim, I think this would be super interesting for your listeners. And it is. So Colonel Rutledge, well, first of all, you had mentioned that your father and his siblings had all gotten typhoid fever and survived typhoid. So when you were a child, though, you received the vaccine for typhoid, correct?
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Yes. And we were talking about a great span of time. My father got it in 1910 when he was eight years old. And they had not yet found any kind of a vaccine that could be preventive and effective. However, shortly thereafter, through the research, they came up with a vaccine that would be nominally preventive, but we have to recognize the era we’re talking now about, shortly even before the start of the First World War, and very few counties or communities had public health departments The idea of vaccines was not very acceptable by people. There was a cost involved, and many of the doctors, they weren’t too sure about the effectiveness of anything that they used. And Mary, they tried to experiment with Mary by using oral medications. Well, actually, Mary got sick. from some of the oral medications, and then she just refused any more of that. So she felt she was being an experimental animal, and so she really, she was put back into her own little house with her dog, and she was provided meals and medical attention as needed on the same island where the hospital was. And she made friends with people. And Mary, though, lived out there for many years, and she became a friend of one of the lady doctors. And Mary actually learned how to do some of the medical technology work that would not endanger anyone, where she might work in a lab. And she lived and survived until November the 11th, 1938. Now, flipping back, in my own case, I was in South Georgia in 1936, and there was apparently some presence of typhoid in that particular county or that area. My grandfather was a county health doctor for Ware County, Georgia. So I was there visiting in the summer, and he said, Billy, come on down to my office. I think I need to give you a shot that might protect you against typhoid. Well, I had never heard of typhoid, and I certainly wasn’t enthused about having a shot. But he followed the proper procedure. So in that era, you had to have shots, three shots, over a three-week period. So I came in and had my shot. They did not have disposable needles. They had old, those big needles. They felt like nails when they put them in your arm. They reused them. They had a machine that would resharpen them. Then they’d put them in the steamer to sterilize them. So they’d go through that procedure. Then they’d put the serum in. And so You get the shot. The needle hurts like crazy. The shot burns. And then you get an inflammation under your arm. And this is bad enough. It lasts for almost a week. So by that time, it wears off. And it’s time for shot number two. So you repeat the same procedure for three weeks. The long and the short of it was I never got typhoid, so it must have worked. But I learned from reading that nationally there was not any inoculation that proved absolutely correct until 1949. And my vaccine worked very long. So in 1966, I was in Germany, and I had to go to the Far East, and I had to take vaccines for many things. And they asked me had I ever taken typhoid shots, and I said yes. And they said, well, you’re going to have to take a booster. So presumably, my booster was the new vaccine that had been approved in 1949. And where we drew a lot of parallels in some of these things is that The experience we’ve all had in researching medical science we recognize that the idea of an immunization which will protect an individual from gaining be it a bacteria virus. takes decades, sometimes. Many, many generations in the process and here in 19 I mean in 20. 2020, someone was trying to compare the process of the atomic bomb and Manhattan Project that had been enforced in a few years, and they’d had great success. It doesn’t work that way with medical science. It has to be done systematically using the proper trial and error test process. And it wasn’t used for us on COVID-19. Now, the reason I can draw parallels, but I can also make distinctions about it because I had COVID in February and March of 2021. And I was in the hospital for 16 days and I got out and therefore I had natural immunity. But after that, I started studying all I could about COVID. And I got the book that Mr. Kennedy wrote on the real Anthony Fauci, who stood before the American public and swore that if you take this vaccine, you will not get COVID. Furthermore, you will not be contagious. And we were told many other things. Well, they weren’t true. And the scientific procedure had not been followed. We did not have blind studies. So consequently, people all over the world were getting COVID-19 and getting basically bad news. Now, the people that had the greatest success were in India. India realizes that, first of all, Some of these vaccines are very expensive, so they did a test there where they took two states. One state used only the vaccine and the other state used only ivermectin. So they did that for a 30 day period and then they made a comparison and they found that the shots were doing nothing. But the ivermectin was very effective oral product that was already online and already been approved. But western civilization and especially in America, they made fun of the idea and they kept saying these are medications for animals and also the same thing for hydroxychlorophene. So it was really a sad situation and you have to learn from the experience Now, recently, and I’m talking about within the last year or so, there have been cases where individuals have approached their doctors about using experimental practices, some new products, either mostly oral products, that might help them in their research.
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protection against covid and also hey colonel rutledge we are out of time i tell you what would you stay on the line and at the beginning of our number two we’ll have about five minutes to wrap this up because i think that’s super important we’ll do that Okay. And our quote for the end of the show is from Maggie Thatcher. She said this, when I’m out of politics, I’m going to run a business. It’ll be called Rent-A-Spine. 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, and God bless America.
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Thank you, Kim. Happy Monday to you as well.
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And I want to say thank you to the Harris family for their gold sponsorship of the show. And also thank you to Hooters Restaurants for their sponsorship of both the Kim Monson Show and America’s Veterans Stories. They have locations in Loveland, Westminster, and Aurora here on Parker Road. Great specials Monday through Friday for lunch and for happy hour in particular. Now, I’ve not had them, but the fish tacos get rave reviews, but they have great nachos and fish and chips as well. So, again, thank you to Hooters Restaurants for their sponsorship of the show as well. And let’s see. Our word of the day is posit. It’s P-O-S-I-T, and it is a transitive verb. could be to dispose or set firmly as to fix. Number two, to assume or affirm the existence of, to postulate. Or number three, to propose an explanation or suggest. And we have kept Colonel Bill Rutledge on the line with us, retired United States Air Force, 97 years young. to finish up our conversation about typhoid Mary and some potential correlations that I would say that PBIs tried to posit regarding correlations between typhoid and COVID. So we wanted to finish up that discussion. If you missed that particular part of the show, that show will be rebroadcast today, 1 to 2 in the afternoon. Our quote of the day is Maggie Thatcher. And she was born in 1925, died in 2013. And she was a British stateswoman and was the prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. She says, I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near. And that is Maggie Thatcher. So, Colonel Rutledge, thank you for staying on through the break because I wanted to talk a little bit more about Typhoid Mary and that she was a carrier of typhoid. Yes. But she was asymptomatic.
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And so we saw PBIs posit, I think, this asymptomatic carrier disease. of COVID. It is beginning 2020 2020. That was such a crazy time. And they was all doing all this testing of Americans, as you mentioned in India, they they actually had a kind of a controlled experiment to see about COVID. And tell us a little bit about that again, Colonel Rutledge, that’s kind of where we were leaving off.
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Well, they did. They took a 30 day period. And They had two of their states. One state would use the COVID shot and the other state would use ivermectin. And both would be exclusive. They would not blend any at all. Then they’d make a comparison. And when they made the comparison, ivermectin was far superior as far as prevention and or treatment. But I want to mention something that’s relative because it relates to all listeners. Because all of us were exposed at one time or another in the last five years to what’s one type of COVID. Ever since I got over this, I have talked to doctors, nurses, home health care providers. And in every case, I always ask them exactly the same thing. I say, did you wear your mask? Did you get the shots? Did you get COVID? Did you get COVID after taking the shots? Then if you did, then did you have to take a booster shot? And after the booster shot, did you get COVID again? And in every case, without exception, the answer was yes, which proved beyond any doubt that the inoculation was completely a waste of time and dangerous. from the side effects. And I’m talking about, I’m talking specifically to NDs, fully qualified and experienced nurses, home health care providers. Those are the people who all were required to take shots in order to keep their employment in 2020 and 2021 and in some cases on for two or three more years. So they are, again, still advertising. I went to the pharmacist yesterday, and they said, would you like to take another booster? You haven’t had any shots, have you? No. He said, would you like a booster for COVID? And I said, no, thank you. And I talked to the pharmacist. I said, if I brought a prescription from my doctor for ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine, would you feel it? He said, no. I just want people to generally understand that If you do get covered, don’t keep getting follow on shots. You are only your weakening your immune system. A person who has had COVID and recovered has developed a greater degree of immunity. And I have had no problems in four and a half years after I got up from that bed with COVID because I had natural immunity.
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I think that – and so I saw this narrative that I felt was – positing a correlation between maybe what had happened with typhoid Mary being a carrier and then the narrative that we had here regarding COVID. But you had done this unscientific conversations, I guess, but had come to the conclusion you talked with all these healthcare professionals that even though they wore a mask and got the COVID vaccine and got the boosters, they still got COVID. Was that
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Everyone or every single person that I talked to who had gone through the same regime had gotten it. I sent matter of fact, I sent a message to one of my cousins in South Carolina last week and she sent it back and she said, I followed the exact procedure you outlined. I went to my doctor. My family doctor said, take two shots. I took two shots. She said, then I got covid. And then he said, come back and take a booster. So I went back and took a booster. And I said, and then did you get it again? She said, I have now had COVID at least three times and perhaps four.
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And then the other thing, Gammy had just texted me that many times there were false positives on these COVID tests as well. It was, as we look in the rearview mirror, Colonel Rutledge, what we went through regarding COVID and those that contracted COVID early on, it was very bad. And in fact, your treasured Virginia, your wife of many, many years, also got COVID and she did not survive it. And so you have a front row seat to all that happened with COVID, Colonel Rutledge.
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I have had an intense research program ever since I got out of bed. And I just learned so much. And I learned that we had been lied to by the pharmacists and by the doctors. And they were under pressure by their accrediting agencies where they were threatened to lose their jobs or lose their license if they didn’t comply. And this was true even yesterday when I talked to the pharmacist at Safeway in Fort Collins. Wow.
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Okay, Colonel Rutledge, your final thought, final advice to our listeners.
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Well, there are times when you have to be your own doctor. If you may recall, in the first administration, President Trump said that there were circumstances where people had used all the medical advice and things which were available, but they were considered terminal as far as their lives, and therefore they had the freedom to experiment, and their physicians did also, with different methods of either oral or shots experimented. And many people survived and many people have extended their lives and recovered fully by using new methods, new procedures, new products. So there is an opportunity for openness and awareness. But for the long run, for billions and millions of people, the only way to protect them is through lengthy scientific testing and That takes generations.
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Okay. Colonel Bill Rutledge, thank you so much. And we will talk again very soon on another very interesting subject. So stay tuned. And I really appreciate it, Colonel Rutledge. These discussions happen because we are blessed with great people. And I’m talking with Roger Mangan with the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance team. And you can help people with their home, their auto, but condos and townhouses as well. So let’s talk about that.
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Well, there’s a lot going on, as you probably know, if you live in a condo or a townhouse. I want to give you a quick example. I live in the townhouse. So we have a master policy. The master policy is probably 31% in my subdivision of the total monthly fee to cover just the insurance, 31% in my case. Okay. Anyway. What happened is we got a quote for the renewal. Our premium was $177,000 for 98 units. It went to $400,000 from $178,000. The alternative bid we got against that $400,000 was $800,000. No insurance company, for the most part, want to insure townhouses or buildings. condos anymore in colorado so what’s happening is a lot of the associations are dissolving the master policy amending their bylaws and having you as an owner by a separate homeowner’s policy it shifts the cost to you the homeowner or the unit owner condo unit owner and and away from the HOA. So you would think in the balance that your fees would go down, but everything else is going up, so it’s a bad situation. You can surmise that just by what I’m saying. I think the important thing for you to know If you still have a master policy, you have two types, either all-in or bare walls. We’ve talked about this sometime in the past. But bare walls basically says that master policy will cover everything up to the studs. So the drywall, wallpaper, paneling, anything on that drywall is not going to be covered. Everything inside is not going to be covered. Your toilets, your hardwood floors, your fixture, your sink, your countertops. So find out what kind of policy you have. I have a lot of insurers who call and say, is this covered? I said, I don’t know. Have you called your manager for the association to ask them what the insurance policy is doing? Because I don’t know what your master policy does. You have to know. And once you find that out, if you’ve got bare walls and on your HO6 policy, which is your condo townhouse policy, If you have $125,000 on building coverage and you have barrel walls, you’re in trouble. You need to have that probably $300,000, $400,000, $500,000, depending on the quality of the unit you live in and the HOA you live in. So if you had a major fire and you were underinsured and someone paid you $123,000 and you were barrel walls and it cost you $400,000 rebuilt… you’re in a world of hurt. Wow.
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And that can happen. Happens all the time. So what about, though, if you’re in a townhouse or a condo, if you’re now getting your separate insurance policy, what about new roofs for the whole?
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Yeah, you would insure the roof. Let’s say you’re in a duplex, and one side of the duplex has American Family, the other side has State Farm. and there’s a fire on one unit, but it destroys part of the other unit, you need to make sure when you talk to your agent that coverage that was caused by the unit next to you is going to be covered by you, and it would be. And then whoever caused the fire, the insurance company that paid on your behalf and you weren’t at fault is going to subrogate against the insurance company that was at fault, assuming there was liability involved. Okay. Okay.
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Okay. Always great information that you’re sharing with our listeners. And to make a complimentary appointment with the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team, what is the number to call?
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Hey, please call us, and we will not try to strong-arm you or sell you. If you want to come in and have us review your insurance at no obligation, please call 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan Team is there.
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Do you strive for excellence as you work with your clients and customers? Does it make sense for you to add a unique and focused branding opportunity to your marketing portfolio? Would you like to access a broad customer base that loves our country and wants to make life better for ourselves, our neighbors, our colleagues, our children and our grandchildren? Then you may be a perfect fit as a sponsor or partner of The Kim Monson Show. To learn more, reach out to Kim at kim at kimmonson.com. Kim would love to talk with you. Again, that’s kim at kimmonson.com.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. We are going to jump into the conversation with Sophia Georges. She is a realtor, has her own real estate firm in New Jersey, and she has decided to run for Franklin Township Council. Sophia, welcome to the show. Hi, good morning.
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Thank you for having me, Kim.
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Well, it’s great to have you, and this is a big deal to step forward to run for office. Tell us a little bit about you and why you are doing that.
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Absolutely. So I’m not a politician. I am a mom, a homeowner, and a business owner. I own my own brokerage, real estate here. I’ve lived in Franklin Township, which is in central Jersey, for 25 years. I have three children that go to school here. And like I said, I’m a business owner. So I have seen over the years some of the changes that have been happening. And I was asked if I was interested in running. I started volunteering for our committee. And I said, you know what? I think I can make a difference. And I said, I think I can be a voice for many people. And I decided to run. So this was not like a career for me. This is more of I think I have the ability to make a difference, and I wanted to do that. Leave a legacy, Kim. We’ve got to stand for something, right?
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We do. And I was on city council 2012 to 2016 for my community. And it was like a front row seat to see how the sausage is made. And I have seen a usurpation, I would say, of property rights, of people’s rights. And we’re seeing a whole bunch of rewrites of zoning regulations, comprehensive plans for communities. And I’m very concerned about that, Sophia.
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Yes, and absolutely. What you said, you got to see the sausage being made as you got more involved, and that was a similar thing that happened with me. As I got more involved with volunteering, attending council meetings, just getting more in detail, because I think we tend to get very busy in our lives, and we don’t really follow the details in our day-to-day grind. But having been involved with all these activities, it was very eye-opening to me. And so that was also a contributing factor to me running. Yeah, we have a lot of issues here in my practice with housing affordability, and I’m sure you guys do out in Colorado as well. And it was for me, it was my ability to try to help my clients achieve homeownership. and make it easy for them. And affordable housing is definitely a hot topic nowadays.
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As I look at it, I think that it has been public policy that has made housing less and less affordable. There’s other factors as well, but I think public policy has been a real contributing factor. And my concern then is I call them PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties. They swoop in and the answer is government. And affordable housing, subsidized housing actually is government housing. And if you have government housing, you don’t have property rights. And I’m super concerned about that, Sophia.
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Yes, you’re absolutely right. This is, you know, we always talk about mortgage rates. But, you know, it’s not only mortgage rates, but exactly what you’re saying. These are policies. These are the bureaucrats that have stepped in and have created these unsustainable policies to make housing unaffordable and unsustainable with these high taxes that we’ve been bearing here in New Jersey. Yeah, and you know, we call it affordable housing, and I think that term is very confusing. It’s actually, you know, lower income housing. And like you said, these are homes that are being built just for the specific reason. And here in New Jersey, we had something called the Mount Morrill Doctrine, which required our municipalities to provide a fair share of affordable housing. So we’ve been mandated here in our town to do so. Again, these are, like you said, government housing. This is not promoting home ownership. This is not promoting people to be able to stand strong on their own two feet and attain the American dream, which we always say has been home ownership. This has sort of been policies that have put a Band-Aid on things and is not intended for the sustainability long term.
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Another thing that I am seeing is density. And here in Colorado, we are facing the same thing, high property taxes. And the answer to that would be for these different governments, municipalities, school districts to lower taxes and reduce government spending. We talk about it on the national level, and that’s super important. But on the local level, people are really hurting financially. regarding high property taxes, high sales taxes, and government has gotten way out of its lane, Sofia Georges.
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Absolutely. Local politics, I say, is sort of the key that drives our national policy. I mean, it starts at the local level. People tend to not focus so much on the local level, but it is so critically important because local The town council has a tremendous amount of power in what you do in your town. So you talked about taxes. So we go through reassessments every year here on our homes. And a lot of times people are confused that your assessments go up on your homes and your taxes automatically go up. But that’s really not supposed to be the case. We want to have equity in our homes. We want our homes to have value. And we saw our home values here, you know, the bidding wars that happened during COVID. There was this low inventory, so a massive spike in home prices. But the budget, when we talk about a budget in the town, you know, that is key, whether it’s the school budget, the township, you know, the operating budget. Because your value goes up, we want equity in our homes. But the town should maintain a responsible budget. And the tax rate, when we talk about that, shouldn’t be going up. It should actually be coming down. So I think there’s a lot of confusion when people talk about it, especially if they think it’s an automatic increase in taxes. But we are seeing, we just saw here in Franklin Township, I’ve heard up to a 25% tax increase in one year. on a property. How are families supposed to be able to afford something like that? So that’s the key is really trying to get a hold of that issue are helping our hardworking families that are that are really reeling here locally. And you know, all of this talk about affordable housing, it’s supposed to be for the public benefit. People are still waiting to see what that public benefit is. If you’re increasing the amount of people, you would think that you were increasing the revenue in the town, bringing in more money. You should see your taxes coming down. But we are just we’re seeing just the opposite.
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Well, and again, government housing. If you don’t own something, you don’t take as good of care of it. Now, if people want to rent, certainly we support people having their choices on their housing. If they want to rent, that’s fine. But what we’ve seen here in Colorado is is public policy that is making it more difficult for developers to build ownership units for people but yet we’re seeing with favorable financing from the federal government favorable permitting and a variety of things we’re seeing what’s called transit orientated development which is trying to put people into apartments near the light rail corridor Do you see something like that in New Jersey?
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I do see that in New Jersey. But, you know, they’re also now each of the individual towns are given mandates. And that’s where a lot of these issues comes about, because you have certain towns that are not near these transient cities that have had these mandates. But another thing is we’re seeing a lot of warehouses here, too. But There is a lot of these transient towns that have been given incentives to redevelop. Yes. So people prefer that they actually use something that is in need of repair to develop. But again, when you do that, you have to be responsible in your development. That’s the area of controversy. When you increase the population, you put strain on the infrastructure, overcrowding in schools. There’s a lot that’s involved. You can’t just develop and build. And that is oftentimes an area of contention among the residents of a town. So again, like, In real estate, I love building and I love redevelopment, but it must be a responsible development.
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Well, and I really think getting government out of no subsidies, no special permitting, that everybody’s on this even playing field, which is how it’s supposed to be in real estate. In capitalism, it’s the free exchange of value between two entities. So I’m going to continue the discussion with Sophia Georges. And she is running for Franklin Township Council in New Jersey. And this is really how it’s supposed to be in America, where citizens step forward, run for office. They don’t make it a career. They serve jobs. And then step back. Although if Sophia decides that she wants higher office, I bet that would be pretty cool as well. We’re going to continue these discussions. And they happen because of our sponsors. And the Second Syndicate is a great sponsor of the show. And Alicia Garcia has written an excellent essay that we published at the Kim Monson Show. You can find it at kimmonson.com. Regarding… Policies on firearms here in Colorado. The right to keep and bear firearms to protect ourselves against bad actors is under assault. An excellent article that she’s written. So check that out at KimMonson.com and appreciate the Syndicate as a sponsor.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That’s KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And sign up for our weekly email newsletter there as well. And do check out the website for the Center for American Values. The center is located in Pueblo on the beautiful Riverwalk. And they do a variety of things honoring our Medal of Honor recipients with their portraits of valor and some great educational programs. And Drew Dix, co-founder of the center and Medal of Honor recipient, has started a great podcast series called So you can find that at AmericanValueCenter.org. That is AmericanValueCenter.org. And we talked with her in hour number one, and that’s Jody Henze with Mint Financial Strategies. And she had talked a bit about planning for college. Her son is headed off to college, and so she’s got a front row seat on just how important planning is on that. And Mint Financial Strategies is. can help you with that. So give them a call at 303-285-3080 and set up a complimentary appointment to plan for your own personal economic freedom. And again, that is Mint Financial Strategies. I’m talking with Sophia Georges, who lives in New Jersey. She is running for counsel for Franklin Township. And Sophia, is this a November election or when is the election?
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes, here in New Jersey, we have odd-year elections. Yes, so our elections here are November 4th. It’s the same time as our gubernatorial election.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay. And you said that you had served on a number of different committees, which is a great way for people to get involved and see what’s going on in their communities. What have you seen in New Jersey with rewrites on comprehensive plans, land use, zoning regulations? We’re seeing a whole bunch of comprehensive plan rewrites out here in Colorado. Are you seeing that in New Jersey?
SPEAKER 16 :
We are, to some extent, in more of the urban cities. I mentioned earlier about warehousing in more of our suburban rural towns here. That’s been a contentious issue. And this whole rewriting of plans has become a topic when we talk about warehousing, because a lot of these warehouses are vacant. And People ask, why do you want to continue to build and mandate these low-income affordable housing in areas of where, you know, in our suburban areas where, you know, the property that we own and our surrounding areas are farmlands, when we can utilize a lot of these warehouse spaces to put, you know, the lower income, you know, to serve the mantis, to satisfy the mandate that’s been given to them. Um, we do, you know, one thing when they rewrite and look at these comprehensive plans is, um, we question the engineers that are involved, um, and the people that are involved in the planning. When you go to these, um, these meetings, these planning board meetings and people stand up there and they and they do their presentation, of why this is a great development and why they promote it. One of the experts there, the engineering expert, looks at traffic, looks at those types of things. So that’s an important element when you talk about these rewritings. And it’s always very questionable who is serving who in that purpose. People have questions in my conversations Are these engineers acting in good faith on behalf of the residents? Or are they acting unfavorably towards the town or favorably towards the development? So that’s always the question because they have so much power, Kim. They have so much power in the way that our way of life, right? The traffic patterns, the overcrowding in schools and all of those things. So… We do see a lot of redevelopment, like you mentioned, in the transient cities, the rewrites. But it’s sort of now coming into our suburban rural areas, and this idea of warehousing and how to utilize them and how to properly do an assessment of these rewrites has become a contentious issue.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, in a way, it’s changing the rules. It’s changing, moving the goalposts for people. So here in Colorado, there’s this push for density. And I’m concerned about density. plopping apartment buildings, changing zoning and plopping apartment buildings in single family neighborhoods, because I think it changes the fabric of the neighborhood. And I think it’s also like it’s changing the rules, which I think that if people purchased a single family home and well, another thing that that is happening is that the Colorado legislature passed accessory dwelling units so people could put another dwelling unit on their property, which again, I think changes the fabric of a single family neighborhood. What do you think about that? You’re an expert on that, Sophia.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, no, I completely agree with you because when you do start changing the zoning rules and changing how the property was intended to be used, you are affecting the value of the property and you’re affecting the value of the surrounding homes. Yes, so I completely agree with you that they change the rules, and it makes it very, very difficult for families that want to create a life, stay somewhere long-term, build a family, run their businesses. Yes, so absolutely, Kim, I agree with you. It does change the rules. And we buy our homes because we want to gain equity. I mean, the home is also an investment. So when you start… artificially doing those things, it makes it very difficult for families to make that lifelong decision of purchasing a home for their intended use.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, and if that affects the value, then it is affecting the property rights of that person or that family as well. And In a way, Sophia, it seems like it’s by design. We’re seeing this across the country. It seems like it’s an assault upon home ownership and people creating equity and economic freedom. It seems to me like there’s this real assault on that, Sophia.
SPEAKER 16 :
I know. I completely agree with you. Our freedoms in this country is really based on our ownership of things. When you start taking away rights, property rights, ownership rights, then you start having big government intervene in your daily lives. So your greatest power is having ownership of things. So when your ownership rights is under assault, you start to lose your freedom. And sometimes it happens very slowly. You don’t necessarily see it happening. And, you know, before you know it, it’s unrecognizable. You say, what happened to my town? You know, when we’re talking about property rights. I even hear, you know, some of these taxes that we’ve seen, these obscene increases in our property taxes, is the government trying to tax us out of our properties. That’s another argument that I’ve heard. You know, all for the purpose of increasing the density, like you said.
SPEAKER 03 :
um to to serve this uh this mandate and also to to take away our rights to take away our freedoms um so that the government can have more power control over what we do so sophia as you’ve served on these committees in your township what i learned when i was on city council and and these are these are fine people but and that is staff that staff many times can drive the narrative on what the elected representatives do. And I think that it’s, and so what we’re having is these unelected bureaucrats staff that’s really driving a lot of these decisions. And we, we need to have people step forward to run for office that won’t just be rubber stamps for what staff recommends, but that will actually, as you alluded to this representing the people.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, that’s right. That’s where you need the grassroots people to stand up and run for these local offices. And if you can’t run, I understand it’s a commitment. Just get involved, help, volunteer, doorknob, get the message out. We need to get back to doing what’s right for the community and not rubber stamping, not falling in line with what the group think is on this policy. You need somebody that is actually going to stand up for the town and represent the town truly. And me not being in politics, Kim, I come from, you know, I’m pure in all of this. I come strictly. As a concerned resident of my town with what I’ve been seeing, I have three young children. I want to see them be able to live here, to be able to sustain a life. So I’m hoping I can make that difference. I can get my message across to people, Kim. Yeah, and more people. I’m hoping more people can step up because the more voices, the better.
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Well, that is for sure. We’re going to continue the discussion. We have a number of questions coming in on the text line. The text line is 720-605-0647. We’re talking with Sophia Georges, who is running for president. Franklin Township Council in New Jersey. And we’re talking about some of the correlations that we’re seeing in New Jersey, Colorado, across the country. And it is very important to connect these dots. And we connect them because of our sponsors. And if you’ve been injured, reach out to John Bozen and Bozen Law.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Check out the USMC Memorial Foundation’s website. That’s usmcmemorialfoundation.org. The official Marine Memorial is right here in Colorado at Colfax and 6th Avenue. And we’ll be celebrating its 48th anniversary on August 23rd. You can buy tickets and join me out there on the 23rd by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. That’s usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Talking with Sophia Georges, who is running for Franklin Township Council in New Jersey. And Sophia, before we get into it, how can people find you? What is your website?
SPEAKER 16 :
So my website is realcityrealestate.com. And that’s for my brokerage. You can find all my social media there and some other information, my bio and some videos and things like that I share about these sorts of topics. And you can also go to ftgop.org. And check out my bio. That’s for our candidacy for my run for town council. We talk about we have articles on there about this as well. This is a hot topic for us in our town. So check them out.
SPEAKER 03 :
OK, now it sounds like the area is primarily rural. Does it do people live there and work in New York?
SPEAKER 16 :
They do. We have suburban and rural. We have businesses here. We have a lot of businesses in our surrounding areas. But we do have an easy, very easy commute into the city, into New York City from here. So we’re in Somerset County. We run right along the rail line in that densely populated area that lives more towards the train, making it easier for the commute.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay. Coming in, we have a number of questions and comments on the text line. First question is, how much land in New Jersey is privately owned and how much is publicly owned? Because out here in the West, we have a lot of public lands.
SPEAKER 16 :
My rough estimate here in New Jersey is we have about 80% that is privately owned and 20% that’s publicly owned. One of the largest publicly owned sections are the Pine Barrens. This is the Pinelands National Reserve, which is more or less central South Jersey, a little bit more in the south, more towards Philadelphia area down there. But a majority of our lands here are privately owned. The state owns about 20% of it, the land that’s publicly And federal has a very small amount here. I think it’s probably a little bit more out where you are in Colorado.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, now this is another question that came in on the text line, and it’s a good point. Anything promoted as a public benefit should benefit everyone equally, and that’s why this whole affordable housing thing, it’s subsidized housing. In essence, housing has been inflated, and then government comes in and wants to tax one person to subsidize housing, and give to another person, and that is antithetical to the American idea. We’ve got to push back on that, Sophia.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes, you’re absolutely right. The original intent when they say public use, for the benefit of the public use, was for things like roads, schools, parks, things that we all use as a community. But over the years, that definition of public use was expanded. And now that’s become now the artificial build, like you said, of giving money from one economic class to another economic class to create these affordable housing projects. So the intended use is not being used. Like you said, they’ve infiltrated now into getting away from that intended use. into now creating these affordable housing communities.
SPEAKER 03 :
And again, that is, it’s not fair to take from one person to give to another. That’s not the proper role of government. And this is something that I’m realizing is that bureaucrats, many of them have gone to public administration programs and universities and colleges and And they’ve been taught really this centralized planning of these comprehensive plans. And it’s something that I’m seeing correlations between these comprehensive plans from community to community, which ultimately I think is an assault upon private home ownership and And as you know in your business, Sophia, owning your own home, which is a place to raise your family, it’s your home, and you create equity and wealth with that. And that seems to be one of the things that I think is under assault with these new comprehensive plan rewrites, land use code rewrites.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes, absolutely. Your home is your sanctuary. Your home is your private place. Your home is the place where you build equity, you build wealth, right? We get a paycheck every day, we have expenses, but your home is your long-term sustainability to building wealth, and as is any real estate. And then again, wealth is power, right? And that’s where, you know, They don’t want us to have that. You know, they’re removing our freedoms, Kim. They’re taking our freedoms away from us. They’re preventing us from raising our families in our home and from enjoying our life, right? Enjoyment of our life when we retire. You know, it pains me when I see retirees that are having a hard time now with these artificial changes that have just, you know, they plan for their future and all of a sudden now their plans have changed. And it’s very, very difficult for people to be able to live a good quality life with those types of rules.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, and with property taxes going up so significantly, I’ve come to the same conclusion that you have, that ultimately it will tax people out of their properties. And that’s why stepping up at the local level, which is what you are doing, Sophia Georges, is so important. And I think people can take a lot of heart from your example.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes, I mean, for me, this is number one issue. I want families to have a good quality of life. I live it every day myself. I live this, what I’m trying to do every single day. You know, the struggles of paying your taxes, running a business, raising your family, you know, your children. I feel it, and I’m hoping I can be that voice, Kim, for others and encourage others to step forward, too.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, and we have a responsibility, Sophia. I was looking at Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, where you live. It was incorporated in 1798. So there is amazing history there. And this is how it is supposed to be, is citizen representatives representing their neighbors. And ultimately, that’s who… Who we work for as electeds in elected office is our constituents. We don’t work for the entity, the township, the city or whatever. We work for the people and that’s the way it’s supposed to be. Sophia, first of all, thank you for stepping forward. What’s the final thought that you’d like to leave with our listeners?
SPEAKER 16 :
Final thought is I know things tend to be difficult day to day when we talk about housing. I know people are very frustrated. You know, we were talking about affordable housing, but I look at it as housing in general. I know it’s a very challenging time, but I want people to be optimistic that we are starting to see some growth in our economy. And we’re predicting to have a strong year coming into next year. So just stay strong. Get involved. Don’t get discouraged. Stand up strong. And please, you know, step up and help in your local towns. Also, it’s important to stay engaged in your local politics. I’m guilty of that. I have, you know, your day-to-day life and grind. You know, you’re not as engaged. And then as I got more involved in the community and started to see things, it was eye-opening to me. So I encourage everybody to do that. And believe me, you can make a difference and you find a lot of camaraderie that way and a lot of like-minded people and people in the same situation as you. But we can all make a difference, Kim. The more of us that are out there, the better.
SPEAKER 03 :
And thank you, Sophia Georges, for stepping forward to run for council for Franklin Township, New Jersey. And I wish you all the luck.
SPEAKER 16 :
Thank you very much, Kim. I appreciate you having me.
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