Welcome to the Kim Monson Show podcast. Kim Monson is your host. The Pentagon has an annual budget approaching a trillion dollars ($824.5 billion in 2024). CEO of Open the Books John Hart addresses 20 areas of fiscal concern at the Department of Defense. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has requested public comment regarding “gender affirming” care. Citizen watchdog Jeany Rush, de-transitioner Evan De La Cruz, and mother Cindy Stein whose daughter was groomed by a math teacher, explain why it is important to submit comments to the FTC. State Farm agent Roger Mangan discusses uninsured motorist insurance coverage.
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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 each are 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. 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. Happy Monday, Kim. And we have a great week planned for you. So fasten your seatbelt if you want to know what the upcoming week will have in store for you and see our most recent essays. Be sure and sign up for our weekly newsletter that goes out on Sundays. And you can do that by going to my website, which is Kim Monson. That’s M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. 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 my friends, it’s not compassionate nor altruistic to take other people’s stuff, whether or not it’s their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunity, childhoods, or lives via force. Force can obviously be a weapon, but it’s a policy, unpredictable in excess of taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation. The agenda of the World Economic Forum and the globalist elites playing out at the United Nations, the Colorado State Legislature with this Colorado governor, but also at local and county levels as well. And you can see it through land use codes and zoning regulations, forced fees. easements, national monument designations. There’s a whole bunch of things that are taking away private property rights. And remember, if something is a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And we focus on the issues and we’ll mention the people pushing those issues, but we really try to stay out of the eighth grade girl fighting that happens in with focusing on personalities. And so let’s get into it. Our word of the day is summarily. It’s spelled S-U-M-M-A-R-I-L-Y. And as I spell that, Eric Manning, who… Had Banning’s famous burritos, a great patriot, a great has a great love for America passed on last week. And he always challenged me to spell the word of the day so that people could get their brains around it. And Eric was a great friend of the show. And his wife called on Saturday to say that he’d passed on. And I am sending certainly sympathy, condolences to Eric’s family because he truly was a patriot, loves our country, and always was pushing for us to be better and better. And so thank you, Eric Manning. Rest in peace. And so the words summarily… It could be over a short period of time or briefly, without delay, in a brief or condensed manner. And I would say that time summarily is of the essence right now as we face what’s happening with our state and our country. We have a duty, my friends, on what we are passing on to the next generation. We have a duty to to pass on liberty, the responsible exercise of freedom. We have a duty to pass on something that is fiscally responsible, financially responsible. And all those things are really there’s so many things that we’ve lost our way on what we’re passing on to the next generation. That’s why we do the show is to. To continue to think about this. And so I went to for our quote of the day, Alexander Shultz and he said he was born in 1918. He died in 2008. He was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression. In the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system, he was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature for the ethical force with which he had pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature. And he said this. And taxation is, that’s really taxation without representation. That was the essence of ultimately the beginning of America. And as Maggie Thatcher said, you cannot have economic freedom or you cannot have political freedom if you do not have economic freedom. And my friends, we are voting ourselves into serfdom. Here in Colorado, we’ve got Tabor Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights, which was put in place, voted in by the people in 1992 as an amendment to the Constitution, the Colorado Constitution. The ink was not even dry before we had those that were trying to overturn it from both sides of the aisle, chipping away at it. And so, yes, now we… For tax questions, they have to be on the ballot. We’re going to see many tax questions on our November 2025 ballot. And the answer on all of these new debt or extending taxes needs to be no. Because at some point in time, we have to ask what is enough between… Between federal taxes, fees, state taxes and fees, local taxes, fees, and then we see all the special districts, the school districts. At some point in time, what is enough when you put it all together? It is so onerous for us to be able to live our lives. So it’s important that we really understand these things and not be voting. They say it’s a little here, a little there. Ultimately, it adds up to a whole lot. Now, I do want to hear from you. The text line is 720-605-0647. That’s 720-605-0647. And we are an independent voice on an independent station, and it happens because of all the great support and sponsors that we have. And I’m pleased to work with the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team as a valued partner and sponsor of the Kim Monson Show. And Roger, we’re going to have a conversation here. Last week, we talked about insurance reviews. And what more should people know?
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You should know what you’re paying for. That would be my strongest message to you. Because if you just keep rolling with your bill every six months on auto and every year on your homeowners, what’s changing, what can be changed to lower those increased coverages that we see coming down the pike? Homeowners we know… Increased coverages or increased costs? Increased… costs not coverages thank you very much you caught me on that before kim you caught me again thank you very much for keeping me straight and narrow that’s my job So anyway, when you get a homeowner’s policy, every year you’re going to get a bump in coverage and well as cost. Because in our homeowner’s policy, we have an inflation guard attached to it. The value of your replacement cost goes up. So we’re going to increase you maybe by $5,000 to $10,000 in terms of coverage on your home every year. Usually that’s not enough in this day and age. So you want to know about that. What would it cost me to increase my coverages more or reduce them because maybe I’m over-covered? Same thing with auto. The client I was talking about last week was paying… 954.32 to be exact every six months for a car. It was an Audi Q5. And we could lower that 954 down to 508 every six months. Imagine that. That is a $444 savings. But what is she giving up to get that reduction? I think she’s giving up coverages that probably won’t benefit her. So get rid of maybe comp, no comprehensive and no collision. And that triggers another coverage that you have to remove as part of that comp and collision coverage. But Everybody’s situation is different. So you need to sit down with your agent and say, let’s take a hard look at this. My lifestyle has changed. I’m nearing retirement or my kids are, I’m an empty nester now or my kids are in college. What is that doing to my coverages with State Farm? And that’s really worth having that conversation.
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You know, it really makes sense. And now that you think about it is when your life changes, you need to take a look at these important things in your life, such as your insurance coverage, because things do change. So what worked then may not work now. And so what’s the process? How should people do this insurance review? Yeah.
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Well, you know, you can call my office and get a review set up, even if you’re not insured with me. If you were insured with another carrier, you emailed your bills to us. We could give you an idea of what costs might be, but with coverages, we need to interface with you and say, tell us about yourself. Where are you in life? And if you’re a young kid and you can’t afford to write a $7,500 check to replace a car, then you need comp and collision. But if you’re 55 years old and you have some money in the bank and you’re paying us all that money for insurance, then you could actually self-insure for the difference. You might want to do that. Because once you give us the money, it’s gone. Whereas if you take it out of your savings account or investment account, you can always hope that investment account goes up and replace what you just took out. So there’s a lot of variables here.
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Well, and each person is different. And that’s why I love the fact that you want to sit down and customize these plans for each individual. What’s the best number for people to reach you?
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Please give us a shout at 303-795-8855, Roger Mangan Insurance Agency. And I have a great team of five folks who can help you through this. And I’m always going to have some input.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Several things I wanted to mention. First of all, thank you to Hooters Restaurants for their sponsorship of both The Kim Monson Show and America’s Veterans Stories. We are dusting off some of our interviews that we’ve done with some of the, well, World War II and Korea guys. And this last week we broadcast on America’s Veterans Stories an interview with Lloyd Wade, who was a paratrooper in the Pacific Theater. And they ended up jumping in and freeing 2,700 prisoners from the Los Banos prison camp. And so fascinating stories. And I so appreciate Hooters Restaurants for their sponsorship in bringing these to the air. And there’s locations in Westminster, Loveland, and on Parker Road. And great specials Monday through Friday for lunch and happy hour. And, of course, now we’re into football season. So a great place to get together with friends to watch the games. Also, I cannot believe it, but next Monday, a week from today, is the beginning of Grand Lake U.S. Constitution Week. And Rob Nadelson will kick it off with the initial event. And Rob will be in studio tomorrow as we have Get Your Questions Ready. for Rob Nadelson regarding the Constitution and the courts. I’ve got some regarding some of the things that President Trump is doing. I want to make sure President Trump stays within the confines of our Constitution. And so Grand Lake U.S. Constitution Week begins next Monday. And also wanted to acknowledge some of their great sponsors, and that is the Gateway Inn, Sun Outdoors, Rick and Cindy Johnson, Hydrotech Plumbing, Mike and I’m drawing a blank here, Mike and Jackie Tompkins for all of their great sponsorship of making such an amazing event. It is the premier Constitution Week in all of Colorado. And so more information for that. Go to Grand Lake U.S. Constitution Week dot com. That’s Grand Lake U.S. Constitution Week dot com. First thing I wanted to, I think, bring to your attention was this continued, I find this, Trump certainly takes action and I think he’s within what he can do regarding many of the things from the executive branch. And as you know, he has said he’s going to move Space Command from Colorado to Alabama. And this is from Axios Denver. And it says that Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser is vowing to challenge President Trump’s decision to relocate U.S. Space Command from its temporary home in Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama. And this actually says this matters because it sets the stage for high stakes legal showdown with huge economic implications. And it says Trump’s decision comes as a major blow to Colorado status as the number one state per capita. for aerospace employment threatening more than 2 000 related businesses and 55 000 employees now trump is as says he’s moving this um one of the reasons he said is because all these mail-in ballots that colorado sends out on a regular basis all over the state so this is going to be super interesting And Trump said that he’s moving Space Command out of Colorado because the state conducts mail-in voting for its elections, making them automatically crooked. And one has to ask, with all of the mail-in ballots that are flying all over the state, as you know, one of the lawsuits that you all helped step forward and fund. It was filed last November, right before Election Day, that 14,500 people in the 20, I’ve got to get this exactly right, 14,500 people received ballots that should not have and voted. And that is the basis of that lawsuit. So Trump, I think he’s on to something regarding these mail-in ballots. So this is going to be, yes, definitely a huge showdown. Next thing, this is from the Center Square. It says, lap of luxury. Section 8 covers Colorado rents for up to $3,879 a month. This is subsidizing housing, which is pretty crazy. A statement from the National Taxpayers Union President Pete Sepp said, Section 8 needs to focus on lifting people out of a trap of poverty, not putting them into a lap of luxury. Says these recipients remain in the program for an average of 15.1 years. That’s up from an average of 12.4 years in 2000, according to a 2024 federal report. And when asked about a 2026 budget proposal from the Trump administration that would limit Section eight assistance for two years, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner recounting his meeting with a recipient whose family who had been housed by the program for multiple generations. And this is a redistribution from the taxpayer or through government debt of our children and our grandchildren. This is not how this is supposed to work. And so it’s important to shed light on this and get that changed. Next thing, this is from Colorado Newsline, liberal groups are pitching a graduated income tax for Colorado’s 2026 ballot. And one of the things that this does is this continues to chase out entrepreneurs, people that are creating businesses from Colorado, because Under our American idea, we are all treated equally. What a graduated tax does is it will ding people that earn more at a higher percentage. And what is so interesting is this is one of the tenets of the Communist Manifesto, which we’re going to be going through the Communist Manifesto with producer Joe and producer Luke after we finish the prints. By Machiavelli. But this is from laissez faire republic dot com. It says the 10 planks of the Communist Manifesto and number one is abolition of private property in land and application of all rents and land to public purpose. And you can just look at the narratives of rewilding Colorado, of rewilding America. And that means taking land that people own and using it for public purpose. I have that in air quotes because tomorrow we’ll talk with Aaron Everett about a post that he made on his website, Free the People, that in Nova Scotia, Canada, they are limiting people’s access to the forest. So you can see how these things are getting to a point where putting people where we’ll no longer have access to public lands. And so abolition of private property in land application and all rents to public purpose. So taking our property And then saying it’s for a public purpose. And then I think that we’ll see things limited there and look no further than what happened in COVID. I’ve shared the story with you a number of times. I remember reading a headline where Kamala Harris said with these 15 minute cities that we need to have a park within a few blocks of where people live. Okay. Then what happened during COVID, though, is they shut down the parks. I remember going down to the park in my neighborhood and there was yellow crime tape around all of the swings and the slide and all that, preventing kids from being able to play in the park during COVID when we learned that vitamin D, sunshine, was one of the most important things regarding fighting COVID. But the next plank in the Communist Manifesto is a heavy progressive or graduated income tax. So we see that this will be on the ballot, which… will uh and uh let’s see this in november of 2026 and this is what is amazing it says the group dubbed to protect colorado’s future submitted valid measure language recently for a constitutional amendment that would raise the income tax rate for coloradans making at least five hundred thousand dollars and bear in mind a graduated income tax is based on envy instead of people saying gosh if that person was productive and could do do that maybe i could as well This is what they said, and this is going to be the narrative. A graduated income tax is just common sense. 98% of us get a tax cut, and the folks doing really well chip in their fair share, who determines that, to keep our schools strong. Are we happy with our education system? It’s not that strong. Our health care system’s solid. Once government gets into an industry, the price goes up, the quality goes down, the supply becomes limited, and our community’s thriving. And that’s how we build a Colorado where everyone gets ahead, not just the lucky few, Kathy White, executive director of Colorado Fiscal Institute said. Says Colorado’s income tax is currently at 4.4%. The measure would bump that rate to 4.6% for people making at least $600,000 and increase it as people earn more to 9.2%. for people making at least $10 million per year. Now, I know many people say, well, guys, it doesn’t affect me, and so I will vote for that. But ultimately, take a look at what happened with the federal income tax. They said it was only going to be for the rich when it was passed as an amendment to the Constitution, and now look what we have. And so if you have questions, though, about your financial future, and your economic freedom, be sure and reach out to Mint Financial Strategies because your financial freedom starts with the right guide, and Mint Financial Strategies can help. They’re an accredited firm with over 25 years of experience and the credentials of an accredited investment fiduciary, and they can offer advice that’s focused on you, not a sales quota. Their strategy-first approach is all about helping you live life on your terms with clarity, confidence, and control. Call Mint Financial Strategies today at 303-285-3080. They are your path to independent financial confidence. The next headline that I wanted to hit was, let’s see here, that the House Committee is investigating Democrat governors for illegal alien Medicaid spending. And we have seen a huge budget shortfall here in Colorado because of the reduction of federal reimbursements for Medicaid spending. And so it says, as part of the investigation, Committee Chairman Representative James Comer, Republican, Kentucky, has sent letters to eight Democrat governors and state health commissioners seeking documents and communications regarding their unprecedented expansion of taxpayer funded Medicaid benefits and services for illegal aliens. citing figures from the Congressional Budget Office that show taxpayers spent more than $16.2 billion on Medicaid-funded emergency services for illegal aliens during the first three years of the Biden administration. In the letters, Comer underscored the purpose of the investigation is to uncover instances of fraud and abuse within Medicaid. And so he’s asking the Minnesota governor, Tim Walz, to clarify comments he made during an oversight committee’s hearing with sanctuary state governors in June, claiming that illegal aliens didn’t receive Medicare coverage. And so this is going to get very interesting regarding Minnesota, California. And these letters went to California Governor Gavin Newsom, Colorado Governor Jared Polis, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, Maine Governor Janet Mills, New York Governor Kathy Hochul, Oregon’s Governor Tina Kotek, and Washington Governor Bob Ferguson. So stay tuned on that. And then the last thing, this is from Money Wise. Jerome Powell is being hit with a criminal referral over the $2.5 billion renovation project and what it might mean for us. And this is Congresswoman, Republican Congresswoman Anna Polina Luna saying, has issued a referral for Jerome Powell and it’s a criminal referral on whether or not he told the truth regarding comments that he made to federal officials. And it says the referral centers on Powell’s June 25 statements under oath before the Senate Committee on Banking, where he addressed the two point five billion dollar renovation of the Fed’s historic Eccles building. In a news release, Luna claims he knowingly misled officials about the nature of the project during testimony in which he denied. the inclusion of luxury features. Powell stated that there was no VIP dining room, no new marble, no new elevators or no special elevators and no new water features or anything like that. But according to Luna, his statement does not match up with filed documents. So this is going to stay tuned on that. And here You know, here Trump is really encouraging a lowering of interest rates, which would really help people on home ownership. And so if the Federal Reserve chairman is not telling us the truth here, you kind of wonder what his motivations are. So we’ll just leave all that hanging out there as we have these important discussions. We’ll be talking with John Hart, who is the new CEO of Open the Books regarding Department of Defense spending. Because all of this spending, all of this, gosh, we’re looking at Medicaid, we’re looking at the federal government, where does that money come from? That comes from us, we the people. And perhaps if we had more money, have our money in our pocket, I think we could better use it than all of these different government agencies and programs. And so it’ll be interesting to hear from him on that. Wanted to say thank you to the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. And again, for everything regarding residential real estate, reach out to Karen Levine.
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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. And I can’t believe that we are getting into the middle of September, and September 11th is this Thursday. And the Center for American Values in Pueblo on the Riverwalk will be having a very important event in remembrance of 9-11. And you can get more information about all that by going to their website, which is AmericanValueCenter.org. That is AmericanValueCenter.org. Please have on the line with me John Hart. He is the new CEO of Open the Books. John Hart, welcome and congratulations.
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Well, thank you, Kim. It’s great to be on your show.
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And Open the Books does great work. And tell us just a little bit about Open the Books. You all are regular guests on the show because you’re doing such important work. But for people that may not know about you, explain what you do.
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Sure, Kim. We’re the oversight and transparency organization that is watching your tax dollars. The quick genesis story of this, Kim, is I work for the late U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, and I helped write a bill called the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, and that put all federal spending online. Back in 2006. And if we could put our brains back to the early 2000 era, there was a technology called the Google search engine that was coming on that was groundbreaking. And that actually has had, obviously, an incredible impact on our whole society. And what we realized was, you know, why can’t taxpayers go online and search and understand what the government’s doing with their own money? And, you know, transparency is a first principle. It’s something the founders wrote into the Constitution and it actually proceeds in the Constitution. It’s a requirement that Congress has to provide a regular accounting requirement. And that precedes the First Amendment and the Bill of Rights. So the argument I make all the time is that in the public square, transparency is like oxygen, that you can’t speak, you can’t argue if you can’t breathe. And so transparency provides that basic information that we the people have to have in order to maintain control of the government. And that’s really what Open the Books does. So number one is we provide that information, and then we do regular oversight reports, you know, just highlighting different areas of the budget. We’re not telling people what to think. We’re giving people access to the data so they can argue about it and think, gosh, do I want more or less of this? Do I want more spending than necessary or less spending in that area? And that’s really what our mission is.
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And the website is OpenTheBooks.com, right?
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Correct, correct. Yeah, and actually, it’s easier to find our reports if you go to our Substack. It’s OpenTheBooks.Substack.com. We’re in the process of actually rebuilding our main site. And also, just a quick history, if you’ve been following us. So Adam Angiewski tragically passed away just over a year ago. So Adam was a phenomenal warrior in this movement. And it was a real loss and tragedy. So I took over. I was doing other projects, and the board reached out to me. And because of my long history with Open the Books, that’s why I was able to take on this role. But Adam built an incredible organization that we’re very, very happy to be able to continue. And it really was – back in 2005 when I was with Coburn, the dream was – We want to build – we believe that if we could make this information publicly available, we would help build an ecosystem of groups, individuals, media outlets like yours that would look at the data and find things in it that we didn’t have time to find. So the hope is we could crowdsource oversight. and really helped build kind of a bottom-up movement that would put permanent pressure on the growth of government. And Adam went way beyond what we thought was possible. And a real credit to Open the Books, and this is important for your listeners to understand too, is we capture not just federal spending, but state and local spending as well. And we have the biggest database of government spending in history. We call it the Spending Genome Project, where we’re helping to identify, map areas of waste that we can go after and address.
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Well, and it is amazing because even on the local level, you can put in, well, you know what, your new website, I’ve gone through it several times, and I’m still learning how to get around on your new website. But you can get to your local community. And, for example, you can see what the city manager makes. And I think that that is really important. And initially, I could not see my particular city there. And so I just mentioned it to you at Open the Books. Next thing I know is there it is. At this particular point in time, down at the bottom, you can go to your state and click on your state and you can do a quick search. And again, if something you’re looking for is not there, send them an email and they’ll go to work and see if they can try to get that information. How does that work? Does the entity have to provide the budgets or how do you get the payroll on those different cities?
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That’s a great question. There’s a lot of work involved in it. We’ve got a very talented technology person that has created a system that’s a mix of an automated system and a system where we have about 20 individual staff that their job all day is to file FOIA requests, to contact units of government to try to get this data. And getting the data is only half the battle because once it comes in, we have to determine, we have to clean it up so that we can make apples to apples comparisons. For example, we’re doing actually a project right now tracking education spending and how the relationship between overhead and administrative cost and student achievement. So in order to even understand what we’re spending on overhead, districts report that in different ways. So some districts include pension data, some don’t. And in order to make a fair comparison, we’ve got to figure out, well, how are these different districts reporting the data? And that takes a lot of work and time. So we’ve got a really good staff that does that. And when we’re not clear, we tell people, look, some of these numbers are going to be skewed because of how it was received. But that’s a really, really important function. So there are about 50,000 units of government that we track. We do thousands of FOIA requests every year. So it’s quite an operation. But what that does is it gives us the ability to find and detect patterns and look at areas where government may be underperforming. So citizens, so we the people, can then take appropriate action in relation to that data.
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It is really important because a lot of this information is clouded. And to your point, transparency is like oxygen for people to be able to, or light. You shed light on something and people have that information. And it’s really, really important. So you’re doing great work. That is OpenTheBooks.com, OpenTheBooks.com. And I’m kind of a numbers wonk, and I can spend a lot of time on your site to find out. What I see is such a problem now. John Hart is that we have bureaucrats for example city managers or superintendents of our different school districts that are really unaccountable to we the people and they are making big bucks and they are pushing in the case of out here in Colorado many of these city managers and their staff are pushing Government getting bigger and bigger and more and more control on our lives. And they are paying healthy salaries to make that happen.
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Right. Right. Well, not just not just healthy, you know, kind of exorbitant in many in many cases, not not in all cases. And, you know, of course, there’s different, you know, standard of living costs and all that. But but, you know, a citizen in your community or really any community can use our our tool and our site to go and just make these comparisons and ask the questions. And I can tell you, having because I spent most of my most of my career has been inside government. So I worked on the Hill for about 15 years, mostly for Coburn, but for Jim DeMint and Steve Largent as well, members of the House. And I can tell you that when one individual constituent contacts a congressional office with a very clearly thoughtful question, it doesn’t have to be long, but you can always tell when you’re within government whether this is a generated mass email or whether it’s a particular question. Every particular question… makes a difference because the staff will stop and good members will look, they’ll look at it, they’ll, they’ll assess it. And that is particularly true at local government. And so if your listeners take the time to use our site and, and ask these questions is to find out, well, what, why is the city manager making, you know, way above the average or, or the, you know, the, the, the secretary of whatever, whatever the, the school administrator position would be. And then you take that information to that office or you raise it at a public meeting, you raise it on Facebook, social media. That makes a big difference. That gets people’s attention and it changes behavior. So that’s, you know, as dysfunctional as our country is sometimes, we are capable of self-correction. And I’ve seen that repeatedly is that, you know, transparency matters. can cut through government like water cuts through stone. So that steady flow can seem unremarkable. But over time, when it finds cracks, it can wipe away mighty walls of opposition. And so we’re trying to keep that flow of information going.
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Well, that is so important. So we’re going to keep it as a cliffhanger because you have sent this a letter to Pete Hexdeth, Department of Defense, about, and one of the things is this basically use it or lose it spending. And one of our regular guests is Colonel Bill Rutledge, who is retired United States Air Force. He’s 97 years young. But he had brought this to my attention regarding the use it or lose it spending. spending where he was tasked with going out and buying a whole bunch of stuff before the end of the budget year. And you’ve uncovered a lot of really important information about that at Open the Books and sent a really important letter. And so we’ll continue the discussion with John Hart when we come back. But for everything mortgages, reach out to Lauren Levy.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. And I can’t believe it, but next Monday, Grand Lake U.S. Constitution Week convenes. And a great week celebrating our Constitution. The main event will be on Saturday the 20th. I will be emceeing the event, so would love to have you join us. And the featured speaker is Jonathan Turley, who is a nationally known expert on many of the things regarding the Constitution. And he’s a Georgetown professor. Join us. You can get more information by going to GrandLakeUSConstitutionWeek.com. And I am talking with John Hart. He is the CEO of Open the Books. And let’s talk a little bit about the Department of Defense. I guess that’s going to be renamed Department of War, John Hart. So tell us a little bit about what you have uncovered at the Department of Defense.
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Well, I think what could do far more to help us win wars would be for Congress and the administration to force the Pentagon to stop being a department of waste. So the Pentagon squanders billions and billions of dollars every year that should be going to military readiness in our troops. So we recently did a report. We identified 20 areas of fiscal concern within the Pentagon, and many of these things have been well-known for decades. The Pentagon, we call it a department of everything. It runs everything from schools to grocery stores to golf courses. It’s never passed an audit. Programs are wrongly concealed from oversight through overclassification. In other words, describing programs as classified, that should not be a secret. And then we have billions squandered every year through earmarks and other congressional, quote, increases. But one thing the Secretary Hicks asked can do this month that’s critically important and timely is to end this practice of use it or lose it spending. And as you mentioned with your frequent guests, I think you said he’s 97 years young. What DOD does is it forces people, actually directs them to literally throw money out the door the last month of the fiscal year. And in DOD, the fiscal year ends September 30th. We’ve tracked this since 2008. Administrations in both parties spend more than double the typical amount in the month of September. Billions of dollars go to things that are unnecessary. Last year was one of the worst years, September 2024. The spending spree was $79 billion. That was more than the annual defense budget in one month of all but seven countries on Earth. In just the last five days of last year, we spent $33 billion, and that was more than Israel spent for all of 2023 on its own defense. So these are just mind-numbing large amounts of money. So some of the things we bought, $6.1 million in lobster tail. $16 million in ribeye steak, $211 million in new furniture. So all of these expenditures, they seem to have a lot more to do with luxury than lethality. So what we’re proposing is that Secretary Hegseth really force the Pentagon to not do that again this year, and to do whatever he has to do, work with Congress, do it on his own, just to not throw money out the door. And in defense of DOD, Congress really should have fixed this and could have fixed it a long time ago. There’s a lack of good oversight within Congress, but the administration has not been shy about hitting pause on spending that it finds questionable. And so if they have the capacity to do that in other areas, they can certainly do it with this use it or lose it problem.
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You mentioned a word that I’m always concerned about, and that is earmarks, also known as bacon. And as bringing home the bacon, bringing home a project to a certain area. You probably have seen there’s a big brouhaha right now with the Trump administration saying that they’re going to move the Space Command from Colorado to California. Now, I’m not sure that I would say that that’s an earmark that probably makes sense to have Space Command, but earmarks can be bridges to nowhere, different things like that. And I really think we need to get rid of earmarks, John.
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Right, absolutely. Well, you know, my former boss was the leader of that. We actually did. We had an earmark moratorium that held for a decade, and it saved taxpayers over $140 billion. Right. And just to give you a quick history of this, back in the 1980s, President Reagan vetoed a transportation bill that contained 121 earmarks, I think in 1987. And then only about 20 years later, Congress was literally earmarking 16,000 particular projects. So there’s an argument in Washington, and people say, oh, earmarks have always been with us. It’s a cost to doing business and government. That’s just fundamentally untrue. We did not become a superpower. We did not build railroads, the interstate highway system, win World War I, win World War II through earmarking. We did it through innovation and smart priorities. This is a practice that ebbs and flows. There’s reform for a while, and then it comes back. Right now, we’re in a moment when it’s come back. Yeah, we’re focusing on that very, very fiercely within Washington. And the way to think of it, too, is what members of Congress, they justify this by saying, well, we can’t give the bureaucrats the power to make all these decisions. And why should they decide where these funds go? Me and Congress should have the right to do that. And so our response to that is, well, you actually have oversight and authority to decide what agencies do. And so what earmarks are, it’s almost like solving one addiction with another, is that you’re accusing the administrative branch and the administrative state of having a heroin addiction. And so you’re going to cure that by becoming an alcoholic. It doesn’t make any sense. So the answer is to reduce the role and scope of the federal government and to make good decisions and to have government be accountable. It’s not to create this other system to regulate something that’s out of control. And so there’s really no place for earmarks in our system right now.
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Okay. And the Trump administration seems that they really are working to get this spending under control because this out of control spending is not sustainable and it’s really immoral on what we’re passing on to our children and grandchildren in the form of this unsustainable debt, John Hart.
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Yeah. Look, our interest payments and our national debt are over $1 trillion every year. That’s about the same as our defense budget. Great nations that spend more on interest payments on the national debt than they do defense do not stay great for very long. This is an absolutely urgent problem. Back 12 years ago, I wrote a book with Coburn called The Debt Bomb, a bold plan to stop Washington from bankrupting America. And politicians have known for years the steps that they have to take to do that. And number one is to look at our safety net programs, and that’s where the majority of the debt deficit come from. And we have to be honest with the public and say people aren’t getting the benefits that they need. From programs like Social Security, inflation is making their purchasing power a lot less than it was 10 or 15, 20 years ago. So we need to reform the programs in such a way that people who are middle and lower income can receive actually more benefit. And you can do that while putting these programs on a long-term path where they’re going to be sustainable and they’re not going to go bankrupt. And it’s sort of like, imagine if you live in a town that’s downstream from a dam that is failing. It is immoral to not tell the people in that city that they’re downstream from a structurally unsound dam that could burst and wash away their homes. And that’s really where we are with our debt and deficit problem. And so we’re trying to focus on these big areas. I’m all for… Helping Doge succeed, getting rid of woke spending, but we have to wage a wider war on not just woke, but waste more broadly within agencies, especially DOD, because of the amount of money involved. All of these steps matter. The way I describe it, too, is it’s kind of like if you ever do gardening, sometimes it’s tempting to want to mow the flowerbed because it’s so tedious to pull the weeds out. But to really make things grow and to make good decisions, you have to get on your hands and knees and pull the weeds. You don’t want to mow the flower bed. And that’s what we have to do within government. And only transparency can give you the map to make those kinds of decisions.
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Well, and at the local, the county, the state, and the federal level. And we’ve got just a minute left, John, but as we talk about this federal debt, which is out of control, we also have to take a look at local, how much we’re paying for fire districts and city government and all of that, because this is really becoming onerous for everyday people. Your final thought, John Hart, and thank you.
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Yeah, I would just encourage all of your listeners to go and study and research what’s happening at the local level because we have not just a federal debt bomb. We have debt bombs all over the country with pension systems that are not properly funded. So my final message is don’t underestimate the power of your voice and your activism. So spending a couple minutes to identify something, ask a question, it really does make a difference in our system.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, and that website is OpenTheBooks.com. OpenTheBooks.com. John Hart, thank you so much. He is the CEO, and we’ll talk again very soon.
SPEAKER 24 :
Wonderful. Thanks, Kim. Appreciate it.
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And these are such important discussions that we have. We search 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 should not have to force people to do it. On the show, we focus on the issues, not personalities, but we will talk about people that are pushing certain issues. There’s so much going on out there. Sometimes it can seem a bit daunting, but we have to, as my friend Mary Jansen shared the quote, inch by inch, life’s a cinch, yard by yard, life is hard. When we look at all the things that we are facing, as we think about what we’re passing on to the next generation, many times it can be daunting, but we can’t give up. That’s why we have to engage in these conversations and understand the issues that are going on out there. And I really think that there are those that do not want us to understand what is happening out there. And as John Hart said in our number one with Open the Books, transparency gives us oxygen as we are engaging in this battle of ideas. Transparency, shedding light on things, understanding what’s going on is the first step in understanding in really reclaiming our country. I am putting the finishing touches on our Colorado Union of Taxpayers ratings report. Spent a lot of time this weekend on it and plan on getting that to the printer later today. And it is really a report of transparency. And we have people, we pretty much know the Democrat side. The Democrats here in Colorado, and really at the national level as well, have been taken over by radical activists that want more and more control over our lives, want more and more of our money. And so this Democrat Party is not the Democrat Party of JFK. JFK cut taxes. And cutting taxes means everyday people have more money in their pocket. But we also see on both sides of the aisle people that stand for bigger and bigger government. And when the government gets bigger, the individual gets smaller. And it’s really important to understand that. And interested parties will go to government, I saw it when I was on city council, and ask for specific things. And because the rest of us are out there working, many times electeds think that this is what people want. And so it’s important that electeds remember that they are being elected to be representatives of the people. And so we’ve got quite, quite a bad and one of the first things to do, though, is to shut the spigot off. If you have kids that are misbehaving, the last thing you do is continue to give them gas for the money for gas for the car. You say, whoa, we’re going to stop. We’re going to take a look at things and see what’s going on here. So let’s get over to our word of the day. It’s summarily spelled S-U-M-M-A-R-I-L-Y. And it could be over a short period of time or briefly or without delay in brief or condensed manner. And we need to summarily address these issues that are facing us at this particular point in time. So it’s spelled again, S-U-M-M-A-R-I-L-Y. And as I am spilling that, it’s actually with some sadness because Eric Manning, who’s a great friend of the show, a great patriot, loves America and really smart, really informed on what happens. It’s going on out there. Passed on at the end of last week. And his wife called me this weekend to let me know that. And I have to say, I’m really sad. My heart hurts because he will be missed. And again, the word of the day is summarily. Our quote of the day is from Alexander Solzhenitsyn. He was born in 1918. He died in 2008. He was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union. And he said this, You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power. He’s free again. And when we look at this onerous taxation that we’re going to have a lot of tax questions on the ballot this November, a lot of local things, there will be two statewide questions. And those are propositions LL and MM. And those are based on a proposition FF that was passed by the people of Colorado in 2022, which basically it was a healthy school meal for all. And they need more money. They’ve expanded the program. And that was based on a graduated income tax, which is Marxist. When we start to put people in different groups, tax them differently, that’s antithetical to the American idea. If somebody is making… five hundred thousand dollars a year and they’re paying a percentage of so a percentage will just say ten percent of uh five hundred thousand is fifty thousand if somebody’s making sixty thousand dollars a year 10% is $6,000. So you can see already the higher earner is paying much more in taxes. 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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our Web site. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. We are an independent voice on an independent station. And I want to say thank you to the Harris family for their gold sponsorship of the show and cannot believe it. But one week from today, Grand Lake U.S. Constitution Week kicks off with Rob Nadelson as the inaugural speaker. And he will be on the show tomorrow. So we’ll talk with him about that as well. But they have great speakers scheduled throughout the week. The main event will be on Saturday, the 20th, with a parade down Main Street and some great things happening in the park. The keynote speaker is Jonathan Turley. You can get information about… all of it by going to GrandLakeUSConstitutionWeek.com. That’s GrandLakeUSConstitutionWeek.com. And we have on the line with us Jeanne Rush, also known as Gammy. And she is a fervent listener of the show. And she’s so informed on so many different issues. But she is so concerned about this whole transgender activism, the pharmaceutical industry, treatment of our kids, and she said something important is happening at the Federal Trade Commission, and she said, Kim, we really need to have a show on this. So, Gammy, welcome to the show.
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Thank you, and hello to all our guests, Cindy, Evan, Lori, and thank you to the show for giving us this moment. I’m going to start right in. We are right now witnessing and enabling the worst medical scandal in human history. The dangers of gender-affirming care to minors and to the parents and to all of the families are victims. They have become terrorized, horrified, destroyed. And the Federal Trade Commission has initiated an investigation into the harm to the public as a consumer protection agency. They are investigating deceptive and fraudulent practices that are critical to every one of us. Many of us have family members who have been deceived, captured, and altered forever. As I put it, thousands of children have now been irreversibly abused Butchered, amputated, their healthy body parts just stripped, chemically altered, and further mentally, socially transformed without the knowledge of their parents. Now, nobody wants to keep talking about, you know, the school shootings, but this horrible deception makes a snake oil salesman look like a saint. There are nine shootings that have happened by the transgender individuals recently in the last year and a half. Uvalde, Denver, Georgia, Nashville, Colorado, Aberdeen, Minnesota, Iowa, and Philadelphia. Now, are we going to yell at the trans individuals, or are we going to dig into who put them into a chemical, mental, maybe even brainwashed state? This horror show, like I said, is going to go down as the most epic butchery of our times because the deception encompasses our schools, our school boards, our school counselors who are literally only pushing gender affirmation, which is mutilation and butchery of a human being. The offices, the doctors, and the private doctors, like the men doing plastic surgery, they’re even doing these things in their private clinics. The Planned Parenthood also. Many organizations and nonprofits who are doing nothing but affirming the great butchery of our times. And until we expose the more than like 400 hospitals and clinics nationwide, mental, medical, therapists, everyone, we can’t get to the bottom of it. But guess what’s behind it? A multibillion dollar and I would say trillion dollar global industry and brought on by pharmaceutical, which means wizard or evil. We’re not going to stop the pain until we stop these things. and I’m going to ask you to think about something. Young lady, and I may say her name wrong, Yaley, she was fed the transgender ideology through the schools, of course, and the mom, who I think had a language issue, didn’t understand or know, and they got in a fight over an iPod, and the daughter ran away, went to the counselor, stepped in, The next thing you know, this young lady was taken out of the home by the courts who determined that the parent was cruel. They’re using the courts, the therapists. and, of course, the Child Protective Services to take children out of their homes. And the mom kept trying to get her daughter back. In the interim, she was put into home after home. She was, through RISE, I think in California, put onto puberty blockers, hormones, et cetera. For three years, she was moved from home to home, and at the end of it, She jumped in front of a train because she couldn’t take it anymore, and they had stripped her from her only family she knew. Now, that’s just one victim. And then you had Sage, another gal, grandparents, loving grandparents. But, you know, teenagers get mad at their families. Again, someone made a friend of her online, 16-year-old supposedly, but he was a trafficker. Met her, took her off. By the time the FBI found her nine days later, she had been, of course, sexually abused. And then she went through a couple of more years of being taken away from home and trafficked some more before she ever got back with her family. This is our courts. This is our child protective services. This is our legal systems where they’re corrupt. And then you add the doctors like Dr. Olson Kennedy at the L.A. Children’s Hospital, who thinks it’s wonderful and has no age minimum for doing any kind of procedures to children, double mastectomies, you name it. Then you have that sick doctor in Florida, Gallagher, who says, I have yeeted, Y-E-E-T-E-D, hundreds of unwanted teats, even at 14.
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And anyway, that’s irrelevant to all of it, and it’s not.
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So, Gammy, a quick question on this. I know that the stories that you’re sharing, I know that you watched over seven hours of the FTC hearings. So are you sharing, is this things that were shared during the hearings that you’re sharing with us at this time?
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The first hour was all young people who were detransitioned with various parts of their bodies torn off. These facts came directly from Dr. Miriam Grossman’s book, Lost in Transnation. And let me keep going on with that. They’re using the law, language, bills, like we stayed up until two and three here fighting the Denver legislature while they put in bills to attack everything from parents to insurance being forced. While they ignored all the young people, thousands of young people who want to come back from transition, they won’t cover the detransition medical costs or procedures. They’re just walking away. The studies are wrong. Everything they’re doing now is based on lies. John Money, they base all of this on him. He had two twins. One had a botched circumcision, and they transed the kid. Later, he killed himself. And Dr. Money is heralded as someone that has science bull. And then you had more lies by the Articles of Faith, which says you are assigned your gender at birth, not that God gave you in all the cells in your body. But that’s all the scientific stuff. And then it circles back to… Seven and a half hours. The FTC, the Federal Trade Commission, is doing a total investigation on the deceptive and fraudulent practices that all of these people, these doctors, these clinics, everything, the mental and the physical. Transfer and how it’s wrong, how it’s not just wrong.
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And, Gammy, that is why you wanted to put together this show so that people would understand how important it is to make comments known to the Federal Trade Commission. How can people do that? Right.
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OK, the biggest and most important thing to take from this is that parents have been victimized and they need to go to the FTC dot org. They have a seven and a half hour seminar they did in July on the damage and danger of gender affirmation to minors. But it also goes for adults. And secondly, that you can make a submission and and we should be as parents really investigating the schools and the system that is doing this every day, K through 12 right now, even in D49, where I was, you know. removed for fighting against it. And that brings us to our first guest, who is Evan Dela Cruz, who has had surgeries and nightmares, spoke at the Denver legislature. We all stayed up till the wee hours fighting for the harm done to our children. And people like Evan are the bravest people I have met, like Chloe Cole and others who came forward. Evan is right here in our state, and I don’t even have words to say thank you, Evan.
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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 dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter while you’re at the website, and you’ll get to first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. And… On the line with us is Evan Delacruz, and she’s going to tell us her story regarding Jeanne Rush Gammy brought this to our attention that the FTC had hearings regarding pharmaceuticals, regarding gender affirming, and I’m going to put that in air quotes care because it’s really mutilation of our children. Evan Delacruz, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hi there, Kim. Thank you for having me again. It’s so lovely to be here.
SPEAKER 07 :
I know that. Oh, sorry. Well, no, go ahead, Evan. It’s good to have you. So tell us your story.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thank you. Well, just in case that some of your listeners don’t remember from the last time I came on to the show. So I transitioned when I was 21, which is the reason why I use my story to build compassionate conversations around this topic, because I was an adult. And I wasn’t even where my brain still wasn’t fully developed, but I was still older than I had lived life experience compared to minors and to children who have none to pull from. So even then, it took me almost two decades because, again, there’s no mental wellness discussion around transgenderism because it used to be called G.I.D., which gender identity disorder. So it used to be considered a mental illness. And so since there’s no discussion around it, I didn’t get any help for that. And so it basically took probably two times as long to basically try to get to reconnection with myself and realizing what what was really the disconnection within my own being. The only people who ever could be assigned anything at birth, in my opinion, are going to be our intersex individuals who live amongst us. They’re the only people that a doctor who’s a human who can make mistakes could, you know, assign the gender. So the rest of us are observed. That’s something that’s really important to keep at the forefront here, because although compassion is appreciated, but in the medical field, ethics are more appreciated down the long run. Just because, as Jeannie mentioned, there’s irreversible things that occur. You could hear my voice. It probably sounds like a man is speaking to you, but no, I’m a woman. I lost my healthy breast. I lost my healthy cervix, ovaries, uterus. These are all things that shouldn’t have been taken out of my body in any other circumstance other than under the umbrella of this. And as Jeannie said, I would really want people to really stop and to stop building legislation, stop building all these things that are progressing this idea without going back to the very beginning, which I think is very important because there was a lot of fraudulent documents that were put out there to kind of push ideas. And I feel if we were to do this, we would be able to go back and see our error and correct it. And that’s what I hope most people would even understand or take from my story is that although I lived this way for almost 14 years, the minute I got new information, the minute that I received facts, that’s when my opinion changed. And I would hope that most people would do that. If not, we’re dealing with a whole different other kind of disconnection amongst ourselves, which is Another scary thing about this topic, because it pushes dissociation, it pushes psychosis, you know, and we’re not allowing our children to be children or to connect with their bodies. We’re creating sick individuals for the future.
SPEAKER 07 :
So, Evan, you were 21 when you made this decision. What was your journey to get to that point? Because I wasn’t even aware, really, that this was going on because you said 21, 14. So it was about at the age of 35 that you said you received this information. 39. 39, okay. You didn’t just at the age of 21 decide to do this. How were you influenced up until that point in time and when did that start?
SPEAKER 04 :
So that’s a beautiful segue into that. So there’s a lot again of the mental wellness that I’m talking about or mental illness rather. I wasn’t healed yet and I’m still working on that. um i basically what happened is i was in a gay youth group and there’s nothing wrong with having a gay youth group because i you know there are gay and lesbian people out there that live and breathe but what changed this was there was a lesbian um she was our uh our basically our like our leader or our chaperone for the group and this was outside of school so this because this wasn’t really allowed in schools when i was in high school we didn’t really have we had like uh gay groups but they weren’t really like the one that we had And so this person, she was our chaperone, and all of a sudden she came in and she told people to start calling her Tiffany slash Ryan. And also what I noticed is that one day she came to group and her breasts were gone, like in one day. And, you know, no surgeries or anything like that, obviously. And so I just asked her, like, hey, what’s going on? I was just curious. And she told me she was wearing a binder. And I was like, well, why are you wearing a binder? Like, I didn’t make sense to me. And she’s like, so it looks like I have a man’s chest. I was like, well, why? And at the time I was 17. So this this was a seated thing that was kind of like seated into my brain that my brain held on to until the age of 21. And so it was basically the influence of meeting someone who was transgender, who was planning, planning on going through the process. And I started asking her questions. She started telling me about like the testosterone about that. There are these other trans men that live out there that live basically under the radar. Cause at the time when I was transitioning, the whole goal was to be under the radar for no one to notice you to just blend in. But nowadays it’s not like that because it’s an ideology. You know what I mean? So that’s what kind of happened for me is I was already kind of in a state of trying to find what could make me feel whole. And I thought when I heard that she could change her gender, I thought that all lined up for me, that that could make me become whole, not knowing that that would actually take away my wholeness.
SPEAKER 07 :
So how did you how did you pay for this?
SPEAKER 04 :
Because it’s pretty expensive, isn’t it? It was initially because, again, when I first started, there was no insurance companies that covered this. So you had to pay everything out of pocket. You had to find everything out of pocket. And you had to find it yourself. And so it was very expensive going up. But once I – because I had a period of two detransitionings, mind you. This is my second one. So it kind of shows that this is not – uh, it’s not a stable way to, uh, help people heal. It’s not, um, it’s not the modality for healing. You know what I mean? It’s like, uh, giving someone Tylenol for gangrene kind of thing, in my opinion. Um, uh, Goodness, I’m so sorry. My brain is running so fast. Do you mind repeating the question? I’m so sorry.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I was wondering how you paid for this.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, right. Thank you. Yeah. Yes. And so later on, when I did start transitioning, that’s when a company started barely cover some of the costs. So I was able to get where like Kaiser and I believe Blue Cross Blue Shield for a moment with again, these are the fraudulent claims that Jane is talking about with my doctors to word things differently so I could get the medicine. And so, but they were very costly for when I was with Kaiser, I believe my chest surgery was about $16,000. And that was just to cut me open. That wasn’t for the doctor, the anesthesia, the aftercare, all of that stuff. When they removed my healthy cervix, uterus and ovaries, that was also a botched surgery. So I also had to have two, an emergency surgery and two follow-up surgeries after that one, I believe. So the cost of that, I’m assuming, was well over the tens of thousands of dollars. So did insurance pay for that or did Medicaid pay for it? Insurance did pay for that one. So I was lucky enough, well, I’m not sure lucky enough, but I had Kaiser to take on those costs, but I have heard of other people who are paying for some of the stuff out of pocket. And even going as far as bottom surgery, which is very dangerous and could be fatal. goodness okay so evan how old are you now so now i’m 40. so i i detransitioned last year um i would want to say it was probably about october september-ish of when i detransitioned uh and that’s when the the that’s when everything clicked for me and i immediately and again there’s no help for people who want to detransition there’s plenty of stuff to pull people into the process but nothing to help people who want to exit the, um, the, the ideology. And so, um, I had no idea what to do. So I just stopped taking my testosterone and, um, apparently you’re not supposed to do that. Um, I was off of nothing. I had nothing in my body for about six, seven months before I was able to get with someone who was able to give me progesterone estrogen, which I’ve been on for probably about four, uh, or six to eight months. Forgive me.
SPEAKER 07 :
So you testified down at the Statehouse regarding, and there wasn’t just the one bill that we heard so much about, which was the House Bill 1312, which very onerous, although I think the language was changed, but ultimately it said that if a child, if a family did not affirm a child’s gender dysphoria, that the child could be taken out of the home. That’s really unbelievable. But that was one of the bills. But there were other bills regarding pushing this transgender ideology as well, making insurance companies pay for it. There is shielding malpractice for physicians that are performing these surgeries. So there’s a lot of things that happened down at the Colorado State Legislature. You testified, which was a very brave thing to do because there’s a lot of pressure in the transgender community community to to not say anything bad about transgenderism, correct?
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. But that’s what I say. It’s not transphobic to have compassionate conversations. We could have respectful conversations and have a difference of opinion. But again, I’m not trying to seem arrogant when I say this, but prove me wrong, because everything that I have seen has shown that we’re dealing with trauma. We’re dealing with disconnect. uh we’re dealing with trying to make a quick a quick thing of a healing process and that’s not a quick thing and even more so the way that they’re doing stuff and especially in schools and with children and their parents to me this is all signs of typical abuser behavior you isolate the victim you remove any resources around them so they can’t make any other decisions or have any discernment for themselves and again these are children These are children who have no life experience to pull from to make these kind of permanent decisions for themselves. This is where we rely on the wisdom of adults to do these things for children until they have the life experience. And hopefully it’s age appropriate for them to be able to help to handle these situations. But what are we doing?
SPEAKER 07 :
So, Evan Delacruz, what do you think the answer is? And this, as Jeannie had mentioned, weighing in at the FTC, the Federal Trade Commission, is important. So what’s your final thought? What should we do as we look at this issue?
SPEAKER 04 :
In my opinion, what we should do is that anything of protection of medical practices that are being used for transgender people right now should only be utilized for intersex individuals so they could also be healthy individuals in our community and in our society. For everyone else who’s claiming to be transgender, we need to see this as what it used to be, was a disorder. There’s a disconnection in the human being. There’s a healing process that needs to happen. So I think there needs to be a whole new revamp around this conversation about finding the mental wellness of the individual before they make this decision for themselves. If we’ve done everything possible, everything possible for this human being, and they still decide to do this, then they’re welcome at over the age of 18 as other people are able to do to have body modifications.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. Evan De La Cruz, thank you so much for sharing your story. Thank you, Kim, for having me. Yeah. Is there anything else you want our listeners to know?
SPEAKER 04 :
Just please, let’s just focus on the mental wellness. I think that is going to be the key factor. We cannot be mutilating or sterilizing our future. If we sterilize our future, we have no future. And thank you, Jeannie, for having me on. I appreciate the opportunity. And thank you again, Kim.
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SPEAKER 09 :
Well, the Colorado Parent Advocacy Network is Colorado’s leading parent advocacy organization, and our mission is to restore the parents’ voice in directing the upbringing care and education of their children. Listeners can find out more about our organization on our website at coloradoparents.org.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, and you have, I know many people have reached out to you regarding their children being targeted at school. And tell us about Cindy Stein and introduce her for us.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, so as you know, we have a public-facing tool on our website, our incident reporting tool, and we have had so many families like Cindy Stein reach out through this tool to get support for helping to advocate to protect their children. And we’re seeing incredible harm where school districts have Been practicing hiding gender transition. So that’s when if your child says to a teacher or a staff member at school that they actually think that they were born in the wrong body, that the school will actually start calling that child by different pronouns. And a different name and allowing them to use the private spaces bathrooms locker facilities that they are identifying as as opposed to their biological sex. So we know that practice has been happening for years and legislation has passed in the last couple years and actually makes that practice legal. And so Cindy Stein reached out via our incident reporting tool. She was referred by our friends over at Gays Against Rumors. And she was having a really traumatic situation happen where her child had recently texted her. This was November of 2024, that her child was a boy. And And Cindy Stein was not sure what to do because her child had run away. And we were navigating the complexities of this. And ultimately, the teacher at Durango High School, a math teacher named Joanne Smotherman, who had taken Cindy’s child kind of under her wing when Cindy was going through very complex medical treatment for cancer. And Convinced her child that she was actually born in the wrong body. And this teacher was harboring her child in her home with her transgender spouse. And the police, nobody would help Cindy. And so we got involved, CPAN got involved, and we worked with Cindy to kind of navigate the weaponization of the Child Protective Services, of the Durango Sheriff’s Department. And we ultimately were able to get her story published nationally, thankfully with the Daily Wire. and reporter Mayreid Ellerde. And that story went viral. And when that story went viral, we also corred, using Colorado Open Records Act, the body cam footage from when Cindy went to try to retrieve her child and the Smothermans refused to release her child, who they are now calling their son. Okay? Okay. And the deputy came on. And they did not treat the case with appropriate investigation and laughed at Cindy.
SPEAKER 07 :
Cindy Stein, welcome to the show. And thank you, Lori, for that introduction. This has got to be so traumatic for you. How are you doing? And what more should we know?
SPEAKER 10 :
Hi, Kim. Thank you so much for having me, and thank you, Lori. Yeah, it’s been a really hard journey. I want to first say that with the passing of HB 1312, I am legally not allowed to use my child’s birth name or gender. So anytime I talk about this, there’s a lot of my childs and my kiddos because I don’t want to open myself up to any consequences. So, yeah, I just want to mention that my kiddo was eventually diagnosed as being on the spectrum, also has an ADHD diagnosis. So there are some very big vulnerabilities there. there. And when my kiddo was befriended by Joanne at Durango High School, it was during a very hard time in our lives. And I believe that Joanne took advantage of that and brainwashed my kiddo, made my child believe something that wasn’t even remotely true, that all of the struggles and The inability to fit in, to make friends, keep friends, missing social cues, all of that was because my kiddo was born in the wrong body, which I wholeheartedly disagree with. And so, yes, as Lori had mentioned, my kiddo ran away. And for 24 hours, I did not know where my kiddo was. And it turns out that Joanne Smotherman was harboring my child. And, you know, this is a teacher. This is somebody in a position of trust, or at least should be. And Joanne didn’t have the decency to tell me, call me, say, hey, I know things. It sounds like things got a little heated. I’ve got your kiddo. Everybody’s okay. And I’ll send your child home, you know, in X amount of hours. That never happened. They just kept my child and me. And that was it. And since December of last year, my child left my house, and I have not been able to get my child back or really have any communication. It’s all been stopped, and it’s been very hard.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. How old is your child now?
SPEAKER 10 :
My kiddo is 18 now, so there’s nothing I can do to protect him. my baby anymore.
SPEAKER 07 :
Boy, this is these, and that is why it’s important to make comments known at the Federal Trade Commission. What’s your final, Cindy Stein, thank you. Lori Gimmelstein, what’s your final thought on this?
SPEAKER 09 :
I highly encourage people to send in comments to the Federal Trade Commission about their concerns of the harms of gender-affirming treatments and practices, both socially and medically. Our friends over at Heritage Action actually have a form that they can use, and you can just go to heritageaction.org. on the internet we also encourage people to get engaged with the new ballot initiative that protect kids colorado i serve on the board over at pkc our petitions are now live for the 2026 ballot and one of our initiatives for that we want to get on the ballot for the voters to decide is prohibiting irreversible sex change surgeries on minor children. We’re seeing this happen to children, just like Evan was describing, where children are receiving double mastectomies, giving harmful surgical interventions that irreversibly harm their body and put them on a path for pharmaceuticals. So please sign the petition.
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And that’s at Protect Kids Colorado. Thank you, Lori Gimmelstein. We’ve got about 45 seconds left. Gammy, how would you like to wrap this up? Hopefully, well, I can tell you. Okay, let’s see here. Go to, you can just do a search for the Federal Trade Commission regarding transgender pharmaceuticals, and it will bring up an article where you can make comments regarding this. Let’s see if we have enough time. Gammy, we only have about 20 seconds left. Your final thought and…
SPEAKER 08 :
Thousands of girls right now have gifts and goes for breast amputations. These are minors. And even like my family, we have been made victims by the schools. Parents, you go to ftc.org, watch part of it, write in with any family, and get to your schools. Get involved. Find out the curricula. And the counselors that are twisting their minds because they’re not doing anything for the vulnerable rape and harm to kids. Everybody needs to affirm it’s wrong. Stand up and become citizens advocates.
SPEAKER 07 :
Thank you, Gammy. And the quote for the end of the show is from Alexander Solzhenitsyn. He said this, the price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices. 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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