Join John Rush on a reflective anniversary of 9-11 as he discusses the lingering impact of those tragic events on societal values and individual rights. Featuring guest Jim Paff from the Conservative Caucus, the episode delves into the importance of unity against political violence and the battle to uphold constitutional freedoms amid ideological shifts. With poignant reminders of the delicate balance between force and freedom, this conversation challenges listeners to consider the role of government and the sacredness of free speech in today’s politically charged climate.
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And we are back. Hour number two, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560 on the anniversary of 9-11. You heard Charlie play a little excerpt there a moment ago, which we appreciate greatly. Jim Paff joining us now from the Conservative Caucus. Jim, how are you?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I mean, I’m well, but it’s a wild September 11th. It should be a double whammy.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, as I’ve been saying most of the day today so far, it’s a somber day. You know me. Unlike a lot of the loons that are out there celebrating what happened yesterday, these are the type of people, by the way, Jim, that all go out and say, I don’t think I’m even going on a limb to say this, these are the same people that have no idea what happened on 9-11, nor do they care.
SPEAKER 07 :
I think that it’s, I mean, except for the coverage on television, I think people were definitely distracted because of the assassination of Charlie Kirk yesterday. And I think that it’s a good time for all of us. not to recognize we need unity and everyone’s got to come together i i think it actually i mean there’s some of that that we need to do but more importantly i think what we have to undertake is an effort to recognize that there is a strain of political violence that is seeking to destroy liberty. It always exists. It’s something we’ve always got to fight for. And it’s definitely a fight we’ve got to undertake.
SPEAKER 14 :
It is, although I would add to that, Jim, and I think you’re going to disagree with me, it’s gotten much worse with the Marxist movement that started in this country some 60-plus years ago.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, there’s no doubt. Actually, it’s about 100 years ago, a socialist which morphed into a Marxist movement after the 1960s.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, I guess what I should have said is once it entered into the public school system some 60-plus years ago is really where things started to take off. That’s what I should have said.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, that’s true. Well, the iterations are you began with a socialist movement in the Wilson administration. Not shortly after that, Mussolini’s fascism became really popular internationally. And we forget sometimes that a lot of American intellectuals were praising Mussolini until he moved to the more radical bent that happened during World War II. In the 1960s, it became really not a Russian communist movement, but a Maoist Chinese cultural revolutionist movement. I mean, it was really Maoist communism that was invading our universities and school systems beginning in the 1960s. And that’s really the form of it in Democrat politics today. I mean, I’m not saying all Democrat voters are Maoist communists. They’re not. Obviously, many of them voted for Donald Trump last year. But the party itself has embraced that philosophy. And we saw that very clearly in the Biden administration, where they were taking away free speech by censoring people, utilizing the deep state to work with social media and media to shut down. Speech down, of course, the COVID shutdowns and the requirements and all this kind of stuff. And that’s really what we’re facing right now. And we have to take what happened yesterday and really when we harken back to 9-11 and recognize it’s that spirit that is attempting to undermine the American republic.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. And, you know, Jim, you feel the same way as I on this. I say it over and over and over again. I always will. You know, I will always defend somebody’s First Amendment right to speak their mind, to speak whatever they want, even though I may totally disagree with their position on something. You know what? I will give them that ability to speak that over and over again because that’s a God-given right. I mean, I said this this morning to my son. I get the Bill of Rights, and it’s there, and it exists, and I know why the Founding Fathers put it in there. And frankly, Jim, and maybe I’m being too crude and rude here, but I think the Founding Fathers put the Bill of Rights in for stupid people because anybody else knows that those rights come from God anyways. They only put them there to make sure people really understood that we don’t need the Bill of Rights. God gave us those rights in the first place.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and just think back to, as you may have talked about in your program recently, Senator Tim Kaine stating that, you know, you’re an Iranian mullah. in your attitude if you believe rights come from God. That is the Democrat mantra, that they believe rights come from government. Well, that is subject to change at any time, based upon who’s in power. And our founding principles were to set a government in place to protect those transcendent rights that come from our Creator. Now, listen, you talk about you don’t want to take away anyone’s free speech, and I don’t either. Anyone is free to speak. They are not free in this country to undermine our Constitution, to try to alter it, or to make our institutions conform to something that is not consistent with the Constitution. And that’s everybody. That includes the president. That includes Congress. It includes the Supreme Court. And that’s the thing that we’re really fighting for, is reasserting the constitutional rights that belong to us against the institutions that go awry. So our problem is not that people with this Maoist communist attitude are free to speak. They are free to speak in this country. They’re not free to change our institutions under any circumstances. And we need to recognize that what happened yesterday is one of numerous attempts to undermine that. And that’s what we need to be taking up right now and fighting against. And when I hear Democrats trying to say how sorry they are, and I think some Democrat politicians are very sincere about it, and I’ve quoted them, actually. Ezra Klein had a very interesting article in the New York Times opinion piece, and he brought up January 6th and some things that I think were a little petty. But he really seemed very sincere to me to say, hey, wait a minute here. Charlie Burke was just trying to operate within the system where we have discussions. And Ezra Klein said he thought that was a good thing. Ezra Klein’s a radical leftist. in his ideology. But I think he was sincere in making that point. And I think, so there have been some Democrats, but the Democrat Party, the institutional Democrat Party, is determined… to take rights away under their Marxist idealism. And it is a Marxist idealism.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, absolutely, because it’s the old, you know, as we’ve talked about on KLZ for years, force versus freedom end of things, Jeff. They want to force things upon you. We believe in everybody’s individual rights and freedoms and so on, the things you and I talk about, and conservative caucus, of course, stands for. You know, that’s what we believe in. That’s not how that side looks at it at all.
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No. And in fact, we also need to go back, which Charlie Kirk did very effectively and well. We need to go back and understand what those principles really are. One of those is this. The definition of government is force. So think about this. Some type of force. is used when government wields its power to adjudicate laws, to undertake the proper abiding by laws. Now, that force takes various forms. It can be as little as a fine, as much as a criminal penalty, but it can also be the sword itself. So if we’re going to give that sword to government, as we should, we do need governments. That’s what Jefferson said. That’s why they were instituted. amongst men is to protect those rights. And there is an amount of force given to it. But what the founders were so wise to do is to severely restrict the ability to use that force to only very specific areas that protect fundamental rights. Now, we adjudicate these things in this culture, both in the courts and even in the executive branch. We adjudicate these things in a manner that is not consistent with the Constitution right now. Now, Donald Trump’s trying to fix that. I’m not trying to make Donald Trump a particular bad actor here. But the executive branch itself has overexercised the authority not given to it. against us. And we have to consistently oppose that, even if the Trump administration doesn’t get it right. And I’m all for Donald Trump. But even if they do it wrongly, we need to appeal to them to not do it anymore and assert the authority that is ours, because it’s we the people who created the government, not the government itself. And so we have to get back to these first principles and be very clear about it.
SPEAKER 14 :
Conservative caucus. Jim, how do folks find you?
SPEAKER 07 :
TheConservativeCaucus.com. TheConservativeCaucus.com.
SPEAKER 14 :
Jim, as always, I appreciate it. Sorry for the somber day. That wasn’t what our plan was originally when we set all this up, but stuff happens.
SPEAKER 07 :
It is not common for me to talk to Charlie, my friend. and us to be in a somber mood together. We’re always joking when I call in, and it’s a bummer day when I’ve got to do that.
SPEAKER 14 :
But I appreciate all you’re doing, John. Likewise, Jim. Nope, thank you very much. I appreciate you as well. I’ll come back, talk about a few more things in regards to 9-11. I’ve got something I want to read to you, by the way, that my wife sent me, which I thought was very appropriate for today. Golden Eagle Financial coming up next. Great interview that Al did here of late. If you want to talk to Al directly, just go to klzradio.com.
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TJ here with KLZ and Al Smith of Golden Eagle Financial. And Al, I have a question for you. I’ve been putting money away for a while in a savings account or maybe a couple of investment accounts. But what am I doing wrong and what can you do better than that?
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Well, I think a savings account is important because all the financial gurus, including myself, agree you should have three to six months savings that you have ready liquid access to. But retirement planning is a bit more long term and it’s a bit more strategic. We want to take a look at the sum of money you’ll need way into the future. And we want to look at how that money can last by providing you income for as long as you live.
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What kind of planning or strategy do you provide for folks with that that have a big savings but haven’t made that next step?
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Well, that’s a good question. If someone has a large amount in savings, one of the things I do is we have a conversation about their risk tolerance. Nobody’s comfortable losing money, but having money in the market over a long period of time is a mechanism to accumulate wealth. And so we talk about the different levels of risk and the different products that are available. And we don’t put everybody into one box, but I have an enormous assortment of financial products. And it’s not that there’s good ones or bad ones. It’s there are some that are more appropriate for some people, but not for others.
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And that sounds excellent. How can folks get in touch with you for that meeting?
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You can reach me at 303-744-1128. And if I’m not there, it goes to voicemail, but I return my voicemails promptly. And we could have a conversation in the office. If you live a considerable distance away, we can have a long phone conversation or a Zoom call, whichever you would prefer.
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And as always, you can find him at klzradio.com slash money. Al, thanks so much for joining us today.
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Well, thank you, TJ. Thanks for the conversation.
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You bet.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Before I read what I said I was going to read a moment ago, Dr. Kelly, through the break, just sent me something that I thought was appropriate to share. And this is a recent survey from YouGov. 77% of Republicans believe it’s always unacceptable to feel joy at the death of someone they oppose. Now, by the way, the remaining factor of Republicans, you guys are morons. It should be 100%. I don’t know of anyone… on that side of the equation that feels it’s okay. So I, I’m not sure why it’s not higher than 77%, but get this only 38% of Democrats share that view. So half as many Democrats feel that way half. What’s wrong with that picture, folks? Again, that’s what we’ve been talking about not only from yesterday but into today as well. And those of you that are on the left, and I get messages. I got one message from a person on the left just a few minutes ago, making fun of Fox News, by the way, which I’m not even going to go there. That one isn’t hardly even worth me responding to, which for those of you, by the way, I think most of you, by the way, should know this by now, should know this about me. I don’t watch TV. I don’t watch Fox News. I don’t even read a lot of Fox News articles. Occasionally some folks will send me some things, Charlie, others. I actually read more from the left side of the aisle than I do the right side of the aisle. And I’m not exaggerating when I say that. I’ll get more information from places like USA Today, Wall Street Journal, our local news stations, which are all on the left, by the way, the Colorado Sun, which I’ve mentioned numerous times. I get more information from them that I talk about on air than I do Fox News. So I’m not a Fox News junkie by any means. So anybody texting me trying to make fun of Fox News on my behalf, that doesn’t work because I don’t watch, follow, nor am I a huge supporter of. So that particular text message didn’t go anywhere with me. You might have thought that it was poking me in the eye. Quite honestly, it didn’t do a single thing because I don’t watch Fox News. This side of the equation, the Republican side, should be higher than 77%. I’d like to know that remaining faction that doesn’t feel the way I do. I would never celebrate somebody dying, period. I even said that yesterday. So that’s just not who I am, not how I was raised. All right. On to what I wanted to read to you today. Again, I’m always a little leery of the headline of a particular article. This starts off by saying, one year after the September 11th tragedy, a quiet little note appeared in a U.S. newspaper. Folks, I don’t know. I have no idea if this appeared in a newspaper or not. But as I read through it, I thought, you know what, it’s still worth reading. And if it was in the newspaper, great. If not, it doesn’t matter. It’s still worth reading. You may have heard about the CEO of a major company who survived the attacks because it was his turn to take his child to preschool. Another man lived because it was his day to bring donuts. One woman was late because her alarm clock didn’t go off. Someone got stuck in the traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike. Another missed the bus. One spilled coffee on her blouse and had to change. One person’s car wouldn’t start. Someone went back to answer a phone call. Another child took too long getting ready. One simply couldn’t catch a cab. But the one that struck me most was a man who survived because he wore new shoes that day. They gave him a blister, so he stopped at a pharmacy to buy a bandage. That’s why he lived. Now, whenever I’m stuck in traffic, miss the elevator, go back to get my keys, pick up a call at the last moment, I stop and think, maybe I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be. Maybe this delay is protection I never knew about. So the next time that your morning feels off, the kids are slow, you can’t find your keys, or you hit every light, don’t stress, don’t get angry. Maybe, just maybe, God is quietly protecting you in ways that you can’t see. now i will say this i’m not one to be super sentimental even in regards to these things but i also am somebody that believes things don’t happen by accident i do believe that things are done on purpose with a plan and sometimes even those nuisances that we may think they are that might make us late or something to that effect yes i do believe in some cases that could very well be god’s hand of protection upon me or you or anyone else for that matter and i know sometimes that can be really frustrating and there are times though and my wife is always a reminder of this to where you know something just doesn’t go quite the way it was planned and you’re behind on you know getting on the road or doing this or doing that and my wife is always the one that is quick to remind me that you know just be patient some of this is probably meant to be and just let it roll that’s not my personality You all know me, and Charlie especially, I run by the clock. I’ve learned to, I mean, I have to run by the clock. I literally look at a second, not a hand, but I look at the seconds on a clock in front of me more than three hours a day because it’s my job. Even when I’m talking to my clients and coaching and so on, I’m on the clock. I give a certain amount of time to each and so on. So I live and die by the clock on a daily basis. So I’m definitely not taking anything away from anybody that’s prompt and on time and so on. But I also know that in all of our lives, mine included, sometimes things happen that are beyond your control and you have to wonder why. And is there a reason for that? Would there have been a bad accident that you somehow avoided? 9-11 was a great example of that. Some of the shootings that we have seen that happened, some of the other catastrophes that happen in our world, are you missing some of those because of something else that happened? And folks, that is way beyond my ability to understand or predict or talk about because I don’t have those answers. I don’t know, frankly. I don’t know. I do believe in God Almighty, the Trinity, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. I do believe there’s a plan for each and every person. I also believe we have free will, and we can either choose to go by that plan or not. That I also believe in. Free will is the greatest gift and greatest curse at the same time. And I’m one that believes in it fully, and I believe it’s there constantly no matter where you’re at in regards to salvation itself. It does not ever go away. Free will is always there, period. And it’s, again, it’s either a greatest gift or the greatest curse, depends on how you look at it. So for those that would be out there, and I’ve talked to some folks even via the text line and so on, where they question, you know, why did yesterday happen? You know, why did somebody get murdered on the bus, you know, back east and so on? You know, why do these things happen? Why do bad things? There’s even books written about this. You know, why do bad things happen to good people? I think that was a title of a book at one point in time. I think I even taught it in Sunday school at one point in time. And the reality is because we live in a fallen world. That is the answer. We live in a fallen world. And because of free will and choices that were made long ago, they’re still there today. And because of that, we suffer the consequences of it. So in my opinion, it’s that simple. And I know that sounds really simple, and it’s in some cases maybe too simple. But the reality is things happen in our world because we live in a quote-unquote fallen world. And if you are a believer and you know what’s to come, you know what the outcome will be on down the road. And in the end, yes, we, our side, does win when it’s all said and done. 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And we are back, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Appreciate you all joining us today. Again, kind of a somber day, but we’ve got other things we need to talk about. You know, business at hand, I should say. Steve Altschuler, I can’t get my tongue to work right, Steve, I apologize, interviewed you in the past. You are running for Longmont City Council.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, indeed, and at the third time was… the charm because you got it right.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, I appreciate you, uh, uh, being with us and talk a little bit about your campaign. What’s going on up in Longmont.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I’ll tell you, um, I did run two years ago and I, I was a brand new person then, so I had no name recognition. This time seems to be going a lot better.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
Uh, and I think people might be more fed up in the last two years. Yeah. There’s, there’s just unlimited growth and construction. Three years ago, the Longmont City Council did a survey, and the number one complaint was traffic. And since then, all they’ve done is build several hundred more apartment buildings, not apartment buildings, but apartment units on all the busy streets. The big thing they’re talking about right now is they want to do away with the forever longstanding four-story height limit and allow builders to build seven, 10, or 14 stories high. even right down the middle of town on Main Street.
SPEAKER 14 :
Which would change the whole, and I’m a native of that area, as you know, it would change the whole character of what’s up there.
SPEAKER 09 :
Absolutely. Nothing against where you are right now, but it would be Denver and not Longmont.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right. That’s right. That’s right. No, and for those of you that don’t know that area, and again, that’s an area that I know very well, it’s like the back of my hand, Steve, that’s literally the area I grew up in, still go there on occasion, and it literally would change the entire makeup of the town by allowing that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, Absolutely it will, but then the secondary response is going to be traffic is going to be much, much worse. Correct. And if you remember Longmont very well, they just did a big construction area on Kauffman, and they took out about 120 parking spaces all up and down Kauffman, which is one block off from Main Street. So now if people want to go shopping on Main Street, there’s nowhere to park.
SPEAKER 14 :
Hmm.
SPEAKER 09 :
And so it’s shooting the businesses in the foot, in my opinion.
SPEAKER 14 :
I would agree with you there, too, as well. So, I mean, what’s the makeup? I should know this, and I can imagine what it is. I don’t know it for sure, though. What’s the makeup of the current council?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, two years ago when I ran, there was one lady that was successful in winning. Her name is Diane Crist, and she’s actually been an accountant for about 38 years. So she is currently the only business person that’s on the council.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
So now instead of most things going 7-0, it’s very often 6-1. Okay. And she actually said, Steve, you’ve got to run again. I need some help up here. So that’s why I’m running to try to stem the tide of what they’re doing. From what I’m hearing, it’s not just Longmont. I think it’s Firestone is actually trying to remove their entire city council, every member on the board because things that are happening out there. So I’m old enough that I believe council members, anybody in political office. is supposed to do the will of the people, not impose their will on the people. That’s right.
SPEAKER 14 :
That’s exactly right. You’re a representative of the people.
SPEAKER 09 :
You’re not to be the king over the people.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yep, you’re exactly right, 100%. And Steve, I apologize. I should have started off this way. What’s your background?
SPEAKER 09 :
He’s not there. I lost him somehow.
SPEAKER 14 :
Are you there, Steve? Hello? Are you there, Steve? I tell you what, let me put him on hold, Charlie, see if you can’t get a hold of Steve. I hear Steve just fine. He’s not hearing us, which I’m not sure why. So Charlie will do his best to get him for us, I guess I should say. And, yeah, those of you that live up north, and there’s a lot of you that listen from, I talk to you, I get text messages and so on from those of you that are up in that north end of the state, and whether that be Longmont, Loveland, Fort Collins, Frederick, like he’s talking about and so on, there’s a lot of listeners up in that area. So what I would tell you to do is go look up Steve, and if you’ve got questions and things like that that you need to have answered, answered even on a one-on-one basis. I know Steve well enough to know he would be the type to sit down and have a conversation with you and help out his campaign. We need, and this is across the board, this is not just in Longmont, this is in every single city council that we’ve got across the state, I should say, from our state lines. And by the way, it applies to others, not just us here. in Colorado, but we need more conservative representation on city councils, county commissioners and the like. So, yeah, that is something that we really are in desperate need of. So folks like Steve need support so that we can actually win more of those seats. And I’ve always said it always starts on the local level and works its way up. And that’s that’s the way politics work. And I’ve also always said that you need to pay as much attention to what’s going on locally as you do on a national basis. Steve, do I have you back now?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, you do. I have no idea what happened.
SPEAKER 14 :
That’s all right. Self-service and things like that. Who knows? At the end of the day, we’ve got you. And I was getting ready to say this before I lost you, and that is I apologize. I should also have asked, you know, what’s your background? You know, why do you want to be on council and so on? I should have asked that to get started, and I’m sorry I didn’t.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s quite all right. So I’ve actually had my own businesses for 35 years. I bought my first condo when I was 22 years old. I’m bringing this up for a reason. It was actually an apartment conversion. And right now in Longmont, there are no condos that have been built for 15 years because of the contractor liability laws that the state passed. And people were coming in and complaining that there’s no entry-level market for people to get into real estate. And I actually spoke to city council about six months ago and explained that my first place was an apartment building that had been converted. They’ve already got their own individual addresses. They’ve already got their own individual utility hookups. And if the building is more than 10 years old, I think that might be a way to get around those contractor liability laws. So I brought that up to city council and in nine months, I’d never heard anything back from anybody, but that is something I would really like to pursue when I get on council. What happened for me and can happen for other people, if you can convert an apartment building, the condos probably wouldn’t be more than $200,000. And even at a 6.5% interest rate, that would probably be $1,200, $1,300, $1,400 a month mortgage.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
Which is probably less or the same as what they’d be paying for rent.
SPEAKER 14 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 09 :
But you’d have people getting into the real estate market and start going up with inflation rather than always spending on rent and getting nowhere.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, and what you’re just saying is a solution, not an alternative, but a solution to problems that we have that, quite frankly, Steve, we’re not hearing enough of.
SPEAKER 09 :
You know, that’s one of the things that I think I bring to the table by having been in business for 35 years. You can’t just see a problem and turn your back and walk away when you have your own business. You’ve got to get creative and find a solution. Yes.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, and one of the complaints, and you know me, anybody that’s listened to me long enough should know this, that that’s my biggest complaint with most of government, whether it’s on a local level like there, whether we’re talking on a regional basis, county commissioners and so on, whether we’re talking state level or national level. We have very few politicians with any business experience at all. Most have never written a paycheck, Steve.
SPEAKER 09 :
And what we have right now in Longmont is some school teachers and nonprofit people And anytime they need something, they go and knock on the HR’s door and get a check for whatever they need. They’ve never had to meet a budget or make payments, you know, salaries for people. and their outlook is just entirely different than a business person. It is.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. Yeah. Well, it is because to your point earlier, you know, you and I being self-employed, we are self-solution oriented because we know nobody’s going to come along and fix things for us. So we find solutions to problems. Otherwise we don’t stay in business. They’re not used to doing that, Steve.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, you and I agree a thousand percent. Um, Another bit of a problem that we have, I think, in all of Colorado, and I don’t remember how long ago this was, and it might be a federal law, but the laws were passed that after, I believe, 34 hours, businesses have to start giving benefits to people, health insurance, things like that.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right, right, right, right, right.
SPEAKER 09 :
So most businesses cut people off at 34 hours now so they don’t have to pay benefits. And you can’t really blame the business, but that makes it harder for people to get ahead, too.
SPEAKER 14 :
It does.
SPEAKER 09 :
When I was growing up, for 35 years, I worked 60 hours a week. And now people are working 34 hours and saying I can’t afford to buy a place.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right, right. No, you’re 100% correct. Spot on. And I should have asked as well, what’s the website? How do folks find you, support you, and so on? If they’re up in that area and they’re, I’m assuming, city council, they’ve got to be a Longmont resident. So if they’re a Longmont resident and want to help you, how do they do that?
SPEAKER 09 :
My website is www.steve4longmont.com. There’s a place there to donate. I also could use a lot of help. Very soon, my wife and I and a couple other people are going to start going out there and waving signs. We’ve been walking around neighborhoods and leaving flyers with bullet points of what I stand for. The nice thing is, I’ve already had more donations this time than last time all the way through November.
SPEAKER 14 :
That’s awesome. That’s awesome.
SPEAKER 09 :
So either it’s more name recognition or more desperation or something. I don’t know what.
SPEAKER 14 :
Or both. It could be both, which is okay. It doesn’t matter. At the end of the day, we’ve got to get you elected. And while you were gone, I was stating that this is really important because local elections affect us, not that national elections and even statewide elections don’t affect us. They do. But these local elections have a much larger impact on our lives, Steve, as opposed to even national elections. That’s why people need to get out and support you because they matter greatly.
SPEAKER 09 :
I moved to Longmont 18 years ago, and I moved here because it was a lot of single-family homes, and you could walk to the schools, and there wasn’t that much traffic. And it is not that way anymore. I don’t know how often you get up here.
SPEAKER 14 :
No, it is not that way anymore. You are correct in that. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 09 :
And hopefully a lot of people are agreeing with me. One thing I’d like to say fairly quickly. Sure. I know we’re all rather shocked, to put it mildly, about Charlie Kirk.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 09 :
And I would like to say to anybody listening, if you are shocked, if you are devastated, if you’re hurt by this, The best thing anybody can do is to get off their butts and do what Charlie Kirk was doing.
SPEAKER 14 :
That’s exactly right.
SPEAKER 09 :
Go talk to people. Go help people like myself that are trying to make a difference. Don’t just sit home and complain. And more than anything, conservatives, you’ve got to go vote in November. That’s right. Only about 20% of the people even vote in these small elections. So if there’s somebody you’re rooting for, Get out there and talk to people, help them and vote and make sure all your friends vote.
SPEAKER 14 :
I’m writing this down because I didn’t realize the number was that low. I knew it was low. I had no idea it was 20%. That’s really surprising. And to your point, they, and I said this earlier, they matter. These elections matter more than national elections do. And I mean that sincerely, folks. Those local elections will have more impact upon you, your property, your property rights, your job, your affordability, all the things, Steve, you’ve talked about. That has more of an impact than what’s going on on a federal level.
SPEAKER 09 :
And do I have like one more minute? Oh, absolutely. Go ahead. No, you’re fine.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, we got several minutes. Go ahead. Take your time. We’re good. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 09 :
So I grew up in Southern California, and I remember hearing this story, and maybe it was in the 50s. But there was a period of time where starfish were eating all the crabs or something that were in the port of Los Angeles or Long Beach, one or the other. And the fishermen all got together. They threw out their nets. They pulled up all these starfish. And they smashed them with hammers and threw them back into the ocean. What they didn’t realize is as long as one part of the main body is still attached to the arm, it grows to be another starfish. So they made the problem much worse.
SPEAKER 14 :
They actually duplicated it.
SPEAKER 09 :
My point is this is what we can do to honor Charlie Kirk. They got one huge, huge, fantastic leader. But if thousands of us stand up in his place, he’s going to be very sorry.
SPEAKER 14 :
Great point. Great point. No, you know what, Steve? I will close on that. That was perfect. And again, those of you listening, it’s Steve, the number four, steveforlongmont.com. Just spell it out. I’ll put links in our show notes as well, Steve, so folks can find it a little bit easier if they need to. We’ll get those up a little bit later this evening. Steve, best of luck. We appreciate any other updates before the election. Let me know. We’ll get you back on, and we want to get you elected.
SPEAKER 09 :
I’ll definitely give you another shout next month. I appreciate it.
SPEAKER 14 :
You’re very welcome, Steve. Appreciate you very much. And again, it’s steve4longmont.com. And again, those of you that are up in that area that are going to be voting especially, please do whatever you can to help him. Those of you that maybe just want to help somebody get elected that don’t live in Longmont, but you still want to help somebody get elected, you can still go and donate and help him out in that manner as well. Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning is next. $56 furnace tune-up special right now. Just go to klzradio.com.
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SPEAKER 14 :
Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560. All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Okay, speaking of things locally, and go to Libs of TikTok on X, and what they have done, which congratulations to them, they have compiled a lot of officials, governmental people that are in school positions, teachers and so on, which, again, they’re government, but you get where I’m going with this, politicians even. They have assembled all sorts of comments that, from those individuals on what happened yesterday with Charlie Kirk’s assassination. One of them is somebody local, Jasmine M-U-R-G-U-I-A. I don’t have any idea how to pronounce that. Merguia, maybe? Merguia? I don’t know. Spanish, last name. And she is the suicide prevention follow-up coordinator for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Education. So CPDE or CDPHE. Make sure I say that. That’s the acronym. CDPHE. So she’s a public employee that your tax dollars are funding. And she posted this yesterday. If you haven’t said anything about the countless mass shootings, school shootings, or S, about ICE raids, Palestine, Black Lives Matter, and the violation of rights of LGBTQIA folks, women, or folks without access to shelter, food, clean water, but want to talk about how we should, should not feel or react to how a pro-gun, pro-violence dude died via gunshot, literally shut the F up and talk to yourself. Do some self-reflection and interrogation of why you speak up for white men who spews horrid S against every marginalized community. No heart. Please, and it’s spelled out with lots of E’s, please look at who and what you’re speaking up for. That’s somebody that’s on your payroll. If you’re a Colorado taxpayer, which I am, Charlie is, a lot of you listening are, she’s on your payroll. This is a mental health professional. Thank you, Charlie, for saying that. Suicide prevention follow-up coordinator. By the way, she has mental health issues herself. I’m actually really scared that she’s somebody that’s going to help follow up with somebody that tried to commit suicide because she’s a wackadoodle. Yeah, like Charlie just said in my ear, she can’t control herself. Yet she’s going to help somebody not commit suicide or follow up on somebody that tried to? Holy cow, are we in for a world of hurt if that’s the case. This is a person that really needs to check herself. So, Jasmine, if you’re listening, which you’re not, but if you are, if somebody can please get this audio recording to her, you need a self-check. The people that you’re talking to in your post don’t need a self-check. You do. And I will remind not only Jasmine, but a lot of others that are out there, especially on the left. Charlie Kirk, for all of what you didn’t like about him, never disrespected anybody, never yelled at anybody, never said a racist thing to anybody, never put anybody down. If anything, did the opposite of everything I just said. He was about as anti-racist as you could get, loved every single person that walked up to the podium that he debated, had a really great spirit about him when actually debating somebody. Other people would become unhinged, and he would sit, smile, be kind, frankly do things I’m not sure I’ve got the capability of doing. He was a master, literally a master of debate. Probably… Gosh, Charlie, I would almost go as far as to say probably the number one debater in America. I don’t know that there’s anybody that could out-debate Charlie, and I mean that sincerely, on this level, talking about the Constitution, American history, Christianity, and so on. I don’t think there’s anybody out there that could debate him any better on those. Yeah, thank you, Charlie, in a very friendly way, doing it with a smile on his face the entire time, and loving on people all at the same time. And so Jasmine, number one, you’ve evidently never really sat and listened to Charlie and there’s tons of recordings out there. So I would highly recommend that you do because what you’re spewing is completely opposite of who Charlie was. In fact, you’re the problem. You’re the problem as to why people hate people like Charlie, because you don’t have any idea what you’re talking about. And it’s always interesting. to me anyways, that when things like yesterday happen, and I talk like I did throughout the show yesterday and then again today, and I really put out there that, hey, if you’re somebody that’s on that side of the aisle and you’d like to call in and have a friendly chat about it, lines are open, give us a call. No one ever does. No one ever does. In fact, the only communication I really ever hear from folks on the left are those that can be a keyboard warrior via either email or a text message. I’ve talked about those folks in the past, and I’ve shared those with you guys, even have shared directly some of the text messages or emails that have come in. And I always respond with, you’re always welcome to call in and have a friendly debate on air. Always. And I, like Charlie Kirk, as long as you stay within your boundaries… Because it’s radio. We don’t allow swearing and things like that, which, by the way, Charlie would always have to listen to some of that, and that’s the other thing that he was gracious about. Somebody could literally get to the podium and swear all day long, and he would be very kind and smile and just respond to them in a very natural, very respectful way. Admired him for doing that. And again, did things that I’m not capable of doing. But back to my point, if you’re somebody that’s on that side of the aisle and somebody like Jasmine and you want to have a conversation, I’m all ears. But you don’t. And you won’t. And I know why. Because you can’t. You can’t. You have nothing to defend. And if you’re going to come out and again, she’s in this case, she’s a keyboard warrior. She’s using her position as a suicide prevention follow up coordinator for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Education. She’s using her position to get her voice out there. And yet is very mistaken. And, you know, in a way, I feel sorry for individuals like her. And I really mean that. I really do. Because she’s so misguided. And it’s a young lady. I can tell by her pictures. It’s a young lady. But she’s extremely misguided in her thought process. She really is. And it’s unfortunate because she probably is intelligent. She’s evidently gone through and had enough college and so on and training to whereby she can be a suicide prevention follow-up person. But it’s also very concerning to me. that my tax dollars are going to support somebody like her that’s going to now go help someone in the follow-up end of things with a suicide, which my heart goes out to people that want to take their own life. Because, again, something’s not right for them to want to take their own life. The human nature is to live. It’s what we all desire, all of us. It’s also why we typically—this is what’s so astonishing about the stabbing on the bus— we typically want to help other people live. We’ll even, you know, especially as men, we will stand in the way of others that are being harmed. That’s what we do. It’s our nature. At least it’s my nature. It’s how I was raised. So I get her job and what she’s doing, but it’s very concerning to me that she’s going to help individuals that are troubled when she herself is extremely troubled. That one I don’t understand. 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SPEAKER 14 :
All right, some of you on the text line wanting me to send you that particular article from X, Libs of TikTok. And what I will tell you to do is just go to Libs of TikTok on X. All you have to do is go to X. Don’t even have to have an account. Just go to the search bar, type in Libs of TikTok. It’s a huge account. You’ll have no trouble finding them. Now, this post today. You’ve got to scroll down quite a ways because they have put a ton of information and are continually adding posts like I just read to you. They’re out there gathering those things up and putting them on the libs of – now, it’s – Kind of backwards. You think libs of TikTok would be all libs of TikTok? No, they’re making fun of libs of TikTok. Okay, so it’s kind of a parody, I guess you could say, is they’re making fun of the libs. It’s not really the libs of TikTok doing this. This is somebody making fun of… of the liberals of TikTok or anywhere else. It’s just their handle is Libs of TikTok. But go to Libs of TikTok, scroll down quite a ways. And what I mean by that is you’re going to scroll through and you’re going to see a lot of the things I’m talking about right now. It’s not hard to find her. Just look for her name. It’ll be right there. And again, her name is Jasmine. And it’s M-A-R-G-U-I-A. If I can send you the specific link through the text line, I will do my very best to do so. I’m just not sure I can. So that’s how you find her, though. In closing, though, for this hour, I also want to say I have gotten so many text messages today from so many of you that have even heard on other stations. not KLZ, but other stations in town, my name being mentioned specifically because of what we did yesterday as a program and the encouragement that we gave to a lot of people. And I cannot tell you how honoring that is. And I mean that sincerely. Thank you very much. And those of you that have done that and have mentioned me even to other stations and so on, I am extremely grateful and honored that you would do that for me. And I mean that sincerely. We have the greatest listeners ever. Hour three is next. Don’t go anywhere. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 1 :
I’m a rich guy
