Join Kim Monson as she navigates the intricacies of modern politics and community action. Dive deep into the dichotomy of freedom versus force, while highlighting current political perspectives and insights. Conversations with guests like Karen Gorday reveal innovative home safety measures, and we delve into Lakewood’s special election, showing the impact of local political decisions.
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It’s the Kim Monson Show, analyzing the most important stories.
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The latest in politics and world affairs.
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With what is happening down at the Statehouse, I used to think that it was above my pay grade to read the legislation, and it’s not.
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Today’s current opinions and ideas.
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I see big danger in as much as we will be giving an unelected bureaucrat the power to make rules about what we inject into our bodies.
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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, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Thursday, Producer Joe. Happy Thursday, Kim. And we’ve got a jam-packed show planned for you today, so fasten your seatbelt. Check out the website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Make sure that you’re signed up for our weekly email newsletter. And even if you are signed up, you need to go and sign up for our daily digest that we will be rolling out here very soon. And that will come out Monday through Friday in the afternoon. And our Kim Monson newsroom is putting out amazing stories. And so you will get those. And also join our community. And we’re going to officially get everything rolling right after Easter. Thank you. Many of you have already joined. The first 250 that join at the Mount Vernon level will be noted as founding patrons. And that is in honor of our 250th birthday. Text line is 720-605-0647. And as you know, we look 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. On the show, we focus on the issues and we’ll talk about the people around those issues. We stay out of all the personality fighting and all that kind of stuff. One of our great sponsors is Hooters Restaurants, and how I got to know them is that important story about freedom and free markets and capitalism and those pesky PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties that want to control our lives. And Hooters Restaurants, and I got to know them when I was on city council. which was 2012 to 2016. Hooters has locations in Loveland, Westminster and in Aurora and great specials Monday through Friday for lunch and happy hour. And of course, great place to watch March Madness. And I thank them for their sponsorship. Our word of the day is hubris. I think that maybe Dave was the one that submitted this. I normally am trying to write down names when you submit those. If I’m giving the wrong person credit, apologies on that. But hubris is H-U-B-R-I-S. It could be excessive pride or self-confidence or arrogance. And we’re seeing a lot of hubris with these PBIs that are trying to take more and more control of everything in our lives. So it should be very easy for you to use the word hubris in a sentence today. Our quote of the day is from C.S. Lewis, born in 1898, died in 1963. He was a British author, literary scholar, and Anglican theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at Magdalene College, Oxford, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He’s best known as the author of the Chronicles of Narnia, but he also is noted for his other works of fiction, such as the Screwtape Letters and the Space Trilogy, and for his nonfiction, Christian Apologetics. And the word apologetics means defense, so in defense of the Christian faith, including Mere Christianity, Miracles, and the Problem of Pain. And we’re in tumultuous times right now with the Iran war and everything that’s going on. C.S. Lewis lived through World War I, World War II, and he said this. He said, the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we’re to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things. Praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts. Not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. So that is our marching orders today. And I’m hoping that we have Karen Gorday on the line. You know, Karen, she is an entrepreneur and she is the owner of Radiant Painting and Lighting. Okay, I guess we had a bad connection and Joe said that we are reconnecting that. But one of the things that’s really exciting about Radiant Painting and Lighting is they have exclusive service right now with a company that has come up with a product to fireproof uh, we’re not fireproof, make it fire resistant. We should say a fire resistant home. And it’s a, it’s a product that goes on before the paint. And then they come in with their high quality paint over that. I think we’ve got Karen Gorday, Karen Gorday. I was trying to explain this new product that you have with radiant painting and lighting. And I initially said fireproof. That was not correct. It’s fire resistant, right?
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It’s fire resistant, yes. And good morning. So yes, it goes on. We go in and we prep the house like we normally would, scrape any peeling paint off, caulk, et cetera, after we have power washed. And then the fire resistant material goes on and it’s like a dark gray, and you just cover the entire house with this fire-resistant material that’s eco-friendly, and then we come back and put two full coats of paint over top of it And it gives you protection. Essentially, it’s a 30-minute burn time that is in the wildfire urban interface code. And really, if you get those embers hitting the house, it’s not going to ignite because of the fire resistant material.
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This is perfect for the foothills, Boulder, Golden. And this is something that if people are thinking about painting their house with as dry as it is right now, they should call you immediately.
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Yes. Yes. So I’m working with the company that, um, invented this and it’s amazing and yes give us a call www.paintwithradiant.com the phone number 720-940-3887
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And everybody can find your information on my website as well. And down at the bottom, we’re going to be getting it up on the top as well for sponsors, but it’s down at the bottom. Just click on sponsors and that’ll bring you up to all the contact information. Let’s move over to the other thing that is consuming your life other than radiant painting and lighting. And that is this special election in Lakewood. The ballots are out there. And if somebody’s new, explain what’s happening. Karen Gorday.
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So last year, Lakewood City Council passed radical rezoning laws. Lakewood was meeting the state requirement of high density in the transit corridors. So they went further. And essentially, they did a blanket up zone of the entire city, which means single family loss can be split. They can have duplexes, triplexes, townhomes, built on any residential lot in the city um it was a high stakes election lots of money at play so um yeah we’re trying to get this repealed and and of course the language is Vote yes against the ordinance to repeal or vote no if you want to keep the radical zoning changes.
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Yeah, it’s complicated, isn’t it? I know that you’ve got volunteers that are out walking the neighborhoods. Update us on that.
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So we’re still walking. Some people did not receive their ballots until Tuesday or Wednesday. And so we are not giving up. We’re trying to get the word out. If this is going to come out to turnout, there is a belief, though, that this will be a low turnout election. And I guess the last presidential election, there was 80% turnout during the presidential year. But the last time we had a special election was in 2019 with the strategic growth initiative and the turnout was 30%. And if it’s a low turnout race, That’s actually probably a good thing for our side because we’re super passionate, and those that want to repeal will be out in force. So we’ll see.
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Well, and it is a high-stakes situation. And you can figure that out by just looking at the money and at LakewoodCitiesAlliance.org. LakewoodCitizensAlliance.org, yes. You have some financials there that are quite interesting. And we actually did an article from the Kim Monson newsroom that I need to get over to you regarding this election. One entity that put $75,000 into it, turns out that the people behind that is a former Enron executive who they’re worth several billion dollars, but they put $75,000 into this. Yes, and I think…
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I think folks need to understand how Lakewood actually operates because seeing outside money in our elections is not new. Even when the mayor was elected, she got over $10,000 from the Realtor Association. Unfortunately, we’re used to seeing thousands of outside influence influencing Lakewood’s elections. Even when I ran… I would get survey questionnaires for endorsements. They would ask me to fill out their forms. I think it’s noteworthy to point out the Home Builders Association said, you know, in their form, in writing, how much have you raised for your campaign? How much have you spent? Do you need a donation? And do you need debt relief? Yes, that is actually one of the questions in the Home Builders questionnaire for people running for office in Lakewood. Wow. And so that tells you the level of potential corruption. I want to be very careful not saying that anybody is corrupt, but the money talks, right, Kim? Right. And I think what stands out to me, and we, so a couple of things, we put that financial out there because the other side has flyers that literally says a new special interest group is trying to overturn the ordinances there is gop dark money involved and they’re telling maga stylized this is a combination of two or three flyers to call the people the voters of lakewood a special interest group along with everything else is infuriating to say the least um and we when i when we split out the financials on our website They’ve got a $10,000 large donor from Lakewood and then approximately 3,600 from individuals within Lakewood. So 3,600 is made up of city council, boards and commissions, and a few average citizens. The $10,000 donor from Lakewood donated in her personal name. But when you Google her, she is a principal for a private equity firm. that private equity firm bought land at an auction back in 2024 at Wadsworth and 285. And they’ve been working with city council to rezone it since 2024 so they can build 400 plus apartments. And I’m bringing that up because city council said over and over again that wards four and five are not going to be impacted by the zoning, but that Wadsworth and 285 is board five and my question is then how many other land deals are pending that we don’t know about
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Good question. And people can find all this out. And you guys have sourced all this. You’ve connected that dot, and you’re 100% sure on this connection.
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100%, yes, yes. Because when they bought the land in Austin, there were news articles. We’ve got those printed out. We’ve got screenshots. This is all verifiable. So, yes, there is a lot of money coming in from out of state, from Boulder, from groups around Colorado. But it’s so high stakes that they’ve got Ed Perlmutter’s face on flyers. They’ve got Brittany Pedersen’s face on flyers. Yesterday, Michael Bennett is now on social media on their page. Wow. One of the county commissioners sent an email out yesterday reinforcing special interest groups. Wow. And since when are voters a special interest group? I mean, maybe the dictionary definition, you know, you’ve got a group through a common interest, but when the average person sees special interest groups, That’s not what they think.
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Well, and the other thing is, is that the group, the Lakewood Cities, Lakewood Citizens Alliance crosses all political parties, all political ideologies. You’ve all come together on this. People can get more information at Lakewood. citizensalliance.org. Okay, great. Karen Gorday, keep the great work up regarding radiant painting and lighting and this great new product to fireproof homes. And we’re going to be recording for next week. So we’ll talk to you a little bit later. Keep up the great work. All right. You too. Thank you. And we have these breaking discussions because of our sponsors. And one of those is the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team. Roger has been in business for over 50 years, taking care of his clients and his family and serving his community. And for help with all of your insurance needs, give them a call. That number is 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan Team is there.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out the website for the USMC Memorial Foundation and register for their golf tournament, which is in mid-May. It is May 14th. And between now and the end of the month, you can still register and get early bird pricing. So it’s a great way to support the foundation, get a good price on the golf tournament, and have a great day of golf. And again, that tournament’s May 14th. On the line with me is Mary Jansen. She is a fellow board member of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, which is an all-volunteer group that is watching legislation at the statehouse, taking positions on it. How does it affect the taxpayer, TABOR, Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights? property rights and parental rights and the group has been and this is our 50th year our 50th birthday and it’s really an amazing group mary jansen welcome to the show oh good morning kim happy thursday happy thursday and mary jansen at one of our meetings you said wouldn’t it be a good idea if and explain to everybody cut engaged this is pretty incredible and it was your idea
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Well, it wasn’t really my idea. I just saw somebody else using it in a different way. And I said, well, what if we made it where we could get more voices, more eyes on the bills, and more discussion to our legislators of what the people can read what we do? You know, it’s so confusing. You say taxpayers’ bill of rights, and people roll their eyes like, I don’t want to talk about money. I don’t want to talk about the birds and the trees and the green things, right? Yeah.
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They don’t want to talk about the green things and it’s the stuff in your pocket.
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Well, that’s true. But people, some people are more of the artist type people and they just want to have fun, you know, and their parents take care of everything. When you get older, that’s when you realize you don’t have any more of the green things in your pocket. So anyway, I just thought it would be a great idea. And I just kind of brought that up to you. And you are the one that ran with it and got our wonderful person to get this to work. And it is amazing. It’s perfect. It’s just what I envisioned.
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Awesome. And let’s let’s say thank you to our board members, because, Mary, it’s a really amazing group of volunteers. And that’s Steve Dorman, Greg Galianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Ramey Johnson, Mary Jansen, you, Dave Evans, Corey Onizori, Paula Beard and Ray Beard. And what’s interesting is we don’t all agree on everything all the time, but we have thoughtful conversations either online or at the meetings about these things and really kick the tires on these ideas. And we have had legislators who have reached out and said, Would you please, this is my reasoning why I have my name on this bill. Would you take another look at it? And we always do because we want to learn and be in the conversation on this, Mary.
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Right. Oh, that was amazing when that happened. I was like, oh, my gosh, somebody reached out from that side.
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They actually reached out to us. It was Democrat Bob Marshall, and we had a really good conversation about that.
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We did, and we all thought about it, and I switched, and then I kind of came back, and then I’m like, okay, I’m going to think about this. But that’s the big thing is that you need to think about these bills, and I think our legislators are not thinking about it. I call it the dresser full of bills. And they go in to their office and they say, oh, what are we going to do today? Let’s go, this one’s really going to hurt, and pull out that drawer, right?
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Yes. And there is no way that they can read all these bills. And so what is happening is… with many of these bills is special interest, write the legislation, they shop it and find a legislator to bring it forward. And then many times it’s somewhat rammed through. So this is good with cut and Pam Long had said that our moniker should be that cut is your shortcut to see what’s happening down at the state legislature. So there’s a couple, so go to cut engaged. Go to coloradotaxpayer.org, click on the cut engaged, and then we have the bills in chronological order as we put them on there. So we put five bills up this week for you to take a position on. And I think we need to have a race this next week, Mary, with all of our board members to see who can do it the fastest as far as the bills and weigh in on it. I was able to do it in about between four and five minutes this week.
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Oh, we have to time ourselves? Okay.
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Yeah, that’s the challenge.
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Yes, because I always read it again and again because there’s some of these bills. I just say, I have to read this thing 30 times to actually try to figure out what they’re trying to do.
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Well, let’s talk about a couple of them. House Bill 26-1313, Adjust Requirements on the Statewide Affordable Housing Fund.
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Yeah, this one’s a doozy. Yes, it is.
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And I think it’s important. This is augmenting a Proposition 123 that was on the ballot a few years ago that the people of Colorado voted for it. And there were Democrats, but there were also very wealthy Republicans. consultants on the republican side that were pushing this as well because they were being paid handsomely to do that but then you get that in place and now you see the state legislature coming in and doubling down on it right right right um yeah and then
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You know, I went down the rabbit hole last night and I started looking at some of the largest employers in Colorado. Of course, it’s the federal government and the state government. I don’t know how that affects them, but it probably does. But Walmart, this bill is really going to affect Walmart. Now, they might not move out entirely.
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Wait a minute. That is 1327. So let’s go over and talk about that one. I was talking about the housing fund.
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Oh, the housing fund. I’m sorry. I’m on the wrong one. That’s okay.
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Because we want to talk about both of them.
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Right, right. Okay, so I didn’t go down the rabbit hole on this one because it’s so confusing that I pretty much just said no because I can’t figure it out.
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And that is valid. James Madison said if a legislation is so complicated that you can’t understand it, then we should not be bringing that forward. So that is House Bill 26-1313, and we’re a no on that. Let’s get over here to this House Bill 26-1327, large employer worker health care support. Okay, that’s the one you went down the rabbit hole.
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This is the one I went down the rabbit hole because this is going to cause so many economic problems for our state, which we don’t need at this time. And well, and I would never put this bill in anyway. Yeah, so what it says is that it wants to charge a fee. If you’re an employer and you have employees over 500 employees who qualify for state aid in health care insurance. So what does that mean? That means they’re on Medicaid. Yes. Yeah, so that’s one thing I’d have to ask. And the fee is $2,300 per qualifying employee. So I went down and I started thinking, okay, three largest employees, employers in the state. Of course, it’s the federal government. It’s the state government. And then I went down to, okay, Walmart. Walmart employs a lot. I didn’t get the number on that one, but it’s a lot. And, you know, there could be some people that are on Medicaid employees. You know, these people will lose their whole health insurance or maybe they need to get health insurance and that’s what this is about. Or Walmart’s just going to start closing stores and that’s going to cause a problem. And the same thing with JBS USA. They employ 4,000 people in our state and it’s probably the same with them. They’ll just leave the state.
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Wow. And we have taken no positions on that. If you want to learn more about all this, a couple of things. Join us at coloradotaxpayer.org. It’s only $25 a year, $2.08 a month. I hardly ever get designer coffee, but I met someone for coffee the other day, Mary. And I think the coffee that I had a medium coffee and that medium coffee would have bought three months of membership for coloradotaxpayers.org.
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Yes, correct. It’s not bad. It’s something everybody can do. Once you get into this, you get hooked. Sorry. Once you start reading these bills, it’s like, oh, I want to do something. And then just using CutEngage, you can either copy it or you can write your own little message to them also. And you just go back to where your legislators are at and also talk to them. Because you know what? When I was on city council also, and when I was on city council, we always had this thing, well, more people were for this than against it. So we should probably pass this. However, if it was a good bill… they would say something else, you know, instead of that.
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And so this is a way for people that care about what’s going on, but they’re busy and they can’t get down to the Capitol. They can’t do the Zoom component of it. So within five minutes, once a week, you can have your voice heard. I’m seeing more and more people use this. And again, coloradotaxpayer.org, join us. And if you do, you will also get the email that we send to the legislators and the governor online. on mondays after we’ve reviewed the bills that are scheduled for hearing and the ones that we had selected and as always mary it is so great to have you on the board and all the great work that you do and again that’s mary jansen jansen photography thank you for all that you do oh thank you kim and just remember to enjoy this beautiful springtime that we’re having absolutely even though there’s so much out there we are blessed people so mary have a great day absolutely bye kim And all this happens because of our great sponsors. And we are blessed to work with a lot of great people.
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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 your financial freedom is shaped by more than numbers. It’s shaped by planning for the realities of your life. At Mint Financial Strategies, Jody Henze and her team help you assess your current reality while planning for your future. Additionally, Mint Financial Strategies helps you navigate through your emotions regarding the economy, your career, and the market, while encouraging you to evaluate family dynamics that could influence your financial well-being. And these insights help Mint Financial Strategies to design a plan that fits your life. So take that step towards financial freedom. Call Mint Financial Strategies today at numbers 303-285-3080. Again, that’s 303-285-3080. And I think the big, broad, middle of America… understands that we must have free fair honest and transparent elections and if we don’t we will lose this great american idea that’s based on these foundational principles that all men are created equal with these rights from god of life liberty and pursuit of happiness and this year at the 250th birthday of our country’s founding, we, I think, are in a way at our 1775 moment to make sure that we can reclaim liberty for our country. And it’s through making sure that we have free, fair, honest and transparent elections. And I was introduced to our next guest by a mutual colleague and pleased to welcome Dr. Rick Richards to the show. Dr. Richards, welcome. Thank you. I’m happy to be here. And tell us a little bit about you, Dr. Richards.
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Well, I’m a family physician. I practiced medicine for a number of years. Served 15 years in the Army and then went to the Medical College of Georgia where I was on the faculty. I taught things like research and medicine. did a great deal of research myself. And then I started getting into healthcare technology. And I wrote a number of computer programs to increase the efficiency and lower the cost of healthcare. And then in 2020, like many people, I paid attention to what was going on and decided that there needed to be a computer tool that would help clean up the voter rolls.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay, and so you and your son went to work on that, yes?
SPEAKER 12 :
Nope, I went to work on it myself. My son was an advisor, and by being involved peripherally, he decided to develop his own product. Okay. So he has a separate company, and he’s working on his own product, and I have Ellie.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay, so tell us about Ellie, and how do you spell that?
SPEAKER 12 :
E-L-L-Y. Okay. It’s Ellie the Electrolist. I went around and interviewed scores of election officials, and I asked them, what do you do when you run into this problem? We check the elector list. What do you do when you run into this problem? We check the elector list. It seemed like the universal solution was checking the elector list, which… seemed totally irrational. So we decided to name it Ellie the Elector List.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay. And when you talk to these election officials, the question was, how do you clean up the voter rolls or what’s going on with the voter rolls?
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, we spend hours and hours and hours interviewing them. We ask them step by step, what is your process? uh they wouldn’t show us the records obviously but they would tell us exactly what they were doing step by step and each of the steps where there could be a problem we would say what do you do about this problem for example what do you do when they you have a registration that’s not completed correctly what do you do when you notice that there’s no middle name what do you do when you notice their registration address is after their vote date what do you do when uh the name doesn’t make sense it’s got special characters in it like people named 861 just doesn’t seem normal and we found there are there are ways to fix problems but nobody seems to be i should say nobody the majority seem to be not interested in doing any administrative support and fixing the problems The county election officials we’ve talked to almost overwhelmingly are good people that want to do a good job. However, they don’t have the budget, they don’t have the personnel, and they don’t have the tools. They don’t have the policies and procedures. They are under direct instructions from the Secretary of State to do it this way instead of the best way or the right way. So there are a lot of barriers for good people working in election offices to do the right thing.
SPEAKER 05 :
And how many different states did you do these interviews in? Or I guess many different counties. Was it county by county?
SPEAKER 12 :
It was county by county. We have talked to some secretary of states as well and some state offices as well. I can’t tell you how many. It’s been five years, almost six years now.
SPEAKER 05 :
And which states or how many counties?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, there are 3,143 counties. We have data from 45 states. So we have the voter rolls from 45 states. We work with any of the counties that want to work with us. And we also make LE available to the public. So you’re looking at… We currently have two… I have it written down here. We have 226,424,327 voter registrations from 45 states and the District of Columbia. Wow. Okay. And so you’ve looked at these registrations. The voter rolls here in Colorado
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, actually, with a couple of different groups, our listeners raised money for a couple of lawsuits during 2024. One was with Unite for Freedom, which is the group founded by Harry Howery and Marlee Hornick. And Marlee’s now doing something in New York, but… But we raised the money that said Colorado’s not meeting the minimum standards as set forth by elections. And then with Peter Brunegger with Wisconsin Center for Election Justice, we raised money where he’d gone through and done some technology. And it was a very targeted list, but we found that those voter rolls were not clean. Those lawsuits are just out there in legal land right now. And then there was a HAVA complaint that was recently filed by Peter and Unite for Freedom regarding Colorado. So we’ve got things going on. Have you taken a good look at anything here in Colorado yet, Dr. Richards?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, we have Colorado in the alley. And I can give you the exact numbers. You have four, as of the February 23rd, 26th voter roll, you have 4.49 million registrants. You have, let me scroll down then, roughly 29% of them, 1.3 million registrants, have a case. A case is a reason to look at it further. Let me give you a couple examples. Under the section incomplete data or error, you have 530,000 registrants who did not register with their full legal name. That’s a significant problem. Your state legislators require registering with a full legal name. Colorado revised statutes, Title I, Article II. provide the electors name in full or legal name. So you got half a million problems right there that prevent matching, prevent duplicates, prevent cross-state problems. Your registration form says number two, name, provide your current legal name in red, bold, required. Yet half a million people, roughly 15%, Don’t comply with the law. Under registration address, this is those case those registrations that are provided, but to the post office and verified by the post office. You have 604 registered at the UPS. You have 46,986 who have an error in the street number. You have 84,463 who didn’t put their apartment number. You have 25,339 that the street number doesn’t exist. You have 21,346 where the registration doesn’t even have a street name. You have 8,175 that are getting their mail at a corporation, a drop box, which is not allowed. Would you like me to go on? You have 407,000 who have moved, told the post office it was permanent, signed an affidavit testifying that it’s true. 407,000 don’t live at their registration address. nine percent of the registrations in Colorado don’t live at their permanent address.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay and I want to go to that first number you said 604 what was that or was it 604,000 I wasn’t I didn’t the very first thing was the one above the you said 46,000 had an error it was whatever you said right before that.
SPEAKER 12 :
So there are 530,000 that either have a blank middle name or a middle initial. Now, 15% of the population has no middle name. So you got about half a million people who didn’t fill out their full legal name. Basic. First thing, excuse me, it’s the second thing on the voter registration form. Every one of those are easily fixed. But somebody’s chosen not to fix them.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay. And this, and again, what was the day that this report was done or what was the timeframe?
SPEAKER 12 :
February 23rd, 26. So one month ago, this current data. And it points out to a very significant problem. But the fact that when this registration was submitted, Nobody looked at the name, means they also didn’t look at the rest of the information on the application. They just rubber stamped it, made them active, gave them the right to vote. And that generates a ballot. No, that generates a registration, and from that registration generates everything else regarding the election.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay, okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
We’re going to continue. Colorado may be a mail ballot. Do they mail a ballot out to everybody? Yes. Yeah, so, yep, they get a ballot.
SPEAKER 05 :
OK, we’re going to continue this discussion with Dr. Rick Richards, who has this computer program called Ellie regarding looking at the voter registration list. This is really fascinating. And all these discussions happen because of our great sponsors.
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Welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. focused on these foundational principles of honor, integrity, and patriotism and support them. And that website is AmericanValueCenter.org. We’re talking with Dr. Rick Richards, who’s created a computer tool called Ellie that can look at voter rolls. And this is fascinating. We’re talking about February 3rd, 2026. First of all, I know that there are programs out there that are quite expensive. How much does it cost for people to ask you to help them regarding the voter rolls in their state?
SPEAKER 12 :
We’re making LE available at no charge to county election offices and people who are registered to vote with active status. They can go to the electoralist.com and fill out the information. They can also validate their own vote. They can look up themselves. They can find out how many people are registered at that address. They can see their voting history.
SPEAKER 05 :
And it’s electoralist, or how do you spell that?
SPEAKER 12 :
The Elector, E-L-E-C-T-O-R, list.com. Okay. Okay. If they want to get credentials, they fill out the form, send it in. We have a team that vets people. If you’re normal people, Not bad actors, you’re likely to get in, but it’ll take a few days to run the background check. But if they want credentials, just let us know.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay. We’ve heard that there’s different analysis that has been done that has said that one day, and I think something happened in Texas, we’re gonna be talking with Tina Peters, Colorado attorney, John Case in the next hour about some difference in voting lists day to day. Is that something that Ellie does is compare day to day?
SPEAKER 12 :
no we did not we get data every two months like eric does uh but we have it set up so individuals can go in i um in colorado we have uh for example i’m gonna say i’m looking at data here we have 4 621 people registered at one address in el paso colorado individuals can yeah and we have 2054 people registered at the same address in denver and we have 1452 people registered at one address at ford carson and these may be a legitimate address But they need to be looked at. So in addition to looking up your own, citizens can actually work the data sets in LA and get the documentary evidence. They click the button and find the address. Click the button, get a picture. Click the button. There are all sorts of tools in there to do this. And when they work it and attach the documentation to the record and hit save, submit, it actually sends that information to their county election office. And their county election office can then look at it and make a decision as to whether to research further or take the appropriate actions. So we’re not filing challenges. We’re just like any citizen calling up and saying, my Aunt Peg died. You might want to check that out. So we’re not encouraging people to make challenges. We’re encouraging people to volunteer to help their own county election office.
SPEAKER 05 :
OK, what about I’ve always been concerned that there’s like been voter registration drives on colleges like CSU, CU, which once we walk this through this, once a registration has been created, then here in Colorado, that will generate a ballot vote. And I’ve been concerned that when these kids leave college, that that ballot is still being generated and going to those college campuses. Is there any way to check that out?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, of course that is. We have the property tax records. We have 159 million property tax records. So we can correlate it, Eric. One of the cases is land use code. So we can, I’m going to go down to land use code. Let’s make sure I’m in Colorado. Yes, 223, 26 state. Go down to land use codes, open up that thing, and it will tell me, colleges private schools registration dress here we have uh church 4127 people are registered at their church uh vacant land 23 900. uh it’s basically just national land use codes correlated to voter registration address so on students students should be registered at the same address as their address for tuition. That’s their permanent address. Registration should not occur at student post office boxes because that’s a chain of custody issue. A person cannot live in a post office box. Federal law prevents registering at a PO box. They can’t be registered in the dorm unless there’s special state legislation that allows that because a dorm is not a permanent residence. So students should not be registering at campus and student IDs should not be allowed for voter ID.
SPEAKER 05 :
Do you have at your fingertips anything regarding people registered at colleges?
SPEAKER 12 :
I have to look them up one by one, but here we have… And not all colleges are listed as educational institutions. So I’ll try to find… Here’s government public use, 4,439. Tax exempt, which could be a college, 5,249. Charitable organization, 4,676. Even a community center. 1,481. Not many people live in those. Wow. So they’re broken out by type, by land code use.
SPEAKER 05 :
That is absolutely fascinating. This is actually a little bit overwhelming for me. And I’m just trying to think about, this is a rabbit hole that I could go down big time. But then the what to do about it, what should we do about it?
SPEAKER 12 :
They should make it known to the county election officials. I suggest a coffee and donuts approach. You drop by one day, pick an address, pick a subject. You find so many cases. You click a button and you can print out an Excel or CSV of those with the hot link, hyperlink to the documentary evidence. And you can take that into your local county with some coffee and donuts and say, I wanted to let you know Aunt Peg died. Here’s some other people that have died. Here are their obituaries. And you be nice. You’re trying to help these people out.
SPEAKER 05 :
And as you say, most of these county clerks really are people that are wanting to do a good job.
SPEAKER 12 :
Absolutely. Overwhelmingly, they want to do a job, and they’re good people. I have found rare the occasion that they don’t want help with their job. They’re overworked. They don’t have time. They have date restrictions due to elections. Most states allow for volunteers, even deputy registrars as volunteers at the county level. So you go in and take them a few cases. They find out they’re valid. You go back. You bring them a few more cases, and they’ll say, gosh, that last set was valid. Where do you get this data? Well, I get the data from ELI. It’s a program that will help us do that. can then they say can i have credentials and yes they can so they uh apply for credentials we give them credentials and then the local volunteers work to help the county do its job it’s no different than serving in the food kitchen or or other volunteer things neighbors do all the time local people are interested in keeping their voter rolls accurate
SPEAKER 05 :
Wow, this is fascinating. And this website is TheElectorList.com. So Elector, E-L-E-C-T-O-R. So TheElectorList.com. Dr. Richards, this has been absolutely fascinating. And we’re going to have to talk again very soon. I greatly appreciate it.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes, ma’am. Thank you for the opportunity to chat.
SPEAKER 05 :
Wow. And again, that website is theelectorlist.com. And I have a feeling that a lot of you are going to be doing some homework this weekend. And this quote of the show is so appropriate that from C.S. Lewis, he says, we meet no ordinary people in our lives. And I would say that that’s very appropriate for Dr. Richards. And so my friends today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you. God bless America. Stay tuned for hour number two.
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SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, yes. That makes for an interesting morning, right?
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It does. It’s a tightrope. It’s a tightrope. But let’s talk residential real estate here in the metro area. I know that you’re quite busy right now.
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I am. It’s busy. It’s busy. It’s challenging. It’s… I was thinking this morning about the things that are stable, that are things we can predict. And that is if you hire a professional to sell your home, you prepare your home, you price it right, your home sells. And that is consistent from market to market. And we’re seeing in that first-time home buyer price range, kind of that 450 to 600 multiple offers on good, clean, well-priced houses. And so buyers, I don’t think, are anticipating that kind of competition.
SPEAKER 05 :
and so that has been interesting and yet there’s been good activity in the high end as well and buyers have choices but again those homes that are prepared and priced well are selling well and when you say prepare it seems like a no-brainer that that preparation would mean that the house would be clean and uncluttered but i’ve heard stories that that’s not the case sometimes When people are looking for homes.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. What’s important is cleanliness will buy you a lot of dollars. A lot of dollars. Each person lives in their home differently than what you want your home to be presented as when you sell it. And so I utilize a professional stager who, in many cases, they have a degree in interior design and they understand space and color and those type of things. So they will go in and help us arrange furniture, place art, so that when we take those photos, which is the first thing the consumer is seeing, and they’re seeing those online, they are attracted to the property and want to see more. They want to get inside and be able to touch and feel what they saw in those photos. In our preparing, we bring in my stager and we do, if the house has furniture, we do what’s called a walk and talk. And we go room by room and say, hey, we’re going to recommend that you pack up these accessories to give a cleaner look. We know they’re important to you. They probably have memories. But those are things we want to depersonalize your home so that when someone walks in, they start moving their things in. They can see that they can live there. And so it has been very, very effective over the decades. And this market is no different.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, and I think that’s interesting. I hadn’t thought about that. But when somebody’s walking through the home, to look at it, you don’t want it to be a situation like, oh, this is somebody else’s house. You want them to be thinking about, oh, how could I live in this room or whatever? I’ve got a funny little story. You were able to help some colleagues of mine sell and then buy a house. And I walked in, I said, oh, I love that centerpiece. And he said, oh, that’s Karen Levine’s.
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Yeah, I have a section of my basement that has accessories and art and linens because I find it… It’s an expense I rather not impose on my clientele. And so if I have it, they get to borrow it. And so it goes into their homes. And then I come and collect everything the day before closing and put it into somebody else’s house. And there was a period of time, I think almost all my art was out in houses. And I have not had a realtor say, I’ve seen that picture in many houses over the years.
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That is great. How can people reach you, Karen Levine, if they want to buy a home or sell a home? They can reach me at 303-877-7516. And we’ll talk with you later today because we’re going to prerecord for next week. We’ve got some amazing shows planned and already recorded. And so we’ll talk with you later today and then in person in a couple of weeks. That sounds great. Have a great day. And that’s Karen Levine, 303-877-7516. And I get to work with really amazing people. Another group is the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team. And they know that life can be very challenging, and they want you to feel safe and well-served and to understand your insurance coverage. Their office will respond to your call or text 24 hours a day. So for that 24-hour peace of mind, call Roger Mangan at 303- 795-8855, like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan team is there.
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SPEAKER 03 :
I thought that was fascinating. And I’m gonna go on his website and do a little digging very soon. I mean, if not today, it’s definitely on my to-do list. I was shocked at all the information he had at his fingertips and how glaringly erroneous a lot of the voter registrations are just in Colorado.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, and that’s on my list of things to do as well. But let’s talk about Arizona. And the first thing you had, this is from just the news. And we’ve been talking about this via text. This was a few weeks ago that the FBI secretly seizes election records from Arizona’s largest county as voting probe expands. This is pretty remarkable. It is.
SPEAKER 03 :
And it’s, You know, it’s hard to drill down and know exactly what records they’re talking about. So I read very closely, and the only records that they subpoenaed were from the current Senate president, who was Warren Peterson. And I believe what they subpoenaed was the records from the 2020 Maricopa County audit. Okay. I am not aware that they have actually, well, and I don’t even know if the record still exists for the actual 2020 election. There are rules about destroying election records. I mean, surprisingly quickly after the election happened, the records are destroyed. So I don’t even know if those records are available, but I do know that the supervisor board, the county clerks, none of those people have been subpoenaed for the records. So this is just records that Warren Peterson would have access to. And I believe that would only be those audit records. So that’s very interesting. And I participated in that audit as a matter of fact. We had… a large venue. I don’t know if anyone in Colorado went online and watched some of the recounts that we did. You could go online and watch us literally manually recount every ballot that was cast in the 2020 election. And I spent hours at that venue helping manually recount all the ballots. And out of that audit, We didn’t get really a lot of changes to the election. We got zero changes to the election results. And as a participant in that audit, I have no idea what they really uncovered, if anything, of merit. In the report, they did say there were 200,000 ballots with signature irregularities that may have been counted without being reviewed or cured. and that the county had recently only said there were 25,000 of those types of problems. The other thing we ran into was I’m not sure if they were taking notes on quote-unquote mail-in ballots that had no folding lines in them in that we were counting ballots that were never actually mailed. I don’t know. So there’s still a lot of mystery about what really happened in that audit and what happened to all the data. So, I don’t know. It’s just very interesting. There was so much contention at that time about the election and the election results. It was very difficult for anyone to even speak about the idea that there was a problem with the election. And any issues that may have been discovered… would have been suppressed very quickly by the Biden administration. And we know how they weaponized the justice system. So everyone was pretty scared to take any significant action. But that’s all I know about that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Susan Harris, don’t you find it curious? Because I think in Colorado, I think the federal law is that you have to keep election records for 24 months. And I think it’s 27 months here in Colorado. Well, we as individuals have to keep our tax records for seven years.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s right. It’s mind boggling. And I don’t know if they do that because once we’ve moved on from the election, they don’t want any kind of contention because it would cause, you know, a lot of upheaval in the country. Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
you know to go back and look at things i mean it seems like if everything was if things were on the up and up then it seems like we’d want to keep those records so that we have that and can prove that um i mean that’s my feeling um you know it it is truly mind-blowing the lack of transparency around our election records um well and if we don’t have free fair honest and transparent elections Susan Harris, then this great constitutional Republic is in peril. It’s in, it’s really in peril.
SPEAKER 03 :
I agree. And you know, what’s interesting is that, so the FBI subpoenaed Warren Peterson for those audit records. Okay. So what do they already know? What does the FBI already know? What records do they have? So, you know, Election records are deleted. Yes, that’s true. Is any type of record actually ever deleted? I don’t know. I’m not a technology expert, but it sure seems like when records are truly wanted by the Department of Justice, somehow they get them. They could find them. They have so many back doors. There’s so many shadow, you know, ways to access records that were supposedly deleted. I don’t know if anything is ever actually 100% deleted. What does the FBI know and why are they looking at this old audit? that based on the results that we were given, really didn’t give us any information that would say you could overturn an election or that things need to be recounted again or we need to look at those Dominion machines because they’re not correct. I mean, we didn’t get any real evidence to use.
SPEAKER 05 :
So, well, that is fascinating. And I wanted to bring up something that I just found really interesting as I was preparing for our conversation about Arizona. This came up from let me see here. This is from Axios. It says Hobbs, who is the governor of Arizona, halts budget talks over Proposition 123. And what stuck out to me is it says that they have until, House and the Republican lawmakers have until June 30th to decide how to spend around $17 billion next fiscal year. And their budget blow up suggests it could take them until then to reach an agreement. I think I better take a little stronger look at this. I was thinking your budget was 17 billion, but it may be more than that. When I was thinking Colorado, Our budget is $44 billion, and they want to up that. And there are about a million more people that live in Arizona than in Colorado. So if, in fact, it’s a $17 billion budget down there in Arizona, it means that Colorado is spending a whole lot of money is my bottom line on that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. Yeah. I’m not sure what our total budget is for the year. What I find fascinating, and this happens every year, is that budget doesn’t get approved until sometime in June. I mean, it just takes for six months to approve a budget and get all the negotiations hammered out. It’s it’s really disturbing to me that that’s what happens right now there’s a huge battle going on between the governor and the legislature here and it’s relating to just our our income tax forms do not conform with federal law so you know the federal tax law is all changed And what most states do is they ratify their state tax forms to comply or to conform with the federal tax forms so that that taxable income number just comes right off the federal tax form based on federal law. Katie Hobbs will not approve or she has vetoed all the legislation that conforms our state Arizona tax forms to the federal law. The Arizona tax forms, Kim, are already printed. already being used to prepare tax returns. Everyone just assumed that she would go ahead and do what is normally done in the normal course of business. So right now we don’t even have a valid Arizona tax return to fill out. And it is very disturbing.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, in Colorado, legislation here in Colorado is saying that the Trump tax cuts at the federal level, they will not honor those regarding your state return here. So they want to tax overtime, tips, all of that. And so they want to… You know what? And I’ll just throw this out, let you comment, and we’ll go to break is… Our kids are being taught that capitalists are greedy. Well, capitalists don’t make any money unless they’re providing a good or service that people will trade value for. Now, cronyists, cronyism, that’s when big government and big business get in bed with each other. But when I look at greedy, I just look at what’s happening down at the Colorado State Legislature and these PBIs want more and more of our hard-earned money. I think that’s greedy, Susan Harris.
SPEAKER 03 :
I couldn’t agree more. It’s insatiable the amount of money they seem to need to run the state. And that’s true across the country, I feel like.
SPEAKER 05 :
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SPEAKER 03 :
It is very interesting. I guess this gentleman Steven. I don’t know if his if you pronounce his name richer or Riker. I’m not sure. But while he was the 2023 president of the Arizona Association of County Recorders, he was also the county recorder for the County of Maricopa County. And but as the association president, of the county recorders. In that capacity, he sent out communications advising county recorders statewide to not to comply with record requests from Arizona lawmakers concerning the 2022 election. Now, he did that in his capacity as the president of the Association of County Recorders. But he was also a Maricopa County recorder at that time. So, you know, he was wearing two hats. And it’s just mind boggling that he would advise county recorders not to comply with lawmakers’ requests for information on any level. But, you know, he kind of had a conflict of interest working for the Association of County Recorders and being a county recorder himself at the same time for the largest county in Arizona. So yeah, that’s being taken a look at and they’re trying to decide if that was obstruction of justice because you would think you at least wouldn’t advise people not to comply with record requests from Arizona lawmakers. You know, maybe there would be legal reasons to, you know, resist those types of requests. But to just not comply just doesn’t seem like it makes any sense.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, ultimately, he’s thumbing his nose at Trump. the people of Arizona because the legislature is the elected representatives of the people of Arizona and the people of Arizona are right to demand to have information that they can verify that we have free, fair, honest and transparent elections. And so for this gentleman to recommend to not comply as he was the head of like your County Clerks Association, which is like Matt Crane here in Colorado is as well. It’s important to ask why. I don’t think we’ve gotten to the answer of why would they do that. We can have some different things in our conversation. We have ideas about why, but we need to get to the bottom of this, Susan Harris.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, the lack of transparency. I mean, it’s just a red flag on every level. What is going on with the elections and why wouldn’t you want to share all of your records and information to really anybody who requests them? What do you have to hide? It just makes no sense.
SPEAKER 05 :
It makes no sense at all. And there was something big that happened yesterday. And this is from the Colorado Free Press by Ash Epp, March 24th. It says, not a decision I made lightly. Colorado’s largest county withdraws from the Colorado County Clerks Association. I saw that. Did you see that? This is pretty… In a way, it seems like it… is somewhat, it looks a little bit like the same of things could have been happening in Arizona as well.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, it really does. This county clerk, I guess his name was Steve Schleicher. Yes. He was the clerk and recorder for El Paso County. And he resigned his position as the vice president of the Colorado County Clerks Association, similar to the association here in Arizona. And he said, yeah, that he was concerned about transparency and internal governance. And after he was reportedly barred from key executive meetings with the Secretary of State’s office on the false premise of a lack of trust. I mean, it’s just very, very strange. The other issue we have here, and I don’t know if this has been resolved yet, but the Maricopa County recorder now, his name is Justin Eap, And he and the board of supervisors are supposed to get together and come up with all of the procedural requirements for running an election here in the state. And the board of supervisors and the county clerk, I mean the county recorder, cannot agree on what the procedures should be. So he has actually now filed a lawsuit against the board of supervisors. So, you know, it’s very confusing. It is. It just makes you really distrust the entire system.
SPEAKER 05 :
And so we’ve got to fix this. And I there’s a lot of light that is being shed on all of this. But we’ve got to fix it. We’ve got to fix it fast.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, and, you know, it. All of this is going on down at the county levels. And I’m thinking that, you know, this is just Arizona and Colorado. Is this happening across the country? Are there counties that run good elections? You know, has anybody done a study on that? Whether or not there are counties that seem to be very transparent, that things run smoothly. So far, I’ve lived in two states in the last 35 years of my life, and neither state seems to know what to do. And it’s just alarming to me. If this is going on across the country, it’s even more alarming.
SPEAKER 05 :
So… I’ve been thinking about this. If, in fact, we have all these questions, all these different people are coming together, and if we have not had free, fair, honest, and transparent elections, then many of these decisions that have been taking more control and more money from everyday American people very possibly many of those legislators maybe didn’t win a valid election. I know, I know we’re not making any accusations. We’re still trying to get the facts, but you have to question all of this onerous legislation that is just really an assault upon the middle class. You have to wonder, is that valid? If, if the elections were not free, fair, honest, and transparent.
SPEAKER 03 :
You know, it’s an excellent question. Um, I hope that we can get to the bottom of it. You know, it’s kind of interesting. Let’s see, Stephen Richer or Riker, you know, he was very glib in his kind of response to the fact that he was being investigated for obstruction of justice. And it was just kind of like, you know, why bother? This is ancient history. Let’s move on. And it just reminded me of Hillary Clinton and the way that she just, you know, oh, so, you know, a few people were killed, but that happened. There’s nothing we can do about it now. Let’s just move on. And, you know, it is just mind-boggling to me that people don’t want to get to the bottom of these things to prevent problems in the future.
SPEAKER 05 :
Which is what we must do. And so this is critical, Susan Harris, that we continue to shed light on this. What’s your final thought you’d like to leave with our listeners today?
SPEAKER 03 :
You know, keep the faith. Really, I think ultimately bringing all these things to light is to our advantage. It seems frustrating, but ultimately it’s all for the good of the country that we push forward on these issues and try to bring as much of this stuff to light as we possibly can. And we might not solve all the problems, but I’m very hopeful that we will solve the significant ones so that we can feel good about our elections that are coming up.
SPEAKER 05 :
I could not agree more. Susan Harris, as always, thank you so much. We’ll talk with you next month and have a great day.
SPEAKER 03 :
You too, Kim. Thanks so much.
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SPEAKER 05 :
And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. On the line with me is John Case. He is one of Tina Peter’s attorneys. And we wanted to get an update on Tina. And there’s been some new developments in Texas as well. John Case, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 16 :
Thank you, Kim. Great to be with you again.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, it’s good to have you. And Tina is still in a maximum security prison in Pueblo, yes?
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 05 :
How’s she doing?
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, her body is fragile, but her spirit gets stronger. The more they harass her, the stronger her spirit becomes. It’s quite amazing.
SPEAKER 05 :
I know she is in our prayers, like to praying for her release. And her case has been heard by the appeals court. It’s crazy to me that she was not able to postpone to trial. not go to prison while her case is being appealed. So she’s served over a year already, but the appeals court has heard it. Have you had any response back yet regarding that?
SPEAKER 16 :
No, we’ve not heard from the court of appeals, and we’ve not heard from Governor Polis, who publicly stated that he thought commutation of her sentence would be appropriate because a former state senator who committed the exact same crime Tina did, was sentenced to probation, and Tina was sentenced to nine years in prison. So the governor thought that was unequal treatment, but so far haven’t heard from the governor. Go ahead. Tina was assaulted on January the 18th at La Vista by an inmate who had… was serving six years for stabbing her fiancé in the back with a knife. And that inmate was released immediately back into the general population after she assaulted Tina. And Tina was put in solitary confinement for 10 days. And then after the person who committed the assault was paroled, released from the penitentiary on parole, They charged Tina with assaulting the person who assaulted her. So there was an administrative hearing and Tina won. And the reason she won is she asserted the affirmative defense of self-defense, which under Colorado law, a person is allowed to do. If someone assaults you, you can defend yourself. And in a legal proceeding involving the assault, you can assert an affirmative defense of self-defense. So she won because she was able to present her affirmative defense. But as you know, in the trial in Mesa County, the judge would not allow her to present an affirmative defense, which was execution of a public duty. She was just doing her job to preserve records. So without being allowed to present a defense, the jury convicted her. If she’d been allowed to present that defense, probably would have had a different outcome.
SPEAKER 05 :
Wow. Okay. My understanding is there’s something very interesting that’s happened in Texas regarding like voter rolls or something. What happened?
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes, well, the Texas primary voting started on February the 17th, 2026. And on February the 18th, something very unusual and terrible. Telling happened in Bexar County. That’s spelled B-E-X-A-R, but it’s pronounced Bexar. The X is silent. So in Texas, the county clerk is required to publish every day the list of people who voted the previous day. And that way the candidates will know who voted. And if they want to chase ballots, they’ll know who’s remaining that hasn’t voted. So the list was published by the county clerk. after the second day of voting, which was February 18th. And on it were 4,100 fake voter names, fake voter identification numbers, and fake voter addresses. And this could not be something that happened innocently by a computer malfunction or clerical error because It was controlled by an algorithm. The voter ID numbers came in a particular mathematical sequence. And so one of the candidates spotted it right away when he got the list, reported it to authorities, and it’s now being investigated by the Department of Justice and hopefully by the Texas Attorney General and the local DA in Bexar County. So we’ll have to see what happens. But for people who say you can’t prove that these machines are being tampered with in elections. Yes, we can. That that event in Bexar County, Texas, is absolute proof. There is no innocent alternative explanation for what happened.
SPEAKER 05 :
OK, so this candidate for this primary election. gets this report, downloads this report of everybody that voted, did that candidate do the same report on a different day? Had those additional names, had they disappeared or do you know?
SPEAKER 16 :
The county violated its own rules by waiting five more days to publish the list. So instead of, they sent the list to the candidates But then when the candidate, Weston Martinez, reported what had happened, they pulled down the list that they had originally published. And five days later, they put up a scrubbed list.
SPEAKER 05 :
Wow. What’s going to happen with this, do you think, John?
SPEAKER 16 :
I have no idea. I mean… See, the problem is no one is ever going to be able to prove exactly what happened because there’s no way to look inside a computer that’s being tampered with from outside and figure out what’s happening because they erase their own tracks as they go. So this is why we’ve got to get rid of computers and go back to hand-counting ballots today. you know, counting the votes by hand in the precincts. That’s the way we did it when I first voted in Colorado in 1972, and it worked. Everybody knew who won the election by 10 p.m.
SPEAKER 05 :
I agree. The dot to connect is we don’t know. And if we don’t know, that means that we’re not able to verify that we are having free, fair, honest, and transparent elections. And we must be able to verify that. And the way to do that is an actual hand counting of the ballots. And Colorado has so many different where we have vulnerability, John Case, regarding our elections.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s true, Kim. The system is totally vulnerable. It was created by Smartmatic in Venezuela in 2004 to rig elections there. It was transferred to Sequoia. Then Dominion Voting Systems bought Sequoia, so they got the Smartmatic software, and now they’ve done another switch Liberty Vote took over for Dominion, but all they really did is change the names. Liberty Vote still employs some of the same engineers who worked for Smartmatic rigging elections in Venezuela. It’s amazing that people do not speak out against this. And Tina got nine years for speaking out. The judge who sentenced her said that her criticism of our voting system made her a danger to the community.
SPEAKER 05 :
Wow, and the fact that she is waiting for the verdict on her appeal, and she’s in a maximum security prison. And, John, she didn’t even really have a traffic ticket before all of this, right?
SPEAKER 16 :
No, she didn’t. So Tina is a, you know, the inmates get a score based on their criminal history of how violent they are, how likely they are to be a repeat offender. And that number is a positive number, starting with one and going up. Tina’s number, her threat number is minus three. So she does not belong in a prison with offenders who are violent, like the woman who assaulted her. And they let that woman out. But California doesn’t have minimum security prisons. They don’t have minimum security prisons for women. They have four for men, but none for women. So- They housed Tina with violent inmates. And sooner or later, there’s going to be a tragedy. Because when you’re in prison and you’re high profile, people want the status and publicity of harming you. And others have tried. This person tried and succeeded. But luckily, Tina wasn’t badly injured. But someday she will be if she’s left there.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, and that’s why, as you know, John, my listeners and people throughout America signed a petition to call on Governor Polis. This was at Christmastime to release her. He did not do that, but it is time that he really can consider getting that done. It would be great to do that during the Easter season. Your final thought on all of this, John Case?
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, it would take a lot of courage on Governor Polis’ part to do the right thing and commute Tina’s sentence. And we are grateful for his consideration of that possibility.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay. Thank you, John Case. I greatly appreciate it. And thank you for the update on all of that. And I love this quote from C.S. Lewis. He said that we meet no ordinary people in our lives. And as we look at each day and realize all the people that we come in contact with, That is most definitely true. So my friends today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
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