Join Kim Monson as she delves into the intricacies of current socio-political issues, uncovering the layers of government regulation across various sectors such as transportation, education, and energy. In this engaging discussion, Kim emphasizes the importance of freedom over force, challenging prevalent misconceptions and offering a fresh perspective on the motivations behind bipartisan actions. Through candid analysis and passionate discourse, Kim brings clarity to pressing matters and inspires listeners to engage thoughtfully and purposefully.
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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. And 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 Monday, Producer Joe. Happy Monday, Kim. And we’ve got another fabulous show planned for you today, so fasten your seatbelt. Check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And yesterday was the official rolling out of the Kim Monson community. And many of you have joined us. We did a soft launch earlier in March, and we are official now. And you can take a look. Join the community. There’s three different levels. The Montpelier level is $50 a year. The Monticello level is $100 a year. And the Mount Vernon level is $200 a year. And we have our first virtual town hall will be next Tuesday evening. And it will be featuring John Eastman regarding birthright citizenship. He was a… attorney for Donald Trump. Also, we’re going to talk about the meeting that he had with Trump and Pence on January 4th before January 6th. And it’s going to be really interesting. It’s going to be interactive as well. You’ll be able to ask John questions via the chat. And so join us. It’s going to be really terrific. And then on the 23rd, we will be rolling out Alan Thomas’s first class. It’s a 10-week class on the first half of the Federalist Papers and how they are relevant today. And it is going to be fabulous as well. And we are, instead of going to soundbites, which so much of the world is going to, we are actually delving into these issues. And instead of these different manipulations by media trying to tell you what to think, we’re going to provide the opportunity for you to converse with others and connect with others, contemplate these big ideas. And the community is, it’s extensive. It’s amazing. And Zach has built that, and I thank him so much for that. So check all that out. Make sure you’re signed up for our weekly email newsletter that goes out on Sundays. And even if you are signed up on that, sign up for our Daily Digest, which the newsroom is writing amazing stories, news stories. But with all the rollout over here, we’ll probably roll out that Daily Digest right after this. the 1st of May. So check out the website. There’s a lot going on. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson.com. The text line is 7 2 0 6 0 5 0 6 4 7. And the studio line is 3 0 3 4 7 7 7. 5600. We will be taking call-ins in the last segment of the second hour, about 747. So get ready to call in on all of that. I thank all of you who are part of all of this and support us. We’re an independent voice on an independent station, and we’re searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And socialism is not about free stuff, even though Mandani in New York wants to dole out a whole bunch of free stuff. You can’t give something, government cannot give something to someone that it is not first taken from someone else. And so socialism, basically that’s the carrot to get people to vote for it. But ultimately socialism has to come down to force. And remember, it’s never compassionate to take other people’s stuff, whether or not it’s their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunity, childhood, or lives via force. And force can be a weapon, but it can be policy, unpredictable and excessive taxation, fees, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, this agenda of the World Economic Forum and globalist elites. Their tools are the United Nations, but it goes to state government, county government, local school districts. We see it playing out there. We need to be engaged, and we can just take great heart from the citizens in Lakewood that organized, and they were able to get involved. this special election to say no to the upzoning that the city council and the bureaucrats, the city manager, and then interested parties, you can look at those that contributed to support the upzoning and the citizens were able to come together and push back on those PBIs, those politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties. And remember, if something’s a good idea, you shouldn’t have to use force to implement it. And on the show, we focus on the issues. We’ll talk about the people around those issues. But we stay out of all of the personality, name-calling, emotion. We want to stay over here in reason. And I did want to say thank you to our goal sponsors. And Laramie Energy is a great goal sponsor. They’re also a goal sponsor of the Kim Monson Newsroom and the Kim Monson community. And I greatly appreciate that. But I thank Laramie Energy because it’s reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant power from naturally occurring hydrocarbons, such as oil, natural gas, and coal, that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate. And we’ll be talking with Bob Boswell as our featured guest in this particular hour. And our word of the day is a great word. It’s a fun word to say. It’s serendipity. It’s S-E-R-E-N-D-I-P-I-T-Y. And it could be an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident. Or number two, it could be good fortune or luck. And this, let’s see, I took this from… here. This is Random House Webster’s College Dictionary. And they said this, that Horace Walpole, the fourth Earl of Orford, better known as Horace Walpole, he was a British Whig writer historian and antiquarian and it says he would named a faculty possessed by the heroes of a fairy tale that he wrote called the three princes of serendipity and he was born in 717 and died in 1797 And it says he had Strawberry Hill House built in Twickerham, southwest of London, reviving the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian successors. And his literary reputation rests on his first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto, which he wrote in 1764, and his letters, which are of significant social and political interest. They’ve been published by Yale University in 48 different volumes. And I did not know Horace or Horatio Walpole, but I thought that was just a little bit of great interest on the word serendipity. So your challenge is to use it in a sentence today. It’s spelled S-E-R-E-N-D-I-P-I-T-Y. And we have the serendipity phrase. to have been born in the United States of America. And we have a responsibility to preserve and conserve this great American idea that all men are created equal with these rights from God of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. And we have these important discussions because I am blessed to work with amazing people. The great sponsor of the Kim Monson Show is the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team. And Roger, car insurance is so important, and people have a lot of questions about it these days, costs, just what it is, you know, what do they need to know?
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Well, you know, car insurance companies really are a pass-through mechanism. So if you have a liability claim and it’s $100,000 and you get sued, the insurance company is going to pay it. So they’re passing that money on to whoever wins the lawsuit. If it’s physical damage to a car… and the body shop charges you $3,000 and we pay it, we’re actually passing through the cost of the body shop, and those costs are going up due to several factors. The supply chain issue is still alive and well and a problem in this country. So I think… I’d like to have the consumer look at it a little differently. And the reason for costs for autos going up, we know inflation, car thefts, legislative mandates, exorbitant awards by the courts, bad drivers, severe weather like hail, uninsured motorists. If you’re an uninsured motorist and you hit my insured, and my insured is physically damaged and can’t work for two or three years because they were crushed in an auto accident, you don’t have insurance, they’re going to turn to their own carrier and use their uninsured motorist coverage. And that coverage, I would recommend to you to buy $250,000 per person, $500,000 per accident. 20% of the drivers in Colorado do not have insurance. And that’s a guess number because we don’t really know. The population has expanded significantly, and I’ve heard numbers as high as 30%. So one in five drivers or one in three drivers, they have no insurance. So if you want to protect your livelihood… enhance your uninsured motorist coverage and your liability coverage as well. Now, I wanted to just pick on myself for a minute. So I’m looking at $3.7 million is a number that I actually collect in premium for my company through the year. That sounds like a big number, but let me tell you what happens to that number. 89% of that money goes to claims. So the insurance company is walking away with 11% out of my agency in order to survive as a company. The biggest increase in cost in this year has been comprehensive claims. That would be hail, windshields, that kind of thing. And Uninsured Motors is running at 93% of what I collect in that category is paid out. So only 7% profit for the insurance company to run their business. So when you think about what you’re paying in premiums, most of it’s being paid out in claims. And if the insurance company is collecting, let’s say, $10 million and they’re spending $12 million, which is really what’s happening, that number is inaccurate and it’s fictitious. But it gives you an idea that they’re running loss ratios that are in the negative range. So they’re going to increase your rates in order to cover the money or create the money they need to pay the pass-throughs that you experience as an insuring population.
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Well, and also then so that they can stay in business as well. Yes, yes. Yes, absolutely. So thank you. I learn so much when I’m talking with you about this. If people would like to sit down and take a look at their insurance coverage with you or one of your team members, what’s the best way to reach you?
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Absolutely. So if you don’t know how to ask it, it’s always nice to have your agent be looking out for you on all that. And that is the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team. Like a good neighbor, they are there.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And another great sponsor of the show is Hooters Restaurants. I got to know them. It’s a really important story regarding PBIs trying to control things and free markets and freedom… and capitalism. But Hooters restaurants, the owners are truly patriots, love the American idea. And Hooters in Colorado is your neighborhood wing joint. They’re the home of the world-famous Hooters girls and the craveable wings that make game day legendary. So whether you’re catching a basketball game, UFC, or just meeting up with the crew, Hooters is where the energy’s high, the beer is cold, and the wings are always saucy. And so be sure and check them out. They have locations in Loveland, Westminster, and in Aurora. So I do thank them for that. Our quote of the day, I went to Marcus Aurelius. And he was born in 121. He died in 180. He was a Roman emperor. and a Stoic philosopher. He was a member of the Nerva Antonine dynasty, the last of the rulers known as the five good emperors and the last emperor of the Pax Romana, which was an age of relative peace, calm, and stability for the Roman empire. And he said this, he said, the secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. So when we talk about it every day to strive for excellence, it’s all these little things and the little things come together to become big things. And each and every day we need to be doing what we can to leave the world better than how we found it. Right now, that’s a big challenge because of all of these public policies, because we have not been paying attention to And so again, Marcus Aurelius said, the secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. And we say we strive for excellence. We don’t say we strive for perfection because that’s impossible. And we do make mistakes. But in striving for excellence each and every day, it’s amazing what can be accomplished. Our bill of the day is, Y’all are going to love, excuse me, you all are going to love this. And it’s House Bill 26-1276, protect the safety of individuals who are immigrants. And the sponsors on this are Representative Elizabeth Velasco and Representative Lorena Garcia. And so this is, I would say this is probably an anti-ice bill. That’s House Bill 26-1276. And so I just wanted to keep you informed about on what was happening in that particular arena uh and then our uh and also i want to say thank you to my fellow cut board members the long bill the big the budget was uh introduced last week so we will be analyzing that uh for our ratings report excuse me our position reports that that email would will be going on a little bit later and this was really an effort because many Our board members were down at the Republican Assembly. But I always want to say thank you to this great team. And then tonight is our board meeting. We’ll be meeting. And that is these board members, when you see them, say thank you because we’re all volunteers. Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen. Rami Johnson, Mary Jansen, David Evans, Corey Onozorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. And we have rated, I think, 144 bills or taken positions on 144 bills so far, which this is just amazing work that the team is doing. Let me just give you the exact here. As of right now, there’s been 639 bills or resolutions that have been proposed down at the state house, which is crazy. We’ve taken positions on 144 of those. And this again is amazing work. And so say thank you to these folks. Our, let’s see, our I think that I got through all that. So I wanted to talk a bit about the assembly that occurred on Saturday down in Pueblo. And this is from Colorado Newsline. And it is titled that the Republicans pick Scott Bottoms and Victor Marks for the Colorado governor primary ballot at the state assembly. And says that the Colorado Springs Republican Representative Scott Bottoms, he’s the state representative, received 45% of the delegate vote and will get top line on the ballot for the June 30th Republican primary. Victor Marks won 39.5% of the vote and will be next on the ballot. None of the other roughly two dozen candidates qualified during the assembly. You have to get at least 30% if you’re going through assembly to access the ballot. Now, Colorado Senator Barbara Kirkmeyer, who is a Weld County Republican, she is accessing the ballot via petitions. And this particular article said that those petitions have not been verified by the secretary of state yet. But what this looks like, there will be three Republicans on that primary ballot for governor. And that is Scott Bottoms, Carl, excuse me, Victor Marks and Senator Barbara Kirkmeyer. And it said this Newsline article goes on to say just over 2100 Colorado Republicans gathered on the campus of Colorado State University in Pueblo on Saturday for these selections. In addition to the governor’s race, they also considered races for attorney general, secretary of state, treasurer and U.S. Senate. And the primary election winners will advance to the general election ballot in November. It says for the attorney general race, delegates chose Michael Allen, the district attorney for Colorado’s fourth judicial district, and Denver attorney David Wilson. James Wiley, the former executive director for the Libertarian Party of Colorado, qualified for the secretary of state race, and no other candidates got enough votes for that. So it will be James Wiley and will be our candidate. And then a former state senator, Kevin Grantham had qualified for the Treasurer’s race. And then State Senator Mark Baisley was the only candidate to qualify for the Senate race. So that means that Montrose County Commissioner Sean Pond, who was an excellent candidate, also will not move on to be on the ballot for the primary. And also a former, I think, colonel in the Marine Corps, And his last name was Marquardt, I think. And I think he was also an excellent candidate, but he did not receive enough votes to access the primary ballot in June as well. And let’s see, then, in addition, let’s see, get down here. It says that Scott Bottoms has raised about $110,000 for his campaign, and Victor Marks, who’s the founder of All Things Possible Ministries, which is a nonprofit organization based in Colorado Springs that he is, he’s endorsed by Lauren Boebert, Congresswoman Boebert. He raised about $620,000 since announcing his candidacy at the beginning of the year. And then let’s see, lastly, over on the, well, I heard from many of you who were down at the state assembly that it was somewhat disorganized. It said business started around 1130, over two hours later than planned. Because of the delay, the assembly voted to limit candidate speaking time from 10 minutes to five minutes. It says there were additional multi-hour delays as delegates submitted paper ballots and party volunteers counted them. It says an 80-vote discrepancy between the number of delegates who scanned into the assembly and the number of votes cast threatened to derail the process until the delegates voted to accept the overvotes as valid. And then going on over to the Democrat side, Let’s see. Colorado Democrats met for their state assembly in March, also in Pueblo. And Attorney General Phil Weiser earned the top spot on the Democrat ballot for the governor’s primary race. And then Senator U.S. Senator Michael Bennett is also running for governor. And then as far as U.S. Senate, Senator Julie Gonzalez, she is the Colorado state senator. She will be the first name on the ballot in the Senate race, and she is challenging Senator John Hickenlooper. And Bennett and Hickenlooper have both submitted petitions as well to access the ballot. I really think that it’s important. I know that many people, candidates, have been talking about Weiser, Hickenlooper, Bennett, Gonzalez, talking more about them in the race as attacking. and tacking them as people instead of policies. For example, to be focused on John Hickenlooper, and then if Julie Gonzalez gets the nominee, there is a lot of time that could have been spent talking about both of their positions on policies. Senator Julie Gonzalez has a long record now of what she has supported down at the Statehouse, and people need to be focusing on that, also need to be focusing on John Hickenlooper and his policies, Weiser, his policies. And so that’s where I think that we… really need to be on that. And so, again, that was big news this last weekend. The primary will be on June 30th. And then Greg Lopez, former Congressman Greg Lopez, at the end of the year, changed his affiliation from Republican to unaffiliated. And nearly 50% of voters in Colorado are now registered as as unaffiliated and i think that this is a really great strategic move on his part and so he is also and he will start getting petitions for him to be on the ballot in may because the everything is different if you’re coming in as an unaffiliated and once he gets those petitions then he will go directly and access the ballot in november And so again, that is what the governor’s race looks like here in Colorado. And so it’s going to be quite interesting to see what happens with all of that. And we have these important discussions because we have great sponsors and for everything regarding residential real estate, you’ll want to talk to Karen Levine.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com and join our community. This is really going to be awesome. It’s a place where you can connect and converse and contemplate these big ideas so that we can reclaim our country. We can reclaim our state. But before we get over here and talk with Bob Boswell, who is the CEO of Laramie Energy, the two nonprofits that I support on a regular basis on the show is the USMC Memorial Foundation. And they are going to have their big fundraiser May 14th. It’s a golf tournament at the Ridge at Castle Pines. It’s an 8 a.m. shotgun start. So get your foursome together and register by going to USMCMemorialFoundation.org. And then the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo. They have these great on values presentations. And their next one is going to be this Wednesday, April 15th, 4 p.m., featuring Lieutenant Colonel Allen West. And that will be either in person or online as well. And so check that out. And that website is AmericanValueCenter.org. And please have Bob Boswell on the line with us. He is the CEO of Laramie Energy. And Laramie Energy is a goal sponsor of the show. And they’re a goal sponsor of the Kim Monson community and newsroom as well. And we greatly appreciate it because kicking the tires on these ideas and understanding what’s going on is how we will reclaim our state and our country. So Bob Boswell, welcome to the show.
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Good morning, Kim. It’s delightful to be with you again this morning.
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Well, it’s good to have you, Bob. And there’s so much going on in our world. And here in Colorado, as I’m watching legislation, as the president of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers and the whole group is, there are continual assaults upon our naturally occurring hydrocarbons, such as natural gas. And it is reliable power that allows everyday people to thrive and prosper. So what is happening on both the state level and the national level regarding hydrocarbons?
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Well, I think in the state of Colorado, there’s a real effort to try to minimize the growth of use of natural gas, in particular in the state of Colorado, by overburdening regulatory restrictions. We see that every day. There’s been implementation of what’s known as enterprise fees, and this is a way to get around the Tabor Act. These are, in fact, taxes, not fees, but they have been put some 20, almost 30, I think, enterprise Fees put in to fund out-of-government spending in the state of Colorado. The budget’s now $41 billion. $23 billion of the revenues to fund the government come from these enterprise fees, which have been put in place to circumvent the purpose of the Tabor Act, which was to keep government spending under control and focused on those things that are most important. So those type of fees hurt the economics of development. The state of Colorado has the second largest concentration of natural gas resources for development, second only to the Marcellus on the East Coast. But it’s being constrained by predominantly Democratic representatives on the front range. The western slope of Colorado is predominantly rural. There is ample opportunities to develop the federal lands, some 70% of the federal lands. But the state of Colorado and the federal government had a memorandum of understanding. which would enable the state to impose certain regulations on federal lands. That’s being renegotiated currently, and I think under the Trump administration, we’re going to see that federal lands have more development opportunities than state lands and private lands, which doesn’t inure to the citizens of Colorado to a large degree or to the private landholders. But those are the types of things that we’re dealing with is excessive regulation that really dampens the development of a very important fuel, natural gas. Another element that we have in Colorado, and again, it’s this desire to try to regulate, is the development of artificial intelligence data sites in the state of Colorado. states surrounding Colorado put actually incentives in. The state of Colorado has considered that, but they want to have it really powered by renewables, 75% of renewables, which a data site, which has to run 99.9% of the time, can’t rely on renewables. So we need some common sense in the legislature. We need a change of what I think of our political orientation in this state to really open up its development. We’ve allowed a tremendous amount of illegal immigrants into You know, a sanctuary state, sanctuary city, and that’s causing funding demands in the state. We’re probably underfunding Medicaid and some other things simply because we have enabled so many new citizens to come in that are not citizens, that are illegal immigrants that we’re trying to take care of in terms of housing and medical care and things of that nature. So they’ve answered you more than you wanted to hear.
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Well, it’s the important thing about it. And I was just taking notes is it’s all connected. So I think I’ll start at the last thing that you said, and that is regarding all of these illegal immigrants that have come into our state because of sanctuary policies. And highlighting or I should say low lighting some of the bills that are out there. I had our bill of the day today is House Bill 26, 1276 and how people can tell what that bill is. So HB stands for House Bill. SB stands for Senate Bill. Then they’ll have the year, which is 26. And then the bill number. And this is protect safety of individuals who are immigrants. And this is probably an anti ice bill. And there you have it right there in the Colorado State Legislature. And, Bob, I’ve said that that if people want to come here because there’s this whole discussion regarding ice and people that are here illegally. But I think people agree on several things. First of all, if people have come here illegally and they want to hurt us, they need to go. If they’ve come here and they were a criminal in their country of origin or they are doing criminal acts here, they’ve got to go. If they have come here illegally, To live off the American taxpayer, they got to go. And if they’ve come here, even under the refugee resettlement or asylee resettlement, but they’re defrauding us, they have to go. And that’ll take a big, broad swipe at all these people have come here illegally. Now, I know that people have… have broken the law to come here illegally. But I think if we focus on this big part that we can agree with, that that at least is a step in the right direction, Bob.
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Well, it certainly is, and it needs to be brought across the country. One of the problems we’ve had is the blue states, such as Colorado, have put in these sanctuary welcoming signs. So that’s migration of the illegal immigrants have been to these blue states. And part of that is the strategy I hang behind is to allow enough people in that they can – control their vote or the people will naturally support the Democrats. So they’ve done that. But what’s happened at our state level, what’s happened in other blue states is the People are leaving the state, and the people who are leaving the state are not the people who need this support, but the people who are the most productive businesses, companies are going to states that have lower tax rates, less unemployment. less imposition of the illegal immigrant effects of lawlessness and other types of things that make the city and the states less inhabitable. I mean, you can see that in downtown Denver going to work. You see immigrants out there panhandling. You see them out there wanting to wash windows. Most of them don’t speak English, but they’re in the city now, and the city is you know, has to support them. And that’s what we’re doing is we’re building housing and taking taxpayer money to support a, you know, a large segment of illegal immigrants.
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And that is a real problem. And downtown Denver, I remember when it used to be vibrant and I was excited to go down there and not so much anymore. And it’s all because of public policy. We need to make sure that people… Understand that. Bob, you mentioned these data centers and that they need to have reliable power. They can’t have intermittent power. They can’t have Excel coming to them saying, oh, we’re going to be shutting this down for a few hours because of fill in the blank. And I think we should connect this. Well, if it’s important for data centers to have reliable power, that is the same for everyday people as well. A lot of people work from their home. They need to have reliable power. So it’s important to understand that renewables… Do not provide reliable power. And the reason is, is because the wind doesn’t always blow and the sun doesn’t always shine. So what is important for these data centers is important for everyday people as well, Bob.
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Yeah, well, that’s exactly right. And you have to have, I think, policies that encourage the development of the fuel to power these utilities. And these are under political pressure to go for renewables. And there’s nothing wrong with renewables, but they aren’t a replacement for a secure fuel that is continuous, such as natural gas and you know these data centers they can be built independent of the grid system they just need fiber optics and we’ve got fiber lines going down you know the interstate 70 that they can hook into so they don’t need to disrupt or take power from the utilities that provide it to the businesses throughout the state. So, you know, it’s a real opportunity for the state because of our natural gas reserves and resources that we have in the state, yet it’s foundering because of the lack of leadership understanding and this primary kind of focus on climate change.
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Speaking of climate change, Bob, as you know, we have our movie, A Climate Conversation, that we released about three years ago. We’ve got a filming date for the sequel, which will be in mid-May, and we hope to have that out in the summer. And I thank Walt Johnson for his vision on that topic. Next thing, you mentioned these enterprise fees that natural gas companies are having to pay. And you mentioned these enterprise zones, that that is a workaround TABOR, which is Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights, which is the amendment passed by the people of Colorado in 1992 to keep government in its proper lane. But what they’ve done with these enterprise zones is they’re funding them, as you mentioned, from fees. Now, fees are basically taxes, but they call them fees because if they call them what they really were, taxes, then we, the people, would have the opportunity to vote on those. So they put them into these enterprise zones, and then that revenue is taken outside of the calculation for the refunds to we, the people, So this is all the way around the enterprise zones, calling them fees, taking that revenue out of the revenue calculation for our refunds as people. It’s pretty disgusting. I’m going to say it’s pretty disgusting all the way around, Bob Boswell.
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Well, a couple things there. In addition to the enterprise fees, the state has put in disproportionately impacted communities. Oh, yes. That’s what they call them. And this is predominantly on the western slope. And these are predominantly rural areas where there’s a lot of development potential. And they’ve taken out of the opportunity for development over 600,000 acres. which directly impacts these communities. The lack of development impacts these communities much more than if there is development in the area. But that’s just another representation of the state trying to thwart the development of the natural resources underlying the state. So that’s more or less a… kind of a double whammy they’re doing at the same time. So it’s an attack on development of minerals resources in the state.
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Well, it is. And we’ve got to get this turned around. And it takes vision. It takes leadership. It takes all of us being engaged and electing representatives that, as you say, have common sense. And so that’s really important in this particular election cycle. We’re going to continue the conversation with Bob Boswell. He is the CEO of Laramie Energy, but wanted to mention Lorne Levy, who is a mortgage specialist. He works with a lot of different mortgage companies, and he can help you in 49 of the 50 states, just not New York. But if you’re moving out of New York, he can help you with your new mortgage.
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Well, Kim, um, you’ve got both short-term effects and potentially devastating longer-term effects The short-term effects are until we can bring Iran under control where they no longer develop nuclear weapons, we’re going to have increased prices on oil in particular, not necessarily natural gas. In fact, in Colorado, we’re getting about $1 an MCF, while on the East Coast, they’re getting like $2.50, and that just happens to relate predominantly to warmer weather in the West. But you have on the oil side, some 20% of the oil in the world goes through the Straits of Hormuz, which is between the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Iran on the one side. And Iran’s trying to control that and limit the amount of oil that goes through. They have been building nuclear weapons. They have been building intercontinental ballistic missiles. They are a rogue regime that has these proxies that incite terrorism throughout the Middle East. And it’s time that they, after 47 years of really extortion, that they be brought under control so they’re no longer a threat to the world, particularly on the nuclear energy front. So we’re going to have some short-term pain on oil prices. It doesn’t affect the U.S. as much because we’re independent on oil, but it does affect parts of Asia. China affects quite a bit other parts of the world. But it’s really kind of our duty because we have the strength to stop this terrorist group that’s in this regime that poses a very severe nuclear threat to the world.
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Well, for those people that say that the U.S. is doing this because of oil, that’s true. But it’s also, as you mentioned, that this is a rogue regime, that they have been exporting terror, and they make no bones about the fact that they want to… They call say death to America. So if they get to a point where they have nuclear weapons and you mentioned they have intercontinental ballistic missiles, the American public would be a great danger. And so it is in our best interest to not have rogue regimes have those particular kinds of weapons. Right. Right.
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Well, that’s exactly right. I mean, intercontinental ballistic missiles, we’ve seen in this latest war that they could hit Europe. They could hit Great Britain and other areas. We didn’t think they had that capability, but they’ve shown us that they do have that capability. We also know that they have enriched uranium up to 60% and that they could build 10 to 12 nuclear bombs within a matter of months that could be used to threaten Europe in particular so it was very important that these guys be brought under control and that they not be allowed to you know extort from the rest of the world their demands which you know follow a very rigid Muslim creed and I think it was necessary and fortunately we have a president who had the the fortitude and has the military and the technology behind him to to bring this situation under control.
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Well, and I think it’s it’s important from a political standpoint coming up on the midterms. I’ve I’ve thought regarding President Trump that, you know, he really I don’t think he likes war. And and so there had to be something to really. have him make this decision because politically coming into the midterms, I think that there’s risk on that as well because Americans don’t really like the idea of war, I don’t think. But I think that there must have been something that he felt was very necessary. Otherwise, he would not have taken that risk. But I think it’s also important that people understand the difference in presidents that here, President Trump is wanting to to get rid of this rogue regime that all they’ve been doing is exporting terror. And they’ve killed U.S. citizens in doing so. But Obama, basically in the middle of the night, sent a plane load of cash to Iran. Well, what are they going to do with that? They’re not going to be… doing positive things with that. And so I think it’s important that people remember history and that Obama sent this regime a bunch of cash and then they took that money probably to export terrorism. And so I think it’s important that people remember history on that, Bob Boswell.
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Well, I think history is important. I think we’ve had past presidents who’ve tried to negotiate in good faith and with the Iranian leadership, which it has not negotiated in good faith back. And we’ve seen the negative elements of that, and it’s come to a head now with their ability to make a nuclear bomb and to have the inter-ballistic missile capabilities to hit Europe and other places. So this is, you know, this is as much… America standing up for the rest of the free world to take out an evil empire. And people don’t seem to recognize this. The thing that has really amazed me and in many ways kind of hurt me is to see these Democratic leaders that stand up and are really putting out disinformation, you know, and saying things that are false. making accusations of the president and the leadership of this country when you were taking out a significant threat from a country that has said death to America. It’s pretty simple. But the politics, they want to try and change that just simply for political power.
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And this is much bigger than just political power. This is regarding protecting our country and what we’re going to pass on to our children and our grandchildren. Bob, we’ve got just about a minute left. Always learn so much from you. Bob Boswell, CEO of Laramie Energy. What’s your final thought?
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Well, I think a couple of things. One, in the state of Colorado, it’s important that we have good policies. There is a group, a coalition of businesses and labor that has some nine different issues there. They’re dealing with and trying to help the public understand so that we put in well thought out policies, one of which is the elimination of enterprise fees to call them taxes. And there’ll be a lawsuit to say that these are taxes. They are not They’re not enterprise fees, and they need to come under the banner of the Tabor Act, and we need to work through that from a budget standpoint. And the second thing is this war with Iran may drag out. They’ve got some 39 different elements or areas that they segmented militarily, so it’s going to take some time to work through it. But at the end of the day, it will be the best thing for the world.
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Bob Boswell, thank you so much. Greatly appreciate it. And that’s Bob Boswell, CEO of Laramie Energy. Our quote for the end of the show is from Marcus Aurelius. It says, but do so with all your heart. So today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you. God bless America. Stay tuned for hour number two.
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Indeed, let’s have a conversation and welcome to our number two of the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You each are treasured, you’re valued, you have purpose. Today’s drive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. And thank you to the team that I get to work with as producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Monday, producer Joe. Happy Monday, Kim. And if you missed our number one, it will rebroadcast today on all KLZ 560 platforms and from one to two in the afternoon and great conversation with Bob Boswell. But also you can access it via the website, which is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. We should have the show recap as well as the podcast up by probably we’re getting them up by 11 or 12 each day. And so I think, yeah, Joe, Producer Joe and Zach for making that happen. Go to our website and join us. The official launch for the Kim Monson community was yesterday. And it is amazing what is going to happen here. This is a place where we are connecting and conversing and contemplating major ideas. And we’d love to have you join us. There’s three different levels. The Montpelier level is $50 a year. The Monticello level is $100 a year, and the Mount Vernon level is $200 a year. And for the first 250 that join at the Mount Vernon level, you will be known as a founding patron of the Kim Monson community. So we’d love to have you join us. We will be having… virtual town halls, classes, different levels. We will be having in-person networking town halls. And so check all of that out. Our first town hall, a virtual town hall, will be next Tuesday, the 21st of April. And we will be talking with John Eastman regarding birthright citizenship, as well as the attack upon him, He was Trump’s attorney, as well as we’ll talk about the discussion he had with Vice President Pence and Donald Trump on January 4th before January 6th. And this, again, will be interactive. There will be a complete chat on that. So join us for that. Our first class will kick off on the 23rd, and Alan Thomas, who is a great student of the Federalist Papers, will be teaching the course on the first half of the Federalist Papers and how they’re relevant and why they’re relevant to us today. So be sure and join us. And you can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com. The text line is 720-605-0647. I do want to hear from all of you. We’ll be talking with Wendy Volk in as our featured guest. You know her. She’s the Cheyenne realtor who has been shedding light on this Wyoming wind wall. In the last segment of this hour, we’ll be taking call-ins. That number is 303-477-5600. As you know, we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And on the show, we focus on the issues and we’ll talk about the people behind those issues. But we really work to stay out of all of the personality infighting that can happen with all of the emotion and passion and stay over here on reason. Our word of the day is serendipity. And it is spelled S-E-R-E-N-D-I-P-I-T-Y. And number one, it’s an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident. Number two, good fortune or luck. And we are not going to reclaim our state and our country through serendipity. It is going to take work on our part to understand these ideas and to engage. And again, that’s what the Kim Monson community is all about. So join us at kimMonson.com. Our quote of the day is from Marcus Aurelius. He was born in 121. He died in 180. He was a Roman emperor, and he was known as one of the five good emperors. And this quote is this. He said, the secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. And that means every day that we strive for excellence. And in doing so, we will have a tremendous success and we will have lives full of meaning. And that is super important. Our bill of the day is House Bill 1276. And the sponsors on this are Democrats Representative Elizabeth Velasco and Representative Lorena Garcia. And it’s House Bill 26-1276, Protect Safety of Individuals Who Are Immigrants. So we talked with Bob Boswell in the first hour about Denver being a sanctuary area. city. And what that has done is it has brought people in to be dependent on the American taxpayer. And the American taxpayer, the Colorado taxpayer, we are getting squeezed every which way. We need to be reducing taxes. We need to be reducing fees. And bringing people in that have to be dependent on programs, government programs, is a terrible idea. And it’s not compassionate for them. It’s on this at all. But however, Representative Elizabeth Blasco and Representative Lorena Garcia want to prevent ICE from arresting and deporting people that are criminals, ultimately. And so, again, that’s House Bill 26-12-76. The big happenings this weekend was the Republican… a state GOP assembly where candidates were selected for the primary for governor. And the two candidates selected at assembly were state representative Scott Bottoms. He is a Colorado state representative. He got 45% of the delicate vote. And then Victor Marks, who is a, he has a nonprofit organization. And he’s based in Colorado Springs. He got 39.5% of the vote. And then the other Republican that will probably be on the ballot is State Senator Barbara Kirkmeyer. She’s a Weld County Republican, and she chose not to go to the Assembly, but she is accessing the ballot via petition. And candidates can access the ballot in one of three ways. One is to go through Assembly, which is what Scott Bottoms and Victor Marks did. One is regarding petition, which is what Barbara Kirkmeyer is doing. And then there is a blend of a petition, as well as if you get a 10 percent of the vote at the state assembly, you can access it there as well. So that will be probably what the Republican Party. Primary looks like over on the Democrat side for governor. There will be Phil Weiser is the top line on that. And he is and also then Senator U.S. Senators Michael Bennett is running for governor. So those two will be on the Democrat side. ballot. And then for US Senator, Colorado Senator Julie Gonzalez will receive top line at their assembly. And John Hickenlooper, she is challenging Senator John Hickenlooper. And she is really a radical activist. And you will be able to check that out by looking at her record. But that is what the Democrats look like regarding U.S. Senate on the Republican side. Mark Baisley received enough votes to keep the other two challengers off the ballot. And those challengers were Sean Pond and Colonel Mark Hurt or Mark Hurt. He is a retired, I think, retired Marine. And they’re all excellent candidates. But Mark Baisley received enough votes to be the only one on the primary. So he will then, of course, move on to the general as well. And then former state Senator Kevin Grantham will be the treasurer candidate on the GOP side. And then there will be a primary for… uh, attorney general, and that will be Michael Allen and, uh, let’s see, Doug, let me get to that. Whoops. Sorry about that. I had everything right here. And, uh, Michael Allen and Denver attorney, David Wilson, they will have a primary for attorney general. So that’s what that looks like. And then Greg Lopez is accessing the ballot via petition as an unaffiliated. So probably, well, what it will look like is there will be then a Democrat candidate, a Republican candidate, and Greg Lopez in the general is what that’s going to look like. So with that, this is all such important information and it happens because of our sponsors. And he is so informative regarding all these things about insurance because insurance is so important for our lives. And the Roger Mangan team can actually create a plan that they can put together that can cover all your needs, from protection for your cars to your home, condo, boat, motorcycle, apartment, business, renter’s coverage, all of that. So give the Roger Mangan team a call. That number is 303-795-8855. For a complimentary appointment like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan team is there.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. And Little Richie’s is your local neighborhood spot where you can get authentic New York style pizza and pasta. They’re locally owned and have been serving Parker and Golden for over 20 years. And Little Richie’s is the place where teams celebrate and families meet up. And at Little Richie’s, Tuesdays are for families because kids eat free after 4 p.m., but Monday is pizza night. And so you buy one pizza, you can get the second pizza half off. And at Little Richie’s Parker, they’re pouring half-price bottles of wine. So be sure and check all that out. And that is spelled Little, it’s L-I-L, and the Richie’s is R-I-C-C-I apostrophe S. Wendy Volk is on the line and she is a realtor in Cheyenne who got very informed about a wind project because she’d received notification. Was that just last year, Wendy Volk, in June that you received notification of a big wind project next to some of your family’s property?
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Yes, Kim, good morning. It was. It was last June in 2025. We received a letter, and I always kind of say it tongue-in-cheek, it’s the Howdy Neighbor letter that we received from this industrial wind project company. The parent company is Spanish by the name of Repsol, and the local or the American subsidiary is called ConnectGen. And so it was just telling us that they were going to be proceeding with a local county site permit to do a project. And then they were going to proceed to the next level after that for a state permit. And so the project was going to encompass 56,000 acres of land for approximately 179 turbines. And their letter sounded lovely. The map on the back of the letter was on an eight and a half by 11 piece of paper showing all of Laramie County, which is southeastern Wyoming, where Cheyenne and this project in Horse Creek, Wyoming is located. And the project looked like a postage size stamp. And I kept saying, as a real estate professional, 56,000 acres is a lot of land. They should be showing specific Township, range, section, something more specific that a person could identify if their property is adjacent or contiguous to these projects like of this magnitude. So I just kept asking the question and the company said they’d have to go through legal to get me a better map. And so when they did send me a slightly enlarged map, that’s when I realized they didn’t have any idea we were adjacent to two sides of this project. We have one side of our ranch that’s on 6,000 acres and another side of our ranch that’s 1,800 acres. And like a lot of people that own land, sometimes it isn’t always adjoining one another. And you move cows across neighbors’ properties. You get permission. And the project that’s being proposed is where we would move our cows from one area of the ranch to another area of the ranch. So our county commissioners reviewing the site permit in September timeframe of last year, they heard multiple hours, two or three hours of public testimony. It was very civil and people brought all different perspectives. And ultimately then our county commissioners voted, let’s see, it was three to one to deny the permit. And that was a shock. We thought that maybe we could get them to pause the project so more evaluation could be looked at road safety, more evaluation could be looked at on wildlife impact to the pristine wildlife corridor that’s in this region of the country. And what we were most surprised about was the county commissioners listened and they said, no, there’s enough unanswered questions. We’re going to deny the permit. So the company has since submitted requests to our district court to have them reconsider if that was a valid reason for the county commissioners to deny the permit. And then fast forward to this year in January, we received another Howdy neighbor letter from Repsol saying we are going to proceed. They didn’t mention anything about their permit being denied. They said now we’re proceeding with the state permit. And we’re going to maybe make it instead of 56,000 acres, we might bring it down to 42,000 acres. And that we’re looking at making it a smaller footprint, not just on the land, but instead of 179 turbines, they would bring it down to 130 some turbines. Still, these are 700 foot structures, right? In a major wildlife corridor. And they said they were going to do another open house, which they did last June. And that open house, we thought, oh, good. They might come with some answers. They might do a presentation to the community. No, they just put up poster boards around our Laramie County Kiwanis Community House. And they had representatives from their company and some other consultants to stand next to the poster boards. And they could maybe answer questions or write down your questions. But they really just encourage people to submit their questions electronically using a QR code or going to the Web site. But they didn’t do any presentation. There was no microphone. There was no chairs for anyone to sit and listen to a presentation. You just walked around the room. There was over 100 people. And we were just standing there going, this is the open house? And we asked, where’s the water going to come from to make this much concrete for 130 turbines? Just wanted to know, how are they going to mitigate some of these impacts? And unfortunately… Nothing was answered, nothing of that caliber. But they did say they would meet with any one of us individually. And I thought, that’s kind of unfortunate because the community and our county commissioners and other electives are forming questions about this. And then in the process of all of this happening, I started writing letters to the editor to raise awareness. And other people started calling me from other parts of the like five different counties that were all kind of connected to one another through Interstate 25 and Interstate 80. And I had heard of the projects, but really hadn’t put in the context of the size and where they were in relationship. And all of a sudden I started mapping it out on a Wyoming map and putting sticky notes where these different projects were either approved or were being proposed or had been built. And that’s when all of a sudden I said, oh my gosh, each of these projects are being looked at on a case-by-case basis, project-by-project in a silo, without looking at a cumulative, this Laramie Mountain Range, it really is an extension of the Rocky Mountains that come up the Front Range and becomes this Laramie Mountain Range. And this Laramie Range extends from the Wyoming-Colorado border up to Casper, Wyoming. So that’s about 160, 170 miles. And then it extends heading to the west along Interstate 80 from Cheyenne going to Rollins. So we hear about these individual projects and didn’t really understand what they were related to. It’s creating an entire corridor. We call it now, many are calling it the Wyoming Wind Wall. And there is no landscape cumulative review of a project of that size.
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Well, there’s a whole bunch that you have in there, Wendy Volk. Again, she’s a realtor in Cheyenne, Wyoming. And she is an engaged citizen that just started pulling strings and asking questions. A couple of things. First of all, that open house that you described, I’ve seen that. That is a strategy when I was… on the city council, 2012 to 2016, I would see that this is a way that different entities, whatever it might be, a new development in a community, or in this case, the Wyoming Wind Wall, they bring people in. It’s kind of a dog and pony show, but don’t really answer questions. And so it’s more fluff than a real open house. The other thing is, is then instead of meeting with the community to fragment it out and say that they will meet with people individually, that prevents people from being able to organize as easily. So that I think is a strategy as well. You mentioned Repsol is a Spanish company. Looking at investing.com, the top shareholders in Repsol, BlackRock, owns 6.98%, a little over 77 million shares. This was as of July 1st, 2025. The Vanguard Group has 4.54%, a little over 50 million shares, and that is as of February 28th. So I think that’s important to connect that dot as well. And I see these big industrial solar projects and wind projects, ultimately, and these transmission lines, these industrial transmission lines, this is a real land grab, not only by just taking land, but these projects many times devalue the surrounding property as well. And so it strips the equity that people have built with owning their property, Wendy Volk.
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I do think we just have to really look at these projects. And I do appreciate them looking at it on a case-by-case basis. But when the questions are raised about wildlife or we’re talking about road safety, yes, there will be expansion of transmission infrastructure and substations and roads connecting all of those. those projects create a single system, but then it expands into this footprint. And it wasn’t until someone was telling me like golden Eagles, um, bats, uh, they enter these areas where the projects are. They don’t understand a project boundary. They just go right into some very dangerous. Um, it’s a dangerous environment for a lot of wildlife. And so my point would being that, you know, This is a planning question, and it’s not a political one. I think reasonable people can support renewable energy and still ask for a better process. But what’s happening across this Laramie Range is landscape-level change. Landscape-level, what I mean by that is it’s affecting land use and wildlife movement and rural communities for generations. Once they’re built, it can’t be undone. And the more you look into how much concrete it takes for one foundation, 40… 40 concrete trucks to do the base of one turbine, wind turbine. And the more I learn, I keep hearing about this growing number of people in Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, they’re asking for a pause and a pause so that a new large scale approval on these type of projects can look at a cumulative impact. and be properly evaluated. I think that that is the missing piece, this gap in the analysis on this large industrialization here in the Rocky Mountains. And we started a public petition just to see how many people are kind of following this and then also wanting to see a proper evaluation. And so far we have 230 people that have signed this online petition. It just started a week ago. And it’s really gaining positive traction and momentum and awareness. It’s an election year. So people are even asking candidates, what do you know about the wind wall? And you can look at the wind wall, not just in Wyoming, but the U.S. Energy Department has a wonderful map that shows all the existing turbines. There are little yellow dots for each turbine. And you can zoom in and zoom out. to any part of the United States you want. But if you zoom into a community in Colorado or zoom into Wyoming, you’re like, oh, I guess I knew about that project. You don’t realize until you see it on that map level when in the right-hand margin or the bottom of this map, there’s a little legend that tells you how many turbines you’re looking at. So if you zoom out and look at all of Wyoming, it’s like 1,500, 1,600 turbines existing. But what’s being proposed, Some are delayed, some are in the queue for evaluation. It could go up to 5,000 turbines here. And you see it in Colorado, especially in the northeast corner of Colorado, where there’s quite a bit of wind projects. You can then zoom out and look at the entire United States, and you’ll see Iowa and Texas. And it is covered in the yellow turbine dots of wind production. And then you can start to see a pattern that’s emerging. that these are becoming wind corridors for wind projects. And my concern, it’s a 30-year project, they say. The one that’s supposed to be adjacent to our property is supposed to be a $1.1 billion project, is what they say. You divide that by 30 years, it’s not that big of a project.
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SPEAKER 18 :
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 the two nonprofits that I highlight on a regular basis here on the show is the U.S. MC Memorial Foundation, and they’re having their big fundraiser, which is a golf tournament. on May 14th. And even if you don’t golf, you can actually buy a lunch ticket as well and support the USMC Memorial Foundation. But it is May 14th at the Ridge at Castle Pines North. So get your foursome together and sign up at usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And then also the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo on the Riverwalk. They have on values presentations. And this next one will be Lieutenant Colonel Allen West. And he’ll be presenting this Wednesday, April 15th, 4 p.m. And that’s either in person or online. You can get more information about that by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. We’re talking with Wendy Volk. She’s a Cheyenne realtor. regarding, she started doing some research, kind of pulling on some strings after her family had received a letter regarding an industrial wind project that would be right next to their land. And in doing so, she’s uncovered that there is really a Wyoming wind wall. She’s connected the dots on all of these projects. And I tend to look at Many times the politics on on these issues, but Wendy really stays out of the politics on it and and looks at these issues and has brought people across the political spectrum together regarding information on these issues. So I thank you, Wendy Volk, for kind of staying out of the political side of all that.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, you’re welcome. And I just think we have to find solutions. And if it gets too polarized, it’s not going to change the situation. If we can put reasonable heads together. And I think that’s what it’s about. Let’s put our best and brightest minds together and departments together and say, what? Let’s plan appropriately. Let’s plan first, build second. And if we plan for the future, I think just from the land use, respect for land use, As long as we know what we’re all giving up, because there’s another wind project right on the Wyoming-Colorado border. It’s the Chalk Bluff wind project that’ll be just 12 turbines in Wyoming, but I think the rest, a couple hundred, will be in northern Colorado. So it’s coming, and I just don’t think we’re talking about it in a meaningful way.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, and that’s once people start talking about it, they can actually make some real changes on this. So next thing I wanted to ask you about that map that you referenced from the Department of Energy. How can we access that? Where do we find that? A great map.
SPEAKER 12 :
Let me pull that up real quick for you. And it was a county commissioner that shared it with me from a totally different county. And because I kept saying, I don’t think there’s a map. And she said, there is a map that’ll show you existing turbines, nothing that’s within the queue. And then that’s where I put my map with this map together. But if you go to energy.usgs.gov, so energy.u, S as in Sam, G as in George, S as in Sam.gov, You can search for U.S. wind turbine database. And it really is a very useful tool because it provides onshore and offshore wind turbine locations in the United States. It shows related facility information, like what’s the name of that project, what’s the turbine number, the turbine technical specifications. It’ll also show you what is the projected or the total rated capacity that turbines might have in terms of megawatts.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay, that is a good tool to have. And then regarding your petition, how can people sign that? And do you have to live in Wyoming to sign this petition or have property in Wyoming?
SPEAKER 12 :
No, I think that’s why we’re looking at it since it’s not on a project by project. And I think many of these projects will be sharing borders with other counties or other states. I welcome online participation. And because I think this is going to be a growing conversation in all parts of the United States. It shouldn’t be just specific to Wyoming. I know we’re a huge energy production state, but I think it’s something that we need to be looked at because we just haven’t seen the tsunami wave of projects coming and that have already developed. And when you look at that energy map, the Energy Department’s map, you’ll start to see this. So we put the petition on a website called change.org. And you can either search it by Wyoming or you can search it by the name of the petition. It’s called One Corridor. no full review, Wyoming deserves better. And those are three sentences, one corridor period, no full review period, Wyoming deserves better. But if you even just use change.org and just say what petitions are open in Wyoming or Cheyenne, you’ll come to it. So we’ve had just two people already just sign on. So now we’re 232 signatures, but it’s gaining attention. And it’s not to be just attention grabbing. What it’s supposed to be is let’s have a thoughtful, But a thoughtful discussion and let’s come up with better solutions.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, and so I think I’m in the process of trying to sign that for this because this is really important. People being engaged and then the more people that sign the petition, then the electeds and the bureaucrats and the interested parties respond. realize that people are paying attention and that that is what I think is so important. And people are paying attention. There’s so many different things out there, but we can all do these little things that can make a big difference on this, Wendy Volk. And you said that this petition just was created last week, and so it will continue to gain more and more steam, I’m sure. And this is not really just regarding politics. Wyoming Wind Projects. I think it’s also a way to have your voice heard regarding projects throughout the United States, Wendy.
SPEAKER 12 :
Thank you. I appreciate that, Kim. And we can all help one another, right? We think that sometimes we’re in a hopeless, helpless situation as a single individual, but we can make a difference. And I’d like to think we can make a positive difference when we work with our neighbors, we work with our communities, we work with our region. Because there’s Wyoming and Colorado, the This whole area is a unique place. People from around the world flock to come see what we have that other places don’t have, wide open spaces. It will be changing if we continue to go down an industrialization path of changing that landscape.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, and it is really important to think about all of these ramifications. And then also, I think it’s important to look into the future because these wind turbines have a shelf life, if you will. So what happens when they have… gotten to the end of that shelf life. That’s a conversation that I hadn’t really thought about. You were really the one that kind of brought that to my attention. But we certainly need to be planning for the future. What happens, for example, if because of creativity and innovation that wind becomes obsolete? What happens to these towers that have 40 truckloads of concrete to build this? We really need to have a serious conversation about what happens then as well, Wendy Volk.
SPEAKER 12 :
You’re right. And I’ve been told that many parts of a wind turbine can be recycled, but the part that can’t, and this has really got my attention in Texas, there was a project that had 3,000 wind turbines that needed to be decommissioned and properly disposed of. Now, what that properly disposed of, I don’t know what that was going to look like, but what they did do was illegally dispose of them. They stacked them in an illegal dump site, put a fence around it, And the more the state of Texas’s environmental quality control got involved, then they realized the company had gone out of business. And now the residents of Texas are going to be faced with how are they going to dispose of and where are they going to go? 3,000 turbine blades of decommissioned things, whether they get hit by hail or they no longer work after 10 or 15 years into a project, they have to be replaced. I’ve been having conversations with people who said, well, in Wyoming, yes, there’s not a landfill that’ll take these 200-foot-long blades, but we could put them down in former mine shafts. I’m like, oh, that’s good to know. I’m not really fond of that idea of just stacking them up in a mine shaft because they don’t decompose.
SPEAKER 18 :
Wow. And so that is a real important discussion to be thinking about looking into the future. Wendy Volk, I thank you for this. And people can go to change.org and put in Wyoming and assign the petition. What’s your final thought on all this?
SPEAKER 12 :
I really just thank you, A, for number one, allowing me the opportunity to be on your show. I do think that we can… call for a pause on new approvals until cumulative impacts can be fully evaluated. And that, you know, I’m encouraged that people are waking up to this topic and seeing what they can do. So I appreciate it. If you go on and do the petition, we will not solicit you. I know on change.org, they might ask you for a financial contribution. Please, there is no expectation. We are not requesting any kind of financial contribution. What we are asking is just signatures for people that want to see a pause on this type of project.
SPEAKER 18 :
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And whether or not they call it a tax or a fee, the money is being taken out of your pocket and out of businesses as well. And there is going to be an all-out assault upon TABOR. which is Senate Bill 135. And CUT has taken a position on this. They’re calling it K-12 education funding, which, of course, they’re couching it as for the children. But again, that’s Senate Bill 26-135. And the prime sponsors on this are… Let me get that. There’s there’s a whole bunch of Democrat sponsors on it. But the prime sponsors on it are Senator Jeff Bridges and Senator Kathy Kipp and Representative Jennifer Bacon and Representative Megan Lukens. These are all Democrats. And my understanding is that Jeff Bridges is the son of of. Let’s see. How do you pronounce his name? He was one of the gang of four with Jared Polis. It’s Rutbridge. Oh, gosh. I think it’s Rutbridges. And anyway, they were the gang of four that basically turned Colorado blue. And that was Jared Polis, Tim Gill, Pat Stryker, and Rutbridges. And my understanding is Jeff Bridges is his son. And this would gut Tabor and cut has taken this position on it. And this is what we had to say about it. It says the bill requires the secretary of state to place a question on the November 2026 ballot, asking voters to approve the state retaining and spending more revenue for K through 12 public education programs. specifically an amount equal to what exceeds the state spending limit, and to increase K-12 funding by up to 2% annually for 10 years. So this continues to fund the dismal performance of our schools. Based on 2024 data, the Common Sense Institute noted that over half of Colorado’s third graders are unable to read, write, or perform basic math at grade level. If the increased money available is not spent on education, then the legislature can spend it any way it wishes. This legislation proposes this voter referendum for the purpose of bypassing TABOR limits and allows the state to keep our TABOR refunds for money that the state has overcollected from us. And that would be forever. It appears that there is a sunset on it, but again, that’s deception. It’s not. And so we need to be out in front of this. This is referred to the ballot. We don’t have the ballot number on what that is yet. But stay tuned regarding all of this. Next thing I wanted to mention is this is from the Washington Examiner. And it says Democrats seek to punish voters fleeing their failed policies. This is by Guy Benson. And it says New York Governor Kathy Hochul, a Democrat who’s up for reelection this fall, has a message for people who’ve left her state and decamped to more successful, affordable and functional places like Florida. She said, come back or at least cut us a check so we can keep implementing progress. The fact is that I need people, this is a quote from her, who are high net worth to support the generous social programs that we want to have in our state, Hochul said in an interview last month. She applauded some patriotic millionaires who stepped up, adding that more of them ought to cut me checks and that for others, maybe the first step should be to go down to Palm Beach and see who you can bring back home because our tax base has been eroded. says Hochul blamed the exodus on the pandemic and the widespread move toward remote work. There were people who could only work in an office in Manhattan and work in New York State, and they were captives to our state. They were going to stay, she said. And captives is certainly an interesting word choice, isn’t it? But that’s no longer the case, she lamented. Says that’s quite a change in tone from a woman who famously urged her 2022 Republican opponent and people like him to leave the state. Get out of town, she taunted them. You do not represent our values. You are not New Yorkers, she continued, directing them to head down to Florida where you belong. I think that this is quite interesting, these blue states that are basically running businesses and people out of their states, and Colorado is now one of those. We’ll be talking about that later this week as there are businesses that are fleeing and there are people that are leaving the state because of public policy. And elections really do matter. And so we need to be involved in our elections. And thank you to all of you who went down to the state GOP assembly in Pueblo this last weekend. And thank you to those on the Democrat side that did that as well. And so the primary ballot is set. Now, the big question is, And I’d really love to hear from all of you regarding this, and that is closing the primaries so that only Democrats can vote in Democrat primaries and only Republicans can vote in Republican primaries, which is something that I do support. And right now, because of a ballot question back in… I’m not going to give you the year. I want to say maybe 2016. But that opened up the primaries where unaffiliateds will get a ballot for both the Republican and the Democrat primary. Unaffiliateds can only vote in one of those elections. But That just does not make sense to me. But there are those. In fact, I was in a text thread back and forth with someone just yesterday who is a prominent Republican, said that not allowing Republicans to or not allowing unaffiliated to vote in the Republican primary will disenfranchise them. And because of that, they will not vote Republican in vote. And I just I really see that differently. And so I’d love to hear from you, all of you, what you think about that. But as I think many of you know, Greg Lopez, former congressman, right before the end of the year, said, changed his affiliation to unaffiliated. And there is well over 50% of Colorado voters that are now registered as unaffiliated. And so he will be accessing the ballot by getting petitions in May. And once those petition signatures are verified, he will access the ballot in November directly. So there will be a Democrat candidate, a Republican candidate, and Lopez will be as an unaffiliated. And I think that that I think that that was a really interesting strategic move on his part to do so. And so I do want to hear from you what you think about the unaffiliated voting in Republican or Democrat primaries, because it actually allows, I think, for Democrats. the selection of candidates to be skewed somewhat. I think that’s what we have seen in the Republican candidates. And we’ve not really had anybody that’s been a real contender regarding the governorship or U.S. Senate. And I do wonder if the open primaries is one of the reasons for that. So let me know what you think about that. And you can text me at 720-605-0647 to let me know about that. 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