Kim Monson delivers a hard-hitting look at Colorado politics through the lens of freedom versus force. She examines new legislation that could weaken TABOR and keep billions from taxpayers, while former state senator Kevin Lundberg explains what’s at stake. Kim also highlights the Protect Kids Colorado ballot effort, citizen activism, and why Coloradans must stay engaged as the legislative session winds down. A fast-paced hour focused on liberty, accountability, and protecting families.
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That seems to me like government is establishing a religion.
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If you give people rights, women’s rights, gay rights, whatever, there can’t be equal rights if there are special rights.
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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 listening. 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 Tuesday, Producer Joe. Happy Tuesday, Kim. And we’ve got another great show planned today. So Joe’s behind the board there. And we are off to the races. Check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. And make sure you’re signed up for our weekly email newsletter. Make sure you’re signed up for our daily digest. And make sure that you have joined the Kim Monson community. And we are kicking off our first virtual town hall this evening with John Eastman. He is a constitutional expert. He was also President Trump’s attorney. And we’ll talk about the discussion that he had with President Trump and Vice President Pence on January 4th before January 6th. We’ll talk about birthright citizenship and the attack upon John Eastman as well. And in order to join us, you need to go to KimMonson.com. There’s three different levels. And at this level, this is $50 a year. You get to partake in all of these virtual town halls. So make sure that you’re signed up to do that. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com. Text line is 720-605-0647. And I thank all of you who are part of the community and who support us because we are an independent voice and 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 it’s never compassionate nor altruistic to take other people’s stuff, whether or not it’s their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunities, childhoods, lives via force. And force can be a weapon, but it can be policy, unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, fees, government-induced inflation, legislation, the agenda of the World Economic Forum and globalist elites that plays out at the United Nations, seeing it play out all the way into our school districts with this social, emotional learning, DEI. So that’s S-E-L, social, emotional learning, or DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion. We see it everywhere, and that is why we must shed light on it, and then we must push back on this, because the real question is, is individual liberty or tyranny? That’s really what we’re looking at. And this has been so subtle and it’s been just incremental. But we now are seeing the veil is coming off on all of this force. And that’s why we do the show is to help you get your brain around these issues so that we can engage in these issues and reclaim our beautiful state and our country. And remember, if something is a good idea, you should not have to use force to implement it. On the show, we focus on the issues and we’ll mention the people behind those issues. But we really work diligently to stay out of all the personality fighting that can happen in politics and with eighth grade girls. And I wanted to say thank you to Laramie Energy for their goal sponsorship of the show. It is 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 if you are having any challenges with your personal climate, being warm in the winter or cool in the summer, reach out to Ben’s Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling. That number is 303-995-1636. And also want to say thank you to Laramie Energy. They are a goal sponsor of the Kim Monson community and the Kim Monson newsroom as well. So really do appreciate that. Another great sponsor of the show is Hooters Restaurants. And they have locations in Loveland, Westminster and in Aurora. And great specials Monday through Friday for lunch and for happy hour. And a great place to get together to watch all of the sporting events. And they’re great sponsors of the show and of America’s Veterans Stories. The owners are truly patriots who love America. And how I got to know them was a very important story about freedom and free markets and capitalism and PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties that are trying to exert control and coercion. onto the marketplace. And so that whole story is at my website. But again, thank you to Hooters Restaurants for their great sponsorship of the show. Our word of the day is scoundrel. And it is spelled S-C-O-U-N-D-R-E-L. It could be an unprincipled or dishonorable person. Or number two, it could be mean or base in nature. And when I look at some of this legislation, one of the words that goes through my brain is scoundrel, because there are different pieces of legislation that if one person was doing this to another, it would be called theft. But when the legislature is doing that to the people of Colorado, they call it legislation. And I think they’re scoundrels when they are proposing these kinds of things. So the word again, it’s S-C-O-U-N-D-R-E-L. Should be pretty easy for you to use the word scoundrel in a sentence today. And our quote of the day, as I say on the show, strive for excellence. And excellence is different than perfection. We can’t get to perfection, but we can always strive for excellence. And I found this quote from Aristotle. He was born in 384 B.C., died in 322 B.C. So he said this all these years ago. But he was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings span the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As a founder of the Peripatetic School of Philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition that followed, which set the groundwork for the development of modern science. And he said this, He said, excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives. Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. He said that even before Christ was born. And I guess the thing about that is the founders realized that human nature does not change. So the things that were issues back in Aristotle’s time are still issues today. And that is striving for excellence each and every day gives our life purpose as we go about our daily lives. And so we strive for excellence in our vocations and in our relationships. And it makes for a very full life. Our bill of the day, if you guys can all believe this, Senate Bill 26146. This is Restrict Single-Use Food Serviceware Distribution. And the sponsors on this are Senator Lisa Cutter and Representative Meg Froelich. When I look at Denver, this beautiful city that I love, And all of the trash. Now, maybe they would try to connect the dot between service wear and trash. And maybe there is a connection through that. We certainly need to be good stewards and throw our litter away. But when I look at… Just the city, it’s dirty, and the potholes, the things, it’s dangerous to go downtown. We still, we did some recordings with Roger Mangan yesterday, and Colorado is not the number one spot for car theft, but we’re still in the top 10. These are things. that need to be addressed instead of whether or not you can have a spoon with your chili when you go to Wendy’s. But anyway, this is Cinebill 26146, and this is Cut’s position on it. It says the bill expands the Plastic Pollution Reduction Act by prohibiting a retail food establishment or third-party food delivery service from providing single-use food serviceware to a customer unless the customer requests single-use food serviceware or confirms that the customer wants single-use food serviceware when offered. The bill specifies certain exceptions. Counties are authorized to impose a civil penalty of up to $500 for a second violation and up to $1,000 for a third or subsequent violation. This bill is government interference with private business and a real waste of the legislature’s time. It looks like a gotcha opportunity for local government to charge $500 fines for a business giving a spoon with a bowl of ice cream if the provider can’t prove that the server specifically asked the customer if they wanted a spoon. This is beyond common sense. But you might not have known about this if it wasn’t for the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. We are going through and looking at all of the legislation that is proposed for hearing for the next week. And then looking at this on how it affects the taxpayer, how it affects property rights. how it affects Tabor, Colorado’s taxpayers’ bill of rights, and how it affects parental rights. And we would love to have you join us. That way you will be informed on what is happening down at the state legislature. So CUT is your shortcut to being really informed. But when you see our fellow board members out there, be sure and say thank you to them. And that is Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Rami Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onozorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. And we also have Cut Engaged is posted for this particular week. And you can make your voices heard on five particular bills that we have selected. And one of those is this crazy service wear one. And the others are… the School Finance Act, and that is Senate Bill 26023. Be sure and weigh in on House Resolution 261008. This is to affirm the commitment to the Taxpayers Bill of Rights. And then, very important one, House Bill 26, 1326, is regarding the sunset on the Public Utilities Commission. And this bill extends the life of the PUC and expands its mission and authorities. So within less than five minutes, you can make your voice heard. There’s one other one that we will be posting. It’s 1411. And they’re posted at coloradotaxpayer.org. Click on the Cut Engage tab. It’ll bring it up. And you can make your voice heard within less than five minutes. And as we as I’m seeing more and more of you use this, this then will go into once you send the message, it’ll go to the prime sponsors on the bill, as well as you can add in your senator, your state senator and your state legislator. And you should be able to do all of that within less than five minutes. Everybody can do that. And there are those, for example, Gammy, she has just been a warrior as far as watching legislation and testifying via Zoom on these different pieces of legislation and writing up summaries on these. We can’t all be Gammy, but we can all use CutEngaged. And so be sure. And check that out. I will do my bills after the show here. And it’s a race to see. And if you decide that you want to write your own commentary on it, which you can, that obviously is going to take longer. But if you don’t write your commentary, then it’ll just send our cut position on that. And again, you can do that by going to coloradotaxpayer.org and click on the cut engaged tab on that. And we have these important discussions because of our great sponsors. And one of those is the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance team. And we did record some new interviews with Roger yesterday. 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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 join us. Join the community. Tonight is our very first virtual town hall. And you can access that via all different levels. And it begins at 745 this evening, 745 to 9 p.m. And… Our guest is John Eastman, and so we’d love to have you join us. And so in order to do so, join the community, and we’d love to have you. There are multiple core areas of planning for your financial freedom. With over 25 years of experience and the credentials of an accredited investment fiduciary, Jody Henze and her team at Mint Financial Strategies can help you navigate corporate and business structures, tax-aware planning, investment management, risk management and asset protection, qualified retirement plan design and administration, retirement plan and IRA distribution strategies, business succession planning, and estate coordination with your attorneys. That really, it’s just great peace of mind to know that all of that is taken care of. And I work with Jody Henzey, and I’m so pleased to, regarding my financial freedom. But for a complimentary consultation regarding any of these important areas, call Mint Financial Strategies today. That number is 303-285-7000. 3080-303-285-3080. And I’m pleased to have on the line with me former state senator and author of the Lundberg Report, Kevin Lundberg. Kevin Lundberg, welcome.
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Well, thank you. It’s great being with you every Tuesday, and it’s fantastic to talk today.
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Well, and there’s a lot going on, but first thing, give us a Protect Kids Colorado update, please.
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Okay. Well, as I’m sure most of your listeners already know, we were successful in putting three initiatives on the ballot for the November election or the election this coming fall. And we’ve got a big celebration, just a strong kickoff for the The next big push, which is to present these issues and ideas to the people of Colorado as a whole. But on May 7th, down at the, let’s see, what’s it called? The Spruce Ranch? I’m not giving the name right. I think so.
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I had it, yeah.
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You messed up on a phone number.
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I know. I know. And these are things that we say every day, which is crazy. Yeah.
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Exactly. Well, anyway, it’s in the Larkspur area, which is kind of halfway between Denver and Colorado Springs, because there were a lot of good, important people all up and down the front range. But this is sort of the first central point to have our first big gathering. And I want to encourage anybody who carried petitions or didn’t carry a petition but wants to get engaged and involved in this final push to come and join us May 7th. And on my website, on my newsletter, I’ve been highlighting that and I’ll probably send out a big special announcement in a day or two here as well. Because we want people to register. We need to know how many people are coming and we need to know pretty quickly really to gauge just, you know, because there’ll be some, some, you know, some light refreshments and things like that. So, because this is going to be more than just to sit down and listen to a speaker-type event. This will be a lot of time for a reception, and this facility will handle hundreds of people, so we’re just thrilled that they’ve donated the use of the facilities for a real special evening for Protect Kids Colorado and the And just a fraction of the people who have been involved, because we had over 3,300 people carry petitions and hundreds more involved in other areas. We kind of say it was a team of 3,500 that really made this happen. But I don’t want to leave out the tens of thousands and really exceeding that number, hundreds, I won’t say hundreds, but well over 100,000 people who signed the petitions. We submitted signatures from 160 to 170,000 people for each initiative. And each one of those persons, those voting citizens, are to be thanked and congratulated and to be really encouraged to take this and talk to your neighbors. Just spread the word that this opportunity to fix that which is, much of has been broken by the current legislature. We, the people retain the right to make law independent of the legislature and that’s in the Colorado constitution. Um, and I’m very, very pleased that as a volunteer effort, we did this, you know, we’ve been told by experts who work in this arena of initiatives that, that this really doesn’t happen. Um, You don’t have that many volunteers engage in that big a project and actually get it done. And yeah, we know we’re only halfway there. The next half is for the people of Colorado to step up and say, we endorse protecting children in all of these areas that these three initiatives cover.
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Well, and this is just really huge. I think this will be great to have this on the ballot. I think it’s something that can address what many people call voter apathy, because these are issues that will really make a difference. So congratulations to the whole team on that. Let’s move over to… Another question that will be on the ballot, it’s coming via Senate Bill, I think it’s 135, and it’s couched as something for children, for education. However, it’s really a totally, well, very close to a total gut of TABOR, Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights. And so let’s talk a little bit about that. And then in addition, in your newsletter, you said that the governor’s office has suggested canceling the next two years of TABOR refunds. That’s money. That’s our money that the state of Colorado collected from us above this generous formula of population plus inflation growth. So they want to keep it all, and they now want to claw it back from money that they’ve already distributed back to us, which is our money. So walk us through this, Kevin Lumberg.
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Well, there’s a general theme here, and it’s that the legislature doesn’t want the people of Colorado to – to be able to control their own destiny, really. I don’t know how else to put it. Let’s see. Hang on. I’m trying to find one thing. That first bill you mentioned, because I was wanting to look that up to be precisely. What is the number on that again? Was it 1035?
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Was that the one that I mentioned regarding the House resolution or which one?
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Oh, no, no.
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I’ll get the Senate bill. Yeah. The Senate bill 135, I think, is.
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Oh, yeah, I think that’s OK. Well, I heard House bill. So I was I was looking up something that couldn’t exist. By the way, their number system shows. Oh, yeah. The the state public funding K through 12. Yeah, that’s that’s what it’s called. State public K through 12 education funding. Well, that sounds like a really good idea. let’s fund our schools. But what it does is that it very shrewdly says, well, let’s take all the… Because TABOR, the Taxpayers Bill of Rights, states in the Colorado Constitution that the government can only spend a certain amount of money based on on what it had spent, and then a formula plus population and inflation rates. And anything beyond that the government collects needs to be returned to the taxpayer. And they’ve gone through all sorts of machinations to try to avoid actually sending the money back to the taxpayer. But the cold hard fact is that there’s still what we call the Tabor refund that is not The government giving money away, it’s the government giving money back. And that being only a portion, because they’ve got all sorts of other ways where they spend it and say, well, this gives it back, even though it’s really funding more programs. But this is sort of across the board. We’ll take the TAVR refund and we’ll keep it, basically, and we’ll spend it. And we’ll We’ll use it in that sort of a scenario so that we can’t exceed it. It’s just that they’ve created this new category where they can put the money back, fold the money right back into the state program. And money is fungible. They say for state funding of education. Well, yes, but the way the system works is if there’s money available in the system, So if they can fully fund something through one mechanism, then that releases funds so that they can go spend it on other programs. And that’s the key problem, is they’ve been growing by leaps and bounds beyond what population and inflation is dictating. And they just went through the long bill. which is the budget bill. And they theoretically carved out a billion dollars from the budget. But really, they stole money from every cash fund that they could. They played some other accounting games to minimize things. They changed the state formula for how much money they keep for the reserve fund. And then they did have to cut some programs out. Even there, I think they violated some laws in doing it. But all of this is designed to do one thing, and that’s to prop up a government that is bloated and is far too controlling and well too funded by the people of Colorado. So, yeah, these bills you’re mentioning and resolutions. uh, the house resolution, which, which was promptly sent to the kill committee and killed. Um, no big surprise there. They certainly didn’t want anybody to, uh, vote on it. And, uh, you know, other than just this one committee, the state affairs, which is populated by people who were in various secure districts. So, uh, the, you know, it doesn’t hurt them come election time. Uh, but that, that, if that doesn’t say all of it, you know, um, This resolution firmly endorsed principles established in the Colorado Constitution, and they can’t face up to that and have a decent, open-ended discussion on it, which is what would happen if it got to the House floor. And then let’s vote for it or not. And they didn’t want to touch it.
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Well, on that House Resolution 261008, the sponsors on that were both Republicans, Representative Carlos Barone and Representative Ryan Gonzalez. So I thank them for that. Still make your voice heard. Let them know. Go to Cut Engaged and let them know how much you appreciate that. And we’re going to continue the discussion. Kevin, take a look at the fiscal note on that Senate Bill 135. I don’t recall when I first looked at that bill. I don’t recall seeing that fiscal note. It will stop you in your tracks when you take a look at that. And so we’ll talk about that when we come back regarding Senate Bill 135. And we bring to light all of these different issues because of our sponsors for everything residential real estate. Talk to Karen Levine.
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SPEAKER 20 : 32:37
And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And make sure that you join the community. Tonight is our inaugural virtual town hall. The guest is John Eastman, constitutional expert and had been attorney to President Trump. It will be super interesting. So join us. You can do that by going to KimMonson.com and joining the community. Also wanted to mention the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo on the Riverwalk, co-founded by Drew Dix, Medal of Honor recipient for actions he took during the Vietnam War and Emmy Award winning documentary maker Brad Padula. And they do several things keeping these stories alive of our Medal of Honor recipients alive. and honoring them, and then also great educational programs. And so visit the center to find their hours. Go to AmericanValueCenter.org. We’re talking with a former state senator and author of the Lundberg Report, Kevin Lundberg, and we’re talking about this assault upon Tabor. And TABOR is Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights. It was an amendment that was passed by the people of Colorado in 1992. So it’s in our Constitution. But the ink wasn’t even dry before there were all these different workarounds that have occurred, Kevin. But I wanted to mention this Senate Bill 135. And something can get on the ballot a couple of different ways. You can go through the hard work of what Protect Kids Colorado did in getting signatures from citizens to get a question onto the ballot. And that’s a high bar. And typically that is a rich man’s game because they’re… There are those that may have an issue that they want to bring forward. And those petition gatherers, many times that you see out in front of the grocery store or the hardware store, they’re being paid to get your signature. And so be very careful about giving your signature away because that can be worth, gosh, what, $10 to $18, right, Kevin Lundberg, per signature? Yes.
SPEAKER 07 : 34:55
Well, it can go that high in extreme circumstances, but it’s $5, $10 a signature. That’s the going rate nowadays if you negotiate things. And multiply that times, let’s say you need, we figured we needed 150,000 signatures per initiatives to potentially get in there. And so, you know, we’re talking about millions of dollars. Uh, and, and that, that’s a rich man’s game. It’s, they’ve really, you go back and you read what the constitution says about that. And, and it, it really speaks in terms of we, the people putting something on, but instead it’s, it’s, it’s this elite, uh, group of people who are just ultra wealthy that it’s been, uh, limited to essentially. Um, but, um, As I say, we change it with these initiatives, but normally that’s the way it works.
SPEAKER 20 : 35:59
Well, and so that is one way for a question to get onto your ballot. And there’s a high bar. You have to go through the title board. There is another way that a question can get to the ballot, and it can be referred by the state legislature. And that is the case of the Senate Bill 135. And so the legislature is referring this to the ballot. They’re couching it that it would be state public K-12 education funding. But as we have really looked at it, yes, there will be some K-12 education funding for 10 years, which implies that there will be a 10-year sunset. But actually, as we really delved into it, I talked both to Natalie Minton and the Cut Board, when you really look at it, there’s a formula for those 10 years and money collected above what they have committed to K-12 education, can go to the general fund. And then after 10 years, everything can go to the general fund. And the sponsors on this are Senator Jeff Bridges, Senator Kathy Kipp, Representative Jennifer Bacon, and Representative Megan Lukens. They are all Democrats on that. I did want to mention when you had talked about this program, basically, you know, rating cash funds and variety of things to, I have this in air quote, balance the budget that was bipartisan. And so both Republicans and Republicans, And Democrats were involved in that. But this is all Democrats on this. So the fiscal note. I do not recall seeing the fiscal note when I was initially looking at this bill. But as I look at it, it stops me in my tracks. It’s $1.1 billion. That’s with a B. And that’s your change in Tabor refunds. It’s right there in front of everybody. And you can actually, if you want to look at it, search Colorado Legislature Senate Bill 26135. That will bring it up. And then there will be a tab for the fiscal note. And I would think that possibly the fiscal note might even be… conservative, given this issue. It’s hard to know for sure. But you had given us a bit of a tutorial on fiscal notes a couple of weeks ago that the numbers can be Oh, I’m using I can’t think of the word that I want to use on that, but can be favorable or not favorable, depending on maybe the intent of the legislators regarding that bill. Is that is that a good way to say that, Kevin Lumber?
SPEAKER 07 : 38:49
Well, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it’s very easy for each division. I’m not sure that they could tweak it quite as easily on this one because it’s it’s a global thing where. And I don’t think they went to every department. They just looked at their numbers of, OK, what’s our general projection is that how much the the the the Tabor refunds would be. So on this one, I think it’s more the economists have have just taken their best guesses. So what will those refunds look like next year and the year following? But yeah, it’s a big number, and that’s predicated upon the economist’s best guess. And to project out what the Colorado economy is going to be in two years is almost in the world of wild speculation.
SPEAKER 20 : 39:48
Well, because we are, this legislature and this governor are chasing businesses and people out of the state. And that will certainly affect the economy. And we don’t see these PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties reducing their spending. And so what that means is, is that tax burden will become even greater on those of us that are still here.
SPEAKER 07 : 40:14
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That’s quite true. You know, what they’re trying to do is just get rid of Tabor. But here’s another interesting thing on this particular measure. Yes, Tabor does require, and we’re grateful for this, that this be brought to the people for a vote, first and foremost. But this is fundamentally changing the Colorado Constitution. Now, it’s not changing it in the bill. It’s changing statutes. But it’s changing the intent of the Taxpayer Bill of Rights without changing the wording in the Constitution. And I think that’s, at least in principle, a violation of the Constitution of the State of Colorado. Because, and here’s the key element, in order to refer a measure to the people that changes the Constitution, it takes a two-thirds majority in both houses. Well, the Democrats don’t quite have that now. Um, and yet, because they’re only changing wording in the statute, they’re, they’re very shrewdly working around, but they’re the way the thing works. And you’re right after 10 years, it’s not that that just continues on. And even I battled referendum C, which was the pattern they are following. because I considered that to be a violation of the Constitution because, again, it changed the actual structure of what was happening within the Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights without explicitly changing the wording in the Constitution. This thing is just dripping with ugly politics from big government advocates who want to control your life and The people of Colorado will have an opportunity to vote on it, but they’re going to have to vote in huge numbers to overcome all of the entropy. Let’s just be kind about what I consider the voting process to be in Colorado, because we do vote and they do count the election results. But there are just so many ways they can pad it. We need to just overwhelm the system with a yes vote. or a no vote on this particular measure when it gets to the ballot. And my guess is that they do have the votes. It isn’t just those sponsors you mentioned. It’s co-sponsored by not every Democrat, but a few dozen of them.
SPEAKER 20 : 42:57
And I think that you can, if you really take a look at this, you understand what they really think of everyday hardworking Coloradans. They have no regard for them. I want to continue to talk about this particular bill just a little bit when we come back and then any of the other pieces of legislation that that you think should be on people’s radar, Kevin. We’re talking with Kevin Lundberg. And this all happens because, as you all know, we’re an independent voice on an independent station, which means I buy my airtime for both the Kim Monson Show and America’s Veterans Stories. And so all of this happens because of these valued sponsors such as John Bozen and Bozen Law.
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SPEAKER 20 : 46:29
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 sign up for the golf tournament, which is the big fundraiser for the USMC Memorial Foundation. The event is on May 14th out at the Ridge at Castle Pines North. It’s an 8 a.m. shotgun start. And… It should be just a great day. It’s a beautiful course. If you’re not a golfer, you can go for lunch. Just go to USMCMemorialFoundation.org and make a contribution of at least $50 and just put lunch. And of course, if you can contribute more, they appreciate that as well. So again, that website is USMCMemorialFoundation.org. We’re talking with Kevin Lundberg, former state senator, author of the Lundberg Report. We’re talking about Senate Bill 135, which is being referred to the ballot, which basically will gut Tabor, Colorado’s taxpayers’ bill of rights. And you use the word shrewd. I think that may be our word of the day tomorrow, Kevin Lundberg, because it is very shrewd what they are doing. ideally, under our Constitution, and you brought up this point, I think this is unconstitutional what they’re doing, but because in order to change an amendment to the Constitution, you need to have an amendment to the Constitution, but that’s not what they’re doing. I did testify virtually on this particular bill when it was initially heard and hearing. And it was, I think, an example of what the campaign is going to look like. There were many teachers that were there. and many teachers union members who were there testifying about how important this was for education for our children, how teachers are not paid enough, how they have to buy supplies for their classrooms. Even one of the teachers was crying and I thought, okay, this is, this is what this is going to look like, Kevin.
SPEAKER 07 : 48:35
Yeah. Well, and, and actually, They’re also folding in the senior homestead property tax exemption. So those are the two things that it funds. And so, yeah, they’re trying to capture everybody who thinks that public education isn’t fully funded. Of course, they’ll never be fully funded. They’ll want more and more. And they’re trying to draw in seniors who enjoy the senior homestead exemption. As I say, money is fungible. So they’re picking these two soft spots, and that’s how they’re going to play this. I think we need to stand up and say enough is enough. The government grows faster than it should be in the first place, and this is going to be their complete destruction of taper refunds forever. You’re right. For 10 years, there’s sort of this little limitation, but even there, In the first two years, it’s over a billion dollars that they’re going to withhold from returning it to the rightful owner, which is the taxpayer in the state of Colorado. And then at the end of the 10 years, it doesn’t go away. No, it goes on complete steroid fashion, you might say, because there’s no limit to either the length of time that it’ll be in effect nor is there a limit to how much it will withhold. It’s everything. It’s like the old joke on filling out your tax form. How much did you make? Send it in. Well, that’s exactly what they’re doing here.
SPEAKER 20 : 50:19
It’s not funny, but it seems like it’s true. So the other thing about it is, okay, if you really care about K-12 education funding, then you wouldn’t have that 10-year sunset that after that everything goes to the general fund. So yes, this is very shrewd. Let’s move on, though. You watch all different… pieces of legislation. And I’d mentioned this house resolution one zero zero eight. And thank you, Jody, for letting me know. Yes, that, that died. And you’d mentioned it as well, Kevin Lumberg, but very important that that was brought forward because the other thing is, is then we see what the real agendas are. What is some other legislation that should be on people’s radar?
SPEAKER 07 : 51:05
Well, yeah, it’s first, First off, I want to give a perspective on what’s happening in the legislative session because they have just about three weeks to go and then it’s over. So believe me, it’s going to get faster and faster and we have to keep our eyes open because we’re liable to see a few extra bills dropped in there. If they’ve done everything they’ve done thus far with what’s been introduced, hang on, there may be more, but Here’s one that I think people need to pay attention to, and it’s moving through the system. That’s House Bill 1322, which is the bill that was actually introduced as the United States Supreme Court was saying that the legislature in Colorado had overset its bounds by limiting what a counselor can do in counseling a child on gender dysphoria. Well, they knew that one was going to go away. So it did. So they were the House on that very same day was voting on 1322. And now it’s in the Senate. And this is dealing with, again, trying to muzzle counselors talking about dealing with children that have that are experiencing gender dysphoria. But it goes further than that. Aaron Lee actually published a piece in X. where she just gave, let me just give the bullets really quick. Parents can be sued over this because they’re a part of that process of getting kids proper counseling, but they can be sued and there’s no statute of limitations. So somebody could come back and sue the counselor, sue the company that the counselor worked with and for, and even sue the parents because they decided to have this done. And The way it’s set up, it’s stacked against the defendants. The bill doesn’t just allow lawsuits. It makes them incredibly hard to defend. It pretty much assumes that you’re guilty unless you can prove otherwise. It chills and controls speech, and that’s what it’s meant to do. And let’s kind of step back and look at this. The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly shot down legislation, uh, that, uh, Colorado has come up with in the last few years. This is one more. It’ll have to be challenged and it’ll have to be taken down again if they can, uh, because it not only is that bad legislation is unconstitutional and this one goes right after the first amendment, just like what the Supreme court shot down as the house was dealing with house bill 1322. Um, As I said before, we’ve only got a few days left. And if, you know, about three weeks, which I’d call a few days in this arena. If you want to know more, please check out CUT’s bad bill list and good bill list. You have recommendations both ways. And check out my website, because in my… this is my big task this time of year is to track all the bills, to identify the really good ones, the really bad ones. And then every week I go back and I examine each one of these bills and find out where’s it out of the system. Unfortunately, it’s kind of easy on the good bills because they’re all dead. They killed them. But there are a couple of them hanging out there. One that was sponsored by a Democrat that I thought was a fairly decent idea. And so I, Kind of easy on that, but the bad bills, man, they’re moving through the system. There are two or three that they threw out because it was even too weird for them. But check out that list and go through there and discover if there are things that really directly impact you in particular. It’s not a pretty list, but we need to know this, and we need to know that this legislature is doing the wrong things all the time. We need to replace them. And it’s an election year. Don’t forget that.
SPEAKER 20 : 55:26
Well, and that is for sure. And that’s why we’re shedding light on this. And CUT did take a position on CUT Engage on 13-22. You’ll have to scroll down because we put those bills on there by the order, just as we put them on each week. So you have to scroll down there, but you can make your voice heard on that. And that is really, really important. And again, even though House Resolution 1008 died in committee, it’s nice to say thank you to those legislators that bring those things forward. So as always, go ahead, Kevin.
SPEAKER 07 : 56:01
Well, let me just add this one thing, because that resolution that was killed in committee, it talks about the undersigned members of the legislature agree with this. I hope they go on and take that document and have others sign it. As a matter of fact, it might be a good cut project to say, hey, let’s encourage every legislator to either sign on or refuse to sign on to that endorsement of Tabor.
SPEAKER 20 : 56:26
That is a very good idea. I just need more hours in the day, Kevin Lundberg. That’s all I need right now. And we’re about out of time, but it is so funny. This morning I was going through, okay, how many more weeks does this legislature have? Because this CUT team has been doing amazing work on that. So, Kevin Lumberg, we will talk next week. As always, thank you.
SPEAKER 07 : 56:48
Thank you.
SPEAKER 20 : 56:51
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SPEAKER 13 : 57:29
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SPEAKER 21 : 57:51
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SPEAKER 19 : 57:57
That seems to me like government is establishing a religion.
SPEAKER 21 : 58:01
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SPEAKER 21 : 58:21
Is it freedom or is it force? Let’s have a conversation.
SPEAKER 20 : 58:27
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SPEAKER 05 : 58:52
Happy Tuesday, Kim.
SPEAKER 20 : 58:53
Happy Tuesday. Great conversation with Kevin Lundberg in our number one. If you missed that, you should be able to catch that at our website. We should have the show recap with the podcast published by noon for sure today. Or also you can catch it on all of KLZ 560 platforms online. At 1 o’clock. And so check that out. Check out the website. And if you have not joined the Kim Monson community, do that today. We are kicking off our first virtual town hall. This is with John Eastman. And he is… a constitutional expert, and he is also President Trump’s, he was President Trump’s attorney. And we’re going to talk about the conversation that he had with President Trump, Vice President Pence on January 4th before January 6th. So it’s going to be super interesting. It’s also interactive. We’ll have a whole chat going on on that. You can ask questions via online. It will be Just really, really informative. And then on Thursday evening, we’re kicking off our first class, which is the first half of the Federalist Papers, how they’re relevant to today with a great student of the Federalist Papers, and that is Alan Thomas. So join us. The community is a place where we connect and converse, and we can contemplate these big ideas, and we would love to have you join us to be part of all of this. You can email me at kim at kimmunset.com. The text line is 720-605-0647. Thank you to all of you who support us. We are an independent voice on an independent station, and 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 ultimately, socialism comes down to force. The free stuff is just the carrot to get people to vote for socialism. But ultimately, as Maggie Thatcher says, you run out of other people’s money. And when that happens, then they have to take it via force. Or, for example… coercion, I would say with this Senate Bill 135. We will vote on it, but there’s some very shrewd things going on with that particular ballot question. And so that’s why we’re here is to shed light on it and get out in front of these things so that you understand what’s going on. But my friends, it’s not compassionate and it’s not altruistic 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 and unpredictable and excessive taxation. That’s what we’re seeing here in Colorado. Fees, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, legislation, the World Economic Forum and globalist elites agenda, and their tools are the United Nations, this Colorado State Legislature, this governor, county, local, school district, and special districts all across the board. That’s why we have to engage and work together. to get government back into its proper role. And remember, if something’s a good idea, you should not have to use force to implement it. On the show, we’ll talk about the issues. We’ll mention the people behind those issues, but we work diligently to stay out of the name-calling, unless Kane’s on the show. Then he calls it like he sees it. But we really work to focus on these issues and stay out of the personality stuff that happens out there. I did want to say thank you to Laramie Energy for their goal sponsorship of the show. They are also goal sponsors of the Kim Monson Newsroom and Kim Monson Community. And I so appreciate them 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 if you’re having any challenges with your own personal climate, reach out to Ben’s Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling. That number is 303-995-1636. Our word of the day, and I would say that I would call them scoundrels. that are trying to gut Tabor with the Senate bill one 35 under the guise of education of our children. So the word of the day is scoundrel S C O U N D R E L. It could be an unprincipled or dishonorable person, or it could be mean or base in nature. And our quote of the day is from Aristotle. He was born in three 84 BC died in three 22 BC. And, uh, Gosh, just think, he said this all those years ago. He said, excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives. Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. And our bill of the day is Senate Bill 26146 to restrict single-use food serviceware distribution. It seems like there’s bigger things that they should be worrying about down at the Statehouse. But this is one of these pieces of legislation that Senator Lisa Cutter and Representative Meg Froelich, as if it wasn’t difficult enough for our restaurants, now they have the possibility that they could have monetary fines if they give somebody a spoon and the person didn’t ask for it or if the employee didn’t ask the customer if they wanted a spoon. That’s actually the bottom line. And it says that counties are authorized to impose a civil penalty of up to $500 for a second violation and up to $1,000 for a third or subsequent violation. This could really put people out of business. But Cutts said, this is the last sentence of our position on this. It says, it looks like a gotcha opportunity for local government to charge $500 fines for a business giving a spoon with a bowl of ice cream if the provider can’t prove the server specifically asked the customer if they wanted a spoon. This is absolutely madness. But I’m going to ask John Bozen with Bozen Law what he thinks about this. John Bozen, welcome.
SPEAKER 10 : 65:18
The definition of ludicrous craziness. As you’re saying this, I’m going, okay, what is the rationale behind that one? That is beyond nuts.
SPEAKER 20 : 65:29
I mean, maybe litter is the only thing. I don’t know. But when you look at what’s become of Denver, it’s just this beautiful city that I loved. It’s dirty and it’s dangerous. And they’ve got better things that they should be thinking about, John Bozen. But let’s talk about Bozen Law. And I haven’t asked you about this for a while. And that is regarding pharmaceutical injuries. What’s the latest on that?
SPEAKER 10 : 66:05
Well, as you and I know from some of our conversations, Bozen Law has been in this arena since the early 2000s when fenfen diadrugs came on the scene and have done many different pharmaceutical cases since then. The one right now that is Hot and heavy and moving very quickly towards bellwether trials is the GLP-1 litigation. A lot of folks, Kim, we get on average now, it’s picked up. We talked about this a few weeks back, and it was one, maybe two, three calls a week. Now it’s one to two calls. Some days, more than two people contacting us with GLP-1 side effects, gastroparesis, your gut, your intestinal, the process just stops working. That’s a big one. Loss of vision is the newest symptom side effect that has been affecting GLP-1 users. And it’s picking up steam. It’s still very early in the litigation, but those are the two primary tracks for folks able to pursue or should pursue when they have one of those problems from use of the GLP-1.
SPEAKER 20 : 67:30
Well, John, I have a number of people in my life, people I care deeply about, that have used these products. And I guess people… People should be able to have the choice if they want to use those products, but I think the sticky wicket on this is having the knowledge, the disclosure of what the risks are, right? That’s the thing, isn’t it?
SPEAKER 10 : 67:58
Yeah, you hit it on the head, and that’s what we see over and over in this pharmaceutical litigation arena. A big pharma comes out with something or learns that something has a certain effect that’s positive, maybe not what it was designed for, then they start pushing it. They become aware of at some point that there are problems with what they’ve produced. It’s causing other side effects. And because they’re making so much money, they downplay the delay, the disclosure of those side effects to the point that you’re right. I mean, folks have a right to know if there are problems with a drug or a pharmaceutical, and they should know right away. And that’s the rub. Big pharma’s making so much money, they start hearing bad reports. Nope, they don’t want that to affect sales. They’re going to push that down, hide that for as long as they can because they’re making so much money. They can’t stop that gravy train. They want to let it roll. The bean counters, the underwriters, folks that look behind the scenes are all calculating what is this going to likely cost us in litigation expenses and payouts to the people that have been affected negatively. And they do a very calculated weighing of those risks. And if they can make enough money for long enough, they don’t disclose. And it’s a pattern we’ve seen over and over and over again with different pharmaceutical companies, different drugs they produced. And it’s wrong. And they will pay. And it’s just about money for them. I mean, we can say that about lots of things that we’ve heard. you know, why hasn’t cancer been cured? Why haven’t we made the inroads with the billions of dollars spent towards cancer research? I’ll let that be. Right. It’s a nasty, nasty litigation. They do hire and fight with the best lawyers and they throw a lot of money at it to keep that gravy train running as long as they possibly can before eventually they there’ll be a settlement and there’ll be some level of acknowledgement and then people will get paid. But the problem is people should have had that information, the opportunity to make an educated decision about their health, and that’s what’s wrong.
SPEAKER 20 : 70:30
And that is the issue. If you feel that if you’ve been injured by a pharmaceutical, such as these GLPs, what is that number for people to reach out to Bozen Law to have a conversation?
SPEAKER 10 : 70:48
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SPEAKER 20 : 71:25
Okay, and that number again is 303-999-9999. John, good information, and we will talk with you next week.
SPEAKER 10 : 71:35
Kim, have a great rest of your show. I’ll look forward to it.
SPEAKER 20 : 71:37
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SPEAKER 05 : 76:13
Thank you for having me, Kim. It’s always a pleasure.
SPEAKER 20 : 76:18
Well, it’s good to have you. You’ve got a lot going on to report on. And I wanted to talk about this piece that you published on the 18th. You updated it on the 19th of April. And this is regarding… An Iranian diplomat says U.S. must retract maximalist nuclear demands for peace talks to proceed. And as I was reading the piece… Basically, they’re saying we want to still be able to have nuclear capabilities. But I thought for a while that the narrative out there was that they didn’t, that they were enriching this uranium for their energy needs or something. But it seems like they’re admitting that, hey, we would like to have weapons as well. What’s your thoughts on this?
SPEAKER 05 : 77:08
Yeah, so if I can clarify, they are not saying that they want weapons. to pursue weapons, but they don’t want to give up the uranium enrichment capacity that they have had. They’re saying, we’re not going to give up the ability to enrich.
SPEAKER 20 : 77:28
Okay. Okay. Which would mean the ability to enrich would mean they would have nuclear weapon capability, yes? Yes.
SPEAKER 05 : 77:40
Yeah, so they’re not saying that they want to pursue nuclear weapons. That hasn’t changed. They are just saying that they don’t want to give up the ability to continue enriching. And certainly they can enrich for nuclear energy. They can enrich for medical research purposes. But they wouldn’t need the high levels of enrichment that they’ve already achieved. So what we’re seeing basically is them saying, you know, we’re willing to walk back from the high levels of enrichment that we’ve had, but we’re not going to we’re not going to cut off enrichment altogether.
SPEAKER 20 : 78:25
OK, that in a way sounds more reasonable to me, but yet are they trustworthy? What’s your thoughts on all this?
SPEAKER 05 : 78:34
Yeah. That’s probably where the rubber meets the road. As far as what the Trump administration has said publicly, their concern is obviously not letting Iran sit at this threshold capacity where they’re only a short range away from jumping to weapons-grade uranium. From there, they could potentially make a weapon with it. So it is a trust issue. At what level do the Iranians need to be able to enrich to feel like they have the same nuclear rights as any other peaceful nation that has nuclear energy? They probably don’t need it as high as they’ve had it, but they certainly put it up to 60%. And their enrichment capacity rose as the United States withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal that President Obama negotiated back in his second term. So we’ve seen the Iranians increase their uranium enrichment commensurate to the increase in U.S. sanctions ever since we withdrew from Iran. the uh the 2015 nuclear deal and so it’s kind of a okay are are they enriching uranium to you know kind of you know thumb their nose at us as we’ve increased sanctions on them are they doing it as kind of a you know is this are they trying to create for themselves a bargaining chip that they can hand back to us in exchange for sanctions relief or are they doing this because they have changed their minds and do want to pursue nuclear weapons and are waiting for an opportune moment when we’re not closely watching them.
SPEAKER 20 : 80:33
Okay. Ryan, I can see why geopolitical affairs are so difficult, because their record of being trustworthy is not good, from my understanding. My understanding is that they have exported terror. throughout the world and that they don’t like America and have chanted death to America. So how, how do we wrap all that into this whole conversation? Yeah,
SPEAKER 05 : 81:13
Yeah, I mean, I mean, that’s a good question. I think that’s I think what you’ve articulated just now is sort of the the underlying doubt that that pervades sort of the U.S. position as we try and engage the Iranians in talks is to what extent can we take them at their word? As far as yeah, as far as, you know, how Iran acts as a as a. as a sponsor of terrorism, you know, what they’re, obviously what they’re doing is they have, they have like-minded people, you know, primarily Shia Muslim that are, you know, permeate throughout the Middle East. And, and, and certainly a lot of what it is, is, is kind of the age old Shia Sunni Muslim splits, you know, take, take Bahrain, for example, it is a, Sunni-dominated but Shia-majority country. A similar situation with Iraq. They have a Shia-majority there, and so they have a lot of influence in several different countries. And anytime, you know, anytime there is high friction between Iran and the United States or Iran and Israel, they can kind of lean on their ideological fellow travelers throughout the region to kind of help, you know, get their licks in and sort of, you know, do this sort of pervasive, you know, do these acts of terrorism that kind of give them a degree of deniability. They can say, oh, you know, we didn’t direct this. These are just our fans that, you know, feel like we’ve been wronged. So that is kind of a tricky issue to tackle. And we’ve seen it, especially over the course of this two-week ceasefire, which is actually about to expire today or at the end of the day today. You know, there’s been the sticking point over Hezbollah in Lebanon, where, you know, Hezbollah and Israel are continuing to fight each other. And the Iranians are saying, well, you know, Hezbollah should be covered under this ceasefire. They’re our allies. And there’s been a disagreement over whether or not that, you know, the ceasefire does extend to Hezbollah in Lebanon. So we’ve had to see kind of a separate set of negotiations playing out. And they’re currently on their own separate ceasefire track, at least the Israelis and the Lebanese government. And as far as how that covers Hezbollah, that’s something that we’re going to have to continue to monitor because if there’s a breakdown in trust, we’re going to see Hezbollah resume attacks, we’re going to see Israel resume attacks within Lebanon, and that’s going to frustrate the Lebanese government, whom the Israelis have asked to you know, take a more upfront, proactive approach about stopping Hezbollah within their borders.
SPEAKER 20 : 84:19
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SPEAKER 20 : 86:35
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SPEAKER 05 : 87:59
Yeah, as far as Trump’s calculation, whether it’s a calculation of there is a high risk or maybe it is, you know, this is a unique moment of opportunity where U.S. and Israeli readiness are at their highest level that, you know, we could do kind of the maximum, you know, the maximum outcome. You know, it’s hard to say. I think one thing was clear, at least to me, is that, you know, early on in the first couple of days of This military operation, you know, we did hear Trump kind of send out these messages to the Iranian people saying, you know, now is your time to to rise up and take back your government. A couple of weeks ago, he actually mentioned that there was a shipment of. I believe it was small arms of various types, you know, military weaponry that was passed to various Kurdish groups with the intent that they would. be distributed to, um, I guess to insurgent groups within the Iranian population. And we haven’t seen that materialized. So there, there, there may well have been a, uh, a hope, um, an unfulfilled hope that there would be an internal uprising within Iran or, or it, you know, it hasn’t, it certainly hasn’t happened yet. Maybe it could still happen. Maybe there’s hope that it could still happen. Uh, but yeah, you’re right in saying that the, uh, the decision to go to war was a risky one. It was certainly one that has cost President Donald Trump some political capital. And there are certainly ways that this could turn around to a big midterm message, hey, we defeated the Iranians. But that’s something we’re going to have to continue to monitor in the months coming up. And it could certainly have an impact in primary season as well. There’s a few, you know, Republicans like Representative Thomas Massey that has kind of flouted President Trump. And so it’ll be interesting to see how his midterm, or I’m sorry, how his primary race will shape up in Kentucky here in the next couple weeks. That’s definitely one to monitor because I think that’ll be kind of a bellwether for for where the voting base is on this issue. They’ll kind of give us a little bit of data to work with as we go into the general elections here in November.
SPEAKER 20 : 90:42
And who is primarying him in Kentucky?
SPEAKER 05 : 90:46
Yeah, it’s Ed Gellerin. Gellerin? I hope I’m saying his name right. He’s the Trump-endorsed candidate. I believe a former U.S. Navy SEAL. maybe feel veteran. Um, yeah.
SPEAKER 20 : 91:02
OK, now, my understanding is that this Iranian regime is just brutal towards the Iranian people and that, in fact, that there have been Iranians that may have tried to do this uprising and that there’s been a number of people that have been been killed by their own government. Is that something that you can verify?
SPEAKER 05 : 91:32
I can verify that there were some widespread protests early in January. As far as the body count, as far as how many people were killed by the Iranian government cracking down, I can’t confirm the numbers. I’ve heard anything from several hundred to up to like 45,000 over the course of You know, supposedly it was a brutal, you know, two or three days in early January where we saw kind of the height of this, you know, whether it was mass protests, whether it became riotous or whether it was, as you kind of alluded to, you know, something more, maybe even potentially an uprising. Right. We do know for certain that there was a crackdown of some kind. It’s just, you know, to what extent and to, you know, I guess kind of the nitty gritty details of how many people were killed. That’s something that we’re not going to have clarity on, partly because there is a, yeah, there is not great access to the Internet in Iran. You know, we did hear that there was some, Starlink satellite internet nodes that were sent in that were snuck into the country to kind of help maintain communication among the dissident factions within the country. But we don’t have a ton of details about what’s going on internally within Iran beyond just what we’re seeing from the U.S. satellite feeds and the strikes. So that’s something that, at least from open sources, it’s very hard for me to gauge. I’m certain that sitting in the White House Situation Room, they have a little bit more granular detail about what’s going on in the country.
SPEAKER 20 : 93:30
Okay, next thing, as I’ve been talking with people, Ryan Morgan, is that there’s a narrative out there that we are in this war because NetYahu wanted us in this war. And so I was talking with some friends the other day. I said, well, what do you say to that? And they said, well, if you look at Trump’s personality, and the implication is that Trump is bowing to Netanyahu. And I said, what do you think about that? And they said, well, if you think about Trump’s personality, he doesn’t really bow to anybody. And I thought, well, yeah, that’s true. What’s your thoughts about that, Ryan Morgan?
SPEAKER 05 : 94:13
I think it’s certainly fair to say that the Israelis favored military action. whether that was, you know, whether they forced Trump’s hand or not. I don’t know if I’d say it’s almost irrelevant, you know, just because, you know, certainly Trump has backed the Israelis in the past. So I’m not sure, you know, ultimately, you know, the buck stops with Trump. So whether, you know, the Israelis forced his hand or not, he he made the decision on his own. You know, he’s, he’s certainly capable of making his own decisions and, and he, you know, good or bad, he will kind of have to carry the consequences for taking this military action. And, and, you know, he might, he might be able to reap the benefits of, you know, Hey, this was a success. But, you know, certainly it’s fair to say that the Israelis wanted this to happen. And, and I believe it was, Secretary of State Marco Rubio that came out within the first couple of days and said, you know, our calculus at the time was this was a moment of opportunity here. We saw that there were gatherings of top Iranian leaders. The Israelis were going to go for it. And we knew that if we sat back, we would potentially take a lot of casualties when the Iranians retaliated. So we made the decision that This was a good time to go, and we went in with the Israelis rather than letting the Israelis initiate this first and us dealing with whatever consequences would fall out of it. So it was a coordinated effort, and it was jointly decided between the U.S. and the Israelis. There may be some friction points between what the Israelis are trying to achieve and what the Trump administration is trying to achieve. You know, if there is a disagreement over, you know, we talked earlier about Iran’s nuclear program. There could be disagreements over, you know, the extent to which Iran’s nuclear program needs to be restrained, where Trump and Netanyahu might have differing ideas about what needs to happen. And there could be some butting heads there. But, you know, they… I’m sure they’ll work that out as they go on.
SPEAKER 20 : 96:41
Okay, and then last question. Ryan, this has been so fascinating, and people can find you at the Epoch Times. My understanding is both our pronunciations are used, but my understanding is that Iran has intercontinental ballistic missiles. And so that’s a concern. And do a lot of countries have these ballistic missiles or is that just a small group of countries that has these?
SPEAKER 05 : 97:13
So my my understanding so far is that the Iranians have kind of a short to intermediate range. I think they said that their range was capped at about about 2000 kilometers. There was one incident a few weeks back where they. lobbed some missiles at Diego Garcia, which is about 4,000 kilometers away. And it’s not clear that those missiles were viable to actually hit Diego Garcia. But, you know, it was kind of one of those swing for the fence type moments, see what happens. Um, But yeah, I mean, the further that the Iranians build their missile range, that is a rising concern. The concern is primarily if they can pair a nuclear weapon with an ICBM, an intercontinental ballistic missile. An ICBM by itself is, you know, it’s scary because it can go far. It could potentially hit, you know, some, you know, vulnerable spot far away, but until it’s paired with a nuclear weapon, it’s not the highest level of concern, but it’s definitely something that you’d want to continue to monitor and you don’t want those two things to be paired together.
SPEAKER 20 : 98:32
Wow. Fascinating. You can find Ryan Morgan at the Epoch Times. He focuses on military and foreign affairs. This has been fascinating, Ryan. Let’s talk again very soon.
SPEAKER 05 : 98:45
Yeah, absolutely. I had a great time. Thank you.
SPEAKER 20 : 98:48
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SPEAKER 20 : 101:43
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 dot com and join our community. And tonight is our initial virtual town hall with John Eastman, constitutional expert. And as you know, the two nonprofits that I feature on a regular basis is the USMC Memorial Foundation. And that website is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo on the Riverwalk. And that website is americanvaluescenter.org. And the reason is, is we have to keep these stories alive. And for America’s Veterans Stories that broadcast last Sunday, and if you missed it, you can catch it this Sunday evening, 10 to 11 p.m., I interviewed Jimmy Doolittle’s granddaughter. And Jimmy Doolittle put together the Doolittle Raiders that about four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II, they were able to do a mission and were successful in their targets in Japan. It was critical. But anyway, I had said thank you to Jonna Doolittle-Japes. And she said, thank you, Kim. I really enjoyed doing the interview with you. And thank you for keeping history alive for the next generations. And that’s why the work of USMC Memorial Foundation and the Center for American Values is so important. So support them. We are in campaign season. Any candidate that reaches out to me, I will put them on the air. And I’ve got David Wilson on the line. He is running for attorney general here in Colorado. Very important position. David, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 11 : 103:21
Thank you, Kim. Thank you for having me on.
SPEAKER 20 : 103:25
And so you are running for attorney general. First question is why?
SPEAKER 11 : 103:32
And that’s a good question. So I was sitting on the couch, minding my own business and complaining about everything that’s going on in this state. And similar to I ran for D.A. for the fourth judicial district a couple of years back. Similar to then, I had a bunch of people shortly before assembly reach out to me and say, we need an alternative. You need to run. And I said, like I did last time, let me pray about it because this is a huge undertaking. I never wanted to be a politician or get into politics, and I felt like the Lord led me to do this because I need to fix things, and things aren’t getting fixed. Somebody’s got to go up with a great governor. I support Scott Bottoms. Go up with a great governor and sweep everything out and get back to the basics.
SPEAKER 20 : 104:23
Okay, and Scott Bottoms is a representative down at the Statehouse, and he is also a gubernatorial candidate as well. So you then went to assembly. Somebody nominated you, and you had to get at least 30% so that you could make it onto the ballot. So obviously you accomplished that, yes?
SPEAKER 11 : 104:43
Yes, and I’ve had a lot of people tell me, oh, compared to your opponent, he got, I think, 60-something percent. I got… uh, 35 or somewhere, somewhere in there percent. But I jumped in on a week before the assembly, no money, no campaign. And I got that much because people want something to change. And it’s funny because when we had to sign paperwork, I had, I met my opponent for the second time and we both agreed. He said, I always tell people you’re a nice guy. I said, I am a nice guy. And I think you’re a nice guy too. But nice guy is not going to get it right now. If it was a normal campaign season and we had the normal issues, then maybe what he does will get us where we need to go. But things have to change. We have to start making drastic changes and address the issues that people are dealing with and most upset about. And I can tell you, I have a fire in my belly for that. And I just don’t think my opponent does. I think he’s just going to continue doing the job he’s been doing. and move that to the next step. I don’t have a stepping stone. I want to fix things and go home. That’s the end of it.
SPEAKER 20 : 105:58
So David Wilson, and that website is david4ag.com. What is it that you think needs to change?
SPEAKER 11 : 106:09
Well, certainly election fraud. And people say, oh, I believe in election integrity. You can’t have integrity unless you fix the fraud, the smut in the schools. The fraud, waste, and abuse. The crime, obviously. And, you know, I think crime has gone down a little bit because President Trump closed the border. That’s the real reason crime has gone down. But we need to look at what’s going on and all this corruption. And I admit it’s not going to be an easy undertaking. There’s probably, like what President Trump dealt with, a lot of deep state people. But it’s going to be no holds barred. You don’t like it, there’s the door. Get out. We’re going to fix things and we’re fixing them now because we want Colorado back.
SPEAKER 20 : 106:57
We have to reclaim Colorado, this beautiful state that I moved to many years ago. I moved here. It’s not the state that that I moved to. So we must reclaim Colorado. And the way to do that, obviously, is these elections. So what’s the first thing that you would do if elected attorney general of Colorado?
SPEAKER 11 : 107:20
Have a meeting with the office and first tell them it’s no politics, no wokeness. Get rid of the pronouns. If anybody has pronouns in their signature block, constitution, rule of law, get back to work. And I looked up the other day, how many times has the current attorney general Weiser sued Trump? And I thought, well, maybe it’s five or 10. It’s 64 times at this point. That’s ridiculous. And that’s our taxpayer, state taxpayer dollars. And federal taxpayer dollars, because President Trump doesn’t pay for that. Our tax dollars pay for that. So we’re getting hit on both ends with those ridiculous lawsuits. I’d get rid of the sanctuary cities. I’ve been told by most of the Republican candidates they would free Tina Peters. If they didn’t, I would make that happen. What happened to her was disgusting, and there needs to be investigations there. Supremacy clause, First Amendment, all kinds of things. And it’s just not happening. If it was, then I wouldn’t be here. I could stay home and enjoy my family. But it’s not happening. The real issues are not being addressed.
SPEAKER 20 : 108:28
And let’s talk about over on the Democrat side. Jenna Griswold is running for attorney general, correct? Does she have a primary or is she the only candidate?
SPEAKER 11 : 108:42
My understanding is there’s about three or four Democrats all running for that position. So she should have a primary, yes.
SPEAKER 20 : 108:49
OK. And even though Jenna Griswold has been the face of what’s happened at the secretary of state’s office and you mentioned election integrity, which if we don’t have free, fair, honest and transparent elections, David Wilson, we don’t have our country. And this this needs to be taken care of and it needs to be taken care of immediately, even though she’s the face of of our concerns about elections. It’s actually her office that is in office. kind of running that. And her deputy secretary of state, Chris Beal, quietly exited that office. And now I can’t remember the name of the guy that was brought in, but he was an attorney with Perkins Coy, which is the… the law firm that Obama used on a regular basis. And so he is the deputy. And there are those that are of the opinion that they are running that office over there. So I think that’s just an important thing to bring up as we’re talking about election fraud. We’ve got a couple of minutes left. What are some of the final thoughts that you would like people to know, David Wilson?
SPEAKER 11 : 110:10
Well, like I said, if… Nothing’s happening, and there’s no evidence that anything’s happening. Lowered crime, okay, the border’s closed. Crime is going to go down because of that. If you want status quo, then vote for my opponent. If you want change, then vote for me. And I put the affidavit together that went out to all the district attorneys, referenced the BIOS passwords that Griswold released into the open for any foreign nation to grab and affect our election machine. And nothing happened. Denver said, oh, there’s nothing to see here. And it got wiped under the rug. That’s not good. We have to start changing things and clean house.
SPEAKER 20 : 110:53
Okay, and people can get more information for you by going to your website. And David, to all candidates, I say thank you to you and your families, because this is a real commitment to run for office. But this is in the spirit of our American founding. These were regular, everyday people that were stepping forward to to pass on something good to the next generation. And our time, I say on the show, that we were made for this moment, I truly believe that, David Wilson. And I thank you for running for Attorney General. And again, what is your website?
SPEAKER 11 : 111:31
It’s david4ag.com.
SPEAKER 20 : 111:35
Okay.
SPEAKER 11 : 111:35
And I heard you mention veterans. I’m a retired Army veteran.
SPEAKER 20 : 111:41
Well, thank you for my freedom and thank you for your service. And because it’s people that put the uniform on is why we get to have this freedom to go after our hopes and dreams. So, again, that’s David Wilson. He is a candidate for attorney general here in Colorado. And our quote for the end of the show, I went to Aristotle and again, he said this all these years ago before Christ was even born. And he said this, he said, be a free thinker and don’t accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in. And those words were true then and those words are true now. 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.
SPEAKER 13 : 113:00
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