In this informative episode of ‘Rush to Reason,’ John Rush sheds light on the current electoral landscape leading into the upcoming elections. Through insightful conversations with political figure Jim Paff and HD 53 candidate Dr. Donna Walter, the episode provides a deep dive into election forecasts and the state’s political milieu. Focused on early voting’s influences, the dialogue uncovers potential obstacles and strategic advantages pivotal for the conservative movement. Through discussing election trends and candidate challenges, John offers a platform highlighting the significance of engaging in the civic process. The episode wraps up with a call to action for
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SPEAKER 16 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us, by the way. Hour number three, Jim Paff joining us now. Jim, welcome. How are you, sir? I’m doing great. How are you doing, sir? Doing good. President of the conservative caucus. I guess as we lead up to Tuesday, not too many days left. Yeah, we got, you know, tomorrow, Friday. But for a lot of people, that’s sort of the end of the work week. And then, of course, we have the weekend and then Monday and then Election Day. So we’re not that far away.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, we’re not. And people are voting early like crazy. I think it’s encouraging to see this. Republican early votes are way up now. You still need a whole bunch of people to show up on Election Day. But the good news about these early votes is that they’re banked now. If there are problems on Election Day, they can be counted. So I just encourage people to get their vote in as soon as possible.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, absolutely. If you’ve got the ability to do that, get it done now. We’re far enough into it where if you want to get that done, please do. Here in Colorado, do not mail. your ballot, take it down to your local drop box, wherever that happens to be. And if it’s one that’s inside, I would prefer you do that than even finding one of the outside drop boxes. We haven’t had any real issues as far as outside boxes go, Jim, but I’m one where if you can go drop that off inside, do so.
SPEAKER 06 :
It’s scary to see what happened up in Oregon and Washington. Correct. You definitely don’t want that to happen.
SPEAKER 16 :
Correct. So if you guys are listening, please go do what we said. We would appreciate that very much. And not saying the mail is not trustworthy. There’s a lot of folks listening to this program that deliver the mail, so we appreciate each and every one of you as well. But I would just personally feel more comfortable with dropping that off to an inside Dropbox, Jim.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, absolutely. So get it in there. And, you know, I hope someday we can get rid of mail voting, to be candid. I never liked it when Colorado went that direction. And for those listening who may not know, I’ve lived in Colorado for most of this century and very involved in Colorado politics. So that was a real problem. I had a little bit of a… Concern about early voting, although I ran the marriage amendment in 2006, and we dealt with that, and we were able to win an election in a very blue year and a very red issue. Well, we can do that again this year for Donald Trump, so I’m encouraging everyone to do that.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, and that was going to be my next question. As we roll along here, we get closer. I mean, I have a… good feeling right now, and I’m not saying it’s going to be any kind of a landslide, and there’s folks out there that may predict that, but I feel like there’s an edge right now to Donald Trump. What are your thoughts along those lines as to what we can expect from Tuesday’s election?
SPEAKER 06 :
My sense of it is that we could have something of an electoral landslide, if not a vote landslide, and a And so forth. But I think he could definitely get 311 to 315 electoral votes. Could be wrong about that. There’s a whole lot of unknowns when you are going into the final weeks. Right. And in this case, the final week of the election. So there are some things I don’t know, but everything looks very good. So, for example, Wisconsin numbers are now consistently the polls, I should say, are consistently positive for Trump. And the polymarket thing is predicting it. Michigan has gone back and forth and back and forth. I think he can win it, but that may be questionable. Pennsylvania seems to be rocking for Donald Trump. There’s been a big effort to get people registered to vote, and Republican numbers are way up in that state. So that’s a possibility. But what’s really interesting in these final couple weeks is that New Hampshire and Virginia seem to be in play. And I will say this. If And we just our organization, we just bought a bunch of television in New Hampshire to try to help boost that up a little bit. And it’s probably, you know, there isn’t a lot of Trump money in there. So independent expenditure committees like ours can possibly make a difference. But if you see New York be relatively close, like within 10 points or less. If you see New Hampshire fall for Trump, you see Virginia fall for Trump. And then these other states, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia and Michigan are in Wisconsin are going for Trump. Then suddenly you just may have a wave hit because you still are going to have polls open in the mountain states. and on the West Coast, and that puts Nevada and Arizona, which are in Pacific time, in play. I just did really quick.
SPEAKER 16 :
I went to 270 to win and did your map, leaving Michigan blue, Wisconsin red, Pennsylvania red. I did New Hampshire red. I left everything else the way it would be, normally blue. I did take Nevada and Arizona, made them red, and it’s 314 to 224 if you go that route.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, and that’s, I don’t know to be precise in that scenario, but something like that can very well happen. By the way, New Hampshire goes, that may mean that that one more Democrat district in Maine could go for Trump. That’s a possibility. There have been Republican governors that have been elected there in recent years. So then suddenly you just see things falling apart. Because keep in mind, Arizona and Nevada are both on Pacific time. That is a long time for voters there who are voting on Election Day to take in what’s happening on the East Coast. And then again, New Mexico becomes a possibility, too. It’s very unlikely. Of all the maybe possibilities, it’s the least likely, in my opinion. But that becomes a possibility.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, if that happens, then what you’re saying very easily could be the case. And, yeah, you could see things definitely roll in Trump’s favor in a big way. And I don’t disagree with that at all. Now, how does it turn out? You know, as you and I are talking through this, we don’t know. We don’t have a crystal ball. Although, and I know this sounds really cliché-ish, Jim, if it’s not a squeaker by Trump, it will be a landslide.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, there’s one other factor, by the way, and I’ll tell you this. If I had to put money on it, and I don’t put money on this stuff, obviously, it’d be 280-something, and I think Trump wins. But here’s the thing. Keep in mind, the national polls don’t determine who’s going to win the election. But there’s one interesting dynamic to watch for, and that’s the fact that Trump nationally is within one to two points consistently of Kamala Harris. He was never this close in either 2020 or 2016 on the national numbers at all. So that’s an interesting dynamic to really watch, because that does bleed down into all the states, obviously, is what we’re evaluating. But if that dynamic is in place, that also may be very positive for him. He may do really well in the Electoral College, but a lot of these states are still going to be very close, probably. And and then you get into what’s going to happen if we’re waiting for vote tallies to be done for days.
SPEAKER 16 :
And so we got an interview with a young lady a few minutes ago where she predicts we won’t know for a few days afterwards. I’m not so sure. I if things go like what you just said a moment ago, I think things will be known much sooner than several days after.
SPEAKER 06 :
I think what may end up – the best-case scenario is that some of these states that we would typically be worried because the vote tally wasn’t already in, it may be superfluous because of Trump already having won the Electoral College. That’s one possible scenario. But we definitely – like if both Arizona and Pennsylvania are – and there were people, officials down in Arizona saying it could take 10 to 13 days, which is crazy in my mind – But if those two states, for example, were waiting for the votes on, we may be really on the edge of our chairs for a whole week. But if other things take place to make them less relevant, then, you know, we’re still going to be waiting for them to come and see how big the victory is. Right. It would happen. Nonetheless, it’s still possible Kamala Harris is going to win this thing. So, I mean, everyone’s got to get out to vote. I agree. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 16 :
Absolutely. Absolutely, Jim. All right. Appreciate you very much, Jim. How do folks find you?
SPEAKER 06 :
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SPEAKER 16 :
Awesome. All right. Appreciate you very much, Jim. Have a great evening, sir, and we’ll talk again after the election. Thanks, John. You appreciate you very much. All right, let’s do this. We’ve got a computer glitch real quick. So let’s do this. Dr. Donna Walter joining us now. She is running for, I believe it’s HD 53. Donna, welcome. How are you?
SPEAKER 07 :
I am fabulous. Thank you, John. It’s a pleasure to be on your radio show.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, I appreciate you very much. All right, talk to us. First of all, I always ask folks in the state, especially when it comes to all the different districts and things we have in the state, what does HD 53 cover? Where is that?
SPEAKER 07 :
That is in Fort Collins. It’s divided up into two districts, and after the redistricting, it looks like some kid College to over to Horsetooth Reservoir. But there’s some areas that are east of college. It goes up to Country Club in that area, I-25, Vine, and down to Drake over to Horsetooth and zigzags all over the place. So that’s pretty much Fort Collins.
SPEAKER 16 :
All right. We also want to get you not only elected because we want really good, solid representation for that area, but we need more representation on our side at the statehouse, period. And I wanted to say, Donna, no matter what district that’s in, we just need more of because right now it’s extremely lopsided. And the person that you’re running against makes that lopsidedness extreme. Am I saying that correctly?
SPEAKER 07 :
That is correct. He is the majority whip, and he whips his caucus into line. This is what we’re going to vote. This is what we’re going to run. And he’s also a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Not just a member, but a leader.
SPEAKER 16 :
So he’s essentially a Marxist communist. Let’s make sure we say this correctly.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, because DSA is a front for the CPUSA.org party.
SPEAKER 16 :
So he’s a Marxist. I mean, bottom line, he’s a Marxist. We don’t want those kind of folks down there representing, at least I don’t want that person representing us. And what’s interesting, Donna, I mean, again, this is an area that, I mean, I’m a Colorado native. I’ve lived in the north end of the state most of my life. I’ve had businesses in Boulder and Fort Collins both, still own property in both. And so that area is very near and dear to me. And what’s interesting about this is that he, I guess is what I’m trying to say, he is not the makeup of that district.
SPEAKER 07 :
That is correct. And I think the people deserve better than to have a socialist representing them. And I am not a socialist. When you mentioned property, he has voted, oh, this is a 15-minute city. He also supports that throughout the state. He has run bills that… Oh, the 70-year bill that if somebody is a contractor and he’s done something, he could be sued for 70 years. He works to destroy our private property rights because he has voted on first refusal. He supports 15-minute cities. And he works to undo Tabor at every opportunity, which is, by the way, one of the things I will be working to. The Democrats and some of the people, too, have spent the last 25 years in party trying to undo Tabor. And Tabor is a taxpayer bill of rights. And that’s in the Constitution. It has not been taken out. So that needs to be fortified once again. Absolutely. Taxpayers and children are two big issues I’m running on. He is an ordained minister, and he sees nothing wrong with the ideology.
SPEAKER 16 :
I’m sorry. I’m speechless because I can’t put those two things together in my mind at all. I mean, how you could do that for a living and then do the, well, number one, do what he’s doing for a living and be a Marxist. That part I don’t get at all because the whole Marxist movement, they become the replacement for God Almighty. So I have no idea how he can reconcile that at all.
SPEAKER 07 :
I don’t either. That’s why I make sure people understand and know that, because it just it’s how. Yeah. Jonah Goose supports him. He endorses him and World Economic Forum.
SPEAKER 16 :
Of course they do. A bunch of Marxist communists themselves. Of course they support him. And folks, those of you listening, especially in that north end of our area and our listening, you know, our signal goes all the way through that entire area. And a lot of you are listening as we speak right now. If you are in HD 53, you have one choice, one choice only. That’s Dr. Donna Walter, period. You have no other choices.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, and we have tax issues on our ballot.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes, we do.
SPEAKER 07 :
A lot of those people don’t realize that when they’re voting for those, at the end of them is usually what I call a debruising. It takes away your caber. And most people don’t realize that Larimer County, Fort Collins, and Loveland every 12 years have been debruised. The taxpayer, the citizens have voted to do that. That’s why I need to work on that. fortifying that once again down at the Capitol, because I don’t think people understand they’re voting for that. You know, Poudre School District recently hired six DEI positions with COVID money. Now they’re all out of money. Maybe we should learn how to budget.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s right. Absolutely. All right. Dr. Donna, Walter, how do folks find you if they want to help? There’s still time this weekend for those of you that are up in that area. I’m sure you need all the help you can get if folks want to find you and help out. How do they do that?
SPEAKER 07 :
I certainly do, and I appreciate that. Donna Walter, no S, DonnaWalter.com. They can reach me. They can communicate with me, and we’re going to have a sign-waving Friday at Mulberry College. I don’t know that signs vote, but it does get your name out a little bit, and it gets the people that have been helping. It’s an exciting camaraderie event, so we’re going to do that from 4 to 6. There’s a lot of things I still have left to do that, unfortunately, with Bidenomics does take some money and a lot more money. And I appreciate all of your support. Thank you very much.
SPEAKER 16 :
We’ll do it. Dr. Donna Walter, thank you so much. Best of luck. And let’s do what we can to get her elected, folks. Again, HD53. Donna, thank you.
SPEAKER 07 :
Thank you. I appreciate your time.
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SPEAKER 16 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. And Dr. Donna Walter, thank you again so much. We appreciate it very much. Thanks for what you’re doing up in the northern part of the state. We’ve got another guest that will be joining us here in just one moment that’s also running. And all of you that are listening and have the ability to help any of our Republican state candidates, please do whatever you can to help them. Robin Karns joining us now. Robin, welcome. How are you?
SPEAKER 09 :
Hi, John. I’m great. Thanks for having me on the show.
SPEAKER 16 :
You’re very welcome. SD16. So, and I always start this way. I did a moment ago with our last guest. Where is that?
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay. It is Arapahoe County. So, western Arapahoe County, eastern Jefferson County. And it is going to be the southern boundary. It’s going to be C470 all the way up to West Bowles Avenue. Goes across kind of Littleton Boulevard, Orchard Road to Quebec. and then back down to C-470. So it is primarily Centennial or a good chunk of Centennial, everything west of I-25. Also Littleton and then Ken Carroll Valley, Columbine Valley, home to over 133,000 residents.
SPEAKER 16 :
Wow, that’s a lot. So big district, again, SD, which means Senate. So this isn’t House, this is Senate. And when you’re out talking to people here in Colorado, that district especially, what are some of the biggest concerns you’re hearing from folks?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, first and foremost, it’s affordability and the high cost of living. People are just struggling to make ends meet. I mean, we all are. Budgets have gone up about 35%. Insurance has gone up, which is closely associated to crime and public safety. Because crime has gone up like crazy in our state, it impacts everything. So everything costs more, right? Insurance, somebody’s got to pay for the crime. Yeah. You know that.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 09 :
It’s going to be crime and public safety and then affordability, high cost of living. Housing is still an issue. And then I’ll also say this, just good governance and democracy, the willingness to put your partisan politics aside and do what’s best for residents. We hear that, too. So people are I have to tell you, I’ve had more conversations with folks that are fed up with the extremes on both sides of the aisle. They want and I think that’s why so many in Senate District 16 and really all of Colorado are unaffiliated. or they’re independent. 50%, 5-0 of my district is unaffiliated. And we actually have a slight Republican lead, 26% are Republicans, 24% are Democrats. So we have a slight lead, which we are not taking for granted. But I think that 50% in the middle, that is so incredibly telling.
SPEAKER 16 :
Who is your opponent in this particular case? I see, is it Chris Kolker? Is that right?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, yes, exactly. Chris Coker. And he is funded by a lot of dark money from outside Colorado. To be very, very clear, he is an incumbent. But a lot of folks are not happy with the job he’s done. And we won’t get into that. He’s a nice guy, but policy-wise, we are absolute opposites. Interestingly enough, we’re both from Iowa. We’ve got kids about the same age. He’s got two daughters. I have two sons.
SPEAKER 16 :
And really quick, Robin, you can be a very nice guy, but be very nicely misguided in how things work. Oh, yes.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, absolutely. And I think, you know, here’s what’s so telling. They have spent, John, over $150,000 against me in attack ads. Wow. My boys came home from school last week on Tuesday, and they said, Mom, our friends all saw you on the Monday night football game. And I had to kind of scratch my head and go, what? And they go, Mom, there was an attack ad. But, Mom, it was just so fake. We knew it wasn’t real, and they just laughed out loud because, Mom, they knew you. So they are spending a lot of money – on my race, and I think it’s coming from out of state. So there’s such an interest in Colorado from this dark money attached to special interests, which is completely opposite of my campaign. The majority of my money has come from within Colorado. And I’ll just tell you, we’ve done a really good job of fundraising. There are five targeted Senate races. And of those five targeted Senate races, we are second in fundraising next to the beloved, you know, Senator Cleve Simpson, who is an incumbent. Not by much. We’re not too far behind him. We have not been able to raise nearly the amount of money as my opponent has, which has just fallen into his lap from small donor committees from all over the country. And I tell you what, it’s it’s. Hard to see that happen, but we see that up and down the Republican Party, including at the national level. And yet here’s what it tells me. We are over the targets. They are scared, as they should be, because I’m a great candidate, and I’m competitive, and that’s what all the numbers are saying. It’s a competitive seat. It’s a winnable seat. And here’s why, John. Maybe your listeners don’t know this, but two years ago, that Senate district was redistricted.
SPEAKER 16 :
Correct. I see that.
SPEAKER 09 :
So that means the current incumbent, yeah, the current incumbent didn’t really win it. So I know for a fact that the other side… sees it as an open seat. And in that redistricting process, over 16 precincts were gained, all primarily Jefferson County, and they’re all heavily conservative. So the Colorado Sun, independent newspaper, they had called my race a toss-up, which I think is great. And I’ll tell you, it seems like a stretch to go from city council, which is where I serve right now for the city of Centennial, a city that has balanced government, where you don’t play partisan politics. You can’t. When I ran the first time for Centennial, I couldn’t have an R or a D, for that matter, behind my name. We want to see more of that at the state level. So I’ve carried that purple brand. Right. Red Republican, blue Democrat. The middle is purple where most of the people are right now. I’ve carried that brand. It’s all about putting these partisan politics that really are plaguing the state aside and doing what’s best for Coloradans. That’s really what it’s about.
SPEAKER 16 :
How are your – as far as those constituents and the people that you’re talking to and all the key things that I know that – and by the way, I can’t disagree. Those are the key things that I think a lot of people are encountering, and yet there’s a lot of – How should I say this, Robin? Misconception in Colorado because we’ve had so many new people move in. For example, Tabor. I know what Tabor is. You know what Tabor is. But I think there’s a lot of new folks that come in and they hear that term, but they really don’t have any idea what that means. And for some of them, I don’t think they really know whether they’re voting for or against something when it comes to Tabor.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I think you’re right. And taper was a brilliant move. It was brilliant.
SPEAKER 16 :
It keeps our budget in check, as you know.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes. Yes. Let’s just talk about that budget. You know, we know for a fact we are starting this next legislative session with even less money. Right. It’s more even of a grim situation than the last session. Nine hundred million dollars short. Right. What in the world? How did we get here? And I can tell you, we’re spending.
SPEAKER 16 :
I was going to say, I can tell you really quick as a business owner, you’re overspending.
SPEAKER 09 :
Tell me, yes. It’s really easy. That’s right. I know. It is. With my own budget, personal budget. What happens when things tighten, when revenue tightens or income tightens? You cut your wants. That’s right. You’ve got needs and wants. You cut your wants.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 09 :
And that has not happened yet. Here at the state, we’re seeing with a lot of even counties and other jurisdictions that are they’re wanting to debrief, you know, and instead of just, okay, just let’s go ahead and do that. Well, let’s, let’s take a deeper dive at why are we having to do this? Why are we out of money? Have we really, you know, done a deep dive in cutting what needs to be cut? Because perhaps we’ve overspent.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah. And I can already tell you that, you know, just from talking to different folks and even doing interviews and so on with, you know, legislatures and so on, the reality is nobody and I’ll accuse both sides. Nobody wants to cut the things that need cut to get things back in balance. And I think I can accuse both sides of doing that at times, Robin, because everybody’s got their own little pet thing that they want to see. Yeah, but the reality is, to your point, you cannot overspend. Tabor doesn’t allow us to overspend. In fact, it should be every legislature’s goal to underspend and return a certain amount of that money back to those that paid it.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, that’s right. Well, in our own personal budgets, what happens is you put it towards savings. You put it towards a rainy day fund. And I will tell you, coming from a city like Centennial, where we are so fiscally sound and where we are lean, we’ve got a lean budget. I mean, as far as like we have a good, we have a very good rainy day fund. And we have those requirements in place, you know, reserves that can’t be touched. And guess what? They’re not touched. And from what I understand, that concept also exists with the state, but it’s not followed.
SPEAKER 16 :
No, we overspend. There’s all the pet projects and different things that we do. And, you know, the governor gets on the bandwagon about something and he’ll push things through. And then, of course, you get the other, how should I say, followers of Polis in the legislature, which right now, you know, the majority is right now. Pretty much we’ll walk right in line with what he wants done. And then at the end of the day, wonder why we don’t have enough money.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Yeah. And, John, I’m really glad that you brought that up because the governor does, you know, have a certain kind of is the backstop. That’s right. Right. Whether we love him. That’s right. And I’ll just tell you what what’s happening right now with the Senate. And your listeners may or may not already know this, but we are one seat away in the Senate from becoming a super minority. So let me just break this down. So you’ve got 35 senators that have been elected. And of those 35, the Republicans hold a third. They have 12. So if they lose even one, we get into a super minority. So I am running. and campaigning is if I am representing that 12th seat, right? It would be really good to get even more. In fact, I think we should. I think we should. We should dream bigger and believe bigger that we can take more than just 12. Because right now, even if we retain 12, we just have a say. which we’re still in the minority. So let’s gain some more seats, because if we don’t, then we lose. To your point, there’s no balance left.
SPEAKER 16 :
There’s no balance now. We need to regain as much of that balance back as we can get. And, of course, as a conservative, I’d like to see us have some control again. We did for a while. I know we didn’t have it for a long time, but it would be nice to even see us have an actual real seat at the table. But we’ve got to get at least some balance back into this, Robin.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, and I’ll just say this. If we don’t, then even the governor, he loses veto power. So the policies that are extreme, we haven’t seen anything yet. They’ve not even taken shape.
SPEAKER 08 :
Good point.
SPEAKER 09 :
So if we dip down. So I’m speaking, you know, I know the majority of your listeners are probably conservatives and probably on the right, you know, Republican. But when I speak to that, my whole campaign is.
SPEAKER 16 :
We have a lot of independents that listen and even some folks on the left as well. So you’re talking to a lot of folks out there. Let’s just say that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Well, and I’ll just say this. To me, it’s just logic and reason. You know, when you don’t have balance, we all know there’s no single party that has all the answers. So by having imbalance… We can’t even have those diverse discussions that are necessary for the complex issues that we’re facing, right? So we’re being depraved of that very balance and dialogue that a good system thrives on. So even if you’re not a Republican, gosh, just vote to bring back balance.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
Because that’s going to help level the playing field here in Colorado, which we need.
SPEAKER 16 :
Absolutely. Absolutely. All right. How do folks find you, help you, and all of that, Robin?
SPEAKER 09 :
Sounds good. Well, I told you about how much money is being spent against me. So I really need to I just we need to keep raising money. I’m still dialing for dollars. If anybody feels led to give, we will take it because every dollar that we raise is a is a voter that we can still reach. So they can find me at Carnes for Colorado. That’s C-A-R-N as in Nancy, E-S as in Sam. Four is spelled out. Carnes4Colorado.com. And can I just can I leave you with this? Sure. Absolutely. Let’s just give the analogy of let’s say you go on vacation and you leave your house or your sentence, you know, under the care of a house sitter. And you come back four years later only to find it’s in worse shape than how you left it. When you go on vacation again, let’s just say November 5th, would you hire the same house sitter? Or would you find someone new, experienced, fresh, who has local experience, which let me tell you, so many of those policies right now are affecting your local municipalities. That’s the closest thing to you. So are you going to hire someone else? And you know what? That person is me, Robin Carnes. I may be a challenger, but I’m telling you, I’m a fighter. I will be a champion. Purple is the color of champions. And I will fight for the people of Colorado because they deserve it. So Carnes for Colorado and would love to earn your vote. If you’ve not voted yet, would love to earn your vote.
SPEAKER 16 :
Awesome. Robin, I appreciate it very much. Thank you. And best of luck. And we’ll hopefully we can chat again down the road when you’re senator.
SPEAKER 09 :
Thanks so much, John. Thanks, Robin.
SPEAKER 16 :
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All right. Somebody sent me this today, shifting gears a little bit off of politics for a moment. Somebody sent this today, and I had to laugh. This is a 9 News headline. Cool Down Sends Customers to Tire Shops to Winterize Vehicles. And the person that sent me this said, like, people don’t know when winter hits every year? It’s like the same time every year. I’m always amazed. Always was when I was in the business and owned auto shops and so on. Always amazed at the amount of people in general. across a lot of shops, not just mine, that waited until the last minute to actually get something done. I hope that’s not you guys as my listeners, because with what I do on Saturday, especially with Drive Radio and even some of the automotive things that I slip in during the week, I would hope my listeners wouldn’t do that. But this article is all about how Wednesday’s cool down brought a first glimpse of winter for folks in the metro area, and some are wondering if they might need new tires. I can tell you whether you need tires or not, whether it’s snowing out or not. It’s pretty simplistic. Now, some of you may think, okay, yeah, it is for you. You’re an automotive guy. And I get it. I can look at a tire and tell you if it needs replaced or not. I don’t have to get a gauge out. I can just look at it. And I’m not bragging when I say that. I’ve done it for so long that it’s really easy to tell. Now, you can get the penny out and do Lincoln’s head and all of that. Really, the best way to do it is they’re cheap. You can buy a tire gauge, depth gauge, not an air pressure gauge, but a depth gauge. It’ll tell you exactly what the tread depth is. But most tires built in the last several decades have got wear bar indicators. And you literally can look at the tire, the face of the tire, not the outer edge of the tire, you know, where the rim is, but the actual face where the rubber meets the road, where the tread is. And across the tread will be a bar that runs back and forth, not with the tire, but opposite of the tire. It’s called a wear bar. And literally, you can look at that wear bar, and it’ll be placed all over the tire itself. They’re spaced out evenly. And you can see the wear bars, and it will pretty much tell you when you’re getting close. Rule of thumb for me, and I know everybody’s different, but I think if you really want to be safe in the wintertime and have the traction you need, which we do have bad weather in Colorado, so this is for a lot of folks maybe that are new to Colorado, maybe you’ve just moved here. So, A, you have to look at the wear bar. But rule of thumb for me is if the tire’s less than half of where it started tread-wise, you need tires for the winter. Now, bear with me here. I’m not telling you to take those tires and throw them away. Most people have the ability to take the tires off, put new tires on, and save the old ones for next summer is where I’m going with this. You’ll have two sets of tires now. Now, I get it. Not everybody has a room to store tires, but get creative on that. And what I mean by that is a lot of folks have other places they can store things, including outside if need be. And I’ll explain how you do that in just one moment. So most people have the ability to store things in a lot of different places. Just get creative. You might have a garage. You might have a carport. You might, you know, if you live in a condominium complex or a townhouse or something or an apartment that you rent, it might get a little bit dicier. There are places that will actually store these for you if need be. Some tire shops will do this for you. Some of my auto care centers that we’re associated with will do this for you. But my point is if you have less than half, buy new. Save the old ones to run next summer because it’s not as critical in the summertime to have all of that tread, but it is in the winter. And buy good winter tires. Depending upon where you travel and what you need to meet traction law-wise, buy the appropriate tires for that. And if you don’t know what that is, look it up. You can go on to CDOT’s website and it will explain it. So if you’re somebody that skis a lot, for example. You’re going to want to make sure you have the right tire designation for your type of vehicle. Some of you have all-wheel drives, four-wheel drives, front-wheel drive, some rear-wheel drive. Make sure you’ve got all the appropriate things that you need to travel up I-70 and even in town at times as needed with that traction law we have in Colorado that is now in effect. Okay, so make sure you’re doing all of that correctly. New tires, save the old. Now, if you’re somebody where, hey, I don’t have any room inside the store with these tires. No, I don’t want them in the living room. Don’t blame you. I wouldn’t either. Don’t want them in the bedroom. Don’t want them. Now, keep this in mind. If you bag up the tire, and you can do this yourself even, if the tire store doesn’t do it, just get some trash bags. 40, 50-gallon trash bags will bag most tires. They become nice and easy and clean to store even inside if need be, if that were the case. Believe it or not, you can even put a tire in a closet if you had to. Not all four, but you could put one tire in one, one tire in another. You get creative is my point. You have the ability to store more than you think you do. Now, if you absolutely have to store them outside, you can, again, bag them up. We don’t want them getting water inside and all of that, so we’re going to bag them up and place them outside, hopefully even underneath another tarp if that were the case. If you can keep them in the bag, stack them up, put another tarp on top, tie all that together, there’s your tires that are stored nice and neat for the winter. So as you get into next spring, later April, mid to late April is when we’re going to change these back out. And I always tell people then when it’s time also. leave them on, take them off, whatever. I watch the weather for you, and I’ll tell you exactly what to do at that point in time. But right now it’s time to have good tires. We’re in that season. If you don’t, get them. And other things need to be checked as well, batteries and so on, because we’re in that time of the year where these things can have more strain on them, if you would, and you want to make sure that all those systems are handled. But this article just really did crack me up because it’s like, okay, you’re just doing this now, right? I get it. We’re just now getting into some of the colder weather, but we’ve known that’s coming all along. And I get it. Budgets are tight. It’s part of what we’re talking about politically speaking. The current party in charge makes it that way. It’s made things very tight. By the way, the cost of tires very closely related to the cost of oil. You bring oil prices down, tire prices come down. Direct correlation. Why? Because there’s oil in tires. So point being, get your tires handled. Get your car ready to go. Minimize the cost as much as you can. And by the way, the way you minimize overall cost of repair on your car is proper maintenance. Just like everything else we talk about on this program from all the other sponsors we’ve got from Cub Creek on the heating sides of things to High Five on the plumbing side to Dave Hart, Roof Savers of Colorado on the roof side. I mean, I can go down the list. All of these maintenance things matter because the more of that you do, the less your overall bills will be down the road. And if I could get people to do that, they would save money over time. Gobs of it. So we’ll take our last break. We’ll come back and kind of finish things up. Flesh Law is next. 303-806-8886. Give Kevin a call today.
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All right, that’s it for tonight. Tomorrow, the movies are My Monster and Hit Pig. And then, of course, movie rental hour will be Halloween movies, so scary movies. We’ll see you tomorrow, guys. Have a great night. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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