In this episode of The Kim Monson Show, we tackle pressing issues affecting our communities today. Kim opens with inspiring reflections and a potent quote from Medal of Honor recipient James B. Stockdale, provoking deep thoughts on personal sacrifice and leadership. Our insightful interview with Rich Wyatt delves into Jefferson County’s school board elections. We analyze the critical role of these elections in educational and financial accountability, discussing the dilemmas of school safety funding and the influence of teachers’ unions.
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And it’s not fair just because you’re a big business that you get a break on this and the little guy doesn’t.
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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. Welcome to the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You each are treasured, you’re valued, you have purpose. Today, strive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. And thank you to the team. That’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Friday, Producer Joe. Happy Friday, Kim. And we’ve got a jam-packed show planned for you, so fasten your seatbelts. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And our text line is 720-605-0647. I do want to hear from you. And you can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com. I am behind on emails again. I’m going to be working on that this weekend. But email me. I do really care about each and every one of you. As you know, we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And it’s never compassionate nor altruistic to take other people’s stuff. That could be their rights, their property, their freedom, their livelihoods, their opportunities, their childhoods, or their lives. Enforced could be a weapon, but my, oh, my, we’re seeing it with policy and unpredictable and excessive taxation and fear and coercion and government-induced inflation. And this World Economic Forum agenda, we saw it at the United Nations. Then we saw it – well, we saw it with the old Biden-Harris administration. And then we saw it with the globalist elites and coming down to this governor, this legislature, but we’re seeing it now at local and county governments as well. And people are waking up and they’re pushing back. So that’s good. And these discussions happen. because of our sponsors. And I wanted to say thank you to the Harris family for their gold sponsorship of the show and also Hooters restaurants. They have locations in Loveland, Westminster and in Parker or on Parker Road in Aurora and wonderful specials for lunch and happy hour. And so be sure and check that out as well. Our word of the day is repudiate. It’s spelled R-E-P-U-D-I-A-T-E. It’s a transitive verb. It could be to reject the validity or authority of. Number two, to reject emphatically as unfounded, untrue, or unjust. And number three, to refuse, to recognize, or to pay. And citizens are stepping up to repudiate. Many of these onerous and overreaching policies and ordinances and then regulations that we’re seeing. So the word of the day is repudiate. Your challenge is to use it in a sentence today. And again, that’s R-E-P-U-D-I-A-T-E. Our quote of the day, since it is Friday, we’re going to the Medal of Honor quote book from the Center for American Values. And the center is located in Pueblo on the beautiful Riverwalk. It’s a very special place. And the Medal of Honor Portraits of Valor really is – it’s changed my life. And just the reverence for these people, these men that had – had basically put it all on the line to protect others. And the Medal of Honor is the highest military award that can be awarded. And the center was co-founded by Drew Dix, Medal of Honor recipient, for actions that he took during the Vietnam War, and Brad Padula, who is an Emmy Award-winning documentary maker. among other things. And our quote of the day is from James B. Stockdale, United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient, who was born in 1923. He died in 2005. And it is really a remarkable story. And he actually ran for vice president with Ross Perot. But this is his citation. as for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty, while a senior naval officer in the prisoner of war camps of North Vietnam. Recognized by his captors as the leader in the prisoners of war’s resistance to interrogation and in their refusal to participate In propaganda exploitation, Rear Admiral Stockdale was singled out for interrogation and attendant torture after he was detected in a covert communications attempt. sensing the start of another purge and aware that his earlier efforts at self self-disfiguration to dissuade his captors from exploiting him for propaganda purposes had resulted in cruel and agonizing punishment rear admiral stockdale resolved to make himself a symbol of resistance regardless of personal sacrifice He deliberately inflicted a near mortal wound to his person in order to convince his captors of his willingness to give up his life rather than to capitulate. He was subsequently discovered and revived by the North Vietnamese who, convinced of his indomitable spirit, abated in their employment of excessive harassment and torture toward all the prisoners of war. By his heroic actions, at great peril to himself, he earned the everlasting gratitude of his fellow prisoners and of his country. Rear Admiral Stockdale’s valiant leadership and extraordinary courage in a hostile environment sustain and enhance the finest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service. And I’d recommend that you check out his life story. It’s pretty interesting. But his quote that is on his portrait at the Center for American Values, and again, that website is AmericanValuesCenter.org, is the last part of Rudyard Kipling’s poem, If. And this is James B. Stockdale’s quote. He says, If you can fill all 60 seconds of the unforgiving minute, yours is the earth and everything that’s in it. And even more, you’ll be a man, my son. And that is the quote from Medal of Honor recipient James B. Stockdale. And Now, pleased to have on the line with me, Rich Wyatt. He is the chair of the Jefferson County GOP. Rich Wyatt, welcome to the show.
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Thank you, Kim. Good morning, and how are you today?
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I am doing well. Glad to hear it. We are in election season. And these school board races are so important. And the teachers unions, who don’t really care about teachers and don’t really care about kids, they care about power, are putting money into some of these different races. But there’s some wild stuff going on out in Jefferson County with some of these candidates. So tell us what’s going on.
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Kim, it really fired off last night at the board meeting during the public comment section. As you know, I live in Evergreen, where the horrifying school shooting most recently happened. And there was about 13 armed R1 school district security people at the meeting last night, but they didn’t have an armed person at Evergreen High School anymore because the school board decided they couldn’t afford it. And the parents were enraged last night over this type of thing and offended, as I was. I’m a parent of a high school daughter still. And, you know, I’ve had – as a matter of fact, I have a daughter that’s a schoolteacher here in Jefferson County. And it’s quite disgusting what this school board has done.
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Can I just interject something here, Rich?
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Yes, yes.
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And that is, at least what I’m hearing you say, is there was no armed security person at Evergreen High School. But at the Jefferson County School Board meeting last night, there were 13 armed people. Am I getting that right? Yes.
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You’re 100 percent right. And not only that, that they had that many people in this incident command response team, all these people there every single day prior to this, because I was there recently with another debacle that they tried to do against Terry Rescone, who’s running for the school board office and is a great candidate. She’s a veteran and she’s a mom and was a foster mom. It’s just fantastic. They have a guard there at that office protecting the adults, which are allowed to protect themselves every single day. But as you also know, we’re in a $60 million budget deficit. We have, you know, just problem after problem. We have cases over and over again of misconduct caused by counselors. One of the counselors at Evergreen and at Green Mountain High School was most recently arrested for not just selling drugs but manufacturing them. He’s a suspect. I don’t think he has not been convicted yet. He’s arrested. He’s a suspect also in sexual abuse on a child and also prostitution, turning the children. This is the counselor. My daughter went to this counselor. Can you imagine? It’s outrageous. Mary Parker is one of the people running against… Terry Rascone, and she’s got to be destroyed. She just hates guns so much.
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Let’s clarify. When you say destroyed, what you mean is that she needs to be voted out of office, yes?
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Absolutely. Yes, she needs to be taken out of office. And go do whatever she wants in her life. Enjoy her life. But in this election, she should lose by a landslide because if she even gets a vote, Whoever voted for her is just, they’re not a parent. I don’t understand what they could possibly be doing. I literally told her she should step down. And parents last night were so frustrated. And even before we got to this emotional issue of September 10th, the day that the beautiful Charlie Kirk was assassinated and this kid went crazy in the school, this school board had failed so miserably. near Jefferson County, and they shut the school down, and they’re not allowed to sell the school because the color strands that donated the property so many years ago put it in the agreement when they donated it that it must always be a school. Why would you make a business decision to shut down a school that you can’t sell?
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Interesting.
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So now it sits there, and we just get to use it as a beautiful empty building. And, you know, it’s it’s just this is the type of behavior and you hit it. It’s the unions. OK, the unions back the candidate that has recently come out and it’s been reported in the news that this guy was charged with some type of sexual assault on a minor stuff. You know, earlier in his life, he’s a young guy. He’s in his 20s, I understand. And he doesn’t have children. Why is he running for the school board?
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Really? OK, so we’re getting short on time here, Rich. So, yeah, I’d want to make a comment, though, because tomorrow is this no more King’s Day event. And if you take a look at this, the fact that the Jefferson County School Board is protecting themselves with armed security personnel, that sounds to me like they’re treating themselves like kings. I just wanted to make that point.
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Great point. Thank you so much. See, the thing is, it’s just like every person, these leftists, they believe they’re better than us. And what I said to him was, who are you to have armed guards here when you can protect yourself? But the children that are not allowed to protect themselves, the most vulnerable, the most people that should be protected in our community have no protections because they didn’t want to spend the money on the budget. And folks, the union gave this kid that has this sexual assault possibly in his background $11,000. Wow. $11,000 to run. And so we’ve got to get these people out. Terry Rascone has a real good chance. Sam Minor is the other person you want to vote for. And don’t vote for anybody else. Just vote for those two people if you’re concerned about our children in Jefferson County and you’re concerned about the budget. Listen, we need safety in these schools. We need some clear accountability, and we need some transparency because they are hiding behind everything and spending money like it’s not theirs because it’s not. And they don’t care about us. They don’t care about our children, and they don’t care about the education. Our kids aren’t even coming out educated enough in Jefferson County. They can’t do math. They can’t read. The rates, the levels of this stuff is absolutely skyrocketing. But we spend half a million dollars on a consultant firm to come tell us what we should be teaching the kids. Didn’t these teachers go to college? I know I paid for my daughter to go to college, and it was a lot of money. And she doesn’t have a loan. And if that didn’t teach them, then why do we need a consulting firm for half a million? They just don’t have any consideration of budget.
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So Rich Wyatt, again, who are you recommending that people vote for for Jefferson County School Board?
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In Jefferson County, while you have the opportunity to vote for more, please only vote for two. Vote for Gloria Terry Rascone.
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That’s R-A-S-C-O-N, right?
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That’s correct. Thank you, Kim. And she’s a single mom of three adopted foster children. She was a foster mom 20 years in the military. Wonderful woman. And vote for Sam Minard. Those are the only two votes that you can possibly have there. And the reason we don’t vote for the other is if we have to, if we get these two in and we have to recall any of these candidates, it’s easier to do it with the less votes they have. So it’s strategic and we have to be Careful and turn your ballots in right away. Get them filled out. Get them sent in. You have them. If you didn’t get your ballot to your home, please go to the Jefferson County Election Office and get the ballot. And I also wanted to point out they tried to cheat against Terry. They put her name on the ballot wrong. We were forced to sue them. Kim. And in one day, Jefferson County Republicans turned that around and got them to put the name on the ballot. Right. But a lawsuit was required to be filed. Wow. People are just atrocious. The union, the school board is in there now. They got to go.
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So make a change, make a change. Rich Wyatt, thank you so much for sharing this information with us.
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Oh, thank you, Kim, for having us on, and you all have a blessed day.
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It is Friday, 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 do check out the USMC Memorial Foundation’s website. We’re getting closer and closer to Veterans Day, and a great way to honor veterans. Our veterans is to support the foundation. You can do that by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. That is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Pleased to have in studio with me my colleague, and she is our partnership liaison, and that is Teresa Irby. Teresa, it’s great to have you here. It’s great to be here, Kim. Good morning, everyone. And you can get more information. Let’s see. I’ve got my notes here. Let’s see. Well, it starts at Res Church on Crossroads Boulevard. Doors open at 430, and the program begins at 550. And so be sure and join me tomorrow evening. That should be great. Also, our voter’s guide, which I spent a lot of time on that, is out. You can go to my website, KimMonson.com. There’s a red ribbon at the top. Put in your name and your email, and we will answer. send you the link for the voter’s guide, and hopefully that can be a good tool as you complete your ballot. On the line with me is Virginia Maka, and she is the founder of Stand for the Land Kansas. She understands the importance, as the founders did, of ownership of property, and our ownership of property is under assault. Virginia Maka, welcome to the show. Good morning. How are you, Kim? I am well. And you and I have had a lot of conversations, but this eminent domain thing is out of control.
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It is no different across the United States on every front, on every level, in every county, in every city. the amount of these cases are rising. But I particularly became interested in Colorado because you seem to be about a year and a half behind where Kansas was at this time, when I had no idea eminent domain was gonna be, really it’s become my life work. I read the Supreme Court is hearing some big cases that will impact regulatory taking and there isn’t anyone that is immune to it if you’re happening to your neighbors that should be a lesson to you get involved uh albert county uh has I have been really watching that case.
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And this is where Excel is. They’re using eminent domain to take farmers and ranchers land in Elbert County and in El Paso County. And, Virginia, you and I have talked about it. These county commissioners in both those counties voted no on the permit. And you said to me that they are basically holding the line. It is a big deal what they’ve done.
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It is a big deal because when they denied the permit and they are holding up the last leg of the transmission line, the pathway, a small group of people and these commissioners are holding back the surge of green energy jobs that are coming to Colorado in mass amounts, solar and wind and battery jobs. And along with those projects will be the giant data centers. They won’t be the large ones that have Facebook or Google attached to their name. These are small, random data centers that are popping up all over Kansas counties. And it has been horrendous last week. One, finding out information of how they even can be doing this. And two, they are using abandoned gas wells as a power source to power these small data centers. So back to Albert County, remember Eastern Colorado has abandoned gas wells probably in the hundreds that we don’t even know about. And so I look to this eminent domain case very seriously. If Colorado does not hold the line and these counties don’t win and protect their land, eastern Colorado will look similar to a glass desert and it will really impact the agricultural heritage but really the economy in those counties. And it’s right next to western Kansas, which is looking mostly like a big transmission graveyard. So it’s really sad.
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So let’s connect this dot for people that live in urban centers and they say, well, guys, it doesn’t matter to me that they’re taking this farm and ranch land. It does matter to people in the urban centers because we have taken for granted what farmers and ranchers have provided for us. And that is abundant and affordable food sources. And if we take that land out of production and and and and put it into unsustainable power sources, well, unreliable power sources, I should say, what we’re going to see is our energy prices will continue to go up, but we’re going to have higher and higher prices at the grocery store, and eventually we could have shortages, Virginia.
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In the Midwest, we’re really spoiled financially. I would say, when it comes to farm to table. And sometimes we take that for granted that everybody has a garden. But it’s the big farmers that bring in the produce to the grocery stores that feed the urban areas. And those centers, the urban centers, will be impacted the most. And they will rapidly be seeing shortages Now, in the agriculture that we protect out here in the rural areas, we choose that way of life, and we can sustain ourselves for a while. But in the end, everybody suffers paying higher prices for utilities. Businesses have to raise their prices because of that impact. We all suffer in… in some way or another. And then comes the water. You know, these data centers take giant amounts of water. And impacting our water systems, it will be a tragedy because water is in such limited supply. And public concern and health should come first. But in Albert County, I’ve been tracking the cases that have been in front of the Public Utility Commission, and those hearings are, to me, tending to be a little more positive. Excel sued both counties and took them to the PUC and asked that they expedite the cases against the county. Mm-hmm. And that was denied. Good.
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And let’s talk about that strategy. Virginia, let’s go to break. I’m talking with Virginia Maka. She is the founder of Stand for the Land Kansas. In studio with me is Teresa Irby, who is our partnership liaison. And these are such important discussions. We have them because of our sponsors. And Alicia Garcia and Teddy Collins and Rosia Collins, with the Second Syndicate, are doing great work to… to work to protect our Second Amendment rights and make our schools safe again. And so appreciate them.
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Indeed, it is Friday. And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. In studio with me is Teresa Irby. She is our partnership liaison. Great to have you. Oh, so good to be here. Good morning. And Virginia Maka is on the line. She is the founder of Stand for the Land Kansas. And as she said, she’s making it her life’s work. regarding eminent domain and protecting property rights. And Virginia, this is foundational to our American idea to do this. And I’m a little behind you. Sometimes when I talk with you, it’s like, okay, Virginia, I’m trying to follow you. You have learned so much about these issues. But this came in from one of our listeners. She said, Kim, they regulate to shut down natural gas wells. Then Xcel or whoever comes in and builds AI centers using these abandoned wells. There’s some dots to connect there. I think she’s right, Virginia.
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There is. Here we follow the rules. Everyone that is a gas producer follows the rules. When a well’s so old, in Kansas it’s 10 years. I’m not sure about Colorado. But after 10 years and the well doesn’t produce, they ask the person that owns the well to plug it. The commission does. The regulators do. And all of a sudden, these abandoned wells started appearing housing data centers that look much like the containers that come across the ocean. And they’re full of computers. And this, you know, this isn’t just one case that I found. There’s like 3,000. uh wells that have been targeted and probably permitted i’m not sure yet it’s such a when you find a rock and turn it over be prepared because it’s just a giant mess and i’ve called the regulators on this and so they are standing by their decision to allow these abandoned wells to be repurposed that’s what they’re calling it repurposed
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Well, and you had a story of you saw someone that had one of these little data centers running off of an abandoned gas well. And so you visited with this person, and his quality of life has totally changed, right? Yeah.
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His American dream is dwindling. I can see the toll taking, emotional toll and physical toll being taken on the family. We have gone to commission meetings. And that’s the part that is really sad is that our system doesn’t work all the time and we should be prepared to change it. And it doesn’t seem like anybody’s prepared to at least enforce some kind of noise. uh regulation he lives a hundred less than a hundred yards from a data center 24 7 7 days a week it never stops and it’s a constant humming in the air and when you’re on his front porch it it meters out at 85 decibels that’s like air protection safety according to OSHA. That’s the level of air protection required. So could you imagine living in that 24-7? It’s really sad. And we’re getting places, but it’s a slow process. The county is implementing a resolution about noise, but they can’t grandfather it in so that we could eliminate this data center. But this may help other counties to rush to the the implementation of resolutions on on noise and really i just feel sad for the family
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Yeah. And I was thinking on the way in, we were going to be talking about eminent domain. And there’s this saying that when the bulldozers show up, it’s too late. And when that little data center shows up, that’s too late as well. That’s why we have to be shedding light on this. Let’s revisit Elbert County. and El Paso County, because you have been watching these hearings. And I did not realize this, but Excel had requested to expedite this decision regarding eminent domain. And to my knowledge, Excel’s permit still is, their permit request is still not complete. But they’re out there threatening eminent domain with these farmers and ranchers. And Do you think that they’re trying to expedite this because they’re trying to get this in before the tax credits run out? The Trump administration is taking away funding for a number of these and incentives for solar, industrial solar and wind projects. What do you think that strategy is, Virginia?
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Absolutely. It’s about the transferable tax credits. But it’s also about penalties for Excel if they are late. on delivery of the product. And I believe they’re gonna pay penalties on this line if they don’t complete. This is the last leg of this line. And when you want to expedite things, that means you are eliminating public hearings. People don’t have time to roll out their defense. It’s not a proper procedure. And I give kudos to the Public Utility Commission for denying the expediting of this case for the two counties. Now, on the property owners, they’re trying to group them, and so they call it case management, and I haven’t been able to really find a lot of cases that involve case management, but it must be similar to mediation. But think about this. the 13 owners that are going to face this on November 10th the case management hearing is going to be held each one of those owners their land all have different features all have they deliver different products to the owner whether it’s agriculture or just grazing but each case should be separately heard because you’re missing the fact that everybody has a different scenario and a different connection and it’s an emotional connection to their land and they have the right for due process and when you lump people together you lose that
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Well, absolutely. And once again, XL is probably attempting to do this because they are trying to expedite all of this and just run over the property rights of these farmer and ranchers in Elbert and El Paso County. So what is next steps, Virginia? What should we be doing?
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Next steps would be Pay attention and get involved. Get involved in these cases. Go to your county. Go to your planning and zoning board. Just go to one meeting and see what they talk about. I have been astonished at the things that are coming in front of zoning and planning boards. And each county that has a comprehensive plan now has a planning and zoning administrator in charge. last week i got a call from a harvey county commissioner who is now facing fema and fema redoing the maps in harvey county and i mean i was shocked and so was she and these county commissioners don’t know a lot about everything like fema and water and water management And neither do the planning and zoning administrators that she has under her. So she’s asking me what should she do. And the first thing you do is get educated. So people need to educate themselves about their rights. The people that are going to go through the eminent domain process will face the government, actually condemning your land that’s a very heart-wrenching hearing to go through that someone is actually condemning your land and the legal process goes to mediation and there there are just so many things that happen in in the process and really eliminate the conversation with the property owner. It’s as if they’re just going to take it and give you fair market value. So in Kansas, in fair market value, and I’m sure in Colorado it’s the same, they find an appraiser and get an appraisal, a fair market. When you don’t want to sell your land, there really isn’t a fair market. Good point. And most of the time these fair market values underpriced the land and so it’s very uh it’s a very heart-wrenching thing and i’ve seen a lot of people going through it and it emotionally stifles you at almost speechless at a hearing and finding representation in these hearings is very difficult because lawyers don’t want to uh deal with with going against these you know the big guys the big utilities so we we have a problem in finding legal counsel for these landowners we have probably two lawyers in the whole state that will even take cases for us so that that’s an asset if you if you’re in the legal profession i would be hanging out a shingle that says i represent only an eminent domain, and you probably have a great business.
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That’s so interesting. I was talking with someone the other day, and they said that there is a firm, and you and I need to reach out to them, that they have decided to become an eminent domain firm. So we’re going to have to talk about that. Virginia Maka, we’re going to go to break. It always goes so quickly when Virginia’s on because she is such a wealth of information. And all this happens because of our sponsors. For everything mortgages, you’ll want to reach out to Lorne Levy.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Join me tomorrow evening up in Loveland at Res Church on Crossroads Boulevard for a gubernatorial candidate forum session. on the GOP side and doors open at 4 30 and program begins at 5 50 and so we’d love to have you join us on that and check out my voters guide which is at kim monson mon son.com and just click on the red ribbon at the top and we will put in your name your email and we will send you a link for the guide in studio with me is Teresa Irby she is our partnership liaison and one of our great sponsors is Mint Financial Strategies. And you and Jody are good friends.
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It really is about paying attention and becoming involved in your community. And like you said, go to those governor. The forum. Just become in the forum. It introduces you to candidates that have a good intention to serve and some of them don’t. But ask them one question, where they stand on property rights, because that will really separate them out. A lot of people will give you lip service. But talk about land rights and election integrity. Those are hard questions for people to dodge. And people are very interested in getting candidates that really stand firm on property rights. The amount of eminent domain authority that’s been given out by our government to for-profit companies is staggering. And these for-profit companies are being given the right to just take our land. And a lot of people are starting to wake up that I think it’s going to be a trend and it’s not going to stop. with all of the green energy and the AI and the data centers, the planning and zoning boards, get yourself appointed to one. Those are the decision makers. Those are the decision makers that pass those on to the commissioners of counties and give an up or a down vote and suggest that they pass it or they pass on it. And so… Those are the things that people can do. But really, the Constitution, if you start reading the Constitution, you will see everything that’s playing out in today’s world. And being versed in your rights and knowing if the county gives you an appraisal, hire a private firm to make sure that that is a just price. If you hear something, verify it. If you think there’s something going on when you see survey crews, Ask them what they’re doing. They give you a lot of information out in the field, more than I get paperwork.
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Well, and a couple of things I wanted to mention, that these planning and zoning commissions are appointed basically by your county commissioners, or if it’s a city, would be by your mayor and your city council. And what I saw is that there are electeds that are really pushing and playing out the agenda of the World Economic Forum, which is totally against individual property rights. And so I had seen these electeds that are pushing that agenda and then they have the help of staff, which much of staff has gone to these universities in public administration and have been well-versed in the agenda of the World Economic Forum. But then many times staff may recommend people for these zoning and planning commissions. Again, commission means they’re unelected and they’re unaccountable. And it can get very cozy regarding agendas. And I’m not real comfortable with planning and zoning commissions. And then I remember years ago, and I don’t know what happened with it, that there was actually a bill here in Colorado that had been proposed that these planning and zoning commissioners would get paid. And so here, I was very uncomfortable with that as well, Virginia, but I think it’s important to understand that you do really need to watch these planning and zoning meetings.
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According to the Federal Energy Regulation Commission, who is trying to find a backstop, they call it a backstop, so they can jump over the eminent domain cases that have happened in the Supreme Court. They are focused on diverting the power from your commission now to… making your zoning and planning administrator and head of that planning and zoning board have more power in these permits. I’m watching that play out in Crawford County, Kansas as we speak. Today we will go to a commission meeting that commissioners are going to have to consider a city that has that wants to annex land that is miles from the city next to the highway for a 1700 acre solar farm and not all of it is in one piece these are just parcels and patchwork they think that they have the authority to give that solar company a permit a special use permit so now we have to go to the attorney general to get A an opinion on this special use permit and that has created all these other little cities looking at this like solar companies won’t even come to the Commission and file. for that or go to the planning and zoning they’ll just go to the cities and that’s going to cause it create a mass amount of confusion so look for that to happen where they can’t get past your commissioners in your counties and now they’re going to try to subvert that power to an unelected committee of people that can be influenced by special interests more easily than your commissioners can because they’re elected. And we get a lot of that confusion and then they just keep rolling right over the property owners. It’s just a really sad thing to see commissioners be usurped of their power and they are the elected officials. So look for that to happen, Kim, because zoning and planning Boys will, they want to empower them more because they’re more influential and and they can be influenced by special interests. So that is what I’m learning this week.
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Oh, my gosh, Virginia. And we’re going to have you on once a month to give us updates on what you’re doing because I just think it’s so important. Your final thought, Virginia Maka, and again, thank you for standing for the land. And that website is stand4thelandkansas.com, stand4thelandkansas.com. Your final thought, Virginia. Thank you.
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My final thought is don’t give up hope. Look for people that are near you, contiguous landowners. Go to them and talk to them about your concerns. Become a group. Groups have more power, but they also prop each other up with hope. And I believe in America that this thing will turn around when people realize how many rights we’re losing every day, and it’s got to stop somewhere. And so always have hope and pray for our country, but pray for our elected officials. Step up, run for office, and please go vote this election for your school board. It’s a dire need to get good people on the school board with common sense approaches, and that’s the answer.
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is to remember to vote. And if you, regarding school boards, there’s a great tool, transformcolorado.org, and they did a survey of school board candidates throughout the state, and they’ll have whether or not people answered the questions or not, and that’s a great resource, transformcolorado.org. Virginia Maka, have a great day. We’ll talk again soon. And thank you very much, Kim. Good day to your listeners. Okay, and our quote for the end of the show is from Thomas Paine. He said this, The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. So today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
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Tell them if I don’t survive
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indeed let’s have a conversation and welcome to our number two of the kim monson show thank you so much for joining us you each are treasured you’re valued you have purpose today’s drive for excellence take care of your heart your soul your mind and your body my friends we were made for this moment in history and thank you to the team that’s producer joe luke rachel zach echo charlie mike theresa amanda and all the people here at crawford broadcasting it is friday producer joe Happy Friday, Kim. It’s been a good week, and we’ve got another great week planned for you. Next week in studio with me is Teresa Irby. She is our partnership liaison at The Kim Monson Show. It’s great to have you here. It’s great to be here, Kim. Yeah, and if somebody is interested, first of all, appreciates what we do here. We’re an independent voice. And if you strive for excellence in your business, which all of these sponsors that we have do, if those are two things that, and you’d like to grow your business, they should reach out to you. How can people reach you?
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So appreciate you immensely. And a great sponsor of the show is the Harris family. And they’ve been sponsors for a long time. And I thank them for their goal sponsorship of the show. Our word of the day is repudiate. It’s spelled R-E-P-U-D-I-A-T-E. It’s a transitive verb. And it could be to reject the validity or authority of. Number two, to reject emphatically or as unfounded, untrue or unjust. And number three, to refuse to recognize or pay. We need to repudiate what is happening in our communities regarding our property and our rights. And Virginia Maka had recommended it. And I’m going to do that this weekend. I’m going to read the Constitution. It’s been a while. And I had on my list of things to do when I was up at Constitution Week to read my Constitution. And I’m going to do that.
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I think we all need to take a minute and read our Constitution and remember what this country was founded on.
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And our Constitution is shorter than maybe – I think our Constitution is shorter than Proposition LL and Proposition MM and the legislation that put those things on our ballot. And it’s certainly more important. And what’s wrong with that picture? Yeah. Exactly. So that’s why you should check out our voters guide, which is at Kim Monson dot com. And we’ve taken no positions on those two. It’s healthy school meals for children. Who could be against that? Right. Except if you look at it, there’s a whole bunch of bureaucracies and PBIs that are going to be making decisions and money. And and then also looked at the five Denver bond questions in depth. And recommending no on those. And then in addition, I had as our source, the Colorado Municipal League, a number of different ballot questions for municipalities. And let’s see. Oh, the other thing is, is we put a list of our 64 counties and the county clerk’s phone numbers there. and recommended that if you want more information about a candidate, reach out to your county clerk. They should have their contact information. Do your due diligence on those candidates. And as Virginia said, one of the things that you ask is, where do you stand on property rights? Or school board members, where do you stand on parental rights? What about the whole transgender agenda? Although, Teresa, I saw a headline. This was from… The Western Journal. And it says the number of young Americans identifying as trans and queer is plummeting. The study likens it to a fading of a fashion or a trend. Now, this is exciting. However, think about the children that have been damaged because of this. That’s the part that kills me. But at least we’re making a change on that. So our quote for the day is from, it’s Friday, so from our Medal of Honor quote book from the Center for American Values. And the center’s located in Pueblo. They’re nonpolitical, nonpartisan, but they’re focused on these foundational principles of honor, integrity, and patriotism. And so they put together some great educational programs for K-12 kids as well as educators. On Monday, they will be having an On Values program presentation with norma donlon and then their beautiful portraits of valor of over 160 of our medal of honor recipients this quote is from james b stockdale united states navy medal of honor recipient born in 1923 died in 2005 he was a prisoner of war and what he did to to stand up and try to protect the other prisoners of war is just amazing. And his quote that is on his portrait of valor is the last sentence from If by Rudyard Kipling. And I, at some point in time next week, I’ll share that whole poem with you. But he says this, if you can fill all 60 seconds of the unforgiving minute, yours is the earth and everything that’s in it. And even more, you’ll be a man, my son. And I just love that, Teresa.
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I love the Center for American Values. I could literally spend hours just standing and reading the quotes from all of the Medal of Honor recipients. If you’ve never been, you absolutely should make the trek down to Pueblo. It’s absolutely… It’s life-changing, in my opinion.
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It is life-changing.
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And beautiful and so well done. And on the darling river walk that they have down there that I didn’t even know they had. But just standing and reading those quotes and really feeling humbled for the men and women who have served to give me my freedom.
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I totally agree. And that website is AmericanValueCenter.org. AmericanValueCenter.org. And on the line with me is Alicia Garcia. And she’s one of the co-founders of the Second Syndicate. And she and Teddy Collins and Rosia Collins are… doing the work to shed light on what’s happening regarding the assault upon our right to keep and bear firearms to protect ourselves and our families against bad actors. And they’re preparing for another legislative session, which will begin right after the first of the year. And Alicia has been down there a lot at the State House testifying. But Alicia, I was thinking about you today and And this work that you’re doing and you’ve got a drawing for a firearm. But I think we need to make a movement. Massa, make our schools safe again. What do you think, Alicia Garcia? I love that idea, Kim. And we hear the term, we want to make our schools safer. And I thought, we don’t want to make our schools safer. We want to make them safe again. And you’re doing a program right now. Tell us about that. And people can get entered in a drawing by supporting you. So tell us a little bit about that.
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Yes. So I just watched a video last night that I’m going to share on my social medias. of the one i believe if she’s a superintendent or somebody for the evergreen high school and what had happened there on the same day that charlie kirk was assassinated was just awful and so you know we’re seeing that these schools are being attacked by these ideologies by these by these children that are committing acts of violence that are just children themselves they need rehabilitation they need They need leadership and they need adults and they need love and they need self-confidence and they need to understand de-escalation and conflict resolution, all these other things. and what we what we sat around and said is you know we don’t want to wait until our government is going to find solutions for us when our children are in such desperate need of these things we’re going to do what we can as a second amendment organization to intervene and define solutions and be solution oriented so we said what we’re going to do is we are going to start raising money That way we can start paying the tuition for any educator or staffer that wants to be armed in schools. Now, a lot of people are unaware that this law exists, that these teachers and these staffers are more than welcome to be armed so they can exercise their right to protect our children. But the tuition is $1,000. And we said, okay, how do we support Faster Colorado, which is the organization that they would attend in order to get that training, as well as these educators and staffers that want to be armed? We said, let’s raise the money, let’s see what we can do to offset the cost of the tuition, pay that for them, as well as see what we can do as gun shop owners, as us being involved in the CFSLA, as my business partners being Spartan Defense, that we can find the resources that these people educators and staffers need in order to take that burden of the cost away from them and supply them with the solutions. So that’s exactly what we’re doing. And every donation at thesecondsyndicate.com, the2ndsyndicate.com, they can go there. They can donate to arm the educators. And every donation of $5 or more enters you in to win a custom engraved Springfield 1911 that was generously donated by the damage factory.
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So if somebody gave $100, would they be entered 20 times? Yep. Oh, okay. Okay, well, I would, so where can people do this again, Alicia Garcia?
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Yeah, they can go to Give, Send, Go and go to Operation Education. They can also go to our website, the2ndsyndicate.com, and they can find the link to donate there as well. But if they can’t find it, you tell them to give me a call. They can find me at all my socials on the Internet. You can always find me as the Boomstick Babe or at Boomstick Babe on all platforms. You can also find us at The Second Syndicate on all platforms as well.
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Okay. And then also, just mention your business as well, what you do with Concealed Carry.
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Oh, wonderful. So what I do is I run a business with my friend Mark Schneider. It is concealed carry class Denver.com. And what we do is we arm and educate everybody, not only for renewal for concealed carry for basic concealed carry defensive pistol. We do de-escalation. I teach, uh, OC spray, which is pepper spray as well. I host those types of classes for, uh, you know, a little bit lesser than lethal than, um, You know, some people out there aren’t ready to commit to carrying a gun every day, but they should be exercising their right to, you know, situational awareness and preparing for that. So I offer those services as well. And people can find that where? At the, it’s concealedcarryclassdenver.com or also on Eventbrite. They can find concealed carry class Denver on Eventbrite and book their class. And I am the Thornton location. Okay. Thank you so much, Alicia Garcia. We will talk with you next week.
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There’s so much noise coming at us. Sometimes it is difficult to make sense of it all. How can you sift through the clamor for your attention and get to the truth? The Kim Monson Show is here to help. Kim searches for truth and clarity by examining issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Tune in to the Kim Monson Show each weekday, 6 to 8 a.m. with encores 1 to 2 p.m. and 10 to 11 p.m. on KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM. The KLZ website, the KLZ app, and Alexa. Play KLZ. Shows can also be found at KimMonson.com, Spotify, and iTunes. It’s Friday!
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It is Friday, and welcome back. And a question coming in on the text line, 720-605-0647, is this gubernatorial Northern Colorado Republican Governor Forum tomorrow, Saturday, October 18th, at Res Church, 6502 East Crossroads Boulevard in Loveland. Doors open at 430, Program 550. I will be moderating it. Fifteen of the 18 GOP candidates will be there. It will be live streamed on the YouTube channel Better Nate Than Never, BNTN. And also it will be archived there as well. So I wanted to get back with you on that. In studio with me is Teresa Irby. She is our partnership liaison. Are you having a ball?
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I’m having such a ball. Happy Friday, everyone.
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And on the line is my friend Dana Bush. And she is a citizen watchdog. And we’ve got a success story that we want to share. Dana Bush, welcome to the show. Hi, Kim. Thank you for having me again. And let’s set this up. You live in North Cherry Creek. You pay pretty healthy property taxes already in North Cherry Creek, as well as the residents do there. And there was a proposal for a GID. a general improvement district. And as you studied it, and some of your other neighbors, you saw danger, danger, right? Yes, that’s absolutely correct.
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And so, and I think a lot of it too, Kim, is a combination of things. We really felt blindsided because it seemed to have appeared from nowhere. And so when we started asking questions of our council person, the response was, well, you all wanted this. You wanted these services. And for those in your audience who don’t know what a get is, a get is supposed to be initiated and started by the taxpaying citizens in a specified area because they are agreeing to impose a self-tax on themselves to cover services that supposedly your government wouldn’t provide and really be managed by your government. And so we were like, we have not asked for services. We live in a beautiful area. We do not need these. And then we just kept getting pushbacks and no answers and no responses. So that is really what started this rolling.
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Well, and the GID was, so you interfaced with your Denver City Council woman. And did you feel that you were listened to?
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No. And that was part of what continued to lead to the anger. Because, again, if you look at what supposedly are the requirements on the city’s website, which are really not spelled out to the degree they should be, she couldn’t come to us and say, well, you know, here’s, you know, here are all the people I talked to. Here’s the meetings we had. They kept referring to the 2012 Cherry Creek area plan. During that time, most of Denver was going through upzoning and changing. But as we dug into the Cherry Creek area plan, we didn’t see the mention of a GID. Then we were discovering that our council person, the consultant, and some other individuals kind of in our neighborhood had been meeting with all the business owners and developers all around this good, which made no sense to us, too. If this is a resident-led and you’re charging us taxes for services, why are you not coming to us first? So the more we continued to dig into this, the more we had questions and concerns about the implications. There were a couple of postcards that were mailed to people supposedly asking if we wanted services. I received these postcards. Several people didn’t even remember getting a postcard. But it was a very disingenuous process in that it didn’t flatly come out and say, We are proposing a tax increase that you all will be paying for, and that would be how we would pay for the services that you can then give us your opinion on in this survey. So it was the reverse. It was, oh, here are all these things. Would you like landscaping? Would you like lighting? Would you like security? So the manipulative way that they presented this in the beginning, the fact that they misrepresented the area, they had completely misrepresented. lied, in my opinion, about excluding an area they were soliciting information from. There was no true verification process to take this survey. And so when they started presenting data from this to us, we had a lot of questions and concerns, too, because of how they went about it, how few people knew about it, the manipulation of the data in the survey. So, like, this whole thing is… is just very, very suspect.
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So you sprung into action, Dana. Tell us what that process was like.
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Yeah. So myself, and uh one of our the other neighbors uh in the area in particular wayne knew who was uh head of our neighborhood association for years in our city council person after our meeting neighborhood meeting where they initially presented this where we had 120 people very upset about this wayne and i and another individual got together and we said, we need to have a meeting. So we sat down with our council person, which is Amanda Sawyer, who is not running again, by the way. So that was interesting to us. And Jamie Gillis, a consultant who has done several of these around the city, which was another concern to us, that these are popping up everywhere, at my house in early June to try and get answers and ask questions And it was, in a lot of ways, a very unproductive meeting because we were told that everything that we were sharing with people was a lie, it was misinformation, that everyone wants this, and that we’re just moving forward. So from there, we launched a website. We started getting media coverage. We had a handful of great volunteers in the neighborhood who started doing door knocking. We held in-person events to educate people. And so the movement just massively grew. We encouraged individuals to write letters asking questions, expressing concerns to Amanda, to Jamie, and to, quite frankly, our neighborhood association, who did not really get behind us to be in all candidness. They claimed that they needed to remain neutral. Most of us felt it didn’t come across that way. And after the first manipulated survey, if you finally got to the last question, which was do you want a GID or not, over 65% in our residential area, which is just one section of the GID, said we didn’t want this. So when we have information like that and you’re starting to continue to push us down the track and force us into more surveys and not be supported, it just fueled that fire, just fueled the fire.
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And so you had success. We’re going to keep that as our cliffhanger on what happened with that Dana Bush. And it is amazing. People Got educated, they showed up, and we’ve got a good result on this. We have these discussions, and I actually saw her yesterday, a good friend of mine, Karen Levine, and reached out to her for everything residential real estate.
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SPEAKER 04 :
On the line with us is Dana Bush, my friend. We’re talking about a proposed GID, a general improvement district, that they got stopped in North Cherry Creek. I went to one of their planning meetings, and they had gone through the documents. They had done the research. And there was one slide that just took my breath away, Dana Bush, and I took a picture of it. Yeah. And it was the power of a GID could include to levy and collect taxes based on value, to have perpetual existence, to borrow money and incur debt, to provide services outside the boundaries of the district, to exercise the power of eminent domain, to fix rates, tolls, or charges for services or facilities furnished by the district. The GID would be governed by an unelected
SPEAKER 09 :
board that would be appointed was it by the mayor or the city council who was it who would it initial and yeah initially um by the mayor and again they wanted to argue well that’s really just a you know a formality and uh but you know in essence we would have at best had two individuals from our area because this is part of a much larger get in fact When we did the research, you know, they claim that ours would have had roughly about 9,200 people that could have voted to pass this. The average GID in the country is around 2,000 to 3,000 people. And, you know, this gets back to it would have only taken 200 signatures out of over 9,200 to get this on the ballot.
SPEAKER 04 :
And then you would have seen big money that would have been out there trying to encourage people to vote for it.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. And then, you know, individuals. who live in this area own a property but are not registered to vote at their house, they’re registered at a home they have somewhere else, would not have been able to vote on this self-imposed tax. Renters in the area who are registered to vote at their rental property would be able to vote. I mean, it just went on and on with the questions, with the concerns. You know, the city council also had approved for this consultant if she had been able to push this all the way through, to have earned up to $149,000 just on our GID, within the opportunity to be a part of it down the road. A couple of GIDs that Jamie Gillis had already set up, a couple of them are bringing in and hiring a six-figure out-of-state consultant, to manage, because that was our other, again, big concern is, you know, now they’re going to have to have this big management process. It was lumping us in a much larger area. I mean, there were so many things that made us upset and concerned. And again, every time we tried to have a conversation, it was, you’re lying, you’re misinforming people, you all wanted this, and we’re going to keep pushing this. And so it just, You know, we just kept upping the ante then with our approach to educating and stopping this. I mean, even as late as mid-September, there are people in the neighborhood that didn’t even know this was going on, had never even heard of this, had never seen anything about it. So there were so many things that were completely unprofessional about and not valid about how this was done.
SPEAKER 04 :
And so you ended up yard signs. What was the yard sign? What was that?
SPEAKER 09 :
um yet um get rid of the gid and and so uh you know then we had some crazy guy from congress park you know stealing our yard signs because he felt it violated violated where the yard signs go um i mean we had some crazy interesting things but yeah we pro we had i think a little over 300 yard signs spread throughout the cherry creek north residential area And then we started a single survey door-knocking education campaign that basically people were signing on to this if they were opposed to the formation of a GID in the neighborhood. They did not want it. And then we would have lawn chairs set up on key corners with these surveys. So by the time we had our meeting that you attended, Kim, on the 16th, we had close to 1,500 people. opposition signatures in our area to take to that meeting to say, look, you’re not listening to us. And we do not want this, and why are you continuing to push this forward?
SPEAKER 04 :
So at that meeting, I had shared at a previous meeting that what you’re probably going to see when you get to this meeting, that was at Bromwell Elementary, is the use of the Delphi technique, where basically they have people sit at different tables, at different – particular issues. There’s a facilitator that will then, unbeknownst to everyone, in the guise of hearing your voices, will guide the conversation to get to a consensus of what people would want. The first time I had a was involved with the delphi technique i walked out of there and i’m like wait a minute i just i just agreed to something that i i don’t i don’t even want and so i had cautioned everyone and said you might want to have a table for just no well when i got to that meeting people were whipped whipped up it was like they were mad because i think that they felt their voices weren’t heard and it was almost like pitchforks there dana bush
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes. Well, and so the night before our meeting, they met with another one of the subsections of the GID. So we sent people to that. And of course, there was no verification process to make sure that people attending that meeting were supposed to be there. And we had already been developing our no strategy. It’s no to everything. The answer out of your mouth is no. So then when we knew how they were going about that with what looked like a kindergarten play area with colored maps and colored stickers and different focus groups, we educated people early that morning who we knew were in working groups or who were attending the meeting to have a strategy. We made sure with our core team that we had someone, at least one or two people at each of those tables ahead of time But as you know, Kim, because the whole meeting didn’t get very far. In fact, I was outside waiting for another media person to come. And I even missed the hubbub because, as you know, within the first 15 minutes of our meeting, we shut that thing down.
SPEAKER 04 :
It was amazing. And the consultant… Well, the first thing is, I recall this, is the main facilitator introduced himself. He said, I’m your neighbor, and you can look at me as Mr. Switzerland. And somebody goes, Boo! I’m like, oh, no. And then the consultant, you know, everybody’s getting pretty frustrated because they’re like, no, no, no. And he said something so interesting. He said, who’s in favor of the GID here? And maybe seven people raised their hand. And somebody said, well, ask who’s not in favor of this. And he said, well, there are people in this room that may not know that they’re in favor of it yet. Well, that… That certainly got a lot of comments from the crowd. And then into the meeting, the consultant walks out and trying to quiet everybody down. And somebody yells out, no money for consultants. And it was something to behold, Dana Bush.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yep. Well, and I would say we had somewhere between 200 and 250 people show up at that meeting. And again, we encouraged everyone. So, you know, we would use our website to do strategic email blasts out to people of upcoming in-person meetings we would have, important things they needed to know about. It was a repository for all of our news stories, our interviews. for the analysis that we did, the meeting that you were referencing at the Down syndrome, which was a week before the meeting on the 16th, we had that whole slideshow. And we also provided a list of hyperlinks to every single document or piece of information to be presented because we didn’t want to also come across as the, unfortunately, the consultant and our council person did, where they had no facts, they had no information to give us where we could go and understand. And so we wanted to make sure that And everything we put out there, people could go do as deep a dive as they wanted to. But, yes.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, it was brilliant, Dana Bush. And we’re just about out of time. But ultimately, you had success. And that night, within about 15 minutes, I had a friend that was going to join me, another media person. And I called her. I said, it’s over. The consultant said, okay. And she said, North Cherry Creek’s out of the gid. And I was stunned.
SPEAKER 09 :
And then, you know, within a couple days, they canceled the entire GID, which doesn’t surprise us because, again, we had.
SPEAKER 04 :
questions and concerns too around you know our money really just staying for our section uh because we were we were clearly the um the biggest financial uh donor yeah the estimates were 57 of the money was coming from all of you but you only had 14 of representation on this unelected board and so you you had success on this but you’re not uh you’re not uh falling asleep on this you are now Very vigilant on all of this, Dana Bush. Your final thought, and congratulations to you and your team.
SPEAKER 09 :
Thank you. Thank you. I guess, you know, I think the biggest takeaway I have, I think especially in the time we’re in and the stories that you present, Kim, is that, you know, we still do have a voice as much as so many of us feel defeated and at the will of, you know, government choices, right? But you need to get enough people who are going to actually take action, get organized, and be strategic. And if you do, there is the potential to have success, and there is the potential to have your voices heard. and to stop some of the insanity. And so I hope that this story is something that people can take away from that. Our website is still up and active, which is stop the G-I-D-N-C-C-N.com. And we’re looking at what does that transition into? Because we absolutely feel that As much as we have this success here, that… You’re going to help people throughout the country on this, Dana Bush.
SPEAKER 04 :
You are going to help people. Hey, Dana Bush, thank you so much for sharing the story, and we’ll stay in touch. All right. Thanks for having me, Kim. Have a great weekend. You as well. And all this happens because of our sponsors. And Ben’s Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling can help you manage your own personal climate and change your own personal climate to be cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
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Definitely reach out to Teresa if you want to make sure that we have a voice regarding these important issues and want to grow your business. We’d love to chat with you. Tomorrow evening, Saturday, October 18th, I will be moderating the Northern Colorado Republican Governor Forum. Fifteen of the 18 candidates that are running on the GOP side will be there. Doors open at 4.30. Program begins at 5.50. More information, you can go to, let’s see, info at nocorwrapup.com. And so be sure and check that out. Our voter’s guide is on my website. You can go to KimMonson.com, click on the red ribbon at the top, and you can see the analysis that I’ve done on many of the issues that will be on some of these ballots here. And speaking of elections, I am so pleased to have on the line with me Dr. Douglas Frank. He is a world-renowned physicist with 60 peer-reviewed scientific publications in the world’s leading scientific journals. And his Ph.D. is in one of those easy things, surface electroanalytical chemistry. I can’t even hardly say it, which combines chemistry, physics and electronics and advanced computing and mathematics. And he’s been doing a lot in this election integrity arena. Dr. Douglas Frank, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, I thank you, Kim. Thanks for having me. I heard you say a minute ago that you were moderating the government debate in Colorado yesterday. I’m going to be moderating the governor’s debate in California next month. So we’re similar kind of people.
SPEAKER 04 :
That we are. And also on the line with me, and I had the great honor to meet her when I was out in Monta Vista regarding property rights, Josh Lowenstein’s whole group there. And that’s Carol Rickenbaugh. She has over 30 years of experience in the long-term care industry, but she’s become very actively involved in politics, running for office, speaking out, and encouraging others to do the same. She now owns and operates the only Trump store in Colorado located in Monta Vista. Carol Rickenbaugh, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 20 :
Oh, thank you, Kim.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s nice to be back. It’s good to have you as well. Carol, let’s start with you because Dr. Frank will be in Colorado again soon. And that’s why it’s late breaking that we got you guys on the show. So tell us what people need to know.
SPEAKER 20 :
You know, people need to know that while you’re going to all that work running for office and you’re doing the debate, moderating the debates and talking to all these candidates, you We, the people, need to know that we can trust when we cast our vote that we are actually electing the people that we want, that our vote is actually counting. If we go another four years in the state of Colorado with what we’ve already had for the last many years, We were done and we all know it. We all know that we’re going to be done. So we’ve got to do something about our election or a lot of this effort that we do is so futile.
SPEAKER 04 :
So, Dr. Douglas Frank, what can we do?
SPEAKER 17 :
I’ve been going around these counties in the valley. They’re targeted. We’ve targeted them on purpose because these small counties think their elections are OK because they have good people. They have good leadership. They have good sheriffs and conservative, honest people and that they think everything’s OK. But they’re wrong. And so what I’ve been doing is coming in and showing them the data for their own county. I show them their own voter rolls and show how their voter rolls are being manipulated. And they don’t even realize that, that their own clerks don’t even recognize that this is happening. So I show them that that’s happening. So the first thing is to wake up and to recognize that you’ve lost control of your elections. And then the second thing is that I show them how to organize. I heard your previous guest. You get organized and you activate and you can take back local control of your elections. But it doesn’t happen with one person standing on the rooftops yelling. It doesn’t happen when you try to do a court case. It happens when the people, local people, get together, organize and strategically take back control. And I teach something I call the seven steps. That is a strategy I’ve refined all over the country. I’ve been doing this since December of 2020, teaching teams how to take back local control. And I think Colorado is a perfect opportunity for the strategy. I’m really looking forward to the next several months working with the people here. I don’t charge anything for my work, so I’m not selling anything. I’m just coming in, teaching you how to organize and how to reclaim control of your elections.
SPEAKER 04 :
And when you talk about the counties that you had been looking at, these small counties, you live in California, yes? Is that right? Is that where?
SPEAKER 17 :
No, I’m in Ohio, but I’ve done a ton of work in California.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. So is that where you have recently been training people then?
SPEAKER 17 :
Oregon, Wisconsin, Maine, Oklahoma, Missouri. uh and uh lots in northern california in fact people have probably heard about what’s going on in shasta county we’ve taken over uh control of our elections there away from the state the state’s going crazy they hate us every time we make pro every time we make progress there in shasta county 70 000 voters there every time we make progress sacramento convenes another legislative meeting where they pass laws to try to stop the other counties we’ve also taken back control in huntington beach southern california uh 400 000 people there and how did we do that well we read our own charter and the charter for the county and discovered that it’s right in the charter that they have the right to run their own elections so they we’ve set that all up and then what happened is the state sued them but we survived and it’s a wonderful uh time because All the years of experience and learning that we’ve gained over the last three or four years doing this battle are now we can apply it quickly and efficiently county by county. But we’ve learned that this County by county, individual fight is not the means to succeed. The way to succeed, get multiple counties to link elbows and act together, especially incorporating the sheriffs. The sheriffs have the ability to interpose on behalf of a county. All you have to do is prove that there’s fraud in a county and that every case of fraud is disenfranchising one of the citizens from their rights. So it’s a constitutional fight. And the sheriff can interpose and defend the county. And so you get the county or we’re not asking the sheriff to stand. We’re asking the people to stand. And then the sheriff interposes. It’s a great strategy, especially some of these beautiful small counties have got amazing Republican Party people. And most of these big counties that go to the Republican Party opposes election reform, which I think is surprising to people. So it’s nice to come to these small red counties where we’ve got good sheriffs, good party, good people, and get them all organized.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. We’ve only got about a minute left. And, Carol, I met you, Josh Lowenstein, I wanted to mention his organization, Our American Lands. Dr. Frank is coming to Colorado, yes? Yes.
SPEAKER 20 :
yes yeah we’re he’s here he’s um right now we’re doing canada county rio grande county and swatch county and he’s running our other numbers for our mineral alamosa and so he’s doing the whole san luis valley for us and so uh and as americans democrat republican we’re out we’re going to be able to rise up and show our clerks that they’re they’re not counting the votes And they’re not in control.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. And Carol, you and I need to talk. Within the last two days, ballots have gone out in Colorado. And I’ve had two different people reach out and say, hey, I know somebody. They got their ballot where they’re registered. They own property in a different state. and they also got ballots from those counties. They had not done anything to make that happen. So you and I are going to have to talk with Dr. Frank about that as well. So Dr. Frank, we ended up, this was late breaking to get you on and we sandwiched you in here, but thank you so much for joining us. Really appreciate it.
SPEAKER 17 :
Thanks for having me. I’m delighted to be here and I’m going to be coming back. So maybe next time we’ll have a little more time together.
SPEAKER 04 :
Sounds like a plan. And Carol Rickenbaugh, thank you for the great work that you’re doing as well. God bless you, Kim. And Teresa, it’s great having you in studio.
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And our quote for the end of the show is Thomas Paine, who says, The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. So today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
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