Join Kim Monson as she delves into the pressing issues of the day, exploring the critical topic of freedom versus force with an eye toward property rights and political engagement. This episode features a discussion on the latest happenings at the statehouse, emphasizing the importance of civic involvement and understanding your local political landscape. From the nuances of newly proposed legislation to the subtle shifts in local governance, Kim Monson aims to provide clarity and purpose to her listeners.
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With what is happening down at the Statehouse, I used to think that it was above my pay grade to read the legislation, and it’s not.
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I see big danger in as much as we will be giving an unelected bureaucrat the power to make rules about what we inject into our bodies.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let’s have a conversation.
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Indeed. Let’s have a conversation. And welcome to the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You each are treasured. You’re valued. You have purpose today. Strive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body, my friends. We were made for this moment in history. And thank you to the team. That’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. It is Thursday, Producer Joe. Happy Thursday, Kim. Happy Thursday to you as well, Joe. And we’ve got a great show planned for you. So fasten your seatbelt. Check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Just a little over a week ago, we rolled out something that we’ve been working on for three years. And it’s really two things. It’s our Kim Monson newsroom, really important stories with great journalistic integrity. And I think our byline on that is going to be, Serious news for serious people. And then also our community. We need to be connected. And we’ve got three different membership levels. The Montpelier at $50 a year. The Monticello at $100 a year. And the Mount Vernon at $200 a year. And the first 250 people that join at the Mount Vernon level will be known as founding patrons. of the Kim Monson show. And it is brisk people signing up and we’re doing the soft launch a little bit at a time. So go to the website, join us. And then also under the newsletter tab, sign up so that you’ll get our daily digest that comes out on Monday through Friday. in the afternoon or early evening. And that should start, we’re hoping that’s going to start this next Monday. So join us, and it’s going to be great. So text me, 720-605-0647. You can email me at kim at kimMonson.com. And thank you to all of you who support us. We are an independent voice on an independent station. searching for truth and clarity as we look at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And it’s never compassionate to take other people’s stuff, whether or not it’s their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunity, childhood, or lives be a force and control. And it could be a weapon, but it could be policy and unpredictable and excessive taxation, fees, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation. And then the agenda of the World Economic Forum and the globalist elites is basically to totally usurp our property rights. And we see that playing out at the United Nations, but all the way to local government. And we’ll be talking with Karen Gorday with Radiant Painting and Lighting in just a few moments about what’s happening in Lakewood, which is a true usurpation of property rights. But it’s so subtle. And so that’s why we’re in such a unique time in history. So remember, if something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And we focus on the issues and we’ll talk about the people pushing those issues. But we stay out of the personality fighting on all of the stuff that’s going on. And I want to say thank you to LearnMe Energy for their goal sponsorship of the show. It’s reliable, efficient, affordable and abundant power. from naturally occurring hydrocarbons such as oil, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate. And if you have any challenges with your personal climate, reach out to Ben’s Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling. And that number is 303-995-1636. Our word of the day is ethos, and it is spelled E-T-H-O-S, and it could be the fundamental character or spirit of a culture, the underlying sentiment that informs the beliefs, costumes, or practices of a group or society. It could be the distinguishing character or disposition of a community, group, person, etc., or it could be number three, the moral element of in dramatic literature that determines a character’s action or behavior. And our quote of the day is, uh, from George Washington. He said this, I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. And boy, we could use a lot more honesty with our PBIs these days. And let’s see, one other thing I wanted to mention before we get over here to Karen Gorday is is that Senate Bill 26135 is going to be heard in committee today. And you can go to Free State Colorado. And Brandon Wark and Natalie Minton have done a really important video on that. And Natalie has the link where you can go to sign up to testify this afternoon. It can either be in person or via online. I’ve signed up to testify online. And 135 is the referral by the legislature to our ballots in November to basically gut TABOR. And it’s under the guise of K through 12 education. K through 12 education has plenty of money right now as it is. But it’s that guise to get us to try to vote to get rid of all of our TABOR refunds forever. We did a really important piece in the newsroom, which you can find at kimMonson.com on the subject as well. But we have on our Cut Engaged and go to coloradotaxpayer.org where you can make your voice heard on this within just probably 30 seconds. If you’ve done it before, 30 seconds. If you haven’t, it’ll take a minute. But if we have a lot of people that testify and send in these emails, it’ll be very important. So go to coloradotaxpayer.org. Go to Cut Engaged. It should be the last one that’s been posted. And make your voices heard on that. And somebody that’s with a number of other citizens making their voices heard is one of our great sponsors. And that is Karen Gorday with Radiant Painting and Lighting. Karen, welcome to the show. Good morning, Kim. How are you? I am well. And I saw you last night. The girls were over last night. So short nights these days, huh, for you and me?
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Oh, absolutely. Not just the girls’ night, but we’re in the midst of a campaign here in Lakewood, so no rest for the weary.
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Well, that is for sure. So before we get into what’s going on in Lakewood, with Radiant Painting and Lighting, right now you are running specials, even though it springs right around the corner, it feels like spring is here, but you are running a special for interior painting, correct?
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That is correct. So it’s 20% off of any interior project that’s over $2,500 between now and the end of March. Okay. Probably around April is when we’ll be in the midst of the full exterior season, although we’re doing one next week. So let’s just hope the weather holds out.
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Yes and no. We could take the snow like we had last week. Snow’s 8 to 10 inches, melts in a day. That’ll work. So we get the moisture and people can get ready for spring as well, right? absolutely we absolutely need the moisture because it’s like a tinderbox out here right now and that’s downright scary so i know so we want both and also good weather because i talked to mary jansen the other day and she said she’d done 33 000 steps and i i hadn’t connected the dot that it was because you guys were out there doing door hangers and Is she going to do some, you know, some, you know, religious walk in Europe or something? And she was preparing. She goes, oh, no, this is for the Lakewood Citizens Alliance. Oh, oh. So and one other thing I wanted to ask you about, though, there is something so exciting. fire colorado it’s it’s it’s not something new but it’s something we need to prepare for it i say it’s not something new because i had now i think it was greg walcher but maybe not but we i was talking we were talking about managing our resources and he said the the indians are Many, many, many years ago in the springtime when there was runoff and the snows were melting, they would do controlled burns of our forests because they knew if they didn’t, there would be intensive fires later on. And so this is something that’s been occurring in the West for a long time. But we now have people that are living closer to the forest or in the forest. And so there’s the risk of fire. But you have something exciting happening at Radiant Painting and Lighting.
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I do. So there is a new product coming to town. Actually, let me say this. So last year, the legislature adopted the Wildfire Urban Interface Code, the WUI code. And that’s pronounced WUI. And the cities all across the Front Range are adopting them as well. Lakewood will be adopting them, and they go into effect July 1st, where the cities will start enforcing these WUI codes. Part of the WUI codes talking about landscaping requirements for new construction, et cetera, how close you can have things to your house. because of combustible materials. There’s another requirement, though, for new construction or additions on existing construction that you need to have siding that has a 30-minute burn time. It’s a It’s basically fire hardening your property. And there is a new product coming to fruition right now. And I’ve been talking with these folks since last fall. It’s been tested. And that’s actually the exterior that we’re doing next week. in that we go in, we take the gutters off, we press the house, so we’re scraping any old paint, caulking, putting paper, tape, plastic, et cetera up. This company comes in, they apply the fire retardant, and then the next day we come in and we start our regular paint process of two coats of Sherwood Williams Emerald paint, so it’s top-of-the-line paint, and you then have a fire hardened house and so it’s not fire proofing it’s fire hardening um it is um astm certified and essentially it’s um a fire retardant that goes on your house and so obviously if um essentially is if you have an ember hit the house it’s not going to immediately go up in flames now if you have a wall a fire coming at you and there’s high winds there’s nothing that’s going to save that house right so this is not fire proofing but it is fire hardening and that’s going to be super attractive to folks and the fact that we’re going to be part of it is absolutely amazing so we’re doing our first house next week and then there’ll be pictures and videos This is the really cool thing. The fire retardant is eco-friendly. So they have the fire retardant that goes on the house. And then they have this liquid that you have in a backpack that you can spray on your roof, on your shrubs, et cetera, if a fire is headed your way. They were doing some testing the other day in Utah. I saw the videos. It’s absolutely amazing. And if you think back to the LA fires, where the private firefighters had liquid that they were putting on the ground, but the regular firefighters did not. That was their product, but it was not tested and approved yet. And they were able to have it out in L.A. to prevent even more damage. So super exciting things coming with Radiant, painting and lighting.
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And you at this point are the exclusive company in Colorado that will be doing this, yes? Yes.
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Correct. So they have a company. There’s one company that are the applicators of the fire retardant. And then we have to follow manufacturer specifications on the paint. And it all comes down to the thickness, the millimeter thickness that the paint is going on. And we’re going to be testing that first house with like a sonogram test to determine the thickness of the fire retardant and thickness of the paint um and then once it’s done the customers get a actual certificate so exciting things um because this could help change um you know people’s lives and honestly um as embers from these fires you know often ignite additional you know that’s how fires grow right and it’s absolutely amazing to have an eco-friendly product um to be out there on the market.
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Okay. How can people reach you, Karen Levine, with any questions about this? And what I’m learning is we’re not, did I say Karen? I hope I said Karen. Karen, okay. Because Joe in my ears said Karen Gorday, and I’m sorry about that. Karen Gorday, Radiant Painting and Lighting. How can people reach you?
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You can go to paintwithradiant.com. That’s paintwithradiant.com. There’s a form you can fill out and that’ll come to us and we’ll get you on the schedule and come out and do an estimate.
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Oh, that is awesome. The other thing, Karen Gorday, I wanted to say was that we need to be proactive. It’s not government that should take care of us. It’s not really these rules and regulations. We as individuals need to be proactive on this. And so people need to reach out to you at radiantpaintingandlighting.com. I got that right, didn’t I? Yes, you did. Okay, good. Hey, is this going to be an old-fashioned debate tonight? Because you mentioned this last night when the girls were over that you’re going to be doing a debate regarding the Lakewood Citizens Alliance and these zoning ordinances that people need to vote yes to get rid of them. So what’s happening tonight?
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Tonight, Jefferson County League of Women Voters is hosting a debate. And they’re calling it a debate. I would say it’s more of an educational forum. It will be on Zoom, not in person. And I will send you the link, Kim, after the show because I talked to you about that last night. But it is on Zoom. It’s at 630 tonight. And it’s myself and the campaign manager for Make Lakewood Livable, which is Sophia Mayotte Guerrero. She used to be on Lakewood City Council. She was one of the city council members that passed these radical zoning. And we are going to have a discussion tonight. We both get five minutes for opening remarks, five minutes to respond to each question, and then five minutes for closing remarks. So probably about an hour and 15 minutes-ish tonight, beginning at 630. So we can talk about this. This radical zoning.
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Okay. Do you have an easy link that you can mention or we can put it in our show recap that we’ll do that? And I know I’m going to get this out to the girls as well. So is there an easy way to get to that?
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Well, it’s a Zoom link, so it’s not super easy. But the other thing is that anybody cannot attend tonight because I expect probably pretty high attendance, and so the virtual room may get filled. There will be a recording link, and I will make sure that you have that as well.
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Great. Okay. Wonderful. And again, Radiant Painting and Lighting, what is that website?
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It is www.paintwithradiant.com.
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Okay, great. Karen Gorday, keep up the great work. You and so many volunteers are out there walking, putting door hangers out, and so great work that you’re doing. So thank you. Absolutely. Thank you, Kim. Have a great day. Yes, most definitely. So much is going on. And all this happens because we have great sponsors. And speaking of being proactive, be proactive and give the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team a call and go over your insurance. You might be able to save some money. That number is 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan Team is there.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And I’ve mentioned it on a regular basis how much I appreciate Paula Sarles and the whole team over at the USMC Memorial Foundation. And March is Paula Sarles’ birthday. She normally does something interesting such as skydiving, stair climbs. But this year, there’s no dramatic stunts. She’s going to be out at the Marine Memorial, and she’s doing the Seven Challenge. And the reason is, is because it’s her 77th birthday, the 57th anniversary of the memorial, the 27th year of veteran advocacy, and 17 years since her Tony’s passing. And she’ll be out there beginning at 8. So rain or shine, 8 to 4 p.m. this Saturday, March 14th at the Marine Memorial, which is at the corner of 6th and Colfax. And drop by and say the name of a hero in your life as well. And while you’re out there, the Marine Memorial is right across that website. I’ve got to give that to you. It’s usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And right across the street is Little Richie’s Pizza and Pasta in Golden. They have two locations, Parker and in Golden. Wonderful calzones and would recommend that you check that out. Get something for dinner there. And it’s just very easy. And in fact, the best place to park is in the parking lot where Little Richie’s is. So again, Little Richie’s and Parker and Golden are your local neighborhood hangout for great authentic New York style pizza and pasta. And it is Thursday. So that means I’ll be talking with one of my fellow cup board members about legislation. And we have the vice president and that is Rob Knuth. He’s on the line. Rob, welcome to the show.
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Good morning, Kim. Thanks for having me on.
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Well, it’s good to have you. And our team, I always like to say thank you to our team is Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Rami Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onozorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. A great team, all volunteers. People should say thank you when they see them because we’re doing, it’s amazing work what we’re doing watching legislation. So first thing, Rob Knuth, one of the things that we invested in is something called Cut Engaged, where we select anywhere from three to five bills each week that people can have their voices heard. It’s super easy. You just go to coloradotaxpayer.org, join us, make sure you join us. It’s only $25 a year. You don’t have to join us, but we’d love to have you. And then click on Cut Engaged and you can make your voice heard on different bills out there. And the Senate Bill 135, the gutting of Tabor, is going to be heard this afternoon in committee. So I asked Zach if he could add that to Cut Engaged yesterday so people could hear. make their voices heard. So we’ve got that there. And I would so recommend for people, if they can’t be at the Capitol or do the Zoom thing, that they make their voices heard by going to Cut Engage. So we’ve got that on there. And that’s the gutting of Tabor, where the state is asking, basically, they’re going to send a question to the ballot, can they keep our Tabor refunds forever? And so I’d really recommend people check that out.
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Yes. What we’re doing with Cut Engaged is giving everybody that chooses to use it access to the legislators to voice their opinions. And the nice thing about it, you don’t have to spend time running down to the Capitol if that’s not your forte, and you’re a little more of the shy type as far as being in public and expressing your opinions. But you can send a message to any of your chosen legislators. Your personal ones are the ones that are particularly bill sponsors or on the committees and express your opposition in a strong civil and direct manner or your strong support if it’s a case where you’re agreeing with what they’re trying to advance.
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Well, and so as we’re speaking, I am working on making my voice heard right now, and it will go to the major sponsors, the prime sponsors, and then you can add in your state senator or your state legislator. And do this today, my friends. It’ll take you a minute if you’re new at it. It’ll take 30 seconds if you’re not. So let’s see. One piece of legislation also that we have on Cut Engaged is this House Bill 26-1254. It’s audit enforcement, and we are a yes on this. The sponsors are Representative Max Brooks, Representative Don Sukla, and Senator Lisa Frizzell. This is a very, I think, good bill. Your thoughts on this, Rob Knuth?
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Yeah, and Kim, I apologize. I called Joe earlier. I could not get my internet. I have the brand new quantum fiber system and it’s been intermittent and it’s totally dark on me this morning. And so I couldn’t go in to review the bill and make a salient point, yay or nay or otherwise. And so I called producer Joe and we were trying to connect, but since he’s trying to send it to me, it didn’t dawn on me. I don’t have internet, so it didn’t do him any good to try to send it to me on my phone. So I’m sitting here flying dark this morning on that.
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Okay, well, I will… So isn’t technology great until it isn’t? Well, yeah. Okay, so I’ll give our synopsis on this. We said this, this is our cut position. It says, Bill seeks to put some teeth into requests by the overseer legislature for audits on individual agencies. There are currently several non-compliant agencies, including Medicaid, IT security, and corrections. If found to be willingly noncompliant, the bill directs the state controller to withhold 3% of the agency’s funding. The agency heads are employees of the public and ought to be released from service for willful failures to comply. I find it interesting that Medicaid, which is one of the things that these politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties… uh talk about all the time they’ve been ballooning it with um it’s just growing growing growing but they are not compliant with an audit what’s wrong with that picture rob knuth
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Well, and that’s a very disturbing indication of where we’re at in our state right now, in that politicians frequently throw around the word transparency. But when it comes to really shining the light on things that are potential problems or are a definite problem, and it may affect their particular sphere of influence or their influence Pet projects, I’m going to say. Yeah, pet projects. And they really don’t want anything to do with it. And what’s disturbing to me is they’re fighting even 3%. It really, to me, ought to be greater than that to where you get their attention that, hey, this needs to be brought into compliance. But anyway, it’s a disturbing thing that there is a total disconnect as to lack of transparency in the public service sector by our politicians and agencies that are supposed to be conducting reasonable business for the state.
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And so that is one of our another one of our cut engaged bills where you can make your voice heard. And I was attempting to multitask. Well, I did it while you and I were talking. I was able to go in and make my voice heard on Senate Bill 26135. And I was able to do that in these just while we’ve been talking about this. So, my friends, you can’t be complacent to be to have self-governance. Republican. For a Democratic, Republican government, we have to be engaged. And we’ve been so blessed that we’ve become complacent. And complacency is biting us now. And so we can’t be complacent. So go to coloradotaxpayer.org and make your voice heard, particularly on this Senate Bill 135. where the state basically… And it’s deceptive what they have done. They’ve said it’s for the kids, K-12 education, but it’s a portion for kids for 10 years. Everything above that for the 10 years goes to the state legislature to spend on their pet projects. And then after 10 years… All the money can just go to the state legislature to spend as they want. And so this group, this board that we have is really an amazing group of people. And I’m so honored to have you as the vice president of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, Rob.
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Well, thank you, Kim. And it is an honor to serve in that capacity. But I really feel like when I sit around the table with our fellow board members, I kind of feel on the lightweight end of the spectrum because we really have some folks that really have a good insight and commitment to the operation of Colorado Union of Taxpayers. And so I a lot frequently feel guilty on my side of the equation that there’s not more, but anyway, I’m happy to do what I can and I try to do what I can when I’m out and about.
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You’re doing a great job on that, Rob Knuth. I’ve come to know that you’re a very humble man, and I appreciate that immensely about you. So we would love to have people join the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. They can go to coloradotaxpayer.org. It’s $25 a year, works out to about $2.08 a month. which is less than a cup of coffee these days. And you will be informed. Every Monday, we will send out an email that goes to the legislators and the governor regarding positions on bills on how they affect the taxpayer. Tabor, Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights, Property Rights, and Parental Choice in Education. And you can get that as well by joining us. And they can do that at coloradotaxpayer.org. Rob Knuth, as always, thank you so much. I greatly appreciate you.
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Well, thank you, Kim. And we at Cut and Aboard, we really appreciate your leadership. So hope you have a great rest of your day and hopefully I’ll get my internet sorted out.
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I know we rely on that quite a bit. And again, that’s Rob Knuth with the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. And for everything residential real estate, in fact, she’s going to be in the studio tomorrow. That is Karen Levine.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And let’s see here. I wanted to mention the Center for American Values. And on March 16th, Drew Dix, co-founder of the center, he’s also a Medal of Honor recipient, will be presenting to students. He’ll be in Tombstone, Arizona, but it’s a webinar. And so I’d recommend that you check encourage your children, grandchildren to participate, you can go to AmericanValueCenter.org and click on the tab for this event. It is March 16th, 325 p.m., and the title is Living Valor. So again, that is AmericanValueCenter.org for that webinar. It should be really terrific. And I had mentioned earlier in the show, Little Richies in Parker and Golden. It is right across the street from the USMC Memorial Foundation in Golden. And Paula Sarles will be doing her great birthday event, this birthday challenge this week as well. And that website is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Please have on the line with me Mark Tapscott. He is the Washington Stan Senior Congressional Analyst. He’s a veteran investigative reporter and editor, and he’s written several pieces regarding something that is, we’re seeing more in the headlines, and that is the Islamination of America. And so Mark Tapscott, welcome to the show.
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Good morning, Kim. How are you?
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Well, I am well, and people are concerned. We’ve got this thing going on in Iran right now, but what we realize is there are those that are really enemies of the American idea that are right here in America as well, brought in Well, possibly through refugee and asylee programs, but also have come in illegally. So we’ve got a problem here in America, right?
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Absolutely, we do. And one of the amazing things about this, at least in my view, the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who was a former Democratic congressman before she was appointed by President Trump, issued a pretty direct, pretty frank warning to the American people right before Christmas this past December, in which she said pretty much exactly what you just said, but she said in addition that we are seeing across America a growing, swelling population of of Muslims who come here, and they’re not coming here to become Americans. They’re coming here to make sure America becomes Muslim, and that’s a serious national problem.
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Well, we are seeing people that have been elected, instead of when they are sworn into office, putting their hand on the Bible, that they’re putting the hand on the Koran. And in fact, I think I remember that I saw a headline. This was a Caucasian woman who I think is the lieutenant governor in Virginia. I think she swore in on the Koran. I think so. Probably. Is that correct? Do you remember?
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I think it is, Kim. I’m not 100% certain, but I think you are.
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I try to be 100%, but I go through all these headlines, and I think that’s the case. We’ll source that. We want to make sure we’re telling the truth here on the Kim Monson Show. This is a problem because there is no way that Sharia law and the U.S. Constitution can exist in the same spot.
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Absolutely not.
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So explain that. It’s, you know, black and white. You cannot have a white color with a black color at the same time and just have one color. You end up with gray in art, but in politics, you end up with tyranny. And what we have here with Sharia law, Sharia law is the Muslim Koran’s prescription for how public and private life is to be regulated by the church and the state, the mosque and the state, I should say. They do not recognize freedom of speech. They do not recognize freedom of religion. If you are caught in adultery, if you’re the woman, you are stoned to death. If you’re the man, hey, no problem, because under the Koran, you can treat women pretty much the way you want because they’re just animals. And I’m not exaggerating when I say that. That is what the Koran teaches. If that is what America’s future is going to consist of, like I said in the opening, we have got a profoundly serious problem on our hands.
SPEAKER 13 :
And in one of the pieces that you published, there’s three, and people can find them at the Washington stand, is that there are communities that are being built that it is Muslim only. And that’s antithetical to the American idea.
SPEAKER 05 :
Absolutely. Absolutely. You know, what originally caught my attention about this, I generally knew about the problem before, but then after Gabbard’s warning in December, I started doing a little research. And one thing I discovered very quickly that just flabbergasted me is the rapidity with which Texas, and I have Texas blood flowing my veins, so… This is of peculiar particular importance to me, but they have targeted Texas as one of their major goals to turn Texas from being the wonderful red state that it has been for so long into a Muslim powerhouse. There are 330 Muslim mosques in the state of Texas today. I talked with a congressman from Texas, Brandon Gill, who represents a district that stretches basically from North Dallas to the Oklahoma border. It’s a very rural district, and yet he was telling me, a local county commissioner was telling him about the local school with a significant Muslim population, parents demanding that they have calls to prayer. This is in rural North Texas. That ought to wake us up because I never would have dreamed that North Texas would have that kind of a situation.
SPEAKER 13 :
Mark Tapscott, do you find it so ironic that the radical left, as any time you mention the word Christian or maybe having the Ten Commandments posted in a school room, that the radical left… they are adamant about the separation of church and state, which Jefferson, when he wrote that letter to the Baptists on the separation of church and state, it was an assurance that we were not going to have a state-sponsored But it didn’t mean that we weren’t going to have men that were faithful men and women in service. But the radical activists do not want anything regarding Christianity, so they hide behind this freedom of religion. Where are they right now with this Islamination of America?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, as a matter of fact, one of the things that we’re seeing, particularly through the The response that we’ve seen in the last 10 days to the situation in Iran, there are a lot of folks on the left who look at the Muslims and their tyrannical form of government and see a kindred spirit. They don’t have any problem at all with the various atrocities, in my view, that the Koran not only sanctions but encourages against women. You know, they don’t want Christianity because Christianity is not a religion. It’s a relationship with Jesus Christ, who is the creator, who changed my life, saved my life, and just happens to have the biggest faith following in the world. So the hypocrisy there, I think, is pretty evident.
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So Mark Tapscott, let’s go to break because these are such important discussions with you. But these Muslims that are infiltrating into America right now are using our Constitution against us, I think. So I’m going to keep that as our cliffhanger. We’re talking with Mark Tapscott. He is a… investigative report or he’s a veteran investigative reporter and editor and the washington stand senior congressional analyst and we have these important discussions because of you and our sponsors and one of those great sponsors is lauren levy he’s going to be in studio tomorrow but he’s the guy to call for everything regarding mortgages
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SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I think before the break, you put it very well. They want to protect freedom of religion as long as they need it to protect what they are doing in establishing new mosques and Muslim nonprofits that fund religion. these kinds of things. There’s a huge development near Dallas called the Epic City, or now renamed the Meadow, because of public concern, that would be a Muslim-only development. And there’s been a tremendous backlash against that, public worry and concern and criticism of it in Texas. So they had to rename it. And it looks like they’re going to have some real litigation problems because what they’re doing in effect is directly contrary to the First Amendment. You can’t say to people who are not Muslims, you can’t live here. Not that I would want to in the first place, but the principle of freedom of religion is the issue.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, and just put in a different word there, white-only community, black-only community. The radical activists left, they would go crazy on that. But Mark, what I think has happened is, and we are in a battle of ideas, for sure. And I remember many years ago, where you would see people that would have the tolerant bumper sticker and the tolerant, there was, you know, all different kinds of signs. And I think in a way, all of this has been connected. It’s softened the target, if you will. And the target is the American middle class. So all of this be tolerant. And so it’s softened people up and, And then, of course, accusations that if you didn’t, that if you even raised your hand and said, you know, I’m a little uncomfortable with this, that people say, oh, you’re intolerant, you’re racist, you’re an Islamophobe. I think it softens the target up of the American middle class.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I think I would go even further and say it not merely softens it, but intimidates it. That’s the point of that stuff, is to intimidate people who would otherwise be, you know, hey, wait a minute, what are you doing here, to keep their mouth shut and let it happen. And that’s precisely what you see in a number of places in Texas and New Jersey, up in Minnesota, where you have these demands by Muslim parents for you know, the calls to prayer, which your listeners don’t know, the call to prayer is very loud so that everybody in a city can hear it. And, you know, as soon as somebody says, well, wait a minute, why would we do that if we’re not going to have Christian services in our schools? Well, you must be an Islamophobe then. And unfortunately, a lot of Americans have got Other things to worry about. They don’t want to have to, you know, fight for that in that kind of a controversy.
SPEAKER 13 :
But we’ve got to engage in this because, again, the American idea, the Declaration and the Constitution and Sharia law cannot exist in the same place. So let people think about that. So it’s one or the other. And that’s why we have to engage in these pieces that you’ve written. are really important pieces. People can find them at the Washington stand. Just put in Mark Tapscott. That’s T-A-P-S-C-O-T-T. And in a couple of the pieces, you mentioned that with radical Islam, that what happens is… it’s not good for women, it’s not good for gays at all. And I thought, I’m going to ask you, are you sure that those allegations that you made in your articles, you sourced those, right? Oh, absolutely, yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
Trust me, there is no question about it. There’s video of homosexuals being thrown off of buildings in Muslim areas. There are videos of young women whose husband accused them of adultery just in order to get rid of them being stoned to death. If you’ve never watched a video of stoning, it is a horrible way to die. No, I’m not making that up at all. There’s no question about that.
SPEAKER 13 :
And so again, my friends, we’ve got to realize that our American idea that all men are created equal. and with these rights from God of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, and then Islam nation, they don’t exist in the same spot because over here with Islam, it ultimately gets down to believe this or not good stuff is going to happen. But it’s the other thing that I’ve learned, I’ve had several different interviews with a guy that, is a Christian now, but grew up in the Middle East, is that this whole thing is really sneaky. It says one thing, and again, uses our freedom of religion against us. But once it’s grown enough, then we will see what the actual agenda is. And that’s why we have to have these discussions now, Mark.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. You know, the Bible says Satan is the father of lies. And I think that is a very apt description of how these people go about doing what they’re trying to do. They present themselves as merely defenders of freedom of religion when, in fact, their ultimate goal is to destroy freedom of religion.
SPEAKER 13 :
And so something is happening. There is this caucus that has just been created in Congress. So tell us a little bit about that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, it’s the Sharia Free America Caucus in the House of Representatives. Congressman Keith Self and Congressman Chip Roy, both of whom are Texas Republicans. started it, and they started it on December. They announced it publicly on December 28th, and literally within a few weeks, they had 25 other congressmen join it, and the last count that I saw, which was, I think, Friday this past week, they have 44 members, and congressman himself kind of laughed, and he said, you know, I haven’t even really had an opportunity to make a complete appeal on this thing, and yet they’ve got people coming, and To me, that’s a very encouraging development because ultimately this is going to require federal action and it’s going to have to start in Congress. And that’s what these guys are doing. They’re starting it.
SPEAKER 13 :
And what about it was so Texas, many people in Texas are aware of this challenge that is occurring right now.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, absolutely. There is one group in particular, the RARE Foundation, R-A-I-R, one of their top people is from Texas, testified before the House, I believe the House Oversight Committee last week, or last week. And it was, no, forgive me, it was Chip Roy’s subcommittee of the Oversight Committee. They testified at great detail about how this problem has developed in Texas. This is a huge problem, and there are more people in Washington, D.C. that are worried about it, working on it, and concerned about it than… then you would realize because, frankly, the mainstream media just ignores it. You know, the Washington Stand is unique in covering this.
SPEAKER 13 :
And ultimately, then the other plan is to populate these areas, such as Texas, and then that is going to affect elections at the local, the county, the state, and congressional and senatorial races. So that’s a way that you can take over the country without having to shoot one bullet. And that is really what’s happening.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. Another person in Texas that I’ve talked to about this is a woman who is – I’m drawing a blank on the name of her organization all of a sudden, but she screens candidates for local and state offices in Texas. And, you know, they are seeing an increasing number of folks who profess to be Muslims seeking – city council positions, school board positions, mayor positions, so forth, doing exactly what you just described.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay, well, Mark Tapscott, always learn so much when you’re on the show. We will have you on again very soon, and you can find him, Mark Tapscott, at the Washington Stand. Thank you for your courageous journalism and what you are doing right now. Really appreciate it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Have a great day, Kim.
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Indeed, let’s have a conversation and welcome to our number two of the Kim Monson Show. Thank you to all of us, to all of you who support us. We are an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And each of you are treasured, you’re valued, you have purpose. Today, strive for excellence, take care of your heart, your soul, your mind and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. Thank you to the team, that’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. It is Thursday, Producer Joe. Happy Thursday, Kim. And as I’m looking at this, I can’t remember if hour number one, we had so much going on, if I gave the word of the day, which is ethos. Do you remember if I did that or not? I don’t.
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Do not recall.
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Oh, Joe, you and I. Okay, well, we’re going to make sure that we do that in hour number two. And I chose it because Mark Tapscott was our featured guest in hour number one, and we were talking about the Islamination of America. So ethos, E-T-H-O-S. And it is the fundamental character or spirit of a culture, the underlying sentiment that informs the beliefs, costumes, or practices of a group or society. Number two, the distinguishing character of disposition of a community, group, person, etc., And third, the moral element in dramatic literature that determines a character’s action or behavior. And the ethos of the American idea, as compared to the ethos of Islam, cannot exist in the same spot. So we either are a place where we are focused on these values of our Declaration that all men are created equal, with these rights from God of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, and with the Constitution put in place to protect that, or with Islamination is you believe this way, or, and you can fill in the blank. And so there’s no way that those two things can exist in the same spot. But what has happened is under the guise of tolerance, under the guise of being judgmental, and whatever the other accusations can be, those things are being used for us to become tolerant of something that cannot exist ultimately with this idea that we’re all created equal. So we are, as I say, we are in this… battle of ideas. And we’ve got to understand what’s going on and arm ourselves in this battle of ideas. That’s why we do the show. And that’s why we have created our newsroom and our community. So we want you to join us to be part of this community. 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I guess that’s the ethos of the Kim Monson show. So your challenge is to use ethos in a sentence today. Next thing, our quote of the day is from George Washington in his farewell address, September 17, 1796, which ultimately that’s Constitution Day, September 17th. He says, I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs that honesty is always the best policy. And he is absolutely right. And sometimes it’s hard to say the truth. But in the long run, it’s always the right thing to do. As my dad said, there’s never a right time to do the wrong thing. There’s never a wrong time to do the right thing. And that is one of my dad’s great sayings. I’m sure that he got that from somebody else, but I don’t know who. Let’s see. Next thing, our bill of the day is House Bill 26-1254. This is a really good bill. Colorado Unit of Taxpayers has taken a yes position on this. The sponsors are Representative Max Brooks, Representative Don Sukla, and Senator Lisa Frizzell, all Republicans. And this is our commentary from CUD. It says the bill seeks to put some teeth into requests by the overseer legislature for audits on individual agencies. There are currently several non-compliant agencies, including Medicaid, IT security, and corrections. If found to be willfully non-compliant, the bill directs the state controller to withhold 3% of the agency’s funding. Agency heads are employees of the public and ought to be released from service for willful failures to comply. I would say that if they’re not in compliance on their audits, that they shouldn’t get any money at all. And Medicaid is ballooning the expenditures here in Colorado. And so good for Representative Brooks, Sukla, and Frizzell for this particular bill. Let’s see. I wanted to mention Hooters Restaurants. 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Welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And join us. We have kicked off our new community, our new newsroom, and it’s really exciting. We want you to be part of it. And you can do that by going to KimMonson.com, and you can join us. And pleased to have on the line with me Erin Meshke, and she is, I love this, she writes at Substack, the reluctant activist, and she is watching legislation down at the Statehouse. In fact, she and actually some others as well had caught that I had pulled the wrong commentary on our email to legislators this last week. And I appreciate her bringing that to my attention so that I could get that corrected. So she is watching what is going on down there big time and really do appreciate that. Erin, welcome to the show. Good morning, Kim. Thanks for having me. Well, there’s a lot going on down at the state house. So what do you want people to know? What are you watching this week?
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So this week, there have been a lot of things already that have come through. There was a suite of tax bills that cut covered in the weekly email that happened on Monday afternoon. All three went through with minimal amendments, and none of the amendments made them any better. I testified against all… Well, I was supposed to testify against all three. I forgot to sign up for one. So the one in the middle, 12-22, I ended up not being able to testify on, but… they’re just basically shuffling money around. They’re taking money away from one area, making businesses pay more, making higher income individuals pay more in some instances, and then making new tax credits or taking money and putting into existing family tax credits. And My points on all of those were that if you penalize businesses, it always trickles down to the people who they employ and the communities that they’re in. And sometimes they pick up and leave, like we saw with Palantir most recently. And so those are things that are going to have potentially long-lasting impacts. Beyond that, also on Monday, there were a suite of three bills in the State Civic Military and Veterans Affairs Committee in the House that were all killed, two of which there are also ballot measures. that are potentially, I think at this point I’ve heard that at least one of the three has enough signatures to be on the ballot. But the first one of those that was killed was extending the statute of limitations for youth gender transition procedures. So that, you know, kids have been put on hormones or have had double mastectomies to help them identify as a boy when they are young women. or any of the other procedures that are around, you know, labeled gender-affirming care. That one died in committee as was expected, but it’s always good to have those conversations, even though we know that there will be a party-line vote. No one will cross over and be convinced that we need to protect young people. The next bill in that committee was about protecting female sports, and so we it solves exactly the same thing, that we’re going to discriminate against an entire protected class in Title IX so that a small minority of mostly boys who want to compete in girls sports are are able to do that so um yeah there i i’ve i’ve basically sat on my couch with computer uh in one committee and phone in another committee for most of the week uh so there’s there is a lot going on and we’re thankfully we’re i think today officially at the halfway point of the of the session so we’re we’re on the downhill but it’s only going to get more busy between now and the second wednesday in may when they adjourn
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Well, and people have asked me, how can we have so many bills? So as of this morning, looking at Bill Track 50, which we use for CUT, Colorado Union Taxpayers, 518 bills or resolutions have been presented. CUT, at this particular point in time, has taken positions on 107 of those bills. And Erin, you know with what you’re doing, this takes an enormous amount of time to watch what’s going on because we don’t really need another, another law whatsoever, but, and we need to have bills to repeal things. And there is this bill to repeal retail delivery fees, which I love because every legislator, my understanding, Aaron, is they can propose five bills each legislative session. And I think there’s a hundred legislators. So that’s easily as 500 bills, but then there can be special permission bills. uh for additional bills and as we get near the end of the session they people can’t or legislators can bring some other bills that’s how we get up to that 700 plus number that we did last year and we don’t need that many bills and that many laws and the other thing aaron there is no way these legislators can be reading all of this legislation And having time to contemplate and think about the far reaching consequences. What’s happening is we’ve got special interests that are shopping this legislation saying, hey, carry this bill. And that’s how we’re getting all this bad stuff.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, well, so the bill that you mentioned for repealing retail delivery was killed in committee yesterday. So that’s not going to be happening. But yeah, there was actually a bill, I think Representative Stephanie Luck brought it a couple years ago. Everything kind of blurs together at this point, but it was… It was to maybe it wasn’t Stephanie. There was a bill that came came forward to like, you know, for every one bill that went in that we needed to repeal to or something like that. And I was I was all for it. But, you know, that that’s not what this legislature does. They are they have made us the sixth bill. most regulated state in the nation. And I don’t think they’re going to be happy until they have, you know, cracked that, that top five to be in the top three. I think they’re trying really hard to, you know, compete with California and New York as the most regulated states. And, and I would, I would say that, you know, we’ll, we’ll see at the end of this legislative session, we may have moved up in that ranking because there’s, there’s very little that they, that they, will look at taking away. They just want more and more control.
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more and more control and more and more of our money in this Senate bill 26, one 35, which is good. So questions can get onto our ballot for us to vote on a couple of different ways. One is by citizen petition, but actually many times we’ve seen special interests that are paying petitioners to get signatures on this whole protect kids, Colorado petition. uh movement has just been it’s historical what has happened there but the other way is that something can be referred to the ballot by the legislature and they don’t have to jump through all the hoops that um that like protect kids colorado had to jump through to try to get these questions on the ballot through the the titling board and all that so this are you going to testify this afternoon on this senate bill 135
SPEAKER 16 :
Um, I am, there are some of these, uh, education. So this one is an education funding bill that you’re talking about.
SPEAKER 13 :
This is the, this is the, this is the Tabor bill. I’m sorry. I should have made that. This is the Senate bill. 26, one 35 is the referral to the November ballot to gut Tabor, Colorado’s taxpayers bill of rights.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, okay. Well, I just, I pulled it up on a computer and it’s, it’s, um, I haven’t looked at this one yet. So, um, uh, Because when I pulled up 135, it said it was an education funding bill. So maybe they’re gutting Tabor IV education. That’s completely possible.
SPEAKER 13 :
That’s exactly what’s happening.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I have not had a chance to look at this specific one yet. Sometimes the bill titles and what’s actually contained inside are… they’re not actually accurate. So I think earlier this session, a few weeks ago, there was HB 261084, and that’s for, it’s labeled as a ballot measure transparency, and that just means that citizen initiatives will have to not only list the amount of money that their program is going to take if it passes and becomes law, but they also have to list the top areas, I think it’s the top three areas, where they would take money away for these programs. Or it’s listing the places where that money would have to come from. And I think that probably the legislature gets to choose during the ballot titles and measure process what they’re going to say this money is going to be taken from. So that’s it. I think they’re trying to dissuade people from voting for citizen ballot measures. They’re still bent out of shape about some ballot measures over the last couple of years that have required funding to be put in certain areas because citizens have demanded it when the legislature hasn’t addressed certain issues. But this 1084 is actually making a requirement for citizen ballot measures that is not required for the legislature. When a bill comes through, they do have a fiscal note and the policy analyst will say how much money it will cost and then committees and the different chambers choose if those costs are going to be able to happen, but they don’t have to say where that money is going to come from when they put a measure forward. And I actually have reached out to a couple of representatives that I have grown to know in the House and said, I think we need a measure, like a similar measure that would apply to the legislature, where if they’re going to have a bill put forward with a fiscal note, any fiscal impact, they actually need to name the places where they’re going to take money away from. Because in our tight fiscal climate, it’s not like there’s just a bunch of money floating around and we just have to figure out what to do with it. No, every dollar is coming from someplace. And so I think the legislature needs to have the same If you’re going to spend money, where is it coming from? Are you going to take it from education? Are you going to take it from, you know, health expenses? Are you going to take it from roads and fixing things? We just need transparency on both sides instead of just demanding it from the citizens.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, and the other thing is, ultimately, though, the money that we’re talking about is coming from us. And they need to be responsible to us on that. And this is so interesting in bringing up this Senate Bill 135, because you look at a lot of legislation, Erin Meshke. Thank you. And so here I’m saying, oh, it’s the bill to gut Tabor. And you’re looking at it and you’re thinking, well, wait, wait, wait, this is an education bill. What are you talking about, Kim? This is another way they use words so they know for the children. If people care about our children, they care about education, although the results have been dismal. So they’ve titled this. If they titled it what it really is, is taking away your TABOR refunds ultimately forever, people would say no. But people look at it, state public K-12 education funding. And I think this is downright deceptive, Erin Meschke. I think it’s downright deceptive.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah. Well, I mean, and so it’s, it’s, this is the reason why I have conversations with people, why I am on a bunch of different email lists for, for different people, because as much as I look into these things, stuff like this still gets by me. Uh, and I, this is not my full-time job, you know, like I’m not getting paid to do any of this. And, um, there are times where I know better, right? I know better than to be deceived by a title like this. And I probably just glossed over it in the cut email or didn’t make it down to that point yet because I was focused on the things, looking at the position for the bills that I was interacting on on Tuesday and Wednesday. And so there are times by Thursday, I’m still trying to catch up to make sure I’m not missing anything. And so definitely this one is going to be, when I get off this call with you, I’m going to print out this paper and I’m going to I’m going to look through it and probably sign up and testify against it because Tabor is something that fiscal conservatives and fiscal hawks around the country, they envy Colorado for this. This policy, it has been protective of overspending and financial abuse of our state tax dollars. And so it’s something that we need to preserve and it’s been under attack for a number of years, but especially in the last three or four that I’ve really been paying attention to. They’ve been trying every workaround and every fee instead of tax. And, you know, oh, if this is de minimis, then we don’t have to go to the taxpayers. And they justified an entire special session around de minimis, you know, increases. And there’s a point where I don’t think tens of millions of dollars of impacted taxpayers, you know, that should have been refunded. I don’t think that’s de minimis. And so, yeah, is it the… The way that they just turn things around is incredible. And justification is their strongest suit, I think.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, and then also taking a look at the fiscal note on the Senate Bill 26135. I think earlier in the week when we took our initial position on this, I don’t think the fiscal note was available. But if you get to the fiscal note, it says in out year 2728, the net change in Tabor refunds, brace yourself, Erin, $817 billion. Holy shit.
SPEAKER 17 :
Right now it’s crazy. Oh, my goodness. Yeah.
SPEAKER 13 :
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Back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And check out the website for the Center for American Values. That website is AmericanValuesCenter.org. And Drew Dix, Medal of Honor recipient, will be hosting a webinar. He’ll be in person in Tombstone, Arizona with students. But it will be March 16th, which is Monday at 325 p.m. And I recommend that you encourage your children, grandchildren to participate in this. And the title of it is Living Valor. And you can register by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. That is AmericanValueCenter.org. And we are talking with Erin Meshke. She is… really an informed citizen. And you can find all that she does at the Reluctant Activist at Substack. So, Erin, tell me your journey. You said this is not your day job. And this is the other thing when I was talking with Karen Gorday and Mary Jansen and Rami Johnson and I think it’s Karen Davis last night. They’re all citizens that have gotten very active in this movement. Lakewood Citizens Alliance regarding this special election is we have to take time away from what we do, our families, our work, to participate in this. But the people that are pushing this, really tyrannical issues, politicians, bureaucrats, interested parties, they’re all making a living doing this we’re on the other hand having to take time out of our day to show up to testify there’s something wrong with this because they’re supposed to be representing us not all the special interest stuff so how did you get involved in this erin erin meshki to become the reluctant activist
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, so this is not anything in my background or wheelhouse. The only time that I was involved in student government stuff in elementary school and junior high and high school a little bit. I was a junior class treasurer just so that I could plan prom my junior year. my junior year. So it wasn’t for like political aspirations or anything like that. So during COVID, there were things happening that I was concerned about. I was concerned that the government wasn’t listening at all levels. And so I started getting more active and aware at that point. But in 2021, there was a bill in Colorado that was brought forward and I was made aware of it by an organization that I’m a part of. And It was to allow one piece of the bill was to allow children as young as 12 to consent to HPV vaccination without their parents’ knowledge of consent under the guise of sexual transmitted infection prevention. And the HPV vaccine is one of the most damaging vaccines. in history. And so that was the first time I actually went to the Capitol and I testified in person. And I generally did not wear a mask during COVID, but I was required to, to sit in the Capitol in this special room. And so I submitted to that because I thought that it was important to be able to speak against this bill. It passed in all of its glory or horror, depending on how you want to look at it. But that was the first thing. And then the next year in 2022, there was a lot of health freedom legislation that was presented. nearly all of it died. And so I was very naive of the process. I didn’t know that bills went from one chamber to the other because I never saw a bill that passed. And so that was kind of the first thing. And at the very end of the session, for some reason, I looked at the schedule and I realized there was a bill in an education committee that I wanted to say something on. And then I started to notice how much other stuff was going on. And so the next year in 2023, I read over half of the bills that were put through because I was beginning to realize that titles don’t mean what they say. And so from that point to now, In 2023 and 2024, I spent a lot of time in person at the Capitol. The last two sessions, 25 and 26, including special sessions, I’ve been more busy, and so I’ve had to be remote a lot more. But for a special session, if you’re not there in person, you miss a lot, really, because it all happens really fast. And so for special sessions, I’ve pretty well been in person for the entire, you know, it’s supposed to be three days. It always… spans into six or eight days. And so you kind of, it’s a big commitment. And if I wasn’t at a place where my kids are all adults now, you know, big air quotes adults, I have flexibility, even though my husband and I are building a house and doing a lot of that work ourselves, I have flexibility to be able to read a lot of bills during the year. But if I wasn’t doing this, if this hadn’t become part of my life a number of years ago, I would be doing other things, right, that might be, you know, benefiting me financially or that might be benefiting my community in a different way. Or I might, there have been times where I’ve like just totally jumped out on things that my family is doing because I’ve got this stuff that happens for, you know, a solid four months in the beginning of the year. And then if you don’t follow what’s going on in the interim, right, you’re not prepared for the session. And so the last couple of years when I haven’t had the time to look at interim bills and committees that are meeting and having all of this pre-planning stuff that’s going on for the session, you show up in the dark a little bit. And so I think that that’s where most of Colorado is. Most of Colorado is in the dark. Yeah.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, it’s overwhelming, and I think it’s designed to be so. So describe how people can watch what’s happening in the interim, because day one, there’s all kinds of bills that are being presented. So that means stuff’s been going on when the legislature is not in session. So how can people watch all that stuff?
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, so there are committees that actually meet all year round, and there are specific committees that meet in the interim which is just the time from when the legislature adjourned in in the middle of may until the time when they you know dabble back in for a new session in the the second week of january and so there are there are committees that are meeting with sometimes the state agencies that they have they present findings for studies that were required by legislative bills in the past that, you know, once they become a law, if there’s a study component, that study is done over however much time the bill gives them to do that. And then they present those results. And then there are bills that are created out of that process. And so in the interim, in those interim committees, you have a chance It usually happens in like October and sometimes November. They will present their draft bills in some of those committees. And that’s not all of the bills that come through. There are a lot of bills that don’t come as a result of an interim committee. And legislators are just working on those in the background. And there is a lot of special interest bills. And sometimes I have heard different special interest groups say, when we were writing this bill, when we were developing this policy, and I, as a citizen, I think we should all be really concerned about the fact that I think a majority of the legislation that comes through in any specific session is put there by special interest groups and not because someone’s constituent came to them and said, I have this problem and I think that it needs to be solved. I think that that’s Not always, but that is a good starting point for why we might need a new law. If there’s a group of citizens that see an issue and they are coming to their representative or their senator and saying, we need help with this and protection from this group or whatever, But that’s just not what happens. So yeah, there is a lot that happens in the off season, as it were. And there’s very little way to input into that unless you’re an official stakeholder, which just means that you’re someone that is recognized. You can sign up to be a stakeholder on different issues on certain websites. I haven’t really done that very… I haven’t done that at all yet, just because… they don’t make that process easy. And I don’t think they really want a lot of, I don’t think they want a lot of additional input. They’re happy with just the voices speaking into it right now.
SPEAKER 13 :
This is so antithetical to how government is supposed, representative government, with special interest, writing bills, shopping these bills to find a legislator to bring that bill forward. This is how Colorado has gotten into the mess that we are in because somehow we’ve gotten away from representative government to special interest government. And what you’re doing, Erin, is absolutely amazing. It’s truly patriotic what you are doing and watching all of this legislation. Thanks, Kim. Go ahead. Go ahead. Well, let’s go to break. And we’re going to continue the discussion with Erin Meshke. You can find her at Substack under the Reluctant Activist. And these are such important discussions. And we’re trying to help you know what’s going on so that you can… engage with your friends, your family, your colleagues so that we can reclaim this Colorado that we love, reclaim the American idea, reclaim the American middle class. And it happens because of all of your support. Our community joined that and our great sponsors. And one of those is John Bozen and Bozen Law.
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SPEAKER 16 :
We were just talking about special interests. And one of the bills that we were going to address is the epitome of that. So I don’t know if you want to lead into that or if you want me to.
SPEAKER 13 :
Why don’t you set that up for us?
SPEAKER 16 :
Sure, so SB 26032 is a bill that is put forward under promoting access to immunizations. But what it actually is, is a liability shield for for pharmaceutical companies, for people who administer vaccinations. And it’s a liability shield that is unique in the way that there’s no one who is going to help these people if there’s an injury that happens from a vaccination. So they’re basically just, you know, doing a Star Wars move to say, these are not the droids you’re looking for, but there is no liability, but they’re not putting liability anyplace else. And so that means that the liability, which currently for vaccine injuries is largely absorbed by the families who have had an injured child or an injury themselves, they are bearing the brunt of of the consequences of that injury. They’re the ones who are spending hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions of dollars on medical care. And the impact on some of these children’s lives is so profound that they will never be able to be productive members of society. They are still valued members of their family, but their injury is costing their family, you know, a significant amount of money and time, and that is just inexcusable. And so at least at the federal level right now, there is the opportunity, even if it is a very hard process, there is at least the opportunity that the federal government will absorb some of that liability when they took the liability off of the pharmaceutical companies. But this SB 32 does not put the liability technically on the state of Colorado. It just says that the companies aren’t liable, which means that the families will have no one that they can sue. And the one additional line that was added in the Senate on second reading that I think is so It’s just so terrible. It says, the part that was added is that a vaccine that is required under this Part 9 to an infant or a child shall not be held liable for injuries sustained. That just basically means that if it’s part of the vaccine schedule that’s recommended not only by the CDC or ACIP, but it can be even just by the State Board of Health. So the Board of Health has started to do a workaround. When ACIP took away the recommendation for the Hep B vaccine on day one, the Board of Health started working in the background for the state of Colorado to make it so that that recommendation would not go away here. So regardless of the scientific information, the medical studies, the injuries that have been seen and everything else, Colorado decided we’re not going to listen to all of that. The science, you know, big air quote science that we trust says that it’s safe and we’ve had all these decades of using it with no problems. Okay. So we’re going to keep it on our schedule. But if a vaccine isn’t on the federal schedule and someone gets injured, it’s not eligible for that federal vaccine injury compensation program. You can’t go to vaccine court, as much of a sham as it is. You can’t even go to that with your injury if that happens, and it’s not a recommended vaccine. Here in the state of Colorado, what I think we’re going to find out, and it’s going to take people getting injured, which is the saddest part, we’re going to find out that the courts are going to say, Colorado, you said there’s no liability, so these people can’t sue the manufacturers, they can’t sue the doctor, they can’t sue the pharmacist or the wholesaler because they’ve added a whole bunch of extra people who are immune from legal action. they, they can, they’re going to have to come and sue you now. So there is no fiscal note on this bill, but there will be a fiscal impact to the state of Colorado when people get injured, because it’s not a matter of if they get injured, it’s just when, when that happens and when it makes its way to the court. Um, it’s just, there’s, there’s no way around that. And so, um, at the end of the day people should be up at arms about this and and and it was supposed to have its second reading uh debate um weeks ago when it came out of committee and it keeps getting pushed down on the list and pushed down almost and sometimes that just happens but sometimes that is intentional because they actually realize how much of a problem it is and how much pushback they’re getting not just from legislators who don’t agree but from people around the state And so I think we all need to be contacting our representatives to make sure that they know we are not on board with this. We also need to be contacting Governor Polis because eventually he’s going to have to be the one to sign this into law if it passes. And we cannot… assume this liability as a state it will it will bankrupt us in you know a matter of a couple cases of of injury just given you know the um the how much that has cost the federal government the you know billions of dollars that have been paid out to people who have been injured
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, and the other thing is, Erin, and you hit on this, the tragedy for the families. Yeah. That is so heartbreaking. We’re getting close to running out of time. But the Senate bill, I think it was 097, the prostitution bill, it was postponed indefinitely. When I was talking with Mary Janza last night, it’s like, oh, that means it’ll be next year. But talk a little bit about that one.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, yeah. So technically that was not postponed indefinitely. It was laid over until what the sponsors called June 2nd, 2026, which is National Prostitution Day or something like that. He had a whole diatribe about about what that date meant and why they were laying it over to June 2nd and how sad he was that it couldn’t get enough support or whatever this year. You can be guaranteed it’s going to come back next year or the year after that. They’re going to push this until they make prostitution legal. But they did not have enough support this year. And so instead of getting killed in committee, they decided to lay it over But I have seen bills that actually did their full committee hearing, did get PI’d and then came back again and again and again. So you can expect this one’s gonna resurface next year.
SPEAKER 13 :
And a dot to connect on this that I’m concerned about, and you just mentioned 12-year-olds can get vaccines or medication.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes, the HPV vaccine. Well, there’s a whole list of things that 12-year-olds can get now on their own, but yes, the HPV was the one I mentioned before.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay, so let’s think about this on the prostitution thing. If they are saying that 12-year-olds can have consent over here, Yeah. It’s a slippery slope. I know. And people are saying, oh, Kim, you’re crazy to say that. But I could see that happening, right? Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
Kim, we could have a whole other hour’s discussion on the minor consent laws that have been passed over the course of the last five to 10 years in Colorado and the slippery slope that that makes. And really, I do think that there is a push for lowering the age of consent. And one part in that prostitution bill was that they were going to decriminalize prostitution and commercial sexual activity is how they’re reframing it. They’re going to take away the penalties for a person as young as 12 who is getting paid to have sex but they’re not going to take away the consequences for someone who is having sex with a child under that age. That was part of that bill that was a little bit eye-opening, concerning, but also like very, it was hard to wrap my head around how they were going to make it so that a 12-year-old could say, I’m consenting to this sexual act that I’m getting paid for, but the person who is paying that minor, for sex could still be held accountable. So they’re trying to thread a needle right now that is, it’s tricky and it should stay tricky, right? We should never ever say that it’s okay for a festive personal act to be something you can profit off of. That’s morally, it’s a slippery slope for our entire society.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, they’re after our children. And so, Erin Meshke, you can find her, the reluctant activist at Substack. Thank you so much, and thank you for your great work. And a quick note, we did an excellent piece at the Kim Monson Newsroom on the Senate Bill 135, which they say is for the kids, K-12 education. It’s to take our taper refunds forever. You can find that there. Erin, thank you. We’ll talk soon. Keep up the great work. Thanks so much, Kim. Have a great day. Our quote for the end of the show is from Thomas Paine. He said this, of more worth is one honest man to society and in the eyes of God than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived. And he wrote that in Common Sense in 1776. So my friends today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate, 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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