The Kim Monson Show delivers a packed hour featuring former Benghazi security contractor Tig Teigen, who shares firsthand details from the September 11, 2012 attack in Libya and challenges years of public misconceptions surrounding that night. Teigen discusses the stand-down order, what really happened to Ambassador Christopher Stevens, and why truth still matters years later.
The conversation then turns local as Teigen outlines why he is running for mayor of Colorado Springs, focusing on public safety, leadership, police morale, and restoring confidence in city government. Kim also examines government overreach, local control issues, and how freedom can erode one policy
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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 Monday, Producer Joe. Happy Monday, Kim. Happy Monday. We’ve got a great show, great week planned for you today. So fasten your seatbelts. Check out the website. And today is the day to join the Kim Monson community because the town halls, the virtual town halls, as well as our classes begin. So tomorrow evening, 745 to 9, we will have our first virtual town hall with John Eastman. He is a constitutional expert. He’s an expert on birthright citizenship. He was turning to President Trump. We’ll talk about the conversation that he had with Mike Pence and President Trump on January 4th before, obviously, January 6th. And also, he was just recently disbarred by the state of Colorado. So this attack upon him. is pretty crazy. So that is tomorrow evening. You need to be a member and that’s at all levels at the $50 level a year, $100 or $200 a year. But join us. And then on Thursday evening, we’ll kick off Alan Thomas’s classes on the first half of the Federalist Papers and how they are relevant to today. And so I think you need to be Monticello or Mount Vernon for that. So join us and you can do all that at the website. That is KimMonson.com. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com. The text line is 720-605-0647. And as you know, on the show, we search 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 not compassionate and it’s not altruistic to take other people’s stuff, whether or not it’s their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunity, childhoods or lives via force. And the force could be a weapon, but it could be a policy, unpredictable in excess of taxation, fees, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, legislation. the agenda of the World Economic Forum and globalist elites that is playing out at the United Nations, but also playing out all the way to municipal governments as well as special districts, school districts and such. And now that we see what’s going on, we must engage in this. And I know it seems like it’s daunting, but we are having small successes here and there, and we must not give up. On the show, we focus on the issues and we’ll mention the people behind those issues, but we work to stay out of all the personality fighting. I wanted to say thank you to the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show and also to Laramie Energy for their goal sponsorship of the show as well. They are also a goal sponsor of the Kim Monson Community and Newsroom. And 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 regarding your own personal climate, if you are having any challenges with your staying warm in the winter or cool in the summer, reach out to Ben’s Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling. That number is 303-995-1636. And our word of the day is incongruity. And it means not being agreeable or accordant, not exhibiting harmony of the parts and not appropriate in fitting. And, uh, so that is your challenge to use the word incongruity in a sentence today and C O N G R U I T Y. And, uh, the legislation, most of the legislation that we’re seeing passed down at the Colorado state house, um, is incongruent to freedom. And that is why we continue to shed light on that through the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. Join us. That’s $25 a year. And say thank you to these folks when you see them out there. That is Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Ramey Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onozorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. And when you join us, you will receive the email that we send out on Mondays to the legislators and the governor regarding positions on legislation. And as we’ve seen, most of the things that are being passed and signed are incongruent with individual freedoms. And you can join us by going to coloradotaxpayer.org. That’s coloradotaxpayer.org. Our quote of the day, this is a great quote by St. Augustine. And he was born in the year 354, died in 430. He was a Christian theologian and philosopher. from Roman Africa. He was the Bishop of Hippo Regis from Thagast in present day Algeria. His writings deeply influenced the development of Western philosophy and Western Christianity. And he’s viewed as one of the most important church fathers of the Latin church in the patristic period. His many important works include the city of God on Christian doctrine and confessions. And again, think about this all these years ago, he was born in 340 AD. But he said this, he said, the truth is like a lion. You don’t have to defend it. Let it loose and it will defend itself. And that’s why we do this on the show to search for truth and clarity. As he says, the truth is like a lion. You don’t have to defend it. You just have to let it loose and it will defend itself. Our bill of the day is Senate Bill 26023. It is the School Finance Act. Prime sponsors are Senator Chris Kolker and Senator Barbara Kirkmeyer and Representative Eliza Hamrick. Cut Colorado Union of Taxpayers is a no on this. It says the bill set school finance funding levels for fiscal year 26-27 to reflect current law. This increases the base per pupil funding by $208.60 to $8,940 and establishes statewide total program funding at $10.2 billion in fiscal year 2026-2027. Now, I know that many times there will be a comparison that says our per-pupil funding might be lower than other states, but that’s just shy of $9,000. So for a class of 20 kids, and typically class sizes are bigger than that, that is about $180,000. And it seems like out of that, we should be able to pay our teachers well. And I think we need to reduce the pay, the number of administrators. And that would, I think, help with our school budgets significantly. One of the reasons somebody said we have to have these school administrators is because of all the rules and regulations. Well, we’ve got to get back to making sure our kids can read and write and do arithmetic and know history. But anyway, this is CUT’s position on this. It says, CUT unanimously opposes this bill. Student performance scores continue to decline. Enrollment continues to shrink, but administrations continue to grow. State spending is in a deficit. This bill requires no accountability and gives no rationale. Yet taxpayers are asked to fund a large increase in spending. Legislators need to do their homework and they need to do their work. And that is our position on Senate Bill 023, the School Finance Act. And the show comes to you because of all of our great sponsors. And they all bring so much information about their chosen professions to each and every one of us. And I’m talking with Roger Mangan with the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team. And last week, Roger, we were talking about transfer of risk. And how does life insurance work into that equation?
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Tim, that’s a good question, and let me share with you some of my thoughts. As we travel through the society we live in and become responsible adults, we’re faced with many difficult and obligatory decisions. Education, career choices, marriage, housing, just to name a few. We’re also left to make lifestyle choices, not obligatory ones. And I’m talking about hobbies, travel, recreation, entertainment. And I think sometimes we lose our balance in terms of these choices. The art of living is balancing these choices and not leaving yourself exposed to obvious risks. This brings me to the subject of protecting your most valuable asset, the economic engine that allows your life and lifestyle to go on and on. It’s you. You are the engine that produces the wealth. So, for example, what is your worth as a human being Let’s take a peek. Let’s say you have a job and you’re making $100,000 a year. You’re 40 years old and you’re going to work 25 more years. That concludes to you earning $25 million potentially. That’s without a raise. We insure our $35,000 car. We pay $1,000 a year. And over 25 years, we pay the insurance company $25,000. Does the car make any money for us? No. As a matter of fact, it costs us to keep and maintain that asset. So if you paid $1,000 a year to insure and protect a $35,000 asset, a depreciating asset as well, wouldn’t it make sense to spend $600 a year to insure your human life value for $25 million? Absolutely. Those are the kinds of thoughts that we need to open up in people’s minds, your listeners’ minds, And sit down with us and let us show you how to solve that conundrum.
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Well, and what would be the best way for people to reach you to do that?
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Well, if you are interested in getting into some significant conversations, we’re willing to be there for you. Our number is 303. 795-8855.
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Okay, and for sure, I think people should sit down and take a look at it. One question on this, though, and I understand what you’re saying regarding lifestyle risk. So many of our young people, young families, they’re really getting squeezed in so many different ways. And I think I know the answer to this, but you’d really recommend that they make some choices with all that’s out there to transfer this risk in case of injury or death, right?
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Absolutely. And these lifestyle choices of recreation, entertainment, travel, vacations, I think we can help them plot that out. And if they’re honest and say, okay, here’s what I spend on Starbucks, here’s what I do when I go out with the boys or the girls and spend money out. And I’m not saying you don’t want to do that, but you have to certainly have some balance. And if you could divert some of those lifestyle choices to buying life insurance, for example, life insurance on a 40-year-old male, a million dollars of that coverage is somewhere around $52 a month. A female, $44 a month. You divide Starbucks for it. Burger King or whatever you want to do into them. If you’re doing it five times, six times a week, some people eat out all the time and you push it back to three times or two times, you would find there’s enough money to do what you need to do to take care of those financial responsibilities you have called family. And, um, boy, I would say that we need probably for a 40 year old male with two children and married buying a home. Somewhere around $1.15 million. I did the math. If you want to replace your salary at $100,000 for five years, that’s $500,000. That’s your economic life value. Your mortgage, $400,000. That’s what it is, $400,000. And if you die, you’d want your wife to have some income replacement and have the mortgage paid. And then you have college education or trade school dollars for children, two children. You need $100,000 in an account today for a five- and six-year-old so when they’re ready to go to school with inflation, you’ve got enough money in that side account for the children. Then you have unexpected medical bills. Probably they’re not going to pay everything just before your death. So $50,000. So it all adds up to $1,150,000. And that sounds like a lot of money, and it is if you had to come up with it right away. But over your lifetime, that’s your commitment. So I think there’s a way for you to spend some of that Starbucks money and spend $52 a month on a $1.15 million life insurance policy. Okay, and how can people reach you to talk about this, Roger Mangan? Yeah, you can call us at 303-795-8855.
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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. Be sure and sign up for our weekly email newsletter. And be sure and join the community as well. And there is a lot that is going on in our world today. But this is one of the things that is really important. And that is regarding the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Association. They need to hear from us regarding and this is from Rosie and I thank her for keeping me so informed on all of this. It says the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission wants to ban the sale, barter or trade of wildlife for in Colorado and adversely impact the state’s beaver management plan. This is the latest attack from those looking to ban hunting against the North American model and it must stop. We should we need to protect this. And these rules are not needed as there is no threat to wildlife management. And there is no proof of overharvesting by furbearers. In 2024, voters spoke in Denver with Proposition 308 and throughout Colorado with Initiative 127. And so we need to make sure that we have our voices heard. And let’s see here. May 6th and 7th in Grand Junction will be the next meeting on this. The locations are not finalized, but you can get more information by going to SaveTheHuntColorado.com. That is SaveTheHuntColorado.com. Then, in addition, you can make your voices heard. We had Greg Lopez on at the end of the week last week regarding from a… National level regarding the wolves. And you can make your voices heard on that as well by going to… Hold on here. This is… Lisa had sent this over. And that is by going to the… federal government. I’ll get that information. We’ll have that in the show recap again. And you can make your comments regarding the wolf introduction program that occurred here in Colorado as well. And all these things, this assault upon hunting with these new rules through the Colorado Parks and Wildlife, and then the introduction of the wolf on the Western Slope, which is a depredation to livestock. All of this affects our livelihoods. It affects our food sources. And so we do need to make our voices heard and I’ll get all that information for you so that it is going to be a bit easier. I saw a headline and let me know what you think. This text line is 720-605-0647. But with government getting in the business of trash and It’s been occurring for quite some time. We’ve seen this in some of the different municipalities where government has basically said that they will have one trash hauler. So, for example, that has happened up in Fort Collins, and you don’t have to use that particular trash hauler. But if you don’t use that trash hauler, then you have to pay an additional fee. And so what it is doing is taking away competition. And then I think that once they have taken away the competition and government is in control of our trash, of course, under pollution, then I think we continue to see more and more restrictions on different things. For example, because of the drought and because of mismanagement of our water resources, there’s going to be water restrictions. And then under the guise of climate change and with Excel and different monopolies on energy providing power to us, we’re seeing that prices are going up and there is rationing by brownouts, blackouts. So again, this is all about control. Now, if they can control our waste, then that is another way to control our lives. And certainly, we want to be good stewards of our earth, and we can do that. But under the guise of being good stewards, what we’re seeing is just more and more control. So I see some big risk. First of all, Mandani is chasing people out of New York that are… productive citizens and continue to spend lots of money. So I wonder how much this is going to cost. So this is from Secret NYC. It says New York City is converting 6,500 parking spaces into giant trash containers by 2027. And they have a list of the neighborhoods. So again, this will be an assault upon your freedom of mobility. If you do have a car in New York, it’ll be more and more difficult to find a place to park it. And it says this massive expansion of the Empire Bend program promises cleaner, rat-free sidewalks, but drivers are about to lose thousands of street spots across all five boroughs. And he says, we have a plan, we’re investing the money, and we’re delivering on the promise of clean, healthy streets for every neighborhood, he said in a conference. Of course, those are words people like, clean, healthy streets. He says, goes on to say, you might have already spotted these giant metal boxes in West Harlem where the pilot program originally kicked off. Dubbed the Empire Bin during the Adams administration. These massive street containers are designed to hold dozens of large trash bags at once. They require special automated side loading trucks. So just think about all the expense on that to service them. And only authorized building managers have the key cards to open them up. says Mayor Mondami is bringing these Empire bins to at least one community district in every single borough by the end of 2027. And I just, with what I’m seeing with Mandani, I just see this continued, the agenda of the World Economic Forum really is the agenda of socialism moving into communism. As Yvonne Paez has said, do you know what the difference is between socialism and communism? It’s five years. Now, quite frankly, the idea of having a cleaner city, that is a great idea. However, maybe trash service needs to be better. So let’s just stay tuned and watch what happens with this. Because Mondani, what we see is he likes to spend money and he likes to control people’s lives. So we’ll have to stay tuned and see what happens with all of that. And another, I think this is a really interesting headline. This is from the Daily Caller. It said voters oust half of Missouri City Council for greenlighting a six… billion dollar ai data center i’m wondering if i get getting all my zeros right it says voters in the town of festus missouri voted against four members of the town’s eight members city council who voted to greenlight a six billion dollar data center project a week prior according to st louis public radio anger has been brewing in several localities across the u.s against data center projects with voters in a wisconsin town overwhelmingly opting tuesday to crack down on proposed development And it says this recent vote followed months of at times raucous opposition against the CRG Clay Coast plan to build a hyperscale data center on 360 acres in the town. The four city council members who lost their reelection bids were defeated by candidates who ran against the data centers and supported more transparency in the data center approval process. Since the data center fight has struck this community to the core and really honestly ignited a community-driven effort here, said Dan Moore, who defeated pro-data center incumbent Bobby Binns, people are awake now and we’re not going to let this continue on anymore. Residents opposed to the AI data center flooded a local gymnasium to voice their frustrations during a March 31st city council meeting where the council voted to approve a framework of requirements for CRG’s planned construction. And as you all know, I was on the road at the end of last week with Virginia Maka. I was in Southeast Kansas. And also we did the broadcast on Thursday morning and also did the first podcast for her Stand for the Land. She is moving Stand for the Land Kansas to Stand for the Land. But I was there and people are… throughout rural America are very frustrated with these industrial solar fields, industrial wind fields, these industrial transmission lines. And these are big land grabs. I understand in the AI arena that there’s good things that can occur with AI. It can certainly be a tool. And I know that from a national security standpoint, we need to make sure that we’re on the forefront as well. But these huge data centers that are going in, these are not to help with national security or to help you finish your emails. These are surveillance. And we see it all the time with If we’re looking for a particular item on the internet, then all of a sudden it pops up all the time. They’re continuing to collect more and more and more data on each and every one of us. And that will ultimately move into the potential for more and more control over our lives. And also they’re big, big land grabs. They’re not creating jobs. And so people are waking up and making their voices heard just like they did in this little town in Missouri. And a couple of things. I did want to mention the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo. And they are focused on these American foundational principles of honor, integrity, and patriotism. And I also wanted to mention the USMC Memorial Foundation. They are hosting their big fundraiser in mid-May on May 14th at The Ridge in Castle Pines. It is a golf tournament. So make sure you get your foursome together and get signed up for that. And then also wanted to mention Hooters Restaurants. Hooters Restaurants is a great sponsor of the show and how I got to know them. It’s one of those important stories about freedom and free markets and capitalism and those PBIs, those politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties that are trying to control our lives. And you can find that whole story at my website. And Cooters Restaurants has great specials Monday through Friday for happy hour and for lunch. Be sure and check that out. And check out their nachos. They are just super delicious. And all these discussions happen because of all of these great sponsors. And one of those is Lorne Levy.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And each of us have unique goals for our lives with over 25 years of experience and their credentials of an accredited investment fiduciary. Jody Henze and her team at Mint Financial Strategies can help you create a strategy-first plan built for you. So whether you’re preparing for retirement, planning for education costs, or navigating major life transitions, Mint Financial Strategies will design a customized strategy to help you invest confidently and move forward with clarity for your life. And Jodi and her team are helping me do that with my particular plan. And so give them a call, 303-285-3080. That number again is 303-285-3080 to embark on your journey to financial freedom. And on the line with me is Tig Teigen. And I think you probably all know him. He took action on September 11th in 2012 in Benghazi, Libya, to save many of… his comrades. And so he’s just very inspirational and tells that story. We want to talk about that. But he’s also running for Colorado Springs mayor. So we want to talk about that as well. So Tig Teigen, welcome to the show.
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Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.
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It’s good to have you. But let’s begin with what happened in Benghazi. I know we all know Benghazi, but you were there. What happened that day?
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Well, you know, I would say we all don’t know Benghazi because, again, there’s a lot of generations. It’s been 14 years. There’s a lot of young generations that don’t know it that are actually voting nowadays. But, you know, a U.S. ambassador was unfortunately was killed and three other Americans, Tyrone Woods, Glenn Doherty and others. and John Smith. And, uh, you know, it’s, you know, a lot of people don’t know really what happened. Um, you know, seven actually was seven Al Qaeda organizations that came together and attacked the U S consulate. Um, you know, I was part of the CIA security team. We were told to stand down when that, when it happened, we defied those orders and we left, um, you know, we went over there and, uh, we dispersed the initial attackers, uh, while we’re on the us consulate grounds, well, they call it a special mission after he got attacked. But, um, while we’re on the constant grounds, we got counter-attacked, we repelled that assault and we could not find the ambassador. And, and, uh, unfortunately, um, the, the, his security team lost control of him or contact with them. Um, and then while we’re then after repelled the second attack, The U.S. consulate security team, they left the compound, went back to our compound, which, you know, we were about a mile away as a crow flies, about two miles away on the drive. But they left, and as we’re kind of still there trying to figure out what we’re going to do, we’re going to wait for the smoke to kind of dissipate. There’s another attack coming. By this time, the drone was overhead. And they were saying there’s about another 150 people moving towards us. So that’s when we left the U.S. consulate and went back to our compound. We got attacked three more times at our compound. The last one, the last attack, that’s what killed Glenn Doherty and Tyrone Woods. And that was a mortar attack. They were both killed with the mortar rounds and also injured. Oz, Mark Geist, and then Dave Ubin, which he was one of the diplomat security agents.
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That’s the quick version. Okay. Tig, this is in my brain as you mentioned this about the U.S. ambassador. I remember seeing his bloodied body and them dragging him through the streets, and it looked to me like that they had tortured him. Do you know if that occurred? Sure.
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So that picture is not true. That never happened. He was never tortured, mutilated, nor he was never raped. So that image that went around, that was an Egyptian guy from like 2003. So actually, I saw the video footage from the guy who recovered his body from, I don’t know, they say they were just pretty much looters. The guy grabbed the Ambassador Stevens because he knew who he was. They didn’t know who they had, which was a good thing. He took him to his vehicle, put him in his vehicle and drove him straight to the hospital. That’s exactly what happened to the ambassador.
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That’s well, first of all, the photo is riveting. I am glad to hear that it was not the ambassador, but I’d heard just all these things that you just described that all these years. That is what I thought happened to him, which is that’s really disconcerting that we’ve never got the real story.
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And that’s one of the reasons why a lot of us, why we came out and started talking, because none of our so-called political leaders were telling the truth about what happened. They would just let rumors go, which is bullcrap, especially for the families and loved ones that knew these people. So we try to get out there. We try to tell the truth as much as we can to anybody that will listen. So, you know, when people ask, you know, do you, you know, do you talk about, do you want to talk about, yeah, we, a lot, all three of us will talk about it, you know, and, and I think Boone, he talks about it now too. Um, so now there’s four of us because of those rumors that get out, you know, it’s, you know, for him to, a lot of people think that that was him in that picture that he was raped, mutilated or tortured. He died of smoke inhalation and he was in that building for hours. I mean, from. You know, you picture it from, you know, 10, pretty much I would say from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. We found Sean Smith, you know, pretty early on when we first got there. He was already gone. So.
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And what was his position?
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Sean Smith. So he was the he was the communication officer for the ambassador for the consulate, I guess you could say. So he was responsible to make sure the comms were working and stuff like that.
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Okay. And were there others that died other than the ones that you mentioned on that day?
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Nope, that was it. It was besides the terrorists that we took out.
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Okay. What about all the other staff at the consulate? What happened with them?
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There was only seven of them over there. So it was the ambassador, Sean Smith, and five security officers, and that was it. That was eight acres. That’s all they had.
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Okay, this is September 11th, and we know that September 11th is a date that very possibly there’s going to be a tax upon Americans. And so this is in Benghazi, Libya. Now, Obama is president at this time, correct?
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Correct. Okay. Hillary was in charge of the State Department.
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I think I’m speechless. How could you leave the ambassador in such a risky situation, right?
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Well, I mean, yeah. I mean, it was not good. I mean, we shut down our operations to kind of help facilitate his operations, just security-wise for movement and stuff like that. But, you know, we weren’t sleeping over there. We had our own compound we had to defend and protect at night. Um, but you know, a lot of people don’t realize eight hours prior to that happening, the, the U S embassy in Cairo got overran. It got attacked and overran. So for them to say that no assets were in the area, they should have been already in the area because of the attack eight hours prior stuff should have been moving and happening. But again, that’s just poor management, poor leadership, kind of like what we have in the country right now, my, my opinion.
SPEAKER 07 :
Uh, you’re, you’re saying that with regarding Trump?
SPEAKER 08 :
No, no, just like just other local leaders, you know, our governor on down. No, I think Trump’s doing fricking awesome. Okay. I think if, if I think if Trump was an office that it’s, Ronan and Bubba definitely would be alive.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. So what you’re talking about is, you know, other offices, other, you know, what we have in Colorado right now. Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, just lack of leadership, lack of commitment, and just lack of decision making.
SPEAKER 07 :
So with that… What we are seeing, I think, Tig, you’re running for mayor for Colorado Springs. And I served on city council 2012 to 2016, which was very interesting. I learned a lot about how all of this works. And what I’ve seen is that there may be very well-meaning people that get elected to local office, county office. commissioners, even going down to the state legislature. But I think I’ll focus on county commissioners and city council and mayors is what happens is that the first thing is, is that they’re brought into a retreat normally. And that’s where staff comes in. So the bureaucrats come in and they explain their different departments, why they need money. And there’s all of a sudden what happens is people forget that they are representing the people and they think that they’re pushing the municipality’s interests. And certainly our our towns where we live, it’s important. But the most local of all government is is ourselves and our families. We want to make sure. that’s taken care of first and then move up from there. Have you, as you are looking at running for mayor, does this make, is this something that you’ve seen?
SPEAKER 08 :
You know, so when I ran the first time and, you know, I knew it was a long shot and then I, you know, when I didn’t make it, I had all kinds of people come up to me. You need to run for this office. You need to run for that office. You need to do this. You need to start talking with this group, hang out. And I’m like, no, I’m not hanging out with anybody. I’m not running for any office because of kind of the stuff you’re saying. You start getting influenced doing other things. You start getting pulled into this direction, that direction. And like you said, people actually lose focus. That’s one thing I think I’m really different. I’m very solid in how I think and how I stand. I think Benghazi is a prime example. Like we don’t, we, and again, we defied orders and kind of pretty much risking our own jobs and You know, and our, you know, if we got killed over at the consulate, no, our insurance never would have paid out. You know, we do have insurance to do things. We do got to think on our families would have been taken care of. So, you know, you have to have the correct backbone. I’m not saying, you know, other people don’t, but like, like what you’re saying, there’s so many little sections within the city that a lot of people think the mayor does everything and he doesn’t. He has his big, honest, his biggest motion. He’s like the commander in chief. He controls pretty much the law enforcement side, the executive side, which just makes sure everything is running in order. And that’s pretty much about it. So for me, like you’re saying, it’s just making sure everything is going the way it’s supposed to be going. They say people, you know, the mayor does the budget. Yeah, kind of. But the city council can actually, they can override it. They can push it. They can write this in, write that in, and they pass the budget. So the mayor has the initial portion of it and city council does what they want to do with it. So, you know, it’s everybody kind of working together to make sure the city actually goes. But my opinion, the mayor has the biggest influence, the biggest voice with the populace itself. You know, he’s, you know, he’s kind of, from where I read into it, you know, he doesn’t really have… The authority that people think, especially here in Commonwealth Springs anyways, that people think he does. But for me, the one that’s here now, he ain’t doing anything. He’s just a dog and pony puppet. He’s not really standing up for the people. He’s just kind of letting people, it’s like a stepping stone for him, in my opinion. So he’s just kind of, he’s playing that line of just letting things kind of go, making it look kind of pretty on the surface. That’s kind of how I feel.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. Well, let’s continue the discussion on this because these local offices are so important. And I think that many times those of us that are focused on this Republican form of government, our constitutional republic, we’ve lost sight of what government is supposed to do and be in its proper role. And so Tig Teigen is running for mayor of Colorado Springs. His website is Tig, that’s T-I-G-F-O-R, mayor.com. We will continue the discussion when we come back after we hear from our great sponsors. One of those is Lorne Levy.
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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 dot com. And I’ve got on the line with me Tig Teigen. And he was in Benghazi in Libya on September 11th in 2012. And he and some other guys defied orders and went over to the U.S. consulate and You said something, I want to go back to that, and one of our listeners mentioned this as well, is that you were told to stand down on that night. That’s extremely curious to me, so expound upon that a little bit.
SPEAKER 08 :
I mean, so that was just Bob. It didn’t come from Hillary or anyone else. That was our chief of base. That’s just the type of person that he was. And, you know, I was there the second time. They constantly got attacked. A lot of people don’t know that either. Actually, that night on 9-11 was the third time it got attacked. And we were told to stand down that night as well. But luckily, you know, there was nothing. They just blew a hole in the wall. I mean, just, but. That was just who Bob was, you know, and that delay cost, it cost the lives of Ambassador Stevens and Sean Smith, because if we don’t be able to go and do what our job was to do, which our number one job as GRS is hostage rescue. That’s why they hired us. That’s the number one job for us. I mean, you know, we train over and over on, you know, CQB, which is close quarter battles, hostage rescue and stuff like that, you know. And so, you know, when I got there, I immediately engaged with the, you know, with the enemy, with the with the with the grenade launcher. And that’s what actually dispersed them. So that 25 minute delay or that 25 minute wait, whatever the government wants to say is. That caused the death, well, besides the actual attackers, but the smoke inhalation, that’s what killed Ambassador Stevens and Sean Smith. That delay allowed them to light the buildings on fire because they were locked in their safe rooms. They couldn’t return fire. They couldn’t defend themselves because of the location they were in. Their heavy guns were locked up, just kind of like the Democrats want to do here back home. They want to lock up all of our guns, take our guns away. It happened to them over overseas. They were they could not have their their heavy guns with them in their quarters.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 04 :
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SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. So we at TigTigin, we are at, I really think, a time of choosing in our country. I think that we have, in many ways, abdicated our responsibilities as citizens to make sure that we are engaged with our government. Mm-hmm. And in doing so, while we were not paying attention, we’ve seen at the local and the county and the state level here in Colorado that there are radical activists that have been elected that really want to control our lives. And in fact, there are some on some of these city councils that make no bones about it, that they are Democrat socialists And Yvonne said that I didn’t get this quite right on the text line. She said, when I said to Yvonne, I said, what’s the difference between socialism and communism? She said, it’s about five years. But we are really seeing this. She also clarified what a PPP is in military lingo. She was a captain in the Army. She said it’s not public-private partnerships, but you said it earlier regarding… Earlier, which is poor performance. I’ll just put it that way. Yeah. So we have got to get these local governments and these county governments back into the proper role of government. And with Mondani, I mentioned this earlier in the show, they’re doing these new trash containers. And he’s saying this under the guise of a cleaner city, a rat-free city, which people all like that idea. But what I see is that if you control people’s water and their power and their food and their trash, then you control the people. And so given his track record, I’m pretty concerned about that, Tig.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, that’s communism. I mean, that’s not America at all. There’s no fundamentals in America under that system whatsoever. Plain and simple. You just lost your country. You lost the very fabric, the very roots of what our founders fought and died and sacrificed for. So the fact that New York is going in the direction that they’re going in, it’s disgusting. I mean, it’s such a long… it’s just, you can’t do that. I mean, you gotta yell at the market control itself. You gotta let the people be able to kind of like COVID COVID is a prime example of what happens when they, when the government starts oppressing you, you know, it killed more people than the actual system, the natural disease itself, or the, you know, the China virus did itself. Um, so it’s, it’s, it’s not, it’s not good. And that’s one of the main reasons why I ran in 2023 is because of that oppression and that that, you know, our own state government and city government did to us. It just pissed me off because of all the all the blood that I’ve shed, all the blood that our fellow veterans have shed. And it just it’s not the nation that that we that was founded on whatsoever.
SPEAKER 07 :
So what’s the first thing that you would tackle when elected mayor?
SPEAKER 08 :
You know, it’s going to be public safety is going to be number one. We’ve been dealing with the same kind of issues since, honestly, I looked all the way back. I went all the way back to 2000, and it’s been the exact same problem since our growth. We’re outpacing our infrastructure. And it’s just going to be motivating the law enforcement, getting their – Just getting their motivation up, you know, for why they want to be the cop. 2020 really destroyed that. I mean, yeah, I mean, he’s out there saying, praising, you know, how he got more people to answer phones. Well, cool. So somebody can call and say hello, but while you’re sitting there being shot for 20 minutes, nobody’s coming. So it’s a matter of just actually keeping law enforcement, making them a little bit prouder of being their job. We’re losing, we’re still losing officers today. that they’re just ready to retire. I mean, you got guys that have got like four years, two years left and they’re like, I can’t wait to be done. Or normally you’d have them there. They’re like 30, 40 years. Now they don’t want to stay on. They’re done. Why? Because the morale sucks. And that comes from the leadership that starts at the mayor. It starts with city council starts with, you know, that’s where it goes. It starts with the police chief. It starts at the top and works its way down. So when you have that type of leadership, it’s not good. So that’s the first thing you got to start fixing is the morale within the city. And I don’t think it’s going to be hard. I think it’s going to be fairly easy. And it’s just being with the guys is being with the, you know, with and showing me actually care, not just going on the news and talking that you care. I mean, he already does the dog and pony show. So you might as well do with the law enforcement as well and actually proving it. That’s again, that’s, Being a leader is actually showing up and doing what you say you’re going to be doing.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and absolutely. And having a vision. And of course, that vision is the the American idea. And that is individual freedom and government in a proper role. Tig Teigen, we have about 30 seconds left. So your final thought and how can people get more information about you? And when is the election?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, the election is not till April, 2027. So I got a long time. You got, you got a lot to learn about me, but I do have an event coming up also called the AMF full throttle 2027. So if your local business, you want to get involved in this brings foot traffic into your business, but it helps American military family, which helps veterans and first responders. It’s mainly on Facebook, the event page and stuff like that. It’s free for participants to join right now. I have about $6,000 in giveaways. Again, it’s free. So I would like to get more business involved to help raise funds for American military family. That’s right now. I’m pushing that a lot.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. And that website is tigformayor.com. Okay, great. Tig Teigen, thank you so much. This has been super interesting. And you have brought truth to things that I had believed for, gosh, 14 years. So thank you for that as well. And again, that is Tig Teigen. He is running for mayor of Colorado Springs. That election is in April of 2027. And this is a very appropriate quote for Tig Tigan. St. Augustine said this. He said, Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are. So today, be grateful. Read great books. Think good thoughts. Listen to beautiful music. Communicate less well. Live honestly and authentically. Strive for high ideals. And like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. You’re not alone. God bless you. God bless America. Stay tuned for our number two.
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Yeah, I think the last time you and I spoke, because there’s been a few guest speakers on my Mondays, the market was at all-time highs. And then since then, the market dropped by 12%. And here we are back to all time highs.
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So, yeah, there’s been a lot that’s going on. That is that volatility is difficult for people to manage from an emotional standpoint, I think, Jody. So what you do at Mint Financial Strategies really gives people peace of mind. So explain that to us.
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Huh. That is really interesting. So and again, so that’s May 12th, which is it’s actually just right around the corner and that will be virtual. And of course, we’ll talk about that again. But OK, great. How can people reach you, Jody Henzey?
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SPEAKER 10 :
Thanks, Kim. Thanks for having me.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, it’s good to have you. And this is your inaugural term as a representative, isn’t it?
SPEAKER 10 :
It is. This is my first session. And so it’s been about a little over 90 days that I’ve been in the chair and doing the job down here at the Capitol and was sworn in a few months before that.
SPEAKER 07 :
OK. And so you represent which particular district in what area is that?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I represent House District 64, and that is West Greeley and Johnstown and Milliken and Berthoud and Meade is generally the area that I represent.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. And you were appointed because Representative Armagost moved out of state, correct? Correct.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, that’s basically all of it. Yeah, he had some things that caused him to have a better place to go than where he was. He’s getting married. He lives in Arizona now. And he moved out of state for some business reasons, too. Some of the gun bills that were passed made it difficult for him to continue making a living the way that he was previously. So the timing was right for him, and it was a good thing for him to be in a different place. So here I am.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, thank you for stepping forward to serve. And it’s certainly, as the president, I’m the president of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, which is an all-volunteer group that watches legislation. And just from afar, as we’re watching legislation, it is monumental the amount of support bills and resolutions that are proposed down there. As of yesterday morning, I think there was 666 bills and resolutions that have been proposed. And some of them have been signed into law. But let’s talk about this House Bill 26-1276. It protects safety of individuals who are immigrants. The prime sponsors on this are Representative Elizabeth Velasco representative Lorena Garcia and this seems like this is doing even more to make Denver Colorado a sanctuary place for illegal immigrants is that too strong of a statement I don’t think that that’s too strong of a statement at all representative Alaska representative Garcia both are
SPEAKER 10 :
You know, they’re very pro-immigration and very pro-immigrant and are not necessarily as discerning about the status of that individual. They want Colorado to be a place where everybody can come to, regardless of their documentation or legality status. And so, yeah, that’s, I’m sure, part of the aim of what they’re trying to do with this bill.
SPEAKER 07 :
But this could put us at risk of federal funding, although I really think that we’ve got to get to a point where we’re not trying to live off of Washington. But that is somewhat of a reality. Talk to me about that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, so… You’re right. We get a lot of money from Washington. Even in our discussion about the budget week before last in the House, when we went through the Longville, there’s billions of dollars that we get from Washington as a state for one reason or another. And in this particular instance, one of the things that I talked about and that we had learned through doing the research is that This bill would put at risk some of the money that we do get back from the federal government or we get reimbursed from the federal government when county jails or prisons or or local jails have incarcerated criminal aliens, we get reimbursed for that or counties can seek reimbursement for that if they choose. And the state of Colorado gets over $4 million all total between the state and individual counties in reimbursements from the federal government when they cooperate between state and federal agencies. and then seek that reimbursement for that incarceration. And we’re potentially at risk for losing that reimbursement if this bill passes and if Colorado continues some of its sanctuary state policies, which is obviously concerning when we have the massive budget struggles that we have in Colorado.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and the budget has gone up significantly from last year, yes? Yes. the proposed budget?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I can’t remember the exact number, the exact percentage, but I think it was a little over, I think it was 2% or so that it has gone up, even though we had less money to, we didn’t have less money to work with. We had tighter constraints and we were trying to keep it from growing. And we felt like there was, the number that’s been pushed around a lot, it has been $1.5 billion shortfall. And despite even that, we still had an increase in the total amount that the budget was spending this next year.
SPEAKER 07 :
And we don’t have the money. Well, I mean,
SPEAKER 10 :
Technically. Whether we have the money or not, you know, we’re going to, there’s, there’s talks about some of that money that we’ll have will be from Tabor refunds that won’t go out potentially, or there’s lots of different places where we’re trying to say that we have this money and we have to have a balanced budget and having a balanced budget and making all of the numbers look right on paper is, is, somewhat of a different thing than having the money in the bank account and saying how we’re going to spend it. And that’s a really good point. Sorry, yeah. This could potentially exacerbate that problem.
SPEAKER 07 :
Got it. Now, regarding immigrants, because there’s a lot of news out there, there’s a lot of different views about that. But I’ve thought a lot about it. And really across the spectrum, when I talk with people, I said, I said, I think there are some things that we can agree on regarding immigration. First of all, if people have come here to hurt us, They need to go. And if people are criminals in their country of origin or are committing criminal acts here, they need to go. If people have come here to live off of the American taxpayer, Americans, Coloradans, everyday people are being squeezed in all different ways. And so then to have to pay taxes to pay for people that are living off of these government programs, we don’t need to be bringing people in to do that. And they need to go. And then if people have even come here through the refugee resettlement or asylee programs, and they’re defrauding Americans, they need to go. And I found, Representative Slaw, that almost everybody agrees with that. What’s your thoughts on that?
SPEAKER 10 :
I think you’re exactly right. I think that, I mean, I don’t think anybody in the Colorado House, whichever side of the aisle you sit on, I don’t know that you would find anybody that wouldn’t agree that the United States of America is a nation of immigrants. All of us, when we look back in our lineage, at some point in time, we had a, you know, it may have been ourselves, it may have been our parents, grandparents, great grandparents, however far back the line, they came to the United States for the opportunities that it provides. And none of us would want to block anybody from being able to seek the American dream. We love America and we recognize that people all over the world also recognize how great America is and they want to be here. We do have laws, though, and we wouldn’t want criminals here. We wouldn’t want violent individuals here that are not citizens. We wouldn’t want people here taking advantage of the system. We wouldn’t want people here defrauding the government and taking advantage of it and costing us, you know, I don’t know how much is an individual, but government’s millions or billions of dollars. I don’t think we want that at all. And I don’t think that that’s fair. I mean, how much exactly that happens, I don’t really know. But I think we learn, we’re seeing more and more how there really are problems in some of the systems. And I think we have big problems in the immigration systems that we have in general. But we definitely want to control immigration. uh the the criminal aspects of of any of the immigration problems that we have and i know a lot of people would say well the first problem that we have is somebody is in the united states illegally is they’ve illegally entered the united states so right off the bat they’re they’re a criminal and i recognize that and i understand that and i don’t disagree that you know entering the united states illegally is a crime. And so you’re immediately guilty of a crime. But I think what you’re talking about, and I think the bigger concerns would be if they’re here and they’re trafficking drugs or trafficking other humans, you know, being much more nefarious kind of criminals than just having crossed the border illegally, though that is not right. And they should not have done that to start with. So, yeah, the big problems are the things I think most people would agree on are the big problems and that we want to we want to solve.
SPEAKER 07 :
And we can focus on that, agree on that, and then we can address this other situation as well. Let’s see, a couple of things. First of all, the bill, House Bill 26-1276, where is that in the process now, Representative Fah?
SPEAKER 10 :
So it was in the Finance Committee last week, if I have the dates correct. where it was heard a second time. So it’s still in the House, in House finance. So it’s still in the House side of the legislature, just working its way through. I think that it needs to go to, it’s been sent to the Appropriations Committee next. I don’t think that there is a date for that yet. So it’s through two of three steps before it even comes to the House floor. So it’s still pretty early on in where it is, but Uh, I, I expect that we’ll hear it on the house floor probably next week or, or soon. Um, yeah, that’s where it is. It’s early on in its many stages that it will have to go through.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. And even though the fiscal note is, in the scheme of things, not huge, we at the Colorado Union of Taxpayers do not like it when they start to chip away at our TABOR refunds. And that’s one of the things that this does, $131,643. But a little here, a little there becomes a lot. And one other thing before we go to break, and we’re going to want to talk about some of the other bills that you’re thinking about, but
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Welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That’s kimmonson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. And I want to say thank you to the Harris family for their gold sponsorship of the show. And also wanted to mention the USMC Memorial Foundation. They are hosting their golf tournament on May 14th. You can sign up by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And then also, as you all know, I support the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo on the Riverwalk. And co-founder Drew Dix, the Medal of Honor recipient, and Brad Padula, So we need to keep these stories of our Medal of Honor recipients alive, and also they’ve created amazing educational programs based on these foundational principles of honor, integrity, and patriotism. We had just a little bit of technical difficulty going into the break, and I don’t think that the question that I wanted to, or the point I wanted to make with the representative flaw is, representative flaw, I find it so interesting that there are some representatives that basically, are for open borders, sanctuary policies. But yet I find it so ironic or incongruent with the fact that you have to go through security to get into the Capitol. And I just find that so interesting that they want an open border, but there’s a border basically at the Capitol. What’s your comments on that?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I think there’s a lot of incongruencies out there that they probably wouldn’t necessarily want to recognize and you’re right i think there’s that i think you could talk about uh uh second amendment rights gun control things you know many people are protected by guns and they they would probably be a little bit concerned if the the good folks that are security here at the capitol for us weren’t armed yet they would be happy if many Coloradans weren’t armed. Yeah, I think there’s a lot of incongruencies in some of the ideals of some of the folks here in the Capitol.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes, I think that is the case. We’ve got about 10 minutes and wanted to go through some of the other pieces of legislation that you think should be on people’s radar, Representative Sloth.
SPEAKER 10 :
yeah sure there’s uh you know there’s been a number that have come through well thank you for having the count i i lost count long ago of exactly how many bills we had coming through here um but but some of them that i thought that i have thought why i focus i mean i mentioned second amendment i am a strong supporter of the second amendment i do believe that it is um nationally what what protects all of the rest of our our freedoms. A couple of those bills that have come through, we had House Bill 1126, which was a bill that put a lot of regulations on dealers. That’s a problematic one to me. I think it’s going to basically kill all of the home FFLs, maybe what you might call them. It’s going to just make it very difficult for them to be able to continue business It makes it difficult for even larger manufacturers in the state of Colorado to continue to do business, of which I have a large one in Berthoud, Colorado that’s in my district. And they’re moving, I think they’re moving to North Dakota here in the not too distant future just because of the climate for them to be able to do business here in Colorado. And then the other problematic Second Amendment bill to me is Senate Bill 4004, which is just which is the red flag law expansion, going to make it so that entities, not just individuals, will be able to file red flag petitions on individuals, which that’s difficult for me because, you know, now you no longer have an identifiable individual, so a person could be frustrated at an organization, and maybe it’s a hospital or a healthcare system network. And then they get frustrated and they target individuals who they know are members of that network, just not even for any good reason, but just because they are upset at the restrictions on their freedoms. And who knows what the mental health state of that individual was and why that red flag was filed on them. And if it was for a mental health reason, do we know for sure that they don’t truly have some concerns that that then are going to cause them to maybe act violently towards a random person associated with that organization. We don’t know. It just causes lots of problems, and it isn’t the right thing to do anyway. There should be ways for, and there are ways, if people need to be separated from their firearms for some legitimate reason, whatever that might be determined by a judge to be, uh let let the course decide that not just uh yeah not just individuals or entities so so there’s those and then maybe two others real quick just to mention and you can ask which whatever ones you want is house bill 1322 which was the conversion therapy one which you know came right on the heels of a supreme court decision and then the other one that we heard just last week which i actually got messages about and people were were frustrated with was the farm worker bill, which was Senate Bill 121, just allowing the overtime hour bill. It allows particularly agricultural and farm workers to be able to work 56 hours without their employers having to pay overtime, which is not unreasonable to me, given the seasonal nature of a lot of the Going back to maybe some of our earlier discussion about immigration stuff, the migrant workers that come here to work for agricultural seasons and then go home, that’s something I grew up with around me a lot and is clearly something that is still of discussion these days. So those are some bills that I know that are either super hot topics or recent hot topics that I’ve been paying attention to.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and I, as the president of CUT, I had seen that Phil come through regarding farm workers. We didn’t, we did not review that particular bill, but I grew up in Western Kansas and I come from a family of generations of farmers. And, um, uh, I, I, people put in long, long hours in the farming and ranching communities, uh, during certain parts of the season. And, uh, it, it, government should not be in between the agreement between an employer’s and employees. That is something that should be negotiated between them without government involvement. That’s the bottom line. This is not the proper role of government to be doing this because it changes the market. But what happens, even like with a minimum wage law, is what happens instead of more and more people making more and more money, what happens is employers only have a certain pot that they can work with. So they may automate, they may reduce the number of workers. And so what happens is people many times will lose their jobs. And so, again, that’s not the proper role of government. Let’s go back to the red flag enhancement, I will say. And I was a hard no on the first round regarding the red flag law. And it’s totally against the U.S. Constitution because, in essence, what can happen, Representative Slaw, is somebody can be accused of there’s concerns about them. Well, I’ll just say that there’s concerns about them. They can be accused of that. And the person doesn’t even know that they’re accused. They could be off at work and law enforcement could come in and take all of their firearms unbeknownst to them. So this is so unconstitutional all the way around. And then adding in this enhancement of additional entities such as, I think, schools, hospitals or whatever. Again, this is unconstitutional now. Because the individual who’s accused does not have the due process regarding their firearms, and they’re not able to face their accuser representative’s law.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yep. You’re spot on on all of that. And I actually ran a bill earlier in the session. It was House Bill 1072, and it was the right to firearm possession and elimination of extreme risk protection orders. So I was trying to repeal this law that we have on the books. The chair of the committee that it was heard in, she was actually one of the House sponsors for Senate Bill 4 for the expansion of it. So, her and I disagreed on this, and she wanted to read the steps that had to be taken for one of these ERPOs or extreme risk protection orders to be enforced. And I just don’t think that she understood how it worked. And there’s literally a picture that you can find easily from one of the offices that studies this. And I wanted to offer her the picture and say like, no, you’re missing this piece right here. And that is the piece where due process is violated and it isn’t appropriate. And it is not the way that it ought to be done. Yeah, it’s definitely, it’s always been problematic. It removes people’s, federal and Colorado constitutional rights to be able to own and possess and to keep and bear arms. And the due process part of it, that is the foul. That’s the primary foul in the law. And it’s what needs to be fixed.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and my opinion is to get rid of it. So thank you for that piece of legislation. We’ve got about a minute left. What’s your final thought on all this?
SPEAKER 10 :
representatives law and thank you for stepping forward to serve the people of colorado no my you know my final thoughts are i am i am super grateful to be able to be here in this position you know i’m i am not a self-important person i’m not doing this for any kind of fame and glory and certainly not for any kind of money uh But I’m just happy to be able to serve the people of my district. I grew up in the district. I’ve lived there my entire life outside of missionary service and military service and college. And so I really consider it my home district as much as I consider it my house district. And the people that are there, you know, they’re my they’re my friends or my neighbors or my family. They’re people that I love, regardless of whether we necessarily agree on policy or not. So I’m happy to always talk to them at all times about anything and try to work to find the most common sense solutions to the problems that we have and to keep government from getting out of control. And, you know, you’ll appreciate that this is to not spend the people’s money. We hear people say taxation is theft, and I would not disagree one bit. If it is without consent, it is. That was one of the reasons that we stated in our Declaration of Independence is that taxation without consent was not acceptable to us as Americans. It’s not acceptable to us as Coloradans. Government needs to do its job, but not do all of the jobs that are not its job. And so I’m happy to be here and try to to make all of those things happen the best I can. Hopefully we can have more people on my side of the aisle next year so that we can move a little bit closer to smart and common sense and good legislation and not as much of the extreme stuff that we see coming through. And thanks for having me.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, thank you. And this is Representative Scott Slaw representing Colorado House District 64. We’re coming in on the end. I think it’s mid-May when this session ends. So it’s fast in your seatbelts. But Representative Slaw, thank you so much.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thank you, Kim.
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SPEAKER 06 :
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 several things coming in on the text message. One listener said, using the word immigrant is confusing and makes it sound acceptable. It is softening what an illegal alien actually is, which is illegal. As you remind us frequently, words matter. And yes, we do need to talk about illegal immigration. And we’ve got a big, broad group of illegal immigrants to focus on. And we can’t do everything all at once. And so let’s focus on those that have come here to hurt us. They need to leave. Those that are criminals in their country or doing criminal acts here, they need to leave. And people that are living off of government programs, they need to leave. And if people have come in through legal ways, and not saying that I totally agree with those particular laws, but if they’ve come in here and they are defrauding us, they need to leave. That’s going to take a lot of… focus to focus on that. And then once we get that taken care of, we can certainly focus on other things as well. And, oh, this is a good question as well. Hey, Joe, do we have Erin yet? Okay, not yet. Okay. And this is a question. Oh, we do? Oh, hey, Erin. And we have Erin Meshke on. And she is, you can find her at Substack as the Reluctant Erin, welcome to the show. Good morning, Kim. Thanks for having me. Well, thanks for making this work. I know you’ve got a lot going on. But we wanted to talk about this one particular piece of legislation that’s been signed into law regarding vaccines. So, bring us up to speed on that.
SPEAKER 22 :
Okay. So, we’ve talked about this. This is the third time I’ve been on talking with your listeners about SB 2632. It was signed into law on March 27th. So if you look at the final bill, there were some things that I don’t know if they got added back in at the last moment or if I just didn’t realize how they had some of these things worded. But the final bill, there’s a number of points I’ll just blow through really quickly. So the alleged deck says that, you know, vaccines should be available with no cost sharing, but there’s no fiscal notes. associated with this for covering, they’re basically just putting that all on the insurance companies, which, you know, the more things that they require coverage for, it raises insurance rates for all of us, right? So then… But Erin, question on that.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. Does that mean that people that are on Medicaid, that Medicaid has to pay for that?
SPEAKER 22 :
Yes. Okay. Yeah. And so then another… Another thing that’s mentioned specifically in the bill is that insurance companies are required to cover the full cost of the HPV, the human papillomavirus shot vaccine for recommended individuals, which is basically everyone over 10. It used to be only recommended for girls. Now it’s recommended for girls and boys. They are recommending boosters later in college years and other things. And this coverage for the HPV vaccine is going to be required even if ACIP decides at some point in the future not to recommend the HPV shot on the federal schedule, which definitely makes it difficult for injury claims. That’s the other problem that a lot of us have had with this bill is that they initially wanted to take away liability from manufacturers. They took that piece out of the of the bill for manufacturer liability, but there’s still really broad liability protections for everyone else who’s involved, the wholesalers, the pharmacists who now can give shots, the doctors, and really everyone except for the manufacturer. And if you can’t, if you’re not qualified for federal compensation with an injury because that shot is no longer valid, on the federal recommendations, then the state will end up kind of de facto as the liability protection. And that could bankrupt us. The number of HPV lawsuits for injuries, it’s not insignificant. I think it’s like $85 million or something that’s already been paid out for proven claims. And there’s a lot of things that get tossed out just because it’s really hard to prove vaccine injury. Okay, so then a few more things that are in this bill. ACIP is removed and replaced by the CDPHE Board of Health for all vaccine recommendations. Naturopaths are required to offer vaccine schedules to parents of children from newborn to eight years old in order to be able to see and treat them. And for most naturopaths, they would actually not recommend vaccines or very limitedly, but they are going to be required to give the whole vaccine schedule as an option to all of their patients. Pharmacists can now prescribe any non-controlled substance, including vaccines, to anyone 12 years old or older. They don’t have access to your full health records, and there’s no requirement for parental consent. in that part of the legislation that was added to allow pharmacists to prescribe and give vaccines and other non-controlled substances. There’s new rulemaking at the Board of Health for all these required updates, and those hearings are basically just a rubber stamp. So Section 8 of this bill, says there’s no liability for injury to an infant or child if the vaccine is administered according to the CDC schedule or Board of Health recommendations. So that is a liability protection that remained in the bill. Section 11 talks about liability for everyone except manufacturers, which I kind of covered before. Section 12 talks about HCPF being able, so that’s the healthcare policy and finance that they can buy and stockpile vaccines. specifically for the child immunization program. And then a new adult immunization act was created. And within that, the legislative declaration in the beginning of that new act says that vaccines are essential and manufacturers should be protected. with very broad definitions of what an immunizing agent is and a vaccine. And the Board of Health is going to establish an adult vaccine schedule with their own recommendations for what adults should be getting every year. So anytime that you have a new schedule like that being developed, you are at risk, at least in some amount of risk, of those things being required, right? We saw that during COVID where they were requiring shots for people and it’s possible that an employer or a government agency could put a requirement on adults having their employment based on these things. So that’s not currently in the legislation, but we just know the slippery slope that happens with some of these measures. So that’s the overview. the 20,000 foot view of this, uh, of this terrible law that isn’t, um, now something that is officially part of Colorado statute.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh my gosh, Aaron, this is of great concern. You, you can see the danger, danger. I can see the danger, danger as well. So thank you for sharing this with us. And I know you’ve got a really busy morning, so thank you for making the time to, to bring this to light. And, uh, we’ve got a, well, I guess what we need to do is we need to elect people that will then repeal this particular piece of legislation. Erin Beshke, you can find her at Substack at the Reluctant Activist. Thank you so much and have a great day. Of course. Thanks, Kim. And our quote for the end of the show is from St. Augustine, said this, Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are. 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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