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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. And our word of the day is paragon. It’s P-A-R-A-G-O-N. It could be a model of excellence or perfection of a kind, a peerless example. Number two, it could be an unflawed diamond weighing at least 100 carats. Or number three, a very large spherical pearl. So clearly it’s something of excellence, which is a great segue into Priscilla Rahn. She is the headmaster of Excalibur Classical Academy, which is a new school that is opening in Centennial this fall. We’ll be serving kids K through third grade. And they will be expanding that. But they are really a paragon of education. And the education of our children is so important. And they are currently enrolling new students. Priscilla, Ron, welcome to the show. Good morning, Kim. It’s great to be on with you again. It’s good to have you as well. And I cannot believe that we are basically at the middle of May. So that means the opening of Excalibur Classical Academy is right around the corner.
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We are so excited. We are so on track to open the building. We’re meeting every week with the construction company. It’s going to be brand new. And, of course, the curriculum is already arriving for next year. And it’s going to be a dream school, Kim. I’m so excited. And we want to fill the school with children and voices and, of course, lots of learning.
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So, Priscilla, last week when we talked, and I was thinking about this because I have somebody that’s close to me in a completely different state that’s working on getting a charter school. open for this fall selection and talking about different things, curriculum, after school programs. And you mentioned that you will certainly be focusing on band and vocal at Excalibur as well. Now, will that be in the curriculum or will that be after school both? What does that look like?
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Yes, it’s going to be both. So during the day, students have music every single day. So they’ll learn singing as well as instruments. And then after school, that’s when we’ll have like band and orchestra and other supplemental fun things for the kids to do.
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So band and vocal was something that I was involved in. I was a chorus singer. I always wanted to be a soloist, but that was never in the repertoire for me. But a band and vocal is so important because that way kids, first of all, they start to appreciate the arts, but also just from a mathematical standpoint, learning notes, learning the measures, it’s really invaluable. And we don’t have that in many of the public schools these days, right?
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Yes. And as someone who’s retiring after 32 years in the public education system as a music educator, I have seen schools cut these wonderful enrichment programs. And they are courses because you know, there’s lots of data, lots of scientific research around what music does to the brain and it engages the entire brain. And there’s even studies that show when you learn to play an instrument, you actually score a whole GPA higher than students who don’t learn to play an instrument. So it’s actually a critical part of brain development and it does transfer into math, language, spatial knowledge, all kinds of, there’s all kinds of benefits to learning music. But in a classical setting, you know, the students will learn all about beauty and truth within music. And then, of course, they’ll learn Latin through music. So there’s a lot of things that we incorporate within music.
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Okay, and talk to me about Latin. That, I’m intrigued. It’s something that I never learned. But why is that important and beneficial to kids?
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Yeah, because it’s the root of our language. There’s so much that you can learn about grammar and the choice of your words. When you listen to someone speak and they’re a great orator and they have many what we call tools in the toolbox and they’re able to draw from words that have such rich meaning, it just helps you to become a better communicator. And you started out your segment talking about excellence. And the more words that children learn to use, they can then further articulate their thoughts and ideas and then use that to create more thoughts and ideas. So Latin is one of those things. It’s not going to be stuffy where you have to sit at a desk with your hands folded and recite, you know, in Latin. It’s incorporated in so many things that they’re learning within all content areas.
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Okay, so enrollment is open at this particular point in time. It’s a private school. How much is this going to cost people?
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Well, this is the great news. Year one, it’s not going to cost Any parents, anything. So our cost is $23,000 to provide this education, but we have such an amazing founder and benefactor who wants to provide this education for all children and remove the barriers. So all new inaugural families who enroll, they will not have to pay any tuition. The only thing they’ll need to pay is is for their child’s uniform and maybe some extracurricular fees that come along. But basically, it’s no risk, Kim. We want parents to come take a serious look at a classical education where their children are going to have fun and be loved and learn a lot about loving our country as well.
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So Priscilla, this sounds extremely attractive. Next question. Next year, if people enroll and the cost is $23,000, what does that look like for the second year for these families?
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Sure. So second year, the cost comes way down because we don’t have our opening cost. So it’ll be $16,750. But again, we have a plan in place and partnerships with wonderful scholarship granting organizations like ACE Scholarships and like Daniel’s Fund and We have president Trump’s big, beautiful bill, the education tax credits that we’re tapping into. Uh, we have all kinds of ways that we want to support families because once you come, we want you to stay. So we’re going to work closely with parents who are the first educators of their children to support them. And we want their children to come and stay all the way through eighth grade. So, um, we’re not going to abandon you. We are going to partner alongside all of our, our families. to make sure that they can afford the education that their children deserve.
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Okay. And you’re taking enrollment now. How can people get more information about Excalibur Classical Academy?
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Please go to our website, ExcaliburClassicalAcademy.org. I’m also going to be doing several Zoom information meetings because we know parents are very busy. So if you go to our landing page, You can register for a free information session that I’ll do remotely. And then I’m also going to be doing an in-person information session. But of course, if any of those times don’t work for parents, please contact me at enroll at Excalibur classicalacademy.org. And I will set up a personal one-on-one time to accommodate parents so that they can enroll their children.
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Okay. And Excalibur, how do you spell that? And why did you choose that as the name of this great new school?
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Excalibur is spelled E-X-C-A-L-I-B-U-R. I hope I did that correctly. Excalibur. Our founders just really love that. When you think about the sword and the stone, right? It takes someone super special to be able to pull that sword out of the stone. No one was able to do it. unless until it was one person. And that’s how special all of our children are and how we view them, that they can do anything that God has placed in their heart, anything that they see in the world that they want to problem solve. And so it was just something really fun. I think that’s a great question to ask. Scott Anderson, why he chose that, but we love it. And, you know, we’re actually thinking about doing fencing at Excalibur for some physical education. We think that’s going to be a fun idea too.
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I love that. I had a cousin that did fencing. Growing up in western Kansas, fencing was not an option. So I think that’s so cool that that may be an option at Excalibur Classical Academy. Priscilla, Ron, thank you. And my friends, this is the time that you can get in on the ground level at this great school because what we’re seeing with great education year by year, it gets to a waiting list standpoint. So don’t delay. Reach out to Priscilla Rahn. And that is enroll at Excalibur Classical Academy dot org. Right. And we’ll talk with you next week, Priscilla. This is so exciting and good for you. Thank you, Kim. You have a great day. You as well. And then pleased to have on the line with me, Virginia Maka. And she is the founder of Stand for the Land Kansas, which is growing into Stand for the Land because property rights are so important. And we wanted to get a quick update. She’s going to be a featured guest here within the next, I think it’s next week. But I wanted to get an update regarding there’s a big, Big thing happening with Stand for the Land. So, Virginia Maka, welcome.
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Good morning. Good morning to everyone in Colorado. Some big things are happening. I feel like I’m on a runaway train, the Orient Express, you know, per se, because things are moving so fast. And thank you for every person that is standing up, standing up, in their communities against these data centers, against the transmission lines. Those small voices are starting to become a huge impact. And so last week, we initiated the very first meeting for the land between three states, Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma. It was held in Neosho, Missouri. And we had a well over 200 people in the audience. Most of them, property owners, a lot of them, you know, information has been very tight lipped. And so putting all these things together across our state has been, that meeting was so helpful because when you start laying out the story and peeling back the onion, people start realizing that it’s not impacting just my land, but it’s going to impact the way we live in Midwest. So it was a very highlighted moment, and we are coming for you, Colorado.
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We are ready to partner with you on all this, Virginia. And so there’s something big that’s going to be happening, like some meeting here within the next day or so, yes?
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Yes. So today, the Kansas Corporation Commission and the Southwest Power Pool, under the direction of the Southwest Power Pool, will decide on the Buffalo Flats transmission line. That’s a 345 kilovolt line somewhere in the neighborhood at 316 miles across Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas. 133 of that is across Kansas, across Cowley County, Chautauqua County, Sumner County, and Sedgwick County. But the biggest thing you need to realize is that transmission line in Kansas is crossing the Tallgrass Prairie, the Flint Hills, and it’s a protected area. The landowners interceded. There were over a dozen landowners. And what was very ironic is that two of those property owners, one of them is a registered property on the National Historic Registry. That is our Federal National Historic Registry Registry. The Magnolia Ranch and Farm, one of the last working farms in the Flint Hills. These limestone structures will be impacted by transmission right out their window. And these landowners bravely fought the KCC. And so today that comes down to a decision about the siting. So You know, the National Historic Registry has special standing. You can’t impact it as an owner. You can’t even change it. There are guidelines and rules. And during the testimony, Evergy, the requester of the transmission line, requested that the KCC strike any reference to the Magnolia Ranch out of testimonies. Does that make you pause? It makes me pause. Striking testimony, pertinent testimony. And so now there are, it comes down to a decision today. They’re running for the gold. The landowners are taking different avenues, I believe. And I’m hoping that the KCC will take a pause and listen to to these landowners. Across Oklahoma, same thing. During our meeting in their show, Missouri, the two groups protect rural Oklahoma and protect Missouri. There are ranches, 100-year-old ranches going to be impacted by this line. There are property owners whose homes will be underneath this line. The biggest question that everyone has is why are they not considering the already dedicated easements for transmission that already exist across these counties? It is as if they’re ignoring that there’s even dedicated easements that exist that they could put this line in. And so that’s another question that arose. And my biggest question is the Southwest Power Pool has initiated not just this Buffalo Flats, but we’re talking several 760 kilovolt lines. going up the eastern border and the western border of our states that adjoin Colorado and Kansas. They are putting the cost back on to the utility rate payers. This Buffalo flat will cost Kansas rate payers $493 million. The 760 lines are meant to cross our state north, west, east, and south, carrying that electric generated by renewables. That’s not base load energy. That’s renewable energies, intermittent energy of solar and wind to states on the west coast, Oregon, Washington, California, and I didn’t know this, but is Canada part of the United States? Because a lot of this electric goes to Canada.
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Well, Donald Trump had said that Canada should. Hey, Virginia, I have not done this. I cannot believe that in all of our conversations I’ve not done this. But I had done when Wendy Volk was on regarding Wyoming and the Wyoming wind wall. BlackRock is involved with Repsol, which is a Spanish company. So I just took a quick look. This is from Market Screener. And so the top shareholders of Evergy, BlackRock Advisors, a little over 8%, Vanguard, about 7.3%, State Street Corporation, 7.2%, and then some other vanguards. Then I went over and I’m like, okay, because I had Representative Chris Richardson on yesterday saying, who represents Albert County. And the Albert County commissioners, representatives of the people, denied Xcel’s industrial transmission line. And again, there are already, as you mentioned, there’s easements where they could put these lines. But it seems to me like it’s a big, connecting a dot, it is a big land grab. And what does land grab mean? That means that’s taking people’s property. So taking a look here, again, this is from Market Screener for Excel, Vanguard Capital Management, 7.3%. BlackRock Advisors, 7%, Vanguard Capital Management, 6%, and State Street Corporation, 5.8%. You see these names over and over and over. And of course, Larry Fink, I think it is, who is the head of BlackRock, is also the head of the World Economic Forum. So connect those dots. This is the World Economic Forum trying to take our property and trying to take the property of our food producers, our farmers and our ranchers in Midwest America and the West of America.
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Absolutely. And when you, you know, these transmission lines are done on studies. Okay. And before it was all about economic development. Well, economic development, by using an entire section of the United States to generate electric for states on the East and West Coast because they’re electric so high. Why is their electric so high, Kim? Because they have bad energy policy. They have the same natural resources that we do. Every state has their own natural resources. Each state had their own energy plan. When you negate your own natural resources, and come to the Midwest and think, we’ll save ourselves some money. We’ll still be zero carbon. We’ll still be the greenest state in the United States. We’ll just go over to the Midwest and use those states to generate the electric that we fall short. Well, that only works for a certain amount of time. And there is not enough real estate in the Midwest to generate the kind of power that they’re going to require for Canada, for Washington, for Oregon, for California, that are all very friendly to the data centers and to the generation and promotion of AI. So we can’t be the answer in the Midwest to the failed policies at the East and West Coast, nor Canada, because I particularly don’t care about Canada. They are a country, yes. I do care that they’re my neighbor, but I do not care if they have electric or not because they have the opportunity and the natural resources to generate their own. And that comes to a question. Is the Southwest Power Pool in the Federal Energy Regulation Commission because they have developed this integrated market system that’s secondary and tertiary markets for energy and issued power contracts and are dictating where that power goes, who generates the power, those tariffs, who transports the power, those tariffs, and where those transmission lines are built. I would say that you are trading a commodity That would be electric without being a registered market. So the securities in exchange could be an opportunity to explore because I believe that the federal regulators and FERC, especially because it’s not just the regulator, it’s the court. It penalizes, it controls gas, oil, it controls it all. when it comes to energy. And so trading a commodity without being registered on the securities in exchange may bring some light onto why BlackRock and all these other entities are so intertwined in our local transmission.
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Okay, well, Virginia, I wanted to get a quick update on this. You and I have long conversations about this. We’ll have a longer conversation on air. I think it’s next week. I don’t have the calendar right in front of me. But Virginia Maka, today is so important. Stand for the land. What’s the website? And I know that it would be helpful if people contributed to you.
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Stand and the number four, standfortheland.com. Or you can go to stand and the number four, theland.com, Kansas, and you will read the most recent updates. We have tried to get a lot of newsworthy articles on our website. It is hard to keep up with this, but you too, Kim, have done us a wealth of good by your new website and your news articles that you put out because I believe our footprint and our voice are getting louder. So I look for big things happening in the next couple of weeks.
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Okay, Virginia Maka, that’s standfortheland.com. We’ll talk next week. Have a great day.
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Hey, thank you, Kim. Have everybody a good day.
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Well, thanks, Kim. It’s good to be with you.
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And a big celebration last week for PKC, Protect Kids Colorado.
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Oh, yes. Yes. We’ve been planning this for some time. It was really a thank you to all of the volunteers who stepped up to help us get these initiatives on the ballot, well over 3,000, 3,300 some. When you count all the other people involved, it’s really about 3,500 people doing something. Now, we didn’t have all 3,500 there, but we had several hundred that came to our event on Thursday. And there was also a big launch for the next step because it’s one thing to put it on the ballot. It’s another thing to put it in the law by getting the people to vote for it. And there are There are those who want to promote the whole transgender agenda that are lining up to fight these measures. But we, the people who put the issues on the ballot, need to step up and just tell our friends and neighbors about the common sense, practical reality of protecting kids from these dangerous ideologies.
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Well, and so, yes, the campaign is… Anyway, that’s where we’re at. Yeah, in full swing now. And people can get more information by going to the website, and that is protectkidscolorado.org, correct?
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Well, yes, we’re still gearing up for all of that. But, yeah, I’ll tell you, one really useful item on our website right now is if you click on the resources page, There’s a very detailed analysis of all the laws that have been put in place here in Colorado by the legislature and this governor that are going the exact opposite direction. I highly recommend that people look at that because this is a very simple process. It’s just make your friends and family and the people in your circle very aware that these initiatives are important and will be on the ballot and they need to go out and vote for them.
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Well, and again, for people that may not know, what are these three issues?
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Well, there are three. One very much strengthens the penalties for sex trafficking of children. And, you know, the way the legislature has set it up is a lot of the times somebody who’s guilty of this crime just gets a slap on the wrist and put it out on the streets again. And we’re saying, no, if you’re guilty of buying or selling children for sex, you need to go to prison and not come out. And this isn’t to punish everybody and incarcerate everybody. This is to say, don’t do this in Colorado, period. So that’s one. The second one is very simple. No men can participate in women’s sports programs. If it’s a co-ed thing, great. but if it’s a women’s sports program, that’s reserved for women and their locker rooms are to be reserved for women. And anyway, that’s, that’s the second one. And then the third one is a complete prohibition of any child mutilating surgeries for the purpose of, and I put this in quotes, sex reassignment surgery, because it’s anyway, These are common sense things that shouldn’t be done in the first place. And, you know, 10, 20 years ago, everybody would have shook their heads in disbelief that it would actually be promoted by the state. But that’s what’s happening today. The vast majority of people still understand the difference here, but they just need to see that this is plain common sense law that needs to be a part of Colorado law.
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Well, and speaking of Colorado law, Representative Scott Bottoms, who is a gubernatorial candidate had basically proposed legislation down at the state house regarding each of these issues and the democrats and this democrat party is not the democrat party of jfk or your grandpa your grandma this is now radical activists and uh they basically did not let these uh three different um pieces of legislation even see the light of day kevin well the light of day of course the
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Colorado constitution requires that any bills submitted gets a public hearing, but you’re quite right. These were all defeated by a party line vote. Um, and it just shows you the, the, you know, the, the harsh reality that, that the majority party in Colorado is pushing a very radical agenda in, in every area. Um, uh, honestly, I mean, we can talk about energy. We can talk about, uh, um, uh, finances or land use policies. And what you see is a radical group of lawmakers and a governor who signs it. I’ve got to emphasize that it’s not just them. He could have stopped any of this stuff by vetoing it, but he didn’t. They are putting this in place. And yes, my Great thanks to Representative Bottoms for essentially running these three initiatives as bills this year to give the legislature one final chance to figure it out before we put it on the ballot. Well, they showed us their colors, and so we showed them theirs, ours, which is we’re serious about this. And we need the people of Colorado to join us in being serious and saying none of the above. Legislation like that doesn’t belong in Colorado statutes.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right, and the legislation of what Protect Kids Colorado and what Representative Scott Bottoms was pushing back on to clarify that. We’re going to continue the discussion with former State Senator Kevin Lundberg because tomorrow is the last day of this legislative session, and we want to get his read on all of that. We have these important discussions because of our great sponsors. I did want to mention Hooters Restaurants. They have locations in Loveland, Westminster, and in Aurora. And I was at the CUT, Colorado Union of Taxpayers, board meeting last night. And so when I got home, checked the score on my phone, and the avalanche, it was a 2-2 tie. And I thought, oh. And then the final, though, is the avalanche won 5-2. So a great place to watch the avalanche as they are making their march toward the Stanley Cup. is Hooters Restaurants. They have great specials for lunch and for happy hour, Monday through Friday. And then we’ll talk with John Bozen in the next hour. I’ve got a question, just a legal question, on what exactly is a stay in legal terms. And so we’ll talk with John Bozen in the next hour.
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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 the two nonprofits that I highlight on a regular basis on the show is the USMC Memorial Foundation, and they have their big golf tournament this Thursday. I think there may be a spot or two left if you want to have a great day of golf, and it should be a beautiful day out at the Ridge and Castle Pines. You can register by going to USMCMemorialFoundation.org. And then the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo on the Riverwalk, they have these beautiful portraits of valor of many of our Medal of Honor recipients. The only other collection of this magnitude of these portraits of valor is at the Pentagon. We can’t get into the Pentagon, but we can get into the Center for American Values. So to check out their hours, go to AmericanValuesCenter.org. That’s AmericanValuesCenter.org. Talking with Kevin Lundberg, he is the author of the Lundberg Report, which you can find at KevinLundberg, that’s L-U-N-D-B-E-R-G.com. as well as he’s a former state senator. Kevin, last night was our Colorado Union of Taxpayers board meeting, and I’ve started to work on the suggestion of the bills for our ratings report. And as I was going through the bills, because we normally will take a position on the bill as it’s initially introduced, But some of these bad bills actually did die, which I find super interesting. And I think that’s a hat tip to our Republican legislators who are taking a stand. But I think it’s also you shedding light on it through the Lundberg report. Sue Moore and her team over at Liberty Scorecard. And, of course, the great work that our board members are doing. And let me give them a quick shout-out. That is Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Rami Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onizorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. I was looking at this. I’m like, I think we actually had some success this legislative session because there was some terrible things that were introduced. And of course, it seems like all the good bills also died, but some of the bad ones did as well.
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Well, I’ll tell you, my analysis is, yes, there are some wins. And when you mentioned those who really made a difference, we’d be remiss if we didn’t acknowledge that the thousands of hours that citizens have made in going down and testifying against these bills. Excellent point. Sometimes the left kind of gets the hint that this is a bad idea. Or there is one other element, too, and that is some of the bills that were introduced early on, every legislator has the right to run five bills of their choosing. And so sometimes the bill’s that are really bad bills. The majority party down there, the Democrats don’t think it’s a good idea either. So, so they will put them off sometimes depending on the politics of the individual legislator that they’re dealing with, but eventually they’ll kill them. So we get some of those, but here’s something that troubles me quite a bit about this current session. And that is the good bills that I have identified. And I try to make a list of The ones I consider that really have some good, strong merit that will make a big difference in the positive. And then the bad bills. And it’s not all the bad bills, but it’s the worst bills, you might say. Anyway, among that good bill list, I can’t find anything that’s really passed yet. There may be one or two that kind of squeak through, and they are kind of the questionable ones, too. But the really good bills have been wholesale kills. This time, and usually a few of those slip through, but you’re quite right. Let’s acknowledge the fact that there are a lot of hardworking legislators and us on the outside and individual citizens who stood up and said, no, no, no, no, no. And occasionally they kind of get the hint. But overall, the real message is we need a better legislature if we’re going to get better bills.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, and let’s give a shout out to people that I know that have been very diligent. First of all, GAMI has been writing and testifying on a regular basis, as well as Patty McKernan, who is on the board of Protect Kids Colorado. I know she’s testified on a number of bills. And so, yes, the Lumberg Report, Colorado Union of Taxpayers, Liberty Scorecard, and then all of these individuals that have taken time to weigh in on all this. I think that’s important. We’ve got about five minutes left, Kevin Lumberg. So what is it that you want people to know this week?
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, this is the final week. Tomorrow is the final day. Pretty much everything is is set as far as what’s going to happen. They can’t introduce anything and get it through at this point. So whatever we have is what they’re going to deal with. There are two that really come to my that I want to pay a little bit of attention to some late bills. One House Bill 1428, which is a complete runaround. The legislature is trying to defeat a ballot initiative on transportation funding before it’s even put on the ballot by completely changing the funding mechanisms so as to defeat the the intent of this bill to fix our roads. Is that 1420 or is that 1430?
SPEAKER 04 :
I was thinking it was 1430.
SPEAKER 16 :
Am I mixed up? Oh, you’re right. You’re right. I’m sorry. I was looking at the wrong note. That’s 1430. But that’s what the bill does. And that’s completely unacceptable. But this legislature thinks they can just thumb their nose at the people who have the authority to make the law as well. But the legislature is undercutting that before it even becomes a possibility on the ballot. And then there’s another one. that was introduced early on to try to just soften the blow of shutting down coal-fired utility plants because utilities, they all understand, if you talk to their engineers, that this is complete nonsense to shut down all coal-fired plants, but the Colorado policy is to do it by 2030. And the initial bill was just kind of put on hold. They weren’t moving on it. Then they finally… killed that and reintroduced a bill that actually would have extended the, the deadline to 2032. Well, I think it’s a terrible idea to be planning for that regardless, but, but at least they were going to stretch it out a little bit and buy a little more time. Well, they killed that bill. So we are still on the fast track to energy oblivion. I think it’s the best way I’d put it. And this legislature has shown up a complete, uh, blind eye to any alternatives other than they’re rushing in to shut down our base power plants for Colorado. It’s utter nonsense, complete insanity. I don’t know how else to put it, but to say that this legislature still basically doesn’t get it. Yeah, they’ve responded to a few pressure points when we really pushed really hard, but But these are radical folks that the vast majority of Colorado, if they really knew what they were doing, would throw them out on their ear in the next election, no questions asked. So we’ll see. I mean, the dust is going to settle after the session is over and we can do a more thorough analysis. But my observation right now is this is as radical as it’s ever been, and it just continues that way.
SPEAKER 05 :
So, Kevin Lundberg, we all have a sigh of relief that this legislative session will be over tomorrow. But what happens in between now and when they convene in 2027? Because all of a sudden there’s all these bills. Somebody’s busy now that the session’s over. What does that look like?
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, first off, the governor has 30 days to decide what to do with these bills that are put on his desk. And so we’ll be kind of holding our breath there. There might be one labor relations bill that we’re hopeful he’ll veto. But, you know, it’s kind of an open ended question you made there. There will be great preparation for next year’s. I mean, legislators and lobbyists are working 12 months out of the year for their legislative agendas. But first and foremost, we have an election coming up. Our primaries are in June, and the general election wraps up in November. This is the time that politicians are most sensitive, is when they’re up for election. This is the time you as a citizen can really affect what’s happening by giving, you know, voting for the right people in the primary, but then in the general election, You’ve got to get engaged. And just like with the initiatives, we’re urging people to become very proactive to not just think, how am I going to vote, but to start talking about it to other folks. Because we’ve got to change gears here in Colorado big time. And I think we have that opportunity this year. I think these initiatives can kind of grease the skids, you might say, so that we will really see some differences there. But it’s going to take everybody doing all they can virtually all the time.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I agree with you. I think these Protect Kids Colorado initiatives are a great answer to voter apathy. And so this is very exciting. Kevin Lundberg, we’ll talk with you in a couple of weeks. And thank you for all of your great work. And again, you can find the Lundberg report at KevinLundberg.com. So have a great day.
SPEAKER 16 :
Very good. Thank you. I’ll be looking forward to it.
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Indeed, let’s have a conversation and welcome to our number two of the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You eat your treasured, your 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 I get to work with. That’s producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. It is Tuesday, producer Joe. Happy Tuesday, Kim. And if it is Tuesday, that is a special day at Little Richie’s, which they are located in Parker and Golden. They have authentic New York style pizza and pasta. And Tuesdays are for families. Kids eat free after 4 p.m. with the purchase of an adult entree. So let Little Richie’s in Parker and Golden handle dinner and the dishes. Our word of the day is Paragon. And it is spelled P-A-R-A-G-O-N. And it could be a model of excellence or perfection of a kind, a peerless example. Number two, it could be an unflawed diamond weighing at least 100 carats. Or number three, a very large spherical pearl. So again, This is striving for excellence. And we work to strive for excellence. We want to be a paragon in broadcasting. Of course, live radio always is interesting and offers different challenges. But our goal is to be a paragon in broadcasting. And again, that’s spelled P-A-R-A-G-O-N. Our quote of the day is from Clarence Thomas, and I went to this quote because Clarence Thomas is a Supreme Court justice, and he was born in 1948. He’s an American lawyer and jurist, and he’s served since 1991 as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. And he said this, to define each of us by our race is nothing short of denial of our humanity. And this is so foundational. Communism puts people into different groups. So they have been wanting to define us by race, all kinds of different things to put us into different groups. So to define each of us by, I’m going to say, anything other than our individuality is nothing short of the denial of our humanity. So the American idea is focused on the individual that has these rights from God of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. And that is why Clarence Thomas really nails it with to define each of us by our race is nothing short of denial of our humanity. Our bill of the day is House Bill 26-1429. And this is County Administration Public Assistance Programs. And the sponsors on this bill, there is bipartisan support on this. And that is Representative Kyle Brown and Representative Emily Sirota, both Democrats, Senator Jeff Bridges, Democrat Senator Barbara Kirkmeyer, a Republican. And this is Colorado Union of Taxpayers’ position on this. It says the bill’s stated purpose is to streamline delivery of government services in welfare programs and to efficiently identify and remedy waste. I like the efficiently identify and remedy waste. However, centralization in government typically is not a good idea. So our commentary continues. The bill’s first step in efficiency is to hire 12 new state employees to oversee 12 clusters of counties and then hire an outside contractor. The bill begins with cost to the taxpayer of $10 million and grows to $37 million. The bill is 79 pages long, punctuated by the egregious use of the safety clause. And so what we see so many times is something that sounds good really can be growing government. And whenever government grows, that means it has to dip into the pockets of everyday people to fund that. So cut is a no on this particular bill. piece of legislation. The legislative session is over tomorrow. And so that is good news. However, we are saying, oh, they cannot put in any new laws, but they have already then put in a number of new bureaucracies and given them power to make rules and regulations over our lives, even when the legislature is not in session. And that is why the work of the That website is coloradotaxpayer.org. And you can join us. It’s only $25 a year, which is $2.08 a month, which is less than a cup of coffee at many different places. And we’ve got John Bozen on the line. And Bozen Law can help you if you’ve been injured regarding a social security disability, workman’s comp. But I’ve got a question for John Bozen. John Bozen, welcome to the show.
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Good morning and thank you, God. The legislative session is almost over.
SPEAKER 05 :
It is almost over, which that is good news for sure. John Bozen, as you know, an area that I’ve been very concerned in is really the integrity of our elections. Because if we don’t have free, fair, honest, and transparent elections… then we don’t have our country. And yesterday, something really big happened. The two organizations that our listeners and followers came together to raise money for our lawsuits, which were filed in 2024, had filed a HAVA complaint. And a HAVA complaint is a complaint regarding the Help America Vote Act, so known as HAVA. And I’ve seen the slow walking of our lawsuits. And I didn’t realize that I thought and one of our listeners, Jenny, has said that justice delayed is justice denied. And so I’ve seen really what I saw slow walking on that. But a HAVA complaint has to be heard within 90 days. And that hearing was yesterday. It was online. I watched the whole thing. And it was filed by Peter Berninger with the Wisconsin Center for Election Justice and Harry Harry, who is on the national component of Unite for Freedom. And then Mike Cahoon, who is the state director for Unite for Freedom. And the thing about it is they laid the case out. that Colorado has significant infractions as it relates to HAVA. And the interesting thing is, is that a HAVA complaint has to be heard within 90 days, and I think a decision is going to be made, by my understanding, by May 21st. Now, the interesting thing about it is the organization overseeing the HAVA complaint is who the HAVA complaint is against, and that is the Secretary of State. But I think I want to give people hope. Something very exciting happened yesterday, John Bozen.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay, tell me what happened.
SPEAKER 05 :
That was it. And so we’re going to have a decision on that. But moving over to our lawsuits, and I had this legal question. One of the lawsuits has a stay on it. So there’s not been a determination, but is a stay just a delaying justice on it? Or what is a stay in legal terms?
SPEAKER 17 :
A stay in legal terms is a court-ordered pause or stopping of the proceeding. And it is usually initiated by one party or the other. It just puts a stop on anything proceeding, depending on where the litigation is, where the case is. If it’s in the middle of discovery, discovery stops. Nothing happens until that stay is lifted.
SPEAKER 05 :
So how can a stay be lifted because could this go on forever or what does that look like?
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, it’s the judge’s discretion, Kim, and that can be incredibly frustrating for, for parties. The question is which party required, which party filed the motion requesting the stay and what was the issue or the reason behind the request? That’s, that’s the question. Um, Typically, what I see is when one party is losing or in a bad way, they will try to get a stay. So the circumstances may change with another event or if there’s another case proceeding. So the question is that I have which party who requested the stay and what were the reasons behind the stay.
SPEAKER 05 :
OK, so I will. I’m learning. I have signed up for PACER, which is where I can watch these cases. And my understanding is, is that the the defendants have asked for that. And so that’s going to be another question. These judges, and you work with judges all the time, I think I naively thought that each judge would be trying to get justice in all of these cases, but we’re seeing some of these activist judges. What’s your thoughts on that, John Bozen?
SPEAKER 17 :
Kim, when we file a lawsuit, if we have choices between different venues or jurisdictions, we’re always going to pick a more favorable jurisdiction or venue. the judge can make all the difference. That’s the unfortunate truth. I think most judges are pretty solid. They want to do the right thing. They want to follow the law. But as you brought up, there are activist judges, and they will look for any justification or rationalization to do something that is in their political wheelhouse. And that’s when we have problems.
SPEAKER 05 :
But judges are not supposed to be political, right?
SPEAKER 17 :
They’re not supposed to be political. But I mean, we’ve seen decisions across the country where it’s pretty obvious that the judge has an agenda.
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Okay.
SPEAKER 17 :
Who appoints the judge? Who votes judges in? I mean, these are important things, too. Incredibly important things.
SPEAKER 05 :
Is there any entity out there that is really watching the records of these judges? Because every election cycle, I do a voter’s guide and I continue to have people say, what about the judges? Do you have a resource that we could, do you know of any resource where we can watch the decisions?
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, I belong to a number of different organizations and they all, depending on what kind of organization, case it is, they track the judges, how the judges rule on certain issues. I can look into that for you, Kim. Colorado Trial Lawyers Association is one of those associations. Workers’ Compensation Education Association is another. One tracks district court judges and appellate judges. The other tracks administrative law judges. But I can take a look at that and see. There’s just no question, you know, the judge… And that judge’s tendencies and preferences can make a difference in any case.
SPEAKER 05 :
Certainly. They’re human. Okay. Well, as we get to election season, we’ll have to talk more about that. Moving over to Bozen and Bozen Law, if someone’s been injured, they really should reach out to you. Well, they should make sure that from any injuries, they need to certainly seek medical care, and then they need to call Bozen Law, correct?
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They do, and Kim, I will emphasize again, time is of the essence. Every week, not every day, but every week, I talk to somebody that thought they were in a situation where they could handle it themselves, didn’t need any legal advice, and it turned out really bad. Folks, if you’re listening, you know someone, a coworker, a friend, hopefully not a family member, not yourselves, that gets involved in any kind of a situation where they’re injured and that should not have happened. Somebody did something or didn’t do something. It can be a motor vehicle accident, a slip and fall on ice, anything that hurts somebody. Time is of the essence to talk to a knowledgeable, experienced, strategically aggressive attorney. That’s Bozen Law. And that first conversation can and often makes all the difference where we’ll educate you what to do, what not to do, and how we can help. That phone number is 303- 999-9999. Okay, again, that’s Bozen Law, 303-999-9999. John Bozen, we’ll talk with you next week.
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I’m excited to be on with you. And by the way, we should clarify for your listeners that I didn’t actually write the original Constitution. It’s a book by that name that you can buy online that summarizes the Constitution and what it meant as it existed in 1791, right after the adoption of the Bill of Rights.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I give you a lot of credit. I guess I was giving you a whole lot of credit there, Rob Nadelson. Yeah, James Madison and a few other folks might take it. That they might. And so the Supreme Court, this particular term is coming to a close soon. And so there’s some court cases that have been decided or will be decided very shortly. So what should people know about these Supreme Court cases?
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Okay. I’m going to run through major classifications of cases quickly with you. Okay. with the understanding that I tend to focus on cases that involve constitutional issues rather than mere statutory issues. First, as I think most listeners know, there are a number of cases that come up that have involved presidential power. How much power does the president have? The most famous of those was the Trump tariff case in which the court held that the particular statute that President Trump claimed power to impose tariffs under did not, in fact, delegate to him that power. I had questions about the constitutionality of the statute itself, but the court didn’t reach that issue. There also are two important cases involving when the president can remove executive branch officials. Generally, the court has been acknowledging to a greater extent than in the past, the president has the power to remove executive branch officials. One of the entities involved in one case is the Federal Trade Commission. I think it’s a good possibility that President Trump will win that case. And then there is another case called Trump versus Cook that involves removing of members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. I think that’s going to be a tougher one for the president. And then there’s another… And question on that, Rob.
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You said this is the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Is that because the Federal Reserve is not part of the executive branch?
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No, it’s because the Federal Reserve is really a national bank, and national banks at the founding were recognized as kind of special institutions with special needs for independence. Then there’s also another… presidential case, and that is whether the president could remove the temporary protective status for Syrian and Haitian immigrants to this country. Syrian and Haitian immigrants have been staying here for many, many years on the statutory grounds that it would be risky for them to return to their homeland, and the Trump administration is trying to repeal that. Then there are a number of First Amendment cases. All of them basically arise out of the left wing’s war against the First Amendment. Most Coloradans have heard of Charles v. Salazar, in which the court struck down the efforts of the progressives in the Colorado legislature to ban the speech of mental health professionals when they urged people to return to their original birth gender. There’s another case which rose out of New Jersey, which upheld the right of a pro-life organization to sue the New Jersey attorney general because the New Jersey attorney general had basically gone on a rampage against pro-life organizations. And then there is yet another issue, another case, which involves the power of political parties and whether it is constitutional under federal law to restrict the cooperation between a party and the candidates that it supports. There are also two major Second Amendment cases. One involves a Hawaii law, which the legislature tried to say, I don’t think they’re going to win this one, that it was illegal to carry a gun, even if you had a concealed carry permit, onto private property, including a store or a gas station, unless there were an actual sign out there welcoming gun owners. Again, I don’t think Hawaii is going to prevail in that one. There’s also a federal statute which bans the possession of firearms by users or addicts of controlled substances. I think the court may very well resolve that one by interpreting the statute narrowly to avoid conflicting with the Second Amendment. There’s a takings issue case that involves tax sales. You don’t pay your taxes. The state will sell or the county will sell your property at auction. The plaintiff in this case argues that when your property is sold at auction at too low a price, that represents a takings under the Fifth Amendment and the state has to compensate you for having sold it at too low a price. I don’t think that the plaintiffs are going to prevail on that one. There’s also another administrative state type case that also involves the Seventh Amendment. And it has to do whether if a federal agency imposes fines against you, whether you’re entitled to a jury trial. In an earlier case, the court said you are entitled to a jury trial if the Securities and Exchange Commission goes against you. This case involves the Federal Communications Commission, slightly different set of facts, however. So we don’t really know which way that’s going to go. And then finally, there are some 14th Amendment cases. There’s the famous birthright citizenship case. Everybody acknowledges there’s such a thing as birthright citizenship, but what boxes do you have to check in order to take advantage of it? That obviously has yet to been decided. And then there are two cases. that are equal protection clause cases under the 14th Amendment that deal with transgender individuals claiming that laws that ban them from participating in sports under certain circumstances are unconstitutional. These laws say that if you want to participate in girls’ sports, you’ve got to have been biologically born a girl. These are boys who claim they are girls. and they want to participate in those sports, and they claim there’s a violation of the Equal Protection Clause. And then finally, there are some election issues. One case, Louisiana versus Calais, was just decided. Essentially, it says it’s unconstitutional, almost always unconstitutional, to gerrymander legislative districts in order to assure representation by certain racial groups. And then finally, There is a case involving the interpretation of Election Day that arose in Mississippi and deals with whether Mississippi can collect ballots after Election Day is already over. And so that’s the principal range of it. And I’d be happy to take whatever questions you or your listeners may have on these or any other matters I can comment on.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay. And we already have questions coming in on the text line. And that text line is 720-605-0647. The call-in line is 303-477-5600. 303-477-5600. And we will be taking call-ins for these next two segments. Questions for Rob Nadelson regarding the courts, the Supreme Court. Supreme Court decisions, the Constitution, all of those kinds of questions. And we have these important discussions because of our wonderful sponsors. And one of those is Radiant Painting and Lighting. And so it is time probably to spruce up the place and Radiant Painting and Lighting can help.
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SPEAKER 07 :
Good morning, Rob Nadelson. Gosh, knocking it out of the park already. Thank you. I have a… I’ve just written a few little notes. I just believe the Constitution was written for a moral and religious people, and I take that to heart. And I just have to ask, how does the U.S. Constitution survive when we, the people, are not prescribing or conducting ourselves to either one of these behaviors?
SPEAKER 19 :
Well… You know, Sandra, the same people who said that the Constitution was written for a moral and virtuous people also recognize that people have their flaws. And so they inserted in the Constitution checks and balances, ways in which people’s faults could be used to good advantage. So the president seeks to aggrandize his power and the Congress seeks to aggrandize its power. And so the Constitution sets up a tug of war between them. from which hopefully the people benefit. So I don’t want anyone to come to the impression that the Constitution requires us all to be little angels. On the other hand, Sandra, I think there is a point where the people become so shameless, so lawless, and so disregardful of virtue that even the Constitution doesn’t work. And you’re seeing some of this already going on by this campaign that is going on, which tries to delegitimize the U.S. Supreme Court, even though the Supreme Court is right now kind of a centrist, not a conservative entity. You saw this in the games in Virginia over reapportionment of it. what the Virginia legislature pulled to try to write certain Republican congressmen out of Congress. And now an effort to overturn the opinion of the Virginia Supreme Court. So there is, while the Constitution does not require us all to be angels, as Madison would have said, there is a point below which no law, no Constitution, no matter how good, is going to work.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thank you, Sandra. And I’ve got a follow-up question on that, Rob Nadelson, because we talk about a moral and virtuous religious people. And Dennis Prager said he thought that if there was any commandment of the Ten Commandments that might stand above the other, that would be, “…thou shalt not steal.” And certainly that thou shalt not steal tangible property, but we can see policy that’s stealing opportunity and hope from people as well. But as the president of cut and our team, we’ve been watching legislation down at the state house and I am seeing bipartisan bills that I, that are stealing from the people. And one of those is in the effort to balance the budget that, they are taking money from the unclaimed property tax fund and putting that into the general fund. That looks like stealing to me, Rob Nadelson, and that there’s nothing moral nor virtuous about doing that. What’s your comments on that?
SPEAKER 19 :
You’re right. I mean, there’s nothing moral or virtuous about the games that people play with the budget generally. However, in terms of threats to the Constitution, I would rate another commandment, is even more important, and that is thou shalt not covet. That it seems to be the basic platform of a large portion of the political establishment to govern by envy, to try to mobilize support and then institute policy based upon covetousness or enviousness of other people. And that, of course, leads to stealing from other people, right?
SPEAKER 04 :
Right.
SPEAKER 19 :
A classic example going on right now is in California, where there’s a ballot initiative that would simply confiscate from certain very wealthy people 5% of their wealth. I mean, that’s both stealing and covetousness. And it’s an example of the level below which… constitutional government is very, very difficult, if not impossible.
SPEAKER 05 :
Excellent point on that, Rob Nadelson. We’ve got Ron on the line. Ron, what is your question for the professor?
SPEAKER 18 :
Yes, Mr. Nadelson, I have a couple things. First is basically what Kim touched on, is how they can do their word salad and come up instead of saying it’s a tax, and they come up and say it’s a fee. And get away with it. And the second one is, uh, like what the hell, uh, kudos to, uh, uh, Congresswoman Boebert, uh, how these 20, I think she said 22 or 26 congressmen have sexual misconduct and settlements for their, for the stuff that they’ve done. And, um, you and I would be in jail for, but they are getting away with and having, uh, our money and having it covered up. And I’m like, what the heck?
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay. Thank you, Ron. And Rob Nadelson, your comments on that?
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah. I’m not going to comment on the sexual misconduct other than to say, especially for powerful men, power is an aphrodisiac in it, both on the side of men and women. It sometimes tends to break down other boundaries. As to the issue of fees, the Taxpayer Bill of Rights was drafted relatively early in our modern experience with drafting tax and expenditure limitations. Most state constitutions, and in fact the U.S. Constitution, have provisions in them that limit what a government can do with your money. And The TABOR was fairly early in the modern wave of these tax and expenditure limitations. And as a result of it, parts of it are not well drafted. And one of the things that was done was to exempt fees. Now, at the time, fees were understood as being charges for particular services, dedicated to particular services that were outside the core responsibilities of government. The legislative authority, however, started imposing what it called fees, which were really charges that were really taxes. And the Supreme Court of Colorado and the Colorado Court of Appeals let them get away with it. That even though Tabor adopted this definition of fees with the understanding that existed of fees when Tabor was adopted in 1992, the courts then changed the meaning of fees, effectively changing the meaning of Tabor. So that gutted Tabor. The mistake made by the drappers of Tabor was not being more careful in defining when a tax or a fee, when a charge was a tax and when it was a fee. So that’s a fault of the courts. Now, I want to just add one thing. When Mr. Bozeman was on, he was talking about the fact that Some judges can be very political. But he also said that most judges are not. He said that most judges really tend to do a good and impartial job. And I’d like to underscore that point. When we criticize judges, we can’t miss the fact that most of them do a really good job. Unfortunately, in construing the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, the Colorado appeals courts have not done a good job. I just mentioned Montana because I just finished a long paper on the abuses of the Montana Supreme Court. The Colorado Supreme Court’s a lot better than that. But in the area of Tabor, the Colorado Supreme Court has not done a good and honest job in interpreting the measure.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, and we’re going to continue with call-ins, 303-477-5600. We’ve got Gammy on the docket there. And I also have a question that has been carried over from Jenny from last month on the text line. So we’ll address that. Then we’ll go to Gammy. But first, we will talk with our sponsors. And for everything mortgages, Lorne Levy can help you. He can help you in 49 of the 50 states, just not New York. But if you’re moving out of New York, Lorne Levy can help you with that new mortgage.
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SPEAKER 05 :
And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Check out the website for the Center for American Values. The center is located in Pueblo on the beautiful Riverwalk, focusing on honoring our Medal of Honor recipients and then also great educational opportunities programs K-12 and for educators focused on honor, integrity, and patriotism. And would really recommend this summer take the family down to Pueblo if you’re in the metro area and visit the Portraits of Valor. And that website for their hours and all their information is AmericanValuesCenter.org. That’s AmericanValuesCenter.org. And then this Thursday is the big fundraiser for the USMC Memorial Foundation. And that is a golf tournament out at the Ridge in Castle Pines. I think there’s just a few spots left. You can register by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. That is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And this is coming in from Jenny on the text line. And I want her to know that I am getting her text messages, but my responses are not going back to her. She asked this last month. and we didn’t get to it. She said, ask Rob, how can we reduce the duration of the legislative session and the amount of bills introduced here in Colorado that she thinks that Florida can only introduce 200 bills per legislative session? Your comments on that, Rob Needleson.
SPEAKER 19 :
The simplest way is to pass a constitutional amendment to that effect. That is to say, a state constitutional amendment that would require circulating a petition because, of course, the legislature is not going to proposed limiting itself. So it would require petitioning and it would require an affirmative vote of 55% of the Colorado electorate.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay. And yes, that is a tall order. This petitioning is very expensive. The fact that Protect Kids Colorado was able to do this basically with no paid signature gatherers is remarkable, but it can be done.
SPEAKER 19 :
So on the line with us is… And by the way, as somebody who led a very successful statewide petition campaign, the initiative process really does and should belong to the people, not the paid petition circulators. And so I take my hat off to what Protect Kids Colorado did. I hope it’s the beginning of the people reclaiming this process from the professionals.
SPEAKER 05 :
And so many people worked diligently on that. So I think that to Jenny’s point, this could be something that people could get behind as well, but it does take a tremendous amount of organization on that. We have Gammy on the line. And first of all, I want to say thank you to her. She has been tireless in writing on a variety of different bills, testifying down at the state house via Zoom. And it’s because of… a lot of her actions that I think that some of these bad bills did not continue on. So, Gammy, welcome to the show. And what is your question for Rob Nadelson?
SPEAKER 12 :
Wow, I don’t know what to say. Thank you very much. And Jenny, I agree totally with what she just said. My question is long-winded, but I’ll hit it fast. I recently sent what you would call a layperson’s brief to the Colorado Supreme Court justices and all 22 appeals court judges, the president, and just about anywhere and everywhere I could send it. It was published on High Country Advocate publication, which is an incredible group of people. And here’s the thing. I was asking them to not send Tina Peters back to the same judge that missed sentenced her, you know, made an error, many errors in sentencing, not to mention non-neutrality. And your comment that most judges are honest, I can’t agree with. And let me tell you why. Do you see nationally, not just Colorado, how many judges are letting real life rapists, murderers, criminals out of jail? And yet patriots have been so, the judicial system has been so weaponized Against everyone like James.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay. Well, and Gammy, great question. And you connect a lot of dots. But I think the question on the table is regarding Tina Peters, that it’s her resentencing has been sent back to the judge that sentenced her. So that doesn’t seem like that makes sense to most people. Rob Nadelson.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, that is really outside my wheelhouse, to be honest. I mean, I focus on the U.S. Constitution. I did a few criminal cases early in my career in another state, and I just can’t comment on Colorado criminal law. And even if I were an expert on Colorado criminal law, I couldn’t comment on the Tina Peters case without reviewing an enormous amount of material. And it’s just not something I can do with my schedule.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay. Next question coming in on the text line. Is it constitution? This is from Mark. Is it constitutional for governments to delegate eminent domain power to private corporations? So for example, here in Colorado to Excel in, and we were talking with Virginia Maka to the Southwest, the Southwest power pool, because, well, what’s your thoughts on that? Rob Needleson.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, I don’t know if it’s constitutional in the abstract, but it’s been done a very long time. And I think it’s unlikely that would be challenged so long as there are strict government guidelines that govern the process and the purposes for which eminent domain can be exercised. You know, a number of years ago, a scholar wrote an article in Yale Law Journal in which he argued that the Constitution gave the federal government no eminent domain power whatsoever outside of the District of Columbia and federal territories. And I responded to that. That’s simply not accurate. That eminent domain power for good or for bad has been recognized as an incident of sovereignty, something connected to sovereignty for hundreds upon hundreds of years. And I don’t think a court would overturn a delegation so long as I mentioned that the procedures were laid down by the government and the goals were laid down by the government under which the private entity had to proceed.
SPEAKER 05 :
So, Rob Nadelson, what we’re seeing, and I think that it’s a… I think it’s the words convenience and necessity are being used in this taking of people’s land via these industrial transmission lines, these industrial solar projects, these industrial wind projects. And the general welfare clause, my understanding, means that it should benefit everyone, the general welfare. So taking people’s land in the Midwest… because there’s a higher population on the West coast and also that state, for example, California is, uh, has terrible energy policy. That’s, and so taking people’s land in the Midwest via eminent domain for people on the West coast doesn’t seem constitutional to me, Rob Nadel. So what, what would you say to that?
SPEAKER 19 :
Um, Well, the General Welfare Clause is actually a qualification of a taxing power. It’s been greatly misinterpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court. Essentially, the way the court describes it is that Congress can spend any money at once for the general welfare, but even that’s not related to eminent domain. And its original purpose, the General Welfare Clause’s original purpose, was to limit the taxing power. Again, not limited to eminent domain. I think the real limits, proper limits on eminent domain are to be found in the fact that the constitution grants the federal government only certain listed powers. And when the federal government over, overreaches those powers, as it certainly has done today, and the Supreme court kind of takes a blind eye to it, then you’re going to see far more abuses of the federal eminent domain power than you otherwise would. So, um, Is there ever a proper use of the federal eminent domain power? Well, yeah, it’s always been recognized as part of the power to build highways, to build roads, which is so-called post roads, interstate highways, which is recognized in the Constitution. It is certainly arguably part of the commerce power. But when the federal government starts eminent domain because it wants to put a museum in Ohio, something which has nothing to do with the powers granted to it by the Constitution, then to my way of thinking, that’s an abuse.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay, and we don’t have enough time for this, so I’m just going to throw this out. I made a note on this, but you mentioned federal eminent domain powers. How is it that the appointed Public Utilities Commission by this governor is granting eminent domain to Xcel Energy to provide energy outside the state of Colorado or electricity outside the state of Colorado? So I guess we’ll keep that as a cliffhanger. For next month, Rob Nadelson, your final thought. You’ve got about 15 seconds.
SPEAKER 19 :
If you’re interested in seeing what I’ve written, check out the book on Amazon, The Original Constitution. Be sure you get the fourth edition or go to NadelsonRob.com. NadelsonRob.com. That’s my website. Almost everything I’ve written on the Constitution is there.
SPEAKER 05 :
OK, Rob Nadelson, as always, these are such great questions. We will talk with you next month and be getting your questions ready for Rob Nadelson Day, which will be on the second Tuesday in June. And our quote for the end of the show is from Clarence Thomas. He said, government cannot make us equal. It can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. So my friends today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
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