Explore the intersection of freedom and civic responsibility on The Kim Monson Show. With insightful discussions on property rights, force versus freedom, and the attack on natural resources, Kim Monson unpacks how these issues shape public opinion and policy. Discover the importance of organizations like the USMC Memorial Foundation in preserving history and fostering community, while engaging with initiatives to resist overreaching governmental policies.
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And we’ve got another jam-packed show, and Joe’s behind the boards, and we are ready to go. And do check out our website. That is KimMonson.com. As you know, we search for truth and clarity. by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. Socialism is not about free stuff. The free stuff is just to get people to vote for it. Ultimately, socialism has to come down to force. And if something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to implement it. And it’s never compassionate nor altruistic. And many times the totalitarians try to, as they’re trying to get you to vote for these things, try to couch this additional force as either compassionate or altruistic. It’s neither. And what they do is they take our rights, our property, freedom, livelihood, opportunity, childhoods and lives via force. And force can be a weapon. We know that. But it’s also policy and unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government induced inflation. The World Economic Forum’s agenda that’s playing out at the United Nations, at legislatures, particularly here in Colorado with this governor. who he studied at the World Economic Forum. He was one of their young emerging leaders, I think it was, or he went through that class. But land use codes and zoning regulations, all these things can take opportunities. And we need to understand what is happening in our country. And that’s why we do the show is to get your brain around these narratives so that you can engage with your friends and your family and your colleagues about all that is going on out there. We do focus on the issues. We’ll mention the people pushing the issues, but we really try to stay out of the personality fighting and all of that that’s going on. I wanted to say thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show because it is reliable, efficient, affordable and abundant power from oil, natural gas, and coal, which are naturally occurring fuels that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate to be warm in the winter and cool in the summer. And in many ways, we’ve taken this for granted. All these things are under assault, and we are at a real inflection point in our country. We are really the third founding of America, and that’s why it’s so important to engage in this battle of ideas. Also, Hooters Restaurants has locations in Loveland, Westminster, and Don Parker Road in Aurora, and really great sponsors of the show as well. And how I got to know them is a story about freedom and free markets and capitalism and PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties that want to exert control over people going after their hopes and dreams. And so that’s how I got to know them when I was on TV. City Council. So you can find that whole story at my website at Kim Monson dot com. Our word of the day is iconoclast and it is spelled I-C-O-N-O-C-L-A-S-T. Again, I-C-O-N-O-C-L-A-S-T. And it could be one who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions. And number two, one who destroys sacred religious images. And number three, a breaker or destroyer of images or idols, a determined enemy of idol worship. I think I’m going to use number one, and that would be Donald Trump is really an iconoclast as we look at what he is doing regarding the deep state. And they are losing their minds on this. And this is why we are at such a time in our country. And this is we were headed towards definitely totalitarianism. And we still we can’t just rely on Donald Trump. He is certainly stepping forward on this. And I would say attacking this institutional deep state. But we have to do our part. And that is we have to be showing up on the local level. Because as one of our listeners wrote, or one of our listeners has said, is that they are… thinking globally and acting locally and in fact mark kostelik who had been on the show who is a listener uh let me see if i can get to this he said that today they’re starting a protest regarding the regulations in chaffey county and they have signs that they’ll will be um on different vehicles and things. And we’re seeing zoning regulations and land use codes being used to take away people’s right to use their property as they would like. And if you own your property but you can’t use your property the way you want, as a good neighbor, you have to be a good neighbor, certainly, then you do not have your property rights. And so we need to be working at the local and the county level as well. So our word of the day is a coniclass. Our quote of the day, because we’ve been watching the French bakery on Lookout Mountain. And again, what we’re seeing is zoning regulations are being used to threaten to close down their business. And I did end up the email addresses that we had for the. Jefferson County Commissioners was correct. Thank you, Ben, for letting me know that that worked for you. And so that was in our newsletter. If you get our newsletter, you can go back to that. That went out on Sunday around 11 o’clock to find that newsletter. And you can email all of the uh all three of the jefferson county commissioners asking them for a variance so that et wallah can keep their tiny homes on their property so that they can continue their business if you don’t have time to do that just go to change.org and put it in french bakery and you can sign the petition there just since last friday since we started talking about this over 400 new signatures have been added to that petition And so that will get the commissioner’s attention as well. The people are watching this. So I went to another famous Frenchman for our quote of the day, and that is Marquis de Lafayette. He was born in 1757. He died in 1834. And known in the United States as Lafayette, he was basically like a son to George Washington. He was a French military officer and politician who volunteered to join the Continental Army. And in the American Revolutionary War, he commanded Continental Army troops in the decisive siege at Yorktown in 1781, which was the Revolutionary War’s final major battle, which secured American independence. And after returning to France, Lafayette became a key figure in the French Revolution of 1789. and the July Revolution of 1830. And he continues to be celebrated as a hero in both France and the United States. And he said this about America. He said, humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country. And that is the Marquis de Lafayette. And I’ve been talking about it. It’s right around the corner, and that is the 48th anniversary of the USMC Memorial, which is located right here in Colorado. It’s going to be a great evening. I will be emceeing the event, and Dave Bray, USA, will be performing. And we have him on the line. Dave Bray, USA, welcome to the show.
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Good morning, Kim. Thank you so very much for having me on. Looking forward to being out in Golden, Colorado again this Saturday. Okay.
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It’s going to be great. And we actually rebroadcast the interview that we did with you last year on America’s Veterans Stories. We did that on Sunday, where you actually shared some of your music. So just tell us a little bit about you so that people will get a flavor for what’s going to be happening on Saturday. And people can buy their tickets by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. So tell us a little bit about you, Dave Bray.
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Sure. So, yeah, again, we’re going to be out there at the Golden USMC Memorial this Saturday, August 23rd, 6.30 p.m. I will be performing. So my name is Dave Brett, USA, for all you Kim listeners out there. And I’m a United States Navy and Marine Corps veteran. I come from a family history, a lot of service members. Anybody ever heard the story of Daniel Bray and acquiring the boats that George Washington acquired to get across the Delaware from some of the Redcoats? You may have heard that story, may have not, but for your history buffs out there, look up Daniel Bray. But I’m a performer, and I wanted to do something special with my abilities, my talents that the good Lord gave me. And after getting out of the military, I didn’t feel like I did enough. I wanted to serve some more. I had a few injuries and some other things that kind of kept me back from continuing in service. So I decided to use some of my gifts in music and production to create what I call music on a mission. And that music on a mission is about patriotism. It’s about faith. It’s about being proud of both of those things and then passing on that pride and in those things to the next generation. So it’s patriotism. It’s faith. It’s called music on a mission. And I’m Dave Bray, USA, United States Marine Corps, Navy veteran.
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Well, it’s going to be a great evening. And Dave, I think you have seen a lot as you’ve done all these different performances, shared the stage with a lot of different performers as well. But I think that finally loving America, being patriotic and patriotic is being patriotic is not about bravado. It’s about loving our country and protecting our country. And I think that that may be coming back into style. What do you think?
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Well, I think you’re right. Well, the other side of patriotism is civic duty. You know, you’re born into the free country, but you still have to step up. You have to step into the shoes of the patriots that came before you, the citizens and the civilian community that kept this country free for all these years has to be repopulated. So a lot of kids don’t know these days that you do have civic duties. You have things that you have to do to keep America going, keep America prosperous, keep America free. Some of the things, again, that I do are community exercises, just like the one we’ve got coming up August 23rd. This United States Marine Corps Memorial Foundation is really special to me. Paula Sarles and her little team she has out there doing so much. And, you know, a way the community right now can get together and rally around her and this amazing memorial that you have in your community is to buy a brick. You can get your name put on a brick. It’s a $50 donation. Or you could buy a brick for a fallen veteran or just a veteran or anyone. You can buy a brick for them, and you can buy that brick and be a part of this event at the USMCMemorialFoundation.org. You can go there today. You can go there right now and purchase a brick. And that’s what helps this thing grow. That’s what the civilian community needs to do. They need to rally around the veteran communities. They need to get involved in their communities and just take part. And you’ll find that your communities will grow and prosper, and America can continue to be free.
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Well, and I agree. Paula has done such an amazing job with her team. And the memorial is a place that has been a place of healing for Paula and her husband. She’s a Gold Star wife. He passed on. And it’s been a place of healing and reflection for many people. of our military active duty and veterans. And these bricks, at this particular point in time, people will receive a beautiful certificate that they can certainly frame and put on their wall. And then that brick will eventually be… On their pathways of service. Now, Dave Bray, you gave us a little teaser about it. Was it Daniel Bray, you said, that helped George Washington secure the boats to cross the Delaware?
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This is a piece of history that our nation has missed. And this is as important. And I’m a Bray, so I take pride in the story. But this is as important as Paul Revere’s ride. The night that George Washington crossed the Delaware, he sent out Captain Bray at that time, who knew the river. He knew the people who had boats that they could use. But he also knew the river, and he knew the boats that the Redcoats were using to transport their goods. And they had to acquire over 75 boats in an evening. And Daniel Bray, which I believe created the first SEAL team, went out. They had to acquire watercraft from the Redcoats. And that took probably a little bit more than persuasion and kind words. So I like to say that SEAL Team Zero was created by Daniel Bray. He was out there slicing throats and stealing boats for George Washington to get across the Delaware.
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Well, and do you know, are you relation to him or did you just share the same name?
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Only by name can I trace it. That’s all. Yeah. So I don’t have that. I know of direct relationship. There’s not a lot of braids out there. So I’m hoping that I’m a part of his kinship. I would like that.
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Well, certainly in spirit. So let’s just talk a little bit more about that because it is an amazing piece of history. As you say, people don’t know. It was freezing cold. They had to cut through ice to get across the Delaware. The plans didn’t work the way it was supposed to. Then the Continental soldiers had to march several miles to get to the battle there. Now I’m drawing a blank on the first one, and then a few days later it was Princeton. So anyway, if the British would have known… or the Hessians, would have listened. They could have tracked the Continental soldiers because some of them didn’t even have shoes or pants, and it was so cold that their feet were bleeding. It’s an amazing story about that crossing the Delaware, Dave.
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Well, I think it’s fascinating, and the more I find out about it, you know, the Hunterton County Militia was out there doing the work and helping Captain Bray Obviously, it’s Christmas, so people are not wanting to go to war and cross a river on Christmas, Christmas Eve. And again, the hand of God comes into play and gives them some cover, gives them some fog to move through. But yeah, going out and getting these boats, over 75 boats, Captain Bray was then promoted to General Bray and pushed up in George Washington’s army and became very close friends. uh, uh, trustee to, to the general. So just interesting parts of our American history that have been looked over and missed these little pieces that if they wouldn’t have happened, obviously the battle of Trenton doesn’t go down. Uh, you know, the, the, the history of America has changed. And, you know, just like Paul Revere’s ride, I think Daniel’s braids, uh, you know, I think his memory deserves to be honored and respected as well. But, uh, I tell you what, we’re really cool thing that you can do to honor someone’s memory, uh, is buy a brick for the United States Marine Corps Foundation at usmcmemorialfoundation.org and support this amazing group, this amazing nonprofit that is keeping this beautiful, absolutely beautiful Marine Corps Memorial alive in Golden, Colorado.
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Well, absolutely. And again, thank you. That was the Battle of Trenton. And then a few days later, they had the success of the Battle of Princeton. And again, this changed our history. And so Dave Bray, USA, how can people get more information about you?
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Sure. If you want to check out my music, you can just go to Dave Bray, USA, on YouTube and watch any of the amazing videos. I have a beautiful video of Amazing Grace that we filmed up in the northeast of that pays tribute and honor to our fallen. But I also do, and we are going to celebrate and remember our gold stars because, of course, Paula is a gold star. I do a few tribute songs, and it’s going to be an emotional evening for those families. And I do one that’s called Freedom Rings Blood of Heroes, which is about service, which is about sacrifice, and unfortunately, which is about those Gold Star families who have to carry the weight of that loss for their lives. So we are going to take some serious moments during this night, this evening, to honor those who have paid the ultimate price. But we’re also going to have some uplifting moments as well. We’re going to get the audience singing and being a part of the evening as well, because I don’t like to just sit and talk to them. I want them to be a part of it, and I want them to be included in what we’re doing on the stage. Again, we’re down in Golden, Colorado, Saturday, August 23rd, for the 48th anniversary for the United States Marine Corps Foundation Memorial. I hope that we can get some people out there. It’s going to be amazing, and you can still buy a brick. For $50, get Hero’s name put on it, or you can put anybody’s name on it, who has served at usmcmemorialfoundation.org today, and you can be a part of this event. And we would love to honor you and celebrate you and remember you.
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Absolutely. So, Dave Bray, I will see you on Saturday. And, again, you can buy your tickets or buy a brick at usmcmemorialfoundation.org. See you on Saturday.
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I’ll see you, Kim. I love you guys. Take care. Be well, and God bless.
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Well, thank you, Kim. It’s always good being with you.
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Good to have you as well. And you publish your Lundberg Report every Saturday. People can get that by going to KevinLundberg.com. And I wanted to start off with this. You have a special report, Griswold’s Fool’s Gold. And… i i uh this is near and dear to my heart because this is one of the two court cases that our listeners and followers raised the money to get it filed and it was amended on a on august 4th of this year so this is very near and dear to my heart but this is on your radar so tell us why you think this is important
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Well, I know you’ve been talking about it, but candidly, I didn’t read it until last night. And, yeah, the amendment looked like it was just correcting some outdated names on the case. This is a court case that… that really spells out our voter registration problems in Colorado in very stark terms. It gives almost 50 pages of details on how the voter registration list in Colorado is filled with errors, filled with Registrations that are either duplicates or are names that just don’t make sense. Maybe the registration was filled out on days when there was supposedly nobody in the office to do any registering, for example. or just innumerable errors in our voter registration lists here in Colorado. And it also points out that state and federal law demands strict accuracy for our lists. And when it comes to elections, there’s a very, very tiny window of error allowed there. And it runs the numbers for the 2022 and the 2024 elections here in Colorado and points out that Colorado’s track record for accuracy is way over what federal law requires. And then it cites a lot of state laws as well that points towards accuracy and accuracy When I read that, I mean, you know, we talked about election integrity from a lot of different angles. And I was actually on a little Zoom call yesterday. uh last week with some election integrity folks and we were just recounting some of the issues that were there and you know with people looking about the uh this looking at this and talking about it a lot but very rarely do you come across such a comprehensive delineation of what the problems really are and this is just speaking uh addressing the um the voter registration and and then how the election process worked in 2022 and 2024 here in colorado um I read that and I thought, okay, I’ve got to pass this on. I’ve got to recommend that people actually deeply look at this. And it’s going to take some investment in time and brain power because there’s so much in there. But I also didn’t want it to get overshadowed by the special legislative session that’s going to open on Thursday. And as you pointed out, I do publish my newsletter on Saturdays. I prepare it on Friday, you know. But, you know, 5 o’clock in the morning, I’ll send out the email announcement that it’s there. And it’s there for anybody to access at any time, as you said, on my website, KevinLundberg.com. Under Lundberg Report, we’ll say that much. But… I didn’t want people to miss this very important issue. And I know it’s been out there for a while. Yes, it was refiled a couple of weeks ago. And I give a link to that most current amended version of the complaint. That’s what you call when you file a lawsuit of that sort. But It’s such a big deal that people need to stop and focus on it for a bit. And I believe that if the judge takes this seriously, and I put a big if there, because unfortunately far too many judges Judges just don’t want to go there. They’ll find some reason to say, oh, I just can’t talk. It kind of reminds me of the person who puts their thumbs in their ears and starts saying, no, no, no, no, I can’t hear you. Well, that’s how I feel or I observe that many people. um uh judges have done but but this is just laid out in black and white it’s such a clear picture that i don’t see how it could be avoided it needs to be dealt with and it needs to be dealt with now because we have an election a very important one coming up in just a little over a year from now there’s time to dig in and and make this uh better but um My guess is Griswold’s going to just continue to say, no, we have the gold standard, but it’s just fool’s gold.
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Well, it is. And that’s what’s so important about this lawsuit, which was filed initially last September. And I’d like to talk just a little bit more about it since this is that you found this and realize the importance on this as well. We’re talking with former state Senator Kevin Lundberg. And what our listeners, our followers are doing, stepping forward and laying and planting seeds to get us to this point. This happened, again, last summer was when we worked so hard to raise the money for this. And so now here, this framework is here. If we hadn’t done that, we’d be behind the eight ball on this. And so thank you to all of you out there. And thank you to Kevin for all the amazing work that he does. And these important discussions happen because of our great sponsors.
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Check out our website. That’s kimmonson.com. And do check out the website for the Center for American Values. They’ve got a lot going on. They’re going to have an On Values presentation on Tuesday, October 21st. And that should be super interesting with Norma Donlon. And then also they are working on a secondary educator training program that will be in September. And then lastly, Drew Dix, Medal of Honor recipient and co-founder, has started a podcast series. You can get all this information by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. That’s AmericanValueCenter.org. We are talking with former State Senator Kevin Lundberg. And check out his Lundberg report. He brought to his followers’ attention the lawsuit that all of you, all of our followers, helped fund with United Sovereign Americans. And then the other lawsuit through Wisconsin Center for Election Justice, the basis for that particular lawsuit is this. that on Election Day of 2024, and with NIVRA, you have to be very targeted the closer you get to election. NIVRA is the National Voting Rights Act that went through and found 14,500 people that voted that should not have voted. They maybe didn’t exist or… Phantom votes. But 14,500 people voted in that election. Again, that was a very targeted list. And so thank you for highlighting that and realizing the importance of these lawsuits that people worked so hard on, Kevin Lumberg.
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Well, yeah, and Kim, since you’re so intimately involved in all of this, what are the prospects of these lawsuits actually coming to fruition, particularly before the next election cycle? Because, you know, any time a vote or a ballot, I’ll put it this way, any time a ballot is cast, by somebody other than a valid voting citizen within that district, it defrauds every other voter of their voting rights because it dilutes the actual results with a bad actor. What progress do you see for these lawsuits actually having some effect before the 2026 election?
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Well, Kevin, that is the million-dollar question. And as you mentioned, getting this in front of a judge that will really want to take a look at the case, I think that it’s changing from where it used to be as far as judges wanting to look at this. I don’t know for sure. I think I think the fact that we step forward and again, the Unite for Freedom, formerly United Sovereign Americans, that lawsuit was filed last September. And then the one with Wisconsin Center for Election Justice that was filed. Let’s see. Right. Right before the election in 2024. I’ve got to think that the work that we’ve done on this has set the stage to help the Trump administration as they are trying to get these elections cleaned up. I know that the radical activist Democrats have have done. do not want anything to happen to change the status quo on our elections. But I really think, and you brought this point up, that the big, broad middle, the moderate Democrats and unaffiliated and Republicans, conservatives, libertarians, I think Americans want to have free, fair, honest, and transparent elections that they can trust. If the other guy wins and is free, fair, honest, and transparent, so be it. But if somebody wins because they’ve got their finger on the lever or stuffing ballot boxes… In fact, I just saw something. It was a city council race, and I didn’t get through all the details on it. They actually have a photo of the candidate sitting in the passenger seat as they have gone twice to a drop box, stuffing ballots into those drop boxes. And… I don’t care what side of the aisle you’re on. I think most people don’t think that’s OK.
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Yeah. Yeah. And I know I asked you an unfair, tough questions and you’re supposed to be asking me questions. But, hey, we trade out here. But I am actually a chairman of the lawsuit committee for the Colorado GOP for a lawsuit that we filed a couple of years ago now. challenging the semi-open primary system here in Colorado because it violates basic constitutional principles. And the Supreme Court actually validated that back in 2000. But we’re still sitting with a judge, a federal judge, you know, there in Denver, who is just not just dragging their feet. They don’t want to come to grips with, one, their job, and two, the reality that these issues need to be settled. They need to be settled. fairly and correctly. You mentioned earlier about Trump going after the deep state and how the players in that world are doing everything they can to frustrate his actions. Yeah, we see it everywhere. At the bare minimum, we can let everybody know Who the bad actors are, and I’ll just point blank say, any judge that doesn’t do their job and deal with these things in a very responsible and timely manner has become one of those bad actors. So, you know, let’s see some action that actually… works, and the judiciary has got to go a long way to win me back as to the integrity that they really hold to. I know there are a lot of good judges out there trying to do the right thing, but there are far too many that have an agenda in their reason for being there, and they put their thumb on the scales far too often.
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Well, they do. And so going through the judiciary is certainly interesting. I don’t know for sure what’s going to happen with all this, but what I do know is that if you do nothing, then you’re not in the game at all. And so the fact that we have these lawsuits filed… And I think I was incorrect. I said it was the 2024 election. It was a 2022 election on the Wisconsin Center for Election Justice that the 14,500 voters voted that we know that should not. And I’ll just mention one other thing, and that is we just recently, with Unite for Freedom, Again, thank you to our listeners. We raised the money to do a prevalence study in Jefferson County. And so it’s like taking a biopsy of the election. And with the standards, they looked at the election records, but they also had private investigators that… looked at these different voters as well to try to find them and this is very conservative but a total in the 2024 election there was a percentage of 6.1 percent of votes that were not were in that were inadmissible in the jefferson county election and i think they added this prevalent study into that lawsuit as well when they did that amendment on the um On August 4th. So I’m going to let’s go to break early so that we can now talk about the special session that’s coming up. And I would really recommend that you always check out Kevin Lundberg’s report every Saturday. And you can find that at Kevin Lundberg dot com. And these discussions happen because of our sponsors. If you’ve been injured, you want to reach out to John Bozen and Bozen Law.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That’s KimMonson.com. I have former State Senator Kevin Lundberg on the line. And we were talking about some of these lawsuits regarding elections here in Colorado. But let’s move over to the special session, Kevin. That begins on Thursday. What is your ear to the ground? What are you finding out?
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, of course, it was called by the governor. And a little footnote, I got a note from one legislator a few days ago who was questioning whether the governor even used the right procedure to call the special election. In other words, I think he did it through an executive order. And this legislator was saying, well, Actually, the governor has the responsibility to issue a proclamation to the legislature calling them back into session because he doesn’t have any authority over the legislature except to do this one thing. And just a little footnote, I’m sure they’re going to proceed regardless of how he did it, whether he did it properly or not. But I’m told that there will probably be about 40 bills that will be introduced in And they try to complete these sessions in three days. It takes a minimum of three days to pass a bill because of the procedure of going through both houses. But they also try to limit it to three days if possible. So they’re hoping Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Now, with that being the case, they will not adequately deal with 40 bills in its first committee on the first day of the session. I say adequately because they may drop some in there and simply rush right through and kill them. But they could assign some for… the second or the third day, which would effectively kill them as well. So I think we’re going to boil down to a handful of bills they’re going to be looking at, primarily dealing with what they think is a shortfall in the projected budget for this year, the revenue side. because the one big beautiful bill put some what I consider to be very proper limits on who should be receiving Medicaid and other benefits, mostly just kind of tying it back to the people who really need those support systems and backing away from the Medicaid expansion program that was put in place back when Obama was president. you know, implementing Obamacare. I remember that. I was there and was one of those who said, no, we’re voting no on this expansion because we cannot sustain it. You can’t provide medical care for, you know, ever larger groups. Do you know that in Colorado, I’ve heard numbers anywhere from 25 to 40 percent of the citizens or the residents, I should say, in Colorado are on Medicaid, which is nonsense. And by the way, if I said Medicare anywhere in this discussion, I’m saying I’m meaning Medicaid. You know, get these words kind of mixed up a bit. But the legislature brought this upon themselves by saying, not only expanding Medicaid many, many years ago, but then taking on one-time COVID federal dollars to create and expand programs that now that those dollars are not there anymore, suddenly they are, you know, crying wolf because they think they’re, you know, the federal government took the money away. No, no, it was never promised in the first place. The legislature has been spending way too much. This is a great opportunity for them to look at it and say, OK, let’s cut off the fat. But I expect them to kick the can down the road and sustain, you know, much as much of the programming and the spending as they possibly can. And then blame Trump for being the big bad ogre who’s, you know, trying to literally just put things back in order.
SPEAKER 25 :
Well, I think it’s important, Kevin, that people understand that the federal government does not produce anything. The way these federal dollars, they’re either taken from us via taxes or we are borrowing it. from our children and our grandchildren, which is immoral, with a $38 trillion debt. And so the crying wolf that Colorado’s not going to get all of this federal money, we should, under republicanism, we should not be receiving it anyway. We should be standing on our own two feet from an economic standpoint as a state instead of relying on the federal government taxing our neighbors or taking from our children and our grandchildren.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right, right. And, you know, so you’re not going to see a whole lot of that, at least coming through in the papers. I’m sure the stories that will be coming out of the legislature from the mainstream media folks will be, you know, how this is such a shame that we can’t sustain all these wonderful programs. But in reality, we’re, you know, the… the attempt on, on the part of, uh, Trump and the, and Congress is to pull these programs back into a little more realistic perspective. And, you know, if, if there’s any fault with the one big beautiful bills, it didn’t go far enough, but it’s the biggest bite they could take into it, you know, uh, in, in, in to try and correctly, uh, correct these things, uh, at least at this first stage of things. Um, uh, You know, here’s one other observation I would have. Having served on the Joint Budget Committee for a couple of years down there, this is really something that the JBC should have been on top of first and foremost. The fact that this has just turned into a special session without going through The committee that’s actually in charge of the budget, you know, JDC should have started meeting as soon as that bill became law at the federal level to try to deal with and come up with some reasonable solutions. But I haven’t heard anything. I don’t think they even met over this. And I’m amazed because the Joint Budget Committee does have the authority when the legislature is not in session to sit down and deal with with emergency, you know, unanticipated situations. And so, you know, a lot of people have called this political theater. I don’t. tend to think that that’s exactly what they’re trying to do, is they’re just trying to make a big deal out of this so they can get as much press in their direction as they possibly can. And I fear that they’re probably going to succeed here in Colorado, given, you know, a lot of the realities in the, you know, the big newspapers and the TV stations and the other news sources.
SPEAKER 25 :
What about Tabor? We’ve got about two and a half minutes. My concern is Tabor, Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights is going to be in the crosshairs.
SPEAKER 11 :
Absolutely. I mean, it’s been in the crosshairs for a long time, but they’ll seize on this as being an opportunity to say, oh, you know, our hands are tied. We can’t do the right things. Well, what they think is the right things is to simply raise your taxes. Now, they’re going to do it anyway. Because what they’re going to do is they’re going to raise fees wherever they possibly can. They’re going to undercut some of the income tax changes that have been made so as to to boost up state income tax and. All of this is to get around Tabor. I’ll leave this one final footnote. One story I’m working on for my newsletter to come out later this week on Saturday is a story of how the fees have dramatically increased over the last 20 years here in Colorado. And it’s because they work around Tabor. And as I recall, I’ve got to go look at it again. It’s like The average citizen was spending about $100 a year on fees 20 years ago here for the state of Colorado, and now it’s well beyond $1,000. Wow. And why? Well, because this is how they fortify the budget despite TABR. So they’ll continue to do that, and yes, they’ll do everything they can to aim at TABR.
SPEAKER 25 :
Well, I think it’s important for young people to understand this, and we’ve got to work to get that narrative out. So a young couple, if $1,000 in fees, that’s $2,000 a year, that’s real money to a household. And I think it’s great that you’re going to be highlighting that. Kevin, we are just about out of time. How would you like to wrap this up?
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, stay tuned. This is a very interesting week. And and hang on to your pocketbook because the legislature is back in town for a few days.
SPEAKER 25 :
Well, and most definitely. And I did want to quickly give a shout out to our Colorado Union of Taxpayer Board members. That’s 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. We will be watching this legislation and taking positions on that. We’d love to have you join us. People can do that by going to coloradotaxpayer.org. And again, we’re all volunteers. It’s only $25 a year, $2.08 a month. and you will be informed on what’s happening. As always, Kevin Lundberg, I appreciate all the amazing work that you do and really highly recommend that people check out the Lundberg Report at KevinLundberg.com, which that is published every Saturday. So as always, thank you.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, thank you, and kudos right back at you. I maybe do something once a week. You’re plowing out this every day, so keep it up.
SPEAKER 25 :
Okay, thanks, Kevin Lundberg. We’ll talk in a couple of weeks. And our quote for the end of the show is from the Marquis de Lafayette. He said this, “…true republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescribable rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.” 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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SPEAKER 25 :
A lot of great information. In our number one, we talked with Kevin Lundberg, former state senator. And if you did not catch that, I would suggest that you catch that in the rebroadcast today, one to two in the afternoon. We talked about one of the lawsuits that all of you stepped forward to fund regarding our elections. I think this has put us in a very good position, particularly with the Trump administration, the recent headline that Trump is vowing to eliminate Democrats mail-in ballots and voting machines via executive order and i think the fact that we have these lot two lawsuits in place here in colorado uh because of again all the the great support of all of you thank you so much we are working diligently to reclaim this colorado that we love the state that we love Our word of the day is iconoclast, and it’s spelled I-C-O-N-O-C-L-A-S-T. It could be number one, one who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions. And unfortunately, I think the deep state has become a tradition. Donald Trump is certainly working to overthrow that deep state, which is really, I think, a shadow government that has been controlling our government. And we we also have on the local level, these boards and commissions have a tremendous amount of power. They are appointed typically by electeds, and many times the electeds are influenced by staff, which is not elected. And so in many places we are being governed not by our elected representatives, but by bureaucrats and NGOs and boards and commissions. And Donald Trump? is working as an iconoclast to change that. But number two on that definition could be one who destroys sacred religious images. And number three, a breaker or destroyer of images or idols, a determined enemy of idol worship. And so your challenge is to use the word iconoclast in a sentence today. And I think you’ll get people’s attention if you do that. Next thing, our quote of the day is from Marquis de Lafayette. He was born in 1757. He died in 1834. He and George Washington were very close. In fact, some have said that Washington looked at Lafayette as a son. And Lafayette fought in the Revolutionary War. He volunteered to join the Continental Army and he commanded the Continental Army troops in the decisive siege of Yorktown in 1781. And at the end of the Revolutionary War, he said this, he said, humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country. We have a responsibility to engage in this battle of ideas that is raging right now regarding our American idea. We stand on the shoulders of giants. We have a responsibility. 250 years ago, 1775, a lot was happening. 2025, a lot is happening, and we need to understand what’s going on and be involved in that. Regarding Et Voila French Bakery, As you know, it came to my attention that Jefferson County needs to give them a zoning variance so that they can continue their business. They have two lovely tiny homes that they brought in. They had been given verbal assurances that that was OK. Of course, verbal is verbal. I get that. But anyway. But they thought that they were doing everything necessary to open this fabulous bakery. They put their life savings into it. I went up and met the owners, Rachel and Eric, on Sunday. And it’s a great little business. And the property is zoned commercial. And the fact that they have residential on there, Jefferson County is saying that they need to move these tiny homes. But they arise at 1 o’clock in the mornings to start baking for their 7 o’clock open. Look out Mountain Road. My understanding is that in the winter, it’s not plowed until 7 a.m. And the fact that they’re doing exactly what many of these PBIs say that they want people to do is live near where they work, live in tiny homes. And but because this is own commercial and bear in mind, there’s residential right all around it. So all they need to do is issue a variance. And so people wanted an update. Yesterday was the day that they Jefferson County said that they had to get their tiny homes off of the property. They did not do that yesterday. My understanding is that the only thing that happened with Jefferson County was that one of the inspectors drove by and took some pictures. But I would recommend that you email the Jefferson County commissioners. Their email addresses are in our newsletter that went out on Sunday. I did send them an email. And then go to change.org and put in French Bakery and sign the petition there as well. And since we started to shed light on this, many of you have signed the petition. And just since Friday, over 400 new signatures have been gathered on that petition. So that is something that is very easy for you to do. And that’s change.org, French Bakery. And we’d love to hear what John Bozen with Bozen Law thinks about all of this news out there. John Bozen, welcome.
SPEAKER 12 :
Good morning, Kim. Well, you touched on something very important in my line of work, and that is get it in writing. You used to be able to count on somebody’s word and just a handshake, but now… You know, you get that in writing, and then you’ve got something you can trust and hold on to a little bit more. I had not heard that story until just now. So I hope common sense prevails and Jefferson County gives that variance that somebody needs to just think that one through just a little bit more. I’ll be anxious to hear the next update.
SPEAKER 25 :
Yeah, I’ll let you know. It is super interesting, and, yes, all they have to do is issue a variance, and variances get issued quite often. So this is not hard to do, and I highly recommend that they do that. But over in your arena, John Bozen and Bozen Law, one of the areas that you work in is workers’ compensation. And what should people know about that?
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Well, a lot of folks don’t initially understand that if they get injured while working within the course and scope of their employment, the law that governs that situation is the Workers’ Compensation Act. And one of the first and most important things someone can do is make sure to report it in writing to a supervisor, a boss, HR, somebody, because one of the most common challenges to a work-related injury claim by an insurance carrier is that it didn’t happen on the job because some people wait. They’ll wait a week. They’ll wait a day, sometimes just hoping that that pulled, that injured feeling in the back goes away. It doesn’t. They wait to report it, and then they’ve got a problem. So reporting as soon as possible in writing to a supervisor at work that an accident occurred, that an injury occurred, is critical in the workers’ compensation world.
SPEAKER 25 :
So, John Bozen, if somebody’s been injured, let’s say that they report it to their boss verbally, then the easy thing to do would just be to go sit down at your computer and write an email and say, Dear Boss, I just wanted to put this into writing our conversation that we had. That would be a really good idea, right?
SPEAKER 12 :
That would be an excellent idea. Emails are great, and that’s what I recommend folks do. If they don’t have access to an email, a text message is a close substitute, but an email is a little bit better. So, yeah, absolutely. Confirm the conversation. Hey, this is just to confirm the conversation we had earlier this morning. I injured my back when I bent over to pick up a heavy box, and just in writing. For anything legal.
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Well, and once that occurs, then the next step is to contact Bozen Law, right?
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SPEAKER 14 :
Hey, Kim. Awesome being back. It’s been too long.
SPEAKER 25 :
It has been too long, but you’ve been busy. You’ve been making documentaries, hosting Crossroads. Do give us a little information about these documentaries that you have been working on over the last few years. Sure.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, man. So I was in Korea for quite a while investigating Chinese influence. And I think we all saw what happened there. There was, I don’t know, call it what you will. The left wing basically pushed out and is now criminally investigating the entire conservative party for the most part, because the former president, the conservative, actually locked down the government, called in martial law because of Chinese infiltration of their government. And I can tell you when I was there, I was warning. I said that the infiltration of China into South Korea was so bad that they risked losing their sovereignty. I said they were an inch away from losing their sovereignty. I’m also starting up a second show now focused on investigative reporting and features. The first episode of that comes out this Friday. And the first one is going to be about the artificial food coloring program. Why is it banned in Europe or restricted in Europe? But we still have it on our store shelves. So I look into that whole question.
SPEAKER 25 :
And what’s the name of that new show?
SPEAKER 14 :
It doesn’t have a name yet. It’s going to be airing on the normal Crossroads show, at least for the next good while. Eventually, it’ll probably be called the Joshua Phillips shows in addition to Crossroads.
SPEAKER 25 :
I love that. That’s awesome, Josh. Again, you’re doing such great work. I wanted to begin with this Crossroads that was published on August 11th regarding the planned census recount could remake America. Trump seems to have an understanding of there’s a lot of different inflection points that have affected our elections. And the census is one of them. And I think many of us hadn’t even connected that dot.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, you know, Republicans were talking about it. If you remember when Biden was president, they were redoing the census. There was a big question. In fact, some more conservative law firms were even trying to challenge it. Should they count illegal immigrants on the census? And, you know, everyone can kind of argue on, OK, does illegal immigration impact America’s elections? The common answer from the left has been no, because when they look at the actual number of at least discovered illegal immigrants who voted, they say, yeah, it’s there, but it’s not enough to change the outcome of an election. The reality is we don’t fully know because most election fraud cases were never fully investigated. They got thrown out before they were even really heard by the courts. But I think what nobody can argue with is the other side of it, which is the censuses. If illegal immigrants are in the country, 10 million, 20 million, 30 million, I think a low, very low-end estimate is 20 million. High-end is maybe 30, 40 million. Maybe even beyond that, we don’t really know because of the census, by the way. But what happens with the census is it determines not only how much federal money a state gets. So if a state can be incentivized to bring in illegal immigrants. Because they get more federal money. The schools get more money. The government gets more money. They can run all kinds of crazy programs. But they also get more representation in the House of Representatives. And there are some estimates coming out now that if Trump were to redo the census without counting illegal immigrants, they’re saying Democrats can lose anywhere. They’re saying from on the very low end, 10 House seats, high end, 40 House seats.
SPEAKER 25 :
Well, this really dilutes the vote then and representation of the citizens of America, right?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, and that raises up a real question over the other problem that’s not often discussed about illegal immigration. America is a republic. I know you talk about it quite a bit. A republic is what’s called representative democracy. In other words, we elect representatives to represent us in the democratic process. If you change the people they’re representing, you change the government. So if you have a district where a member of the House represents is, you know, in a district, not just the voters, but just the population, because, again, count it on the census, and they’re like, I don’t know, 10%, 20%, 30% illegal immigrants, which, you know, you go into Queens, you find that’s probably close to that in some areas, that those are the people they’re representing. And that will change what’s demanded of them. When those people have children, those kids will be citizens. They’ll be voting. They’ll be voting in the interest of their parents oftentimes. This is how you change a country, because you can change a country, I mean, in many ways, but one of the ways is you change the issues that are represented in government.
SPEAKER 25 :
Well, and I say when you change the issues, you ultimately are changing the principles and the foundation, correct? Yes.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, yeah, because I think when you and I go and vote at the polls, we’re thinking, okay, what’s best for me? And what’s best for me? Well, I like my freedom. I like the government to stay out of my business as much as possible. I mean, I want them to protect me if my house gets broken into or if my car gets stolen or if someone’s threatening to hurt me or my family. I want that. If there’s a fire, I want the fire department to come put it out. I want my government to handle foreign diplomacy and military. But for the most part, I don’t want them involved in my life. You know what I mean? Because for me, independence is what matters most. And I think self-governance and independence are what define the American character. It’s who we are as a people. You don’t have a lot of people in the world who think like that. A lot of countries come from, they’re very collectivist cultures, especially if you go to Asian countries. Even historically, they’re very collectivist. You go into, you know, some countries, they depend on the government. Even Western Europe is like this. Because remember, a lot of these countries, they went directly from monarchy right into, some of them socialism, but right into, for the most part, democracy. And so they never really had periods of self-governance. They never really developed cultures around the idea of independence. And at the very least, because a lot of them were at least historically densely populated, they don’t really have the kind of frontier culture that Americans do. The American character is very unique. And It’s very easily lost, I think, because the American character of independence also depends on the right to independence. Once you change that through over-regulation, through encroaching laws, through, you know, you can’t say this and you can’t walk here and you can’t do this, it doesn’t take long before you lose it. Right. You know, my big concern with a lot of them, you know, I mean, honestly, we can look at the migrant crisis and the kind of things they were demanding. They wanted free housing and free food and government handouts. I mean, I talked to a lot of them personally, and that’s what they were saying. They weren’t coming here to work for the most part, at least not the recent ones. The older ones were different. You know, they wanted handouts. They wanted the system to take care of them. If you create that kind of demand online, with any representative democracy. That’s what the policies are going to represent.
SPEAKER 25 :
Well, and the important thing for people to understand as they’re looking at all this free stuff for people that have come here illegally is government cannot give to someone something for free that they have not first taken from someone else. And that is antithetical to our American character, Josh Phillip.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, absolutely. But again, I think whether it’s somebody coming from a socialist country, where that’s become the expectation, or whether it’s somebody who came from a country that went straight from… I mean, Russia is probably a bad example, because I know a lot of the Russians who came here escaped communism and rejected communism. But you talk to people who came from countries that went directly from, like, czardom or, you know, a king or something like that. Their relationship with government is a lot different than our relationship with government. Their relationship with government is everything you have is given to you by the government. You know, even leading up to the, you know, look at Mexico, the Mexican Revolution. Before the Mexican Revolution, they were living under slavery. like the Spaniard kind of like almost medieval system, where you had the lords effectively running the farms, and everybody was assigned to the farms. It was like a serfdom. Many countries have not lost that culture. They kept that culture. And so they view government the same way that a serf would view the lord. you know, I mean, not the God, but like Lord of the land, you know, then at the very counter to Americans were like, you know, you got your gun and you got your Bible and, you know, you’re defending your own land by yourself. And maybe, maybe getting along with your neighbors to help defend it. Like the American idea is this is my job. This is my, this is my territory. This is my little, my little castle, you know? And, um, And again, because of that, our relationship with government reflects that inner nature. My big concern with the United States is you look at college kids these days and younger people coming out of the system. I don’t know if they think that way as much as they used to. Because when I was a kid, probably when you were a kid too, cowboys were still big. Davy Crockett was still big. We still have that frontier mentality, that real harsh, independent, and kind of love of difficulty, that love of ruggedness that I think used to define the American culture. And you really just don’t have that in a lot of the world. And so I do hope that… the culture and the people of a country just by flooding them with a new culture, which is what I think we’ve been going through.
SPEAKER 25 :
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SPEAKER 25 :
And welcome back. And I wanted to invite you to join us this Saturday out at the USMC Memorial for their 48th anniversary celebration. Dave Bray, USA. Dave was on in the first hour. We’ll be performing. It’s going to be a great event. You can buy your tickets by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. I am talking with Josh Phillip. He is a senior investigative journalist with the Epoch Times, as well as the host of Crossroads. And Josh, again, it’s great to have you on and you’re doing great work. You published this yesterday regarding Trump and how he plans to reform America’s elections. And this is a big deal. So what should people know about this?
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, man, Trump is about to blow up the entire election system, basically in favor of conservatives, I might add. So Trump came out and he made a statement on Truth Social. And what he said was that he’s going to sign an executive order. He detailed it a bit more during his meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine yesterday, when he was getting questions from the audience. What Trump is going to do, because he says his lawyers are already working on it as we speak, he’s going to get rid of mail-in ballots. And he’s going to go pure paper ballot, no more voting machines, no more electronic voting systems. And, you know, part of that goes on what, after he met with Vladimir Putin, again, you know, head of Russia, Putin actually came out and told him, at least according to what we were told on that meeting, that mail-in ballots were used to rig the elections. And, you know, believe it if people can believe what they want in terms of that, because I know that the court cases were never really heard back in 2016. I’m sorry, in 2020. But that’s what Trump was told. And that’s what Trump has stood by since 2020. He’s saying, basically, there are too many problems that come up with the voting machines. He says that, you know, they don’t count, you know, on the light end of the arguments. He was saying, you know, you don’t get your results right away. It takes a couple days. Whereas if you do paper ballots, same day, same night, election day, you know who won. You don’t have mail-in ballots arriving in the trunks of cars at midnight or maybe a week from the date. You don’t have that kind of problem. He wants to have Election day is election day. By the end of the day, you know who the next president is or who your next representative is. That’s what he wants. And again, he’s moving on it as we speak.
SPEAKER 25 :
Well, I like that idea as well. Now, you made the comment that this would be in favor of conservatives. what I want is free, fair, honest, and transparent elections. So if a free, fair, honest, and transparent election then makes it in favor of conservatives, so be it. But what he’s describing to me seems like moving towards free, fair, honest, and transparent elections. And I think the big, broad middle of America, moderate Democrats all the way to conservatives, libertarians, unaffiliateds, Republicans in between, I think that’s what most Americans want. What do you think?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I should probably I should probably restate that this is more in line with what Republicans have been asking for. So it’s what I should say. And, you know, again, it goes back to do we believe the elections are 100 percent secure, that we’ve had the most secure elections in American history ever? Or do we believe that universal mail-in ballots and ballot drop boxes and legalized bundling and all these things have created, at the very least, loopholes that can be manipulated? What Trump has very accurately said is that we actually have some of the most loose, open, and unsecure election systems that most countries—I don’t know about any country, but most countries in the world— I’d say that even Afghanistan has more solid elections than we do, because they have actual ID and stuff. We’re one of the only countries that just lets anybody go in, claim whoever they want to say they are, and vote. During the 2020 elections, I remember at my apartment, I got, I think it was two or three mail-in ballots from names I didn’t know who they were, and I assumed they were former residents. because states don’t purge their voting rolls. When they did the universal mail-in ballots, all they did was they sent a ballot to every person who was on the voting roll. And if you have people who moved, you have people who died, and then anybody’s allowed to fill it in and drop it off at an anonymous drop box, yeah, that opens some doors for fraud. So I don’t know how anybody could argue that. that that was secure. Anybody could have filled out those ballots and dropped them off, and nobody would ever have found out. And is that secure? Is that how we want to have our elections run? And then, of course, you have the other problems where you do find what happened in 2020. They froze the elections, got a problem in Georgia, delayed it. Then suddenly a bunch of other local counties froze their elections. We didn’t get results for weeks. You know, people were pulling out bins of ballots and nobody knew whether they were valid or not. You had people, you know, using them. I don’t know why they did this. I don’t know if there was ever a good argument for it. But when you’re supposed to be able to watch the counting of the ballots, there were people like putting up boards to block the windows so you couldn’t watch them count the ballots. What kind of what kind of what would even justify that? You know, let’s not even make the conclusions. What would even justify? blocking people from watching you count the ballots. What logic would justify that? And so obviously, I think people believe what you want, you know, not you, but just everybody believe what you want in terms of whether it was rigged or secure. But I do think that very rightly caused people to doubt. And everything aside, everything aside, Faith in the election system is the backbone of the kind of system we have. If people lose faith, their vote’s going to be counted. If they lose faith that things actually matter, if they lose faith that the person who won the election is the person in charge, people are going to lose faith in the entire system. And I think, honestly, people have lost a lot of that faith already, especially because of COVID and so on. I think that restoring faith in the system, restoring faith in the integrity of government, restoring faith in the election process, if that means, you know, getting rid of the machines or if that means going to pure, you know, getting rid of mail-in ballots and finding other ways, then so be it. You know, maybe it’ll make things a little less convenient, but I do think the benefit will far outweigh the loss.
SPEAKER 25 :
Well, and I think the question is, we have a couple of minutes left, Josh Philip, is can he do this? Because states are really supposed to be in charge of elections. However, we’ve got a couple of lawsuits that our listeners raised money for. And one of them is that Colorado is not meeting the minimum standards as set forth by Congress. for our election. So Congress says, you certainly have, you can do a lot, but you’ve got to hit these minimum standards. And it does not look like we’re doing this. So can Trump, by executive order, come in and say, hey, Colorado, you can’t do these mail-in ballots. And another thing, mailing all these mail-in ballots out is a tremendous expense to the people of Colorado. So can he do this? I guess that’s the next question.
SPEAKER 14 :
He’s going to be challenged without a doubt. There is the argument on who actually is in charge of election laws. The old argument used to be the state legislature. That was overturned in court cases after the 2020 elections, where it was determined it was more like the governor and so on. There’s more of a say in it. But I would argue that the Biden administration kind of set the grounds for They kind of set the grounds for a changed election system. Because of things like universal… Although it was technically Trump, too, when he was in office. Things like universal mail-in ballots and ballot drop boxes. It did determine that the federal government has more authority over some of the baseline rules for the elections. We will see Trump will, without a doubt, be heavily challenged on it. But… I’d say his lawyers are working on it. I wouldn’t say absolutely he’s going to be able to do it because it’s going to be a vicious battle. This combined with the redo of the census and combined with redistricting, it’s going to be a vicious battle leading into the midterms. But I personally believe that it’s more leaning in Trump’s favor just because of the way that the laws have been interpreted going back to the 2020 elections.
SPEAKER 25 :
Oh, my gosh. This is absolutely fascinating. Josh Phillip, it’s been great visiting with you. As always, you’re doing such great work as the host of Crossroads at the Epoch Times, as well as a senior investigative journalist. Your final thought for our listeners?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, well, get ready for it. Midterms are coming up, and it’s going to be a wild ride, but… The way it’s lining up, it does look like conservatives are really solidifying the system around them and getting rid of a lot of the issues that have caused imbalances in the past. I think this could actually change the dichotomy of our government. I think we’re moving towards a more overall right-leaning or centrist form of government.
SPEAKER 25 :
And when we say conservative, I like to explain that that word is those that want to preserve and conserve the American idea. Josh Phillip, as always, keep up the great work. We’ll talk again, hopefully very soon.
SPEAKER 14 :
Great. Thank you, Kim. Pleasure.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our Web site. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. I’m pleased to have on the line with me Colorado Representative Scott Bottoms and wanted to get him on because Governor Polis has called for this special legislative session that will begin on Thursday. And Representative Bottoms, as I said, Many of you know I’m the president of this all-volunteer group, the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, also known as CUT. And I do want to say thank you to Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Rami Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onozori, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. These are my other board members or my fellow board members, and we are geared up to watch this legislation that’s going to be proposed. But, Scott Bottoms, we are working on our ratings report, which is very in-depth. And of all the legislators in Colorado in 2025, you received the highest marks in protecting the – Property Rights, Protecting Tabor, Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights, and School Choice. And you came in at 91 out of 100, which is a big deal. I wanted to say congratulations.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thank you for having me on, Tiff.
SPEAKER 25 :
And this is a big deal that you came in at that at that particular level. Representative Bottoms, what does your ear to the ground tell you about this upcoming legislative session? What should people be anticipating?
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, the beginning of this is the Democrats control the House and the Senate and the governor signs bills in. The Republicans are not the ones that are responsible for getting us where we’ve got to. And this is not President Trump’s fault. This is the Democrats in the House and the Senate. They have voted in unconstitutional laws. They voted in laws that go against our economy, go against the average person’s checkbook. And so… This is what they’re trying to bail themselves out of by trying to blame it on Trump. This was a problem before the big, beautiful bill. But this was the reason that Governor Polis said he’s calling us into session is to fix all the problems with the big, beautiful bill, which basically help the taxpayer, help everybody. But they’ve got us into this mess. And so that’s where we are.
SPEAKER 25 :
And so the session will begin on Thursday. Do you think that it’ll be just three days? It has to be a minimum of three days because, what, a bill has to be introduced, then heard second reading, and then third reading. Is that correct?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yes, that is. I just found out last night that it looks like it’s going to be at least five days, but they’re not letting us know anything like, what bills will be going into what committees or any of those kind of things. It’s just the games that they constantly play to try to control us and to keep us out of the know of everything. And so the only thing that we do know now is that it’s going to be probably five days.
SPEAKER 25 :
Do you have a bill that you’re going to propose?
SPEAKER 10 :
I am not. I’m already in discussion with two other representatives about being on a bill with them, but I’m not proposing a bill. My goal is to go in there and to shut everything down that they’re doing. Now, I don’t have the votes to do that, but I can work against what they’re trying to accomplish, which, by the way, is Governor Polis is going to try to get our legislature to raise taxes to cover all of his pet projects. People forget things like last year we voted in a bill. I mean, I debated against it and voted against it, but it gave $500 million to illegal immigrant transgender surgeries. This is the kind of stupidity that we’re trying to fight against, and now they’re going to try to raise taxes, which they can’t really do without the people’s vote, but they always get around it. This is TABOR, Taxpayer Bill of Rights. They get around it by saying, Voting in all these special districts, fines, fees, all these different kind of things. And that’s what they’re going to do. That is the only thing. I’ve been in the House three years now. This is their only plan of action is to continue to hurt the people of Colorado.
SPEAKER 25 :
Well, and Kevin Lundberg in the first hour said that he had taken a bit of a deep dive into the amount of fees that Coloradans are now paying. And he said it’s and again, the fees, they just use the word fee instead of tax to get around Colorado’s taxpayers bill of rights is probably a thousand dollars. per individual here in Colorado. Well, that’s big money for a family. A couple, that’s $2,000. That makes a big difference. But that money is going to government and being taken from us.
SPEAKER 10 :
And you have to remember what he was talking about is actually the fees and those kinds of things. This is not just the taxes. We’re already being taxed at so many different levels that people in Colorado just kind of take for granted, well, this is the way that it is. Well, it doesn’t have to be. There are many states across the United States that don’t tax you like crazy, and then on top of it put all this extra stuff. And so we’re in a horribly bad place right now in the state of Colorado. We’re the sixth most regulated state in the state, and the Federal Reserve came out with some stuff this last spring in March that said that per capita, Colorado is the most expensive place to live. That makes no sense why a Midwestern state like Colorado should be that horrible when it comes to our finances.
SPEAKER 25 :
Well, and it’s all because of public policy. People need to understand that. For example, just energy costs, the power to turn your lights on, the reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant power source, such as natural gas, coal, and oil, has been under regulatory and legislative attack here in Colorado. Well, that just increases the price. So people need to connect this dot to what you just described, and that is it’s because of public policy. that we are hurting from an economic standpoint as individuals. So you’re gearing up for this special legislative session, but you’ve also decided to throw your hat in the ring to run for governor. So tell us just a little bit about that, Scott Bottoms.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, thank you for that. I am very excited about this. We have been traveling all over the state, talking with so many different people, And I’ll give you a little insight here that has been amazing, and it was a little surprising, but people all over the state are saying we’re done with what is going on in our Capitol. We are done with this. Now, I’m a Republican. You would assume I’m talking about Republicans, but I’m also talking about Democrats. We are having Democrats all over the state that are saying to us, We are done with this. We are ready to put somebody like me into the governor’s seat. We’re even having Democrat leadership, Democrat donors, Democrat lobbyists that are letting us know that they know, the Democrats know they’ve gone too far and that we’re going to see a lot of change in 26. And some of them, I even had a Democrat lobbyist say that they know, the Democrats know, They’re going to lose all four state seats in 26. That’s governor, secretary of state, attorney general and treasurer. Well, I’m pretty excited about this. I believe I’m going to be the next governor of Colorado and we’re going to fix this mess. We’re going to stop the policies that are destroying our state and coming after parents and kids and everything else. And so I’m pretty excited about it. It has been very educational and, Just very empowering to hear all of the stories across the state.
SPEAKER 25 :
That is refreshing, and I congratulate you, and thank you for putting your hat in the ring. I want to go back. We have just about a minute left for clarification. Did you say that this legislature approved $500 million for transgender surgeries, or did you say $500,000? I thought you said $500 million, but that can’t be right.
SPEAKER 10 :
$500 million, it’s bill 1309 from last spring, that is for illegal immigrants, not immigration, but illegal immigrants. And it props up a lot of things that make it possible for the cartel, the Venezuelan cartel in Aurora, to be safe and secure, protected by our governor, protected by our attorney general, $500 million, but specifically to illegal immigrant transgender surgeries.
SPEAKER 25 :
Goodness.
SPEAKER 10 :
The actual cosmetic surgeries are written in the bill.
SPEAKER 25 :
And what’s that bill number again?
SPEAKER 1 :
1309.
SPEAKER 25 :
And that’s Senate Bill 25, right? Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 25 :
House bill. House bill. Okay. Scott Bottoms, what is your website if people want more information about you?
SPEAKER 10 :
scottbottoms.com.
SPEAKER 25 :
Okay. Scott, thanks so much, and good luck, and we will stay in touch.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yes, thank you.
SPEAKER 25 :
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