In an engaging episode, Kim Monson brings light to the looming legislative special session in Colorado and its impact on taxpayers. With expert insights and a focus on freedom versus force, Kim explores the complex issues of government spending and taxation. She also shares how local policies can erode property rights and the importance of vigilance in preserving freedoms. Listen in as Kim discusses with guests about the effects of legislation on individual rights and community dynamics.
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It’s the Kim Monson Show, analyzing the most important stories.
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I find that it takes work to get your brain around these ideas, and it takes work to engage in these conversations.
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The latest in politics and world affairs.
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With what is happening down at the Statehouse, I used to think that it was above my pay grade to read the legislation, and it’s not.
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Today’s current opinions and ideas.
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I see big danger in as much as we will be giving an unelected bureaucrat the power to make rules about what we inject into our bodies.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let’s have a conversation.
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Indeed, let’s have a conversation, and welcome to the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You each are treasured, you’re valued, you have purpose. Today’s drive for excellence, take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body, my friends. We were made for this moment in history. And thank you to the team that I get to work with. That’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Thursday, Producer Joe. Happy Thursday, Kim. And we’ve got a jam-packed show planned for you today, so fasten your seat belt and we’re going to get into it here. Remember, we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And ultimately, socialism comes down to force. Socialism is a bad idea. It’s not about free stuff. The free stuff is just to get you to vote for it. But as Maggie Thatcher said, the problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people’s money. And so then that’s what happens as it steps into force. And my friends, remember, it’s never compassionate nor altruistic to take other people’s stuff, whether or not it’s their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunity, childhoods, or lives via force. And force can obviously be a weapon, but we see it through policy and unpredictable and excessive taxation. fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, the agenda of the World Economic Forum and the globalist elites that plays out through the United Nations, the Colorado State Legislature, this Colorado governor. But also we see it big time now at the local level. When Mike Rolick was on yesterday and he said there’s 67 amendments to the Land Development Code in ARVADA that are being proposed. I will guarantee that those are probably not moving towards freedom for the individual. So it’s important we see this playing out at the local level. And it can be land use codes and zoning regulations, If you own your land, but you can’t do with your land what you want or your property, if you own your property, you can’t do with your property what you want, then you don’t really own your property. And property certainly can be tangible stuff that you can touch, but it can also be your mind and what you can create with your mind and all those things. And that’s your intangible property. And we need to make sure that we protect property. those property rights and remember if something is a good idea you should not have to use force to implement it on the show we focus on the issues uh not the personalities we’ll mention the people that are pushing issues but um we want to stay focused on that that’s one of the things that happens is we can get off our eye off the ball And we have to stay disciplined. And, of course, we have to work on the messaging on how we talk with people about things. But we need to stay focused on the issues. Today, the special session of the Colorado State Legislature convenes. Colorado is short quite a bit of money because we’ve been relying on, well, through… the inflation reduction act which was really it inflated the money supply which created inflation and so it was the opposite that’s the thing it’s the opposite of what what they say inflation reduction act actually created inflation the affordable care act actually created an affordable health care so you have to be careful what they say and what what really will happen But with that inflated dollars, printed money, a bunch of that money went to the states. Colorado got a bunch of that money, one-time payments for Medicaid and other things. But Medicaid’s the big problem. Of course, then you had Colorado. And Governor Polis and Mayor Mike Johnston of Denver giving out all kinds of money to illegals. And then what happens is Denver’s in a budget crunch. Colorado’s in a budget crunch. We’ve got to figure out what to do about it. Well, reducing spending would be really important. But I think that, first of all, they’re going to I see headlines that we’re not going to get our Colorado taxpayers bill of rights. That’s that would be our Tabor refunds. And our Tabor refunds are due to us if government collected more money above this generous formula of inflation. plus population growth. But that probably, we will not be receiving that excess money that they collected from us back. They want to keep that. And so it’s going to be interesting. So with that, the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, which is an all-volunteer group, we are going to be watching this legislation. So the team is ready to roll up their sleeves and watch this legislation each day. And we will be… Sending out an email to all the legislators, to the governor. And if you’d like to be on that list as well, join us. It’s $25. You can go to coloradotaxpayer.org. What we focus on is how things affect the taxpayers. That’s all of us. We focus on property rights. We focus on school choice. and Tabor, protecting our Colorado Taxpayers Bill of Rights. So join us. We also invested and created something called Cut Engaged, where you very quickly will be able to, we’ll select some different bills that you can make your voices heard. And you can do it within three to five minutes max. And so stay tuned on that. We’ll let you know all about that as well. All of the things that happen with our show and all of our projects is because of all of your support and our sponsors. And I want to say thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show because it’s reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant power from natural hydrocarbons such as oil, natural gas, and coal. that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate, to be warm in the winter and cool in the summer. And all of that is under attack at this particular point in time. Our word of the day is, let me get over here to it, is insolent. And it is spelled I-N-S-O-L-E-N-T. It’s an adjective. It could be audaciously rude or disrespectful, impertinent or insolent. we’ll just say impertinent, presumptuous and insulting in manner or speech, arrogant, or deviating from that which is customary, novel, strange, or unusual. And I’ve actually seen some of these legislators, when people have gone down to testify at the Capitol, be insolent to the people, we the people. And it should not be difficult for you to use that word in a sentence today. Again, that’s I-N-S-O-L-E-N-T. And then for our quote of the day, I went to Aristotle since the legislature is convening this special session. And he was an ancient Greek philosopher. and polymath. And his writings covered a broad range of subjects, spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. And he was born in 384 BC, died in 322 BC. He said, law is order. And good law is good order. And I’ve got to think that the founders thought about that when they were creating the Constitution. And so when we have our legislators that are convened in session, words are so important. And I really encourage you to refer to our electeds as elected representatives, not elected officials. We don’t want to give them the idea that they are supposed to be lauding power over us. They are elected representatives. And our legislators, our representatives, I do not like to refer to them as lawmakers either because then I think they get the wrong idea that they think they’re down there to create laws. They’re there to really protect our individual rights. and somehow they think more and more laws are what they’re supposed to be doing. So stay tuned for this legislative session, and again, join the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, and you will stay informed. We’ve got quite a group of people, and I should say thank you to them. Let me give you their names quick-like. I want to make sure I don’t miss anybody. And 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. When you see these folks, say thank you. They are doing an amazing service to the people of Colorado. As you all know, we are focusing on helping to keep the Et Voila French Bakery open, which is on Lookout Mountain Road. Apparently, the attorneys of Jefferson County went to meet with The little French bakery attorneys, imagine they have to get that, get attorneys. But one of the things you can do is go over to change.org and sign the petition to save at Voila French Bakery. And they’re almost at 2,300 people signing up. And so they’re making great progress. And more and more people are paying attention. And we have these important discussions because we have great sponsors. And I have one of those great sponsors on the line right now. And that is Karen Gorday with Radiant Paint and Lighting. Karen, welcome. Good morning, Kim. Thank you. Well, I was just thinking about you. We are just about to September, which means Christmas is right around the corner. And you will be helping people with the lighting portion of your business for Christmas lights. So if people are interested in that, they need to be thinking about it. But I also wanted to ask you about Christmas. People doing painting themselves. I think many times people bite off a lot more than they realize because painting, even painting walls or a house, I think is an art. So what’s your comments to people that say, I’m going to do it myself?
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um so the comments would be you know hats off if they want to try it and there’s a lot of people that do try it but to your point they often bite off more than they can chew because they don’t realize how involved it is so you think even you know painting just the walls in your inside your house You know, you’ve got to do some level of prep, which means moving furniture away from the walls and then tape. If you’re not painting your baseboards, you know, taping off your baseboards, taping off your ceilings. And I can’t tell you the number of houses I’ve walked in that said, well, I tried to paint, but now I’ve got roller marks on the ceiling and there’s paint all over my baseboards and not realizing how involved it is. Or they started painting and let’s say they chose like a bright green or a bright red and they don’t realize that you need to prime those walls first or you’re going to end up having to do four coats of paint for certain colors if you don’t prime. And then not to mention the ladders and everything you need. And that goes to, you know, even on exteriors, people will try and then realize, oh, I need a 25 foot ladder. And oh, now my all my muscles hurt because I’m climbing up and down ladders and using my arms like I don’t normally do that. And so sometimes it’s best just to call a professional where we do this all day, every day.
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And you have all the tools. Yes, it makes a lot of sense. And you know what you’re doing. That’s always a great idea as well. So now that we are getting into autumn, are you still doing exterior paints? That’s probably seasonal. Tell us just a little bit about that.
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Yes, we are still doing exteriors. We’ll be doing exteriors soon. probably till the end of October, maybe November. It really depends on the weather because we cannot paint once it gets down to 35 degrees or below. It has to be above 35 degrees the day we paint and for a full 48 hours after. So once we get into late October, we’ll be watching that weather very carefully. And, you know, it’s Colorado, so we may end up calling it on exteriors in late October, and you won’t get your exterior painted again until spring. So time is running out, but there is still some availability on the schedule. Just give us a call.
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Okay, and speaking of November, you’ve got a lot going on between now and November. So how is your campaign going for Lakewood City Council?
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um so actually that’s perfect timing um my campaign kickoff is tonight from 5 30 to 7 30 at tj’s sports bar and grill in lakewood um so it is it is officially campaign season and um yes there’s a lot going on you know we have the the zoning thing that’s going on in lakewood so I spent yesterday afternoon preparing my public comments for Monday night. So there’s a lot going on election-wise, business-wise, and zoning-wise in Lakewood right now.
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Okay. Well, Karen, thank you for stepping forward to be a citizen representative. I appreciate that. Getting back to entrepreneur and owner of Radiant Painting and Lighting, what is the best way for people to reach you? I’d recommend people check out your website. It is beautiful, the work that you’re doing.
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Well, thank you. It’s www.paintwithradiant.com, or you can give us a call at 720-940-3887.
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And again, that website is paintwithradiant.com. Karen, good luck on all that you’re doing right now. We’ll talk next week, and thank you. I really appreciate it.
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Absolutely. Thank you, Kim. Have a great day.
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Good morning. It’s special session day. Oh, yay. I have a word. I can use your word of the day.
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OK, give it give it to me.
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It is insolent to have a special session when most of Colorado’s citizens are busy with the start of school.
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I think that’s true. And that’s probably by design. I’m getting so cynical in my old age here, Mary Jansen. Well, I think it’s partly because we watched all that legislation. What was it? Let me just, I got Bill Track 56. Up here, this is the program that we use at Colorado Union of Taxpayers. 733 bills or resolutions were proposed in the regular session. And hats off to our team. We took positions on 261 of those bills. And then we put out a weekly email newsletter. You can find all of that online. And not newsletter, an email went out to the legislators and the governor and everybody that’s members of CUT. And we’re going to be doing that against this session probably every day. I don’t quite know what it’s going to look like, Mary.
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I have no words. I just see numbers.
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I know. So what do you think? You really… Well, one of the things we focus on at CUT, Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill… Here, I’m getting myself… Colorado Union of Taxpayers is… Taxes, property taxes. In fact, you texted me something yesterday about how property taxes continue to go up and that there was, I think, a storm drainage something or rather that it looked like property taxes were going up. So what’s your thoughts on all that?
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Well, since I was on council, I kind of understood that, oh, they use these storm drainage things that they never fix. to blame things on to raise our taxes. Then when they raise the taxes, people don’t realize that they’re raised and all this money’s coming in and they use it to do other things instead of fix the drainage. Because I think we have a storm drainage thing in Lakewood that I think since I was a little girl, we’ve had problems with this. And nothing ever seems to get fixed. I mean, little bits of it do, but not the whole thing. And sure, it’s going to cost a lot to fix it, but they keep using it as a crutch or something just so they can raise the taxes. And I’m kind of starting to put the pieces together. That’s how they hide it. They hide it from the people. And it takes years, so people forget. And I had a customer that came in, and she started talking about how Trump raised her mortgage. And I went, what? And so I said, I started to educate her on that, about property taxes, TABOR, et cetera. And I told her that she needs to listen to the Kim Monson show. And she said, after I finished telling her how this works and how it’s all included in your mortgage so you don’t get to see, you know, who’s going to go digging to find out what they’re paying in property taxes and to hide that. And that’s what it is. And she said, I had no idea. So… That was one person. Can you imagine how many people don’t realize that?
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Well, and that is the narrative with the Democrats as they are calling for this special session is that Colorado doesn’t have enough money and it’s because of Trump. That is the easy narrative out there. And the real narrative is, is that Colorado does not have a revenue problem. They have a spending problem and a priority problem on where the money goes. It is almost comical to be driving around on some of these highways in Colorado. In fact, when I come out to the cut board meeting, I normally take 470 around. I sometimes think that I’m going to jiggle my teeth out of my head with how bad the roads are.
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Exactly, exactly. And that’s another thing they use so they can raise their taxes.
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Right. Because they say, well, we need to fix our roads. But what they do is actually take money that we think will be going to our roads. And I saw that when I was on city council is gas, gas tax money that would come back that had been. collected that we think is going to go for our roads, a lot of that was being shaved off. This was even in the 2012 to 2016 timeframe. Money was being shaved off to go to transient projects. Because the powers that be wanted to get people out of their cars and onto trains, buses, bicycles, and walking. And what that is all about is it’s taking away our freedom of mobility.
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Yes, yes. And they also used money for a lawsuit against our president, so…
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Oh, right. That’s true. I don’t remember which bill number that was. I don’t know either.
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It was a bad one. I mean, they were all bad.
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It was one of the 261. Actually, there were a few good ones, but they didn’t see the light of day is what happened, is they were killed in committee. Oh, yes.
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We get a little jaded, don’t we?
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Yeah, we do. We do. We do. So, Mary, the team is ready. And I don’t quite know what this is all going to look like. But I talked to Karen, who created BuildTrack50. She lives over in London. She used to live in Colorado. But I said, hey, we’ve got this special session coming up. We need to be ready for that. I’ve got Bill Track 50 ready so that we can see what’s going on. I guess what will probably happen is they’ll convene the session. Then they’ll have to introduce those bills. And once they’re scheduled for hearing, that’s when we will go to work, our whole volunteer group from Colorado Union of Taxpayers. So everybody’s ready.
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We’re ready. I’m ready. I had a really good night’s sleep last night. I was worried about it all week, and I finally said, you know what, I’m not going to worry about it. We’re just going to plow through it. and let everybody know and be the education for people. And we do need to get that. I wish our regular media would also get out there and actually say something, but they don’t.
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Well, and that’s the other thing is we created, and it was really your idea, Cut Engaged. And so we’ve got that up and running. And so tell us just a little bit about Cut Engaged because that was something you said, could we possibly do, and then we did. So tell us about that.
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Well, you know, it’s all about people bringing ideas together. And somebody inspired me. And I said, that’s such a great idea. And so I brought it to cut. And I said, you know, wouldn’t it be great if we could, if people couldn’t get engaged in these bills, you know, like, We send it out there and they say, oh, you know, I’d like to talk about this or send a letter out to my legislator because it’s so hard for people to know what to talk about. So we kind of go through the narrative. We go through the summary. We say what this bill is going to do to you and or us as a state and what it’s going to do to the state. And then they can they can actually reach out to the legislator right from Cut Engaged. and write something or use something that we have in there, cut and paste and put it in there and send it out to our legislator.
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And you can find that at coloradotaxpayer.org, and we would love to have you join us. If you join, as of right now, when we send out this email then that goes to the legislators and the governor, you will receive that as well on this legislation, and so we highly recommend that people join us. Great.
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It’s how we get the needle moved, and we have to move it a long way.
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Well, we do, but our team, and I gave everybody’s names earlier. It’s really an amazing group of people, and it’s all volunteers. We’ve been doing this since 1976, and we’re also working on our ratings report, which is extensive, and that should be coming out within the next few weeks as well, and that is on the regular session. Of course, we’ll make some comments on what’s happening here in the special session as well. So as always, Mary, go ahead.
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Oh, and I’m saying, and we paid to do this for you. So it’d be great for all of us if you’re going to be using it to actually give a donation to CUT because we’re doing this for all of us. This is truly a Colorado gem.
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It really is. And when you say we pay, we pay our $25 to be members of CUT. And then we also give all this volunteer time. But it’s in the spirit of our American founding. And that is to protect the individual and individual rights. So as always, that website is coloradotaxpayer.org. As always, Mary Jansen, thank you. I’m sure we’ll be talking later today.
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Thank you, Kim.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. On the line with me is Lori Gimmelstein and Dante White. Lori is the co-founder of Colorado Parents Advocacy Network, that’s CPAN, and doing amazing work. uh for parental rights protecting our children and she texted me with something that was kind of on my radar but i didn’t quite really understand it and that’s the criminal competency laws here in colorado so lori welcome to the show good morning kim thank you so much for having us today Well, it’s great to have you. And first of all, before we get into this, because we also have on the line with us Dante White, tell us what’s happening at CPAN and then also set this up for us regarding Dante as well.
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Absolutely. So for all your listeners, you’re very familiar with CPAN’s Calls to Action on our website, right on our homepage at coloradoparents.org. And right now we are working with families across the state who have been just egregiously impacted by the recent changes in competency laws that creates a loophole for violent felons to be released under the grounds of incompetency. But the problem is, is that our mental health infrastructure cannot support properly that violent felons that are Civically committed. So if criminal charges are dropped, they go through a process where they’re committed to a mental health hospital. But oftentimes these individuals are being released within 90 days or less and just put back out on the streets. And what we’re seeing is repeats. So these these individuals that have criminal charges drops, then they’re released from the mental health institution and then they are reoffending. And so what we’re trying to do is bring a call to action so that Coloradans across the state can come together. You know, we the people have a voice and we want our legislature engaged. to convene an emergency special session to address these competency laws, either to amend them or repeal them. But there is an emergency situation happening right now. And so Dante White is a father in the Cherry Creek School District. And I’m sure your listeners remember last year there was an attempted abduction at an elementary school in Cherry Creek where a a felon who is a sex offender, registered as a sex offender, attempted to kidnap a little boy. And Dante’s son was a target of this individual. And Dante has been speaking out since this happened and really trying to bring a lot of attention to this. And so we’re wanting to help Dante’s family and all the families that have children in schools and all the families across Colorado. We are not safe right now.
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Okay, well, thank you. And we have Dante on the line. Dante White, tell us what happened, the age of your little guy. This is terrifying for any parent. So what happened?
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Yeah, good morning. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it. So at the time, he was 11, and the perpetrator walked straight on the campus. You know, didn’t run. You know, it wasn’t a surprise. The surveillance videos had been released by the media, right? Yeah. Came up, and he attempted to kidnap my son and a group of his friends that were playing football on the field. He was able to just walk away, and we thought that he was going to be put away. Surveillance was there. There was eyewitnesses, all the things. It was pretty much open and shut, right? And that was last April 2024.
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So did he get your son? Did he take your son? Or it was just attempted?
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Yeah, it was an attempted kidnapping. Luckily, my son’s a competitive baseball player. He’s pretty quick. He was able to get away, but he did get his hands on another student. And just by happenstance, the perpetrator, he tripped at the same time the kid kicked him. And he was able to get free of the grasp.
SPEAKER 05 :
OK, so what happened then? The kids, what, reported it and the perpetrator was caught or what? What happened then?
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Yeah. So, I mean, the story is pretty crazy itself. Right. So, yeah, one of the children screamed stranger danger, which alerted the TAs to what was going on. They didn’t even know that that was happening because they were on their phones. and he just walked away. They didn’t chase after him. They did not lock the school down. They let the third grade class go to recess immediately after that. Cops were not called at that immediate time either. They even released school and kids were walking home while this person was still at large, right? The only reason why the cops got him was he ended up walking to a Walgreens nearby and causing a disturbance there And it’s very likely that there was another elementary school that was on the way to that Walgreens. So it is a possibility that he even passed a secondary school while this happened. It was a huge, crazy misstep, even to begin with, before the authorities got involved.
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So this perpetrator had a prior record?
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Yeah, there were three or four charges before. One of them was an essay as As Lori said, there was also another physical assault. I’ve been in touch with a couple of the former victims of Solomon Galligan. The person who did this. Right. You know, they’ve been coming forward and saying, hey, thanks for speaking up. This person’s dangerous. They’re a habitual offender. Right. And because of the laws on the books. Right. And this is this is far before even the law changed to be even more of a disadvantage for the community. Right. Like they were in that revolving door system.
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Okay, and so with this Lori Gimmelstein, you have talked with Dante White, and you would like to, so this person was out on the streets because they were deemed not competent, and so that’s how they got on the streets, Lori? Yes.
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Yeah, so we know this has been a practice for years where violent felons are being dismissed of all criminal charges in their cases on the grounds of incompetency. And these recent changes to competency laws basically codified that practice. And we’re seeing that. in many areas, especially around parental rights and things of that nature. We’re seeing practices being codified into law, which makes it much more challenging for families like Daunte White’s family or families like Christy Kirk’s family to see justice. And so in Solomon Galligan’s case, just so you know, in 2021, He pummeled a woman coming out of a Denver courthouse, unprovoked, just pummeled her. And bystanders took him down and waited for cops to arrive. They all gave affidavits stating that this individual assaulted this woman unprovoked. The woman did a lineup the next day, identified Solomon Galligan, and all criminal charges were dropped in that case. And that woman sustained serious injuries. She had to have stitches. Basically, the only thing that saved her was that she had glasses on. And but she has sustained permanent injury. And, you know, we see this and this is not just a one off. According to our district attorneys, this is happening every single day. So criminals are being released into the community, for example. In Christy Kurtz’s case, who is the mother down in Monument, who was dragged for 300 feet in the McDonald’s parking lot by Joel Lang. And we’re going to be talking with Christy’s daughters a little bit later in the show. But not only were criminal charges dropped in Joel Lang’s case, even though he confessed, he admitted that he knew what he was doing was wrong. But he also was not civically committed. So just, you know, it’s like a it’s like a catch and release, if you will. I mean, that’s exactly what’s happening.
SPEAKER 05 :
So and so that’s what happened. Well, tell us, Dante, then with the perpetrator that tried to kidnap your son, this perpetrator then was put back out on the streets. Is that right?
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah, so they will be. Right. So here’s how here’s how it works. Right. Like I’ve been working with the district attorneys directly, you know, House of Representatives and senators quickly mobilized after this. Right. Like we all kind of think the system has our back. we think that the laws are in place and everything’s going to be good, but this has been very eyeopening for me. Right. And, uh, you know, being somebody who’s been in business for a very long time and understanding, you know, networking and the roadblocks that can occur, I just got immediately past those. Right. And really understood it. So the way that it works is once the defense goes forward and, you know, has the trial dismissed through mental incompetency, uh, Those charges get dropped from a criminal standpoint. The longest that they can hold that person is 90 days. And it’s a mental evaluation from there. The civil court has to see this person, right? And the max amount of time somebody can be held against their will, quote-unquote, is one year. Now, along the way, there’s 90-day check-ins, right? Evaluations by mental health providers, all this stuff. And they decide whether or not the person is… you know, good to be released and, you know, quote unquote healed, that could look like an outpatient thing, right? Like they could still, they could be on the street still. It doesn’t mean they’re actually in like a mental ward per se. So it’s really, you know, important for the listeners of your show to understand really what this means, right? So could be 90 days, could be as max of a year. They could still be out on the street as an outpatient type of situation. The, you know, the root of the issue, right? of that side of the equation because it’s multifaceted right it’s not always as simple as passing the law that’s what got us in trouble here right path to hell is paved with good intentions uh we need more funding for for mental health facilities we need more funding for the staff on that we need a bridge program from the criminal trials to the civil trials right because they don’t necessarily have to be civilly tried, right? So there needs to be a pathway from dropped criminal charges to civil charges. This is a huge issue, right? And that bill that was passed last summer was passed by both sides, right? It was co-sponsored by both sides. And I think that’s really eye-opening, right? For that people should see that this is systemic. This is not… This is not one group of people. This is the system itself failing us. So I definitely implore people to write their senators, write their House of Representatives, write the governor to hold a special session right there. They are having a special session today. Today is the day to take action because they are all there together today and can begin to socialize this.
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Okay. Okay. Dante White, thank you for sharing your story. We’re going to go to break. Lori’s going to stay on the line. And we’ve got the daughters of a victim that also wanted to tell their story. And so we’ll talk with them when we come back. These are such important things to know. And they happen because we have great sponsors such as Lorne Levy for Everything Mortgages.
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Welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. A couple of things I wanted to mention is this Saturday, you can honor and say thank you to our veterans and our military by attending the 48th anniversary of the Marine Memorial, which is out at 6th and Colfax in Golden. You can buy your tickets and join us by going to… Let’s see, usmcmemorialfoundation.org. That’s usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And then also check out the website for the Center for American Values. That’s americanvaluescenter.org. They’ve got a lot of things that are occurring in September, and they will be doing a special event on September 11th as well. So check that out as well. That’s americanvaluescenter.org. Lori Gimmelstein is on the line with me. She is the co-founder of CPAN, Colorado Parents Advocacy Network. We’ve been talking with Dante White, whose son, there was an attempted abduction. And a pretty scary Lori Gimmelstein, as I had seen the picture of the perpetrator. And pretty scary, I would say, to think that your child is at school and that somebody could come onto the grounds and try to kidnap them. And so that’s why you are springing into action because you are doing great work, you and your team at Colorado Parents Advocacy Network at CPAN, Lori. So you have a call to action with this special session. So tell us a little bit about that.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes. So because these competency laws are creating this loophole where parents criminals are being released every single day we decided to create a petition directly to those on the front line and that’s our 23 district attorneys in the state these are the individuals that have to look victims in the eye and tell them there is nothing they can do and so they’re seeing the impacts of this legislation in the courtroom And so our past experience with our current legislature hasn’t really been great in terms of response. We recently did a petition in opposition of House Bill 25, 13, 12. which created significant First and Fourteenth Amendment rights issues. We were able to collect 35,000 signatures on our petitions, and when we hand-delivered them to the senators, we went into one of the Democrat senators’ office, and when we asked where we could put the petitions from her constituents, we were told by her legislative aide to put them in the recycle bin. So we need to have… Our voice is heard. And so we, the people, are calling to our district attorneys, our ministers of justice, to speak openly and collectively on the dangers posed by these laws and to urge Governor Polis and the legislature to convene an emergency special session today. to repeal or amend these statutes. We must protect the safety of our communities. I will always say that I think everybody can agree that mental health deserves to be treated with compassion, but not at the expense of justice. And we’re already burdening an overly burdened system. We just have too many people that are vulnerable that are already in mental health hospitals to have to have the staff also be dealing with violent criminals. I think that that’s just unfair.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay, so the call to action is to sign this petition and then have this special session address this in the special session as well, correct?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes, the petition is at coloradoparents.org, right on our homepage. We have a big red button. Just click on that, and you can sign the petition today. And then you can also share the petition with your friends and family.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay. Now, we have the two sisters on the line, and I wanted to go to Brittany Visage first. Brittany, set this up for us, and your sister Hannah is on the line as well. So, Brittany, tell us what happened today.
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On November 4th, 2024, myself, my mom, and my two small kids were in a McDonald’s drive-through when we were instructed to pull to the spots at the front of the building to wait for them to bring out our food. So I pulled into the spot that I was instructed to park in and the car next to me received their food and started to back out. And in the process, sideswiped my car. So my mom and I got out to look at the damage and exchange insurance information with the other driver. But instead of stopping or acknowledging us even, he hit the gas and hit my mom and drug her body for 300 feet. And we went through months of grief. court process just for him to be released a completely free man. His driver’s license is intact and he very much knew what he was doing.
SPEAKER 05 :
Did your mom pass on from these injuries? Yeah, she unfortunately died on scene. Oh my gosh. Here you are with your daughter and your grandchildren at McDonald’s and you end up dying. That’s what happened? Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Well, let’s see. Let’s talk with your sister. Now I’m all mixed up here because I just can’t believe this. So we have Hannah and Brittany. Hannah, what’s your thoughts on this?
SPEAKER 12 :
I think it’s terrible that people who commit just acts of violence like this into society with no accountability, it’s really scary because we don’t even know how many times this has already happened. So we don’t know the exact number of dangerous people out on our streets. We just know that there are dangerous people back on the streets.
SPEAKER 05 :
And this just happened this last November, right, Hannah? Yes. My gosh. First of all, I’m so sorry for your loss. But then, Brittany, it’s got to be a double loss when this person then was released back onto the streets. So no justice was really done.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, absolutely. It was very devastating. I remember when he turned himself in on November 6th, and we learned that he was in custody. It was a sigh of relief. And Unfortunately, it was so short-lived because as soon as competency started to be brought into the equation, it was very clear that this was no longer going the way that the victim’s family thought it was going.
SPEAKER 05 :
Wow. This has got to be so hurtful. We’re just about out of time. So Hannah Kearse and Brittany Fassage, thank you for sharing your story because we’ve got to take action on this. So I want to get back over to Lori Gimmelstein with Colorado Parents Advocacy Network regarding just a couple of things to button this up. So thank you, Brittany. Thank you, Hannah. Really do appreciate it. And Lori, we’ve got just about a minute left on this. So the request is to go to Colorado Parents Advocacy Network and sign the petition. And also you are calling on legislators to address this. What is that bill number that created this problem? and we have a listener that texted in at the text line 720-605-0647 to ask who was the representative who said just put everything in the recycle bin.
SPEAKER 11 :
I can’t remember which representative it was. We were delivering all the petitions to the senators. But I’ll get back to you on that because I do have it written down. But it was just so eye-opening to be told. You know, we’re walking in with this huge box of… signatures. We separated them by Senate district area and to just walk in and to have the legislative aide say, just put them in the recycle bin. It was absolutely horrendous. I’ll get the name of the representatives to you. Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
I would say that that’s insolent to use our word of the day. About 10 seconds to give people information on this because we’re out of time. Lori Gimmelstein, thank you for the great work that you’re doing.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, thank you so much, Kim. I hope people will sign the petition at coloradoparents.org.
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coloradoparents.org and that is on your to-do list today. And again, thank you to Lori and to Brittany and to Hannah and to Dante for sharing their stories on all this. Our quote for the end of the show, I went to Aristotle and he said this, he said, excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort and intelligent execution. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives. Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. So my friends today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you. God bless America. Stay tuned for our number two.
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Indeed, let’s have a conversation and welcome to our number two of the Kim Monson show. Thank you so much for joining us. You each are treasured, you’re valued, you have purpose. Today’s drive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. Thank you to the team. That’s producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Thursday, producer Joe. Happy Thursday, Kim. And a lot going on. Boy, a riveting first hour. You know, I need to get that bill number from Lori Gimmelstein on what created this loophole for dangerous felons to be put back out on the streets. And I either try and these dangerous felons then and it’s because of the criminal competency laws. So it would be really great if during this special legislative session that these legislators would get serious and fix the problem that they created there. And I was just thinking, Dante White, his son, 11 years old, he’s at school. This guy, scary looking, goes on to the school property and tries to abduct his son or another kid. They get the guy, and then they let him back out on the streets. And then in the next segment, we talked with Hannah Kirst and Brittany Visage. And here… Hannah or Brittany, one of the sisters, their mom is with them at the McDonald’s drive-thru with the grandchildren. And they get sideswiped while they’re waiting for their order. They get out of the car and the driver drags the grandmother out. 300 feet, she dies, and you think you’re just going to McDonald’s with the kids. And so when we’ve got laws that are creating this situation in Colorado, it needs to be fixed. And so go to CPAN, coloradoparents.org, and sign that petition. And then also the other petition to sign is to save the… at Voila French Bakery, and they’re just about at 2,300 signatures there. They want to get to 2,500. And there’s getting a lot of eyes on this. This can be fixed, and I would call on Jefferson County commissioners to get that fixed. So our word of the day is insolent. And when Lori described insolence, the fact that Colorado Parents Advocacy Network had all of these signatures of Coloradans regarding this egregious bill, Senate bill, excuse me, House Bill 25-13-12, took that into legislators’ offices, and one of the aides said, oh, just put that in the recycle bin. Didn’t even bother to honor that. That is insolent. And that is our word of the day, which is I-N-S-O-L-E-N-T. And the definition, it’s an adjective, It could be audaciously rude or disrespectful, impertinent. It could be presumptuous and insulting in manner or speech arrogant. Or number three, deviating from that which is customary, novel, strange. It could be novel, strange, or unusual. So the word of the day is insolent, and it should be easy for you to use that in a sentence today. Our quote of the day is from Aristotle. He was born in 384 B.C., died in 322 B.C. Just think about it. All these years ago, they were thinking about the things that we think about today. He said, law is order, and good law is good order. And that is what makes America so unique, is our Constitution, which is good law. And we need to make sure that we… honor the constitution as it was originally written and met which uh rob natelson has a book uh the original constitution is now in its fourth printing um but that is what has made america good is because we are based on good law and that is based on the idea of the declaration the premise of the declaration that all men are created equal with these rights from god of life liberty pursuit and happiness And we have these important discussions and do all that we do because of all of your support and our amazing sponsors. And our quote at the end of the show is from Aristotle regarding excellence. And I know each of our sponsors and they strive for excellence in their business. And I know it firsthand. I’ve seen it firsthand with Karen Levine, Remax Realtor, and she’s on the line with us. Karen, welcome.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And from what we were talking about in the first hour regarding this criminal competency laws, and go to ColoradoParents.org to sign the petition. I’m there right now. And it’s got the bill numbers there, House Bill 24-10-34-10. House Bill 24, 1355 and Senate Bill 25041. And they said those recent laws dangerously altered Colorado’s competency to stand trial process. And Kurt was a text to me. He really it’s heartbreaking what what we learned about in the first hour. But let’s change gears just a little bit. On the line with me is Virginia Maka. And she’s from, I’m a Kansas girl. I grew up in the western plains of Kansas. She’s a Kansas girl as well. And she’s certainly in the spirit of Kansans, has taken it upon herself to protect property rights. And she founded the organization Stand for the Land Kansas. And she does all kinds of great work. She’s also really watched this whole data collection thing. And I wanted to talk with her a bit about that as well. Virginia Maka, welcome to the show.
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Good morning, Kim, and good morning to your Colorado fellow Coloradians and Kansans also. Western Kansas, you’re very popular out there.
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Okay. Well, I love it out there. You were just out in western Kansas yesterday, right?
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I was, I was enjoying the Flint Hills and having great discussions on how do we, you know, bulk up our defense as property owners as the legislature will convene in January. And we believe that the Federal Energy Regulation Commission, their thirst for eminent domain and transmission lines across both of our states. is more aggressive than ever. And so anyway, you have to stay on guard and continue on and inspire other people to have hope and to also stand up. So that’s what we’re doing out here. And a lot of talk about data centers.
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Okay, well, and I’ve learned so much in our conversations, both on the air and off the air, but Brooke Rollins, who’s head of the USDA, United States Department of Agriculture, released a statement regarding no longer funding these solar, industrial solar and wind complexes. They’re not farms. They’re projects. And I see that as great news. Now, yesterday I had Trent Luce on, and he said he’s not seeing that happen on the ground yet. But I think it takes a little time to get a directive in.
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implemented i’d like them to get it done immediately what what’s your thoughts about that virginia maca one let’s give her a giant badge of courage because to take on the usda and the way that they were focused on several programs and that’s the real energy for america program i’ve been watching since 2022 uh since the since the infrastructure bill was passed and um They were giving business and industrial guaranteed loans through a program in order to change the way we operate as agricultural farms, making solar and wind a type of farm, which they are not. They are an industrial complex. So with Secretary Rawlins’ announcement, She has slashed the Rural Energy for America program and rolled those REAP, it’s called REAP, funds over into other programs the USDA have to encourage farming, to encourage young farmers. So in 2024, the USDA study found that there were about 424,000 acres, or that’s probably like less than 1% of the nearly 900 million acres of U.S. farmland that were being impacted by wind and solar in just one year, 2020. And as that commission continued their study and the thirst for the federal energy regulation commission to issue tariffs and condone these industrial complexes of solar and wind, it became fearful that we were going to significantly impact our food resources. So by them taking the money out of REAP, And reinvesting it into young farmers and making farmland affordable once again. That is where she’s headed. And she is a giant adversary against China owning our farm ground. I believe she is a Minnesota gal. She grew up on a farm. familiar with the agricultural industry throughout the Midwest and how important it is for us to secure that our farm ground is not being used in a mismanagement way such as solar and wind and appropriately put back into a food supply we feed. We’re the breadbasket of the world and we feed nations and And without that kind of agricultural business taking place, we can see a lot of high prices in food, which we have from inflation. But when there’s a shortage, we all suffer for that in the Midwest. So no more land for China. uh to own the owners of and no more solar and wind project funding uh just alone in kansas this is this is just an example of what i’ve been following uh in just 20 22 23 kansas had somewhere in the neighborhood of 145 million dollars invested where companies installed photovodic Solar as their energy source across the Midwest. We’re talking grocery stores implement stores. They were all encouraged to It was like a free solar wind. Kind of transgression. I mean, transition between baseload energy and intermittent That’s not good for us either. So just in one year, $145 million was allotted to businesses across Kansas to convert to intermittent energy. So I don’t have the facts on every state, but I was sure keeping track of my state.
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So what’s happened here, then, is this intermittent power source, because the sun doesn’t shine all the time, the wind doesn’t blow all the time, and it’s gobbling up farmland. Now, from an economic standpoint, if it was able to stand on its own, OK, that’s fine. But what we’re learning is no, no, no. There’s been an agenda and they’ve used tax dollars or the federal government is printing money. So creating all this debt that our children, our grandchildren have to pay off. They’re using those dollars and then going out and dangling this to these businesses and say, hey, use wind or solar. and then creating this uh situation then you got to get the the power from the wind and solar industrial uh projects to these different businesses so now you have to take land for transmission lines which that’s another big fight and of course out here in elbert county The Elbert County commissioners denied the permit for Excel, and the permit was not even complete. So just think how, I’m going to use our word of the day, how insolent it is of Excel to come in with an incomplete application asking for a permit, and then they’ve been out there, my understanding, again, talking with the people out there that, again, Excel says that the PUC, the Public Utilities Commission here in Colorado, has given Excel the power to take people’s land via eminent domain for this transmission line, where my understanding is there is a different, an alternative on how the transmission line that Excel just doesn’t want to do that. They want to take people’s land. So you have an intermittent power that all this money’s gone into with loan guarantees, tax credits. Then there’s been all this money that’s trying to encourage businesses to use that kind of power and then taking the people’s land to get this intermittent power source to this location. It seems like it’s a land grab to me, Virginia, as I’m trying to connect the dots.
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Absolutely, it’s a land grab. And Why would let’s talk about baseload energy, the east and west coast, as well as the Midwest. Baseload energy is energy that delivers at any time. It’s a constant energy power source for your home. So we’re talking coal, fossil fuels. We’re talking nuclear. We’re talking hydro, especially in Colorado energy. And those energy sources, um, as well as gas have always been baseload. They deliver every time. So in order to address this, I know climate change, um, was an agenda to offset the baseload energy, which the east and west coast did a really good job because now they are short of energy. So everybody’s looking to the Midwest where we have lots of land available to put these industrial solar complexes. They are less likely to look for buildings in the industrial urbanized areas to put solar on top of their buildings. If you are not looking at putting solar on top of buildings in urban areas and creating this intermittent, but you’re looking at taking up ownership, farmers are conservationists. They have obeyed all the rules. They have been very good stewards of the environment. And now you come with technology. a solar 15 000 acres of solar panels that are toxic that will destroy the top soil it certainly has to be a land grab because other than that it doesn’t make sense of what they’re doing they’re downgrading our base load energy our nuclear plant is performing less than 50 percent does that make sense in a time where everybody’s looking for electrical power? No, it doesn’t. So I would say, Kim, a land grab is pretty obvious to a lot of us out here because what they’re doing in principle and in politics doesn’t make sense. Well, and they’re trying to produce this.
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And the other thing is, and we’ll leave this as our cliffhanger as we go to break, is that that ultimately taking it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you take land out of production, land out of food production, this abundant, affordable food, food stores, at our grocery stores, in our urban areas, food’s going to get more expensive and we might even have shortages when you really take a look and connect that dot on that. So we’re going to continue the discussion, but Virginia makes such an important point about our baseload power. And the baseload power is, well, I just want to say thank you to Laramie Energy because I understand that Bob Boswell over at Laramie Energy understands that. They’re a gold sponsor of the show because it is reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant power. from natural hydrocarbons such as oil, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate to be warm in the winter and cool in the summer. So I certainly appreciate Laramie Energy. And then also, and Bill Fetter was talking about that in the recorded spot that was broadcast between the two hours regarding our Second Amendment. And I do appreciate the sponsorship of the Second Syndicate.
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You know, when you unveil the wizard behind the scene, there’s always this carrot that they dangle. And during the amicus brief that we filed with a civil case against a solar company, here’s what we learned. The IRS, our friend, the Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellen, was being sued. And we found out that there were poker chips. They’re really transferable chips. tax credits. Now we’ve never had transferable tax credits that could be transferred to cash. Whoever owns the poker chip and that cash is not taxable. So it pretty much makes it impossible to follow the money trail when there is no tax on that cash. And some of the sales of these tax credits, their auctions that other entities are buying, end up being to the tune of $300 million in all different kinds of categories. Advanced manufacturing, which entails the data centers. construction of these entities, which entails the construction transferable tax credit worth 70% of construction costs. So those are the carrots that were being dangled that created like almost gold madness on the ground here. And we have seen in our communities People that have never been here before, uh, wanting to get leases and to lease up land where owners, property owners had no idea. We were talking about trillions of dollars for the lifetime of that project. It would bankrupt America. And so for Brooke Rollins to, uh, make that stand over at the USDA, that’s where it begins. It begins cutting off those high risk loans that will never be paid back because of the people getting them don’t have any intention of paying that money back. Companies that now face changing their intermittent energy back to base load. So the big thing right now is data, your information. is worth a gold on the market. And what did they do with this information is they create profiles of each person, whatever kind of subject matter that they want to profile you in your buying habits, your shopping, your foot traffic that you spend during the day, whether you go to the gym, show to the library, it can actually track your foot path across your own community and have a profile of you, what you do on Tuesday. And at 10 o’clock you will be at the library. So that’s how dangerous AI can be when it’s in the wrong hands. I don’t think there’s enough protection for us, um, as adults. to guard our own information, but what I’m really concerned about is our student information. The amount of information is unbelievable.
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Well, you uncovered something in Kansas because this whole data collection, you and I are both concerned about it. I find that people are somewhat ambivalent. They’re like, oh, yeah, I’m giving my information up here, but I like using it. We all have done it in order to use this app, this service with this particular company. But… I think where people really are paying attention, as you brought this forward to me, is that the Kansas Department of Education was selling students’ data for money. Well, obviously. And then my next question is, well, is individual school districts doing that as well? And when I’ve talked to people about our children’s data being sold, that’s a bridge too far with most everybody.
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And it should be. Just to give you an idea how powerful this is, just with the amount of information that, say, a Google Chromebook gathers on your student, your child, it gathers biometrics, how the student touches the keyboard. It measures the reaction time between, you know, Questions that are teed up to them in order to gauge that reaction time. It creates profiles. It sells this data to third parties where parents cannot track it. So just to give you an idea, between three years old and 12 years old, how many apps that your child is exposed to? It’s between 50 and 100 apps in classroom settings, and that would be applications used for ed tech, platforms such as Canva or Chromebooks or Microsoft, websites that these apps have your child travel to. These apps, even from three to five years old, there’s five to ten apps that are really gamified, and they collect data on your child every day. By the time that your child graduates from high school, this was astonishing to me. Anywhere from 155 to 270 apps, and that was… Several AI avenues that I took, one of them being Grok3, the other being several others on the market, but Grok3 really nailed it down to 155 to 270 apps. That’s unbelievable. 96% buy or share with third parties And we know there’s not enough adequacy in law to guard student information. 23 to 60% of these apps are exposing your child advertising because that’s another, you know, monetary generator for these applications. So that’s more than concerning. And to the tune that now we have lawsuits since 24 popping up out of everywhere. And it all goes back to the AI. The biggest one right now is the students versus Lawrence Public Schools, USD 497 right here in Kansas. It was filed in August of 2025. So this was about using a surveillance system. AI tool called gaggle and it violated the students privacy by monitoring their emails and their documents their online activities on school issued devices that did not have adequate safeguards and so this has entered the federal court the status is ongoing and to this day there’s not a lot of public information, but I’m sure there’s a lot of structuring and, you know, how they will argue this case about violating students’ rights. The tool, the app actually flagged content for a potential risk of self-harm and bullying that allegedly captured sensitive personal information that led to unwarranted disclosures to third parties. So that’s pretty severe in my book, if it was my child. And once it’s out there, you can’t get it back. You can’t rein it back in. This information will be bought and sold over and over and over, even when it’s the wrong information. And right now, there’s no way to correct it.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website, KimMonson.com. This Saturday, would love to have you join me. I will be out at the USMC Memorial for the 48th anniversary event. You can buy your tickets by going to USMCMemorialFoundation.org. and if you buy a brick to honor your loved one’s military service or your military service you will actually get to sit and that will be on one of the pathways of service when they get the remodel done but you’ll actually get to sit in the vip section so check out all that at usmcmemorialfoundation.org and then we also talk about trusted sources for information And Drew Dix, co-founder of the Center for American Values in Pueblo, that website’s AmericanValueCenter.org, has started a new podcast. And his perspective is he’s got just a whole bunch of experience on a whole bunch of different things. And that would be a great trusted source to get information as well. And you can access that. Words from the silo. Drew Dix at AmericanValueCenter.org. Virginia Mock at the time goes way too quickly. We were talking about these data centers. And one of the things that also brought us together was our documentary, A Climate Conversation. And here the narrative had been that the world was going to collapse. be destroyed because of global warming, then that became climate change. But all of that really was used as a narrative to take more control and have more power over everyday people’s lives, the freedom of how we live our lives. Because all of a sudden, all those people that were so concerned about our climate aren’t saying a word about these data centers, which are power hogs, water hogs. I’m not hearing a word about that.
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you know and you won’t um let’s just talk about um a data center and how much data just say a small data center that happens to appear in your town these developers come in and they build this data center well the data center is really for google or facebook or one of the big conglomerates to come in And pay them and lease it out for your data and your data. It’s not a choice for you and you should have a choice in that. So an average against the average data center will say calculate between or use actually crunch between 100 million and 1 billion data points of individual information daily. The midpoint estimate is approximately about 500 million, but what kind of data and data points could possibly be contained in that $100 million or even that $1 billion in one day. That’s 24 hours. And they go seven days a week, 365 days a year. That’s a ton of data. So how much of that data is yours?
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So, and data is the new oil. But going to the Constitution, the Fourth Amendment, the founders realized that we should be secure. It says this, the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, and it goes on. We are giving up our Fourth Amendment rights. Big time. And here you had the founders that realized how important it was. And then all of this data on our kids. And the question is, why? Virginia, why, why, why is this occurring? What do you think?
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Well, just about like our founders were very blunt about about ownership of land protects your First Amendment right, your Second Amendment right, because your land provides you the freedom of securing all those rights. We’re in a time and age where AI has literally came out of kind of a uh, a collusion because we, you know, we’re, we’re kind of immune to, oh yeah, you got my data, whatever, you know, but now we have, they have a tool that can actually give us a profile and whether that profile is right or wrong. And so, yes, the fourth amendment should be argued every day. Of the week, especially for our children. And these cases, that’s why I’m watching. There are probably 20 cases right now in court, in federal court, on the premise that AI has violated that constitutional right, the Fourth Amendment. So we will have to wait and see. But be proactive. Go to your school. Ask what apps are being used for your child. Does that app collect data? and sell to third parties. You want to know everything that you can about what your child’s being exposed to in schools. When it comes to Chromebooks, I believe it’s a parent’s right to find out exactly what information that Chromebook is collecting, why it’s collecting it, and how does that influence your child’s educational, you know, career. How will that influence your child’s selection of occupations or what field they want to enter into? Because AI can be dictating over a teacher’s better judgment, leaving it up to something that doesn’t have the gift of knowing and seeing talent. Um, can be a bit unedging for a parent, especially when your child has the ability to be a doctor, but then he’s turned to being a factory worker or less than what your expectations are of him. So I think that all parents should be on the guard, um, and also be on guard about their own information. Uh, it’s very, um, unnerving. When you’re compromised, especially your credit, your information is out there. It could be wrong and you get to suffer the consequences. And that’s what it is. When we don’t stand up for our constitutional rights, especially the fourth amendment, we become compromised down the road somewhere along the way. And everybody suffers.
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Well, and I think the question, Virginia, we’ve got just a couple of minutes left, is what do we do? It seems like it’s so daunting out there. I think the place to start is with our children, because I think that, again, people can agree that we do not want our schools to be collecting data on our children. A, and B, selling that data as well. That’s the place to go. So with the school district, who do we talk to? Is it the technology officer? Where do we go exactly on that?
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Well, in Kansas, I start with the Department of Education. That I’ll be making a presentation in September, too, on this matter. Okay. um, you start with your local schools, you start with your principal, you start gathering information and your principal should be able to guide you to how and where and what papers you filed to get that information because parents under purpose still have the right to know and to guard their child against information, gathering information, selling, but really information that is subjective and it could be wrong. Um, when it comes to profiling their child. And be on guard about AI dictating the curriculum choices for your child. Talk to the teacher.
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Yeah, I’m becoming more and more old fashioned. And that is real books and paper and pencils. I think I’m going that way because my grandfather, well, my father went to school, grade school in a two room classroom. Or maybe one room, schoolhouse. My dad was, he would quote Lincoln and Washington and Shakespeare to me as I would ride around with him in the pickup on the farm. And that was just from a little… schoolhouse. And so we need to really, I think we need to get back to some more traditional education. Virginia, we’re out of time. Ten seconds. What’s your final thought? And we’ll get you scheduled for next month again.
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My final thought would be stand for your land. Your land is your freedom. And when you have freedom, you can protect your family and your constitutional rights. And you have a ground that secures that freedom forever. And that, that land can be handed down to your children and your children’s children. It can be generational wealth. So anytime that you make a stand, a stand for freedom, a stand for your land, a stand for your child’s, um, information, um, That is the most courageous act that you can do in your entire life. And that’s why I stand every day when I listen to stories. I make that choice to stand when it would be so much easier not to do that. But I’ve never picked the easy way.
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Well, and you are an inspiration. And the stand for the land here is stand for your children’s data. My friends, we’re out of time. God bless you. God bless America. We’ll talk again tomorrow.
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