Welcome to the Kim Monson Show podcast. Kim Monson is your host. Seven in ten students in Denver Public Schools (DPS) are not proficient in math and nearly 60% are not proficient in English. Co-founder of CPAN (Colorado Parents Advocacy Network) Lori Gimelshteyn explains that this is a catastrophic failure. Former state Senator Kevin Lundberg discusses the recent DOE (Department of Energy) report, A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate. Jon Boesen with Boesen Law addresses applying for Social Security Disability. ————————————————————————————– The Kim Monson Show airs on KLZ 560 AM every Monday
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It’s the Kim Monson Show, analyzing the most important stories.
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Surveys show that people still really prefer freedom over government force.
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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’re each 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’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Tuesday, Producer Joe. Happy Tuesday, Kim. And we’ve got a great show planned for you here. As you know, we search for truth and clarity. by looking at these issues through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And it’s not compassionate nor altruistic to take other people’s stuff, whether or not it is their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunity, childhoods, or lives via force. And force can be a weapon, but it can be policy and unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, the agenda of the World Economic Forum and the globalist elites. And it plays out through the United Nations and the Colorado State Legislature and the Colorado governor. But it is playing out in our local and county governments big time. As Jenny, one of our listeners, has said, they think globally and they’re acting locally. And we are in a real challenge right now because I’m going to try to get him on next week. And that is Montrose Commissioner Sean Pond. He had posted something on Facebook where he absolutely nailed it. And I understood it in my gut. with all of these different boards and commissions that people get appointed to. These are unelecteds. And what happens then is the electeds and staff will hide behind These boards and commissions, but yet the boards and commissions are handpicked and they’re pushing an agenda. It’s a big, big web. And it’s going to be a real challenge to get this turned around. He had mentioned the 2026 election is so important. And it is. And that is why thank you to all of you for the lawsuits that we have gotten filed last year regarding our elections. But we also have to elect candidates. people that understand what is going on. Yesterday, we had Sophia Georges, who is running for Franklin Township Council in New Jersey. People are stepping up. Now is the time. We’ve got to understand what’s going on. That’s why doing the show is so important. It happens because of our sponsors. I want to say thank you to Laramie Energy, For their goal sponsorship of the show, because it’s reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy from oil, natural gas, and coal. Hydrocarbons that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate. 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They are sponsors of both the Kim Monson Show and America’s Veterans Stories. And I need to talk with you about America’s Veterans Stories. I have a treasure trove. of amazing interviews that we have done and trying to figure out how to access those and broadcast them. And I thank you to both Ben and David that reached out to let me know that we were having some quality issues with America’s Veterans Stories, some of the rebroadcast that we’re doing. So we are on it. We’re working on it to try to figure out what we can do to remedy that situation because there is gold in those interviews and certainly want to access those for you to have those for rebroadcast. And then also, because of the time that it takes to produce the show, as well as the election work that we’re doing and the volunteer work that we’re doing with CUTT, Colorado Union of Taxpayers, and now’s a good time to say thank you to this group. The board is Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Ramey Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onizorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. These folks are volunteers that I greatly, greatly appreciate. So with that, there’s been not quite enough hours in the day to get things done quite the way I had hoped to. And so rolling up our sleeves, we’re going to make some improvements on America’s Veterans Stories on the rebroadcast. And with that, if you know a veteran that would be willing and would like to tell their story, I would love to interview them. I interviewed a gentleman who, Vietnam veteran, and he said, I told you things in the interview that I’ve never told anybody. And in fact, with my PTSD, my therapist, I not even told her some of those things. And after she listened to the interview, she said, oh, I understand so many more things. And so I know that they’re very personal stories, but it is good for family relationships. to know these stories as well. So if you know of a veteran, I would like you to text me at the text line. That’s 720-605-0647. And I’d like to get connected with them so that we can capture their story and share that as well. So with that, our word of the day is castigate. It is a transitive verb. It’s spelled C-A-S-T-I-G-A-T-E. And it could be to punish or rebuke severely. It could be to punish by stripes, to chastise by blows, to chasten, or to chastise verbally, to reprove and criticize severely. And I feel that the everyday American people are being castigated by the agenda of the globalist elites. I guess that’s where I’m going to go with that. But we see that even when we show up to – have our voices heard many times i feel i’ve felt castigated when i’ve gone down to the state house by just the disrespect of our electives not paying attention to us and that’s not everybody but there’s a lot of that going on so our word of the day is castigate and your challenge is to use that in a sentence today Our quote of the day comes from Alexander Shultzenitsyn. He was born in 1918. He died in 2008. He was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature for the ethical force with which he pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature. And he said this, He said the simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world. And that is, I think, great words for us today as we are engaging in this battle of ideas with our friends, family, and our colleagues. A few of the headlines that I wanted to hit, first of all, I cannot believe how much federal money has been going out and the left has been using that to push their agenda. And thank goodness for Donald Trump for figuring this out. This is not the proper role of government. And there is always supposed to be a line between government and media. And we’ve seen that that doesn’t always happen, but we are an independent voice on an independent station. And so we come to you because of our sponsors and because of all of you who support us. So this is from Bloomberg. It says Corporation for Public Broadcasting is to shutter after the Trump cuts. So here you have a media corporation, I guess, for public broadcasting that they were living off of our tax dollars. And And then what happens is, is you can have a government narrative, such as we saw in the O’Biden-Harris administration and administrations before that, that pushed that particular narrative. And the founders knew that there had to be freedom of the press. This is not freedom of the press when they’re living off of government money. But anyway, it goes on to say, CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison said this recently. Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations. I would recommend that all those millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress just write a check to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and that would be the way that should happen. Next thing in Fox Business. It says, in a dissent not seen in three decades, two Fed governors wanted to cut interest rates, and here is why. And typically, this is not very public. But Federal Reserve Governors Michelle Bowman and Christopher Waller recently released statements outlining why they supported an interest rate cut at this week’s meeting. It marked the first time in more than 30 years that two Fed governors dissented from a decision about rates. The last time was in 1993. And they said they dissented from the Federal Open Market Committee’s vote to 9-2 to hold the Fed’s benchmark federal funds at this range, about 4.25% to 4.5%, with both saying that they’ve supported a 25 basis point cut to the key interest rate. So stay tuned. That’s going to get real interesting. Next thing, speaking of living off of our federal money. It’s either two things. It’s money that is taken from us, the taxpayer, or they’re borrowing it from our children and our grandchildren, which is immoral. To encumber someone to have to pay something that they had no voice in and got no benefit from, maybe they got a little bit of benefit, we’ll see, but they had no voice in making that decision is immoral. And so this was just recently. And let’s see who I got to tell you who I want to give. This is from Boulder Reporting Lab, Boulder County’s nonprofit newsroom. It says the new two and a half million climate equity fund launches as Boulder groups lose federal support. And so Boulder County is putting $2.5 million into this program designed to support community-led climate action, particularly in frontline communities most impacted by climate change. Grants will be awarded in two tiers, $5,000 to $50,000 and $55,000 to $1 million. And the program’s launch comes at a pivotal time because, again, Boulder, the only way they have that money is because they’re taking it from the people and then doling it out to their special interests. So earlier this summer, the Environmental Protection Agency abruptly ended a National Environmental Justice Grant program, cutting nearly $50 million in funding across the Mountain West, a Boulder reporting lab reported, and several Boulder groups were affected. One of those is FLOWS, Foundations for Leaders Organizing for Water and Sustainability. And that is Boulder’s longest running environmental justice group. They lost a $250,000 grant as well as most of its 2026 funding. Another group, the Boulder County Climate Justice Collaborative, lost more than 90% of their budget funding. which was earmarked for training and advocacy around coal ash pollution at Xcel Energy’s Valmont Power Station. So trying to close down coal. And as I’ve said, it is reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams. and empowers us to change our own personal climate. 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And welcome back. Check out our website. That’s kimmonson.com. And wanted to mention the Center for American Values located in Pueblo on the beautiful Riverwalk. That website is americanvaluecenter.org, americanvaluecenter.org. We wonder how we’re going to reclaim our state and our country. First of all, we have to dig deep and establish our character. And that is one of the things that is happening at the Center for American Values. On September 23rd, they will have secondary educator training to instill these values that the center always is working on, and that is honor, integrity, and patriotism. And so be sure if you’re a secondary educator, check this out, or if you know someone, Check that out. That’s September 23rd, and they are taking registrations for that right now. And again, that website is AmericanValueCenter.org, AmericanValueCenter.org. It is Tuesday, and I am pleased to have on the line with me former state senator Kevin Lundberg. He is also the author of the Lundberg Report. Kevin, welcome to the show.
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Well, thank you, Kim. It’s good to be with you.
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Well, it’s good to have you, and your Lumberg Report comes out every Saturday, and you put a lot of work into it. And one of the things that you had highlighted this last week was this report from the Department of Energy on a critical review of impacts of greenhouse gas emissions on the U.S. climate. And, of course, the Secretary of Energy is Chris Wright, right here from Colorado. who was with Liberty Energy, but he is now the Department of Energy Secretary. Really, I read the executive summary. It’s long, but I think it’s very good. I know, in fact, Judith Curry, who is one of the contributors to this, we interviewed her for our podcast series for a climate conversation. So I know that it is a very impressive group that he tapped on to create this report, Kevin. What’s your thoughts about it?
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Well, first and foremost, I mean, a lot of us have been sounding the alarm that the normal, what the mainstream narrative on the whole climate change or global warming is really what they’re getting at. They just soften the word a is headed down a track that’s, one, not correct, and, number two, not sustainable, you know, by trying to shut down all energy sources that aren’t, quote, renewable, unquote. And so a lot of us have been talking about this, but what is so significant about this report is it’s the United States Department of Energy coming out with this information that really corrects the course so much. Now, it’s not that everybody’s going to automatically fall in line, but if you read not only the executive summary of this, but Chris Wright, Secretary Wright’s comments on the front end, he said, look, we’re trying to reignite this conversation so that we can drill down to the facts as they really exist and and stop running after these fanciful notions that the world is at a point of existential threat, meaning the whole world, the whole ecosystem is about to collapse because we’re adding too much carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. That’s not correct. That’s just not correct. And yet our economy is being driven into the ground by these policies, particularly here in Colorado, and we’ve reviewed some of those things over the past months and years. But the Department of Energy, the United States Department of Energy, is finally on the right track because we finally got the leadership that understands the problem and is willing to address the issues in a more factual, fair way. And he invites others to, you know, Dig in, and if you want to defend the notions that Al Gore kind of sparked up about 25, 30 years ago, then have at it. But they’re old notions that are not proving to be accurate. So I’m thrilled with this, and that’s why I really wanted to focus in on that at all. And let me spend just a moment on Chris Wright a little bit, too, because I became aware of him last summer. This was long before Donald Trump had won and long before Chris Wright was secretary of energy. He was, as you mentioned, running Liberty Oil, and he spoke at a conference in Denver for the American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC. They hold their meetings different places, and Denver was the place. I went to it, and I heard Chris speak, and I thought, man, this guy is really on target. He understands it. And it’s not just the scientific side of it. It’s the human side as well. He actually had a book that he was handing out to everybody called Bettering Human Lives. And it’s a really well put together document talking about how energy is so essential for our world and for the people that live in our world, not just here in the U.S., but around the world. And anything but a full-throated focus on providing good quality energy of all of the above is actually doing harm to people. And that’s what the policies that have been put in place here in Colorado are doing. And if you apply this worldwide, it’s not just, you know, you might have a little lower standard of living. You know, you might not be able to keep your air conditioning on in the summer and heat your house adequately in the winter. No, around the world, people will die because… because they can’t get the basic needs for their lives, proper refrigeration of food, delivery of medical services that are appropriate, and just all the things that go into making the world go around. Well, energy is a key to that. And we’ve got to stop these notions that everything has to slow down and And literally be stopped. Because here in Colorado, you know, the base power for electrical energy is still coal. And yet the policy is that that will all go away in five years. Now, people have not really considered how draconian that is. Now, Chris Wright, and actually I’ve got to add a little extra angle on this, too, because It’s not just Chris, but it’s the people he’s hiring that understand these things. One of the first things he did is he hired away a good friend of mine, Mike Kopp, who I served with not only in the Senate, but on the board of Colorado Christian University. And he hired Mike to be his special assistant. And with guys like that in charge, we’ve got a great team going, and this is important. Sorry for going on and on, but it’s really important.
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Well, it is really important. And, Kevin, in the first segment, I mentioned this headline from Boulder Reporting Lab that there had been the Boulder Climate – uh action let’s see what it’s called the climate equity fund or they are launching a new climate equity fund because they are losing federal support and as gamia texted me we have been funding our demise uh with our with our own money it’s crazy but one of the things was the boulder county climate justice collaborative lost more than 90 of its budget And what it was focusing on was training, and whenever you see that word, advocacy, around coal ash pollution at Xcel’s Energy’s Valmont Power Station. So here, you’ve got, first of all, this narrative that the world is going to burn up. That’s why I would really recommend people check out our documentary, A Climate Conversation, at aclimateconversation.com. You can watch it for free. But you have this narrative out there that has been pushed for, well, 25 at least years out there. And then what’s happened is we’ve had these government grants that have been doled out to these people that are advocating for really our demise. Now, you and I agree, we must be good stewards of the earth. But one of the things that Chris Wright said in his executive summary was, is the real existential threat is energy poverty throughout the world. And that is the thing. And what we have here is activists that are wanting to move us to energy poverty. Another way that they do that is increase the costs so much of – our energy that people are having to pay more and more for that. And of course, taking money out of their pockets. So they’re working hard on this. And so this is a very important piece that Secretary Wright has published.
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Yeah, well, and let me add something. You mentioned these groups in Boulder that are losing their federal funding. Well, to them, I say, welcome to the free market. Your eye is… If you think they have validity, then step in and compete with the rest of us. How much government funding was provided to produce a climate conversation? Zero. Yeah. That was a labor of love on the part of… of yourself and the… Walt Johnson. Johnson’s. Yes. And also, I want to say Heartland… Institute. Institute, yeah, yeah, yeah. I’ve known James Taylor, the president there, for some time. And we got to know each other because he’s been a real advocate for getting the truth out on these issues for a very long time. Long before he was running Heartland, he was one of our staffers And he worked with me to set up some really good hearings down at the Capitol on the issue of the energy supplies in Colorado, of the whole subject of global warming. You know, and this is all that Secretary Wright is really calling for is let’s have a conversation. Let’s have a good, reasonable one across the board. And starting with the Department of Energy, I mean… The media wants to pan this. They want to say, oh, well, this is just all those radical extremists on the right that don’t want to admit that the world is dying from overheating. By the way, I mentioned Al Gore. What did he say things were going to be happening by 2020?
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No, that didn’t happen.
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But they have used these narratives to then use government policy, use our money, and that is either money they’ve taken from us via taxes or is money that’s being borrowed from our children and our grandchildren to push – Billions of dollars into the pockets of these activists. And many of them have gotten very wealthy on this whole narrative.
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Right, right. And this has been going on for a very long time. I mean, I remember some of the environmental activist pushes that seem to have started on January 1st, 1970. I noted that on that particular day, New Year’s Day, there seemed to be this big focus on all of the public service announcements and things like that on TV that just really focused on our world is falling apart, our planet is falling apart because of our abuse of the planet in many ways. Al Gork kind of capitalized on that and by the way he did quite well in his capital uh that that is his wealth personal wealth out of all this um but you know and and i think there have been some real opportunists there largely though this is this is really a philosophical uh debate that’s been going on um and the other side has been trying to convince everybody that it’s a settled issue Well, it might be a settled issue, but it’s not settled the way they thought it was. But we need to keep this conversation going in a way so that we can correct the course that we’re on. And let me come back to the state of Colorado, because the policies that have been put in place of. of requiring industries to reduce their energy consumption in big manufacturing facilities, which is kind of a foolish notion that the government can actually mandate these things. What they’re doing is they’re just telling these industries, stay out of Colorado because the regulations are just too onerous, or move out of Colorado. I was talking to one person who who is in charge of a very big industry, or they’re a big player in a particular industry, and I’m just going to put in general terms here, and they’ve got a big factory here in Colorado. And I said, can you lower your energy consumption by, I think it’s required to be 20% by 2030, and they’ve got to be on a path to get there by sometime next year, I believe it is. And I said, can you do this? And they said, well, this has been our goal all along is to create efficiencies, and we’ve done everything we can. And this person went on to say, well, I’ll tell you, our solution is we’re building a plant down in Texas, and we’re building another plant in Ireland. And so their solution to Colorado’s demands is to leave Colorado. And their industry is pretty critical for much of northern Colorado. And so I’m deeply concerned that this policy is going to affect a lot of people. And that’s just one tiny little example. You know, I already mentioned on how how the electric grid is going to be greatly hobbled by shutting down all the coal-fired plants. Now, I personally think that we’re going to come to our senses, but that’s because of things like Secretary Wright carrying the banner and saying, no, there’s a better way, and it’s called, you know, finding better sources to deliver more energy, not trying to shut things down. Oh, and one other thing I have to add about this report is they really focus in on the fact, and this is a well-established fact, that higher levels of carbon dioxide actually green the earth. It creates much greater plant growth. And it’s not just tiny little incremental things. You know, if we really do add more CO2 to the atmosphere, the productivity of the planet goes up because photosynthesis is enhanced. It’s actually a process of using that. It’s not a pollutant. It’s an essential element in the cycle of life, that thing called carbon dioxide, to grow plants more bigger, you know, better and more efficiently.
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You know, let’s think about the language, the language that has been used throughout this whole narrative out there. So first of all, greenhouse gases, when people hear that. They think bad, right? Greenhouse gases are because they’ve been told that greenhouse gases are going to destroy the earth. So, of course, you make that correlation. Greenhouse gases are bad. And then you then designate CO2, which is nature’s fertilizer, as a greenhouse gas. So then CO2 is bad. Then that means that we need to control CO2. If, in fact, you don’t want to destroy the earth. But let’s just think about it. Greenhouse. I always remember going, when I was a kid, there was a greenhouse not very far away. It was always warm. The plants were doing well. And it felt like it was thriving and flourishing. My understanding is, here in Colorado, that with the marijuana industry, grow houses that they are put many times put CO2 into those so the plants will thrive and flourish even more. So the language is so important, Kevin Lumberg, and that’s why this Department of Energy report is important. And again, I’d recommend check out a climate conversation. And we were talking about funding. Walt Johnson, Walt and Ramey took money out of their retirement plan to fund that movie. No federal money there. It was people that were stepping up because they cared so much.
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Absolutely. Yeah. And, you know, we need to focus in on this so that we can correct the problems that have been created by all of the hysteria that is developed by Al Gore and you know, all of the really, I blame him a lot, but if you don’t need to go much further than, than most of our universities, uh, uh, here’s kind of curious little thing. Years ago, Colorado public radio put out a plea to their listeners. They said, we’d like to hear your story on how climate change has affected you here in Colorado. And so I decided I’d respond to him. And, uh, because I’ve been living here all my life, and I’ve been observing things, and so I gave them three examples of how it has not been changing. One, I’m a gardener. I try to garden every year, not very successfully, but I was told way back when I was a kid by a master gardener that in the Denver area, you don’t want to put delicate plants out before May 15th, because that’s generally the frost-free date. And I went and looked it up on the website of CSU, which studies all the ag issues, and they gave the frost free dates of today up and down the Front Range. And do you know, they were a little more specific because they just differentiated between Castle Rock and Denver and Fort Collins and Greeley. But if you put them all together and aggregated them, it was May 15th. 50 years after I was told, it was May 15th. It still is. You know, that’s one. Number two, my dad and I were in custom harvesting for many years. We were the ones who had the big machines that harvested all the wheat, and they’re kind of wrapping it up here in northern Colorado right now, first part of August. I noticed there are a few wheat fields out there still. Well, back in the 60s when my dad and I were out in those wheat fields… Guess what? The wheat was harvested at the same time it is today. And people are saying, oh, well, the crops are all two weeks ahead. No, they aren’t. No, there are variations between the months or between the years, you know, as different years have different characteristics. But wheat, winter wheat is very specific to the climate because they plant it in the fall. And then according to how… The spring warms up is when the wheat then grows and produces grain. And so it’s not dependent on when you planted it. It’s dependent on how the climate has treated it. And as I say, it has not changed in the last 50, 60 years now. And the other example I gave was, I walked the entire continental divide in Colorado with some friends back in 1979. And so I got to know what are the various biomes up at the top of our state at 10,000, 12,000 feet. And then every 10 years, we’ve gone back and we’ve gone over some of those areas again. So that’s been 45 years ago now. And, you know, things have not changed up in the high mountains. The biomes are still the same. The trees, you know, the lodgepole pines that grow at a certain elevation haven’t been dying off or growing at a different spot. The tundra areas haven’t been changing. Colorado is… The same today as it was 50, 60 years ago. You go through some changes on a cyclical basis, but overall it hasn’t. And even the state climatologists admitted that the precipitation rates between 1985 and 2015 are identical.
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And before we go to break, I’ll make this point. I just did a quick search. In 1970, the U.S. national debt was approximately $371 billion. The big difference between 1970 and now is not the climate, but it’s the national debt, which is at $37 trillion. And that is not sustainable. With that, we’re going to go to break. We’ll be right back. And if you have been injured, reach out to John Bozen and Bozen Law.
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And welcome back. Check out the USMC Memorial Foundation’s website. That is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. On August 23rd, they will be having a great celebration of their 48th anniversary. And I will be out there. I’d love to have you join us. David Bray will be performing. It should be a great evening. You can buy your tickets by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. I’m talking with Kevin Lundberg. He is the author of the Lundberg Report. And we were talking about Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s report that was recently released regarding climate change, that whole narrative. How would you like to wrap that up, Kevin?
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Well, I spent quite a bit of time talking about that challenge that Colorado Public Radio put out years ago. on how have you seen Colorado’s climates change. And being a state senator, they kind of paid attention to it, and they put me on the radio to talk about it. But they didn’t just put me on. They pitted me against a couple of climate experts. I put that in quotes, air quotes I’ve got here, at CSU. And it was an interesting conversation we had on that program. I simply, you know, they tried to debunk what I was talking about where I’m saying, look, I’m just giving you my observations as a lifelong citizen in Colorado. But this is my point. That’s where our universities have devolved to is a lot of people who have been been somehow convinced that this is the academic sound perspective that we must fight all of the carbon dioxide emissions in the world and impoverish ourselves and everybody else around us. I challenge those accommodations to take on the challenge that Chris Wright put out with this report. On a little footnote, if you want to find the report, it They’ve got it someplace, but if you go to my website on my Lundberg report, I’ve got a link right there. But I want the real experts to not pan the Department of Energy report and just say, oh, well, that doesn’t mean anything. No, engage in this discussion. Let’s dig down. Because not really Chris Wright’s report. Yes, he commissioned it, but he identified some people who knew about this who were faithful to the truth accommodations, and they are the ones who wrote this out and said, look, look at this, look at this, look at this. These are the issues that we really need to zero in on. So I want this to be the beginning of a conversation that puts us back on track, and that’s why I think it’s a big deal. So thanks. Appreciate the time to talk about it here, too.
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Well, and that is such an excellent point to wrap that up with just your observations as a regular person. I remember when I was on city council, I’d gone out and taken a tour of the Reuter Hess new reservoir. And they were working on it at the time. And we went by an area, and I said, oh, what’s that? And they said, oh, those are some fossils of some palm trees. that we dug up. And I’m thinking, oh, that means there were palm trees here, right? So that means it was warmer at some point in time here, right? And so the climate does change, but it’s been brilliant the way they have used language. Climate change, global warming, all of these things to scare people into making decisions that ultimately are detrimental to our human flourishing. And that’s one of the things that Secretary of Right has been focused on is human flourishing, not only in the United States, but across the world. And somebody had attributed to him that in third world countries, women many times spend much of their day going out and trying to find fuel so that they can cook and keep their, you know, their huts warm at night. And if, in fact, they didn’t have to spend hours and hours in a day searching for wood or dung to just create these basic things for their families, they would have time freed up to do other things. And so if we can move them out of energy poverty, then they can start to thrive and flourish as well. And isn’t that what we want for human beings, Kevin Lundberg?
SPEAKER 06 :
Absolutely. Absolutely. I think it’s our God-given responsibility to better people’s situations in every aspect, physically, spiritually, everything. We’re called to be of service to others, not to destroy things. Oh, and a little footnote, you know, Burning dung in your hut is not really good for you on a whole lot of levels. And having some, you know, electric space heater or, you know, natural gas heater that warms things and cooks things is a really good idea all the way around. I challenge anybody in this country to try to live like they are forced to because of the energy poverty that that too many people are imposing upon our world today. And I’m really upbeat right now. That’s why I published that thing and that report is finally a breath of fresh air that’s giving us good ideas and a good direction. And I want to translate this into policies that work here in Colorado.
SPEAKER 04 :
I love that. Kevin Lundberg, we are out of time. We’ll talk to you again in a couple of weeks. Amazing work that you’re doing, and I really would recommend that people check out the Lundberg Report, which comes out every Saturday. Kevin Lundberg, as always, thank you.
SPEAKER 06 :
Thank you. Great being with you, Kim. Look forward to it in the future.
SPEAKER 04 :
Absolutely. And we are to be good stewards of our earth and to focus on human beings being able to thrive and flourish, and as Kevin said, across the spectrum, spiritually, economically, just across the spectrum. And we will continue to flourish. Work on that. The quote for the end of the show is from Alexander Solzhenitsyn. He said this, the price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices. 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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Happy Tuesday, Kim.
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Happy Tuesday. And we’ve got another great show planned for you today. 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. And we focus on the issues, and we’ll talk about the people pushing those issues, but we try to stay out of personality kind of stuff. Our word of the day… is castigate, and it is spelled C-A-S-T-I-G-A-T-E. It is a transitive verb. It could be to punish or rebuke severely, or number two, to punish by stripes, to chastise by blows, to chasten, or to chastise verbally. to reprove or criticize severely. I think that we should castigate many of those in the education system. Well, at Denver Public Schools, we’ll talk with Lori Gimbelstein about this as our featured guest in this hour. She is the co-founder of CPAN, which is the Colorado Parents Advocacy Network. And when we look at the results of of our children learning math and English and that they’re not proficient at grade level, it’s pretty bad. And those in charge of these results should be castigated. And when I say that, that would be to chastise verbally or to reprove or to criticize severely. That’s the definition that I would use for castigate. Our quote of the day comes from Alexander Solzhenitsyn. He was born in 1918, died in 2008. He was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. And he said this, One more time. The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world. And you can go back all the way to George Washington. These issues are not new. But getting the truth out there, it’s been attributed to George Washington that basically truth will prevail once it is brought to light. And that is why we do the show, is to bring truth and clarity to these issues. And it happens because of sponsors. I wanted to say thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show. It is reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy, which is provided by oil, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate. So let’s connect the dots very easily. We can connect this dot here up in Boulder. And they had been receiving a whole bunch of federal money for different issues. And let’s see, it says this was the program’s launch. Let’s go ahead. I’ll give you all of this if you hadn’t heard the first hour. This is from the Boulder Reporting Lab. It says new $2.5 million Climate Equity Fund launches as Boulder groups lose federal support. They should never have gotten federal support in the first place. That is not the proper role of government. That is not what should be happening. And Boulder County now will take money from their residents and launch its new Climate Equity Fund, a $2.5 million grant program designed to support community-led climate action. That’s what they say. But it’s actually special interest. And we can go on down here and read just a little bit. And it says one of the groups, the Boulder County Climate Justice Collaborative, lost more than 90 percent of its budget, which was earmarked for training and advocacy. I have that in air quotes around coal ash pollution at Xcel Energy’s Valmont Power Station with the ultimate goal is is to close down these coal fired power plants. and the the reliable energy that comes from these coal fired power plants allows us to go after our hopes and dreams so connect the dot federal money to boulder to go to the boulder county climate justice collaborative to then be used to go out and advocate to shut down reliable efficient affordable and abundant energy that helps us live our lives to thrive and flourish That is what it all has been happening. But we’re connecting the dots, and that’s really important. We connect the dots because we have great sponsors. And one of those is John Bozen and Bozen Law. We’ve got them on the line. John Bozen, welcome.
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Good morning, Kim, and thank you for connecting those dots.
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It’s sometimes, John, it seems as plain as the broad side of a barn to me. But I realize that connecting those dots, people are busy and we need to help people really think this through, John.
SPEAKER 07 :
That’s that you hit the nail on the head. People are busy. I can put myself in that category. And you got to take time to educate yourself. But, you know, taking time to listen to your show. and be educated is a good alternative for folks that are busy.
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Well, and that’s why we try to jam-pack a lot in here, and it happens because of all of our support, our great sponsors, John Bozen, Bozen Law. Social Security disability is one of the things that you can help people with. There’s a long lag time on it, and I wanted to talk a little bit about that.
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Absolutely. I’ve got one attorney that is dedicated to helping people get Social Security Disability if they’re disabled, if they can’t work and they meet the criteria. It is an incredibly long process for most folks in Colorado. If you are unable to work due to injury or illness and you get an application in, the initial decision on whether you’re going to be awarded Social Security Disability or not on average takes 281 days in Colorado. Excuse me for that cough. So it’s very important. If someone is injured, if they’re hurt, if they’re not going to be able to work due to illness and it’s going to be an extended period of time, they get the application in right away. Super important so that we can get that clock ticking, get that initial decision. If there’s a denial, We apply for an appeal and eventually, if necessary, go in front of an administrative law judge to have that decision made. And the whole process can literally take years.
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So, yes, I am learning that. As you know, John, our listeners, our supporters, we came together, we raised money to get two lawsuits filed regarding elections here in Colorado. And so I talked with Peter Berneger yesterday, who we have one of our lawsuits that they filed through the Wisconsin Center for Election Justice. And then also I went on PACER, which is – a public website. You have to join, or I guess you have to pay for it, but you can watch these court cases. And so I went in and looked at the court case that we’ve done with Peter, and the attorneys are doing all the back and forth that is necessary, and it’s continuing to progress, and I think it’s got us in a great position. But I am learning that it takes a while for all this to happen.
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Well, and managing expectations is really important. And, of course, you do Social Security disability, can help people with that. And then if someone has been injured, again, prompt action. It seems that’s like one of those things in life. Don’t procrastinate. Take action, right?
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Yep, don’t delay. And really, any kind of a legal matter, procrastination is never going to help you. It’s just not going to be your friend. Too much can happen. So for any kind of an accident, whether it’s a motor vehicle collision, a trip, a fall, a slip on ice, anything that hurts somebody that should not have happened, but for someone doing something or not doing something, the key is to call me as quickly as possible so we can have that initial conversation, get some things figured out. I can provide great guidance and advice on the front end that can make all the difference. The number to call is 303-999-9999. Again, that’s John Bozen, Bozen Law, 303-999-9999. John, thank you, and we will talk next week. Keep connecting those dots, Kim. Thank you.
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Well, there’s just so much happening. We never seem to get a moment to catch our breath with everything happening at the local level with school board elections coming up, the state level with Governor Polis signing all kinds of egregious laws that undermine parental rights and family autonomy. And at the national level, too, with all of the Trump administration’s executive orders and trying to work with the Department of Education and the Office of Civil Rights, we have formally filed four Office of Civil Rights complaints, once again against D-70 down in Pueblo, one against Boulder School District, and two against the Cherry Creek School District.
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I thought that Cherry Creek, it used to be that Cherry Creek was the premier school district in Colorado. People would try to buy a house in the Cherry Creek School District so their kids could go there. But someplace along the line, things went off the rails, right?
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Oh, absolutely. And, you know, actually, our family moved to the Cherry Creek School District in 2011 specifically so that our children could attend the Cherry Creek School District. It was rated as one of the best school districts, not only here in Colorado, but in the nation. My husband Max and I were really excited to give our children the opportunity to have access to what we thought was a top tier, high level, merit based academic education that would prepare them for their future life and in regards to career readiness or college readiness, whatever they wanted to do. And shortly after we went on the two week shutdown back in 2020, my husband and I became very concerned and several alarm bells were going off. around the content and direction that the school system had diverted to, lowering the standards of academics, focusing more on mental health. I mean, Cherry Creek even eliminated academics out of their core mission. And most recently, the class of 2026, this year’s rising seniors, will no longer have the merit and honor of the title of valedictorian.
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It’s crazy that that’s happened. And it used to be that kids had these tools to read and write and do arithmetic so that then they could go out and pursue their hopes and dreams. And I was seeing a shift when I was on city council. I’d sit in some of these meetings, and both Republicans – and Democrats would talk about education should be educating for the workforce. And there was something that didn’t click for me, and that is that is not the role of education to prepare people to go in and work. They’re supposed to be able to have the tools so that they can go choose what they want to do. I know that that is a nuance, but that is something that has concerned me deeply, Laurie Gimmelstein.
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Absolutely. And honestly, that’s what we’re seeing across the state. We’re seeing families really start to question, you know, why am I sending my children to this public school that is not even meeting its basic requirements. We are the constituents, taxpayers, parents, we’re the consumer. And what has happened is there is zero voice of transparency and accountability for these school board directors and the district administrators and this change in philosophy. And I look back at my parents, and they graduated in the 1960s from very small high schools in rural Massachusetts. And I’ll tell you what, my mom and my dad are light years ahead of the graduation outcomes that we’re seeing today. And it makes me really sad because there’s been this huge push that your pathway has to go to college and we’re sending our students off to college and colleges are reporting they have to put our students into remedial English and math classes because our students can’t do basic math and they don’t know how to write a paper. And it’s just so sad to see families think that the pathway that their child must be on is this next four-year degree. And honestly, Kim, what I’ve really, really seen over these last five years, as I’ve personally dug into researching why this is happening, is because it’s about income and not about outcome.
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And… And I know this is a bold statement, but one of the things with slave owners back when there was slavery in America was they did not want slaves to be able to read and write. And it is one of the most freeing things to do to be able to read and write. And I would suggest that we are putting kids in a different kind of slavery if they can’t read and write and communicate well. And but meanwhile, millions and millions of dollars are being spent and parents are thinking their kids are learning how to read and write. But it’s being spent on other stuff. Laurie Kimmelstein.
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You’re 100% correct. I agree with your statement. I think what we’re doing is we’re creating a society that’s going to be completely reliant upon the government. I think, you know, when you look at a school district like Cherry Creek, where nearly half of the students, nearly half, are not at grade level, and a district like Denver Public Schools, where It’s close to 70% of students are not at grade level. And if you dig down and you look into a middle school like Prairie Middle School, which feeds into Overland High School in Aurora, which is part of the Cherry Creek School District, nearly 90% of those middle schoolers, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade cannot read, write, and do math at grade level. And another really alarming thing that I think we as a society need to be very concerned about is the fact that they no longer teach cursive writing. Now, what we’re doing is we’re creating a generation of people that are using their school-issued laptops. to take notes and they’re no longer, what writing does, what cursive writing does is it helps us to build long-term memory because there is a process in terms of you’re taking out segments of the notes that you’re taking from a lecture and you’re writing them and it’s incorporating multiple parts of the brain. It’s not just typing to dictation. And the other thing, Kim, that’s really alarming, and I’m seeing this with a lot of my friends, is we now have young adults, 18, 19, 20 years old, that do not know how to sign their name. And what is the most important thing when it comes to voting? Your signature. When our children do not know how to sign their name because the school district moved away from penmanship and cursive writing, we will no longer be able to use the signature to ensure that voter records are correct.
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Ah, the web that is being woven on all of this. So what is being taught? We’re sending our kids off to school. They’re in a school for seven, eight, nine hours a day. If they’re not learning how to read and write and do arithmetic, what are they learning?
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Well, they’re certainly learning that gender is fluid. They’re learning about sexuality. They’re learning about LGBTQIA plus sexuality in particular, beginning in first grade through 12th grade through the new social studies standards that were passed by the 2022 State Board of Education after Governor Polis signed into law that LGBTQ was now a minority class. And it’s basically focused. I talk to students and parents every day. And when your student is being asked every day what their pronouns are, or if they identify as a boy or a girl, they’re told that it can be fluid. What’s happening is that it’s causing great distress. And we see this huge rise in mental health issues. And I think it’s very purposeful. And the other component that’s being pushed into education is this oppressor-oppressed model. And I remember back in 2020 when I first became alerted to the fact that the school district, Cherry Creek in particular, and again, this is happening across the state and multiple not only public schools but in some charter schools and in some private schools you really have to be on top of what your schools are teaching and get to know your teachers and make sure you’re doing a social media deep dive on your children’s teachers to see you know what they’re posting because it is absolutely coming into the classroom and they’re teaching children that their their worth is really based on immutable characteristics So their skin color, their sexuality, their gender, their size. I mean, there’s all it just makes no sense. You know, I think of growing up in the 70s and 80s and there was this huge push to eliminate stereotypes. Right. Like, so, you know, if you were a girl and you like to play, you know, cops and robbers and trucks and with your Hot Wheels, that’s totally fine. And if you were a boy and you wanted to, you know, play with dolls, that was fine. And now it’s the complete opposite. And it’s just this erasure of all the work that we’ve done as a society to just balance. you know be just happy and it’s causing great confusion and this confusion interestingly is now causing school districts to delve into areas that they do not belong they do not belong in mental health they do not belong in medical health and they’re building medical clinics and mental health clinics and again it comes back to this concept of these school districts are more concerned about income than on outcomes
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Okay, we’re going to continue this discussion. These medical clinics are of great concern. And also, Lori had a piece that was published in Colorado Politics regarding a DPS, Denver Public Schools, and their results, which are very dismal. So we will continue this discussion with Lori Gimmelstein. And all of this happens because of our sponsors. And the piece that Alicia Garcia… had written and we published this weekend regarding, basically, it’s regarding the red flag law and a lot of great eyes on that. And so I’m so appreciative both to Alicia Garcia and Teddy Collins and the Second Syndicate for their sponsorship of the show.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That’s kimmonson.com. And also check out the website for the Center for American Values. The center is located in Pueblo on the beautiful Riverwalk. And I’d highly recommend that you take a trip and check out their portraits of valor of the over 160 Medal of Honor recipients. I really think that if we had each student in Colorado, take one of those Medal of Honor recipients and learn about them, study about them and what their actions were. I think that it could change the direction of our state. And so the Center for American Values is doing great work. Check out that website. That is AmericanValuesCenter.org. I’m talking with Lori Gimmelstein. She’s a co-founder of CPAN, the Colorado Parents Advocacy Network, doing great work for our children and our families here in Colorado. And actually, I have people reach out to me, Lori, throughout the country. And many times I will connect them with you. You must not sleep because there is so much going on out there right now, Lori Gimmelstein.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, sleep is something that eludes me most days, but I’m really grateful for all the work we’ve been able to accomplish over the last few years. And I think back to when we launched, and that was just three years ago, November of 2022, and how much has been accomplished. And I remember thinking at the beginning of this journey, when my husband and I first became really concerned about our children, And then getting them to a point of safety and really realizing that this was something that we had to commit to because there are so many children being harmed. And I’m just so grateful for people like you. You were the first radio show host to host me on your show. to really start to make people aware. And at the beginning, I thought, gosh, if people only just knew what if they just knew what was happening, there would be this outcry. People would, you know, demand it stop. And unfortunately, that’s not what happened. And, you know, here we are three years later and now people are not only hearing what’s happening, they’re experiencing it firsthand themselves. And the harm that has been caused is just, you know, it’s just unforgivable. And we are shifting the culture in such a mighty way. And I’m just beyond just thrilled and in awe of what we’ve been able to accomplish from you know, civil rights complaints and op-eds in the papers and, you know, filing lawsuits against school districts and holding them accountable for the harm that they’ve caused and really getting people to see what it is that’s at risk. You know, it’s not just our children and their minds, their precious minds, but the future of this amazing country.
SPEAKER 04 :
Laurie, I remember when you were in studio, when we had that interview, and I think as you were sounding the alarm and talking about what was happening in schools, people found it very hard to believe that there was such a trust. And there’s wonderful teachers. I want to say there’s wonderful teachers, but that system makes it difficult on these wonderful teachers. And the system has been pushing this radical ideology. And when first explaining this to parents, I know even myself, parents would go, no, no, no way. That is impossible. But now people, because of the work that you’re doing and others, are realizing that this is happening.
SPEAKER 05 :
Absolutely. And, you know, I encourage people to just get engaged and informed. They can sign up on our Join Us page at coloradoparents.org. Every week we have new actions that people can take. So, you know, you don’t have to… run for school board or city council, but you can sign a petition and you can share that petition with your neighbor. We have a lot happening coming up later this week. We’re actually the Colorado Parent Advocacy Network is going to be launching a petition for Coloradans to sign to encourage our district attorneys to stand up and request emergency special session to address the competency law that Governor Polis signed last year that’s basically allowing violent felons to just get off with no criminal charges if they’re deemed incompetent. And, you know, there’s this kind of misinformation i hate to use that word but that’s exactly what is happening is people are saying oh they’re they’re not being criminally charged but they’re going to be in a psychiatric hospital uh maybe for three months maybe 12 months at the most but they will be released and we have violent felons that have been charged multiple times just being released back into our our communities. And most recently, we held a press conference two weeks ago at the Arapahoe County Judicial Center, and DA George Brockler joined us, and Susan Payne, with the founder of Faith to Tell, and we also had Representative Scott Bottoms, who’s running for governor here, you know, just to talk about this egregious law. And I am just done. I am done with school district administrators i’m done with the judicial system i’m done with the medical community the excuse is well there’s nothing we can do it’s the law and i completely disagree there is something you can do there is something you should be doing you should be raising the alarm you should be calling for emergency special session you should be notifying parents if the law has changed and you at the school district believe in parental rights And so I hope that your listeners will get engaged on coloradoparents.org. On our homepage, we have a red button, and that changes usually on a weekly basis with actions you can do. And that petition for all Coloradans, not only to sign, share it. Copy the link. Send it in a text message to all of your friends. The last time we did a grassroots petition was against House Bill 241312, deceptively titled Transgender Bill of Rights, that we’re now actively engaged in a lawsuit against the state for, for violating our First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. But we got nearly 35,000 signatures, and that was because of Coloradans, grassroots. No money was spent on that. It’s just people who genuinely care about our state and protecting our children.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, and Laurie Gimmelstein, you mentioned that it was in 2020. Let’s see, 2022. Is that right? When you really started to get active on this? Were you ever politically active before?
SPEAKER 05 :
Not at all. And, you know, I’ve come to realize that, you know, we always use the word indoctrinate. Now, today, it’s a very common term when we’re referencing education. And quite honestly, this has been a slow boil. I was indoctrinated when I was in school in the 80s. And I remember, first and foremost, I never had a civics class. likely because I moved in the fifth grade and I think where I was moving from and to, they just had different timetables on when civics was taught. But I was also, I remember being in history class and my history teacher saying, you don’t want to get engaged in politics, leave that to the politicians. So it was this tainted, you don’t want to step into the public square, You know, that’s for people without souls. You know, you just you did not want to engage. And now I see what a mistake that was and that our founding fathers really placed it upon us to be engaged, to be informed, to be self-reliant. And so I couldn’t be just more grateful for that wake-up call in 2020, because being in the public square is wonderful. You have so much impact, and I encourage people, you know, one of the first things that I did was I got online at the Independence Institute, and they had a really great class on local governance and getting engaged on local commissions and boards. And I know you, Kim, served on city council. I’m currently an election commissioner in the city of Aurora. My husband is on the finance committee. You can make a huge difference in your local community. just by running for one of these boards and commissions. And it’s one day a month, and it’s a great way to get engaged. And I encourage people, don’t fear being in the public square. It’s actually really fun, and you meet some of the best people.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, and you certainly are in the public square and helping so many people. Before we go to break, you mentioned that there are medical clinics on many school properties now. I didn’t realize that and then started to do some research on it. And it’s throughout the state. And one has to ask, is this the proper role of government? My understanding is many of these medical clinics, that it’s for people also not going to school there, so bringing people onto campus that may not have children at the school district. But then the laws that had changed here in Colorado were 12-year-olds. can have their own permission or state that they can take different drugs, a variety of things, and the parents don’t know. When I say that the radical left is playing long ball, they are. Putting these medical clinics on school property having children be able to make medical decisions at the age of 12 without their parents knowing, that is of great concern. But again, the radical left has been playing long ball on this.
SPEAKER 05 :
Absolutely. It comes back to income over outcome, for sure.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, and you’re saying income to these school districts. I find it somewhat refreshing that the Trump administration has said to different school districts and universities that if you continue to affirm this whole transgender activist ideology that you won’t have some of that income coming in. And I think that’s pretty brilliant on his part. And I also actually question is that the proper role of government anyway? But I think it sure is a step in the right direction.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I recently published an op-ed in Colorado Politics on the $70 million federal grant freeze to public schools, and that’s just here in Colorado. It was nearly $7 billion across the nation. And, you know, unfortunately… The Trump administration ended up releasing those funds despite school districts in Colorado that are continuing to teach these divisive ideologies, telling children that they’re either a victim or an oppressor and really causing a significant strife in childhood development. instead of teaching our kids to read, write, and do math. And so we were greatly disappointed, actually, that they did release that funding. And in the beginning, we were really encouraged because we genuinely were thrilled and It was so frustrating because Governor Polis made it, oh, this is a political attack. No, Governor Polis, it wasn’t. And in January, the executive order came down from President Trump saying you need to stop with diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. And I know your listeners know that diversity, equity, inclusion means none of that. And, you know, we like to call it uppercase DEI and because it’s very divisive. It’s not about kindness. And everything with gender fluidity and sexuality instruction in classrooms is completely off the rails. And we really must stand together. And I think the Trump administration, there were just so many lawsuits from a lot of these blue states. And I’m eager to find out what the next step will be to hold these school districts accountable. But When your school district, like Denver Public Schools, is yielding a 30% grade-level proficiency, only 30% of students are at grade level, what in the world? We need a system of better accountability, and I’ll tell you what, funneling more money into these corrupt institutions is not the answer, and it’s not the proper role of government.
SPEAKER 04 :
Gosh, I had seen the headline on that piece, but I hadn’t read through that. And that is very disappointing that that money was released because it is using then our money to then push an ideology in these public schools. And I so appreciate all the light that you’re shedding on this. We’re going to continue the discussion with Lori Gimmelstein. And they happen because of all of our sponsors for Everything Mortgages. Reach out to Lorne Levy. He can help you in 49 of the 50 states, just not New York.
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And welcome back. Cannot believe that it is August, but it is all month long. And on the 23rd, the USMC Memorial Foundation will be hosting an anniversary celebration, the 48th anniversary of the memorial out at 6th and Colfax. A great event is planned. You can buy tickets by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. That’s usmcmemorialfoundation.org. I’m talking with Lori Gimmelstein. She’s a co-founder of CPAN.org. which is Colorado Parents Advocacy Network. That website is coloradoparents.org. A lot of great information there. Lori, a piece that you’d recently was published at Colorado Politics and then over at Rocky Mountain Voice as well was Don’t Blame Trump, Colorado’s Education Crisis Was Created by Failed State and Local Leadership. And you had alluded to this in the previous segment, but only three in seven kids in Denver public schools are at grade level in math. And only four in 10 children are proficient in English. If you were running a business and you were only delivering 30% of the time to your clients, you wouldn’t be in business very long.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, you should be shuttering your doors very quickly. And quite honestly, a lot of the ideology that has been pushed into these classrooms and pushed into, you know, just everyday conversation, you know, it seems to be that that’s what we’re fighting. gender instruction, sexuality instruction, DEI. And the truth of the matter is what we need to be fighting is for our merit-based education. You started the conversation today alluding to the fact that our children do not have the education that they need to be successful. And that is leading to government reliance. And we must be that should be our number one focus. You know, if we can return to merit based academic education, all this other stuff will just fall off. People need to stand up and they need to see what is happening on their local school board. Cherry Creek, for example, our school board is all teacher union funded directors. So when they were campaigning, the teachers union was the one funneling money into their campaign. Just in Cherry Creek School District alone, upwards of $150,000 was spent by the teachers union against teachers. The two candidates that were representing the people of Cherry Creek, not the teachers union. And people need to understand that if your director is supported by the teachers union or your house representative or your senator, I can guarantee you they are not up to anything good.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, and. Maggie Thatcher, I think it was Maggie Thatcher that said something about that we can’t just stand against something. We need to stand for something. And so what you are talking about here, standing for a merit-based education where our kids are learning how to read and write and do arithmetic. And history, our whole history, the good, the bad, the ugly, because our history is based on an ideal. Now, the ideal is very, very good, and that is that all men are created equal, and we have these rights from God of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. That’s our North Star that we want to head towards, Laurie Gimmelstein. That’s what we hold up. That’s what we want to teach to. is these high high ideals and so as Maggie Thatcher said we not only have to we have to stand against evil no doubt about it but we have to stand for something and that is merit and that is good I was talking with someone the other day and I was thinking about those on the radical left And I realized that those on the radical left have no sense of humor, have no sense of wonder, and have no appreciation for beauty. And I thought, what a terrible way to live life. But they’re in control of so many different things. institutions, media, academia, that they’re pushing that onto our children. And that is an attitude of no hope. And so we have to stand for hope and stand for something, Laurie Gimmelstein. And I love what you’re talking about here.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, I love that. And I love how you’re also taking your, you know, the Medal of Honor recipients and connecting them with students. I think that that would be a wonderful opportunity. One of the things that the Colorado Parent Advocacy Network does is provide ongoing classes and informational resources. What a fun, collaborative program that we should talk about doing because, you know, partnering children with people who have served in our great military to protect our American dream and ideals, I think would be just such a phenomenal and worthy activity to do. So I’d love to do something like that. And the other things, Colorado Parent Advocacy Network, we have events all the time. Most recently, we’ve had a few press conferences to really highlight what’s happening up at the legislature and call for community action because you know it is we the people right we the people make these decisions not our government and i’m very excited to see the culture shifting and more and more people getting engaged and we also just recently hosted the second part of our rocky mountain series on safeguarding children from gender affirming treatment and i’m really excited to let people know that all of that content is going to be available next week on CPN TV, which you can find on our website at coloradoparents.org. And we have a really phenomenal way that we’ve put this content together. Instead of presenting the entire three-hour summit, which was incredible, we had both a medical, legal, and ethical panel, and then we had a family impact panel. And many of your listeners know Erin Lee, whose daughter, Chloe, was coerced into believing she was actually born in the wrong body in an after-school, quote-unquote, art club, which was really a gender and sexuality alliance club. And Chloe spoke for the very first time. She’s now 16, such a sweet, wonderful young lady, very shy, and she was nervous, but she was really the highlight of the event. She was at first reading her answers because he gave her her questions ahead of time. And then, you know, as she got more comfortable, she was just speaking, speaking to the audience, speaking to children in the audience that are navigating the same complexities she was when she was 12 and 13 years old. And, you know, we’re coming together, we’re shifting culture and we’re here for each other. And one of the other things that I really want to communicate is that we have to have We have to have grace, right? Because many, many people have been duped. I always say this. My friend Alvin Louie with Partners as a Habit, a great colleague of mine, very, very bright, especially around these medical clinics. So if you want to have somebody on to talk about school-based medical clinics, Alvin Louie is your guy. But he always says this. He says, they’re using our vocabulary but not our dictionary, and they’re weaponizing our kindness. And I just think it’s such a great way to capture it. And so many people have really been tricked into believing that all of this is about kindness and inclusivity. And now that they’re realizing the real harm that’s being caused, people are starting to get defensive because they don’t want to be wrong. They didn’t want to have to make that mistake. And I think we have to have grace to allow people to say, wow, I cannot believe that I was duped into that. And they should just stand up and say, I hold accountable these people that push these lies onto me, district administrators, school boards, that 100% know what they are doing and know what they are doing is wrong. And they’re convincing our wonderful teachers that are very kind-hearted, empathetic individuals, you know, into believing these lies. And so I encourage listeners to have a sense of grace and to, you know, help people kind of get out of that hole, if you will, give them a hand out.
SPEAKER 04 :
Absolutely. Absolutely, Lori Kimmelstein. We are out of time, but check out their website. It’s coloradoparents.org. And we will continue these discussions every day. So stay tuned. We’ll talk tomorrow.
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