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(00:00):
Like me about how it takes solong for them to figure out the Colorado
Supermarkets shooter. Is he's sane ornot? Just still been ongoing three or
four years now, going on fouryears and they haven't figured that one out.
The state experts have found that theman charged with the shooting killington people
had untreated mental illness but legally saneat the time of the attack. That's
(00:20):
the new assessment. And again we'rethree years in and nobody knows that we're
still on the motive anything like that. A lamand al a we a lease
out. It's been to the Statementalhospital all this time, and the family's
like, could we get some settlementhere, some rests, some closure,
and now we were trying to figureout the guy's say. Now they're like,
okay, he did have some issues, but he's saying long time.
(00:44):
Takes a long long time to getthis guy to court. All right,
we'll talk more about that here injust a moment. But it seemed like
it took a long long time forthe state legislature to wrap up. They
have a constitutional window in which theycan operate. Yesterday that constitutional window of
operation for the General Assembly wrapped up. They had to do what they called
siny die the final day, gabbledit out of session, and let's kind
(01:07):
of do a little post mortem ofthat session, if we may. I
welcome into the program Representative Ryan Amergost. He represents many of you in the
Birthed area. He's on the hotlinenow. Good morning, Representative Armagasta.
How are you. I'm good,Thank you for having me. How are
you doing well? Did you getto sleep in a little bit this morning?
Got a little bit arrested? Theyhave a vacation planned. It's been
(01:30):
a long couple of months. Yeah, definitely gonna take some time off to
just kind of get regather my brainactivity, get back into my normal swing
in life. Let's talk at kindof the post mortem of it. Why
do we celebrate? Why do wenot celebrate? One of the things I've
been commentating on since the start ofthe session is that everything that comes out
of there seems to be things thatmaybe aren't affecting the kitchen table issues,
(01:53):
cost of living, the housing market, roadways, infrastructure, education. I've
got a story here about how itended up with no construction defects reform.
I've got the story here about wolverineshave been approved to be reintroduced to Colorado
wine and liquor displays in grocery stores. What are the things that were actually
passed happened that are going to makeColorado affordable and or work on those kitchen
(02:19):
table issues, anything we should celebrate. I don't think there's anything necessarily worth
celebrating yet. I think there's goingto be a lot more coming to the
table and actually negotiating these issues.But the negotiations are obviously heavy handed on
one side over the other, whichis how we don't end up with a
good outcome. We come out withsomebody else's idea of a good outcome,
(02:39):
which is typically just smoking mirrors.So I don't think there's anything really worth
celebrating. The best thing that wecan celebrate as the small victories. I
think that we had on the Republicanside of being able to stop some of
the really bad legislation getting through andat least slowing down and softening some of
(02:59):
the other worse legislation that was ableto sneak through. Did you sense any
kind of moderation or restriction on theacross the aisle, Knowing that it's an
election year, A lot of timespeople say it's election year, they'll behave
themselves a little bit more wonderfully,They'll be much more amicable, they'll be
much more of Kumbai yah oriented didjust sensity had had in the session.
(03:22):
No, I was definitely expecting thatcoming into the session, and it was
worse this session than it was lastsession. I could easily say. There
was the extremism on the left wasshining through and it was just radiating to
everyone. We had a couple moderates, and then the year prior seemed like
it was more of the moderate Democratswere coming out of the woodwork, and
(03:45):
we kind of were hoping for abetter year this year and it just got
worse. So the looking at thevoting history and voting record on a lot
of the really bad bills, Iwas blown away by some of the people
that were voting the way that theydid, especially as it related to some
of the gun the anti gun legislationthat went through. A lot of people
that I wouldn't have expected to bevoting in favor were doing just that,
(04:08):
and that was very disappointing and disheartening. Ryan Armagas is my guest. Armagaust
He is my guest and He representsmany of you down the state Capitol in
the birthed area, and it's apleasure to have him here doing a post
war The day after they did thissiny die, they gabble out there,
out of there. I helped meunderstand how this management clock worked. And
(04:28):
because early on there's you know,there's a discussion. Of course, they
right out of the shoot. Theygot to prioritize these gun bills, and
there's wine display bills and liquor bills, and then you got the Wolverine build.
And I read the story this weekthat the construction defect reform they ran
out of time. Oh shoot,we got started too late on this.
We ran out of time. Theybarely got this little property tax reform bill
(04:48):
passed, which I had some bipartisansupport. It seems like some of these
kitchen table issues didn't They didn't leadwith them. They started with this agenda
stuff and then oh shoot, we'reout of time. We can't construction defects.
We barely get a property tax bill. Who says that priority? And
why do you think some of thosekitchen table average average every day Colorado and
(05:10):
bills just ran out of time.They didn't start with those well, I
think there's a lot of that inthis building that comes from the first floor.
There's a lot of governor's priorities thatcome down through the Democrats, and
then the Democrat leadership is able towork out what's a priority on the calendar
and what's not, and those thingsthat just kind of the stamp of the
fingers darned don't make it on thecalendar. It's very intentional the things that
(05:33):
they want to get through end upgetting through, like we saw last year
with all the proposition h age andeverything else that was able to get rammed
through at the last second, whenother bills spent the entire session on the
calendar and then fell off at thevery end. So very intentional. How
some of the calendar works out,some of it is definitely a circumstance.
(05:54):
But we all know with our bills, it's very lucky for anyone to get
through with their number of bills onthe calendar and finished in sessions signed by
the governor. So the governor,who oftentimes seems disengaged with the legislature and
he often has said, oh,I don't want to tell the legislature what
to do. You're saying he ispulling some strings, he is wielding his
(06:14):
influence, and he's not as let'ssay, he's not as hands off as
he might portray himself to be withthe agenda of the legislature. Oh absolutely,
I think he still wishes he wasa legislator, and as the governor,
he likes to have his hand inthat as much as possible. But
I think the other thing is he'strying to play moderate as well, which
we all know he's not. Buthe comes off with his whole moderate ideology
(06:38):
and kind of front for a facade, and I think that's for his future
aspirations and everything. But yeah,he's definitely got his hand in a lot
of what goes on around here.Yeah, he'll oftentimes sign a bill that's
crazy, saying I really don't likethis bill, but dog gunnet the legislature,
you know, they're the voice ofthe people. I'll sign it anyway.
So a lot of that's an actin some head bobbing and headshaking and
(07:02):
jolting around by the Governor's what yourestimation is, Oh, definitely, there's
some sidewinks going on when all thisis going on in front of the media
and otherwise you mentioned proposition eh Chasethat think they got stuck through at the
last minute. Most people didn't evenknow it got stuck through, and it
ended up just kind of a realmess in property taxes. Were still trying
(07:23):
to figure out the real repeal ofGallagher and how to fix that. All
that being said, is there anythingthat you're afraid got snuck through in these
last minutes. I know they weregoing through about sixty bills a day at
one point. Anything gets snuck throughthat we should be keeping a sharp eye
on to how it's going to biteus on the booty. No, I
don't think there was anything huge thatwas able to be snuck through that was
(07:44):
a big concern. There definitely wouldhave been a lot more attention on it.
But one of the things that theytried to get through was a huge
punitive bill on law enforcement House Billfourteen sixty, which was law enforcement misconduct
that was going to be It waslast minute, there was no sting.
It was introduced on a Thursday,it was in committee on a Tuesday,
and House floor the same week.So it was a fortunate thing that we
(08:07):
were able to get our law enforcementpartners in the building to definitely speak their
minds, speak their voice, andget their voices heard, and got a
lot of people to flip on thesponsors that bill, and we killed it
in the House And that was anamazing victory for us because that would have
been a huge detriment to law enforcement, much like the assault weapon ban that
made it all the way to theSenate before it got killed. So some
(08:30):
huge, huge things that really couldhave done some damage to Colorado and our
citizens and businesses and our public safety. But luckily it was able to get
stopped. Ryan Armagost, Republican representativein the House Legislature of the State Legislature
House District sixty four that includes partsof Larimer and Well Countying parts of the
communities of Greeley, Johnstown, HouseDistrict sixty four, Birthed Area, How
(08:54):
old berth it? How are youdoing this morning? Even parts of Mead
as well, Ryan Armagosta. Isa pleasure. I get some rest and
thanks for all you guys did tokind of hold back the raiders from my
wallet and from our freedoms. Iappreciate you, all right, Thank you,
sir. You got a Ryan armagGosta House District sixty three sixty four.
(09:16):
Excuse me, he may be yourstate representative. If you didn't know
that he's your state representative, youought to learn these things. You got
to know who's representing you on thefront lines. I'll be back Laky on
the radio, six hundred k col
Like me about how it takes solong for them to figure out the Colorado
Supermarkets shooter. Is he's sane ornot? Just still been ongoing three or
four years now, going on fouryears and they haven't figured that one out.
The state experts have found that theman charged with the shooting killington people
had untreated mental illness but legally saneat the time of the attack. That's
(00:20):
the new assessment. And again we'rethree years in and nobody knows that we're
still on the motive anything like that. A lamand al a we a lease
out. It's been to the Statementalhospital all this time, and the family's
like, could we get some settlementhere, some rests, some closure,
and now we were trying to figureout the guy's say. Now they're like,
okay, he did have some issues, but he's saying long time.
(00:44):
Takes a long long time to getthis guy to court. All right,
we'll talk more about that here injust a moment. But it seemed like
it took a long long time forthe state legislature to wrap up. They
have a constitutional window in which theycan operate. Yesterday that constitutional window of
operation for the General Assembly wrapped up. They had to do what they called
siny die the final day, gabbledit out of session, and let's kind
(01:07):
of do a little post mortem ofthat session, if we may. I
welcome into the program Representative Ryan Amergost. He represents many of you in the
Birthed area. He's on the hotlinenow. Good morning, Representative Armagasta.
How are you. I'm good,Thank you for having me. How are
you doing well? Did you getto sleep in a little bit this morning?
Got a little bit arrested? Theyhave a vacation planned. It's been
(01:30):
a long couple of months. Yeah, definitely gonna take some time off to
just kind of get regather my brainactivity, get back into my normal swing
in life. Let's talk at kindof the post mortem of it. Why
do we celebrate? Why do wenot celebrate? One of the things I've
been commentating on since the start ofthe session is that everything that comes out
of there seems to be things thatmaybe aren't affecting the kitchen table issues,
(01:53):
cost of living, the housing market, roadways, infrastructure, education. I've
got a story here about how itended up with no construction defects reform.
I've got the story here about wolverineshave been approved to be reintroduced to Colorado
wine and liquor displays in grocery stores. What are the things that were actually
passed happened that are going to makeColorado affordable and or work on those kitchen
(02:19):
table issues, anything we should celebrate. I don't think there's anything necessarily worth
celebrating yet. I think there's goingto be a lot more coming to the
table and actually negotiating these issues.But the negotiations are obviously heavy handed on
one side over the other, whichis how we don't end up with a
good outcome. We come out withsomebody else's idea of a good outcome,
(02:39):
which is typically just smoking mirrors.So I don't think there's anything really worth
celebrating. The best thing that wecan celebrate as the small victories. I
think that we had on the Republicanside of being able to stop some of
the really bad legislation getting through andat least slowing down and softening some of
(02:59):
the other worse legislation that was ableto sneak through. Did you sense any
kind of moderation or restriction on theacross the aisle, Knowing that it's an
election year, A lot of timespeople say it's election year, they'll behave
themselves a little bit more wonderfully,They'll be much more amicable, they'll be
much more of Kumbai yah oriented didjust sensity had had in the session.
(03:22):
No, I was definitely expecting thatcoming into the session, and it was
worse this session than it was lastsession. I could easily say. There
was the extremism on the left wasshining through and it was just radiating to
everyone. We had a couple moderates, and then the year prior seemed like
it was more of the moderate Democratswere coming out of the woodwork, and
(03:45):
we kind of were hoping for abetter year this year and it just got
worse. So the looking at thevoting history and voting record on a lot
of the really bad bills, Iwas blown away by some of the people
that were voting the way that theydid, especially as it related to some
of the gun the anti gun legislationthat went through. A lot of people
that I wouldn't have expected to bevoting in favor were doing just that,
(04:08):
and that was very disappointing and disheartening. Ryan Armagas is my guest. Armagaust
He is my guest and He representsmany of you down the state Capitol in
the birthed area, and it's apleasure to have him here doing a post
war The day after they did thissiny die, they gabble out there,
out of there. I helped meunderstand how this management clock worked. And
(04:28):
because early on there's you know,there's a discussion. Of course, they
right out of the shoot. Theygot to prioritize these gun bills, and
there's wine display bills and liquor bills, and then you got the Wolverine build.
And I read the story this weekthat the construction defect reform they ran
out of time. Oh shoot,we got started too late on this.
We ran out of time. Theybarely got this little property tax reform bill
(04:48):
passed, which I had some bipartisansupport. It seems like some of these
kitchen table issues didn't They didn't leadwith them. They started with this agenda
stuff and then oh shoot, we'reout of time. We can't construction defects.
We barely get a property tax bill. Who says that priority? And
why do you think some of thosekitchen table average average every day Colorado and
(05:10):
bills just ran out of time.They didn't start with those well, I
think there's a lot of that inthis building that comes from the first floor.
There's a lot of governor's priorities thatcome down through the Democrats, and
then the Democrat leadership is able towork out what's a priority on the calendar
and what's not, and those thingsthat just kind of the stamp of the
fingers darned don't make it on thecalendar. It's very intentional the things that
(05:33):
they want to get through end upgetting through, like we saw last year
with all the proposition h age andeverything else that was able to get rammed
through at the last second, whenother bills spent the entire session on the
calendar and then fell off at thevery end. So very intentional. How
some of the calendar works out,some of it is definitely a circumstance.
(05:54):
But we all know with our bills, it's very lucky for anyone to get
through with their number of bills onthe calendar and finished in sessions signed by
the governor. So the governor,who oftentimes seems disengaged with the legislature and
he often has said, oh,I don't want to tell the legislature what
to do. You're saying he ispulling some strings, he is wielding his
(06:14):
influence, and he's not as let'ssay, he's not as hands off as
he might portray himself to be withthe agenda of the legislature. Oh absolutely,
I think he still wishes he wasa legislator, and as the governor,
he likes to have his hand inthat as much as possible. But
I think the other thing is he'strying to play moderate as well, which
we all know he's not. Buthe comes off with his whole moderate ideology
(06:38):
and kind of front for a facade, and I think that's for his future
aspirations and everything. But yeah,he's definitely got his hand in a lot
of what goes on around here.Yeah, he'll oftentimes sign a bill that's
crazy, saying I really don't likethis bill, but dog gunnet the legislature,
you know, they're the voice ofthe people. I'll sign it anyway.
So a lot of that's an actin some head bobbing and headshaking and
(07:02):
jolting around by the Governor's what yourestimation is, Oh, definitely, there's
some sidewinks going on when all thisis going on in front of the media
and otherwise you mentioned proposition eh Chasethat think they got stuck through at the
last minute. Most people didn't evenknow it got stuck through, and it
ended up just kind of a realmess in property taxes. Were still trying
(07:23):
to figure out the real repeal ofGallagher and how to fix that. All
that being said, is there anythingthat you're afraid got snuck through in these
last minutes. I know they weregoing through about sixty bills a day at
one point. Anything gets snuck throughthat we should be keeping a sharp eye
on to how it's going to biteus on the booty. No, I
don't think there was anything huge thatwas able to be snuck through that was
(07:44):
a big concern. There definitely wouldhave been a lot more attention on it.
But one of the things that theytried to get through was a huge
punitive bill on law enforcement House Billfourteen sixty, which was law enforcement misconduct
that was going to be It waslast minute, there was no sting.
It was introduced on a Thursday,it was in committee on a Tuesday,
and House floor the same week.So it was a fortunate thing that we
(08:07):
were able to get our law enforcementpartners in the building to definitely speak their
minds, speak their voice, andget their voices heard, and got a
lot of people to flip on thesponsors that bill, and we killed it
in the House And that was anamazing victory for us because that would have
been a huge detriment to law enforcement, much like the assault weapon ban that
made it all the way to theSenate before it got killed. So some
(08:30):
huge, huge things that really couldhave done some damage to Colorado and our
citizens and businesses and our public safety. But luckily it was able to get
stopped. Ryan Armagost, Republican representativein the House Legislature of the State Legislature
House District sixty four that includes partsof Larimer and Well Countying parts of the
communities of Greeley, Johnstown, HouseDistrict sixty four, Birthed Area, How
(08:54):
old berth it? How are youdoing this morning? Even parts of Mead
as well, Ryan Armagosta. Isa pleasure. I get some rest and
thanks for all you guys did tokind of hold back the raiders from my
wallet and from our freedoms. Iappreciate you, all right, Thank you,
sir. You got a Ryan armagGosta House District sixty three sixty four.
(09:16):
Excuse me, he may be yourstate representative. If you didn't know
that he's your state representative, youought to learn these things. You got
to know who's representing you on thefront lines. I'll be back Laky on
the radio, six hundred k col
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