062624 Jimmy Hour 1

Episode Transcript

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Listen. I have something to say. Oh wait to forgot what's going on?
Wait? No, no, no, I remember it's time to wake
up. Now. Can you tellme what day it is? Wednesday?
Which is Humpday? Wednesday Humpday,big celebratory day in the workforce. Let
me turn on your favorite show,something worth listening. Are you ready to
be entertained? I was born ready, it's showtime. All right, here

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we go, my friends, humpDay, halfway till Friday showtime. It
is laky behind the microphone. You'rein front of the speakers, and I
believe that's the way the Good Lordintended to be going right now, So
glad to have you here. Itis hump day. It's also the day
after the primary election in Colorado.And what do you say? Give me
your analysis? Got a lot ofanalysis, a lot of great guests on
the program this morning to review whathappened in Colorado last evening. Some people

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I think are very happy. Somepeople probably say, well, that guy's
not conservative enough for that guy's notmoderate enough, or whatever. It's just
kind of not everybody's going to behappy in an election. But I'm telling
you it was an interesting one towatch last night. I've got some thoughts
and analysis on that, but let'sgo across the board. Yet, Jeff
Crank wins the seat for the Republicannomination, I guess not that he has

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won the seat yet. That comesin November down in Congressional District five,
Jeff heard up in Congressional District three, there's a Republican to replace to replace
Lauren Boebert, and I'll get theDemocrat side as well. You also have
the ones we've been following most closely, Gabe Evans versus Janet Joshi. Well,

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that was a sound defeat for Janet. Joshi gave Evans across the finish
line by a large margin. Andthen, of course, the one of
the ones that I guess nationally hadbeen watched as the Republican the primary in
CD four after Kenny Buck had abandonedhis post and dog got it. Yeah,
Now Kenny Buck is a distant blipin our radar rear view mirror,

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because we have Greg Lopez going tobe the fillip that seat until January.
Greg's going to be on the showthis morning. And then Lauren Bobert wins
the Republican nomination. I think secondplace on that was Jerry Sonberg. Third
place I think was deb Flora,but it wasn't. It was tens of
thousands of votes difference between first andsecond and third place. So Lauren Bobert's

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readily and handily won that seat atleast a nomination, and a lot of
people figure at least in that seatthe fourth seed and the fifth seat that
Crank and Bobert are pretty much goingto be the new members of Congress come
January, so we can talk aboutthat. Looks like Perry Buck got across
the line in that very contention.Just let's just say a Weld County at

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large seat, Barb Kirkmeyer won aprimary challenge. Barb's going to be on
the show this morning, so it'sacross that. We followed a lot of
this. Kathy Gebhart won the Democratseat in Boulder for the state Board of
Education nomination, that meaning that shewill win the state Board of Education from
congressional district too. That was aninteresting one because a called Progressives for Teachers

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and Students had endorsed her opponent andsaid that their opponent was more pro charter
schools than that Kathy Gebhart had havingbeen the chairperson or the president of the
Boulder Valley School District was not necessarilyin favor of charter schools, and so
there tens of hundreds of thousands ofdollars went into that race against Kathy Gebhart.
But Kathy Gebhart pulls across the finishline as the Democrat nomination nominee for

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the Boulder Well, it's not Boulder, it's the it's a CD two Congressional
District two, which contains many peoplethat are in this listening audience, and
not just Boulder to Fort Collins,because CD two is a congressional district that
entails a lot of the Boulder FortCollins areas. So Kathy Gapard gets the
State Board of Education. I sawthe I think I saw early voting numbers

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when they had called the race,and not many people voted in that race.
It was a Democrat primary, andthis just shows one of these primaries
and I tell you to get outof vote. I haven't seen the total
vote count, but the vote countthat I saw, even after they had
called it, it was only likefourteen hundred votes had been cast if I
was looking at the right numbers,So it was not a lot of hundreds
of thousands of dollars spent in thatrace to not get Kathy Gabpart across the

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finish line, and she gets acrossthe finish line. Anyway, anyway,
I'll see, I'll find the totalvote count. But it shows you that
in those races that are pretty pivotal, that it sometimes in primaries it doesn't
take much to get people across thefinish line. And Gappard got across the
finish line. So lots of thingsto get to. There's a bigger picture

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that I think we have to lookat in this Colorado GOP in the Colorado
primary, and that pretty much acrossthe board. I think it was a
repudiation for the tactics of the stateparty chairperson Dave Williams and the poled Bureau
of three that decided they were goingto endorse candidates or not endorse candidates in
a GOP primary, which was reallyan unprecedented move to use the party apparatus

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to try to advance some candidates overothers. I personally found it to be
kind of grotesque, having been acandidate for Congress, probably wasn't the favorite
of the party bosses when I ranfor Congress. But they didn't interfere with
me. They let me be me. They didn't have endorsed publicly my opponent.
Privately, they might have wished it, all of us would have cleared

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the field and let the guy thatthey wanted, Ryan Fraser, to get
across the finish line uncontested, butwe chose not to. And to my
knowledge and everything that I can tell, I think I was treated fairly in
that primary, and I can't imaginehow it would have felt. And it
ticked me off had I not beenallowed across the fit at least to race
my race without the interference of theparty apparatus. I was bothered by the

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whole endorsement scam, scam and schemeby Dave Williams. It's one of those
things that's also a golden life thatI have, and I don't always succeed.
Perfection is a far cry from me. But you know the old golden
rule, just do unto others asyou want them to do, until you
treat others the way you want tobe treated. And all these people that
had jumped in in the party andwe're elected and had decided we're going to

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do endorsements. My God, we'regoing to say the poled Bureau committee of
three or four are going to useit all the time, effort energy from
the State GOP, the State RepublicanParty and endorse candidates. I'm thinking,
well, what would you say?How would you feel if the party under
different leadership was offering endorsement to certaincandidates? You would say that's awful.

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They would like that. So Ihad a real problem on the principle of
it is like we doing to othersas you would want them to do unto
you. And the same people thatwere offering these endorsements is if they had
some mantle from on high and theyonly could issue the anointing oil on the
candidate. I'm sorry that they wouldhave squawked the loudest and screamed the loudest
had that party mechanism under other leadershipbeen used against them and their candidates.

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So I thought it was not agood move by Dave Williams and the State
GOP. And it's a lot ofinside baseball. I don't talk a lot
of inside baseball, but I doon this one because I thought it was
wrong basically across the board. Fromwhat I can tell, there may be
some dogcatcher seat that I'm missing,But all the major races that the state
Party tried to put their thumb onthe scale, the state Party was repudiated.

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Even Dave Williams himself lost his nominationby a pretty good margin down in
CD five, which is really surroundedby Colorado Springs. They're pretty safe conservative
district, so Jeff Crank should beable to win the general election down there,
but Dave Williams wanted to be thenominee, and Dave Williams, who
also serves as a state Party chairman, was pretty handily slapped down. And

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that I think there's a repudiation isthe word that I was texting last night
and said, I don't see howyou see it any other way to this
tactic that the self righteous or theself anointed at the state party level were
going to come down from on highwith the anointing oil and say these are
the chosen ones. And then ofcourse I think they had egg on their
face and the scheme was totally exposedwhen they said that Janet Joshi, who's

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a very nice man, Janet Joshiwas the anointed one in CD eight and
because somehow they had the trump anointingoil and then Donald Trump came back and
said, now you're not. It'sGabe Evans. So it's fascinating to watch
a little bit of inside party baseball. It might be boring to some,
but it's quite fascinating indeed to see. It's quite fascinating to see how the

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state party, the GOP, failedin getting certain candidates across the finish line,
but the people decided to vote toget other people across the finish line.
There's a couple of other races thatI thought were very interesting. Some
of the one of the incumbents downto the state House that had been controversy
accused of anti Semitism. Governor Polusand other Democrats had endorsed her primary opponent,

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while that lady got defeated and theprimary opponent wins. So some people
would say that they in a coupleof races that the well, you could
probably say this if you're looking atit from an outside the parties in some
instances decided to kind of push awayfrom the most far right or the far
le after the most some of youcall it extreme, but just they kind

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of went with the more the onesthat weren't squawking that they are the most
vocal or whatever. The only partyrace endorsed race on the Republican side that
was victorious for a candidate that wasendorsed by the state polit bureau was Lauren
Bobert. But I don't think thestate party had a dang bit of effect
on Lauren Bobert. Lauren Bobert hadvery high name recognition, She had millions

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of dollars of a war chest,and so she was going to win that
if she was going to win iton her own, and it wasn't going
to matter there's some state poled bureauor unelected bureaucrat or state party official had
decided to make an announcement that weendorse her. It's kind of like,
well, no one cared at thatpoint. But Lauren Bobert had her own
apparatus in which she could run andshe did not need or it did not

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help her a bit to know thatthe state party, if you will,
had endorsed her. A matter offact, it could have hurt her.
She could have won that maybe bya larger number. So anyway, the
Colorado primary results are in. Acrossthe board, Democrats and Republicans are now
setting their campaign strategicy for November inColorado. The candidates have been chosen on
the field and we will talk aboutthat throughout the course of the morning.

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If you'd like to review it withme, feel free give me your thoughts.
Eight six six triple eight fifty fourto forty nine. Eight six six
triple eight fifty four to forty nine. John Walsh took the lead of the
Denver d a race that happened lastnight. But there's just so many little
races. Oh, Elizabeth Apps,That's what I was talking about from House
District six. She was the hamasapologist and a Democrat and she was running

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for re election as a Democrat inCD six. It's a Denver based house
primary, and Jared Poulos and otherpeople said, yeah, Elizabeth Apps is
a little bit extreme for us.And so Elizabeth Epps was kicked to the
curb last evening. And as shewas kicked to the curb, it's it's
a Camacho. Mister Camacho wins thatrace. And that was the Polus endorsed

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candidate. So Elizabeth Apps was kickedto the curb by her party as well.
Ronda Fields, it's the name youmight recognize she was in the state
House, state Senate. She wona race for a Rapahoe County commissioners last
evening in District five. And there'sjust a lot of little races and so
I won't get down into the toomuch into the details of it, but
it was an interesting night and Ithink the biggest picture of all the bat

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this said. And there were somepretty crazy candidates that were kicked to the
curb. There's some crazy money therewas rebuffed in that district to state Board
of Education seed. But I thinkthere's one big story I think that is
quite interesting is that the Colorado RepublicanParty, the voters repudiated their their leadership.
And again, most voters that areRepublican don't give a rats, but

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Tutity couldn't name you the party chairman, if if if if you wanted them
to, and but for this.So I think that's the other part of
the story is that the voters,like Dave Williams said, what we're supposed
to endorse who we don't care,they don't get, they don't want,
they're not signed up or want readingthe emails that come from the self righteous
or self people that make themselves outto be more important than they are.

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And that's one of the reasons Isaid on the radio. I don't endorse
candidates as primaries. First of all, a lot of them were friends.
Many of them are friends that Igot to choose, and I had to
make choices. Sometimes I've voted forpeople that I've were going to tell them
wh I voted for. All thesecandidates that I get to vote for my
ballot, we're friends of mine,and I don't endorse. But I also
don't endorse because I don't want topretend to be more important than I am.

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And the Jimmy Lakey voter gat Icould get some news coverage off of
it, they'd probably put it onComplete Colorado, but I don't think it
matters. I think people are smartenough, and I don't want to be
like the state party sitting on endorsementletters as if you should listen to me
because you're smart people, and peoplewill vote the way they want and people
have a specific question. I'm happyto do it, but I don't need
to go around and I just theendorsement game sometimes bothers me, especially when

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now if I get if you're aDemocrat, you want Jered Poulis's endorsement.
I totally get that if you're aRepublican, you'll want a Donald Trump endorsement.
I get that. That's not whatI'm talking about. I'm talking about
some person that most people that areregistered in a party don't know, is
offering some endorsement. I don't thinkit carries that much weight, but I
think it makes the person feel kindof a It's kind of a narcissistic tool,

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I think. And I think that'swhat this happened to the state party
is that they were the keepers ofthe mantle, the mantle that carried the
annointing go oile love somebody, andthey threw that annointing oil around and it
didn't work out so well. Theywere repudiated last night. So anyway,
your thoughts in the Colorado primary.Now, all eyes turned to the debate
stage. Tomorrow night will be adebate between Joseph Biden and Donald Trump.

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That's going to be tomorrow night inAtlanta. We'll talk some prognostication about that
and kind of looking forward to thattoday and tomorrow, and of course Friday
gave you full analysis of that onthe show this morning. Going over lots
of topics. We won't be allprimary all morning, but we will review
some of the details and give someof the thoughts on it. We'll have
Steve Lafey on the program. He'sin for his regular Wednesday segment. Laura

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Carno's coming out a radio retirement forme this morning. Her and I were
She was one of the persons Iwas texting back and forth with last night
getting thoughts. I always have enjoyedLaura Carno's analysis of Colorado politics. Laura
Carno's going to join me on theprogram this morning. You haven't heard from
her in a while. Used tobe Carno Tuesday all the time. She's
got busy and had to not doCarno Tuesday as much with just some other

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projects she was working on. Butshe has agreed to come out of radio
retirement this morning and talk to meat seven thirty five this morning. Is
if you're a Carno fan, that'sseven thirty five this morning. Barb Kirkmeyer,
who won her primary and Senate Districttwenty three, She's on the program.
Gave Evans, the Republican nominee inCongressional District eight, is on the
program. Jenny Beth Martin's going tobe on the program. We'll talk about

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tomorrow's debate, and also Greg Lopezgoing to be on the show. He
is not really the placeholder. Heis the temporary or current congressman elect that
will go to Washington and begin torepresent CD eight Congressional District eight excuse me,
CD four after Kenny Buck abandoned postand did not fulfill the terms of

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his office. And I don't knowwhat Ken's doing now. I wish him
well, but I still don't thinkthat was a very classy thing to do,
just walk away from the office andleave the people, many of you,
the good people of the fourth CongressionalDistrict unrepresented for the last many months.
But Greg Lopez should Today he'll probablyhear from the Speaker of the House,
and you'll probably hear from the Speakerin the House today and then he'll

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go to Washington, d C.Greg Lopez schell, and he will be
sworn in as a member of Congressfor the fourth Congressional district. I heard
last night. We'll talk to Gregas well. He'll be working with probably
the Lauren Bobert team that will shealready has in place, and because she's
just moving congressional offices and kind ofwork to set that office up for her

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to take over. Assuming a victoryfor her in November, that's pretty safe
seat for Lauren. CD four andalso CD five two Republican safe seeds.
It's kind of like CD one andCD two are guaranteed Democrat safe seats.
That's how the things have been drawnup. There have been exceptions to those
rules, but that's kind of theexpectation. The big contentious race I think
now we're going to be watching fouris going to be in CD eight.

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That's where all the money's going togo. Heading into November. You're going
to see a lot of money supportingand or not supporting Gadarick Caravello and gab
gave Evans and Congressional District eight.And that was barely if four five,
six hundred votes or something. Wasthe separation between Yadira Caravello last time getting
over the finish line over Barb Kirkmeyer, and now gave Evans is going to
give it a shot. There'll bea lot of money because they say that

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is one of the most contentious andwinnable seats. Are flippable seats for Republicans
in November. So that's going tobe where a lot of the tax,
title, license, and energy goingto go into CD eight. Now that
these other ballots have been set,also, you got Congressional District six is
going to be interesting to watch.That's the seat that Lauren Bobert holds excuse
me, currently, and she's goingto not hold that seat as of January

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and probably represents CD four. ButJeff Heard is the Republican and Adam Fritch
is the Democrat. And Fritch barelylost that race last time. Now there's
a speculation that maybe he barely lostthat race last time because he was running
against Lauren Bobert. And that's oneof the reasons Lauren Bolbert fled the district
is because her popularity had her herpopularity had dwindled there. They had waned

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there in the sixth Congressional District.But Adam Fritch is a Aspen City council
person, or was, and he'sa Democrat well funded. He began his
election his second attempt to run forthat scene. He began that the day
the last election was called for LaurenBobert. So he's been campaigning a while
and Jeff heard is the Republican upthere, and he got across the finish

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line that he's going to try tokeep that seat. Rad willsee. I
don't know the polling numbers up there. That's a flippable seat for the Democrats.
That's one that the Democrats could easilywin, they almost wanted last time.
So there could be some just interestingdevelopments. That's a seat that because
it's a different television market than mostof us are in, you don't see
as much attention on that seat.But a CD six is going to be
interesting. That's going to be JeffHeard versus Adam Fritch the Democrat, Jeff

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Heard the Republican. So, Imean, so many things to get to.
There's so many bylines in this thing. But again I think the overall
story and again I just don't dothe just don't do the inside baseball party
stuff and central committees. But Ido find it interesting that everybody that the
state party apparatus had decided to tryto touch and annoint. It was a

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repudiation. It really was across theboard. And I think the biggest surprise
last night again, I went tobed before all the final numbers were in,
and there's still numbers coming in.But the biggest surprise last night was
CD five and that not only didJeff Crank win, but it was a
thumpin' to Dave Williams of all theeffort that they put into the state party

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to get him to the nomination.So anyway, lots of things to talk
about this morning, the election lastnight, what does it mean for November?
And they're getting ready for the debateon Thursday. Everybody stand by Laky
on the radio hump day halfway toFriday. Laky, six hundred k col

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All right, here we go,welcome back to the program. The day
after the fallout. The Colorado primaryis done and the ballots being set for
November, and do your person winthey lose. I got a piece here
I want to get to from theColorado Gazette that the headline Columada voters had
resounding primary defeats to candidates from bothparties' furthest flung wings. I think that's

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a fair analysis for the most part. We'll talk about that here in just
a moment. Hey, it's summertime, though, and summertime means a lot
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primaries happened yesterday. I think itis a fair assessment that in many

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instances of the both parties. Democratshad Republicans handed defeats to parties from their
furthest flung wings. I think thatis a fair headline by the Colorado Springs
Gazeppe. It was also a repudiationfor the Colorado Republican Party apparatus, Dave
Williams and company, because they triedto play in a primary in a way
that was unprecedented by endorsing certain candidates, and pretty much every one of their

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candidates that were endorsed got spanked lastnight in a pretty handy manner. The
only one that was endorsed, Ithink by the folded bureau of the Republican
Party was Lauren Bober. She didn'tlose, she won, But Lauren Bober
did not need the apparatus of thisparty. With her coffers, campaign coffers
and just her name identity, thestate party was irrelevant to her. They

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were kind of jumping on a bandwagon. They would have been foolish to try
to endorse anybody else in that race. So it was a repudiation. And
let me just read from the GazetteDenver Gazette dot com. Up and down
the ballot, Colorada voters on Tuesdaydealt decisive primary losses to Republican and Democrat
parties farthest flung wings in nearly everymajor contest, nominating instead candidates viewed as

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less confrontational and less abrasive. Theelection results marked a thumping defeat for the
state Republican leaders who broke with longstanding tradition this year to endorse candidates in
primaries, including the party's chairman DaveWilliams, who lost heavily in Republican fifth
Congressional District by a wide margin toform a radio host and my friend Jeff

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Crank. Underlining the Colorada Republican Party'sperformance in primaries is that at press at
time, for teen of the party'seighteen picks in the contested race had gone
down in flames, including congressional andlegislative hopeful statewide. So it was a
really bad night for the politic,the bureaucrats and the public bureau of the

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Republican Party who tried to tell youwho to vote for. The people that
actually vote in the Republican primary,said Dave Williams said, what, we
don't care. It doesn't matter.In a pair of closely watched legislative races
across the island solidly Democratic. Denvervoters ousted two state lawmakers who routinely found
themselves at odds with their own party, including Tim Hernandez and Representative Elizabeth Epps.

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Democrats sent both of them packing away. Perhaps providing the exception to the
rule was Lauren Bobert, which Isaid, one of the Washington's most avowedly
pugilistic Republican voices, and away froma nomination in her new district, leaving
five primary rivals in the dust,with only a couple of them even cracking
dud double digits. So there wasthat exception, But I said, Lauren

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Bobert has her own brand, ifyou will, and it's just fascinating that
what happened across the island. Ithink the Elizabeth app story is probably the
biggest example that Elizabeth Apps had beena very vocal anti Israel member of the
Democrat party and she got kicked tothe curb. Jared Polus endorsed her opponent,
and so there's some squabbling on theDemocrat side as well. The race

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that I was following most closely wasthe CD two District two State Board of
Education race. I thought Kathy Gabhartmay go down in a blaze of glory.
But the voting totals of this arejust amazing. I'm looking at them.
Several hundred votes, several thousand votes, hundreds of thousands of people have
the opportunity to vote in that typething, and then you start to complain.

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People complain, well, why whyshould I vote for the Board of
Education? Well, because it doesn'ttake much to get somebody on the Board
of Education. It's a race thatdoes oftentimes digl but it is a race
it is very important to the futureof the state of Colorado. So some
of these vote total numbers are alsoshocking about how many people just didn't even
take the time to vote at all. So anyway, we'll dive into this.

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Steve Laffey's going to be on theprogram this morning. Laura Carno's coming
out of radio retirement to give mesome analysis as well. I've used the
phrase repudiation. I've had three peopletext me and say, yeah, that's
pretty much a good word, repudiationof the Colorado GOP party, as the
voters that voted in the primary hada different thing in mind than what the
polit bureau of the party had inmind. So we'll talk to Steve Laughy,

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Laura Carno, Barbin Kirkmeyer won herprimary last night in the Colorado Senate
seat twenty three district. Gabe Evansgot across the finish line in CD eight,
and we'll talk with Gabe Evans ateight thirty five this morning. Jenny
Beth Martin's going to jump out.We'll preview tomorrow at night's debates or some
of that conversation as well. Ithink Greg Lopez is he's the new congressman
elect from CD four. Yes,Lauren Bobert got the nomination, and she's

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going to try to win that generalelection in November and be sworn in in
CD four in January. But GabeEvans is going to be probably in the
next twenty four to forty eight hourssworn in and he will actually be your
representative in CD four since Kenny Buckabandoned ship and left Jo high and dry
with no representation, So Greg Lopezgoing to be the fill in there for

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that. All right, It's vacationtime in Americas outside of politics, and
a poll found that Americans take fewervacation days than any other country in the
world. The average American gets twelvedays off a year, and fifty three
percent of Americans don't take them atall. As a fourth of July approaches,
is it going to be that peopleare going to celebrate the patriotic way

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of being a slave to corporate Americasitting at their computer and catching up on
work. A report from Expedia foundthat Americans take fewer days off than any
other country in the world. Onaverage, we get twelve vacation days a
year, and fifty three percent ofus don't use them. That's despite the
fact that two thirds of us feellike we don't step away enough. The

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topics use life is too busy toplan to go on a vacation. Japan
actually gets fewer paid days off.They get eleven, but they're much more
likely to take all eleven days andmore likely to break and also more likely
to break them up. So onehere, one there. Most Americans take
their vacations in chunks, while Japanprefers to take long weekends. Thirty two
percent of people take at least oneday off a month, compared to five

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percent of Americans. Let me readthat again. Thirty two percent of Japanese
take at least one day off amonth. Only five percent of Americans do
that. So who takes the mostvacation days any We won't want to guess,
You're probably right. This is whatI guess. It's the French.
The average worker in France gets paidtwenty nine days off a year, paid

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vacation, paid holiday, and theyseem to take it. That's two and
a half times more than Americans get, and somehow they still think it They
don't think it's enough. Sixty fivepercent of people in the US think they
deserve more time off. Sixty ninepercent of French people say they deserve more
time off, even though they alreadyget twenty nine days. So the final
analysis of this expeedy a poll isthe study find that over the course of

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the career, the average American willlet forty five vacation days go unused.
The average American, over the courseof their career will let forty five vacation
days slip through their finger and nottake them. Now, I know a
lot of companies used to let youaccrue your vacation days, and then if
you ever quit, or you everwalked away, or they can't your ass,

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you've got to they hand your vacationcheck. They have Patrore for those
days. I know the iHeart cameto. There's no accruing of the vacation
days. You use them where youlose them in the calendar year. But
other companies do. But forty fivevacation days get unused by Americans. So
hey, everybody, take some timeoff. Just take some time off,
take lots of time off and enjoyit, all right, one day or

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do a week at a time.All right, I got to take the
break coming up here. But ifyou want to jump in on the primaries
on vacation time in America, feelfree. It's a great day to be
alive in America. Democracy was exercisedyesterday. We voted in the ballot box
and results are in winners and losers. We continue to discuss and also vacation

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time in America eight sixty six tripleeight fifty four to forty nine, six
hundred K. Col Denver Gazette hasa poll up. It's uh, what

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do you think Dave Williams political futureholds after his loss in the Colorado CD
five GOP prime. Their options includehe'll step down as ahead of the GOP,
He'll be forced out of his chairmanship, he'll depart for another political role,
and or he'll leave politics entirely.That was the race that I thought

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was a bell weather to kind ofthe mood of Republicans in the state.
Dave Williams and I pull up thenumbers here he did. I mean it
was a spanking down there. Imean, the numbers are are quite stunning
when you look at the percentages ofwhat happened here. Let me see if
I can find the numbers at myat my behest here real quick, here

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we go U. For instance,in other contested races, like Jeff Heard
up in the District three, hegot he got forty two vote, thirty
thousand votes, and he beat RonHanks by he only got nineteen thousand votes,
so he but it was Ron Hanksgot a respectable number of votes here,
but Jeff Heard destroyed him. RonHanks was the endorsed edited by the

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said polded Bureau. Lauren Bobert gotforty two percent of the vote in herd
District four, but Jeff Crank,in a two monoi mono race, got
sixty seven point nine, So basicallysixty eight percent of the vote went to
Jeff Crank and Dave Williams that's almostI have to say that's a repudiation of

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Dave. Williams had a lot ofmoney, a lot of energy of the
Republican Party. The people down inthe cold of spring said now we don't
need that. So anyway, justagain, nothing against Dave. Dave has
chosen to run that party the wayhe's chosen to run the party. And
when he ran for Congress, heused to always respond to text and come
on the show, and he's goneradio silent and knowing that maybe he could

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ask him a question to be afriendly question, but I'd ask him a
question about this, but it wasa he is a butt whoopan last night.
And I'm sure when you're part ofthat apparatus that is kind of set
themselves up as the coronet, thepeople that give the core or a nation
of the blessed candidates out there,and then you find out all of your
blessed and anointed candidates get slapped around. That's got to hurt your pride and

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it's got to hurt a little bit. So we'll see what happens state party.
You get inside baseball stuff. Butit was fascinating to watch last night,
and almost sixty eight percent of thevote for Jeff Crank. Congratulations to
him. I didn't get to votethat race either. I did vote in
CD eight gave Evans wins that andYeah, we'll talk more about this about
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All right, we've got to takea break here. Coming to the top
of the hour. Next hour,we're gonna start diving into some of our
guests and getting their take, notjust looking at the debate coming up on
Thursday, review of the Colorado primarylast night, and other news stories.

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We have Steve Laffey coming up inthe next hour. Laura Carno comes out
of radio retirement in the next hourto do some analysis of last night's primary
election, and then later on theshow, Barb Kirkmeyer, Gabe Evans,
Jenny Beth Martin, Greg Lopez,the new Congressman elect from CD four,
all of them on the program thismorning. Don't go anywhere. It's the
day after the Colorado primary election,and we're gonna review it, talk about

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it, and start getting ready fortomorrow night's debate between Joe Biden and Donald
Trump. Everybody stand by Lakey onthe radio. Good Morning Colorado six hundred
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