082624 Brita Horn

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Of August Lord our twenty sixth dam Sorry you're of
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All right, moving back here to the United States of America,
most specifically right here to the glorious state of Colorado.

(00:42):
Most specifically, even more specifically than that, is to the
Colorado GOP. That's the Grand Old Party, the Republican Party,
if you have it. We don't do a lot of
the inside baseball party politics stuff, but this has been
fascinating since the State Party decided to put out messages
about burning price flags and just some really very strange stuff.

(01:03):
We talked about on the radio show then started endorsing
candidates and putting their own anointing oil on who they
thought should be, and then state funds. So it's been
a chaos, a chaotic I think for anybody as a Republican.
So it got to be such a stinky pile of
mess that I couldn't ignore it any longer. And so
we have talked a little bit about it, and again
not as extensively as maybe some people do, but because

(01:25):
you know, it gets ugly, knowing how the sausage is made,
but it is interesting. So over the weekend a group
of Republicans that were a part of a central committee
got together in Brighton and got together in Brighton. Mark,
she just disconnected. She just called me and said she disconnected.
So she just texted me so she could get her

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back her phone failed. Thank you, Mark. So it was
a big mess for the Republican Party. So they got
together and voted, and in voting in voting for UH
whether Dave Williams, the current chairman, should be booted, and
they said yes, and then they installed a new slate

(02:07):
of people out there UH to be the new officers,
and as of Saturday now Dave Williams says this whole
meeting was illegitimate. It's illegitimate. He says he's gonna have
his own meeting, and he's not. But one of the
candidates to put her name in to be the state
party chairman was Britta Horn. Now, after the end of
the dust settling on Saturday, Britta was actually elected to

(02:28):
be the vice chairman of the party. And so I'm
going to bring Britta Horn in here to the program
and she she's she's probably are you on the ranch, Britta?
Your phone? Your phone cut out on us, but glad
to have you back on here. Are you out on
the ranch?

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Man, We're busy in the mountains. You're absolutely right.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
I figured I got a tech. I didn't know. I
didn't know you disappeared until I got a Texas said
call me back. I'm like, oh, I didn't know you
were gone. I was still yapping and flapping my lips. Yeah, Brinda,
here we go. Let's dive into this thing. Saturday, you
were elected vice chairman of the state of Colorado's GOP party.
You had declared a candidacy to be the state party chairman.

(03:07):
So let's talk about in your election, why did you
want to be the state party chairman. Now you're the
vice chair, and then we'll kind of talk about the
mess that you guys are trying to clean up.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Oh, thank you very much. And also a current correction
from this morning. I was the Ralph County Treasurer and
public trustee, not clerk Route County. Yeah up and steamboat.
So anyway, so yeah, so I stepped ahead when I
realized that they were going to do the meeting. So
there was a meeting thirty days before this one, and
saying they were going to get the Central Committee was

(03:37):
going to go ahead and just get rid of the board.
But they can because it's in the bylaws. You're allowed
to do it for any reason. And they said, we
just need to find something else, you know, somebody else
that can get work towards that goal. And the goal
for me was obviously everything that was on my is
that's on my platform, which is fundraising. We need to
get fund raising for all these candidates. All these candidates

(04:00):
can't get the fundraising because the party is not getting
the fundraising because all the checkbooks that are you know
that do fund from Colorado alone were all closed. They
weren't giving money to the party and they weren't give them
money to Dave Williams, so they just we was putting
their money outside with state or elsewhere, just waiting for this,
you know, kind of a regime change. And then second,

(04:20):
we need to be there for all candidates. Just like
Eli Bremer said, we were very close in our platform.
We have to be there for all the candidates. We
can't just be the ones that we handpicked for that
pre primary, which was a total debacle when fourteen out
of the eighteen that they picked didn't even you know,
pass the mustard didn't even win their primary. And you know,

(04:41):
doctor definitely Congresswoman Lauren Barbert Bolbert passed and she was
one of the four because of herr her you know,
going to another CD, but also because her her competent,
you know, being a really good congresswoman. And then the
other three were were we were not challenged just like
really we couldn't get anybody across the board, so we

(05:02):
had to cross the primary that we wanted, that the
people wanted, So we definitely for that reason as well.
And then I definitely we're not seeing a get out
the vote kind of a you know, work towards that.
We're not seeing a coordinated effort to get out the
vote across the state, and we know we really need
to get all those out there to get out the vote.
And then also from the r and C itself, when

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I was at the convention listening to all the different
pieces and all the people speaking about it, and Laura
Trump herself with the co chair of the RNC, said
we had to protect the vote. So the day after election,
we still need to protect the vote and make sure
that we get all our votes counted. So those are
the reasons why I was willing to put my name
forward and say, hey, vote for me.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
I would love to leave this the voice of Brenda Horn,
former Route County treasurer, a former fire chief of that
direction as well Steamboat Way, and she's on the hotline.
She's now as of Saturday, the new vice chairman of
the Colorado GOP. So Saturday's gathering kind of bring us
there who gathered and I don't want to get I

(06:04):
know there's part of the Central Committee and you had
to have so many people, you had to have so
many votes. How did that go down? And ballot number
one Dave Williams and his other part of the leadership
team or ousted. Is that kind of how it went well?

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Right? So then we got together on Saturday morning. Everybody
came in, you know, it was over seventy people came in,
but they also had one hundred and four proxies, so
we had enough. Number was one hundred and eighty one.
I think it went to one hundred and eighty two
if somebody showed up. And then we were able to
have this process and say, look, we're going to go
through this whole piece. So there was two pieces to
the actually in a way like two pieces to the meeting.

(06:42):
The first part was to go through all the you know,
the votes that we needed to do, make sure we're
making sure that all the the legalese part was taken
care of, making sure we were getting everything done, making
decisions about that whether we're going to see the thirty
first as a meeting or not a meeting, as a sanction,
as a valid meeting or not. And then they voted

(07:03):
that no, it isn't. And then we went ahead and
voted out each one of the the seats that we
started with Anna Ferguson for secretary and moved up to
Hope Sheppleman for vice and then Dave Williams Fit Chair.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Now none of those three were at the meeting. Dave
Williams has said he thinks this is an illegitimate meeting.
Why did they not show up to defend their honor?
And is this a legitimate meeting? Does Dave Williams have
any kind of ground to stand on here?

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Well, bless their hearts, you know, they should have stood
up and they didn't, and so that was you know,
their issue or their decision not to show up. You
have to ask them, but they we definitely to believe,
you know, right from the very beginning, is anybody here
from this Central Committee, the Executive Committee these three seats?
Are they here? And they were asked three times and no,
they're not there. So we went ahead and in the

(07:54):
by law as it says that for any reason that
the Central Committee can remove from their seats. So I don't,
I don't, you know, like again, I can't find out
why they didn't show up. But it's definitely was a
legitimate meeting. And we know that because the r n
c C, as you said earlier, said that they are
definitely sorry, Yeah, definitely definitely, is you know, going to

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recognize this group as it as the official party.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Your dog has something to say? What's he saying? Timmy?
Timmy's falling in the well again. I don't know what
happened last he's there, strangers. It's a uh is anybody
figured out? And I know we can't do a psychological evaluation,
but I don't understand how it is that you become
state party chairperson and all of a sudden you pretend

(08:45):
that you're carrying around the bottle of called the Orange
Anointing Ohale, and you're Donald Trump's anointing guy, and you're
going to choose this candidate of this candidate. And I
knew that the ruse was up pretending that you had
the orange anointing oil. When they anointed somebody else over
Janet Joshi over Gabe Evans and then gave Evans gets
the annointing of the actual Donald Trump endorsement. I'm like, well,

(09:08):
I guess you're or enjoyle wasn't really a representation of
Donald Trump. But that's kind of part of the problem.
They were trying to carry around and pretend as if
they were the ones that were the mouthpiece of the
Donald J. Trump campaign. And it started to come across
really come apart really quick on him after that gave
Evans not non endorsement.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
Well, I would say that you're absolutely right, and I
think you remember back in twenty twenty, I worked for
the Trump campaign down in New Mexico, and you know,
never seen anything like this before. You know, we knew
who the person was, we knew who the Gabe Evans
was going to be, the one that was that President
Trump wanted, and so it just was it went off,
so off the rails. And you're right, I don't have

(09:48):
any personal reason why that happened. I don't know, it
just it happened.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah, it's really bizarre. Are you guys expecting? I know,
Elon Bremer was elected the chairperson, you're now the vice chairperson.
First of all, what does a vice chair person do
compared to a chairperson? And do you work handed in
love with eliab Brimmer here?

Speaker 2 (10:09):
Oh? I spent on doing that and I think all
three of us, two with the secretary as well. I mean, look,
we're seventy what seventy two days now from actually you
know to the election, and less than fifty days now
when the help starts shopping. We have to work together
and work on that fundraising piece. We have to work
together to make sure that we're getting the candidates or
getting the volunteers that they need, making sure they get

(10:29):
you know, whatever they need to get done, and we
get out that vote process so that we're coordinated and
we know what's going on, and making sure that people
are getting to the candidates they need to and help
knock on doors, start making phone calls. You know, we
still have time for postcards, nailers. I mean, we have
to do all the above, and we're gonna have to
do all the above together.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
I know Dave Williams the last I knewho never had
called even Jeff Crank to conceive the race. There no
no conversation there. Do you expect Dave Williams is just
going to right off into the sunset and mail his
keys and have you mailed his effects from the office?
Is there going to be in is there going to
be a ceremony? How does this work? Or do you
think the guy's going to, as they've seen in other states,

(11:12):
try to take the Colorado GOP to court saying this
is illegitimate.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Well, I think he's already said that in some articles
that I've been watching over the weekend that he's going
to do what he's going to do, and I'm going
to make sure I stay really careful on the legal piece.
But we're definitely working towards echo of changing the locks
and changing passwords and getting started. We have, you know,
don't We're running out of time. We have to get
going on this and have to get this process back

(11:37):
back on the rails. And like, I've received a lot
of emails and a lot of tracks and a lot
of thank yous, and they were saying refinement, we're writing
the ship, and I believe that we've got to get
this ship right off, back up right and then get
started and work for the canvas. That's that's our job
to do, all right.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
If somebody was watching this and they say, Okay, I
want to I like Britta Made you've heard on the
show for years or I've known her around the state.
How do I help out here? Is there something people
can do to participate? And or again, we got seventy
seventy five days. Is there something that people can do now?

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Well? Absolutely so at this point, you know, you could
definitely get a hold of me personally. Everybody's welcome to
get a hold of me. I'm an open book obviously, so
personally it's my name, Britta b r I t A
at Britta Horne dot com. B r I t A
h O r n dot com. And then they could
definitely start to we have to go back to their counties.

(12:32):
If they can go to their county party and find
out who they know, who they want to help, and
how they want to help with their candidates. I mean,
there's always work to do, and they know that a
lot of these obviously the chairs were there from the
different counties and they definitely need the help and the
support as well. So I think it would be really
good to dovetail into a county party at this point.
So when we do get the locks change, we do

(12:52):
get the passwords change, you can start communicating with us.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Britta Horne, it is a pleasure. I'll talk to you soon.
And to go make sure Timmy doesn't fall on the well.
Get him out, Get him out. Britta at Britta Horn
b r I t A Britta at Britta Horn dot com.
Former Route county treasurers, a volunteer firefighting chief up there
and political activist and she's a great lady. If you
remember Britta, you owe it to yourself to meet Britta.

(13:18):
Meeting Britta is a very fun experience. He's a great,
a great woman, and hey, I think I can use
those pronouns with her because we're reading. Not that concerned
about it anyway, British's a great lady, and congratulations to
her on the vice chairmanship. I'll reach out the next
day or so to Eli Bremer, who used to be
the county chair of the El Pasocare County chair of

(13:39):
the GOP and he's the duly elected, the duly elected
now chairperson of the state party. Now what's going to
be interesting to see is does Dave Williams trying to
fight for his survival. There is precedent in Michigan of
a party chair that was voted out and the R

(14:00):
and C came in. The Republican National Committee says no,
we recognize the new leadership. You're gone, and that state
party chairperson was so desperate that they still have that
thing tied up in court in the state of Michigan.
So it will be interesting to see what Dave williams
next play is. And there were two other people involved
in this, Ouster Hope Scheffleman, and I wrote her name out.

(14:22):
It's all inside baseball. I don't do a lot of
inside baseball stuff, but this is pretty interesting. If you're
a Republican. Let me tell you. It's been so crazy.
And when Williams stopped returning by, I can't for years
David text me or call me or I text him.
He'd always respond, let's put it that way, and he
was always gracious to come on. And I thought some
shenanigans might be u up. Whenever again, probably the most

(14:44):
friendly and nice interview you're going to get a state
with me, and stopped replying at all. No responses at all,
no responses at all. And it's a lack of confidence.
If anybody lost confidence by I know people that do
play the inside baseball game. They love the inside party stuff,
and they're also baffled by what has become of Dave Williams.

(15:04):
So it's sad, It really really is sad. All right
right now in Arlington, Virginia, the Arlington Cemetery Donald Trump,
as I guess, they're the two of the unknown. Wherever
they're at, Trump is there, and they're going to honor
the thirteen killed three years ago today the Kabble Airport

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attack of what was called the Abbey Gate, that ceremony,
the ceremonies all over, commemorations online, a lot of people
commemorating three years ago today, that crazy attack that was
really unnecessary as we were doing that airlift to try
to get people out of Afghanistan and three people lost

(15:45):
their lives there. So that's thirteen years ago today. All right,
we'll cover more of this party saga, this GOP party
stuff going on. Sherry Pife is a crack reporter for
the Complete Colorado website. She was at the meeting in Brighton.
I will get her journalistic perspective on it. What did
she think, what is happening and what will be the

(16:06):
next play of Dave Williams, the former chairman. He says
this election on Saturday was illegitimate and he's going to
do what he has to do. But as you heard
Britta say, Dave's going to do what Dave's going to do.
But they're going to do what they got to do
because Dave looks like he may be focused the next
several months, weeks and days on protecting his own title

(16:27):
and his own kingdom that has fallen apart by his
own destruction, his own bad decisions. But these other people say, hey,
we have seventy five days. We don't have time to
mess with Dave. We got an election to win and
try to at least make up some ground to the
state of Colorado. All right, good to have you here
on the show. There's a lot more to come. Again.
Next hour, we'll talk to Sherry Pife. And that was

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Britta Horn, former Route County treasurer and now she's a
state GOP chairperson, telling you how the sausage. I don't
get into the state party stuff very often, but this
is I think important coming up towards election day. Everybody
stand by Lakey. Yeah. Trump's at the Arlington National Cemetery. Yeah,
he's putting a wreath down for the thirteen lost three

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years ago. Today, everybody stand by Lakey. Six hundred k
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