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Speaker 1 (00:02):
How's everybody doing. Greg Lopez should be joining us. He's
stepping off the floor of Congress. I believe the hallowed
halls of Congress. And so as soon as he gets
to the phone hill, we'll pop him in here. Good
to have you here on the show. To me is
my name and pleasured please and thrilled to be here.
(00:24):
A landfall is expected somewhere between Tampa Bay and Venice,
so Venice, Florida. Looking at the map, if you look
at where Hurricane Milton is going to be, that's where
it's going to be at. So it's Hurricane Milton. Concerns
of catastrophic flask flooding. It is going to go south
of Tampa down towards Venice, and I need to get
(00:46):
my map out. I know where Sarasota is at, I'm
not sure where Venice is at. And it's been a
long long time since. A matter of fact, I was
reading that Tampa Bay has not Tampa has not been
hit by storm like this. They're usually coming east to
west and they may cross over Tampa. But the kind
of the back end of the storm, this kind of
(01:06):
a direct hit coming from the west, is unusual, and
there's homes, and I'm familiar with parts of Tampa Bay.
It's an area that I've committed in the next twelve
months to explore more of Florida and just kind of
a get to know it better because I love it's
a great cigar culture in Florida. If you're a cigar
guy like me, you like going being where you can
(01:29):
have a fine cigar at times and and you can
do that. Ebor City is famous, and it's not. Eboor
City is very strange because it's not necessarily the classiest
of the cigar bars and cigar world. It's very it's
it's very I guess unique, it's not it's not the
it's not that it's not like a Vegas cigar lounge.
(01:50):
I mean you just a lot of a lot of
the Cuban uh expats hanging out there, a lot of
people at the second generation, A lot of the cigar
companies are based there, and so there's not quote a
fancy cigar lounge there, but it's just a great If
you love the cigar heritage, you go to Ebor City
in the Tampa area, So I'm more familiar there a
couple of the areas around Tampa, but I haven't explored it,
(02:11):
you know, just for days and just kind of gone around.
And I want to do that more, and I need
to do that more, and that's one of my one
of the things I plan to do. So I'm not
that familiar with south of Tampa, but I will say
that there are some homes right there in the Bay
area of Tampa that are let's say they're beachfront and
they're old homes, and they've stood this long because they
(02:34):
haven't taken a hit like this, and they're thinking it's
going to be interesting to see how they survive this.
Because again, Tampa is not necessarily usually in the crosshairs
of this. It's usually that east coast of Florida, and
maybe you get it coming up the peninsula, but coming
directly from the west back to the east, a very
unusual flow and that's a very strange flow. So anyway,
(03:00):
the six fifteen fourteen hours, they think it's going to
hit landfall and somewhere between Venice and Tampa, so south
down to Venice. All right, good to have you on
the show. And as we said, we've been waiting the
arrival of Congressman Greg Lopez. Many of you know him,
as your congressman. And if you don't know him as
your congressman, you should. He'll be serving there into late January.
(03:23):
He's the guy that stepped in and decided to represent
the fine people of Colorado after Ken Buck abandon his post.
Greg Lopez stepped in and won a special election. Greg Lopez,
Welcome to the show. Congressman.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Hey, Jimmy, thank you for having me. Hey, I apologize
for my partiness, but just was working with the Trump
campaign about speaking at tomorrow's rally.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Oh, very good, the rally Friday, right the Friday rally
into Friday. Yeah, yeah, that's I was asking the people
of my listeners and I maybe get your takes since
you brought it up. You know, Colorado's not necessarily can
play electorally. I don't think he's going to win that.
What is the benefit of Donald Trump coming to Colorado
in your estimation, other than the people of Colorado get
(04:06):
to see that maybe the future president.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
You know, I think it's a very good strategic move
because it's going to focus on the immigration and the
open border. Look, we all know that the border of
the southern border is wide open. We're getting all kinds
of criminal elements coming in all kid and terrorism. So
I think him coming to Colorado and seeing what happened
with frend Regua, you know what they were doing in
(04:31):
the apartment buildings. It's just a reflection of how the
failed Biden Harris administration is negatively impacting the quality of
lives and the safeties in our communities. And so he's
going to highlight that as a perfect example as to
how their poor decisions are impacting American lives.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I talked about this earlier, and I don't know if
it's been talked about in Washington yet, but this guy
that was arrested in Oklahoma City yesterday is a He's
an Afghan national. He got here on a special visa,
which means as people were fleeing Afghanistan after the debatched
withdrawal from Afghanistan, people said, oh, I'm under I'm in trouble,
(05:13):
and we just imported all these people and these special visas.
We imported a terrorist with no background check, had loyalty
to isis done. We've given special visas to Venezuelans. We
give these special visas no background checks, and it puts
people not just on the ground in danger, but national
security as we find out this guy had loyalty to ISIS,
(05:33):
and we brought him in here as if he was
a refugee.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
That's right. And look what's happening here now is they're
putting American citizens at the back of the line. They're
treating us like we're secondhand citizens and allowing non citizens
to actually enjoy all the privileges that we as American
citizens are supposed to have. And that's just playing wrong.
(05:57):
And this is it's going to continue until we have
a change in the administration.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Let me ask you were watching on the screen across
my studio here, I'm watching the influx of Hurricane Milton
headed towards Florida, and then we already have the recovery
that's still underway in North Carolina parts of Florida as well.
Talk about FEMA is FEMA out of money? They say
they are, They say Congress needs to give them more money.
(06:24):
Tell me, as a federal emergency management agency, are they
really out of money? Help us understand, because you're in
the halite halls of Congress that controls the purse strings.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
You know, Jimmy, I'll tell you this. Remember I used
to be the head of SBA and SBA has a
disaster component to it, and we joined FEMA when these
types of things happen. And I can tell you FEMA
is not out of money. They have plenty of money
to at least mobilize and do things correctly. They've chosen
to allocate funds to once again right illegal immigrants. It's
(06:58):
all in the same pot. They have the ability to
shift appropriations from one project to another. So for them
to say they need more money, they're just not looking
at their budget. And Alejando Mayoka is you know, he's
not interested in doing the right thing. He's interested in
bankruptcy America. And so I would tell you that, you know,
(07:19):
I'm very disappointed on the way FEMA's handling these issues.
Because they know they're coming. You would think that they
would have a strategic plan ready to implement as soon
as the storm subsides and it goes through land. But
instead you're seeing them scramble, You're seeing chaos, You're seeing
something that clearly shows that they're not organized at all.
(07:43):
And it's a sad thing to see because they're not
taking care of American citizens and they're allowing them to
just be out there by themselves. They're not looking to
do true rescue missions. I mean, come on, we have
the best military in the world and we can't reach
some of these locations.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
That's just clean on sitting here in the optics still
look good. You have these stories of immigrants in New
York getting hotels of one hundred and fifty hotels locked
up in New York City, paid for by the government,
probably FEMA, and they're just filled with people. You've got
people living intents in North Carolina right now. You've got
this Afghanic guy and a thousand of them show up
(08:19):
in Oklahoma City. They got free airfare to Oklahoma City,
they got housing, they got everything they needed to kind
of start their lives here. It seems like we've got
a lot of prioritization that's wrong now that there's not
people that need help, But when you can't take care
of the people of North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, you have
to ask yourself, how did all these people come in
from Afghanistan? How did the Haitians get fifty thousand them
(08:42):
get in Springfield, Ohio? How did one hundred and fifty
hotels get filled and paid for in New York City?
There's money being spent, but it's not seemingly being spent
on the people that are hurting the most right now
in the USA.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
That's correct, And once again the message that they're sending
is all American citizens are being classified as secondhand citizens.
We no longer are the priority. We no longer take
care of our veterans, take care of the people that
are suffering that are American citizens, and that's not America.
You know, they talk about the principles of America and
(09:16):
how we want to make sure that we're driving our
economic you know, we're prosperity and all those types of things,
but actions speak louder than words. The actions of this
administration clearly show that they're not interested in us. They
could give a damn about American citizens. They're focused more
on what's going on with the illegals and bringing people
(09:36):
in and spending millions and billions of dollars. Look, America
has a thirty five trillion dollar national debt. It grows
by a trillion dollars every hundred days. And when there's
misappropriations and people are not spending the money correctly, this
is what irritates and frustrates and it angers people. It
angers me, Jimmy, I was made aware that they are
(10:00):
over twelve hundred, twelve hundred programs that are no longer
authorized by Congress. They've been expired, and they're still being
funded through the budget process to the tune of over
five hundred and sixteen billion dollars. We're funding programs that
Congress no longer has authorized, and I'm pushing hard. They're
(10:21):
called zombie programs because they won't die. I'm fighting very
hard to start getting rid of them, because we're wasting
money on things that we shouldn't be wasting it on.
And we would have plenty of money to do with
these disasters if we just prioritize correctly.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Help people understand Republicans who controlled the purse strings for
quite some time, I mean over the last couple of years.
Why is it we're just now hearing this. Why is
this not on the tip of every Republican's tongue, the
speaker of the House. Why are we not out there
hearing that this is what Republicans are fighting for and
put the Democrats on defense to try to defend these.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Programs well, because I think again, the Republican Party struggles
with a strong narrative struggles with having strong messaging, and
we need to be bold and courageous when we say this,
and we we shouldn't be worried about the boogeyman when
it says where we're thinking we might shut down the government.
We need to focus and educate the public. And that's
(11:18):
what I'm doing. You know, I introduce legislation, Jimmy, and
I hope that it makes it, but it's pretty simple, right.
I introduced legislation that at any election that has a
federal candidate on it, a House, a Senator, the president,
that on the top of the ballot, they will identify
the last three years national debt number, So it would
(11:41):
say twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three,
and people would see how and these are the people
they are about to vote on. You know, this is
something that you know, when we talk about the first
string and the Republican Party, I can tell you the
fact that there are some that you know, a very
hawk ish on the on the budget and they want
(12:03):
to make sure that we are not spending more, and
I agree with them. You know, it's language, it's you know,
it's the environment up there. Everybody's trying to posture. Everybody's
trying to look like, you know, I passed a good
bill or I'm doing the right thing. It's difficult to
kind of heard right four hundred and thirty three cats
and keep them all in the same lane. But this
(12:24):
is a challenge. But this is what I'm working on
because it's.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Important the voice of Congressman Greg Lopez the fourth Congressional District.
He's serving the people of the fourth And if you
need a help of a congressman. By the way, speak
of the Republicans having a lack of messaging, pass my name,
I'll give my resume. I'm available to do that. I
can help them get this messaging on target. They just
kind of pay me and nothing else. If Trump gets elected,
to make sure I've become the ambassador to Rwanda. That's
(12:49):
all I'm asking. I'm asking very little, Congressman, very little.
I'll help the messaging and then I'm going to head
to Rwanda from where I have charity work and I'll
become the ambassador. How do you like that proposal?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I love it. You let and make sure you leave
some of your famous cigars behind so that we can
still enjoy them and.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
You can come visit me at the ambassador's house in
Rwanda and we can smoke there on the ambassador's porch.
I don't know if there's an ambassador's ports, but if
I've become the ambassador to Rwanda, there will be and
there will be a smoking porch for Congressman Greg Lopez. Congressman,
you're going to be in Loveland, I believe this week
holding a town hall.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Correct, yes, I am tomorrow, actually tonight, I'll be up
there tonight holding a town hall meeting.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Did you know the details or where can folks find
the details of that?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
You know, we're go to my website. I think that's
the best place to go. I know that I'm going
to be at a church. It starts at six o'clock,
but you know I'm going to be speaking with people,
having them ask questions and really engaging with them. But
you know, that's probably the best place to go is
to just go to my website. Get all the details.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Look up Congressman Greg Lopez's website. Congressman, one more thing
you're going to be speaking. It looks like I'm part
of that Trump rally you're also introducing. You mentioned you're
putting the deficit on Ballad. You've got another piece of
legislation that's trying to get some grip on this immigration stuff.
What is that piece of legislation you're introducing.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
So the bill that I introduced is that if we
know of any illegal aliens that have any connections with
any gangs, prison gains from Venezuela, or any gangs whatsoever,
that they need to be detained. They need to be deported,
no questions, as there's not a process that they should follow,
you know, we just need to deport them because if
(14:37):
we allow that criminal element, that mindset to take roots
in our communities, it's just going to grow like a cancer.
And we know that a lot of them that are
coming over are convicted murderers in their own nations, in
their own countries, and we just got to remove this
(14:57):
deadly cancer from our communities, our community safe again. So
that's the legislation is that, you know, it would be
a top priority for Homeland Security to do that.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
You know, And the sad thing is here in Colorado,
it's illegal for any sheriff, for a police department to
coordinate with ICE if they have a wanted or known
criminal here in Colorado to say hey, this guy's a
member of a gang, or this guy's done this. They're
not allowed from the jail or anything to say, hey,
we've got the guy if you want to come get him.
That's a problem in Colorado. I'm not sure if the
federal legislation can overcome that, but we got a problem
(15:30):
in Colorado that, even if that bill passes, our law
enforcement here in Colorado thinks that Jared poulis or hamstrung
and what they can do.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
I totally agree with you. Look the fact that the
governor declared Colorado a sanctuary state and that the mayor
of dev declared it a sanctuary city. You know, it's
just a welcome man. And look, just like the federal
government was able to stop going to have it in
Texas from putting up of fence and allowing him to
protect There's ways that the federal government if they choose
(16:01):
to do it, and that's the key, if they choose
to do it. But remember Colorado is a democratic governor,
so they're not going to go after a democratic governor.
You know, they could force the issue that says you're
interfering and impeding the federal government from removing criminals from
the United States that are creating havoc within the communities,
(16:23):
and the safety of the people is prominent over all
of that. But again, right, unless you have a strong
president by President Trump that says we're not going to
tolerate this. We're going to make sure that we're strong
in our commitments to bank everybody safe here in America,
that's not going to change.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Greg Lopez, you can find them at Lowpez dot house
dot gov. That's his website. Congressman from the fourth Congressional District. Congressmen, remember,
give them my resume. I can get their messaging better
and nothing else. I'm available to be an ambassador out
of the Trump administration. Got you got it? A friend?
Thank you, Greg Lopez, A shameful plug. Somebody's got to
my career, don't you. I can get that messaging right.
(17:02):
We'll teach them how to be strong again. There with
the zombie programs. Have you heard of that? Standby
How's everybody doing. Greg Lopez should be joining us. He's
stepping off the floor of Congress. I believe the hallowed
halls of Congress. And so as soon as he gets
to the phone hill, we'll pop him in here. Good
to have you here on the show. To me is
my name and pleasured please and thrilled to be here.
(00:24):
A landfall is expected somewhere between Tampa Bay and Venice,
so Venice, Florida. Looking at the map, if you look
at where Hurricane Milton is going to be, that's where
it's going to be at. So it's Hurricane Milton. Concerns
of catastrophic flask flooding. It is going to go south
of Tampa down towards Venice, and I need to get
(00:46):
my map out. I know where Sarasota is at, I'm
not sure where Venice is at. And it's been a
long long time since. A matter of fact, I was
reading that Tampa Bay has not Tampa has not been
hit by storm like this. They're usually coming east to
west and they may cross over Tampa. But the kind
of the back end of the storm, this kind of
(01:06):
a direct hit coming from the west, is unusual, and
there's homes, and I'm familiar with parts of Tampa Bay.
It's an area that I've committed in the next twelve
months to explore more of Florida and just kind of
a get to know it better because I love it's
a great cigar culture in Florida. If you're a cigar
guy like me, you like going being where you can
(01:29):
have a fine cigar at times and and you can
do that. Ebor City is famous, and it's not. Eboor
City is very strange because it's not necessarily the classiest
of the cigar bars and cigar world. It's very it's
it's very I guess unique, it's not it's not the
it's not that it's not like a Vegas cigar lounge.
(01:50):
I mean you just a lot of a lot of
the Cuban uh expats hanging out there, a lot of
people at the second generation, A lot of the cigar
companies are based there, and so there's not quote a
fancy cigar lounge there, but it's just a great If
you love the cigar heritage, you go to Ebor City
in the Tampa area, So I'm more familiar there a
couple of the areas around Tampa, but I haven't explored it,
(02:11):
you know, just for days and just kind of gone around.
And I want to do that more, and I need
to do that more, and that's one of my one
of the things I plan to do. So I'm not
that familiar with south of Tampa, but I will say
that there are some homes right there in the Bay
area of Tampa that are let's say they're beachfront and
they're old homes, and they've stood this long because they
(02:34):
haven't taken a hit like this, and they're thinking it's
going to be interesting to see how they survive this.
Because again, Tampa is not necessarily usually in the crosshairs
of this. It's usually that east coast of Florida, and
maybe you get it coming up the peninsula, but coming
directly from the west back to the east, a very
unusual flow and that's a very strange flow. So anyway,
(03:00):
the six fifteen fourteen hours, they think it's going to
hit landfall and somewhere between Venice and Tampa, so south
down to Venice. All right, good to have you on
the show. And as we said, we've been waiting the
arrival of Congressman Greg Lopez. Many of you know him,
as your congressman. And if you don't know him as
your congressman, you should. He'll be serving there into late January.
(03:23):
He's the guy that stepped in and decided to represent
the fine people of Colorado after Ken Buck abandon his post.
Greg Lopez stepped in and won a special election. Greg Lopez,
Welcome to the show. Congressman.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Hey, Jimmy, thank you for having me. Hey, I apologize
for my partiness, but just was working with the Trump
campaign about speaking at tomorrow's rally.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Oh, very good, the rally Friday, right the Friday rally
into Friday. Yeah, yeah, that's I was asking the people
of my listeners and I maybe get your takes since
you brought it up. You know, Colorado's not necessarily can
play electorally. I don't think he's going to win that.
What is the benefit of Donald Trump coming to Colorado
in your estimation, other than the people of Colorado get
(04:06):
to see that maybe the future president.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
You know, I think it's a very good strategic move
because it's going to focus on the immigration and the
open border. Look, we all know that the border of
the southern border is wide open. We're getting all kinds
of criminal elements coming in all kid and terrorism. So
I think him coming to Colorado and seeing what happened
with frend Regua, you know what they were doing in
(04:31):
the apartment buildings. It's just a reflection of how the
failed Biden Harris administration is negatively impacting the quality of
lives and the safeties in our communities. And so he's
going to highlight that as a perfect example as to
how their poor decisions are impacting American lives.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I talked about this earlier, and I don't know if
it's been talked about in Washington yet, but this guy
that was arrested in Oklahoma City yesterday is a He's
an Afghan national. He got here on a special visa,
which means as people were fleeing Afghanistan after the debatched
withdrawal from Afghanistan, people said, oh, I'm under I'm in trouble,
(05:13):
and we just imported all these people and these special visas.
We imported a terrorist with no background check, had loyalty
to isis done. We've given special visas to Venezuelans. We
give these special visas no background checks, and it puts
people not just on the ground in danger, but national
security as we find out this guy had loyalty to ISIS,
(05:33):
and we brought him in here as if he was
a refugee.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
That's right. And look what's happening here now is they're
putting American citizens at the back of the line. They're
treating us like we're secondhand citizens and allowing non citizens
to actually enjoy all the privileges that we as American
citizens are supposed to have. And that's just playing wrong.
(05:57):
And this is it's going to continue until we have
a change in the administration.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Let me ask you were watching on the screen across
my studio here, I'm watching the influx of Hurricane Milton
headed towards Florida, and then we already have the recovery
that's still underway in North Carolina parts of Florida as well.
Talk about FEMA is FEMA out of money? They say
they are, They say Congress needs to give them more money.
(06:24):
Tell me, as a federal emergency management agency, are they
really out of money? Help us understand, because you're in
the halite halls of Congress that controls the purse strings.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
You know, Jimmy, I'll tell you this. Remember I used
to be the head of SBA and SBA has a
disaster component to it, and we joined FEMA when these
types of things happen. And I can tell you FEMA
is not out of money. They have plenty of money
to at least mobilize and do things correctly. They've chosen
to allocate funds to once again right illegal immigrants. It's
(06:58):
all in the same pot. They have the ability to
shift appropriations from one project to another. So for them
to say they need more money, they're just not looking
at their budget. And Alejando Mayoka is you know, he's
not interested in doing the right thing. He's interested in
bankruptcy America. And so I would tell you that, you know,
(07:19):
I'm very disappointed on the way FEMA's handling these issues.
Because they know they're coming. You would think that they
would have a strategic plan ready to implement as soon
as the storm subsides and it goes through land. But
instead you're seeing them scramble, You're seeing chaos, You're seeing
something that clearly shows that they're not organized at all.
(07:43):
And it's a sad thing to see because they're not
taking care of American citizens and they're allowing them to
just be out there by themselves. They're not looking to
do true rescue missions. I mean, come on, we have
the best military in the world and we can't reach
some of these locations.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
That's just clean on sitting here in the optics still
look good. You have these stories of immigrants in New
York getting hotels of one hundred and fifty hotels locked
up in New York City, paid for by the government,
probably FEMA, and they're just filled with people. You've got
people living intents in North Carolina right now. You've got
this Afghanic guy and a thousand of them show up
(08:19):
in Oklahoma City. They got free airfare to Oklahoma City,
they got housing, they got everything they needed to kind
of start their lives here. It seems like we've got
a lot of prioritization that's wrong now that there's not
people that need help, But when you can't take care
of the people of North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, you have
to ask yourself, how did all these people come in
from Afghanistan? How did the Haitians get fifty thousand them
(08:42):
get in Springfield, Ohio? How did one hundred and fifty
hotels get filled and paid for in New York City?
There's money being spent, but it's not seemingly being spent
on the people that are hurting the most right now
in the USA.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
That's correct, And once again the message that they're sending
is all American citizens are being classified as secondhand citizens.
We no longer are the priority. We no longer take
care of our veterans, take care of the people that
are suffering that are American citizens, and that's not America.
You know, they talk about the principles of America and
(09:16):
how we want to make sure that we're driving our
economic you know, we're prosperity and all those types of things,
but actions speak louder than words. The actions of this
administration clearly show that they're not interested in us. They
could give a damn about American citizens. They're focused more
on what's going on with the illegals and bringing people
(09:36):
in and spending millions and billions of dollars. Look, America
has a thirty five trillion dollar national debt. It grows
by a trillion dollars every hundred days. And when there's
misappropriations and people are not spending the money correctly, this
is what irritates and frustrates and it angers people. It
angers me, Jimmy, I was made aware that they are
(10:00):
over twelve hundred, twelve hundred programs that are no longer
authorized by Congress. They've been expired, and they're still being
funded through the budget process to the tune of over
five hundred and sixteen billion dollars. We're funding programs that
Congress no longer has authorized, and I'm pushing hard. They're
(10:21):
called zombie programs because they won't die. I'm fighting very
hard to start getting rid of them, because we're wasting
money on things that we shouldn't be wasting it on.
And we would have plenty of money to do with
these disasters if we just prioritize correctly.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Help people understand Republicans who controlled the purse strings for
quite some time, I mean over the last couple of years.
Why is it we're just now hearing this. Why is
this not on the tip of every Republican's tongue, the
speaker of the House. Why are we not out there
hearing that this is what Republicans are fighting for and
put the Democrats on defense to try to defend these.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Programs well, because I think again, the Republican Party struggles
with a strong narrative struggles with having strong messaging, and
we need to be bold and courageous when we say this,
and we we shouldn't be worried about the boogeyman when
it says where we're thinking we might shut down the government.
We need to focus and educate the public. And that's
(11:18):
what I'm doing. You know, I introduce legislation, Jimmy, and
I hope that it makes it, but it's pretty simple, right.
I introduced legislation that at any election that has a
federal candidate on it, a House, a Senator, the president,
that on the top of the ballot, they will identify
the last three years national debt number, So it would
(11:41):
say twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three,
and people would see how and these are the people
they are about to vote on. You know, this is
something that you know, when we talk about the first
string and the Republican Party, I can tell you the
fact that there are some that you know, a very
hawk ish on the on the budget and they want
(12:03):
to make sure that we are not spending more, and
I agree with them. You know, it's language, it's you know,
it's the environment up there. Everybody's trying to posture. Everybody's
trying to look like, you know, I passed a good
bill or I'm doing the right thing. It's difficult to
kind of heard right four hundred and thirty three cats
and keep them all in the same lane. But this
(12:24):
is a challenge. But this is what I'm working on
because it's.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Important the voice of Congressman Greg Lopez the fourth Congressional District.
He's serving the people of the fourth And if you
need a help of a congressman. By the way, speak
of the Republicans having a lack of messaging, pass my name,
I'll give my resume. I'm available to do that. I
can help them get this messaging on target. They just
kind of pay me and nothing else. If Trump gets elected,
to make sure I've become the ambassador to Rwanda. That's
(12:49):
all I'm asking. I'm asking very little, Congressman, very little.
I'll help the messaging and then I'm going to head
to Rwanda from where I have charity work and I'll
become the ambassador. How do you like that proposal?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I love it. You let and make sure you leave
some of your famous cigars behind so that we can
still enjoy them and.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
You can come visit me at the ambassador's house in
Rwanda and we can smoke there on the ambassador's porch.
I don't know if there's an ambassador's ports, but if
I've become the ambassador to Rwanda, there will be and
there will be a smoking porch for Congressman Greg Lopez. Congressman,
you're going to be in Loveland, I believe this week
holding a town hall.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Correct, yes, I am tomorrow, actually tonight, I'll be up
there tonight holding a town hall meeting.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Did you know the details or where can folks find
the details of that?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
You know, we're go to my website. I think that's
the best place to go. I know that I'm going
to be at a church. It starts at six o'clock,
but you know I'm going to be speaking with people,
having them ask questions and really engaging with them. But
you know, that's probably the best place to go is
to just go to my website. Get all the details.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Look up Congressman Greg Lopez's website. Congressman, one more thing
you're going to be speaking. It looks like I'm part
of that Trump rally you're also introducing. You mentioned you're
putting the deficit on Ballad. You've got another piece of
legislation that's trying to get some grip on this immigration stuff.
What is that piece of legislation you're introducing.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
So the bill that I introduced is that if we
know of any illegal aliens that have any connections with
any gangs, prison gains from Venezuela, or any gangs whatsoever,
that they need to be detained. They need to be deported,
no questions, as there's not a process that they should follow,
you know, we just need to deport them because if
(14:37):
we allow that criminal element, that mindset to take roots
in our communities, it's just going to grow like a cancer.
And we know that a lot of them that are
coming over are convicted murderers in their own nations, in
their own countries, and we just got to remove this
(14:57):
deadly cancer from our communities, our community safe again. So
that's the legislation is that, you know, it would be
a top priority for Homeland Security to do that.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
You know, And the sad thing is here in Colorado,
it's illegal for any sheriff, for a police department to
coordinate with ICE if they have a wanted or known
criminal here in Colorado to say hey, this guy's a
member of a gang, or this guy's done this. They're
not allowed from the jail or anything to say, hey,
we've got the guy if you want to come get him.
That's a problem in Colorado. I'm not sure if the
federal legislation can overcome that, but we got a problem
(15:30):
in Colorado that, even if that bill passes, our law
enforcement here in Colorado thinks that Jared poulis or hamstrung
and what they can do.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
I totally agree with you. Look the fact that the
governor declared Colorado a sanctuary state and that the mayor
of dev declared it a sanctuary city. You know, it's
just a welcome man. And look, just like the federal
government was able to stop going to have it in
Texas from putting up of fence and allowing him to
protect There's ways that the federal government if they choose
(16:01):
to do it, and that's the key, if they choose
to do it. But remember Colorado is a democratic governor,
so they're not going to go after a democratic governor.
You know, they could force the issue that says you're
interfering and impeding the federal government from removing criminals from
the United States that are creating havoc within the communities,
(16:23):
and the safety of the people is prominent over all
of that. But again, right, unless you have a strong
president by President Trump that says we're not going to
tolerate this. We're going to make sure that we're strong
in our commitments to bank everybody safe here in America,
that's not going to change.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Greg Lopez, you can find them at Lowpez dot house
dot gov. That's his website. Congressman from the fourth Congressional District. Congressmen, remember,
give them my resume. I can get their messaging better
and nothing else. I'm available to be an ambassador out
of the Trump administration. Got you got it? A friend?
Thank you, Greg Lopez, A shameful plug. Somebody's got to
my career, don't you. I can get that messaging right.
(17:02):
We'll teach them how to be strong again. There with
the zombie programs. Have you heard of that? Standby
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