101624 Steve Yurash

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, good to have you here on the radio
show again getting an education from Mike Lynch, State Representative.
I told you I had this weird thought last night.
So why is this in the constitution? So a lot
of the constitutional stuff I said no, a memb and
I though was one that I I'm told I should
say yes on. But because it requires fifty five percent

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approval by the way to go into the constitution, So
fifty not a straight majority, fifty five percent of voter approval.
It says, shall there be an amendment to the Constitution concerning
creating an exception of the right to bail? And he
says when they got rid of the capital punishment Mike
Lynch Representative Mike Lynch said it was very clumsy. And
he says, right now the law is today you could
commit mass murder with a crowd on a camera and

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you can still bond out the next day. They want
to fix that and give the right to deny bail
for a first degree murder in capitol where there's a
presumption of guilt is great. So a MEMB and I
Michae Lyncha's vote yes, that does have to be in
the constitution. It cannot be fixed by statute. So there
you have it. Education here on the Let me educate
you here on another part of the race that many

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of you will have on your ballot. You'll have some
state senators, some state House members on the race. You'll
have different people of the county commissioners we've talked about.
Some of you will have a ballot for House District
fifty two, and that is a state House district fifty two,
and you're going to say who are the candidates, and
of course there's a party marking on each candidate. There's
not a Republican in that race. There's a Democrat, and

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then there's again named Steve your Rash and he's from
something called the Center Party. Let me bring Steve your
Rash into the program. Steve, Welcome to the show, sir,
Good morning, and thanks for thanks for the time. Well
there you are, there you are, Steve. Go ahead, Yeah, Hi, Jimmy,
are you doing I'm doing very well. Thanks for the
time here this morning. First of all, there's no Republican

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in the race. You're from the Colorado Center Party. What
is the color What is the Center Party?

Speaker 2 (01:54):
So I started the Center Party in twenty twenty one
after I retired at age sixty because we need to
do something different. I think Larimer County is a good
example of how Republicans are really struggling and we need
something to counterbalance the single party controlled by the Democrats,
and I think the Center Party can do that. When

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I go door to door, I get some really good responses.
People are really wanting something in the center.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Now, you said you retired in twenty twenty one, So
why wouldn't Steve or Rash you retired. You have a
background of the tech world. If I'm not mistaken, why
would't you just kind of ride off into the sunset
and retire and enjoy the retirement years of your life.
Why jump into the fast, nasty and dirty world of politics.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Well, yeah, I did ski forty five days that winter
when I retired, so had a little break there. But
I have had a political involvement off and on throughout
my career, including in college. So I've been involved in
politics for quite a while. I even intended a number
of Republican state conventions in Colorado. So, but again, we

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need something different. Public service is important to me. I've
served on the Larimer County Board of Health and the
four Collins Electric Board, and so I've always wanted to
just stay involved with trying to make our state, our country,
our city a better place to live and maintain our
quality of life.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Now, I've always tried to tell my voters that my
listeners don't just look at the top line the second line.
You've got to go through the battle. I try to
educate them on these amendments like we're talking about this morning.
And some people didn't see a state House or a
state Senate, right, I don't know. I've never heard of this.
I didn't even know we had us. They don't know anything.
Where is House District fifty two? Give us the rough
parameters of the boundaries.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Well, if you drew a diagonal line from Mulberry and
I twenty five to horse Tooth Reservoir, and you look
at the southeast part of from that of Fort Collins,
from that dividing diagonal line, that's my district all the

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way down at Carpenter Road.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
So talk about this race. Who were you up against.
Is there an incumbent in the race, and obviously you
saw the need to get in. So talk about the
current representation of the current status of representation at House
District fifty two at the state Capitol.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
So currently House DISTICCT fifty two is represented by Kathy Kipp,
who is pretty far left Democrat but well mount within
the city. She's been on the school board before as well,
but she has decided to run for the state Senate
District District fourteen, the one that's now held by Joanne

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Janaal who is term limited, and so there is no
incumbent in fifty two. The Democrats had a primary between
Ethne Drake and yarz Okai. Zokai two years ago I
think it was two. I don't think it was four
years ago ran against Mike Lynch in the House district

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over in Windsor, and so she is a far less progressive.
Zokai is who is endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of
America and the Working Families Party, which is also another
socialist organizations. If you've ever seen or attended the four
com City Council meetings, you'll see fire six young college

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age type students sitting in the front row with red
T shirts on. That's say Democratic Socialists trying to uh,
you know, protest in favor of the Palestinians or trying
to uh make make our governments more socialists, which we
don't need. And that's who is supporting my opponent. You

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are Azokai.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
So obviously, when Colorado the Democrats have had almost a
super majority in both chambers of the state legislature, there's
people and I think this is a very sad state
of affairs, said, look, oh up, that has an art
extra the name I got to vote for them, that
has a D next to the name, I got to
vote for them, and not recognizing that all rs and
d's are not created equal. And sometimes you need to
do some research and you need to stop drinking the

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kool aid, and you need to vote a different way.
How do you cut through the noise of a district
that has elected Kathy Kip a year from a party
that people may not be that familiar with, and they said, well,
we voted Democrat last time, we'll just vote for this.
How do you cut through the noise and first of all,
explain who you are, what you stand for, and point

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out that Yarzo Kai is not created equal to let's
say other Democrats, maybe within the party or maybe democrats
in that district of what they think they're getting.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
So the first thing I have to do is spend
some money on my campaign, which I am doing. I
am spending at least thirty five thousand dollars that is
already in my campaign fund. I sent out a mailer,
a large postcard, twenty six thousand pieces of mail to

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not every household but you know, more than more than half,
about three quarters of the households in my district. And
so that's and that postcard shows the comparison between my
views and your zo kinds views. And I've got eight,

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no less than eight issues where we have completely opposite views.
Caber tax refunds and I'm controlling state spending. Uh. She
wants to eliminate tabor. I do not. I support property
tax reductions. She does not, and she actually works in
the tax assessor's office for Larmber County. I support our

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police and cash mail because we don't want our jails
to be a revolving door. She it's on her website.
You want to eliminate cash bail because she thinks all
of our police are systemically racist, which is demonstrably not true.
I want to support local control of our growth, land use,

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housing density. I support for Serve for Collins organization. I
carried petitions for them about the change in the land
use code. A lot of Democrats in four calls are
very upset with the city council and trying to change
the land use code. Just a duplexes or triplexes anywhere,

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a tous anywhere. ADUs are the auxiliary units, the Grammarck
quarters in the back and there, you know, to be fair,
there are places where those would be just fine. Ben
Ostey has one on his property, but he's got like
six acres right, And so that's why I have a
lot of Democrats supporting me as well as a lot

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of Republicans because they're so upset with the party leadership.
And I think that will probably be the difference in
the campaign. We preserved four Collins organizations sent out four
thousand emails to all their supporters of in the city
showing the survey responses to their questions about land use control.

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And yard Zoki didn't even bother to respond to the
question era because she's supported by the organizations called Yimni
Yes in my backyard. The socialists want higher density everywhere.
I think four columns should stay like a suburb. I
don't think we want four columns to start looking like
Denver with higher density everywhere, and this is what the

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Democrats are upset about. And that's I think one of
the main reasons why I do have a chance to win,
along with the fact that there's no Republican in the race,
because voters are out of fear right. It's a choice
in most elections with a Democrat and Republican. It's the
lesser of two evils. Just because people vote for a

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Democrat doesn't mean that they're enamored with those individuals. A
lot of people just vote out of fear that the
person on the other side is even much worse. And
I think the Center Party provides an opportunity for people
to vote for someone who checks off way more boxes
that they agree with than either of the lesser of

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two evils.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
The voice of Steve your USh. He's with Colorado's Center
Party and he's a candidate in House District fifty two
in the Fort Collins area. He will be in your ballot.
There's no Republican on the ballot to be a Democrat
and the person from the Colorado Center Party, and that
will be Steve Urrash. He's on the Horn View now
talking about his candidacy, Steve, as you're walking the district,

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you're touring around House District fifty two, what are the
people talking about? I mean, obviously, nationally we hear about inflation.
Nationally we hear about immigration. Those seem to every poll
number to show that that's what people are concerned about
for their member of Congress or the presidential racer voting
their pocketbook. What are the people on House Sistrict fifty
two telling you about the state and what they're missing

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in the state and state government and state representation. What
are the people saying?

Speaker 2 (11:09):
So, the property taxes are probably the biggest issue. And
now we did have some relief voted in by the
legislature in the second special session. The Democrats had to
have their arms completely twisted off in order to get
us some relief under the threat of the two ballot propositions,

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which were removed. Because the Democrats finally gave us some relief,
That's probably what's talked about most. And I would say
the second thing, interestingly, is just the political dysfunction that
our politicians don't listen to us and that they're tired
of the acrimony. You can't even talk to your brother

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or sister or cousin or whatever, because they're on the
other side of the aisle blue versus red, and they're
just really tired of that. And I think having someone
in the center might really help that kind of thing.
The other thing is, you know, they want the representatives
to be honest, have some integrity. Yara I think has

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some problems with that. She has received campaign donations from
nineteen different lobbyists, and yet at these candidate forums that
we've had, she complained, how my opponent in the primary,
ny Trick got all this dark money from all these
independent experience for committees. Oh, how terrible is that? And

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yet here she is, after the primary, after she thought
the election was over because she didn't think there would
be a general election, she starts collecting all these campaign
contributions from lobbyists. The lobbyists do represent corporate for profit industries.
They also represent the homeless industrial complex of nonprofit industries

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that are collecting all this money from Denver and and
the state to fund the migrant influx. Right, the the
migrants are able to have their paid rent and such
through these non governmental organizations, and so the lobbyists uh

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for the and there's many of these NGOs and so
globbyists I'll say, oh, you fund this one, fund that
one with your city or state money. And you know
they don't have shareholders, but they have employees and directors
that are making a lot of money and don't change

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the situation in homelessness or the migrant situation. And if
I could real quick on the on the migrant situation
in Aurora, there's a couple of effects you that are
obvious from the videos. The piles of trash outside of
those apartment complex Why are there such huge piles of

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trash which is a fact in the video right, Well,
because that's what happens when we have four adults in
every bedroom in the apartment complex, they generate huge piles
of trash and so when they put it out for
the garbage collection, the garbage collection company can't collect at all.
There's just too much. And so that's a problem when

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you've got that many people in those apartment complexes. And
that's part of what the state legislature did. They want
to allow that to occur with their land use code
changes that where they usurped local control.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Steve your rash, I want to give your website. I
know Coloradocenterparty dot org is they can find you there
is that the best place to find you at Colorado
Centerparty dot org.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Colorado Centerparty dot org. My personal campaign page is under that.
There's a Steve dash for gash House fifty two is
my personal campaign page. You can also just go to
the Center Party dot org and look at for the
candidate's tab and pull down the dab Steve.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
For anybody out there, there's no Republican in the race.
They chose not to feel a candidate or didn't couldn't
find a candidate for whatever the reason. So anybody listening
that normally says, well, he just sound he must be
just a Republican in disguise. Are you just a Republican
in disguise, Steve?

Speaker 2 (15:24):
So your listeners need to know that one of the
main things that Center Party is different on from Republicans
is that we are pro choice on abortion, okay, and
so that is one of the major differentiating factors. But
I would vote with the Republicans if the state legislature

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tries to shut down the crisis Pregnancy centers, which help
at risk women decide to help to keep their baby
to full term and give birth right. The state legislature
is tried to shut these down. That is not appropriate.
Their nurses are afraid of losing their jobs if they

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refuse to participate in abortion procedures. There are nurses that
work in technological offices and they some of them don't
want to participate in abortions. They should not be forced
to lose their job. Just like we had vaccinations required
and nurses were losing their jobs during COVID team, there
should not have been a mandate for the nurses to

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have to take the vaccine. So the Center, so the
Center Party does have some issues that are different but
than the Republicans, but you know, we try to have
a centrist, nuanced view towards these things.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
Steve, I'm going to run short of time. I appreciate
your time. Steve your Rash. Why you are a s
H Steve your Rash And it's a coloradocenter party dot
org and if you just click the candidates tab you'll
see them.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
Right.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
There's a couple of other candidates around the state, but
Steve your Rash House District fifty two in many of
you and Fort Collins, you might want to check this out.
Steve your Rash, Colorado Center Party House, District fifty two.
I'll be back Lakey on the radio, Jimmy Lakey to
be precise, six hundred KCl