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Speaker 1 (00:13):
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just a moment, I'm gonna bring in Michael Lettz, the

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law enforcement expert also the founder of invest USA, Today's
national law Enforcement first Responder's Day, and so give you
a chance at the very we're going to talk about
Train de Laega and the Venezuelan gangs and immigration with
Michael Letz, but also give you a chance to help
out first responders out there on the police side, with
them with protective vest that they could use. And again

(00:56):
we'll talk to Michael Letz here in just a moment.
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to hear from you. All right. Obviously, the first time

(01:16):
any of you heard of trend de Lawega. I think
I'm saying it incorrectly, but I'll do my best to
improve that. As I practiced my Spanish this morning was
in Aurora and these apartment complexes that are still controversial.
People still say these gangs are running a monk. Finally
they've said, yeah, there's some gang presence in Aurora over
the weekend. Jared Pould has finally said yeah, if the

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state patrol is needed in Aurora, let us know. It
went from this is a pro figment of the imagination,
there's nothing happening in Aurora too. Now it admission that, yeah,
the gangs are present in Aurora and we got to
figure it out. I was listening this morning that there's
a I guess a documentary coming out that in New
York City, where you have one hundred and fifty hotels,
including the Roosevelt Hotel, that are filled with illegal that

(02:00):
have been there. They've become shelters for them in the
Roosevelt Hotel, which is a nice property. The gang from
Venezuela has infiltrated that hotel, and according to what I
heard on the documentary, they're now in those hotels recruiting
people that term six, seven, nine, ten year old, eleven
year olds to go out and help do crime for

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them and give them some kind of a protection there.
So this gang is out there and they've come across
our border. Michael Leutz is the founder and presidency of
invest USA, national grassroots nonprofit organization that helps communities provide
thousands of bulletproof as to their police forces, also education,
public relations, sponsorship, and fundraising program. He's also earned the

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Congressional Gold Medal Award of Community Service, South Carolina's highest
civilian award and honor for extraordinary lifetime achievement. He's been
in the law enforcement industry for many, many years. And
Michael Leutz is on the hotline with me right now. Michael,
welcome back to the program, sir, how are you.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
It's always a privilege to be with you. Jimmy, Well,
thank you.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Well, thanks for hopping on the program. It's the gang
trend daily lega. I'm screwing it up, but that the
Venezuelan gang from prison we were told for Colorado for
a while it was a figment of our imagination. Now
the governor says, well, if they need help down Aurora
helping to fight these people, UH will be glad to
help them out. I'm just told the story about this

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gang that has now recruiting kids in New York City
to do crime in Times Square. That's now been documented.
And uh, you've been following this gang that from from Aurora,
Colorado to New York City. This Venezuelan prison gang is
really it really is here. Whether we want to believe
it or not. They are here and they're operational.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Oh, they're very much operational. Jimmy, there, you gave two gambles.
Let me tell you what our tails. Jesus. They're predominantly
now in Texas as well. They have been in San
Antonio now all they have literally taken over city blocks.
They are in LA They're in San Francisco, They're in Seattle,
they are in Atlanta, they are in Detroit, they are

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in Michigan, and they are here. As two scary things
about it, they're partnering with MS thirteen. Of course MS
thirteen has been here for a number of years. And
what they're doing is in great and networks are even
more sophisticated and more deadly than the Maxia used to
be in the thirties. So that's their first objective. Their
second objective is they have now is should our intelligence

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shows is as verifiable intelligence we know it to be
fat if they are offering bonuses to their leaders for
as many cops as they can kill, so they have
put a target on the back of law enforcement and
they get rewarded for killing as many as possible. These
are not the kind they come up to you with
a handgun and give you a fighting chance. They're using

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wall grade rifles AK forty sevens, among others. We've also
covered a discal order. It's just explosives. This is a
full still invasion and one that if we do not
take seriously, is going to create tremendous destruction in these
cities and a lot of loss of life. And so
we've got to add plent of the immediately.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Michael A. Letz is my guest founder and president of
invest USA, talking about the trend Aragua uh Venezuelan gang
activity across America, Yes, including Aurora, Colorado. Michael, you talk
about bonuses are giving away, you're talking about the weaponry
they have. Some people say I thought these were Port
Venezuelan and the immigrants that came around here. And where

(05:35):
are they getting the funding for bonuses? Where are they
getting funding for for weaponry that they have.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
They've got a partnership in the cartails, so the correct
and cartails are not an elect for cash. In fact,
cartails could probably pay for what our countre a couple
of days that they had.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Well, uh, Michael, I guess the question becomes, you know,
we've started off to suppose there's a figment of our
imagination Aurora, and then now we're hearing about New York.
You've mentioned several other cities. I have heard the stories
about Texas that this game has taken over parts of
the San Antonio and Austin down the hill country. So

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they're making their presence known there. What do we do?
I mean, we've got to get a grip on this,
because they're not shrinking their footprint, they're expanding their footprint.
More and more cities are included in that. Is it
too late to stop them? Do we what happens now?

Speaker 2 (06:31):
No, it's definitely not too late to top of the
I'm so glad you mentioned Jimmy let me tell you,
the thim blue line has stressed your capacity. In fact,
you know, I told you we used to have one
point to one point three million across the country's worn offstars,
but they're at about seven hundred thousand now because of
this defund the police, Black Lives Man and Antifa. So

(06:52):
can law enforcement do what they should be able to do? No,
we are going to have to now engage in partner
with military. My recommendation and that already talk to the
President about this, is we need special forces. We need
to go in and clean this situation up. We're not
talking about kids. I realized that they're recruiting teams, but
they're recruiting to kids with TikTok any minor crimes. They'll

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graduate them into being able to shoot offers and for
too much FLV. Trust me, we're talking about well trained.
They actually have military training, background training the organizational leaders do.
So we are under invasion and it's time we take
it seriously and counter back with as much about more
force than what they do.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
The Voice of Michael lets Michael very quickly. This election obviously,
the two different advantage points, two different viewpoints on the border,
but it doesn't matter who wins next Tuesday, this gang
is real, it's alive, it's operational, and we're going to
have to face face the concept. We're gonna have to
face take up the responsibility of getting rid of this gang,

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or we're gonna end up having a lot of consequences.
It doesn't matter who wins the election next next week,
the problem is still going to be there.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Oh, you're exactly right, But I will tell you this.
Mine tells these shows. The gangs clearly understand that if
Donald Trump wins there on the way out they have
great respect for the fact that you will use whatever
force is necessary. The Harrison administration will do a lot
of talking to no Ash and that's exactly what they're
looking for.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Well, I find it interesting because we get closer to
the election, the city council person and the member of
the candidate for Congress down in Aurora that eventually originally
pointed out trend the agua they were called. They were ghastly,
it told there's nothing to see here, it doesn't really exist.
Now as we get closer with the election, over the weekend,
we had our governor saying, yeah, if they need state
patrol there in Aurora, it could be they could use us.

(08:43):
We've told the police have it, requested it, but it's
available to them. In other words, it's gone from there's
nothing to see here too. Yeah, we do have a problem,
and maybe it's not the extreme that we some people say,
but we do have a problem. It is interesting to
see how even politicians here in Colorado, their position and
their narrative on whether this gag exists and their activities
are operational, that seems to have shifted right here in Colorado.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Hey, Jimmy, I always point out that they shifted to
a point telling you here we think we have a problem,
but there should not where the truth is it. We
don't have a problem. We have a huge problem, a
deadily problem that if not dealt with very rapidly, will
cost many lives in the country today.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Michael Lets, you've also started a great organization called invest USA,
grassroots nonprofit organization. You've helped hundreds of communities get bulletproof
vest on the police in the streets, also education, public relations,
led with local fundraising. Again, it's all about protecting the
police on the streets. Today is National First Responder Day,
and it would be an appropriate day for people on

(09:45):
National First Responder Day to maybe help out your great
organization as you help law enforcement. Talk about invest USA,
your nonprofit efforts, and how can folks help today on
National first Responders Day.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Well, thank you so much to me for acknowledging that
it is one of the most critical days us. Get
what we talked about. We're going to send these officers
in with out the proper protection they need to try
to eradicate. Again, it's killing Americans, so we need to
put an end of that. We need to make sure
everyone has a base state active shoot events, they have
the capacity to defend themselves. We're born in a flight

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now headed to Florida. We just had an officer last
week's shot and killed buy one of these gay members. Uh,
and we're going to honor him and his family. Of course,
you know he's deceased now, but his family's left behind
and we're going to make sure that the rest of
the department has the best that he should have had
he would have been alive today. Please, folks, don't make
me go to any more funerals than I have. To

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do what you can to make sure that our officers
have what they need to protect you, your children, and
your grandchildren.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
How do folks give They would go to your website
and invest USA, can you help us kind of know
the cost of a vest or part of a vest
or what can they contribute today.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
To They're going to ww dot I n the E,
STUSA dot org, migetarity dot org, g literal things they
can do. But if we a donate button, any amount
is appreciated of best cost several hundred dollars obviously if
you only have ten that all helps put together to
be sure some officer goes home.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Stemmy tonight, invest I in v E s t USA
dot org. Do I have it right?

Speaker 2 (11:17):
You got it right, Jimmy, all right.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
I hope folks will participate on National First Responder Day.
They're actually putting vest On police officers on the streets.
And as you think about it that these gang members
were talking about, even the governor of the state of Colorado,
Governor Polos said, hey, if state patrol needs help, if
if they need help from state patrol, they're going to
give them help from state patrol. Wouldn't it be great

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if everybody that has to deal with these gang members
has one of these vest On That would be a
very good thing, and they're doing it to invest USA
dot org. Invest USA dot org help them out its
National First Responder Day. Hey guess what, I'm helping myself out.
I'm helping myself at my home to make sure my
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(12:01):
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I haven't turned on the furnace yet. It's coming on.
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talking about him on the radio. All right, I mentioned
this measure four out of North Dakota. It's on the
ballot in North Dakota that they're going to get rid
of property taxes. I don't have a problem with that.

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Think of all the think of the problems we had
with property taxes in the state of Colorado over the
last many years. Right the last couple of years, we've
had this issue with property taxes. The legislature, the governor
can figure it out. When the legislature comes on to
try to explain what they did, nobody understands what they did.
And then you still get your property tax and it's
still higher than what you thought it should be. And

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then what do you do. You end up contacting the
county assessor and your protest and you say that's the
assessment rates, and then they tell you no, and you've
got to pay the property tax. It's very convoluted, it's
a very stupid system. And it happens this way state
after state, and at North Dakota, they're looking to be
the first state in the nation that say no, state wide,

(14:11):
county wide, citywide, there shall be no property taxes. Dave
wrote me this, that's Measure four, and they know they can.
What happens is it's like the mountain lion hunting. They
start in California, then they start shopping other states they
can get the same agenda, the reintroduction of wolves and
all that stupid stuff. They run into the liberal states. Well,
this is one of the conservatives state. They're like, hey,

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let's get rid of property taxes. And the group's organizing
and say, you know what, there's other states that would
probably go that would be interesting. Texas has already looked
at it, and Nebraska has already looked at it. And
there's another state that's on the list that's also contemplated
getting rid of property taxes altogether. And I think it'd
be a great thing. And then require the legislature to budget,

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and let's not have some convoluted assessment formula that nobody
understands and so therefore you don't know what you're protesting.
Let's just fund the bu the way we're supposed to
fund the budget. Dave wrote this. He said, yes, Lakey,
get rid of it. Make up the difference in sales
tax or wherever. You'll also cuts in spending. See if
you got rid of the convoluted formula that none of

(15:12):
us can figure out on our property taxes and why
every year we kind of wait to see if it's
gone up or down. You don't know. It's just a
formula put together by bureaucrats and legislators and politicians. Nobody
really understands it. You just assume that they got it right,
and if you think it's wrong, you protest and say
this is incorrect, and then you're still at their mercy
as to whether or not they adhere to you or

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adjudicate in your favor on the reduction of your assessment.
Measure four in North Dakota, if you've got friends up
there and call them and ask them, hey, what do
you think of Measure four in your ballot, I'm sure
they're saying, if you vote for Measure four, you're going
to starve children. You're probably going to be sacrificing puppies
to satan. I mean, they're going to say all sorts
of bad things about it. But basically, all it does
is takes a convoluted funding mechanism away from the government

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and says, if you want to fund these programs that
you say come from our property taxes, why don't you
fund them through the legislature and through the purse and
that way we can have a little bit more transparency
as to how that's calculated. And that way, once you
paid off your mortgage, once you paid off the acreage
that you own, your kids and grandkids don't have to
keep paying the government to keep that family property for generations.

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They don't have to do it. If you think about it,
with property taxes in Colorado, there is no true land ownership.
You never own the land. You're paying a usage fee
back to the government. You may think you paid off
your mortgage to the bank. You didn't, you paid off
the bank loan, but you still, year after year, in
the name of property taxes, have to give the government
a usage fee in order to have the honor of

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using land in their county or in their city. And
so do you really own it? You're actually paying them
to use it. Measure four in North Dakota. I find
it quite fascinating to get rid of property taxes and say, hey,
why don't you go through the legislature if you want
to fund the schools or whatever it is in state
the state you're funding, why don't you funded there? Again,
if you take that phrase property tax away and call

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it your government use fee, you pay off your mortgage.
You work thirty forty years to pay off your mortgage,
maybe paid off in twenty and you now own your house.
But for the rest of your life, your kid's life,
your grandkid's life. However, many times you pass that down,
you still have to pay those bureaucrats at the welld
County or the Larimer County or Boulder County. You still
got to pay them to use your land. So do
you really own it? Are you just using it? You're

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really only using it? Measure four in North Dakota. Should
it pass, it could start an interesting domino effect across America.
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have all of you here on the program. As you know,
it's election season in America, and one of the things
we try to make you familiar with is people that
are on your ballad. You may not have seen fancy
television ads on you may not know exactly who they are.

(19:44):
And some of you in Larimer and Jackson County, you're
going to have Don Downs as a name for district
attorney on your ballot. And Don Downs is an independent
candidate for District Attorney Larimer County in Jackson County, and
I want to welcome Don Downs into the program. Don
Walker the show.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
Good morning, Jimmy, thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
You're running for district attorney. Kind of give a little
bit of background again Larimer County, Jackson County, that judicial district.
Why would tell Don Down's background and why you want
to be a district attorney.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
Well, Jimmy, I'm running unaffiliated because I don't think politics
should play a role in the DA's office. I think
we really just need to focus on the job at
hand and keeping our community safe and getting justice for victims.
So I am a Northern Colorado native born and raised here,
and our community really means the world to me. I'm
raising my ten year old son here and running because

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of my passion for the work at the District Attorney's
office and my commitment to public safety. You know, I
was a prosecutor in this office for almost fifteen years
and I left in October of twenty two. But really
near and dear to my heart is why I became
an attorney was to be a prosecutor. I started my

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career as a defense attorney actually and earned the importance
of people. And these are not just cases, but the
really people in our community, our family members, but justice
for victims and really fighting for our community is what
I want to do.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
Don downs as my guest if you'd like to find
more about Dawn Dawn for da dot COM's the website.
Unaffiliated independent candidate running for District Attorney. If you have
a Larimer County at Jackson County ballad, you'll probably see
that name on there. Don. Obviously you're running unaffiliated or independent,
but you think that you bring something to the office

(21:34):
that maybe people that have a different affiliation might bring.
What separates you from the candidates that might have a
certain letter before or after the name.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
Why are you different, Well, Jimmy, I'm different because I
really am focused on what our community needs and keeping
our community safe. As a district attorney, that's our needs
to be our top priority, not our political affiliation and
agenda like we've seen over the last four years. So
I'm bringing a commitment to our community for victims and

(22:07):
looking at stabilizing the office. Unfortunately, there's been significant turnover
under the current DA, with ninety seven percent of the
attorneys leaving. There's forty two attorneys and forty one have
left since he was elected, and that's really devastating to
our community. Into cases, the caseloads are now rising with

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newer and inexperienced attorneys doing the best they can to
try to get through them. But the caseloads are rising
and the time to case closure is rising, and that
leaves cases that are being dismissed or significantly plied down,
and that leaves victims search and for justice. They're not
getting justice, and it leaves offenders out in our community

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without resources that they need. So we really need to focus,
and we need an attorney and a DA who is
focused on our community and public safety. And that's the
difference between me and my opponent.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
One of the things that we often see really around America,
and I'm guessing in Colorado, you have these cash bail laws,
you have bail reform laws. You have people they're unable
to sometimes keep people in jail even they want to
keep them in jail. You have stories in which you
have people that might have created illegal committed illegal crimes.
You can't contact immigration customers because of state laws. Has

(23:22):
the state of Colorado as a whole made it very
difficult for any district attorney to kind of do their
job and keep the bad guys or people that are
accused of bad crimes locked up and start finding I
guess some kind of a justice for victims. Is it
getting harder in the state of Colorado just because of
the laws that come from the state legislature.

Speaker 3 (23:43):
It really has. Over the last few years. The legislature
has really tied to the justice the criminal justice system's
hands in a number of ways. One of them, like
you mentioned, is the lowering of bonds and requirement of
certain types of personal recognizance bonds and certain low leg cases.
But at the same time. The district attorney is the

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one person in court. You know, they don't set the
bonds that the judge does. But the district attorney is
the one person in court who's in there to fight
for victims, in there to fight for community safety and
argue for the appropriate bonds. And unfortunately we're not seeing
that happen in time and time again, even as recently
as last week, they're requesting PR bonds or COPR bonds

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in cases that's just really not appropriate and we need
to do better. But you know, the legislature has tied
our hands in a number of sentences as well, and
lowering some crimes that we're felling use to misdemeanors, and
so yes, the legislature has tied our hands in a
lot of ways, but that doesn't mean that we still
can't use the tools and the resources that we have

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to ensure that our community is safe to the best
of our abilities.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
The Voice of Don Down. She's running for district attorneys.
She's unaffiliated with any the big parties, but her website
is Don for da dot com. If you're in the
eighth judicial that would be Larimer County and Jackson County.
She is on your ballad there and John on your
website DOWNFDA dot com. And I find it interesting always
to go to the endorsement page and you are endorsed
by John Fahan, who's the counter the County of Larimer,

(25:15):
Larmer County Sheriff. Also Jared Pauley, the Jackson County Sheriff.
Those are some pretty big endorsements when the sheriff's even
former sheriff Justin Smith, has endorsed you. Hiring Josie a
friend of the program, Larimer County Treasurer in public trustee.
You've got some pretty big endorsements. Why is it that
you think that they're endorsing you rather than maybe the
incumbent district attorney.

Speaker 3 (25:38):
Well, because they are people are proud of the endorsements
I have, Jimmy. Because they are people who are in
the system. They're people who are working in the justice system,
and they know what's going on. They see it day
in and day out. They are experiencing the revolving door
of criminals just being released without repercussions and being allowed
to reoffend. And there's something message that we need change.

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They're telling the community, this is not what we need
and we need some change, and so I'm really proud
of all of the endorsements I have, including victims, including advocates,
and other community members who are involved or have been
involved in the justice system.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Don Downs is my guest. If you want to learn
more about her, Don for Da. If you're in the
eighth district judicial district, that would be Larimer County and
Jackson County. She is one of the names on the
ballot for district attorney and if you want to learn more,
Don for da dot com. That maybe one of the
down ballot races you normally wouldn't pay attention to, but
here you might want to pay attention to it in

(26:37):
Jackson and in Larimer County, Don Dawn for DA as
in District attorney dot com. Don, I appreciate you coming
on the program. Thanks for your time this morning. The
home stretch of the campaign. If folks want to learn
more about you get involved, is the website where they start.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
Yes, the website's a great place, and I would just
encourage people to vote. Please get out and vote and
return your ballots. We haven't had a lot of ballots
returned so far, and we need people to vote.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
Don Ford d A dot com. Again. I know sometimes
you vote for president people and you decided that you're
going to skip the rest of them go through the ballot.
This is one again you can get educated. It's a
real simple bit of information. Her website has a lot
of great information. On the Don Ford d a dot com.
Go to the endorsement page. You can maybe some people
that you've known and respected in the community for a
long time, from former Laramore County Shriff Justin Smith, Irene

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Josie's on there, John Fay and Jared Jared Polly, who's
the Jackson County Sheriff, Sonny Ward victim services professional, former
employee in the eighth Judicial District Attorney's office. Again, that's
a down ballot ration might not normally pay attention to,
but may be worth paying attention to in the world
that we live in today. Dawn Dawn for da dot

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com f r d A dot com. All right, I
got to take this break. Laky on the radio, Good
Morning Colorado standby six hundred k cool. Well, Heidi, ho, everybody.

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Good to have you here on the radio show. Jimmy
is my name pleasured, pleased and I'm very giddy. I'm
just totally giddy to have you here. No, I really,
I'm still still thrilled. I can't contain myself. All right,
good to have you. If you want to jump in
a couple of things, this National first Responder Day, and
why don't you think of first responder today? If you've

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got a first responder, you want to give a shout
out to give him a call. Maybe you'll see him
at the restaurant, the gas station, Maybe you see him
at the donut shop. No, no joke, I just seriously,
maybe you'll see him at the donut shop. Wherever you
see your first responder, why don't you think and thank
them for their service to the community. As you heard
Don Down's talk about the legislatures made it harder and

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harder to want to get out there and fight crime
and do the right thing. The stabbing here early there
used to be one point two million dollar law enforcement
sworn law enforcement officers in America. And with the last
four or five years, with the defund the police type
movement and the just anti police sentiment that's been expressed

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by many on the political left, we're down about seven
hundred thousand out there, and you oftentimes hear a lot
of even in Colorado. These municipalities and counties have a
tough time recruiting and filling all their positions, and that's
not good. So those who are serving as first responders,
we do thank you, and not just law enforcement, but

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the paramedics, the fire departments, all the folks that show
up and run towards the danger when all the rest
of us are running away. Thank you. It is National
First Responder Day here in America. Okay, what else do
we have here? A couple of other stories to follow
a message here, Jimmy, thanks for highlighting the District attorney's race.

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That's what I never thought about. I haven't gotten to
my ballot yet, but now I'm going to pay attention
to it. Again, that's the eighth Judicial District. So it's
not just Larimer County. It's Larimer and Jackson County. You
make up the eighth Judicial District. And that's Don Downs
and just fascinating to kind of read some of the Again,
I don't live in either of those counties, and so
it's not a race that I particularly follow that closely.

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But after scheduling Dawn to be on the program, I
started reading and I said, Wow, there's a lot of
folks out there that are in current law enforcement and
past law enforcement that would be very supportive of a
change in that district attorney's position. Don Downs is unaffiliated.
And here that's another I think interesting thing that this
is a controversy that happens in many states, is that

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a lot of times you have judges that don't have
a party affiliation, you know they have a bias, and
then you have district attorneys who do declare party officially
officiation affiliation, which should it be. But you get to
this place of just sometimes you get what you vote
for so and again. But then if you vote for
the let's say the governor, you're going to get appointees

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to the judicial seat. So's I don't know if there's
a perfect way to do it. In other words, I'm
not sure if there's a way to improve it, because
even if you remove party affiliations off of ballot, it
doesn't mean somebody doesn't have a bias or advantage point
that they pursue things. Maybe everybody should be required to
either say I'm independent or I'm a Republican Democrat. There's
no perfect system out there, but the key is you've

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got to get people that are going, to the best
of your ability and be able to interpret it, are
going to believe that Lady Justice holding the scales is blindfolded.
And I think there's a lot of folks out there
that feel that Lady Justice is no longer blindfolded. And
that's a sad day. And I think that's the beginning
of the crumbling of a great nation. When you can't

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trust your judicial system. That's a bad, bad thing. And
I hope we can overcome that. And maybe don Down's
with an unaffiliated It's just it's interesting unaffiliated affiliated, and
a lot of times you skip that race and yet
you end up with some strange situations going on. So
I'm not sure the exact situation the exact way to

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do it, but hey, it's a system we have right now,
so make sure you do vote in that. Don't just
vote for someone because they're an incumbent. Don't just vote
for someone because they have an R or a D
next to their name. You might want to just make
sure you vote for someone that you've done the research on.
Takes the time, but it's so worth it, all right.
I've got an update here how many ballots have been
cast so far? In Colorado. You do hear that some

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states are breaking records. Colorado's not one of them.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
So far.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Lower turnout, much lower than twenty twenty. On the return
of the ballots. I'm not sure Colorado breaks them down
as a Republican ballots or Democrat ballots handed back in.
It's just overall we're down. What do you read into that.
We can talk about that next hour as well. Everybody's
stand by. Jimmy Lakey six hundred kcol Good morning,