January 5, 2026 • 36 mins
Adam DeRito, Republican primary challenger of Rep. Gabe Evans in Colorado's 8th Congressional District, joins live in-studio with his take on the child transgender surgery criminalization bill the Congressman voted against, as well as his support for President Trump's veto of Rep. Lauren Bobert's bipartisan co-sponsored bill (HR 131, Arkansas Valley Conduit Act) on water distribution in Colorado.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:12):
My congressman, who I'm currently running against as the incumbent
for Colorado's district Date, just voted no to not criminalize
transgender sex transition on miners, including.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Surgeries, puberty blockers, and hormone therapy.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yes, I did know Gabe Evans as an army officer
who was one of our helicopter pilots in nineteen Special
Forces Group.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
He probably didn't know me much more. At that time.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I was a lowly E four and we definitely passed
paths numerous times in and out of the aircraft.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
But I didn't know him as a representative.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I didn't know him when he was running, but I
reached out to him and I wanted to help him
on his campaign, and he invited me to help him,
help me help you.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I have all the text messages. It's fine, but the.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Fact that Representative Gabe Evans doesn't want to protect children
in Colorado's district Date, I will as your next congressman
for Colleas District Day. This is an easy vote, common
sense America first, Adam Dredo out.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
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here on this welcome back edition. Happy New Year twenty
twenty six. Also Wanner, welcome with Carolina Stanzik in here.
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Speaker 1 (01:25):
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Speaker 4 (01:34):
Three zero three seven one three eight two five five.
You got a question for our next guest, Adam de Reedal.
He is the primary challenger in the eighth Congressional District,
as you just heard, against Representative Gabe Evans on the
Republican side. Now, Adam, I remember communicating with you in
the immediate wake of this particular vote, and the MTG
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Marjorie Taylor Green sponsored bill that came to the House
floor was voted on by I think all but four
Republicans in the affirmative and Gabe Evans is one of
the four that voted against it. So the other three Republicans,
Jeff Hurd, Jeff Crank, Lauren Bolbert all voted for it,
as well as a bill that Representative Gabe Evans preferred,
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sponsored by Dan Crenshaw, which merely defunded the transgender surgeries
for kids that were talking about, did not criminalize them. Well,
get to his explanation to that in a moment for
you to respond to. But I just want to let
you articulate your position on it and why you feel
it should be criminalized and doctors who perform these transgender
surgeries on kids should be prosecuted.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Absolutely one. Thanks for bringing it back on the show.
Ryan Happy ne hear to everybody out there. Yeah, this
is a line in the sand for us. Is that
you know, I understand that I am a conservative Catholic,
I get it, you know, but I have my ways
of beliefs. But I can't force those beliefs on everybody else.
But I think one thing that everybody in distric date
can agree on is do not touch the kids under
the age of eighteen. And when you're under the age
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of eighteen, you can't make conscious decies and your brain
doesn't even fully formulate to your twenty five You can't
even write a car to your twenty five line.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
So why am I allowing you to remember to do
all these things?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Right?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
So Carolyn, you could run a car now? Yeah, so
I'm so.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
The The biggest thing is kids can't make the best
decisions when they're that young.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
You need parental consent to do so many things. In
you're young.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
You can't even you know, buy a beer when you
join the military at eighteen. If you are an adult
and you are a rational mind, never mind a medical
doctor or a parent that is permitting these surgeries on
your child or children in general, then you need to
be prosecuted and you need to be held accountable, because
who is going to save the next greatest generation of Americans,
these young people if their own parents and doctors aren't
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going to protect them.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Adam Dorito, our guest, a primary challenger in the eighth
Congressional District against Representative Gabe Evans, and his fate would
have it. I met Adam at an event where Gabe
Evans was present and you had not yet announced your
challenge of him. This is at the Well County Hodown
back in late October. So much has changed since then.
Represent Evans was our final guest of calendar. You're twenty
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twenty five speaking about this issue that Adam just pointed
out and detailing why he voted no on the MTG
bill but yes on the Crenshaw bill.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
And I pose the question this way.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
You could have gone along the lines of your fellow
Republican congress members in the state of Colorado Jeff Heard,
Lauren Bobert, and Jeff Crank and just voted yes on
both of them, and you wouldn't had to deal with
all of this.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
You chose instead to kind of draw that line that
you made.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Of distinction, and it makes sense to me, But from
a political standpoint, wouldn't have been just easier.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I'll vote yes on this one, and I vote yes
on this one too.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Here it would have been easier, you know. But I
think that's one of the things that bothers folks about Washington, DC,
is when you have members of Congress that disagree with
a a bill, but yeah, you know what, I'm going
to vote for it, go along to get alonger than
the opposite happens.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
They think it's a.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Bad accuse me a good bill, but they don't want
to vote for it. And so that's you know, I
had to have a long, hard look in the mirror
with myself based on you know, the twelve that I
spent in the military, the ten years that I spent
as a cop, and say, take all of the politics
out of this. At the end of the day, is
it good policy or bad policy to arrest doctors, given
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that we know there's this other bill that has the
same effect, just defunds the procedures preemptively. Are these good
policies or bad policies? And again, this is federal law
we're talking about here. This isn't a letter to the
editor or an op ed. This is federal law that
deprives people of life, liberty, and happiness. And we want
to make good decisions in this place. And so I
made the decision because I think you ought to let
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your yes B yes, and your no B no, and
if you disagree with the policy, come back do like
we're doing right now, have the conversation, talk about why.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
You did what you did.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
But I can't stand politically expedient votes if somebody doesn't
actually agree with the way they're voting.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Representative Gabe Evans his challenger Adam Dorito in studio want
todend them to what he said, And what he told
me Adam was he was kind of going with a
pragmatic calculus of the Crenshaw bill was more likely to
pass the Senate and get to as a Trump's desk.
So basically, why waste political capital time with a vote
for an MPTG bill.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
That would be likely to die in the Senate.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Your response, Yeah, I understand that perspective, but when it
comes to kids, there's no exceptions to this, right. The
problem with the first bill that criminalizes it. You know,
I understand he was a police officer and he served
as a fellow veteran, and I respect that. I respect him,
you know, for all the things that he's done for
this country. But the problem with the first bill is
that you're not kicking indors with the SWAT team the
arrest doctors. I think that is a hyperbolic statement on
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his end as a former police officer. SWAT teams aren't
going to kick indoors. To arrest doctors, You're gonna get
a warr you're gonna get served, You're probably need to
ask some questions, you're gonna get brought in. That's how
the investigative process works, right, So I think taking that
and toning that down with the reality of what would
actually happen when charging parents or doctors. Let's be honest
about that, like if we're going to talk about that.
The second part when he said, oh, I voted for
the Marjorie Tayler Green bill. I didn't want to vote
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for that, but then I voted for the Crenchhjow bill.
The problem with the Crenshaw bill, it just takes away
Medicare funding. It's not taking away the surgery. It's not
holding parents and doctors accountable, and you're only limiting one
source of funding. It doesn't make it illegal to privately
fund it, it doesn't make it at least to use your private
health insurance, and it doesn't get rid of the issue
of transgender surgeries of kids. Like that's we want to
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eliminate that issue. Like I said, if you want to
make all those decisions after you're over the age of eighteen,
go for it, you know what I mean. But until then,
we need to protect kids and make sure that they're
growing up to be good citizens and not preventing their
brain development by subjecting them to these types of torturius procedures.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Because he's not here to debate.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I'm going to counter and have you offer up your
analysis on what Representative Evans told me when it comes
to this issue, and that is that you know, with
the bill to ban the transgender surgeries, to remove the
federal funding. I'm paraphrasing here, but I think I get
the gist of it right, that that would crumble under
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the weight of itself. That because it would no longer
be federally funded, hospitals be far less likely to embark
upon those procedures, they would not be as much money
makers or sure things, be more risk involved with conducting
those procedures.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
And then again it would just.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Kind of fall under the weight of itself by removing
that federal funding without having to go the extra road
of prosecuting doctors who perform the surgeries. What would you
say to that, Well, the problem is that, like I said,
it's not eliminating the issue. And this is a moral
and ethical position, right, Just pulling away funding to eliminate
some doctors and some funding from some hospitals stop transgender
surgeries is not stopping the transgender surgeries, right, And I think, yes,
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you're you're right.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
It may not get the President Trump desk and it
might get vetoed, But you want to know what, that's
what we pay you for. That's what we elected you
to do. We elected you to go there and start
a bear fight in Congress and fight for the people
of your district. And if you can't do that, you're
not willing to do that because you want to acquiesce
to the other side too much, especially on something that's
as moral ethical as kids.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Like, I know we're going to have to debate taxes
all the time, We're going to have to reach across
the island work on infrastructure projects and things like that,
but when it comes to protecting America's future next generation,
there could be no exceptions to that. Gonna have to
take the hard line on If the Republicans have the House,
and they have the Senate, and they have the presidency,
let's do that and make the decisions. We only have
two more years with this current president to make those
hard decisions, get those hard bills passed, because after that,
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we don't know what's going to happen. We don't know
who's going to be elected next. I call him cool
Ranch Adam de Rito. I think the President would call
him that too. And it's a great nickname. You're free to
use it.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Representati gave Evan's going a final point on this issue,
to put a fine point on it for you. Adam
texted me the following and he said, oh, look, targeting
the finances of the entire system is stopping the transgendering kids,
not jailing doctors, any sites. A nine News story that's
entitled the following Children's Hospital Denver Health end gender affirming
care to miners, and the subhead Children's Hospital said the
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decision came after HHS announced referral of an investigation against
the hospital that would threaten Medicare and Medicaid funding.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
What do you say to that nurse.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
That's one hospital and one area in Colorado. I'm talking
this is a national issue. I don't just care about
the people of district Day. I care about all of Colorado,
and I care about all of my fellow Americans protecting
all children. This isn't just a subjected issue and a
very small scale. Yeah, you're right, it might eliminate some funding,
it might eliminate some surgeries, but it's not making it
illegal and preventing it and using a preventative measure and
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a deterrent against doctors and parents to stop doing the
wrong thing.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Adam de Rito, the candidate for the eighth Congressional District
and the primary challenging sitting Congressman Representative Gabe Evans, you
were the first one that I saw, Adam, and you're
very adept at this to look under the hood at
this next particular issue, because it's really in your wheelhouse
with regard to the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act and President
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Trump's veto of that h R one thirty one. It
was co sponsored by Representative Lauren Bobert out of the
fourth Congressional District. It was supported by the representative in
the third Congressional District, Jeff Hurt as well. It was
bipartisan and had that support through the House and the
Senate making it to Donald Trump's desk. And he's taken
a lot of heat while from all angles, actually from
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both Democratic Senators John Hick and Looper Michael Bennett in
this state, as well as a pretty sharply pointed statement
from Representative Lauren Bilbert. But a lot of people are
accusing Donald Trump of some kind of political retribution that
he's trying to get back at Representative Bilbert because of
her stance up against him on the Epstein files, or
just taking out some political clout on Colorado because they
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won't free Tina Peters, or for whatever other garden variety
political disagreement he has with those here in the state
of Colorado. But you broke it down this way, and
I'd like you to expand on it.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
President Trump vetoed the water pipeline bill today in Colorado,
and Bolbert's all up in arms about it, and so
has Jeff Heard and probably the rest of the Republicans
who don't understand anything about water.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Well, what is the.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Arkansas Valley Conduit Act Hr one thirty one. It was
designed to build and complete a water pipeline to provide
clean water to fifty thousand people. The pipeline spans one
hundred and thirty miles at the cost of three hundred
and fifty million dollars to finish.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
That's over million dollars a mile, if not way more.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
It would be zero interest and reduced interest cost sharing,
and the bill would adjust an entire cost infrastructure for
local governments and water districts, making it easier for communities
to pay their share and for the project By eliminating
or lowering interest payments and extending repayment periods for seventy.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Five to one hundred years.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
It did not authorize a major new federal outlay, but
instead leveraged existing federal water infrastructure frameworks. There's a problem
with this because it needed to be redesigned to be
more efficient.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
President Trump is right on this. It is not economically viable.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Like building a bridge to nowhere in Alaska, it could
be done cheaper and better and more efficiently to the taxpayer.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Do you think what you just stated there, Adam, was
part of the Trump administration's calculus in vetoing it, or
was it pure partisan politics in which Donald Trump felt
disaffected with those in Colorado and he just wanted to
kind of thumb his nose at them.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I mean, let's be honest.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Donald Trump is a master i orchestration, a media narrative
when he needs to. And some people want to take
the quick road to the TEENA Peters excuse to the
ftent files. That's something everybody knows about and it's something
everyone can fight about. But when you break it down
and his actual response letter of why he vetoed it,
it is not economically viable. Trump is a master builder
and developer. This is what he's done his entire life, right,
And when you actually look at the statistics of that pipeline,
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do we need to get water to that area?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
There are other ways of doing it better and cheaper,
more efficiently, and not putting the people of Colorado in
debt for.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Our seventy five to one hundred years. Also.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Absolutely, And people need to take the emotional argument out
of this that we're starving the poor people of water now,
because if you built this bill as is, you're putting
twenty two to thirty two thousand dollars of additional tax
responsibility per person that area for water. There's a better
way to do it, and that's why I'm a critical
infrastructure expert.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
This is what I do, and I can bring those solutions.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
You're basically calling it a boondoggle investment in which we
get over our heads, the massive debt that would be incurred,
the length of time over which it would have to
be paid. So in a nutshell, if you can do
this for the listeners out here, many of them are
being affected by this adam in these districts that we're
talking about, the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
What would be a proferable alternative to that.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
It would be bu aibling two regional treatment hubs and
wastewater treatment plants in that area and using shorter distribution
lines to the affected areas. Because the thing is, the
way the Arkansas Conduit Act, the way it is built now,
is that it just gets the transportation issue. It doesn't
resolve the salinity issue in the radioonucleotides that are in
the water that need to be treated and removed through
reverse osmosis and extensive treatment. Now, I'm a licensed wastewater
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professional in the state of Colorado. I've worked in oil
and gas for over thirteen years.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
This is what we do.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
We have to remove all that water, make it clean
drinking water for Denver Metro. Right, and people don't even
know that about five to ten percent of their drinking
water comes from oil and gas production residue.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Right.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
So there are better and cheaper ways, and not only
that provides long term jobs, It provides a long term
solution at a cheaper rate and providing more jobs for
the area, versus building a pipeline that is not resolving
the treatment and supply issues over a long termeriod of time.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Dorrito Forcongress dot Com is where you can find out
more about his campaign. D Ri t O four fo
R Congress dot Com our guest in studio for most
of the hour here, and then he's got a sciattle.
He's got to go to a different venue because he's
got a lot on his plate. So I appreciate his
time here on Ryan Shuling Live today, Adam. As far
as the race as you see it right now, we've
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talked about two of the big issues. Where you buy
for Kate from Gabe Evans and one of the things
that you share with our previous guests in the last hour,
Creig Lopez is a disaffected feeling. I think if I'm
not wrong with the Colorado Republican Party, the leadership, how
it's being run. Are representatives in any of the four
congressional seats that the party currently holds. What would you
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say to those out there that are saying, look, you're
disturbing the applecart. We're good enough with Gabe Evans. It's
a purple district. It's tough enough to win as it is.
Why are you mounting this in direction campaign from with them?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
It's not insurrection it's saving our conservative values and all
of the people that I will represent, even if they
don't agree with me in district date. And you guys,
keep in mind, I'm one of the few constituents in
the state of corad that's reached out to every single
Member of Congress, even as a constituent, trying to get
bills passed, trying to help better in issues.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
And I've been ignored.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
If I'm the one flying to DC and I'm the
one writing letters and making phone calls and bringing up
staff meetings with all my other people, and I'm getting ignored,
what do you think they're doing to the rest of
our constituents. It's the end of it. And same thing
with the Colorado GOP. They always like to say, you're
the guy that came out of nowhere. Now I'm just
the guy that was sitting on County Road forty nine
wondering why my taxes were going up and then started
showing up to meetings and asking questions. Now you're mad
that real Americans are showing up to these meetings and
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asking questions. The Colorado GOP has become the kings and
Queens of graveyards. Everything that they do is ineffective. We
lost all our money. Whether you're on that, it doesn't
even matter what side you're on.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I'm an America First Conservative. I vote that what's going
to affect my life, my neighbors, and my job. And
then when I see no matter what side is in control,
no matter what names you want to throw out there,
I don't care about any of that. I just care
about real Americans being reper When I talk to these
families in Commerce City and Brighton and Greeley and the Ranchers,
and they're like, we're losing our livelihoods and no one's
listening to them. But I am, and I can't say
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that for a lot of representatives. I've offered my help
to all the other congressmens, like, hey, Congressman Woman Bobert,
if you got an issue with the water bill, hit
me up. I'll help you rewrite the bill that makes
sense because I'm an infrastructure expert and I want to
help you in your district too. I am willing to
work with people I disagree with, no matter if they're
Democrats are Republicans, and I can't say that, like reach
out to the.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Subject matter experts in your district. I promise you we exist.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Have you had any interactions, any communication with Representative Bobert
or any member of her staff about that water issue, I.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Will reach out to her again. But the thing is is,
you know, ever since you start stirring the pot, like
you say, they just completely ignore you and write you off.
But like I said, it's time for real Americans to
start running Colorado when I think a lot of Americans.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Are tired of it.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Like I said, I can talk to anybody in this district.
I mean, I'm in a union man, like so half
my half my coworkers are Democrats, right, but we all
agree that we want our jobs to stay here. And
we've lost so many jobs of the last few years,
and nobody's fighting for us.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
And I'm going to be the to fight for it.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Adam de Rito our guest primary challenger of Gabe Evans
in the eighth Congressional District. As we head under the
primary now calendar year twenty twenty six, we know that
the Colorado GOP has been broken for myriad reasons. Greg
Lopez has left the party and now he's running as
an independent for governor.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
You are running from within the party.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
I think in a very noble effort to try to
change it from within. But there's a lot of people
out there, Adam, that might view you as radioactive, that
you're just against everything, You're against every one. You're not
really for a lot of these people. In working with them,
you kind of articulated that you would if they'd be
willing to work with you.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
But are you radioactive? I'm not radioactive. I'm just blunt
and honest.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
And I think that's the problem in the Republican Party
is that we just can't speak straight. Everyone's trying to
appease everybody. Everybody's trying to get invited to their own
embassy party. Everybody's just trying to make themselves feel good
and go into their echo chambers. But you're not talking
to eighty percent of the constituents in the district. You're
not talking to the real moms and then dads and
the kids, and the ranchers and the farmers and the
truckers and the oil and gas workers.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
But I am one of them. I am not a.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Politician, like I hate that's, you know, a constant like
go to phrase. But I'm literally just a guy that
we're steel toe boots and a hard hat every day
and that those are the people that I resonate with.
And the problem is is, guys in the Republican Party,
we need to admit we have a problem, Houston. We
have a problem. It's not working. We tried, we put
new leadership in. There was this big promise of unity
and we're all going to get it back next thing.
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You know, we're one hundred and eighty grand in the
hole and we don't even know if we can afford
to run a caucus right now. And you're telling me
that we should continue doing what we're doing because I'm
going to upset the party. No, it's time for change.
It's time to do things differently. And I'm here. I'm
not here to take a seat at the table, Ryan,
I'm here to flip the table here.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
He is Dorito for Congress dot Com d E RI
t O f O R Congress dot Com. Adam Doedo,
our guest primary challenger of Gabe Evans in the eighth
Congressional District. One more segment with him when we come back,
and include your phone calls, by the way, if you
want to talk to him. He's very willing to take
those three zero three seven to one three eight two
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It's just in from Weld County. Sheriff Steve Riems were
our guest. Adam Durrito hopes to be representing that eighth
Congressional district that is largely made up of Weld and
Adams County, very purple district and one of the top
focused districts in the twenty twenty six race nationally going
forward by both parties, Republican and Democrat. But Sheriff Reeims
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is m seeing the event that I'll be taking part
in along with Mandy Connell coming up this Saturday and
the Double Tree by Hilton Greeley, Lincoln Park one thirty
pm to three thirty pm. And as I joked about earlier,
it's a battle of attrition. We're now down to three
candidates after starting with six. In Victor Marx declined the invite.
Greg Lopez has left the party entirely but is continuing
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his run for governor. And now Mark Baisley, the state senator,
has announced he is switching his run from governor to
US Senate to challenge John Hickenlooper for that seat coming
up in twenty twenty six. So this from the sheriff
to all. With Greg Lopez's announcement that he is now
an AN affiliated candidate for governor and baslely switched to a
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US Senate run, both will be removed from participation in
the debate forum on the tenth. Thank you to both
of you they're on this text threat along with me,
for your willingness to participate, and best of luck in
your new path. For Bottoms, kirk Meyer and Mike Sel
this will give a lot more time to each of
you to get your message out. Looking forward to the event,
so am I, so is Mandy Connell. They've expanded the
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seating for this. It's going to be a big event.
And I wonder if Adam's going to be there. I'll
ask him in a moment. You can get free tickets
online through the Republican Governor Candidate Forum hosted by Wells Ranch.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Let's turn to Adam Duredo right now, Adam will you
be going to that event? What day is it again?
Speaker 4 (23:02):
It's on Saturday, January tenth, one thirty pm to three
thirty pm in Greeley. Might be able to make it, okay, Yeah,
I would love to see you there first few Monthent.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
It just depends on my schedule too. I got all
these interviews I got to do as well, but I
think the tenth we should be able.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
To make it.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
I saw your face when I announced to the audience
that Senator Mark Baisley is running now for.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
US Senate instead of governor.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
It looks like, for all intentsive purposes, we're down to
just three major candidates. I would say, in the field
for governor on the Republican side, are you endorsing any
of those candidates?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Do you support any of them? Do any of them
cut your eye?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
I mean personally, I've listened to all the ones speak
the ones that you're referencing, not my cup of tea,
and what our agenda would be for district date. Like
I said, when I look at candidates, I look at
their policies, I look at their procedures, I look at
their past voting records. I want people that are going
to bring back oil and gas, our American agriculture, protecting
our kids, and working on bringing back the Conservative Party
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where it is but still be able to work reasonably
across the aisle. I have other candidates in mine that
I personally like. You know, I'm not going to say
them on air, just because I don't want to come
off as a biasson who's also running for Congress here.
But like I said, you know, I wish them the
best of luck. You know, I've heard their interviews on
your show as well. But you know, like I said,
this is about being in the man in the arena
or woman in the arena, and I think the people
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of Colorado deserve to hear from everybody and get their
questions answered.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Just a quick question along these lines too.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Joel Oltman will be joining me in studio on Wednesday
at nine a m. A controversial figure in his own right,
and he has thrown his hat into the ring as
a Republican candidate for governor.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Any thoughts on him.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
I think he's a He's a stronger candidate compared to
a lot of other people.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
I've been on Joe's show before.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
We had a great discussion about a lot of the
issues in Colorado some of the things that it went
on in my fight with the US government for fifteen years,
and it was a great discussion.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
But this is like we need, we need a little
bit more fire breathers.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
I think the passivity right, And this is like Mondani
even said this, we're getting rid of the rugged American
and right and we're going for the.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Warmth of collectivism.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
And we got we got to keep in mind that
rugged individualism is what built this country. And I think
we need more representatives in every office that are willing
to stand up the future of America by showing that.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
You say rugged individualism, you embrace that. You mentioned man
in the arena. How much of Teddy Roosevelt do you
see in yourself?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
I mean, I'm not Teddy Roosevelt, but I love Teddy.
Teddy's one of my favorite presidents of all time. I
look what he did during his time in presidency, the
same thing without Ulysses s.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Grant.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
His autobiography is incredible if you actually read it. He's
not just this crazy, drunken president. He went through a
lot in his presidency. And I model I try to
model myself after men who have scarlet letters but are
persevered by their scar tissue, right, And it's something that
I kind of align with. You know, I've made mistakes
in my past as a kid whatever, so is everybody.
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But I want men and women who are running in
office who have been through the gauntlet, who had been
punched in the face and stood back up and never quit.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
And I'm just one of those people.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Adam, what would you say, not just to a primary voter,
that's your concern right now is winning that nomination over
the sitting Congressman Gabe Evans. But then you'd have to
run in a general election, which I mean, it's as
divided than Lee as any congressional district in America. That
might say I would consider voting for a Republican, but
I would never vote for Trump. I don't like him
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at all. Are you a Trump Republican? I mean, I'm
talking about the unaffiliated voter who might go either way
in this race. How would you answer that? What is
your stance on President Trump his policies and whether or
not you agreed, disagree with him, stand with them or
not sure?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
I mean, obviously, as a member of the military, I
always will support the president of the United States. One equivocally.
I've supported every president I've ever served with. Do we
disagree on some policies. Absolutely. I don't want to fifty
your mortgage, Rine. Yeah, I don't agree with the H
one V VISA program. I want more American jobs, right.
But for me, the biggest thing that for District Day
is like, are we gonna agree on social issues?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
No?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Probably not.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
But you know what, not a single social issue my
thirty eight years of existence has ever been resolved here
in America. So I want to focus on paving your roads.
I want to focus on bringing the jobs back. And
as a proud you didn't member of USW twelve four
to seven seven, like steel workers, I want us to thrive.
I want us to raise our families. I want the trains,
planes and all atomobiles to come back to this state
and not have to rip out my suspension even driving
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down to see you because it's a massive pothole.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
I hit again.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Oh no, you know what I mean. It's that's what
I'm fighting for. I'm fighting for the blue collar workers,
the farmers, the ranchers, and like I said, there's people
all over the political spectrum that work in those industries
and District Date is the industrial powerhouse of Colorado, and
I want to represent them.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
I want to get your take on what happened over
the weekend with the invasion of Venezuela and the deposing
of the dictator. Nicholas Maduro Marco Rubio, Secretary of State,
making the rounds on the Sunday shows, and this was
his response to Christian Welker asking if we were at
war with Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I want to start with this big picture question.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Is the United States now at war with Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
There's not a war.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
I mean, we are at war against drug trafficking organizations.
Is not a war against Venezuela. We are enforcing American
laws with regards to oil sanctions. We have sanctioned entities,
we go to court, we get a warrant. We've seen
those boats with oil and that will continue so and
we will continue to reserve the right to take strikes
against drug boats that are bringing drugs towards the United
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States that are being operated by transnational criminal organizations, including.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
The Cartel de Le Souls UH.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
Of course, their leader, the leader of that cartel is
now in US custody and facing the US Justice and
UH in the southern District of New York, and that's
Nicholas Maduro. So when we made a big progress in
that regard.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Beyond the geopolitical aspect of all of this, Adam is
an issue that's near and dear to your heart, and
that's energy. And Venezuela has the richest oil fields in
the world and a Trump's Saudi Arabia, Russia even here
in the United States. My cursory knowledge of the subject,
I remember Sitgo being a subsidiary of Venezuela's petroleum enterprises.
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Also that they commandeered to use a kind word, American
interests within their country once the socialist communist regime took over.
And when you see what happened over the weekend, what
does it mean for the average American consumer when it
comes to oil production gasoline? A lot of people are
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uncomfortable with President Trump using the terminal We're going to
run the country.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Just your whole take on that issue and what it
means for energy here.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Yeah, one shout out till one sixtieth. You guys did
an amazing job going in there in Navin Maduro. My
night stalker friends are very disappointed that they missed out
in some of the party who are retired, So shout
out to the boys for that. But no, this is
very important. This is a return to the Monroe doctrine,
and this is very important. It's less intervention in European
affairs and keeping Western influence.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
In our hemisphere under our control.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Venezuela has massive oil and gas reserves, and the best
part is right across the Gulf of America some of
the largest refining capacity in the world.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
And that's US in Louisiana and Texas.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
So we can partner with venezuel Yeah, they have the
oil and so do we, but now they don't have
refinement capacity. And what you're making your money on in
oil and gas is selling refined product.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Right, it's not just the raw.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Crude oil or bunker fuel for those ships like they
mostly do over in Saudi. Right, we want to sell
that jet fuel farm a diesel and gasoline and jet feel.
But the problem is since Venezuela dismantled most of their operations,
now they have the opportunity to they can come sell
it to us.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
We can help them sell their refined.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Product and create a great stabilizing partnership. Like I said,
the three easiest ways to collapse to society is reduce
your access to water, reduce your access to energy, to
reduce your access to food.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Right.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
So now we're giving them access from their tripod that
they got kicked out under Maduro, right, and that oil
and gas money will be able to bring back the agriculture,
bring back the food supplied, and bring back clean water
into that area. And once those people start thriving over
those three things that they need, that country's going to
be able to rebuild itself and other nations will want
to partner with us and not.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Compete against us. And also the biggest, most.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Important part, it reduces and eliminates the influence of Iran,
China and Russia in the region because that was the
biggest issue. They were flying in their bombers and their
military assets and staging up against us. Now we're pushing back,
we're creating a barrier, we're creating partnerships and reaching across
the lines with the people we don't agree with.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Quick question before I let you go in and you're
gonna get on up on an out of here. We
know the benefit long term that this will have. We
hope for the Venezuelan people they choose their own leaders,
they have access and can profit from their own energy
capitalism comes back. That's all well and good in the interim, though,
in the meantime, based on everything you've just described their atom,
would we see a drop in oil and gas prices
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here in the United States as a result of what
happened in Venezuela over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Not immediately, because this is going to take some time
to stabilize, and right now we're still trying to get
rid of all the excess gasoline we produced over the summer,
which is why gas parks is are really cheap right now.
There's an excess production of gasoline. It's not because of
like this current administration. There's a lot involved in that
whole process, right, But no, this is definitely going to
help rebuild our reserves because we're going to be able
to buy off of them, especially if we are until
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we can get good members of Congress that are going
to fight for our own oil production. We still have
to fill out reserve tanks. We still have to do
all these things right, and that's what I'm going to
be doing. So in the meantime, we have to partner
with people who have free export and can produce as
much as they want. And that's what I want to
do for Colorado. And you can find out more about
his campaign.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
The eighth Congressional District primary challenger of Representative Gabe Evans
Adam Dorito Dorito for Congress dot com, dr ITR Congress
dot com.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Adam, always appreciate your time and maybe I'll see us Saturday.
Thank you, Ryan, It's pleasure a time out.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
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Speaker 6 (32:18):
First of all, what's going to happen here is that
we have a quarantine on their oil.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
That means their economy will not be able to.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
Move forward until the conditions that are in the national
interest of the United States and the interests of the
Venezuelan people are met. And that's what we intend to do,
so that leverage remains. That leverage is ongoing, and we
expect that it's going to lead to results here. We're hope,
so hopeful that it does positive results.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
For the people of Venezuela.
Speaker 6 (32:39):
But ultimately, most importantly for us, in the national interest
of the United States, we will no longer have.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Hopefully, as we move forward here, we'll.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Set the condition so that we no longer have in
our hemisphere of Venezuela, that's the crossroads for many of
our adversaries around the world, including Iran and Hesbealah is
no longer sending US drug gangs, is no longer sending
US drug boats, is no longer a narco track, thinking
paradise for all those drugs coming out of Columbia to
go in through the Caribbean and towards the United States.
And obviously we want a better future for the people
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of Venezuela. We want them to have an oil industry
where the wealth goes to the people, not to a
handful of corrupt individuals and stolen by you know, pirates
all over the world. That's what we're working towards, and
we intend to use the leverage we have to help
achieve that.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
You know, he's so good at this.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, making the rounds on the
Sunday news talk shows, Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation,
Kristin Welker on Meet the Press.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
This was with George Slapadopolis. We sued him, we won
sixteen million dollars, and he.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Was a bit perplexed by Marco Rubio's very clear answer there,
and he kept focusing in on this one question that
Marco answers get again.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
Let me ask the question again, what is the legal
authority for the United States to be running Venezuela.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
Well, I explained to you what our goals are and
how we're going to use the lever to make it happen.
As far as what our legal authority is on the quarantine,
I'm very simple.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
We have court orders.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
These are sanctioned boats, and we get orders from courts
to go after and seize these sanctions. So I don't
know is a court not a legal authority?
Speaker 1 (34:13):
So is the United States running Venezuela right now? Very
caught up on that detail.
Speaker 6 (34:18):
Well, I've explained once again. I'll do it one more time.
What we are running is the direction that this is
going to move moving forward, and that is we have leverage.
This leverage we are using and we intend to use.
We started using already. You can see where they are
running out of storage capacity in a few weeks, they're
going to have to start pumping oil unless.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
They make changes.
Speaker 6 (34:37):
And that leverage that we have with the armada of
boats that are currently positioned allow us to seize any
sanctioned boats coming into or out of Venezuela loaded with
oil or on its way in to pick up oil,
and we can pick and choose which ones we go
after we have court orders for each one that will
continue to be in place until the people who have
control over the levers of power in that country make
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changes that are not just the interest of the people
of Venezuela, that are in the interest of the United
States and the things that we care about.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
That's what we present.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Yes. Legal authority is the court orders that we have.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Just a masterclass by Rubio there schooling George Stephanopolis, who
is way out of his depth on this. We've heard
that the happy chat, the happy blank horse blank as
my grandfather would call it. Yeah, about the Democrats calling
out the Maduro regime that he held on a power
that he cheated in an election, defied the results of
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a illegally held election, stayed in power. And we go
from Nicholas Maduro showing defiance to the United States, rejecting
offers of an off ramp to go into exile somewhere.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
And just leave power, just leave.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
They gave him that opportunity, turned it down, and now
he has a court appointed attorney in a southern District
of New York courtroom coming up later today in just
mere moments.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
And what this does is it sends a message.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
It's a shot across the bow to our geopolitical adversaries worldwide, Iran, Russia, China,
North Korea, even and that we are not going to
tolerate infiltration into our hemisphere to commandeer the reserves of
oil in Venezuela and shift the balance of power on
the global stage. Adam Darrito our guests in the previous
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two segments, articulating his thoughts on that if you have
any as well, we'll get to those as we start
tomorrow's program. Thanks for joining us today on this brand
new morning edition twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 3 (00:12):
My congressman, who I'm currently running against as the incumbent
for Colorado's district Date, just voted no to not criminalize
transgender sex transition on miners, including.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Surgeries, puberty blockers, and hormone therapy.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yes, I did know Gabe Evans as an army officer
who was one of our helicopter pilots in nineteen Special
Forces Group.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
He probably didn't know me much more. At that time.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I was a lowly E four and we definitely passed
paths numerous times in and out of the aircraft.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
But I didn't know him as a representative.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I didn't know him when he was running, but I
reached out to him and I wanted to help him
on his campaign, and he invited me to help him,
help me help you.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I have all the text messages. It's fine, but the.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Fact that Representative Gabe Evans doesn't want to protect children
in Colorado's district Date, I will as your next congressman
for Colleas District Day. This is an easy vote, common
sense America first, Adam Dredo out.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Adam Doriedo in studio with yours truly, Ryan Shiling live
here on this welcome back edition. Happy New Year twenty
twenty six. Also Wanner, welcome with Carolina Stanzik in here.
She has celebrated her birthday. I think she turned twenty
three somewhere in that neighborhood. We're going to call it
good and she's six.
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I get out of here.
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We'll open those phone lines again.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Three zero three seven one three eight two five five.
You got a question for our next guest, Adam de Reedal.
He is the primary challenger in the eighth Congressional District,
as you just heard, against Representative Gabe Evans on the
Republican side. Now, Adam, I remember communicating with you in
the immediate wake of this particular vote, and the MTG
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Marjorie Taylor Green sponsored bill that came to the House
floor was voted on by I think all but four
Republicans in the affirmative and Gabe Evans is one of
the four that voted against it. So the other three Republicans,
Jeff Hurd, Jeff Crank, Lauren Bolbert all voted for it,
as well as a bill that Representative Gabe Evans preferred,
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sponsored by Dan Crenshaw, which merely defunded the transgender surgeries
for kids that were talking about, did not criminalize them. Well,
get to his explanation to that in a moment for
you to respond to. But I just want to let
you articulate your position on it and why you feel
it should be criminalized and doctors who perform these transgender
surgeries on kids should be prosecuted.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Absolutely one. Thanks for bringing it back on the show.
Ryan Happy ne hear to everybody out there. Yeah, this
is a line in the sand for us. Is that
you know, I understand that I am a conservative Catholic,
I get it, you know, but I have my ways
of beliefs. But I can't force those beliefs on everybody else.
But I think one thing that everybody in distric date
can agree on is do not touch the kids under
the age of eighteen. And when you're under the age
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of eighteen, you can't make conscious decies and your brain
doesn't even fully formulate to your twenty five You can't
even write a car to your twenty five line.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
So why am I allowing you to remember to do
all these things?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Right?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
So Carolyn, you could run a car now? Yeah, so
I'm so.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
The The biggest thing is kids can't make the best
decisions when they're that young.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
You need parental consent to do so many things. In
you're young.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
You can't even you know, buy a beer when you
join the military at eighteen. If you are an adult
and you are a rational mind, never mind a medical
doctor or a parent that is permitting these surgeries on
your child or children in general, then you need to
be prosecuted and you need to be held accountable, because
who is going to save the next greatest generation of Americans,
these young people if their own parents and doctors aren't
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going to protect them.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Adam Dorito, our guest, a primary challenger in the eighth
Congressional District against Representative Gabe Evans, and his fate would
have it. I met Adam at an event where Gabe
Evans was present and you had not yet announced your
challenge of him. This is at the Well County Hodown
back in late October. So much has changed since then.
Represent Evans was our final guest of calendar. You're twenty
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twenty five speaking about this issue that Adam just pointed
out and detailing why he voted no on the MTG
bill but yes on the Crenshaw bill.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
And I pose the question this way.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
You could have gone along the lines of your fellow
Republican congress members in the state of Colorado Jeff Heard,
Lauren Bobert, and Jeff Crank and just voted yes on
both of them, and you wouldn't had to deal with
all of this.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
You chose instead to kind of draw that line that
you made.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Of distinction, and it makes sense to me, But from
a political standpoint, wouldn't have been just easier.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I'll vote yes on this one, and I vote yes
on this one too.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Here it would have been easier, you know. But I
think that's one of the things that bothers folks about Washington, DC,
is when you have members of Congress that disagree with
a a bill, but yeah, you know what, I'm going
to vote for it, go along to get alonger than
the opposite happens.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
They think it's a.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Bad accuse me a good bill, but they don't want
to vote for it. And so that's you know, I
had to have a long, hard look in the mirror
with myself based on you know, the twelve that I
spent in the military, the ten years that I spent
as a cop, and say, take all of the politics
out of this. At the end of the day, is
it good policy or bad policy to arrest doctors, given
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that we know there's this other bill that has the
same effect, just defunds the procedures preemptively. Are these good
policies or bad policies? And again, this is federal law
we're talking about here. This isn't a letter to the
editor or an op ed. This is federal law that
deprives people of life, liberty, and happiness. And we want
to make good decisions in this place. And so I
made the decision because I think you ought to let
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your yes B yes, and your no B no, and
if you disagree with the policy, come back do like
we're doing right now, have the conversation, talk about why.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
You did what you did.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
But I can't stand politically expedient votes if somebody doesn't
actually agree with the way they're voting.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Representative Gabe Evans his challenger Adam Dorito in studio want
todend them to what he said, And what he told
me Adam was he was kind of going with a
pragmatic calculus of the Crenshaw bill was more likely to
pass the Senate and get to as a Trump's desk.
So basically, why waste political capital time with a vote
for an MPTG bill.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
That would be likely to die in the Senate.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Your response, Yeah, I understand that perspective, but when it
comes to kids, there's no exceptions to this, right. The
problem with the first bill that criminalizes it. You know,
I understand he was a police officer and he served
as a fellow veteran, and I respect that. I respect him,
you know, for all the things that he's done for
this country. But the problem with the first bill is
that you're not kicking indors with the SWAT team the
arrest doctors. I think that is a hyperbolic statement on
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his end as a former police officer. SWAT teams aren't
going to kick indoors. To arrest doctors, You're gonna get
a warr you're gonna get served, You're probably need to
ask some questions, you're gonna get brought in. That's how
the investigative process works, right, So I think taking that
and toning that down with the reality of what would
actually happen when charging parents or doctors. Let's be honest
about that, like if we're going to talk about that.
The second part when he said, oh, I voted for
the Marjorie Tayler Green bill. I didn't want to vote
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for that, but then I voted for the Crenchhjow bill.
The problem with the Crenshaw bill, it just takes away
Medicare funding. It's not taking away the surgery. It's not
holding parents and doctors accountable, and you're only limiting one
source of funding. It doesn't make it illegal to privately
fund it, it doesn't make it at least to use your private
health insurance, and it doesn't get rid of the issue
of transgender surgeries of kids. Like that's we want to
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eliminate that issue. Like I said, if you want to
make all those decisions after you're over the age of eighteen,
go for it, you know what I mean. But until then,
we need to protect kids and make sure that they're
growing up to be good citizens and not preventing their
brain development by subjecting them to these types of torturius procedures.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Because he's not here to debate.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I'm going to counter and have you offer up your
analysis on what Representative Evans told me when it comes
to this issue, and that is that you know, with
the bill to ban the transgender surgeries, to remove the
federal funding. I'm paraphrasing here, but I think I get
the gist of it right, that that would crumble under
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the weight of itself. That because it would no longer
be federally funded, hospitals be far less likely to embark
upon those procedures, they would not be as much money
makers or sure things, be more risk involved with conducting
those procedures.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
And then again it would just.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Kind of fall under the weight of itself by removing
that federal funding without having to go the extra road
of prosecuting doctors who perform the surgeries. What would you
say to that, Well, the problem is that, like I said,
it's not eliminating the issue. And this is a moral
and ethical position, right, Just pulling away funding to eliminate
some doctors and some funding from some hospitals stop transgender
surgeries is not stopping the transgender surgeries, right, And I think, yes,
(08:29):
you're you're right.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
It may not get the President Trump desk and it
might get vetoed, But you want to know what, that's
what we pay you for. That's what we elected you
to do. We elected you to go there and start
a bear fight in Congress and fight for the people
of your district. And if you can't do that, you're
not willing to do that because you want to acquiesce
to the other side too much, especially on something that's
as moral ethical as kids.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Like, I know we're going to have to debate taxes
all the time, We're going to have to reach across
the island work on infrastructure projects and things like that,
but when it comes to protecting America's future next generation,
there could be no exceptions to that. Gonna have to
take the hard line on If the Republicans have the House,
and they have the Senate, and they have the presidency,
let's do that and make the decisions. We only have
two more years with this current president to make those
hard decisions, get those hard bills passed, because after that,
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we don't know what's going to happen. We don't know
who's going to be elected next. I call him cool
Ranch Adam de Rito. I think the President would call
him that too. And it's a great nickname. You're free to
use it.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Representati gave Evan's going a final point on this issue,
to put a fine point on it for you. Adam
texted me the following and he said, oh, look, targeting
the finances of the entire system is stopping the transgendering kids,
not jailing doctors, any sites. A nine News story that's
entitled the following Children's Hospital Denver Health end gender affirming
care to miners, and the subhead Children's Hospital said the
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decision came after HHS announced referral of an investigation against
the hospital that would threaten Medicare and Medicaid funding.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
What do you say to that nurse.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
That's one hospital and one area in Colorado. I'm talking
this is a national issue. I don't just care about
the people of district Day. I care about all of Colorado,
and I care about all of my fellow Americans protecting
all children. This isn't just a subjected issue and a
very small scale. Yeah, you're right, it might eliminate some funding,
it might eliminate some surgeries, but it's not making it
illegal and preventing it and using a preventative measure and
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a deterrent against doctors and parents to stop doing the
wrong thing.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Adam de Rito, the candidate for the eighth Congressional District
and the primary challenging sitting Congressman Representative Gabe Evans, you
were the first one that I saw, Adam, and you're
very adept at this to look under the hood at
this next particular issue, because it's really in your wheelhouse
with regard to the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act and President
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Trump's veto of that h R one thirty one. It
was co sponsored by Representative Lauren Bobert out of the
fourth Congressional District. It was supported by the representative in
the third Congressional District, Jeff Hurt as well. It was
bipartisan and had that support through the House and the
Senate making it to Donald Trump's desk. And he's taken
a lot of heat while from all angles, actually from
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both Democratic Senators John Hick and Looper Michael Bennett in
this state, as well as a pretty sharply pointed statement
from Representative Lauren Bilbert. But a lot of people are
accusing Donald Trump of some kind of political retribution that
he's trying to get back at Representative Bilbert because of
her stance up against him on the Epstein files, or
just taking out some political clout on Colorado because they
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won't free Tina Peters, or for whatever other garden variety
political disagreement he has with those here in the state
of Colorado. But you broke it down this way, and
I'd like you to expand on it.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
President Trump vetoed the water pipeline bill today in Colorado,
and Bolbert's all up in arms about it, and so
has Jeff Heard and probably the rest of the Republicans
who don't understand anything about water.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Well, what is the.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Arkansas Valley Conduit Act Hr one thirty one. It was
designed to build and complete a water pipeline to provide
clean water to fifty thousand people. The pipeline spans one
hundred and thirty miles at the cost of three hundred
and fifty million dollars to finish.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
That's over million dollars a mile, if not way more.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
It would be zero interest and reduced interest cost sharing,
and the bill would adjust an entire cost infrastructure for
local governments and water districts, making it easier for communities
to pay their share and for the project By eliminating
or lowering interest payments and extending repayment periods for seventy.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Five to one hundred years.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
It did not authorize a major new federal outlay, but
instead leveraged existing federal water infrastructure frameworks. There's a problem
with this because it needed to be redesigned to be
more efficient.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
President Trump is right on this. It is not economically viable.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Like building a bridge to nowhere in Alaska, it could
be done cheaper and better and more efficiently to the taxpayer.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Do you think what you just stated there, Adam, was
part of the Trump administration's calculus in vetoing it, or
was it pure partisan politics in which Donald Trump felt
disaffected with those in Colorado and he just wanted to
kind of thumb his nose at them.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I mean, let's be honest.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Donald Trump is a master i orchestration, a media narrative
when he needs to. And some people want to take
the quick road to the TEENA Peters excuse to the
ftent files. That's something everybody knows about and it's something
everyone can fight about. But when you break it down
and his actual response letter of why he vetoed it,
it is not economically viable. Trump is a master builder
and developer. This is what he's done his entire life, right,
And when you actually look at the statistics of that pipeline,
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do we need to get water to that area?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
There are other ways of doing it better and cheaper,
more efficiently, and not putting the people of Colorado in
debt for.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Our seventy five to one hundred years. Also.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Absolutely, And people need to take the emotional argument out
of this that we're starving the poor people of water now,
because if you built this bill as is, you're putting
twenty two to thirty two thousand dollars of additional tax
responsibility per person that area for water. There's a better
way to do it, and that's why I'm a critical
infrastructure expert.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
This is what I do, and I can bring those solutions.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
You're basically calling it a boondoggle investment in which we
get over our heads, the massive debt that would be incurred,
the length of time over which it would have to
be paid. So in a nutshell, if you can do
this for the listeners out here, many of them are
being affected by this adam in these districts that we're
talking about, the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
What would be a proferable alternative to that.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
It would be bu aibling two regional treatment hubs and
wastewater treatment plants in that area and using shorter distribution
lines to the affected areas. Because the thing is, the
way the Arkansas Conduit Act, the way it is built now,
is that it just gets the transportation issue. It doesn't
resolve the salinity issue in the radioonucleotides that are in
the water that need to be treated and removed through
reverse osmosis and extensive treatment. Now, I'm a licensed wastewater
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professional in the state of Colorado. I've worked in oil
and gas for over thirteen years.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
This is what we do.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
We have to remove all that water, make it clean
drinking water for Denver Metro. Right, and people don't even
know that about five to ten percent of their drinking
water comes from oil and gas production residue.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Right.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
So there are better and cheaper ways, and not only
that provides long term jobs, It provides a long term
solution at a cheaper rate and providing more jobs for
the area, versus building a pipeline that is not resolving
the treatment and supply issues over a long termeriod of time.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Dorrito Forcongress dot Com is where you can find out
more about his campaign. D Ri t O four fo
R Congress dot Com our guest in studio for most
of the hour here, and then he's got a sciattle.
He's got to go to a different venue because he's
got a lot on his plate. So I appreciate his
time here on Ryan Shuling Live today, Adam. As far
as the race as you see it right now, we've
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talked about two of the big issues. Where you buy
for Kate from Gabe Evans and one of the things
that you share with our previous guests in the last hour,
Creig Lopez is a disaffected feeling. I think if I'm
not wrong with the Colorado Republican Party, the leadership, how
it's being run. Are representatives in any of the four
congressional seats that the party currently holds. What would you
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say to those out there that are saying, look, you're
disturbing the applecart. We're good enough with Gabe Evans. It's
a purple district. It's tough enough to win as it is.
Why are you mounting this in direction campaign from with them?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
It's not insurrection it's saving our conservative values and all
of the people that I will represent, even if they
don't agree with me in district date. And you guys,
keep in mind, I'm one of the few constituents in
the state of corad that's reached out to every single
Member of Congress, even as a constituent, trying to get
bills passed, trying to help better in issues.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
And I've been ignored.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
If I'm the one flying to DC and I'm the
one writing letters and making phone calls and bringing up
staff meetings with all my other people, and I'm getting ignored,
what do you think they're doing to the rest of
our constituents. It's the end of it. And same thing
with the Colorado GOP. They always like to say, you're
the guy that came out of nowhere. Now I'm just
the guy that was sitting on County Road forty nine
wondering why my taxes were going up and then started
showing up to meetings and asking questions. Now you're mad
that real Americans are showing up to these meetings and
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asking questions. The Colorado GOP has become the kings and
Queens of graveyards. Everything that they do is ineffective. We
lost all our money. Whether you're on that, it doesn't
even matter what side you're on.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I'm an America First Conservative. I vote that what's going
to affect my life, my neighbors, and my job. And
then when I see no matter what side is in control,
no matter what names you want to throw out there,
I don't care about any of that. I just care
about real Americans being reper When I talk to these
families in Commerce City and Brighton and Greeley and the Ranchers,
and they're like, we're losing our livelihoods and no one's
listening to them. But I am, and I can't say
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that for a lot of representatives. I've offered my help
to all the other congressmens, like, hey, Congressman Woman Bobert,
if you got an issue with the water bill, hit
me up. I'll help you rewrite the bill that makes
sense because I'm an infrastructure expert and I want to
help you in your district too. I am willing to
work with people I disagree with, no matter if they're
Democrats are Republicans, and I can't say that, like reach
out to the.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Subject matter experts in your district. I promise you we exist.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Have you had any interactions, any communication with Representative Bobert
or any member of her staff about that water issue, I.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Will reach out to her again. But the thing is is,
you know, ever since you start stirring the pot, like
you say, they just completely ignore you and write you off.
But like I said, it's time for real Americans to
start running Colorado when I think a lot of Americans.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Are tired of it.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Like I said, I can talk to anybody in this district.
I mean, I'm in a union man, like so half
my half my coworkers are Democrats, right, but we all
agree that we want our jobs to stay here. And
we've lost so many jobs of the last few years,
and nobody's fighting for us.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
And I'm going to be the to fight for it.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Adam de Rito our guest primary challenger of Gabe Evans
in the eighth Congressional District. As we head under the
primary now calendar year twenty twenty six, we know that
the Colorado GOP has been broken for myriad reasons. Greg
Lopez has left the party and now he's running as
an independent for governor.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
You are running from within the party.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
I think in a very noble effort to try to
change it from within. But there's a lot of people
out there, Adam, that might view you as radioactive, that
you're just against everything, You're against every one. You're not
really for a lot of these people. In working with them,
you kind of articulated that you would if they'd be
willing to work with you.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
But are you radioactive? I'm not radioactive. I'm just blunt
and honest.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
And I think that's the problem in the Republican Party
is that we just can't speak straight. Everyone's trying to
appease everybody. Everybody's trying to get invited to their own
embassy party. Everybody's just trying to make themselves feel good
and go into their echo chambers. But you're not talking
to eighty percent of the constituents in the district. You're
not talking to the real moms and then dads and
the kids, and the ranchers and the farmers and the
truckers and the oil and gas workers.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
But I am one of them. I am not a.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Politician, like I hate that's, you know, a constant like
go to phrase. But I'm literally just a guy that
we're steel toe boots and a hard hat every day
and that those are the people that I resonate with.
And the problem is is, guys in the Republican Party,
we need to admit we have a problem, Houston. We
have a problem. It's not working. We tried, we put
new leadership in. There was this big promise of unity
and we're all going to get it back next thing.
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You know, we're one hundred and eighty grand in the
hole and we don't even know if we can afford
to run a caucus right now. And you're telling me
that we should continue doing what we're doing because I'm
going to upset the party. No, it's time for change.
It's time to do things differently. And I'm here. I'm
not here to take a seat at the table, Ryan,
I'm here to flip the table here.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
He is Dorito for Congress dot Com d E RI
t O f O R Congress dot Com. Adam Doedo,
our guest primary challenger of Gabe Evans in the eighth
Congressional District. One more segment with him when we come back,
and include your phone calls, by the way, if you
want to talk to him. He's very willing to take
those three zero three seven to one three eight two
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Speaker 4 (21:22):
It's just in from Weld County. Sheriff Steve Riems were
our guest. Adam Durrito hopes to be representing that eighth
Congressional district that is largely made up of Weld and
Adams County, very purple district and one of the top
focused districts in the twenty twenty six race nationally going
forward by both parties, Republican and Democrat. But Sheriff Reeims
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is m seeing the event that I'll be taking part
in along with Mandy Connell coming up this Saturday and
the Double Tree by Hilton Greeley, Lincoln Park one thirty
pm to three thirty pm. And as I joked about earlier,
it's a battle of attrition. We're now down to three
candidates after starting with six. In Victor Marx declined the invite.
Greg Lopez has left the party entirely but is continuing
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his run for governor. And now Mark Baisley, the state senator,
has announced he is switching his run from governor to
US Senate to challenge John Hickenlooper for that seat coming
up in twenty twenty six. So this from the sheriff
to all. With Greg Lopez's announcement that he is now
an AN affiliated candidate for governor and baslely switched to a
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US Senate run, both will be removed from participation in
the debate forum on the tenth. Thank you to both
of you they're on this text threat along with me,
for your willingness to participate, and best of luck in
your new path. For Bottoms, kirk Meyer and Mike Sel
this will give a lot more time to each of
you to get your message out. Looking forward to the event,
so am I, so is Mandy Connell. They've expanded the
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seating for this. It's going to be a big event.
And I wonder if Adam's going to be there. I'll
ask him in a moment. You can get free tickets
online through the Republican Governor Candidate Forum hosted by Wells Ranch.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Let's turn to Adam Duredo right now, Adam will you
be going to that event? What day is it again?
Speaker 4 (23:02):
It's on Saturday, January tenth, one thirty pm to three
thirty pm in Greeley. Might be able to make it, okay, Yeah,
I would love to see you there first few Monthent.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
It just depends on my schedule too. I got all
these interviews I got to do as well, but I
think the tenth we should be able.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
To make it.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
I saw your face when I announced to the audience
that Senator Mark Baisley is running now for.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
US Senate instead of governor.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
It looks like, for all intentsive purposes, we're down to
just three major candidates. I would say, in the field
for governor on the Republican side, are you endorsing any
of those candidates?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Do you support any of them? Do any of them
cut your eye?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
I mean personally, I've listened to all the ones speak
the ones that you're referencing, not my cup of tea,
and what our agenda would be for district date. Like
I said, when I look at candidates, I look at
their policies, I look at their procedures, I look at
their past voting records. I want people that are going
to bring back oil and gas, our American agriculture, protecting
our kids, and working on bringing back the Conservative Party
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where it is but still be able to work reasonably
across the aisle. I have other candidates in mine that
I personally like. You know, I'm not going to say
them on air, just because I don't want to come
off as a biasson who's also running for Congress here.
But like I said, you know, I wish them the
best of luck. You know, I've heard their interviews on
your show as well. But you know, like I said,
this is about being in the man in the arena
or woman in the arena, and I think the people
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of Colorado deserve to hear from everybody and get their
questions answered.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Just a quick question along these lines too.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Joel Oltman will be joining me in studio on Wednesday
at nine a m. A controversial figure in his own right,
and he has thrown his hat into the ring as
a Republican candidate for governor.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Any thoughts on him.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
I think he's a He's a stronger candidate compared to
a lot of other people.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
I've been on Joe's show before.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
We had a great discussion about a lot of the
issues in Colorado some of the things that it went
on in my fight with the US government for fifteen years,
and it was a great discussion.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
But this is like we need, we need a little
bit more fire breathers.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
I think the passivity right, And this is like Mondani
even said this, we're getting rid of the rugged American
and right and we're going for the.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Warmth of collectivism.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
And we got we got to keep in mind that
rugged individualism is what built this country. And I think
we need more representatives in every office that are willing
to stand up the future of America by showing that.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
You say rugged individualism, you embrace that. You mentioned man
in the arena. How much of Teddy Roosevelt do you
see in yourself?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
I mean, I'm not Teddy Roosevelt, but I love Teddy.
Teddy's one of my favorite presidents of all time. I
look what he did during his time in presidency, the
same thing without Ulysses s.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Grant.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
His autobiography is incredible if you actually read it. He's
not just this crazy, drunken president. He went through a
lot in his presidency. And I model I try to
model myself after men who have scarlet letters but are
persevered by their scar tissue, right, And it's something that
I kind of align with. You know, I've made mistakes
in my past as a kid whatever, so is everybody.
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But I want men and women who are running in
office who have been through the gauntlet, who had been
punched in the face and stood back up and never quit.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
And I'm just one of those people.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Adam, what would you say, not just to a primary voter,
that's your concern right now is winning that nomination over
the sitting Congressman Gabe Evans. But then you'd have to
run in a general election, which I mean, it's as
divided than Lee as any congressional district in America. That
might say I would consider voting for a Republican, but
I would never vote for Trump. I don't like him
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at all. Are you a Trump Republican? I mean, I'm
talking about the unaffiliated voter who might go either way
in this race. How would you answer that? What is
your stance on President Trump his policies and whether or
not you agreed, disagree with him, stand with them or
not sure?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
I mean, obviously, as a member of the military, I
always will support the president of the United States. One equivocally.
I've supported every president I've ever served with. Do we
disagree on some policies. Absolutely. I don't want to fifty
your mortgage, Rine. Yeah, I don't agree with the H
one V VISA program. I want more American jobs, right.
But for me, the biggest thing that for District Day
is like, are we gonna agree on social issues?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
No?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Probably not.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
But you know what, not a single social issue my
thirty eight years of existence has ever been resolved here
in America. So I want to focus on paving your roads.
I want to focus on bringing the jobs back. And
as a proud you didn't member of USW twelve four
to seven seven, like steel workers, I want us to thrive.
I want us to raise our families. I want the trains,
planes and all atomobiles to come back to this state
and not have to rip out my suspension even driving
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down to see you because it's a massive pothole.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
I hit again.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Oh no, you know what I mean. It's that's what
I'm fighting for. I'm fighting for the blue collar workers,
the farmers, the ranchers, and like I said, there's people
all over the political spectrum that work in those industries
and District Date is the industrial powerhouse of Colorado, and
I want to represent them.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
I want to get your take on what happened over
the weekend with the invasion of Venezuela and the deposing
of the dictator. Nicholas Maduro Marco Rubio, Secretary of State,
making the rounds on the Sunday shows, and this was
his response to Christian Welker asking if we were at
war with Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I want to start with this big picture question.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Is the United States now at war with Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
There's not a war.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
I mean, we are at war against drug trafficking organizations.
Is not a war against Venezuela. We are enforcing American
laws with regards to oil sanctions. We have sanctioned entities,
we go to court, we get a warrant. We've seen
those boats with oil and that will continue so and
we will continue to reserve the right to take strikes
against drug boats that are bringing drugs towards the United
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States that are being operated by transnational criminal organizations, including.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
The Cartel de Le Souls UH.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
Of course, their leader, the leader of that cartel is
now in US custody and facing the US Justice and
UH in the southern District of New York, and that's
Nicholas Maduro. So when we made a big progress in
that regard.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Beyond the geopolitical aspect of all of this, Adam is
an issue that's near and dear to your heart, and
that's energy. And Venezuela has the richest oil fields in
the world and a Trump's Saudi Arabia, Russia even here
in the United States. My cursory knowledge of the subject,
I remember Sitgo being a subsidiary of Venezuela's petroleum enterprises.
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Also that they commandeered to use a kind word, American
interests within their country once the socialist communist regime took over.
And when you see what happened over the weekend, what
does it mean for the average American consumer when it
comes to oil production gasoline? A lot of people are
(29:07):
uncomfortable with President Trump using the terminal We're going to
run the country.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Just your whole take on that issue and what it
means for energy here.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Yeah, one shout out till one sixtieth. You guys did
an amazing job going in there in Navin Maduro. My
night stalker friends are very disappointed that they missed out
in some of the party who are retired, So shout
out to the boys for that. But no, this is
very important. This is a return to the Monroe doctrine,
and this is very important. It's less intervention in European
affairs and keeping Western influence.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
In our hemisphere under our control.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Venezuela has massive oil and gas reserves, and the best
part is right across the Gulf of America some of
the largest refining capacity in the world.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
And that's US in Louisiana and Texas.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
So we can partner with venezuel Yeah, they have the
oil and so do we, but now they don't have
refinement capacity. And what you're making your money on in
oil and gas is selling refined product.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Right, it's not just the raw.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Crude oil or bunker fuel for those ships like they
mostly do over in Saudi. Right, we want to sell
that jet fuel farm a diesel and gasoline and jet feel.
But the problem is since Venezuela dismantled most of their operations,
now they have the opportunity to they can come sell
it to us.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
We can help them sell their refined.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Product and create a great stabilizing partnership. Like I said,
the three easiest ways to collapse to society is reduce
your access to water, reduce your access to energy, to
reduce your access to food.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Right.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
So now we're giving them access from their tripod that
they got kicked out under Maduro, right, and that oil
and gas money will be able to bring back the agriculture,
bring back the food supplied, and bring back clean water
into that area. And once those people start thriving over
those three things that they need, that country's going to
be able to rebuild itself and other nations will want
to partner with us and not.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Compete against us. And also the biggest, most.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Important part, it reduces and eliminates the influence of Iran,
China and Russia in the region because that was the
biggest issue. They were flying in their bombers and their
military assets and staging up against us. Now we're pushing back,
we're creating a barrier, we're creating partnerships and reaching across
the lines with the people we don't agree with.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Quick question before I let you go in and you're
gonna get on up on an out of here. We
know the benefit long term that this will have. We
hope for the Venezuelan people they choose their own leaders,
they have access and can profit from their own energy
capitalism comes back. That's all well and good in the interim, though,
in the meantime, based on everything you've just described their atom,
would we see a drop in oil and gas prices
(31:13):
here in the United States as a result of what
happened in Venezuela over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Not immediately, because this is going to take some time
to stabilize, and right now we're still trying to get
rid of all the excess gasoline we produced over the summer,
which is why gas parks is are really cheap right now.
There's an excess production of gasoline. It's not because of
like this current administration. There's a lot involved in that
whole process, right, But no, this is definitely going to
help rebuild our reserves because we're going to be able
to buy off of them, especially if we are until
(31:37):
we can get good members of Congress that are going
to fight for our own oil production. We still have
to fill out reserve tanks. We still have to do
all these things right, and that's what I'm going to
be doing. So in the meantime, we have to partner
with people who have free export and can produce as
much as they want. And that's what I want to
do for Colorado. And you can find out more about
his campaign.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
The eighth Congressional District primary challenger of Representative Gabe Evans
Adam Dorito Dorito for Congress dot com, dr ITR Congress
dot com.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Adam, always appreciate your time and maybe I'll see us Saturday.
Thank you, Ryan, It's pleasure a time out.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
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Speaker 1 (32:10):
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Speaker 4 (32:11):
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Speaker 6 (32:18):
First of all, what's going to happen here is that
we have a quarantine on their oil.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
That means their economy will not be able to.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
Move forward until the conditions that are in the national
interest of the United States and the interests of the
Venezuelan people are met. And that's what we intend to do,
so that leverage remains. That leverage is ongoing, and we
expect that it's going to lead to results here. We're hope,
so hopeful that it does positive results.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
For the people of Venezuela.
Speaker 6 (32:39):
But ultimately, most importantly for us, in the national interest
of the United States, we will no longer have.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Hopefully, as we move forward here, we'll.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Set the condition so that we no longer have in
our hemisphere of Venezuela, that's the crossroads for many of
our adversaries around the world, including Iran and Hesbealah is
no longer sending US drug gangs, is no longer sending
US drug boats, is no longer a narco track, thinking
paradise for all those drugs coming out of Columbia to
go in through the Caribbean and towards the United States.
And obviously we want a better future for the people
(33:08):
of Venezuela. We want them to have an oil industry
where the wealth goes to the people, not to a
handful of corrupt individuals and stolen by you know, pirates
all over the world. That's what we're working towards, and
we intend to use the leverage we have to help
achieve that.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
You know, he's so good at this.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, making the rounds on the
Sunday news talk shows, Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation,
Kristin Welker on Meet the Press.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
This was with George Slapadopolis. We sued him, we won
sixteen million dollars, and he.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Was a bit perplexed by Marco Rubio's very clear answer there,
and he kept focusing in on this one question that
Marco answers get again.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
Let me ask the question again, what is the legal
authority for the United States to be running Venezuela.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
Well, I explained to you what our goals are and
how we're going to use the lever to make it happen.
As far as what our legal authority is on the quarantine,
I'm very simple.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
We have court orders.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
These are sanctioned boats, and we get orders from courts
to go after and seize these sanctions. So I don't
know is a court not a legal authority?
Speaker 1 (34:13):
So is the United States running Venezuela right now? Very
caught up on that detail.
Speaker 6 (34:18):
Well, I've explained once again. I'll do it one more time.
What we are running is the direction that this is
going to move moving forward, and that is we have leverage.
This leverage we are using and we intend to use.
We started using already. You can see where they are
running out of storage capacity in a few weeks, they're
going to have to start pumping oil unless.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
They make changes.
Speaker 6 (34:37):
And that leverage that we have with the armada of
boats that are currently positioned allow us to seize any
sanctioned boats coming into or out of Venezuela loaded with
oil or on its way in to pick up oil,
and we can pick and choose which ones we go
after we have court orders for each one that will
continue to be in place until the people who have
control over the levers of power in that country make
(34:58):
changes that are not just the interest of the people
of Venezuela, that are in the interest of the United
States and the things that we care about.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
That's what we present.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Yes. Legal authority is the court orders that we have.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Just a masterclass by Rubio there schooling George Stephanopolis, who
is way out of his depth on this. We've heard
that the happy chat, the happy blank horse blank as
my grandfather would call it. Yeah, about the Democrats calling
out the Maduro regime that he held on a power
that he cheated in an election, defied the results of
(35:29):
a illegally held election, stayed in power. And we go
from Nicholas Maduro showing defiance to the United States, rejecting
offers of an off ramp to go into exile somewhere.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
And just leave power, just leave.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
They gave him that opportunity, turned it down, and now
he has a court appointed attorney in a southern District
of New York courtroom coming up later today in just
mere moments.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
And what this does is it sends a message.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
It's a shot across the bow to our geopolitical adversaries worldwide, Iran, Russia, China,
North Korea, even and that we are not going to
tolerate infiltration into our hemisphere to commandeer the reserves of
oil in Venezuela and shift the balance of power on
the global stage. Adam Darrito our guests in the previous
(36:21):
two segments, articulating his thoughts on that if you have
any as well, we'll get to those as we start
tomorrow's program. Thanks for joining us today on this brand
new morning edition twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
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