October 15, 2025 • 35 mins
Dave Kerber, Greenwood Village city council member, talks to Ryan (a GV resident) about the end of his tenure in office, as he will be term-limited out in this next election cycle. He offers endorsements for his potential replacements to the governing body in one of Denver's most bustling and promising suburbs.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thousand dollars gone just like that. It's a crime called
jugging for thieves spy on and stalk their victims so
they can target them later. A smashed window in the glovebox,
pride open, four grand gone.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
My stomach dropped. It's just a feeling I've never felt
in my life, and feeling I hope I never.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Have to feel again.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Let's go back to how Aaron's day began in Lakewood.
Before it went back, he agreed to share his timeline
with us, but without his face revealed because he's a victim.
Aaron says he went inside as well as far Ago
at the Belmore location on Friday afternoon and pulled out
four thousand in cash for a new sleeve tattoos my artist.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
He accepts card, but I wanted to avoid the three
percent payment for running my card, so I decided to
take out.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Cash, and Aaron tells us he left the bank, stopped
around the corner at Chick fil A, and then parked
his car here to make a quick target run.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I immediately put the cash in my glove box, locked it.
Figured that was the safe thing to do. I'd rather
my carget broken into than being robbed at gunpoint for cash,
so I thought I was doing the smart thing.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Aaron tells us he went and target for five minutes,
and when he came back out.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
My car window was smashed, my glove box was pried open,
and the cash was gone.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
The money was gone, but the thief lept behind his
backpack and laptop. Aaron filed the police report with Lakewood Police,
who suspect this is a case of jugging, a crime
in which thieves stock victims when they leave the bank
and then rob them later or break into their car
or home for cash.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
The reason we wanted to put this out is because
it is happening nationally and we want people to be
aware of it.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Lakewood Police don't call it an epidemic, but say they've
had a few jugging cases over the last year. Aaron
hopes people learn from his story.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
We don't want to live in fear, right, I mean,
that's not the goal, but just when you are taking
out any sort of cash, whether it's at an ATM
or a bank, just be aware of your surroundings, right.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
I guess so that from nine News, I got a
lot of questions and comments in the wake of what
you just heard. Ryan shuling Live with You, joined in
studio by my good friend and a member of the
Greenwood Village City Council, Dave Kerber, in studio Live to
respond to what you just heard.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Now, I've got the first questions.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
I know how many of you listening might have them
as well. Four thousand dollars for a sleeve tattoo. No,
I don't have any experience in this area. I don't
have any tattoos. I wouldn't pay that much for one,
and I guess if I had to, it would be
of a high quality. I'm assuming that this man had
that in mind. But four thousand dollars cash he's trying
to avoid. He's set a three percent service charge on
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a card. Is there any option in between, for instance,
writing a checker money order?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I would now retrospect.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
I'm not blaming the victim, and I know that's Monday
morning quarterbacking, but I am very averse in any circumstance
to curing really any amount of cash anymore.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
I try to shy away from the debit cards, but
I do have a credit card and I do collect points.
It's an Amazon Prime card, and then I get free
stuff as aumun those points, and I put those purchases
on my card so.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I don't have to carry cash.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
I don't like even carrying a couple hundred dollars, let
alone four thousand dollars. And then he puts that in
his vehicle. This thing, I've never heard of this before.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Jugging.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
So somebody's kind of stalking you out. They watch you
go to an ATM, and they follow you in your car,
and then you go and park, and you go into
a target, and then they break into your car apparently
in this instance, and they take the money.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
So lots of questions there. That was in Lakewood.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Turning now to our in studio guest day, Kerbert Dave,
how would you characterize crime in Greenwood Village as you
have witnessed it over your now almost eight years in office.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Well, it's interesting to talk about jugging because as we
talk about technology and people doing innovation, the criminal element
also is very innovative and they're always coming up with
new crimes. A number of years ago in Greenwood Village,
we had a situation where people would follow people home,
would wait, break into their garages and steal their garage
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door opener and leave, or or they would steal their
garage door opener and then they would follow them home
and people wouldn't know their garage door opener was stolen,
and then they would wait and then burglarize the house
without having to break in.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
So our police, of course, we notified people and we
told everybody to watch their garage door openers. But you
talk about crime in Greenwood Village, it is probably our
number one issue, if you will, as far as emphasis,
because if you're going to live in a city that
you like, people want to be safe. You don't want
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to have to look over your shoulder when you're at
the ATM. You don't want to have to be worried
about somebody stealing out of your stores. You don't have
to worry about it, and you don't want to have
your head on a swivel. So we've actually put resources
into that. And to brag a little bit, our police
for a Class one call, which is burglary or assault
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or domestic fire and so all those things, they have
a response time of three hour, three minutes and forty
nine seconds. The standard best practices six minutes nationwide Denver.
I don't know if they're ever going to show up. Yeah, yeah,
so yeah, what is crime in Greenwood Village. There is
crime in Greenwood Village, and our guys are fighting it.
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We spend a lot of money on it, We staff
our police officers a lot, and the residents don't feel it,
although if you're in our neighborhood, you'll see the police
officers driving by all the time. And that's a matter
of intention, it's not by chance.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
They kerb are our guest on the Greenwood Village City
Council and he is term limited out, and that's much
to my chagrin as a Greenwood Village resident myself. And
he mentioned one of the reasons why I am so
glad that I live south of Bellevue, because that's the
dividing line north of it. We're in Denver right now
here at the iHeart Radio station headquarters, but I live
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only a mile and a half away Greenwood Village, south
of Bellevue, thank goodness.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
And the difference.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
I mean, I could talk about many reasons, but the
police responds time, police attentiveness, knowing that they're there feeling
safe and secure that I'm shopping or I'm walking around
in Greenwood Village, I know that the response time, Like
Dave just said, is a lot shorter.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Also, snow removal would be another one.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
I have had instances Dave where south of Bellevue and
snow removal. Where I live, it's fine, and then I
just as I go north on Ulster, it's piled up
and they're never going to get to it. They're not
never going to get around to it. That's just a
couple of other examples. The other one that I would
mention is accessibility to somebody like you. And you mentioned
before we went live on the air here that I
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could see you at King Souper's there and pull you aside.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I've shot you an email, I've shot you a.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Text about you know, these tennis courts are being used
for a dog daycare.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
That's not right. And then you clarified to me.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
That that wasn't under Greenwood Village's purview or something was
another juristic.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
So I've bummed out by that. But I knew that
I could talk to you.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
So how would you characterize life in Greenwood Village? You know,
I've been here seven years, you've been in office almost
eight years, so our time together in that regard is
almost overlapped entirely. But what has changed in your mind
for better or for worse in Greenwood Village. During your
tenure from calendar you're twenty seventeen to now.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Well, I think Greenwood Village has really stayed the same. Actually,
I was on city council for eight years before that,
so I'm finishing up sixteen years sixteen so i was
term limited once and I'm term limited again. But over time,
what it is is we've had the same plan going forward,
which is to focus on what our citizens want. As
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Jefferson says that the government this closest to the people
is the best, and we actually believe that and we
actually represent our people. Who do you respond to do
you respond to like the whole housing situation.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Do you respond to the.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
People who live in your community or respond to the
developers or the people who want to live in your community?
And it makes a big difference. A lot of the
council members and state representatives, for sure, are representing interests
that aren't.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
The people who voted for them. Correct.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
You know, they'll represent the greens, they'll represent the climate activists,
they'll represent different groups and nonprofits, and when it comes
to just regular old Joe, they kind of go like,
you know, you're bothering us, you're taking up our time.
But back to Greenwand Village. We strongly believe that our
citizens are our neighbors. We're I think I won the
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election last time with five hundred and fifty votes.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I know all those people, and they know me, and.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
They can come up to me. I'm not a scary person,
and they can ask me a question, and they can complain,
and they can challenge things, and they're understanding, and it's
like friends and neighbors getting together trying to common solutions.
It's a lot of other municipalities that they're not, you know,
it's just they're just battling. And you'll see these battles
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all up and down their front range.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Right now, there's a lot of demand to live in
a place like Greenwood Village, like Highlands Ranch.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Like Castle Rock.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
And we've seen cost of living skyrocket in each of
those locales that I just mentioned there. And I have
to imagine this has been on your radar too, Dave,
And how you accommodate people that want to move here
and you know, making sure things are in their best
interests affordability to the degree that you can address it,
control to comment on it, but What do you think
is driving that?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Is it just supply and demand? Is there not enough housing?
Speaker 5 (09:40):
We know that the Gallagher Amendment was rescinded and that
sent property taxes northward.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
What's your take on that one.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Yeah, there aren't enough houses at the price that people
want to pay.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
There's plenty of houses.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
They say that we need one hundred thousand new dwelling units,
but those people aren't on the streets. You know, they're
not one hundred thous people that don't have homes. They
just have homes that they'd rather live somewhere else. My
focus on the affordable housing thing is what government is
doing to make housing more expensive. And you mentioned the
Gallagher Amendment. All the governments are going for tax increases.
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We have South Metro Fire that's going for another three percent.
We've got a school district just ask for got a
billion dollar bond issue. They're going to ask for two
billion in the next few years. And it's just more
expensive to live here. So why is it that we
don't have enough money for housing because we're paying for
it somewhere else. You can go on with that, You
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can go on with forest policy. Used to be, we
had forest companies that would go in and clean out
the forest and make plywood, and now we have to
get it from Canada and which has a.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Tiff on it.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Or we can have permit fees and we can have
all kinds of little things that government does. Instead government's
trying to say like, oh, well, give you money, developer,
and your prices can be lower. But they should just
quit taking the money in the first place. We should
watch every time we take money from the from the
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citizens go like, you know, we're increasing the cost of housing.
Another thing that gets me is the like the twenty
twenty two twenty twenty one Energy Code, which requires a
certain amount of electric vehicle hookups. The new Colorado twenty
twenty four Energy Code requires that everyone have a smart
meter in new construction. All that costs money. It all
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costs money. And they go like, oh, it'll only add
twenty thousand dollars to the cost of a house. And
they like, only, you know, give me a check, I
send me the money. I twenty thousand dollars. It costs
a lot of money. But the current majorities are kind
of you know, they're just they're just taking the money
and trying to kick a little bit back. To the people,
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and it's just not going to work, you know, until
we get out of our own way.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
Curb joining us Greenwood Village City Council where I live.
He is outgoing, he's term limited, but he is endorsed
a couple of candidates that are on the ballot there.
And if you don't live in Greenwood Village, these local
elections are very important. It goes to Day's point that
Thomas Jefferson made, that many other people make that Michael Brown,
this station makes that all politics is local and that
that which is closest to you personally has the most
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impact on you. So, Jay Schneiderman, Rich Easton or the
two that you're endorsing to carry forward you know hopefully
what you were trying to accomplish in office as well.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Why those two?
Speaker 5 (12:31):
And the second part of that question, Dave, is this
is a purplish area in Greenwood Village. In fact, you
know our House representatives, those which I vote for, our
state senator being Jeff Bridges, the dude as I call him, Democrat,
so probably leans a little blue. And you've been kind
of pushing against that. What's the biggest struggle right now,
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whether it's along partisan lines or anything like that, and
what do you expect Jay and Rich to be able
to do about it?
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Well, for Jay and Rich, you know, Jay's I grew
up in the neighborhood. He went to Greenwood Elementary School,
and he wants to have the same kind of community
that he grew up in so that his kids can
walk to school and so that they can be safe,
they can use the parks.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Rich has been in the city for.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Thirty years and it has been on our planning and
zoning and understands the system and also is committed to
keep the same principles going forward of what makes Greenwood
Builds a great place to live. So that's why I
support them. They're not looking for change, they're not looking
for more density. We have a big issue on density,
and it's just philosophically. We design all the infrastructure for
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a certain number of people, certain amount of traffic, and
people come in and they go like, oh, we want
to have bike lanes. Well that's swell, but you're going
to take away road space and we want to have
more people, and that takes away other infrastructure. And we're
running out of water, and we're running out of seward
and we're running out of electricity and all these things
that have to happen. But those two people are going
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to take a balanced approach going and forward, and that's
where we want to do. Steady, balanced, keep things going.
Is one of my people at the front door said
what should I do? And they said, just don't screw
it up? And that's kind of where we're at now.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
You talk about density, and people don't necessarily have that
front of mine, but it's a big thing, especially in
urban centers or suburban areas like Greenwood Village, and how
much is allowed to build or expand and how many
people per square mile that you have. And one of
the things I love about Greenwood Village is that that's
regulated to a large degree. You and I talked about
some empty space that was maybe maybe not going to
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be developed for that purpose, whether it would be high
density housing, low income housing, Section eight, that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Is this one of the main things that you.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Have that push pull kind of battle with in terms
of more left leaning members of the city council And
what would be another issue along those lines.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
That you've had to kind of stand up against.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Yeah, I would say, yes, that is the issue the
should be should we be city or should we be
a suburb?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
And the people who are here now moved here, Like we.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
Talked to a lot of people and they say like, well,
they want us like Denver, And they say, I lived
in Denver and that's why I moved here because I
didn't want that. Correct, So that's the kind of lifestyle
they've chosen. Now our zoning, we have places that have
a lot of apartments. We have forty three percent multifamily
in Greenwood Village, second highest percentage in the state after Glendale,
which has one single family home in the municipality. But
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we are mixed, but we put it in certain areas
where we have the infrastructure that can handle that. We
can have a commercial where it handles that. So people
have grocery stores, they have places that go, they have
places that drive, they have schools, and it's all matched.
The state says, we just want to cram it in everywhere. Yeah,
you know, we don't care if it's going to ruin
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your neighborhood. But you mentioned left versus right. You know,
I don't know if Jay or Rich or Democrats Republicans
on the city council. I'm not really sure exactly what
political party they're at in our city council, which is
different than so many We don't focus on Democrat Republican.
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We focus on Greenwood Village and what's good for our citizens.
As they say, there's no Republican or Democrat pothole.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
That's true.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Yeah, so we're we're kind of it's not even nonpartisan.
It's like we're just in a different view towards what's
the best thing for our city. It so happens that
right now that the state legislature, governor polists and the
Democrats are pushing the density narrative, and the Republicans the
extendedbody listens to them. It all anymore, Yeah, don't. But
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so that's that's the main issue is density. And the
main issue on the density thing is who gets to decide,
you know, all these housing policies that they are pushing.
The Greenwood Village has sued the governor on a lot
of it has to do with they've taken away the
ability of our citizens to go in the grocery store
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and say and have a meaningful voice and say, like,
you know what you're thinking about this wrong, Dave. You
know this is going to really be bad because of
this reason because I've been at that intersection, I've been
at this street, and this is the wrong approach. People
making the rules up in Denver. They have never been
to Greenwood Village. They don't care about Greenhown Village. And
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that is the major philosophical and political battle that we're
fighting now in green and Village and other cities up
and down the corridor as well.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
I live in Greenwood Village intentionally because I don't want
to live in Denver with.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Everything that you're talking about there.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Dave Kerber out going term limited member of the Greenwood
Village City Council. Real quick on the minute or so
that we have left, Dave. Two candidates for the Cherry
Creek School District, which is quintessential to Greenwood Village, and
within that school district is where I reside in Amanda
Thayer and Tatiana Sterm. The direction of the school district
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that will ones consider not only the best in the state,
but the best in the region and one of the
best in the country. What's your take on the state
of the school district and what those two Amandathay or
Tatiana Sterm might add to it.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Well, I support the two that you have mentioned, and
the school district has lost its edge. If if you
look at the numbers we like at our local school,
the rich purportedly rich place in Greenwood Elementary, I think
like forty eight percent are component are proficient in English
and you go, you know, you mean half the kids
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aren't up to grade level. And it seems like the
school district says, well, we're doing better than other people.
And I just don't think that's that's right there. I
think they've taken.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Their eye off the ball. Like right now, they're going.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
Through these tremendous building campaigns that's going to cost billions
of dollars and they're scraping the Cherry Creek campus right now,
and you kind of ask, what are you doing instead
of going why isn't aren't these kids learning just basic things,
reading math, all the kinds of things that it will
help them understand how to live life and politics and
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all that kind of stuff. So seeah, the Chery Creek
school system has taking a dip and they need to
change drastically. I think on the school board right now.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
I've reached out to Molly Lamar and we're hoping to
get both Tatiana Stern and Amanda Thayer in studio as
Dave Kerber has joined us today. Remember the Greenwood Village
City Council. I'm thankful for all the time that you've
spent and helping make being Greenwood Village a great place
to live, d for me personally, and I'm sad to
see you go, but thankful that you're here today.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Oh, thank you Ron for those just disclosure. Ryan was
my constituent and he had an opportunity to vote for
me here and not vote for me in the last
four elections. So appreciate your vote.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Thank you every time voted four Dave kerbr I wish
I could vote for him again. We'll take this time out,
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Speaker 5 (21:27):
Your text at five seven seven three nine are thanks
to Dave Kerber Greenwood Village City Council for joining me
in the previous segment. Keeping at local just for you,
and if you've got a question along those lines, anything
on your ballot that you'd like me to investigate, to
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five seven seven three nine, these local elections and in
this off year. When I say off here, I mean
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there are not the standard congressional elections this year, meaning
twenty twenty five calendar year. Obviously the election for president
we just had that, So some of this gets lost
in the shuffle. But a lot of the liberal organizations,
unions and such make sure the Democrats turn out in
these off year elections to advance some pretty bad ideas.
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And there are a couple of propositions on here. I've
reached out to Christy Burton Brown to get her take
on it, prop l L and prop MM, and hopefully
i'll get word back from her and shually either joined
me today or perhaps tomorrow with more information on that.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Back to Trump.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
I watched Denesh Desuz's film The Dragon's Prophecy this week
and it's based on a book, and I had that
conversation with Denesh, as you might recall, on Monday, and
it really outlines the history of that region, Jerusalem in particular,
gets into Nazareth, the archaeological history behind it, the founding
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of the Muslim faith and religion in that very same area.
You think about that the world's three largest religions is
Christianity and Islam, all hail from that same spot on
the planet. It's fascinating to watch that and to hear
all the various different points of view as to why
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Jewish people are so oppressed over the years, over the centuries,
over the history of all of mankind. And I've never
really been able to understand or wrap my head around that.
And Denesh's movie really does a good job of painting
that picture. And what Donald Trump has been able to do,
the historical significance of it cannot be understated. It is
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one thing you have the geopolitical knowledge and experience of,
say George Herbert Walker Bush, who I would say is
probably all around the most qualified individual who has run
for president. And one he was head of the CIA,
he was vice president of the United States.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
He was a fighter pilot in the Navy.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Going back to World War Two, history will be far
kinder to George Herbert Walker Bush than the politics of
the time were in real time. Bill Clinton was a
much better and more effective communicator and politician in the
nineteen ninety two election than was incumbent President Bush. I mean,
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there was some incidents that happened. George Herbert Walker Bush
didn't know in calendar year nineteen ninety two what a
grocery scanner was because he never e didn't go grocery shopping.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
It's not something he did.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
He was very out of touch and not connected with
the common man, something that Donald Trump is very exceptional at.
And even Ronald Reagan had that common touch, that ability
to connect with people.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Bill Clinton had it too.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
And for a time, for a time, Barack Obama pretended
to have that, but did he really listen to this comment.
He appears on a podcast with Mark Maron, who has
lost his mind. By the way, So Trump arrangement syndrome
hits you one of two ways. One day you realize
perhaps that you had it all wrong, and you are
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a big enough person, an adult to realize that. And
Michael Rappaport, who was in studio with me just last
week along with Christian Toto, who just put out a
great article for The Daily Wire that I would highly
recommend based on that conversation, that interview that we had
with him. Michael Rappaport acknowledged that another person who you know,
red pill might be too strong of a term, but
maybe it's not. Cheryl Hines, wife of RFK Junior, And
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one of the comments, I'll lead into this because some
of these comments, she was on the view and she
absolutely dismantled, and that's not a hard thing to do.
But she was prepared, she had receipts, she had facts
on her side, and she shot down everything that Joy Behar,
Whoopy Goldberg, and Sonny Haustin threw at her. And on
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another podcast along with Megan McCain, she commented on how
Republicans have traded her since her husband or K Junior,
was welcomed with the merger of the Maha movement.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
In the MAGA movement, how.
Speaker 7 (26:08):
Is magaland treding you? I've been so kind good. I mean,
I'm really grateful that people have been kind to me.
The Republicans have really been nicedy.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Good and good.
Speaker 7 (26:25):
I don't want anyone to be mean to you or
your family.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
It's sad to me that someone like Cheryl Hines, who
I like and I respect, and she's been great on
Curb Your Enthusiasm as Larry David's wife on that program,
that she's so surprised. And I get this a lot
from people, that they inculcate themselves in these bubbles, in
these echo chambers, and they are told what to think
and what to say, and they are handed their talking
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points that Republicans are evil Magga. Republicans are an existential
threat to democracy. We are brown shirts and Nazis following
our Adolf Hitler in the form of Orange Hitler and
Donald Trump. This is all the fantasy and caricature that
they simply follow out of hatred and knee jerk reactions
to what they are spoon fed by the media that
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they consume. But when they take time to step out
of it, as Cheryl Hines has, they recognize they realize
that it's nothing like what they were told. Cheryl Hines
has been treated and I've gotten these quotes from her
behind the scenes wonderfully by President Trump and everybody in
his administration, the cabinet embraced.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
For who she is.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
She's not a conservative, and I'm willing to bet she's
a lifelong Hollywood liberal, typical et c. But when you
comparing contras what you just heard there, how welcoming our
side of the political spectrum has been to somebody like her,
No questions asked, accept you the way that you are
welcome to What she experienced on the View, Well, we'll
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get into those details coming up in our second hour.
Steven L. Miller, host of The Versus Media podcast, it
was striking and telling. They just surf these leftists, in
particular on the View. It's one of the worst shows
on television, but it gives us all kinds of content
for this show and then also right side of Hollywood
on Fridays. They are ill prepared, they are ill informed.
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It doesn't matter. They surf on the surface of all
of these platitudes and bromides and tall tales and fairy
tales about the right that are not founded.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
In truth, in reality, in facts. Nobody challenges them on it,
but guess who did.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
Cheryl Hines did two points to wind down this segment.
The aforementioned Barack Obama out of touch. I mean, this
guy has gotten so high in his own supply, along
with Michelle Obama, who's insufferable. Now, I don't like all
these people were going to if we can't go to
our restaurant. You're famous. Anybody would trade spots with you.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
In a minute. Martha's vineyard. Kicking the illegals out because
you don't want them.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
They're not in your backyard, Nimby, but you got the
signs out front.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
And his illegal whoo.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
We don't want them here unless they're the help, and
we can kind of put them aside. Just a complete hypocrisy,
that's beside the point. But Barack Obama, of all people,
being raised by a single mother, you know, he had
kind of a fractured childhood. Hither and Yon, Hawaii, Kansas, Kenya,
you know, bouncing around the world eating dogs. It's part
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of as part of his own biography, autobiography, one of
like five that he wrote. His brother mileik Obama not
a fan, not a fan of his at all. In fact,
he's a big Trump supporter. Listen to the condescension from
the former president of the United States, Barack Obama about
Hispanic voters who support Donald Trump.
Speaker 8 (29:43):
We're being tested right now if you are a Hispanic
man and you're frustrated about inflation, and so he decided,
you know what all that rhetoric about Trump doesn't matter.
I'm just mad about inflation. And now you know your
sons are being stopped in LA because they look Latino. Well,
that's that's spirit. That's a test.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Oh miss me with that garbage bo.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Those initials stand for something else and more appropriate.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I think for that take. It stinks Hispanic.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Voters to characterize again, this is what the left does
and including and it started with Barack Obama. You're in
a silo, shut up vote the way you're supposed to.
All Hispanics should be Democrats.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
What are you doing? And now it's your own fault.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
You voted for Trump and now they're scooping up your
sons off the streets at Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
That's not happening. That's not happening. That's a lie.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
It's being perpetrated upon the American people by the likes
of Obama and Jbi Backribs Pritzker in Illinois and Gavin
Newsom in California and Brandon Johnson, mayor of Chicago.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
It is pure fiction.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
And when we come back, we're going to get into
some more madness, this time from the Supreme Court and
just Is Kintanji Brown Jackson with a wild take in
a case on redistricting in Louisiana and whether or not
it should be race based. In other words, you draw
this puzzle piece throughout a state. Illinois has done this,
and Louisiana largely the same. That only accounts for race.
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So black voters are all lumped into the same category
because don't you know, black voters all think the same way,
I'll vote the same way.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
That's how the left used them.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
There are just pawns on a chessboard, commodities to be collected.
They shouldn't question anything or have their votes be earned.
We'll have that for you when we round out our
one of Ryan schuling live.
Speaker 9 (31:36):
After this, Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act against
the backdrop of a world that was generally not accessible
to people with disabilities. Okay, and so it was discriminatory
in effect because these folks were not able to access
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these buildings, and it didn't matter whether the person who
built the building or the person who owned the building
intended for them to be exclusionary.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
That's irrelevant.
Speaker 9 (32:11):
Congress said, the facilities have to be made equally open
to people with disabilities if readily possible. Okay, I guess
I don't understand why that's not what's happening here. The
idea in section two is that we are responding to
current day manifestations of past and present decisions that disadvantage
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minorities and make it so that they don't have equal
access to the voting system.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Right, they're disabled.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
They're disabled. I mean you talk about a straw man
argument by KBJ. There Kontaji Brown Jackson, Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States, making this bizarre comparison
between Americans with disabilities and the act that was enacted
in their name, and black people having congressional districts drawn
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solely based on race.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Again, this assumes, with a.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
Very condescending and fanaalizing view, that all black people think
the same.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
They do not.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
They are diverse within their race, just the same way
the white people are. There are tons of white people
who I have nothing in common with, would not want
to be grouped with solely based on the color of
my skin. Nick Ferguson is a black man. He was
a defensive back for the Denver Broncos, and he and
I our background, our views on the world are much
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more aligned than mine with the typical Denver right liberal,
So why would you group me with that latter person
simply on the basis of the fact that my skin
is white. There is more where this came from.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Here's a portion I don't understand why.
Speaker 9 (34:02):
Your answer to Justice Kagan's question about is this a
compelling state interest is no. The answer is obviously yes,
that you have an interest in remedying the effects of
racial discrimination that we identify using this tool.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Whether you go.
Speaker 10 (34:20):
Too far in your remedy is another issue, right the honor.
I think step zero in all of these cases. It
was certainly step zero in the Robinson litigation. Is the
plaintiffs came in and said we want another majority black district.
Speaker 9 (34:32):
I thought they came in and said we are not
receiving equal electoral opportunity because our votes are being.
Speaker 10 (34:37):
Diluted, which is the same way of saying we deserve
a set.
Speaker 9 (34:40):
No, it's not just because that Again, just trust me
on this. The second electoral or second district is a
remedy that one could offer for a problem that we've identified.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
And no, absolutely not.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
DEI programs are being shot out of the water across
the country, and for good reason, because this is a
water thin argument that does not
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Hold, and should not hold, and Kadj knows it
Thousand dollars gone just like that. It's a crime called
jugging for thieves spy on and stalk their victims so
they can target them later. A smashed window in the glovebox,
pride open, four grand gone.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
My stomach dropped. It's just a feeling I've never felt
in my life, and feeling I hope I never.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Have to feel again.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Let's go back to how Aaron's day began in Lakewood.
Before it went back, he agreed to share his timeline
with us, but without his face revealed because he's a victim.
Aaron says he went inside as well as far Ago
at the Belmore location on Friday afternoon and pulled out
four thousand in cash for a new sleeve tattoos my artist.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
He accepts card, but I wanted to avoid the three
percent payment for running my card, so I decided to
take out.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Cash, and Aaron tells us he left the bank, stopped
around the corner at Chick fil A, and then parked
his car here to make a quick target run.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I immediately put the cash in my glove box, locked it.
Figured that was the safe thing to do. I'd rather
my carget broken into than being robbed at gunpoint for cash,
so I thought I was doing the smart thing.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Aaron tells us he went and target for five minutes,
and when he came back out.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
My car window was smashed, my glove box was pried open,
and the cash was gone.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
The money was gone, but the thief lept behind his
backpack and laptop. Aaron filed the police report with Lakewood Police,
who suspect this is a case of jugging, a crime
in which thieves stock victims when they leave the bank
and then rob them later or break into their car
or home for cash.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
The reason we wanted to put this out is because
it is happening nationally and we want people to be
aware of it.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Lakewood Police don't call it an epidemic, but say they've
had a few jugging cases over the last year. Aaron
hopes people learn from his story.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
We don't want to live in fear, right, I mean,
that's not the goal, but just when you are taking
out any sort of cash, whether it's at an ATM
or a bank, just be aware of your surroundings, right.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
I guess so that from nine News, I got a
lot of questions and comments in the wake of what
you just heard. Ryan shuling Live with You, joined in
studio by my good friend and a member of the
Greenwood Village City Council, Dave Kerber, in studio Live to
respond to what you just heard.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Now, I've got the first questions.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
I know how many of you listening might have them
as well. Four thousand dollars for a sleeve tattoo. No,
I don't have any experience in this area. I don't
have any tattoos. I wouldn't pay that much for one,
and I guess if I had to, it would be
of a high quality. I'm assuming that this man had
that in mind. But four thousand dollars cash he's trying
to avoid. He's set a three percent service charge on
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a card. Is there any option in between, for instance,
writing a checker money order?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I would now retrospect.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
I'm not blaming the victim, and I know that's Monday
morning quarterbacking, but I am very averse in any circumstance
to curing really any amount of cash anymore.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
I try to shy away from the debit cards, but
I do have a credit card and I do collect points.
It's an Amazon Prime card, and then I get free
stuff as aumun those points, and I put those purchases
on my card so.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I don't have to carry cash.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
I don't like even carrying a couple hundred dollars, let
alone four thousand dollars. And then he puts that in
his vehicle. This thing, I've never heard of this before.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Jugging.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
So somebody's kind of stalking you out. They watch you
go to an ATM, and they follow you in your car,
and then you go and park, and you go into
a target, and then they break into your car apparently
in this instance, and they take the money.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
So lots of questions there. That was in Lakewood.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Turning now to our in studio guest day, Kerbert Dave,
how would you characterize crime in Greenwood Village as you
have witnessed it over your now almost eight years in office.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Well, it's interesting to talk about jugging because as we
talk about technology and people doing innovation, the criminal element
also is very innovative and they're always coming up with
new crimes. A number of years ago in Greenwood Village,
we had a situation where people would follow people home,
would wait, break into their garages and steal their garage
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door opener and leave, or or they would steal their
garage door opener and then they would follow them home
and people wouldn't know their garage door opener was stolen,
and then they would wait and then burglarize the house
without having to break in.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
So our police, of course, we notified people and we
told everybody to watch their garage door openers. But you
talk about crime in Greenwood Village, it is probably our
number one issue, if you will, as far as emphasis,
because if you're going to live in a city that
you like, people want to be safe. You don't want
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to have to look over your shoulder when you're at
the ATM. You don't want to have to be worried
about somebody stealing out of your stores. You don't have
to worry about it, and you don't want to have
your head on a swivel. So we've actually put resources
into that. And to brag a little bit, our police
for a Class one call, which is burglary or assault
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or domestic fire and so all those things, they have
a response time of three hour, three minutes and forty
nine seconds. The standard best practices six minutes nationwide Denver.
I don't know if they're ever going to show up. Yeah, yeah,
so yeah, what is crime in Greenwood Village. There is
crime in Greenwood Village, and our guys are fighting it.
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We spend a lot of money on it, We staff
our police officers a lot, and the residents don't feel it,
although if you're in our neighborhood, you'll see the police
officers driving by all the time. And that's a matter
of intention, it's not by chance.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
They kerb are our guest on the Greenwood Village City
Council and he is term limited out, and that's much
to my chagrin as a Greenwood Village resident myself. And
he mentioned one of the reasons why I am so
glad that I live south of Bellevue, because that's the
dividing line north of it. We're in Denver right now
here at the iHeart Radio station headquarters, but I live
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only a mile and a half away Greenwood Village, south
of Bellevue, thank goodness.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
And the difference.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
I mean, I could talk about many reasons, but the
police responds time, police attentiveness, knowing that they're there feeling
safe and secure that I'm shopping or I'm walking around
in Greenwood Village, I know that the response time, Like
Dave just said, is a lot shorter.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Also, snow removal would be another one.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
I have had instances Dave where south of Bellevue and
snow removal. Where I live, it's fine, and then I
just as I go north on Ulster, it's piled up
and they're never going to get to it. They're not
never going to get around to it. That's just a
couple of other examples. The other one that I would
mention is accessibility to somebody like you. And you mentioned
before we went live on the air here that I
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could see you at King Souper's there and pull you aside.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I've shot you an email, I've shot you a.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Text about you know, these tennis courts are being used
for a dog daycare.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
That's not right. And then you clarified to me.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
That that wasn't under Greenwood Village's purview or something was
another juristic.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
So I've bummed out by that. But I knew that
I could talk to you.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
So how would you characterize life in Greenwood Village? You know,
I've been here seven years, you've been in office almost
eight years, so our time together in that regard is
almost overlapped entirely. But what has changed in your mind
for better or for worse in Greenwood Village. During your
tenure from calendar you're twenty seventeen to now.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Well, I think Greenwood Village has really stayed the same. Actually,
I was on city council for eight years before that,
so I'm finishing up sixteen years sixteen so i was
term limited once and I'm term limited again. But over time,
what it is is we've had the same plan going forward,
which is to focus on what our citizens want. As
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Jefferson says that the government this closest to the people
is the best, and we actually believe that and we
actually represent our people. Who do you respond to do
you respond to like the whole housing situation.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Do you respond to the.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
People who live in your community or respond to the
developers or the people who want to live in your community?
And it makes a big difference. A lot of the
council members and state representatives, for sure, are representing interests
that aren't.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
The people who voted for them. Correct.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
You know, they'll represent the greens, they'll represent the climate activists,
they'll represent different groups and nonprofits, and when it comes
to just regular old Joe, they kind of go like,
you know, you're bothering us, you're taking up our time.
But back to Greenwand Village. We strongly believe that our
citizens are our neighbors. We're I think I won the
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election last time with five hundred and fifty votes.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I know all those people, and they know me, and.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
They can come up to me. I'm not a scary person,
and they can ask me a question, and they can complain,
and they can challenge things, and they're understanding, and it's
like friends and neighbors getting together trying to common solutions.
It's a lot of other municipalities that they're not, you know,
it's just they're just battling. And you'll see these battles
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all up and down their front range.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Right now, there's a lot of demand to live in
a place like Greenwood Village, like Highlands Ranch.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Like Castle Rock.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
And we've seen cost of living skyrocket in each of
those locales that I just mentioned there. And I have
to imagine this has been on your radar too, Dave,
And how you accommodate people that want to move here
and you know, making sure things are in their best
interests affordability to the degree that you can address it,
control to comment on it, but What do you think
is driving that?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Is it just supply and demand? Is there not enough housing?
Speaker 5 (09:40):
We know that the Gallagher Amendment was rescinded and that
sent property taxes northward.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
What's your take on that one.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Yeah, there aren't enough houses at the price that people
want to pay.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
There's plenty of houses.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
They say that we need one hundred thousand new dwelling units,
but those people aren't on the streets. You know, they're
not one hundred thous people that don't have homes. They
just have homes that they'd rather live somewhere else. My
focus on the affordable housing thing is what government is
doing to make housing more expensive. And you mentioned the
Gallagher Amendment. All the governments are going for tax increases.
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We have South Metro Fire that's going for another three percent.
We've got a school district just ask for got a
billion dollar bond issue. They're going to ask for two
billion in the next few years. And it's just more
expensive to live here. So why is it that we
don't have enough money for housing because we're paying for
it somewhere else. You can go on with that, You
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can go on with forest policy. Used to be, we
had forest companies that would go in and clean out
the forest and make plywood, and now we have to
get it from Canada and which has a.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Tiff on it.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Or we can have permit fees and we can have
all kinds of little things that government does. Instead government's
trying to say like, oh, well, give you money, developer,
and your prices can be lower. But they should just
quit taking the money in the first place. We should
watch every time we take money from the from the
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citizens go like, you know, we're increasing the cost of housing.
Another thing that gets me is the like the twenty
twenty two twenty twenty one Energy Code, which requires a
certain amount of electric vehicle hookups. The new Colorado twenty
twenty four Energy Code requires that everyone have a smart
meter in new construction. All that costs money. It all
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costs money. And they go like, oh, it'll only add
twenty thousand dollars to the cost of a house. And
they like, only, you know, give me a check, I
send me the money. I twenty thousand dollars. It costs
a lot of money. But the current majorities are kind
of you know, they're just they're just taking the money
and trying to kick a little bit back. To the people,
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and it's just not going to work, you know, until
we get out of our own way.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
Curb joining us Greenwood Village City Council where I live.
He is outgoing, he's term limited, but he is endorsed
a couple of candidates that are on the ballot there.
And if you don't live in Greenwood Village, these local
elections are very important. It goes to Day's point that
Thomas Jefferson made, that many other people make that Michael Brown,
this station makes that all politics is local and that
that which is closest to you personally has the most
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impact on you. So, Jay Schneiderman, Rich Easton or the
two that you're endorsing to carry forward you know hopefully
what you were trying to accomplish in office as well.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Why those two?
Speaker 5 (12:31):
And the second part of that question, Dave, is this
is a purplish area in Greenwood Village. In fact, you
know our House representatives, those which I vote for, our
state senator being Jeff Bridges, the dude as I call him, Democrat,
so probably leans a little blue. And you've been kind
of pushing against that. What's the biggest struggle right now,
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whether it's along partisan lines or anything like that, and
what do you expect Jay and Rich to be able
to do about it?
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Well, for Jay and Rich, you know, Jay's I grew
up in the neighborhood. He went to Greenwood Elementary School,
and he wants to have the same kind of community
that he grew up in so that his kids can
walk to school and so that they can be safe,
they can use the parks.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Rich has been in the city for.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Thirty years and it has been on our planning and
zoning and understands the system and also is committed to
keep the same principles going forward of what makes Greenwood
Builds a great place to live. So that's why I
support them. They're not looking for change, they're not looking
for more density. We have a big issue on density,
and it's just philosophically. We design all the infrastructure for
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a certain number of people, certain amount of traffic, and
people come in and they go like, oh, we want
to have bike lanes. Well that's swell, but you're going
to take away road space and we want to have
more people, and that takes away other infrastructure. And we're
running out of water, and we're running out of seward
and we're running out of electricity and all these things
that have to happen. But those two people are going
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to take a balanced approach going and forward, and that's
where we want to do. Steady, balanced, keep things going.
Is one of my people at the front door said
what should I do? And they said, just don't screw
it up? And that's kind of where we're at now.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
You talk about density, and people don't necessarily have that
front of mine, but it's a big thing, especially in
urban centers or suburban areas like Greenwood Village, and how
much is allowed to build or expand and how many
people per square mile that you have. And one of
the things I love about Greenwood Village is that that's
regulated to a large degree. You and I talked about
some empty space that was maybe maybe not going to
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be developed for that purpose, whether it would be high
density housing, low income housing, Section eight, that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Is this one of the main things that you.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Have that push pull kind of battle with in terms
of more left leaning members of the city council And
what would be another issue along those lines.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
That you've had to kind of stand up against.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Yeah, I would say, yes, that is the issue the
should be should we be city or should we be
a suburb?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
And the people who are here now moved here, Like we.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
Talked to a lot of people and they say like, well,
they want us like Denver, And they say, I lived
in Denver and that's why I moved here because I
didn't want that. Correct, So that's the kind of lifestyle
they've chosen. Now our zoning, we have places that have
a lot of apartments. We have forty three percent multifamily
in Greenwood Village, second highest percentage in the state after Glendale,
which has one single family home in the municipality. But
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we are mixed, but we put it in certain areas
where we have the infrastructure that can handle that. We
can have a commercial where it handles that. So people
have grocery stores, they have places that go, they have
places that drive, they have schools, and it's all matched.
The state says, we just want to cram it in everywhere. Yeah,
you know, we don't care if it's going to ruin
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your neighborhood. But you mentioned left versus right. You know,
I don't know if Jay or Rich or Democrats Republicans
on the city council. I'm not really sure exactly what
political party they're at in our city council, which is
different than so many We don't focus on Democrat Republican.
(16:13):
We focus on Greenwood Village and what's good for our citizens.
As they say, there's no Republican or Democrat pothole.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
That's true.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Yeah, so we're we're kind of it's not even nonpartisan.
It's like we're just in a different view towards what's
the best thing for our city. It so happens that
right now that the state legislature, governor polists and the
Democrats are pushing the density narrative, and the Republicans the
extendedbody listens to them. It all anymore, Yeah, don't. But
(16:46):
so that's that's the main issue is density. And the
main issue on the density thing is who gets to decide,
you know, all these housing policies that they are pushing.
The Greenwood Village has sued the governor on a lot
of it has to do with they've taken away the
ability of our citizens to go in the grocery store
(17:07):
and say and have a meaningful voice and say, like,
you know what you're thinking about this wrong, Dave. You
know this is going to really be bad because of
this reason because I've been at that intersection, I've been
at this street, and this is the wrong approach. People
making the rules up in Denver. They have never been
to Greenwood Village. They don't care about Greenhown Village. And
(17:28):
that is the major philosophical and political battle that we're
fighting now in green and Village and other cities up
and down the corridor as well.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
I live in Greenwood Village intentionally because I don't want
to live in Denver with.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Everything that you're talking about there.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Dave Kerber out going term limited member of the Greenwood
Village City Council. Real quick on the minute or so
that we have left, Dave. Two candidates for the Cherry
Creek School District, which is quintessential to Greenwood Village, and
within that school district is where I reside in Amanda
Thayer and Tatiana Sterm. The direction of the school district
(18:02):
that will ones consider not only the best in the state,
but the best in the region and one of the
best in the country. What's your take on the state
of the school district and what those two Amandathay or
Tatiana Sterm might add to it.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Well, I support the two that you have mentioned, and
the school district has lost its edge. If if you
look at the numbers we like at our local school,
the rich purportedly rich place in Greenwood Elementary, I think
like forty eight percent are component are proficient in English
and you go, you know, you mean half the kids
(18:35):
aren't up to grade level. And it seems like the
school district says, well, we're doing better than other people.
And I just don't think that's that's right there. I
think they've taken.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Their eye off the ball. Like right now, they're going.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
Through these tremendous building campaigns that's going to cost billions
of dollars and they're scraping the Cherry Creek campus right now,
and you kind of ask, what are you doing instead
of going why isn't aren't these kids learning just basic things,
reading math, all the kinds of things that it will
help them understand how to live life and politics and
(19:12):
all that kind of stuff. So seeah, the Chery Creek
school system has taking a dip and they need to
change drastically. I think on the school board right now.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
I've reached out to Molly Lamar and we're hoping to
get both Tatiana Stern and Amanda Thayer in studio as
Dave Kerber has joined us today. Remember the Greenwood Village
City Council. I'm thankful for all the time that you've
spent and helping make being Greenwood Village a great place
to live, d for me personally, and I'm sad to
see you go, but thankful that you're here today.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Oh, thank you Ron for those just disclosure. Ryan was
my constituent and he had an opportunity to vote for
me here and not vote for me in the last
four elections. So appreciate your vote.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Thank you every time voted four Dave kerbr I wish
I could vote for him again. We'll take this time out,
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Back here on Ryan Schuling Live.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Your text at five seven seven three nine are thanks
to Dave Kerber Greenwood Village City Council for joining me
in the previous segment. Keeping at local just for you,
and if you've got a question along those lines, anything
on your ballot that you'd like me to investigate, to
interview somebody on let me know, text me that at
five seven seven three nine, these local elections and in
this off year. When I say off here, I mean
(21:48):
there are not the standard congressional elections this year, meaning
twenty twenty five calendar year. Obviously the election for president
we just had that, So some of this gets lost
in the shuffle. But a lot of the liberal organizations,
unions and such make sure the Democrats turn out in
these off year elections to advance some pretty bad ideas.
(22:09):
And there are a couple of propositions on here. I've
reached out to Christy Burton Brown to get her take
on it, prop l L and prop MM, and hopefully
i'll get word back from her and shually either joined
me today or perhaps tomorrow with more information on that.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Back to Trump.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
I watched Denesh Desuz's film The Dragon's Prophecy this week
and it's based on a book, and I had that
conversation with Denesh, as you might recall, on Monday, and
it really outlines the history of that region, Jerusalem in particular,
gets into Nazareth, the archaeological history behind it, the founding
(22:52):
of the Muslim faith and religion in that very same area.
You think about that the world's three largest religions is
Christianity and Islam, all hail from that same spot on
the planet. It's fascinating to watch that and to hear
all the various different points of view as to why
(23:15):
Jewish people are so oppressed over the years, over the centuries,
over the history of all of mankind. And I've never
really been able to understand or wrap my head around that.
And Denesh's movie really does a good job of painting
that picture. And what Donald Trump has been able to do,
the historical significance of it cannot be understated. It is
(23:37):
one thing you have the geopolitical knowledge and experience of,
say George Herbert Walker Bush, who I would say is
probably all around the most qualified individual who has run
for president. And one he was head of the CIA,
he was vice president of the United States.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
He was a fighter pilot in the Navy.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Going back to World War Two, history will be far
kinder to George Herbert Walker Bush than the politics of
the time were in real time. Bill Clinton was a
much better and more effective communicator and politician in the
nineteen ninety two election than was incumbent President Bush. I mean,
(24:17):
there was some incidents that happened. George Herbert Walker Bush
didn't know in calendar year nineteen ninety two what a
grocery scanner was because he never e didn't go grocery shopping.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
It's not something he did.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
He was very out of touch and not connected with
the common man, something that Donald Trump is very exceptional at.
And even Ronald Reagan had that common touch, that ability
to connect with people.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Bill Clinton had it too.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
And for a time, for a time, Barack Obama pretended
to have that, but did he really listen to this comment.
He appears on a podcast with Mark Maron, who has
lost his mind. By the way, So Trump arrangement syndrome
hits you one of two ways. One day you realize
perhaps that you had it all wrong, and you are
(25:07):
a big enough person, an adult to realize that. And
Michael Rappaport, who was in studio with me just last
week along with Christian Toto, who just put out a
great article for The Daily Wire that I would highly
recommend based on that conversation, that interview that we had
with him. Michael Rappaport acknowledged that another person who you know,
red pill might be too strong of a term, but
maybe it's not. Cheryl Hines, wife of RFK Junior, And
(25:33):
one of the comments, I'll lead into this because some
of these comments, she was on the view and she
absolutely dismantled, and that's not a hard thing to do.
But she was prepared, she had receipts, she had facts
on her side, and she shot down everything that Joy Behar,
Whoopy Goldberg, and Sonny Haustin threw at her. And on
(25:53):
another podcast along with Megan McCain, she commented on how
Republicans have traded her since her husband or K Junior,
was welcomed with the merger of the Maha movement.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
In the MAGA movement, how.
Speaker 7 (26:08):
Is magaland treding you? I've been so kind good. I mean,
I'm really grateful that people have been kind to me.
The Republicans have really been nicedy.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Good and good.
Speaker 7 (26:25):
I don't want anyone to be mean to you or
your family.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
It's sad to me that someone like Cheryl Hines, who
I like and I respect, and she's been great on
Curb Your Enthusiasm as Larry David's wife on that program,
that she's so surprised. And I get this a lot
from people, that they inculcate themselves in these bubbles, in
these echo chambers, and they are told what to think
and what to say, and they are handed their talking
(26:48):
points that Republicans are evil Magga. Republicans are an existential
threat to democracy. We are brown shirts and Nazis following
our Adolf Hitler in the form of Orange Hitler and
Donald Trump. This is all the fantasy and caricature that
they simply follow out of hatred and knee jerk reactions
to what they are spoon fed by the media that
(27:10):
they consume. But when they take time to step out
of it, as Cheryl Hines has, they recognize they realize
that it's nothing like what they were told. Cheryl Hines
has been treated and I've gotten these quotes from her
behind the scenes wonderfully by President Trump and everybody in
his administration, the cabinet embraced.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
For who she is.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
She's not a conservative, and I'm willing to bet she's
a lifelong Hollywood liberal, typical et c. But when you
comparing contras what you just heard there, how welcoming our
side of the political spectrum has been to somebody like her,
No questions asked, accept you the way that you are
welcome to What she experienced on the View, Well, we'll
(27:51):
get into those details coming up in our second hour.
Steven L. Miller, host of The Versus Media podcast, it
was striking and telling. They just surf these leftists, in
particular on the View. It's one of the worst shows
on television, but it gives us all kinds of content
for this show and then also right side of Hollywood
on Fridays. They are ill prepared, they are ill informed.
(28:12):
It doesn't matter. They surf on the surface of all
of these platitudes and bromides and tall tales and fairy
tales about the right that are not founded.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
In truth, in reality, in facts. Nobody challenges them on it,
but guess who did.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
Cheryl Hines did two points to wind down this segment.
The aforementioned Barack Obama out of touch. I mean, this
guy has gotten so high in his own supply, along
with Michelle Obama, who's insufferable. Now, I don't like all
these people were going to if we can't go to
our restaurant. You're famous. Anybody would trade spots with you.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
In a minute. Martha's vineyard. Kicking the illegals out because
you don't want them.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
They're not in your backyard, Nimby, but you got the
signs out front.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
And his illegal whoo.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
We don't want them here unless they're the help, and
we can kind of put them aside. Just a complete hypocrisy,
that's beside the point. But Barack Obama, of all people,
being raised by a single mother, you know, he had
kind of a fractured childhood. Hither and Yon, Hawaii, Kansas, Kenya,
you know, bouncing around the world eating dogs. It's part
(29:23):
of as part of his own biography, autobiography, one of
like five that he wrote. His brother mileik Obama not
a fan, not a fan of his at all. In fact,
he's a big Trump supporter. Listen to the condescension from
the former president of the United States, Barack Obama about
Hispanic voters who support Donald Trump.
Speaker 8 (29:43):
We're being tested right now if you are a Hispanic
man and you're frustrated about inflation, and so he decided,
you know what all that rhetoric about Trump doesn't matter.
I'm just mad about inflation. And now you know your
sons are being stopped in LA because they look Latino. Well,
that's that's spirit. That's a test.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Oh miss me with that garbage bo.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Those initials stand for something else and more appropriate.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I think for that take. It stinks Hispanic.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Voters to characterize again, this is what the left does
and including and it started with Barack Obama. You're in
a silo, shut up vote the way you're supposed to.
All Hispanics should be Democrats.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
What are you doing? And now it's your own fault.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
You voted for Trump and now they're scooping up your
sons off the streets at Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
That's not happening. That's not happening. That's a lie.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
It's being perpetrated upon the American people by the likes
of Obama and Jbi Backribs Pritzker in Illinois and Gavin
Newsom in California and Brandon Johnson, mayor of Chicago.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
It is pure fiction.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
And when we come back, we're going to get into
some more madness, this time from the Supreme Court and
just Is Kintanji Brown Jackson with a wild take in
a case on redistricting in Louisiana and whether or not
it should be race based. In other words, you draw
this puzzle piece throughout a state. Illinois has done this,
and Louisiana largely the same. That only accounts for race.
(31:17):
So black voters are all lumped into the same category
because don't you know, black voters all think the same way,
I'll vote the same way.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
That's how the left used them.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
There are just pawns on a chessboard, commodities to be collected.
They shouldn't question anything or have their votes be earned.
We'll have that for you when we round out our
one of Ryan schuling live.
Speaker 9 (31:36):
After this, Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act against
the backdrop of a world that was generally not accessible
to people with disabilities. Okay, and so it was discriminatory
in effect because these folks were not able to access
(31:59):
these buildings, and it didn't matter whether the person who
built the building or the person who owned the building
intended for them to be exclusionary.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
That's irrelevant.
Speaker 9 (32:11):
Congress said, the facilities have to be made equally open
to people with disabilities if readily possible. Okay, I guess
I don't understand why that's not what's happening here. The
idea in section two is that we are responding to
current day manifestations of past and present decisions that disadvantage
(32:35):
minorities and make it so that they don't have equal
access to the voting system.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Right, they're disabled.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
They're disabled. I mean you talk about a straw man
argument by KBJ. There Kontaji Brown Jackson, Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States, making this bizarre comparison
between Americans with disabilities and the act that was enacted
in their name, and black people having congressional districts drawn
(33:06):
solely based on race.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Again, this assumes, with a.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
Very condescending and fanaalizing view, that all black people think
the same.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
They do not.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
They are diverse within their race, just the same way
the white people are. There are tons of white people
who I have nothing in common with, would not want
to be grouped with solely based on the color of
my skin. Nick Ferguson is a black man. He was
a defensive back for the Denver Broncos, and he and
I our background, our views on the world are much
(33:44):
more aligned than mine with the typical Denver right liberal,
So why would you group me with that latter person
simply on the basis of the fact that my skin
is white. There is more where this came from.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Here's a portion I don't understand why.
Speaker 9 (34:02):
Your answer to Justice Kagan's question about is this a
compelling state interest is no. The answer is obviously yes,
that you have an interest in remedying the effects of
racial discrimination that we identify using this tool.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Whether you go.
Speaker 10 (34:20):
Too far in your remedy is another issue, right the honor.
I think step zero in all of these cases. It
was certainly step zero in the Robinson litigation. Is the
plaintiffs came in and said we want another majority black district.
Speaker 9 (34:32):
I thought they came in and said we are not
receiving equal electoral opportunity because our votes are being.
Speaker 10 (34:37):
Diluted, which is the same way of saying we deserve
a set.
Speaker 9 (34:40):
No, it's not just because that Again, just trust me
on this. The second electoral or second district is a
remedy that one could offer for a problem that we've identified.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
And no, absolutely not.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
DEI programs are being shot out of the water across
the country, and for good reason, because this is a
water thin argument that does not
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Hold, and should not hold, and Kadj knows it
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