July 9, 2025 • 34 mins
Jimmy Sengenberger, columnist and reporter for the Denver Gazette, joins Ryan to discuss his latest, entitled 'A bipartisan rebuke to CU Regent Wanda James.'
https://gazette.com/opinion/a-bipartisan-rebuke-to-cu-regent-wanda-james-jimmy-sengenberger/article_c5bc9f86-a369-4e1a-8e5c-9ad012c230f9.html
https://gazette.com/opinion/a-bipartisan-rebuke-to-cu-regent-wanda-james-jimmy-sengenberger/article_c5bc9f86-a369-4e1a-8e5c-9ad012c230f9.html
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We my husband and I both were a part of
the leadership program of the Rockies. I was class of
twenty one in which Ron was our class president.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
My husband was class of twenty twenty two. So the two.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Incidents in my victim statement reports were both at events
hosted by LPR.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
We you know, similar to this.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Unfortunately, it's one of those things where fortunately I would
say I wasn't sexually assaulted. It wasn't like he physically
did anything to me, so it wasn't anything I felt
like I could report to the police and have anything
done about it. But similar if you're being harassed at work,
you take it to your HR. So when I heard
of some incidences happening in twenty twenty two, my husband
and I decided to go forward and deal and speak
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with LPR leadership, bring forward to them the attention.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Of what had been happening, you know, with his.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Harassment, and at that time they had a zoom call
with us, and they had told us that they had
decided the disciplinary action for Ron would be that he
would be no longer allowed to attend any future LPR events,
And at that time we felt that was satisfactory. You know,
we did appreciate that we don't have to be in
any spaces with him, and that's great. So we just
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kind of moved on with our lives. You know, unfortunate
that you know it happened, but you move on. Even
though my husband and I have stepped out of the
political space over the last few years and just led
very quiet lives, I know a lot of people still
in the space who are still.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Fighting for our freedoms here in.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Colorado, and I respect that they do. But when I
hear stories of young girls, young aids who are being
harassed and afraid to come forward. And then when I
had found out that he was running for whip, I said,
enough is enough.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
And sometimes we just need to.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Go ahead and be bold and step forward and speak
our truth and say this is what happened, and hope
that people will feel space and coming forward and telling
their stories. And I got to tell you, there are
people in our dms with information about their experience on
the house floor, in the offices, and they're.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Very scared to come forward, and we're trying to.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Help them be able to do that in a safe space.
But I'm tired of hearing, how you know.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
At the end of the day. Listen, there's definitely a
culture of burying.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Harassment in politics, and I'm just not willing to be
complicit in that anymore. And so that's why I came
forward with my statement.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
That was Jacqueline Anderson on this very program yesterday during
our number two and in case you missed it, Wow
Zach was over there having to press the dump button
at one point throughout that first segment. It was a
highly volatile segment, highly alarming certainly, these accusations against Representative
Ron Weinberg, who represents the fifty first district in the
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Colorado General Assembly in the House, and a lot of
these incidents were attached to the leadership program of the
Rockies LPR for short, and Jacqueline Anderson cited not one
but two examples in consecutive years where this sort of
behavior happen, according to her, right in front of her husband,
and that her husband the second time around confronted him
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rather bluntly and directly, and that this was in full
view of his wife of Ron Weinberg's wife, Carolyn, so
I reached out directly to Carolyn with an invite for
Representative Weinberg to join either this program or the Dan
Camplis Show, and that is re extending the invitation that
Sheriff Steve Riams had offered as he was filling in
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for Dan yesterday. So this inappropriate behavior as an alleged
is not isolated to this one person, this accuser Jacquelin Anderson,
who have had many conversations with back and forth.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
In fact, there are new details coming to light.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
And there's two parts to the point I was making
yesterday as I further discussed this with Sheriff Steve Riams,
and that is LPR band Representative Weinberg from future events.
That is difficult to dispute. And all that Ron Weinberg
could do at that point is maybe offer up some
kind of explanation as to well, if it happened, why
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did it happen? And if it wasn't for these specific reasons,
then why were you banned from LPR at all? Or
was this based on false accusations? Are you banned in
bad faith by LPR. This is how it was handled,
and Jacqueline thought that it was handled. She was not
even going to come forward until she found out the
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Representative Weinberg had been continuing such behavior with other aids
in the General Assembly. Now, this other incident that I've
been alerted to actually involves a rather public figure, so
I'll just go ahead and follow up on this as well. Apparently,
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again this is according to Jacqueline, who has directly relaid
this information to me. Ron Weinberg asked Kennedy, the Fox
News personality who formerly had a show of her own
it now appears regularly programs like The Five and on Guttfeld,
and that he asked her who had the best legs
at Fox News, and that Kennedy then asked an LPR
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staff member who Ron was, and then began kind of
making fun of the incident and basically wrote it off.
But again, there are several examples to this end, and
they are coming from multiple different sources and accusers. So
then you get to the point where Representative Weinberg is,
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where he is unable, and I understand that the tenuous
legal nature of what he is facing, whether or not
the accusations are true or false, however they're categorized, there
are legal implications.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
So I want to extend.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
To him that grace, that courtesy, that latitude of He
can't just come on a program like this one start
popping off without it maybe being used as evidence against him,
and his lawyer, looking out for Ron's best interest, would
tell him, I know, you got to keep your powder dry.
This is a tough time, but you got to lay
low and we got to wait this out or whatever
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he's being advised to do. But then what I told
Sheriff Steve Reims, I come at this in my career
dating back to nineteen ninety seven, when I started working
professionally in radio, in media and public relations in sports.
Information and that is information is power, and whoever controls
that flow of information has the power, and whoever directs
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the narrative or responds to it.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Also has the power.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
So Ron Weinberg is taking a lot of incoming right
now without anything going out other than a rather bland
statement that he issued via text to Sheriff Steve Reams yesterday,
which is he'll respond when the time is appropriate. He's
taking this matter very seriously. I'm paraphrasing, but not by much,
and that was the extent of his comment. But when
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these things are out there in the ether, they fill
the void, they tell the story. And when an institution,
and I'll make that comparison in a moment or an
individual like representative Weinberg allows that information in the vacuum
to dictate the terms and tell the story without the
individual or the institution having the opportunity to set the
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record straight or offer up a counter narrative. Then that
wins the day in the court of public opinion. Whether
or not you think that's fair or right, that's what's happening.
I'll make the comparison. Henceforward to this. I was covering
in depth the Larry Nasser abuse scandal in Lansing, Michigan.
It started at a place called Twist Stars outside of Lancing.
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It began with accusations from Rachel den Hollander to the
Indianapolis Star, and initially it didn't go very far. But
then I read about this online in an article from
the Indie Star and invited Rachel on my program to
discuss it. Was the first radio host to do so,
and as it would turn out, I believe pretty much
the only radio host who would cover this story from
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beginning to end. I developed relationships with Angi Povelitis, the prosecutor,
with the judge in the case, Rosemary Aquallina. He probably
saw these individuals on the news on the nightly news
on the national news, and then of course with the
victims and their families and the parents and the siblings
and the lawyers that were involved in all of this.
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But what happened was Michigan State University allowed the narrative
in the void to dictate the terms of where the
story went without offering up much of a defense at
all or any kind of public commentary. He would end
up costing the jobs of Mark Hobbis, the athletic director,
and Louenna ca Simon, the president of the university. The
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gymnastics coach at Michigan State University also was in the
crosshairs of the media and speculation and the prosecution.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
What did she know and when did she know it?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
There was a harrowing tale about the head coach of
gymnastics sending around a card, a sympathy card of sorts
for Larry Nasser. And you'll never believe this, but it happened.
She passed it around, including to the likes of Lindsay Lemke,
one of her gymnasts who I got to know who
was abused by Larry Nasser, and Lindsay was compelled to
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sign this card expressing sympathy for her abuser and the
coach made her feel Kathy Klagus, I believe her name was,
made her feel.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Obligated to do something. This is really twisted stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
All this to say that Michigan State gave off a
vibe like they knew something, or they should have known something,
or they had information that they were not willing to divulge,
and they knew that their goose was cooked. Further evidence
to that point. There have been demands. This is why
maybe in a way I reacted so strongly to the
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Jeffrey Epstein debacle over these last couple of days.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
From the Trump administration.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear,
whether you're an institution or an individual in a case
like this, and if you have nothing to fear, you
have nothing to hide, just come out with it, come
clean with it, be upfront, be transparent, get in front
of the story. Michigan State refused to do that, and
right up until a couple of years ago. Dana Nessel,
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who I am not crazy about, the Democrat Attorney General
of the State of Michigan. She was trying to get
to the bottom of the matter when it comes to
Michigan State about their records regarding Larry Nasser documents legal counsel,
and they hid behind attorney client privilege and they refused
to release those documents.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
What does that do?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
It creates an air of suspicion and doubt and a
lack of trust. And for a public university in Michigan State,
that was the death knell for them in a lot
of ways. It cost them a lot of money, It
cost them prestige, It cost them their integrity in terms
of the views of the community, It cost them credibility,
and it set them back from a public relations standpoint
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tremendously because now you're thinking, do I trust this university
to take care of my daughter attending there? And a
lot of people were asking that question, and MSU failed,
in my view, to deliver upon that promise and to
stand firm in the breach and to stand up against
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the likes of Larry Nasser and not just be in
cya mode, if you know what I mean. So there's
that background to this, and what I'm saying is the
longer representative Weinberg goes without offering up any kind of
public comment, the more this is going to fester and
the more difficult it is for him to recover from this,
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if there is a recovery to be had again, I
have re extended an invitation to Carolyn Weinberg, his wife,
who handles a lot of his comms. It's communications, I
use the abbreviation there comms to you to come on
this program we're on with Dan to offer his side
of the story. Now another layer to this, and there
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are many. Natalie Tenant will be joining us. She is
the founder of Never Surrendered National and she has her
own perspective on this, and she is ready to make
public comments. She is not happy with a representative Brandy Bradley,
who just texted me I only need to check that
one out in just a moment. A lot of this
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is happening in real time. By the way, still most
won't talk about this, as Natalie, what they do behind
closed doors. Everyone has dirt on many but wait until
the right time. I've been screaming about many things. But
who listens to little old me? Says Natalie Tenant. And
then there's this. In a release, Minority Leader Rose Peglician
(13:02):
Assistant Minority Leader Ty Winner dispel inaccurate accusations that they
made light of member complaints.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
So apparently this has been something they've been brewing on.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Continuing, Minority Leader Peglici and Assistant Minority Leader Winter respond
to inaccurate accusations by Representative Bradley, who we spoke with yesterday,
that her concerns about harassment by another member were not
addressed by leadership.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Now, these were comments.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I'm not sure if Brandy made them exclusively on this
program or maybe for the first time on this program,
but she made them on this program.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
And this was the.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Response that I'm getting here, and I'm just going to
read it, continuing with a quote, these salacious accusations are
patently false. House GOP Leadership takes every workplace safety and
conduct violation seriously, and we are steadfast in advising our
caucus members of the legislature's mandated policies and procedures to
address any complaints the workplace Harassment Policy which they attached
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this document. The only process provided or allowed under this
policy requires the complaining member to file a complaint with
workplace Relations.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
And that is the first part of it.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Let me see here, Members are elected by their constituents.
Leadership is not the employer of any member. Leadership's rule
is to pursue a sensible legislative agenda on behalf of
the people of the state of Colorado not to discipline
alleged misconduct. Members are only accountable to each other and
their constituents. This again a statement jointly from the Colorado
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GOP minority leadership. Republicans are the Party of personal responsibility.
All members receive information about workplace harassment and even take
a training. Leadership followed the mandated process by reminding Representative
Bradley of her obligation to file a complaint with workplace Relations,
which she admitted in her statement. Leadership remains committed to
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maintaining a safe and respectful workplace.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Culture for all who serve and work in Capital.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Let me see here, Okay, Brandy's recommending that I asked
Natalie Tenant some questions here. So I'm going to do
my level best to kind of serve as conductor in
this symphony orchestra of source. But let's go to Brandy Bradley,
who dropped this bombshell on the show yesterday.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Well, I went to Leadership about my own problems with
Representative Weinberger. I wasn't going to air that dirty laundry,
and they told me to file a workplace harassment against him,
and that was the only thing that I could do.
I have plenty more to say. I'm going to wait
and go through those proper channels.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
But Carolyn Wantberg.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Sat there and listened to her husband discuss jobs on
another representative that was at the table the last night's session,
and then talked about another representative who was waiting for
marriage to have intimate relations. And she wasn't even.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
At the table.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
So for Carolyn to sit there and stand by her
man when she has heard these things come forward, will
I am not going to sit here and let her
go nuclear on me and prettin like I and the
reason for his bad behavior. I will not do it now.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Brandy Bradley sends me the following asking me to ask
Natalie Tenant that she, while she's searching for proof that
these women who were sexually harassed, were the proof that
Brandy herself was behind any of this.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
This is the accusation, the allegation.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
And I'm hearing whispers about this hither and Yon about
whether or not there was a political angle to this,
and that both Representative Bradley Representative Weinberg were running for
minority whip. Representative Carlos Bern ended up winning that race,
but that there was some kind of subterfuge, some kind
of smear merchant campaign looking to undermine Weinberg, and that
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Representative Bradley was behind it. Now she is flatly denying that, saying, quote,
I don't know any of these women, or anyone in
Larimer County for that matter. This is all a witch
hunt because she and all of her comrades are about
to be exposed. I'm assuming that she's referming to Natalie Tenant,
I represented. Bradley, continues in this text two years truly saying, quote,
what do I have to gain? I didn't end up
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even running for whip. Kend de Graff really had an
interest in running, and when he spoke Sunday to ask
for his endorsement, I decided to endorse him instead. So
he is the one that ran against Carlos. So that's
an update on the political angle to this situation. Here
your text on any or all of this at five seven, seven,
three nine. Looking forward to those as well, we got
a lot of textas you might imagine, about Jeffrey Epstein
(17:24):
from yesterday. Continuing with that topic, we're going to have
a little bit of sound here and Dana Bash CNN.
They're making a lot of hey while the sun is shining,
so to speak, on their end of things.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
This is part of that right now.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
That led to a lot of frustration online and elsewhere
among people who are pretty influential with the MAGA base.
Speaker 8 (17:49):
Here's just a sampling, right this absurd and Bondi was
talking about o'ves seen, Cash was talking about O've seen.
Bon Gino was talking about ebs seen. Elon must talking
about o've seen. Trump has been talking about Epstein. He
started his presidential campaign in twenty sixteen by blinking the
Clintons to Epstein.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Jesus that we don't need to hear about Jeffrey Epstein ever.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Again, you know what this sounds like.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
I'm going to say exactly what this sounds like him,
Bondie sounds like Hillary Clinton Right now, bar Baron.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Lopez is back with us. First of all, if you're MAGA,
those are fighting words to talk about Pam Bondi as
Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
But Betty Johnson Jack Pasobek were the two voices that
you heard their book that they're referring to as MAGA influencers.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
I do want to just say one other thing, which
is that those are just sort of some examples. It
was all over so conservative social media. We're just going
to put up a few more examples, starting with Roseanne Barr,
who is a supporter of the president, and the first
thing she said was, mister President, yes we still care
about Epstein.
Speaker 9 (18:54):
This is mass disappointment, almost on a religious level. I mean,
this was a key pillar of MAGA canon for years.
I mean all throughout the election cycle. The MAGA base
really built this up, not just the MAGA base, but
key figures that are now inside the president's administration.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
So that's Laura Baron Lopez from PBS White House Correspondent
there talking about.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Our reaction to this. And I had a couple of.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Examples as well from listeners to this program that I
think shared my sentiments, my frustration, my disappointment with the
Trump administration and their lack of handling in this case,
any and all of it. For you to opine on
five seven seventy three nine, that's what we're looking for in.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Terms of your text.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
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Gazette offered up by Jimmy Sangenberger quote a bipartisan rebuke
to see you, Regent Wanda James. Jimmy joins us on
Ryan Schuling Live Jimmy, welcome.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
Ooh that smell. Can't you smell that smell? Ryan?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
I sure can, Sinner, it's better.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Yeah, well take us through that smell. What is off
about Wanda James? What is the story and what do
the listeners need to know?
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Yeah? So, of course she is a member of the
CU Board of Regents that's the University of Colorado, meaning
she is one of nine elected members. She happens to
represent Denver, and her claim to fame, most notably prior
to getting elected to the Board of Regents, is that
she is the owner of the first legal pot shop
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owned by someone who is black. And it's her claim
to same because she wants you to know about it
all the time, consistently. And so what happened is that
there was a program put into place by the state
legislature that said, we want to educate the public about
the potential risks of THHC, that high potency, increasingly hypotency
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ingredient in marijuana edibles, so on and so forth, and
particularly focusing on kids and pregnant women. And so that
brought about a program put into place, a public awareness
campaign by the Colorado School of Public Health, which is
at the University of Colorado predominantly, as well as two
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other universities, and they brought in a public benefit corporation
called a Nicham Health to put out materials to educate
the public. And Wanda James claimed that a set of
these materials, images of children in utero and older that
were medical illustrations, were racists. Never mind that those images
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of black children were identical to images of white children,
she claimed these are racist. So what did she do?
She made a big stink. She managed to get those
pulled down. There was an apology from the school, but
she didn't stop there. She kept pushing and pushing to
defund the program all together, and that resulted last week
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in her censure and sanctions were basically undermining the institution.
She has been sworn to serve.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Now, Jimmy, as I'm kind of parsing through what you
told us about these images of black children in utero
and white children in utero and the fact that the
black children were included.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
That's racist. But isn't the opposite true that if.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
There were not photos of black children in utero, but
there were white children shown, that would be kind of racist,
would it not.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
I'm glad you mentioned that, because, in fact, there is
a growing body of medical literature that's all about the
need to have more diversity. We love that word these days,
although maybe in certain context not as much, but to
have more representation, I think that's a good thing. So
you can see in medical illustrations people of different demographic
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groups represented, so they can relate to them better. So yes,
I would agree, And that's why there's this growing body
of literature saying don't whitewash medical illustrations. But for some reason,
Wanda James wanted that, and it's really because she claims
that this awareness campaign is on junk science and has
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been defunked. She's telling the scientists at the university that
she's on the board of that they're wrong, and therefore
they should be defunded.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Wanda James a CU region earning this rebuke and this
one across party lines, bipartisan by her. So where does
it go from here? You're telling me it's the season finale,
But what is maybe the coda to all of this?
Speaker 4 (25:06):
If anything?
Speaker 6 (25:07):
So a season finale because there's so much involved in
Wanda James and the different things that she does. This
season is focused on the Key on THC campaign. I
think where it goes from here is going to be
interesting because, as you mentioned, this was bipartisan. In fact,
the longest at the board meeting last week for the
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CAU regions, the longest speech was given by Regent Elliot Hood,
who's at large, who is a Democrat, who very eloquently
and thoughtfully broke down everything that had happened and laid
it out and where she was wrong, so on and
so forth, and that led to the vote, and I
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thought it was powerful to see. I think we can
take some confidence that you have a board of regents
that at least the majority of them are willing to
set politics aside. And I think the question moving forward
is will we see any other such institutions in this
very democrat controlled state be willing to hold themselves accountable
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for something like this, and that's a big picture question,
not just for CE Regents and Wanda James, but for
the state legislature. We have questions regarding some legislators now
and other institutions in this state.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Jamie Stangerberger follow him on x at, saying Center Seng
Center CE and ter this quote jumps off the page
at me as she made this dramatic stand, kind of
like mister Smith goes to Washington style before the vote, saying, quote,
today is not about a censure flank by supporters, as
she made these comments. Quote, it is about censure and retaliation.
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I am being targeted for raising my voice against the
campaign that demean dehumanized, and harmed the black community unquote.
What do you make of those comments? She seems kind
of determined and pot committed punintended. I guess they are
to this claim and not willing to back down. Did
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she offer any comment to you directly, Jimmy, I'm assuming
that maybe you reached out and she ignored you.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
How did that go?
Speaker 6 (27:19):
I had gotten a response a few months back when
I emailed her, and she called this a Republican smear campaign,
which obviously isn't the case when the chair of the
Board of Regents is a Democrat and votes to censor you,
and so does the at large member. You've got multiple
Democrats on the board, so it definitely refutes that. But
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I think what she's doing here is playing the victim card,
which is what Wanda James is known for. It's something
that she taught her mentee, a guy by the name
of Kate Anderson who was mentored by Wanda James in
many respects, is how to play that victim card and
make this about race when it really isn't about race.
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But Wanda. The question Ryan, I think is will Wanda
James learn anything from this, because not only did she
get censured, but there are real consequences. She's losing committee assignments,
assignments in any chairmanships or leadership positions, invites to special events,
including the CU Regent's box at buff Games, which really,
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I mean she called that bs. I can't say the words,
that's what she said.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Incredible and you can find out more in his article
entitled a Bipartisan Rebuke to see You, Regent Wanda James.
The drama continues the season finale and there to write
all about it and for you to read all about it.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Jimmy Sangenberger for The Gazette. Jimmy, great stuff.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
As always, thanks for following up with me and we'll
talk again soon.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
Thanks brother, and watch for the next season of The Wanda.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
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Stephen Littleton, retired law enforcement officer, says, nothing like having
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a salacious distraction handed to the Colorado Dems to distract
from their disastrous agenda. Steve, this is what I'm talking about.
It's the circular firing squad, that is the Colorado GOP.
It did not go very well under Dave Williams. We
had the whole gay pride thing. God hates flags, and
we know what that really means. You just take out
(31:52):
the L and that was the Westboro Baptist Church, and
you know, we had log Cabin Republicans and it's a
very strong organization that's very important in building a big
tent party, a winning coalition here in Colorado that we
need to assemble to advance the ideas, the principles, the
priorities that we want to represent. But now leadership for
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the Republican Party, Rose Paglici, Ty Winter, I have a
very high opinion of both of them, releases this statement
regarding this unfolding kind of layers of an onion when
it comes to Representative Ron Weinberg and allegations about inappropriate conduct, behavior, comments,
sexual harassment that are being made, and they're being made
by numerous individuals, numerous women, and it all leads back,
(32:37):
most of it, at least to these incidents that took
place at the leadership program for the Rockies LPR. It
would appear that it was also alcohol related. That does
not excuse it, It does, in part, I believe, explain it.
And according to those that were there, the husband, for
instance of Jacqueline Anderson, who's been on this program yesterday,
(32:58):
in confronting Representative Weinberg, said he really didn't have any
recollection of the incident, that he drank too much and
maybe he said some things he shouldn't have said, and anyway,
we have reached out to Representative Weinberg for comment from him.
I've done that directly with his wife, who handles a
lot of his public relations and communications, Carolyn. She issued
(33:18):
a statement basically refuting these allegations on Facebook yesterday saying, quote,
I am absolutely disgusted by the false accusations being made
against my husband. I'm my husband's legislative aid and at
the Capitol and always with him. So this led to
Representative Brandy Bradley coming forward because of the following that
was mentioned here. Why now my husband has already gone
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through an appointment and an election and nothing was said
then the moment he announced his candidacy for House whip
against Brandy Bradley, Suddenly these attacks appeared. A Representative Bradley
took none too kindly to that and appeared on this
program to make statements of her own. And the statement
is released by the Republican Party leadership in Colorado. Of note,
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I have reached out directly to House Minority Leader Rose
Paglici inviting her to join me for the next segment.
I'll check on that between now and then. Here on
Ryan Schuling Live,
We my husband and I both were a part of
the leadership program of the Rockies. I was class of
twenty one in which Ron was our class president.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
My husband was class of twenty twenty two. So the two.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Incidents in my victim statement reports were both at events
hosted by LPR.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
We you know, similar to this.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Unfortunately, it's one of those things where fortunately I would
say I wasn't sexually assaulted. It wasn't like he physically
did anything to me, so it wasn't anything I felt
like I could report to the police and have anything
done about it. But similar if you're being harassed at work,
you take it to your HR. So when I heard
of some incidences happening in twenty twenty two, my husband
and I decided to go forward and deal and speak
(00:41):
with LPR leadership, bring forward to them the attention.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Of what had been happening, you know, with his.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Harassment, and at that time they had a zoom call
with us, and they had told us that they had
decided the disciplinary action for Ron would be that he
would be no longer allowed to attend any future LPR events,
And at that time we felt that was satisfactory. You know,
we did appreciate that we don't have to be in
any spaces with him, and that's great. So we just
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kind of moved on with our lives. You know, unfortunate
that you know it happened, but you move on. Even
though my husband and I have stepped out of the
political space over the last few years and just led
very quiet lives, I know a lot of people still
in the space who are still.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Fighting for our freedoms here in.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Colorado, and I respect that they do. But when I
hear stories of young girls, young aids who are being
harassed and afraid to come forward. And then when I
had found out that he was running for whip, I said,
enough is enough.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
And sometimes we just need to.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Go ahead and be bold and step forward and speak
our truth and say this is what happened, and hope
that people will feel space and coming forward and telling
their stories. And I got to tell you, there are
people in our dms with information about their experience on
the house floor, in the offices, and they're.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Very scared to come forward, and we're trying to.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Help them be able to do that in a safe space.
But I'm tired of hearing, how you know.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
At the end of the day. Listen, there's definitely a
culture of burying.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Harassment in politics, and I'm just not willing to be
complicit in that anymore. And so that's why I came
forward with my statement.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
That was Jacqueline Anderson on this very program yesterday during
our number two and in case you missed it, Wow
Zach was over there having to press the dump button
at one point throughout that first segment. It was a
highly volatile segment, highly alarming certainly, these accusations against Representative
Ron Weinberg, who represents the fifty first district in the
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Colorado General Assembly in the House, and a lot of
these incidents were attached to the leadership program of the
Rockies LPR for short, and Jacqueline Anderson cited not one
but two examples in consecutive years where this sort of
behavior happen, according to her, right in front of her husband,
and that her husband the second time around confronted him
(03:07):
rather bluntly and directly, and that this was in full
view of his wife of Ron Weinberg's wife, Carolyn, so
I reached out directly to Carolyn with an invite for
Representative Weinberg to join either this program or the Dan
Camplis Show, and that is re extending the invitation that
Sheriff Steve Riams had offered as he was filling in
(03:29):
for Dan yesterday. So this inappropriate behavior as an alleged
is not isolated to this one person, this accuser Jacquelin Anderson,
who have had many conversations with back and forth.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
In fact, there are new details coming to light.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
And there's two parts to the point I was making
yesterday as I further discussed this with Sheriff Steve Riams,
and that is LPR band Representative Weinberg from future events.
That is difficult to dispute. And all that Ron Weinberg
could do at that point is maybe offer up some
kind of explanation as to well, if it happened, why
(04:06):
did it happen? And if it wasn't for these specific reasons,
then why were you banned from LPR at all? Or
was this based on false accusations? Are you banned in
bad faith by LPR. This is how it was handled,
and Jacqueline thought that it was handled. She was not
even going to come forward until she found out the
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Representative Weinberg had been continuing such behavior with other aids
in the General Assembly. Now, this other incident that I've
been alerted to actually involves a rather public figure, so
I'll just go ahead and follow up on this as well. Apparently,
(04:47):
again this is according to Jacqueline, who has directly relaid
this information to me. Ron Weinberg asked Kennedy, the Fox
News personality who formerly had a show of her own
it now appears regularly programs like The Five and on Guttfeld,
and that he asked her who had the best legs
at Fox News, and that Kennedy then asked an LPR
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staff member who Ron was, and then began kind of
making fun of the incident and basically wrote it off.
But again, there are several examples to this end, and
they are coming from multiple different sources and accusers. So
then you get to the point where Representative Weinberg is,
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where he is unable, and I understand that the tenuous
legal nature of what he is facing, whether or not
the accusations are true or false, however they're categorized, there
are legal implications.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
So I want to extend.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
To him that grace, that courtesy, that latitude of He
can't just come on a program like this one start
popping off without it maybe being used as evidence against him,
and his lawyer, looking out for Ron's best interest, would
tell him, I know, you got to keep your powder dry.
This is a tough time, but you got to lay
low and we got to wait this out or whatever
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he's being advised to do. But then what I told
Sheriff Steve Reims, I come at this in my career
dating back to nineteen ninety seven, when I started working
professionally in radio, in media and public relations in sports.
Information and that is information is power, and whoever controls
that flow of information has the power, and whoever directs
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the narrative or responds to it.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Also has the power.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
So Ron Weinberg is taking a lot of incoming right
now without anything going out other than a rather bland
statement that he issued via text to Sheriff Steve Reams yesterday,
which is he'll respond when the time is appropriate. He's
taking this matter very seriously. I'm paraphrasing, but not by much,
and that was the extent of his comment. But when
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these things are out there in the ether, they fill
the void, they tell the story. And when an institution,
and I'll make that comparison in a moment or an
individual like representative Weinberg allows that information in the vacuum
to dictate the terms and tell the story without the
individual or the institution having the opportunity to set the
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record straight or offer up a counter narrative. Then that
wins the day in the court of public opinion. Whether
or not you think that's fair or right, that's what's happening.
I'll make the comparison. Henceforward to this. I was covering
in depth the Larry Nasser abuse scandal in Lansing, Michigan.
It started at a place called Twist Stars outside of Lancing.
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It began with accusations from Rachel den Hollander to the
Indianapolis Star, and initially it didn't go very far. But
then I read about this online in an article from
the Indie Star and invited Rachel on my program to
discuss it. Was the first radio host to do so,
and as it would turn out, I believe pretty much
the only radio host who would cover this story from
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beginning to end. I developed relationships with Angi Povelitis, the prosecutor,
with the judge in the case, Rosemary Aquallina. He probably
saw these individuals on the news on the nightly news
on the national news, and then of course with the
victims and their families and the parents and the siblings
and the lawyers that were involved in all of this.
(08:28):
But what happened was Michigan State University allowed the narrative
in the void to dictate the terms of where the
story went without offering up much of a defense at
all or any kind of public commentary. He would end
up costing the jobs of Mark Hobbis, the athletic director,
and Louenna ca Simon, the president of the university. The
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gymnastics coach at Michigan State University also was in the
crosshairs of the media and speculation and the prosecution.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
What did she know and when did she know it?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
There was a harrowing tale about the head coach of
gymnastics sending around a card, a sympathy card of sorts
for Larry Nasser. And you'll never believe this, but it happened.
She passed it around, including to the likes of Lindsay Lemke,
one of her gymnasts who I got to know who
was abused by Larry Nasser, and Lindsay was compelled to
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sign this card expressing sympathy for her abuser and the
coach made her feel Kathy Klagus, I believe her name was,
made her feel.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Obligated to do something. This is really twisted stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
All this to say that Michigan State gave off a
vibe like they knew something, or they should have known something,
or they had information that they were not willing to divulge,
and they knew that their goose was cooked. Further evidence
to that point. There have been demands. This is why
maybe in a way I reacted so strongly to the
(10:02):
Jeffrey Epstein debacle over these last couple of days.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
From the Trump administration.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear,
whether you're an institution or an individual in a case
like this, and if you have nothing to fear, you
have nothing to hide, just come out with it, come
clean with it, be upfront, be transparent, get in front
of the story. Michigan State refused to do that, and
right up until a couple of years ago. Dana Nessel,
(10:31):
who I am not crazy about, the Democrat Attorney General
of the State of Michigan. She was trying to get
to the bottom of the matter when it comes to
Michigan State about their records regarding Larry Nasser documents legal counsel,
and they hid behind attorney client privilege and they refused
to release those documents.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
What does that do?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
It creates an air of suspicion and doubt and a
lack of trust. And for a public university in Michigan State,
that was the death knell for them in a lot
of ways. It cost them a lot of money, It
cost them prestige, It cost them their integrity in terms
of the views of the community, It cost them credibility,
and it set them back from a public relations standpoint
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tremendously because now you're thinking, do I trust this university
to take care of my daughter attending there? And a
lot of people were asking that question, and MSU failed,
in my view, to deliver upon that promise and to
stand firm in the breach and to stand up against
(11:37):
the likes of Larry Nasser and not just be in
cya mode, if you know what I mean. So there's
that background to this, and what I'm saying is the
longer representative Weinberg goes without offering up any kind of
public comment, the more this is going to fester and
the more difficult it is for him to recover from this,
(11:57):
if there is a recovery to be had again, I
have re extended an invitation to Carolyn Weinberg, his wife,
who handles a lot of his comms. It's communications, I
use the abbreviation there comms to you to come on
this program we're on with Dan to offer his side
of the story. Now another layer to this, and there
(12:18):
are many. Natalie Tenant will be joining us. She is
the founder of Never Surrendered National and she has her
own perspective on this, and she is ready to make
public comments. She is not happy with a representative Brandy Bradley,
who just texted me I only need to check that
one out in just a moment. A lot of this
(12:38):
is happening in real time. By the way, still most
won't talk about this, as Natalie, what they do behind
closed doors. Everyone has dirt on many but wait until
the right time. I've been screaming about many things. But
who listens to little old me? Says Natalie Tenant. And
then there's this. In a release, Minority Leader Rose Peglician
(13:02):
Assistant Minority Leader Ty Winner dispel inaccurate accusations that they
made light of member complaints.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
So apparently this has been something they've been brewing on.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Continuing, Minority Leader Peglici and Assistant Minority Leader Winter respond
to inaccurate accusations by Representative Bradley, who we spoke with yesterday,
that her concerns about harassment by another member were not
addressed by leadership.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Now, these were comments.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I'm not sure if Brandy made them exclusively on this
program or maybe for the first time on this program,
but she made them on this program.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
And this was the.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Response that I'm getting here, and I'm just going to
read it, continuing with a quote, these salacious accusations are
patently false. House GOP Leadership takes every workplace safety and
conduct violation seriously, and we are steadfast in advising our
caucus members of the legislature's mandated policies and procedures to
address any complaints the workplace Harassment Policy which they attached
(13:59):
this document. The only process provided or allowed under this
policy requires the complaining member to file a complaint with
workplace Relations.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
And that is the first part of it.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Let me see here, Members are elected by their constituents.
Leadership is not the employer of any member. Leadership's rule
is to pursue a sensible legislative agenda on behalf of
the people of the state of Colorado not to discipline
alleged misconduct. Members are only accountable to each other and
their constituents. This again a statement jointly from the Colorado
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GOP minority leadership. Republicans are the Party of personal responsibility.
All members receive information about workplace harassment and even take
a training. Leadership followed the mandated process by reminding Representative
Bradley of her obligation to file a complaint with workplace Relations,
which she admitted in her statement. Leadership remains committed to
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maintaining a safe and respectful workplace.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Culture for all who serve and work in Capital.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Let me see here, Okay, Brandy's recommending that I asked
Natalie Tenant some questions here. So I'm going to do
my level best to kind of serve as conductor in
this symphony orchestra of source. But let's go to Brandy Bradley,
who dropped this bombshell on the show yesterday.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Well, I went to Leadership about my own problems with
Representative Weinberger. I wasn't going to air that dirty laundry,
and they told me to file a workplace harassment against him,
and that was the only thing that I could do.
I have plenty more to say. I'm going to wait
and go through those proper channels.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
But Carolyn Wantberg.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Sat there and listened to her husband discuss jobs on
another representative that was at the table the last night's session,
and then talked about another representative who was waiting for
marriage to have intimate relations. And she wasn't even.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
At the table.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
So for Carolyn to sit there and stand by her
man when she has heard these things come forward, will
I am not going to sit here and let her
go nuclear on me and prettin like I and the
reason for his bad behavior. I will not do it now.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Brandy Bradley sends me the following asking me to ask
Natalie Tenant that she, while she's searching for proof that
these women who were sexually harassed, were the proof that
Brandy herself was behind any of this.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
This is the accusation, the allegation.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
And I'm hearing whispers about this hither and Yon about
whether or not there was a political angle to this,
and that both Representative Bradley Representative Weinberg were running for
minority whip. Representative Carlos Bern ended up winning that race,
but that there was some kind of subterfuge, some kind
of smear merchant campaign looking to undermine Weinberg, and that
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Representative Bradley was behind it. Now she is flatly denying that, saying, quote,
I don't know any of these women, or anyone in
Larimer County for that matter. This is all a witch
hunt because she and all of her comrades are about
to be exposed. I'm assuming that she's referming to Natalie Tenant,
I represented. Bradley, continues in this text two years truly saying, quote,
what do I have to gain? I didn't end up
(17:00):
even running for whip. Kend de Graff really had an
interest in running, and when he spoke Sunday to ask
for his endorsement, I decided to endorse him instead. So
he is the one that ran against Carlos. So that's
an update on the political angle to this situation. Here
your text on any or all of this at five seven, seven,
three nine. Looking forward to those as well, we got
a lot of textas you might imagine, about Jeffrey Epstein
(17:24):
from yesterday. Continuing with that topic, we're going to have
a little bit of sound here and Dana Bash CNN.
They're making a lot of hey while the sun is shining,
so to speak, on their end of things.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
This is part of that right now.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
That led to a lot of frustration online and elsewhere
among people who are pretty influential with the MAGA base.
Speaker 8 (17:49):
Here's just a sampling, right this absurd and Bondi was
talking about o'ves seen, Cash was talking about O've seen.
Bon Gino was talking about ebs seen. Elon must talking
about o've seen. Trump has been talking about Epstein. He
started his presidential campaign in twenty sixteen by blinking the
Clintons to Epstein.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Jesus that we don't need to hear about Jeffrey Epstein ever.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Again, you know what this sounds like.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
I'm going to say exactly what this sounds like him,
Bondie sounds like Hillary Clinton Right now, bar Baron.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Lopez is back with us. First of all, if you're MAGA,
those are fighting words to talk about Pam Bondi as
Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
But Betty Johnson Jack Pasobek were the two voices that
you heard their book that they're referring to as MAGA influencers.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
I do want to just say one other thing, which
is that those are just sort of some examples. It
was all over so conservative social media. We're just going
to put up a few more examples, starting with Roseanne Barr,
who is a supporter of the president, and the first
thing she said was, mister President, yes we still care
about Epstein.
Speaker 9 (18:54):
This is mass disappointment, almost on a religious level. I mean,
this was a key pillar of MAGA canon for years.
I mean all throughout the election cycle. The MAGA base
really built this up, not just the MAGA base, but
key figures that are now inside the president's administration.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
So that's Laura Baron Lopez from PBS White House Correspondent
there talking about.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Our reaction to this. And I had a couple of.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Examples as well from listeners to this program that I
think shared my sentiments, my frustration, my disappointment with the
Trump administration and their lack of handling in this case,
any and all of it. For you to opine on
five seven seventy three nine, that's what we're looking for in.
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Terms of your text.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
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Gazette offered up by Jimmy Sangenberger quote a bipartisan rebuke
to see you, Regent Wanda James. Jimmy joins us on
Ryan Schuling Live Jimmy, welcome.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
Ooh that smell. Can't you smell that smell? Ryan?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
I sure can, Sinner, it's better.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Yeah, well take us through that smell. What is off
about Wanda James? What is the story and what do
the listeners need to know?
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Yeah? So, of course she is a member of the
CU Board of Regents that's the University of Colorado, meaning
she is one of nine elected members. She happens to
represent Denver, and her claim to fame, most notably prior
to getting elected to the Board of Regents, is that
she is the owner of the first legal pot shop
(21:59):
owned by someone who is black. And it's her claim
to same because she wants you to know about it
all the time, consistently. And so what happened is that
there was a program put into place by the state
legislature that said, we want to educate the public about
the potential risks of THHC, that high potency, increasingly hypotency
(22:23):
ingredient in marijuana edibles, so on and so forth, and
particularly focusing on kids and pregnant women. And so that
brought about a program put into place, a public awareness
campaign by the Colorado School of Public Health, which is
at the University of Colorado predominantly, as well as two
(22:44):
other universities, and they brought in a public benefit corporation
called a Nicham Health to put out materials to educate
the public. And Wanda James claimed that a set of
these materials, images of children in utero and older that
were medical illustrations, were racists. Never mind that those images
(23:06):
of black children were identical to images of white children,
she claimed these are racist. So what did she do?
She made a big stink. She managed to get those
pulled down. There was an apology from the school, but
she didn't stop there. She kept pushing and pushing to
defund the program all together, and that resulted last week
(23:29):
in her censure and sanctions were basically undermining the institution.
She has been sworn to serve.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Now, Jimmy, as I'm kind of parsing through what you
told us about these images of black children in utero
and white children in utero and the fact that the
black children were included.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
That's racist. But isn't the opposite true that if.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
There were not photos of black children in utero, but
there were white children shown, that would be kind of racist,
would it not.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
I'm glad you mentioned that, because, in fact, there is
a growing body of medical literature that's all about the
need to have more diversity. We love that word these days,
although maybe in certain context not as much, but to
have more representation, I think that's a good thing. So
you can see in medical illustrations people of different demographic
(24:22):
groups represented, so they can relate to them better. So yes,
I would agree, And that's why there's this growing body
of literature saying don't whitewash medical illustrations. But for some reason,
Wanda James wanted that, and it's really because she claims
that this awareness campaign is on junk science and has
(24:43):
been defunked. She's telling the scientists at the university that
she's on the board of that they're wrong, and therefore
they should be defunded.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Wanda James a CU region earning this rebuke and this
one across party lines, bipartisan by her. So where does
it go from here? You're telling me it's the season finale,
But what is maybe the coda to all of this?
Speaker 4 (25:06):
If anything?
Speaker 6 (25:07):
So a season finale because there's so much involved in
Wanda James and the different things that she does. This
season is focused on the Key on THC campaign. I
think where it goes from here is going to be
interesting because, as you mentioned, this was bipartisan. In fact,
the longest at the board meeting last week for the
(25:29):
CAU regions, the longest speech was given by Regent Elliot Hood,
who's at large, who is a Democrat, who very eloquently
and thoughtfully broke down everything that had happened and laid
it out and where she was wrong, so on and
so forth, and that led to the vote, and I
(25:51):
thought it was powerful to see. I think we can
take some confidence that you have a board of regents
that at least the majority of them are willing to
set politics aside. And I think the question moving forward
is will we see any other such institutions in this
very democrat controlled state be willing to hold themselves accountable
(26:14):
for something like this, and that's a big picture question,
not just for CE Regents and Wanda James, but for
the state legislature. We have questions regarding some legislators now
and other institutions in this state.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Jamie Stangerberger follow him on x at, saying Center Seng
Center CE and ter this quote jumps off the page
at me as she made this dramatic stand, kind of
like mister Smith goes to Washington style before the vote, saying, quote,
today is not about a censure flank by supporters, as
she made these comments. Quote, it is about censure and retaliation.
(26:50):
I am being targeted for raising my voice against the
campaign that demean dehumanized, and harmed the black community unquote.
What do you make of those comments? She seems kind
of determined and pot committed punintended. I guess they are
to this claim and not willing to back down. Did
(27:12):
she offer any comment to you directly, Jimmy, I'm assuming
that maybe you reached out and she ignored you.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
How did that go?
Speaker 6 (27:19):
I had gotten a response a few months back when
I emailed her, and she called this a Republican smear campaign,
which obviously isn't the case when the chair of the
Board of Regents is a Democrat and votes to censor you,
and so does the at large member. You've got multiple
Democrats on the board, so it definitely refutes that. But
(27:41):
I think what she's doing here is playing the victim card,
which is what Wanda James is known for. It's something
that she taught her mentee, a guy by the name
of Kate Anderson who was mentored by Wanda James in
many respects, is how to play that victim card and
make this about race when it really isn't about race.
(28:02):
But Wanda. The question Ryan, I think is will Wanda
James learn anything from this, because not only did she
get censured, but there are real consequences. She's losing committee assignments,
assignments in any chairmanships or leadership positions, invites to special events,
including the CU Regent's box at buff Games, which really,
(28:24):
I mean she called that bs. I can't say the words,
that's what she said.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Incredible and you can find out more in his article
entitled a Bipartisan Rebuke to see You, Regent Wanda James.
The drama continues the season finale and there to write
all about it and for you to read all about it.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Jimmy Sangenberger for The Gazette. Jimmy, great stuff.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
As always, thanks for following up with me and we'll
talk again soon.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
Thanks brother, and watch for the next season of The Wanda.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
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Stephen Littleton, retired law enforcement officer, says, nothing like having
(31:31):
a salacious distraction handed to the Colorado Dems to distract
from their disastrous agenda. Steve, this is what I'm talking about.
It's the circular firing squad, that is the Colorado GOP.
It did not go very well under Dave Williams. We
had the whole gay pride thing. God hates flags, and
we know what that really means. You just take out
(31:52):
the L and that was the Westboro Baptist Church, and
you know, we had log Cabin Republicans and it's a
very strong organization that's very important in building a big
tent party, a winning coalition here in Colorado that we
need to assemble to advance the ideas, the principles, the
priorities that we want to represent. But now leadership for
(32:14):
the Republican Party, Rose Paglici, Ty Winter, I have a
very high opinion of both of them, releases this statement
regarding this unfolding kind of layers of an onion when
it comes to Representative Ron Weinberg and allegations about inappropriate conduct, behavior, comments,
sexual harassment that are being made, and they're being made
by numerous individuals, numerous women, and it all leads back,
(32:37):
most of it, at least to these incidents that took
place at the leadership program for the Rockies LPR. It
would appear that it was also alcohol related. That does
not excuse it, It does, in part, I believe, explain it.
And according to those that were there, the husband, for
instance of Jacqueline Anderson, who's been on this program yesterday,
(32:58):
in confronting Representative Weinberg, said he really didn't have any
recollection of the incident, that he drank too much and
maybe he said some things he shouldn't have said, and anyway,
we have reached out to Representative Weinberg for comment from him.
I've done that directly with his wife, who handles a
lot of his public relations and communications, Carolyn. She issued
(33:18):
a statement basically refuting these allegations on Facebook yesterday saying, quote,
I am absolutely disgusted by the false accusations being made
against my husband. I'm my husband's legislative aid and at
the Capitol and always with him. So this led to
Representative Brandy Bradley coming forward because of the following that
was mentioned here. Why now my husband has already gone
(33:43):
through an appointment and an election and nothing was said
then the moment he announced his candidacy for House whip
against Brandy Bradley, Suddenly these attacks appeared. A Representative Bradley
took none too kindly to that and appeared on this
program to make statements of her own. And the statement
is released by the Republican Party leadership in Colorado. Of note,
(34:04):
I have reached out directly to House Minority Leader Rose
Paglici inviting her to join me for the next segment.
I'll check on that between now and then. Here on
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