Governor Jared Polis offers a tepid response to President Trump putting him on blast over the Tina Peters case. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) blocks a slate of about 80 Trump nominees, citing concerns over another Fox News host getting a post in the administration.
Natalee Tennant, founder of Never Surrender National, joins Ryan to promote her Saturday event 'Cookies and Crafts with Santa' from 2pm to 6pm at Wave of Hope Learning Center in Greeley.
Special appearances from Santa himself, Buddy the Elf, Elsa from 'Frozen,' and The Grinch are anticipated. The event is being sponsored by the Weld County Republicans.
Never Surrender Colorado chapter | Yes it's official‼️ The Grinch has registered Republican and will be attending the Weld County Republican Party Cookies and Crafts with Santa 🎅
Erin Lee, founder of Protect Kids Colorado, joins Ryan with an update on her quest for signatures on three measures she's trying to get on the 2026 ballot. She also promotes petition signing events coming up on Saturday from 9am to Noon at various locations throughout Colorado.
Protect Kids Colorado - Upcoming Events
Natalee Tennant, founder of Never Surrender National, joins Ryan to promote her Saturday event 'Cookies and Crafts with Santa' from 2pm to 6pm at Wave of Hope Learning Center in Greeley.
Special appearances from Santa himself, Buddy the Elf, Elsa from 'Frozen,' and The Grinch are anticipated. The event is being sponsored by the Weld County Republicans.
Never Surrender Colorado chapter | Yes it's official‼️ The Grinch has registered Republican and will be attending the Weld County Republican Party Cookies and Crafts with Santa 🎅
Erin Lee, founder of Protect Kids Colorado, joins Ryan with an update on her quest for signatures on three measures she's trying to get on the 2026 ballot. She also promotes petition signing events coming up on Saturday from 9am to Noon at various locations throughout Colorado.
Protect Kids Colorado - Upcoming Events
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Governor Polis is responding to criticism by President Trump on
social media. This is over a request to move former
Mesa County clerk Tina Peters into federal custody. On True
Social the President calls Polus a quote Sleezebag, adding in
part quote polus refuses to allow an elderly woman, Tina Peters,
(00:20):
who was unfairly convicted of what the Democrats do cheating
on elections, out of jail again a quote from Truth Social.
Peters is serving an eight year sentence in state prison
after being found guilty of election interference charges.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Last month, the Federal.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Bureau of Prisons made a formal request asking Colorado's Department
of Corrections to transfer Peters into federal custody. That's according
to Attorney General Phil Wiser and District Attorney Daniel Rubinstein.
Those two leaders described the request as a step the
Trump administration could be taking to possibly pardon Peters. Here's
what the governor said when asked about the president's social
(00:59):
media post.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
He's sent out one hundred different things on media, but that's,
you know, the focus of what you need to do
as a leader, as a governor, as a president, as
a senator, really needs to do. Focus on making life
better for people.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
The governor's office has said they are reviewing the letter
sent by the Bureau of Prisons. A group of Colorado
County clerks has urged his office not to transfer Peters.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
From KKTV eleven in Colorado's Springs. Governor Polis not much
that he's saying in that SoundBite to respond to President Trump.
And this was the full post on true social in context.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And again I'm no Sean Ferrish, but here we go.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
The sleesbag governor of Colorado, Jared Polis, refuses to allow
an elderly woman, Tina Peters, who was unfairly convicted of
what the Democrats do cheating on elections, out of jail.
She was convicted for trying to stop Democrats from stealing
Colorado votes in the election. She was preserving election records,
(01:59):
which she was obligated to do under federal law. She
has now served more than one year in jail and
has eight years to go. On top of everything else,
she's a cancer survivor. In quotes the lightweight governor who
has allowed his state to go to hell Trende Arragua,
anyone should be ashamed of himself free Tina exclamation point
(02:22):
all caps, and I'm not so sure Jared's lightweight, but
that was not a blast that Donald Trump got in
on him. There there is talk about the fact that
Jenner Griswold, the Secretary of State, has been dodgy about
releasing all of these records that may be in question, and.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Why would that be, Why would that be? But President
Trump nevertheless going to bat for Tina Peters. We spoke
with Pam Anderson, the primary opponent of Tina Peters back
in twenty twenty two for that Secretary of State election
that year, in the mid term elections that those were
taking place, and she was rather direct in her assessment
(03:02):
that Tina did something wrong that she deserved to be punished,
and much in the same way Dan Rubinstein, who was
on with Sheriff Steve Riems filling and for Dan Kaplis
yesterday said much the same. My problem is, once you
see that ground cede, once you surrender that ground on
(03:23):
let's say one of our own Republicans, and that could
be either Rubinstein or Pam Anderson. I am of the
mind that what is good for the goose is good
for the gander. And if what Tina Peters did is
deserving of that type of punishment, that type of prosecution,
that type of sentencing. Well, there are many matters that
(03:44):
we have serious concerns over much malfeasance on the watch
of one Jenna Griswold, and yet there have been no
repercussions for her. Also, proportional sentencing, and this is something
that Rubinstein was not willing to go there. It's not
really his realm of what the sentence might be. But
(04:04):
there are a lot of Colorado judges who would be
adversarial to the interest let's just put it mildly of
a Tina Peters and that she would receive a harsher
sentence then perhaps a Democrat in the same position. And
that's my contention, that a Tina Peters would serve eight
plus years in prison for what she did, a nonviolent
(04:25):
crime in which no individual was harmed. Now they can
claim that what she did was a mark of impropriety
and that it should be punished, and okay, I'll go
along with that. But when these same Democratic lawmakers are
begging that a sex offender who has raped or molested
a child not be given any jail or prison time,
(04:48):
that's ridiculous to me. That's insane to me that violent
crime offenders, by virtue of their illegal alien status, because
Amy Patten, the district attorney might not want them to
be red flagged for deportation, would be given a milder
(05:08):
sentence in that regard.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
That is insane to me.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
To me, it's all about proportionality of the sentencing here,
and this is egregious in my opinion, that the sentencing,
the term of it. You can send a message, you
can set a precedent, you can have that serve as
a deterrent for from future violations along those lines through
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a much shorter term of sentence. Now Rubenstein claims that,
you know, based on parole good behavior, Tina Peter should
be out before then, But that's beside the point. The
sentence should fit the crime. And in Colorado we are
asked backwards on so much of this. It's insane, it
is literally crazy. Well, Michael Bennett, he came out from
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under his desk. He's a cicada. Every thirteen years, maybe
he says something. He's running for governor. I've been told
and this is what he had to say on the
Senate floor.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Senator, please state you're in glory. Thank you, miss President.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
The president of September eleventh, twenty twenty five, that established
a majority.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Vote threshold vote for.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Cloture on an executive resolution that provided for the en
bloc consideration of nominations excluded nominations at level one of
the executive schedule under five USC fifty three twelve or
Article three judges. Is that correct, mister President.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
That is correct, mister President.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
I'm sorry to say this slate of nominations in ESRAS
five point twenty includes calendar number four seven six Sarah
Bailey of Texas to be Director of National Drug Control Policies.
That position is among those listed in five USC. I
agree one two. Therefore, the threshold for kloture on this
(07:03):
vote would be three fifths of those dually chosen and sworn.
Is that correct, mister President.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
That is correct?
Speaker 6 (07:15):
Five Jeff.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
So, this is a procedural move by Bennett on the
Senate floor temporarily blocking dozens of Trump nominees in the
neighborhood of eighty from being confirmed. And he's citing a
Senate rule on cloture in which they need to get
to sixty votes instead of a simple majority of fifty
one votes or fifty votes with Vice President Vance serving
as a tiebreaker. All of this to say that the
(07:36):
Republicans are going to repackage this and likely get it
through anyway. But Bennett gets a mark on his record,
and he joined our own Nia Bender in the KOA
newsroom to give further he details as to why he
did this.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Today, they put eighty almost ninety nominees on the floor
without following the rules that they had just agreed to
just a few weeks ago. And one of the nominees
was the first and for the drugs are which is
somebody who by our rules requires what sixty votes, can't
(08:11):
be approved with fifty one votes. And this person is
just another Fox News television host that's now been appointed
to one of the highest jobs in the land, and
I think should have the proper vetting of a proper
vote on the floor of the setup.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Okay, what were Pete boodha judges qualifications to be the
Secretary of Transportation? He liked trains and planes, and maybe
he liked the movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles, but that
was from his initial press conference.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Nothing qualified him for that job.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
He was gay, He checked a wolf box, and therefore
he was appointed to that position. What qualified my former
governor in the state of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm, to be
Secretary of Energy? What about her background dictated that now
she was governor of a state. No, she had no qualification.
She was a woman, back checked the wolf box. And
(09:06):
so she was appointed to the Biden administration in a
cabinet post. So I don't want to hear it from
Senator Michael Bennett on any of this Fox News hosts
or not, but he did add this.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
They've tried to move all of them together as a
slate of almost ninety so they were moving them in
a block of eighty eight. And one of the people
in the block was this this nominee, and she was
coming before the Senate at a moment when the Secretary
of Defense, Pete Hesath, who also is a former former
(09:42):
broadcaster on Fox News, you know, is having a terrible week,
I think representing the United States in the context of
these of these bombings that are occurring off the coast
of Venezuela. And and I don't have, by the way,
anything against Fox News myself. This is a question about
(10:02):
whether or not these people are qualified for some of
the most important jobs in the country.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
He's talking about Sarah Carter, and the war on drugs
just got scaled up considerably as we are blowing narco
terrorist boats out of the water trying to bring cocaine
and fentanyl into the United States and kill Americans.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
So I would say that's a noble endeavor.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Now.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Whether or not Secretary hegsep order a second strike word
is he didn't. New York Times refuted a Washington Post
report along those lines, and even so there was talk
about was Martha Radditt's I think ABC News saying that
some fishermen quote unquote right, we're trying to climb back
into a boat that had been bombed and save the
cocaine and then it was struck again. I don't really
(10:51):
have a problem with that. I'm not sure why anybody
would five seven, seven, three nine and get your votes
in for our Friday Fool of the Week as we
continue now on the local scale. Good friend of mine,
she is the founder of Never Surrender National, Natalie Tennant.
She's got a big event coming up tomorrow in welld
County and she joins us now on Ryan Schuling Live.
Natalie Welcome, Okay, well this is Michael Bennett.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Okay, Natalie, I mean you know, yeah, you know how
it is Ted.
Speaker 8 (11:18):
Cruise every time I just put your South Park.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Well, this is where I ask you to start them
because at this event, now, this is gonna be cookies
and crafts with Sanna. It sounds great two pm to
six pm at the Wave of Hope Learning Center in Greeley.
Special appearances from Sanna, Buddy, the Elf, Elsa from Frozen,
and The Grinch. But what if we're able to get
Michael Bennett there as counselor Mackie from South Park? Tell
(11:50):
us more about the event there, Natalie, Oh, I'll do it.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Ye okay.
Speaker 8 (11:56):
Hey, we also and I have I have a couple
others that are joining us too. We're going to have
ol Off and Elsa's sister.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yeah, you're trying to get me to dress up as
oll Off.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
And while I'm dedicated to the cause, I think you
can find somebody better to do that.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
I found I did.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Oh you did, you got an Off?
Speaker 8 (12:14):
Okay, I did. And the greatest part of the whole
thing is it's our electeds and candidates that are doing this,
and it just makes it my heart is so full
right now with Christmas spirit and merriment. It's just this
has really come together and everybody who has helped, the
big thank yous to everybody. I just step some bake
(12:35):
goods as we speak. So I'm really excited. I'm anxious
for tomorrow. It's going to be a fun time. We're
going to have coffee and cocoa and bake goods and
crafts and just fun. We're going to have fun. We're
going to have a really good time. And it's for
about the family. And I want to do more events
in Well County that are family oriented. I want more
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people to get involved in how do you do that?
You have the whole family come and we have a
good time. The hoedown was successful and it was great.
It just proved that we could do this, so so
many donations and so many people helping put this together.
I encourage everybody come out. We've got people across the
state coming too, and I'm very humbled.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
By that as well.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
It's on six Straight and Greeley. It's the Wave of
Hope Learning Center, Cookies and crafts with Santa and a
cast of thousands, or at least there'll be several other
characters in attendance there in costumes that you mentioned. You
said they're going to be elected officials and candidates that
are dressed up.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
Yes, sir. The greatest one though, is I don't know
if you saw the flyer. I have a new flyer
circulating about the Grinch because we were able to get
the Grinch. And not only were we able to get
the Grinch, but his heart has grown four sizes and
he is registered Republican.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Oh wow, that's a twist.
Speaker 8 (13:51):
If we can get the Grinch to register as Republican
in Wild County, which he now calls it Weldville, and
the Beast, the roast Beast is now called a sure
cup that I put, it's just great. It's great. If
we could get the Grinch to register Republican. I think
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we can get others to register Republican.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
I'm lucky for you. I got the flyer right in
front of me. The roast Beast is grass fed and
freedom seasoned. That sounds delicious. Is Sheriff Steve Reen's going
to be the Grinch?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Is okay? Okay? I thought maybe he'd be dressed up
as well.
Speaker 8 (14:27):
He is not, And I know Sheriff would have been there,
but I believe it is his wife's birthday, that is correct.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
He told me that absolutely.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
So I want to touch on what you're kind of
getting after with all of this, Natalie Tenant. Our guests
never surrender national here in weilld County, just to our north.
About these events, Natalie, where it's not just your typical
kind of political rally gathering speech driven. You're making these
fun You're making these events that you know the whole
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family can participate in. You talk about the hoedown, talking
about now cookies and crafts with Santa. I mean, this
seems to be a very important driver of getting people
together and bringing them on board.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
And then it is. And it started with Summit County
did what they called their Lincoln Day hodown and my
husband and I went and he you've METO. He does
not like the politics stuff, but I kind of, you know,
had him go. He loves LORI. So we went to
support our friend and he had a blast because it
(15:28):
was fun.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
It was chill.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
It wasn't you know, tied in Lincoln Day. And you know,
chairman's clubs and all those those are important, don't get
me wrong, but it's not for everybody. So i want
to breathe into life these events where you know, family
can come and we could just gather like minded people
together to have a good time. My other goal is
to put together events that cost Weald County zero dollars.
(15:52):
Right and as of this moment, this event has cost
well County GOP zero dollars because people donated, they donated spaces,
they donated time, they donated crafts. It's been overwhelming and
I'm proud of it. I'm proud of everybody that's helped
and being able to have the chance to do this
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and show that we can do it this way. It
doesn't always cost money to do this. All you got
to do is ask. And there's a lot of people
that can't, you know, just fork out, you know, one
hundreds of dollars to their state party. But they can
donate their time, they can donate their crafts and their talents,
or a space they might have a space. So we're
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always looking and we I'm going to try to do
one of these every month. I'm really hoping to be
able to get it proved to do more of these
because this is what a fire and mean I found
my thing. I've truly enjoyed putting this together. I truly have.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Got to me a great time.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
It's tomorrow, that's Saturday, December sixth, from two pm to
six pm.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
The Wild County Republicans putting.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
This on Cookies and Crafts with Santa at the Wave
of Hope Learning Center Street in Greeley. So if you
live in Weld County, be sure to circle up there. Santa, Buddy,
the elf, Elsa, the Grinch, others that will be in attendance.
Natalie Tennant doing the good work on behalf of Never
Surrender and the Weld County Republicans. Natalie, thanks so much
for your time, good luck with the event. Do you
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have a vote for Friday Fool the Week? By the way,
come on out, okay, Michael Bennett, Okay, off the board.
She goes for Michael Bennett. That is not a surprise,
my good friend, Natalie Tennant. And again that's tomorrow two
to six pm Wave of Hope Learning Center for Cookies
and crafts with Santa. And if you got the cookies,
(17:36):
then it gives you the fuel, the rocket fuel to
work on these crafts and get into the holiday spirit.
And as you mentioned, the Grinch, his heart now grew
four sizes, not just three. He's registered Republicans, so that's
encouraging to hear. Joining us next Aaron Lee. She has
an event also scheduled throughout the state to sign petitions
(17:58):
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We are at the youth gone wild, even in our
advanced years. Jesse Thomas onongside here on Ryan Shuling Live
this Friday edition sending you into your weekend with fun
and activities and things that matter that you can show up,
participate in and make a difference with. We're joining us
now from Protect Kids, Colorado. She is the founder and
(19:50):
she has not one, not two, not three, but nine
locations for events where these ballot petition signatures will be
athered for twenty twenty six. Here to tell us more
about it, Aaron Lee, and she joins us now on RSL.
Speaker 9 (20:06):
Aaron, Welcome, Hey Brian, thanks for having me.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Okay, I want to start at the beginning here because
people may be hearing about these petitions for the first time,
and these are for three separate ballot measures that you,
Jennifer say, Lori Gimmelstein and others are attempting to gather
and get on the ballot for twenty twenty six as
best as you can bullet point them.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
What are the three ballot initiatives that you are pursuing.
Speaker 9 (20:31):
Yes, we have three very simple, very common sense issues.
One is protecting girls sports, so keeping them male, female
and co ed. Prohibiting irreversible sex change surgeries on children.
That's a mouthful, but it's very simple, just you cannot
hack off the healthy body parts of children seventeen and
younger for mental health stress issues. And then punishing child
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sex traffickers, so allowing das to prosecute with life in
prison no chance of parole if you buy or sell
a child for sex. In Colorado, we rank number ten
in child beutilation surgeries and in child sex trafficking in Colorado.
So these are really significant issues that we can very
easily tackle by allowing the voters to have a say.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
You can find out more on our website Protect Kidscolorado
dot org. Slash events and you can find the one
closest to you to put your signature on all three
petitions Aurora, Colorado, Springs for Colin Slash Windsor Grand Junction, Greeley, Lafayette, Lakewood, Montrose,
and Oohay. There also be more signings coming up, six
(21:37):
of them on Sunday as well. So question right there, erin,
where are you getting the manpower to staff all of
these locations?
Speaker 9 (21:46):
Yeah, we have over fifteen hundred volunteers, wow, in all
sixty four counties that have activated. We kicked off early September,
and when we kicked off, we already had one thousand
volunteers chomping at the bit ready to go. So this
is truly a weave people effort and it was really
our heart. You know, these are really important issues that
we need laws to protect kids from these things in
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the state. We have some of the most radical laws
that harm children in Colorado. But this is such an
easy way for everyone to do their part. You know,
it's so easy to feel hopeless in Colorado or feel
like our legislature is stacked we can't get anything done.
But anyone can.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
Take a petition.
Speaker 9 (22:24):
You don't even have to be from Colorado. You only
have to be a registered voter to sign it. Anyone
can take a petition and just have these conversations with
friends and family and their own sphere of influence, educating
the people around them on these issues, and then offering
them a solution which is as simple as signing their name.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Aaron Lee was activated after her daughter was indoctrinated in
an LGBTQ club disguised as an art club. I'll never
get over that detail. That infuriates me. And you can
watch that documentary Art Club on YouTube and also it's
available at her website, Protect Kids Colorado dot org. Now,
(23:02):
I want to go back to that part of it, Aaron,
because as much as the whole ordeal I know, was
a nightmare for you, the very fact that they had
to lie about it.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Right out front and say, oh no, no, it's an
art club.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Come have fun, We'll draw pictures, do paintings, you know,
just suggests that the nefarious nature of it, they're aware
of it.
Speaker 9 (23:23):
Yeah, I've said it before. Nothing in the world and
my entire life has been so violating as being lied
to by our public school about my daughter being sexualized
by actual predators and then push down this path of
irreversible harm to her body, to her mind or psyche
being told that she's been born in the wrong body
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because she's experiencing pubescent discomfort. So it was so violating,
and they taught her to lie to us, and even
more egregious, I think than them sexualizing her and telling
her she was born wrong's teaching her to lie to
her parents about secret meetings that they're having with her.
Like you said, if you have to keep it secret.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
You know it's wrong.
Speaker 9 (24:04):
That was what activated me for sure. But then when
I woke up, I learned how ubiquitous the issue is,
how widespread, how many people it's affected, and why taking
action like these valot measures is so necessary.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Aaron, on the ballot measures, we know that it's a
steep hurdle to clear in order to get the number
of signatures that you need, not just to get them,
but then they have to be validated, verified, and they
have to pass muster for that number. So taking that
into consideration, if you can just tell the people out there,
we know that listeners in our audience are going to
be very enthusiastic, I believe about signing these petitions. Getting
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there getting that done. But about how far down the
road are you? How many signatures do you still need
to get? How many have you gotten already?
Speaker 9 (24:47):
So we're a little over halfway through our timeline. We've
got about nine weeks left. These are due in February,
and the Secretary of State requires one hundred and twenty
five thousand valid signatures. Jenna Griswold will invalidate a thirty
percent of those, so we are shooting for two hundred
thousand on each issue, and by our calculations, we're about
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halfway there.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
So we're in a good spot.
Speaker 9 (25:09):
We're halfway through the timeline, We've got half the signatures,
but it's going to have to be a really heavy
push for the next nine weeks to get those remaining
one hundred thousand.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Signatures and get nine locations tomorrow where you can sign
these find out more protect Kids Colorado dot org six
locations on Sunday as well. I want to go back
to a detail that you just focused on and get
a little bit more under the hood on that you said,
Jenna Griswold, the very corrupt, very inept Secretary of State
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is going to invalidate thirty percent of the signatures.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
First, where do you base that number? What do you
base that number on? In two?
Speaker 4 (25:45):
How can she do that by fiat or just from
her own judgment. I'm trying to follow on that.
Speaker 9 (25:51):
So that's not Jenna that will personally.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Value right right right.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
Secretary of State's office and they outsource it. But we're
blessed to ask Scott Gessler, as our attorney on these initiatives,
who was the Secretary of state who ran this process?
And so we've got good counsel on those percentages that
we can anticipate. And it makes sense. Some people have
chicken scratch signatures you can't read, some people are not
actually registered to vote, Some people may sign twice on accident,
(26:16):
and so there are valid reasons that people's signatures will
be struck. That's a pretty standard percentage to look out for.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Now.
Speaker 9 (26:23):
I can say that the soos and the age at
the title board process did everything in their power to
try to prevent us from even getting to the signature phase.
I mean, you know, they said the word parent was
too confusing for voters. They said voters would not understand
male and female according to their reproductive organs. They through
everything at the wall to prevent us from even getting
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to this point, but we overcame some major hurdles with
Scott Guesser's help. Definitely a title board, and now if
we can get two hundred thousand signatures, we can guarantee
these get on the ballot, and I am positive they
will pass.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Not only do the measures themselves need, but if they're
on the ballot, that is a driving determining factor as
to whether conservative voters might turn out when they otherwise
would not, and that's to vote for Republican candidates like
let's say, Gabe Evans in the highly contested eighth congressional district.
So there's a lot on the line tied into these petitions.
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So if you can sign these measures to get them
on the ballot, I strongly encourage you to do so.
Aaron Lee, Our guests Protect Kids Colorado. Aaron, you and
I have talked about the legal process as well, that
you've been pursuing this through the courts. You had a
setback on that front. However, we do know that the
Supreme Court gave Tennessee a win in banning these child
mutilation surgeries, and that that might open the door in
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the floodgates for it to happen nationwide, but we know
that it's more likely to happen in Red states than
Blue states. Can you update us on the legal status
of your pursuits on that front.
Speaker 9 (27:52):
Yeah, So twenty seven states have already enacted laws that
protect giral sports, that prevent child mutilation, child gender mutilation.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
We would be the first Blue.
Speaker 9 (28:01):
State to pass these issues, and it would be the
first to do it by the will of the people,
which is really significant. And what those Supreme Court wins
do is ensure that these laws cannot be overturned once
we pass them. So that's for Mady case from Tennessee
upheld that laws can ban child mutilation. And then there
are two cases going before the Supreme Court on January thirteenth,
(28:23):
I believe on girls sports, one from West Virginia and
one from Idaho, and those we know we will win.
So once again the Supreme Court will uphold that you
can define sports according to biological sex. And that just
means that when we do this at the state level,
it cannot be undone and it's going to have to
be on at the state level, Like, yes, we're setting
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Supreme Court precedent, but we don't see the federal government
working on laws to address these issues. It's going to
have to be done at the state level.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Aaron Is, You've discussed with me. Nobody could do this alone.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
You've got so many volunteers that are helping out and
it's truly a two or D fource, but also working
in a coalition with somebody like I've gotten to know
Jennifer say xxxy Athletics and the massive platform that she
has not just here in Colorado but nationwide as well.
How important has she been? How important has the team
that you've built, Ben, I'm talking about the leadership at
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the top to be able to drive this forward.
Speaker 9 (29:18):
And we have the best people behind us, you know,
Ryan at the entire Catholic Diocese signed on that all
four Catholic bishops put out a mandate that you will
preach and sign these petitions at every all the two
hundred Catholic parishes, and some mega pastors like Jim Bergin
and Flatirons and braved her to have gotten behind what
we're doing. Our founder is former Senator Kevin Lundberg, who
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is just a powerhouse and a brilliant man in his
own right, and he's helped build a great team around us.
But it's been so cool to have these you know
who I perceive as celebrities come out, Jennifer Say and
James Lindsay and Billboard, Chris and Riley Gaines, And there
are so many people whose eyes are watching Colorado as
the first state to be able to pull this off. Truly,
if we can pass these ballot measures in Colorado, the
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dominoes will fall in all of the other Blue states.
And there's a lot of people invested in rooting for
us one.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
More time tomorrow Aurora, Colorado, Springs, Fort Collins, Slash Windsor
Grand Junction, Greeley, Lafayette, Lakewood, Montrose, Oure. If you live
close to any of those locations and you've not yet
signed these petitions, please make a plan to go out
and do so. You can find out the times on
the website protect Kids Colorado dot org. In addition to then,
this is the most important part, Aaron, getting these ballot
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signatures and getting those submitted. But are there other events
coming up? I know I just attended one. It was
a very moving event there with James Lindsay. What might
be coming up on the calendar that people can look
forward to?
Speaker 9 (30:43):
Yes, well, We don't have final confirmation yet, but we're
going to have a big girl sports event January fifteenth
at Brave Church with Jen Say and tit Hymon, who's
that brilliant woman from the Gold Gym who called out
the man in her locker room who's gone viral, and
Paula Scanlon who had to swim with Will Thomas. It's
going to be a powerhouse lineup. But we'll do another
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one of these drive up events on January tenth as well.
And the goal here is you can drive up. It
takes three minutes, you don't have to leave the warmth
of your car. All you have to do is sign
your name three times, and you've contributed to major change
in Colorado. So that's our hope is to make it
as easy as possible for people to be part of
this movement. And it's tomorrow nine to noon at six
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different locations all over the state, and then we're at
all slat irons, church campuses on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Protect Kids Colorado dot org.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
If you take nothing else away from this conversation, remember
that website and check out the details on their events page.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Doing the good work.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
This is such an important issue in our state and nationwide,
to protect girls and women's sports and spaces, and to
protect our kids from having their body parts chopped off,
healthy body parts. Aaron Lee, thankful for all you do.
Merry Christmas to you and your family, and we'll talk again.
Speaker 9 (31:56):
Soon, he se Ryan, thank you Aaronlee.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Right there, seventy three nine year votes for our Friday
Fool of the Week. It will be revealed, but you
still have time to submit those. Ryan Schuling Live concludes
after this, I did.
Speaker 7 (32:11):
Get a lot of when I met Erica and I
started posting pictures, I did get a lot of people
that were like, you're gonna ruin your brand or used
to being a loser, You're gonna ruin and I and
I that might say worth it, you know.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Totally live your life, to live your life.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
Rodney, remember Rodney Dangerfield was like I gotta get any
respect his whole career, and we love that about Rodney.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
He was my favorite comedian of all time.
Speaker 7 (32:37):
Holds the number one spot. There's no close second. I
think the world would have been okay though with a
Rodney that had a couple of successes as time went on,
like he's on the Tonight Show, it's his twentieth ath appearance,
and he's like, oh, I got no respect. I'm like that,
this feels like respect to twentieth appearance. You got a
club named after you. I don't know, sort of embracing it,
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you know.
Speaker 6 (32:58):
JB.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Lissel, he's that Comedy South tonight for two shows and
Tomorrow night for two shows, one of the late shows,
the early show. Well, the late show is sold out
for Tomorrow night, but both shows Availablecomedyworks dot com Toto
Yours Truly and a cast of hundreds I believe will
be in attendance tonight, the landmark of Greenwood Village. Looking
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forward to Jamie Lisso. Now he is not our fool
of the week. He's definitely maybe the funniest person that
I'll mention here. But it was a close vote going
down the stretch for a Friday Fool of the Week.
In the nominees, Jake Tamper was close, Mark Warner got votes.
Jasmine Crockett did as well, and normally she might win.
But because it was such a horrific, no good, terrible
(33:42):
awful week for Governor Tim Walls, who oversaw one of
the biggest fraud scandals in American history, it should probably
resign because of it.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
What was he concerned about that? Donald Trump called him retarded?
Speaker 10 (33:55):
This creates danger, and I'll tell you what. In my
time on this, yes, i'd never seen this before. People
driving my house by my house and using the R
word in front of people.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
This is shameful.
Speaker 10 (34:07):
And I have yet to see an elected official, a
Republican elected official, say you're right, that's shameful. Your shit
should not say it. So, look, I'm worried. We know
how these things go. They start with taunts, they turn
to violence.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
So deeply concerned a little more concerned about the leftist
violence since Charlie Kirk got shot in the jugular and
murdered in broad daylight by a leftist, Yeah, that's where
the violence is coming from. None of this white supremacist crap.
Cite me the examples. Where has that happened? Where are
the lynchings? Where are all these neo Nazis committing crimes?
(34:40):
Show me the evidence presented. I'm not justifying those wack
of doodles, but they're not doing these things. The left
is doing these things. They're the ones committed to violence,
justifying violence, whistling past the graveyard regarding violence and yet
Tim Walls, he just can't out of his own way. Ryan,
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the current Democratic Party is the largest ssyop gaslighting experiment
in all of history. It is, and unfortunately for way
too many, it's working. And this one Why can't Colorado
voters see how evil the Dems are and they continue
to just vote for the DS because Orange Man bad
whiskey tango foxtrot. I share each of those letters with you.
(35:22):
This is why I can't figure out. I get why
some people. Trump rubs them the wrong way. You don't
like them, maybe you hate them. Can your hate for
one man, the Orange Man, exceed your love of the
country or your love for our kids? And in maybe
you don't, you know, talk about voting for Donald Trump?
But how can you continue to support Democrat policies which
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are so detrimental, so dangerous for our youngsters, as we
just discussed with Aaron Lee, protect kids Colorado. I can't
get behind him, But I've talked to so many people,
Aaron Lee being one of them, Jennifer Say being another,
handfuls of others that were Democrats, lifelong Democrats, and then
that crap started happening and suddenly they were red pilled
and that's what did it.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
That was the tipping point.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Our thanks once again to Aaron Lee and Natalie Tennant
for joining us this hour, Christian Toto and Deborah Flora
in our number one, and of course Jesse Thomas manning
the controls for our program today. That'll do it for me.
From here for now, I'll talk to you again on Monday.
Right here, I'll Bryan Schewing Live
Governor Polis is responding to criticism by President Trump on
social media. This is over a request to move former
Mesa County clerk Tina Peters into federal custody. On True
Social the President calls Polus a quote Sleezebag, adding in
part quote polus refuses to allow an elderly woman, Tina Peters,
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who was unfairly convicted of what the Democrats do cheating
on elections, out of jail again a quote from Truth Social.
Peters is serving an eight year sentence in state prison
after being found guilty of election interference charges.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Last month, the Federal.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Bureau of Prisons made a formal request asking Colorado's Department
of Corrections to transfer Peters into federal custody. That's according
to Attorney General Phil Wiser and District Attorney Daniel Rubinstein.
Those two leaders described the request as a step the
Trump administration could be taking to possibly pardon Peters. Here's
what the governor said when asked about the president's social
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media post.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
He's sent out one hundred different things on media, but that's,
you know, the focus of what you need to do
as a leader, as a governor, as a president, as
a senator, really needs to do. Focus on making life
better for people.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
The governor's office has said they are reviewing the letter
sent by the Bureau of Prisons. A group of Colorado
County clerks has urged his office not to transfer Peters.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
From KKTV eleven in Colorado's Springs. Governor Polis not much
that he's saying in that SoundBite to respond to President Trump.
And this was the full post on true social in context.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And again I'm no Sean Ferrish, but here we go.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
The sleesbag governor of Colorado, Jared Polis, refuses to allow
an elderly woman, Tina Peters, who was unfairly convicted of
what the Democrats do cheating on elections, out of jail.
She was convicted for trying to stop Democrats from stealing
Colorado votes in the election. She was preserving election records,
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which she was obligated to do under federal law. She
has now served more than one year in jail and
has eight years to go. On top of everything else,
she's a cancer survivor. In quotes the lightweight governor who
has allowed his state to go to hell Trende Arragua,
anyone should be ashamed of himself free Tina exclamation point
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all caps, and I'm not so sure Jared's lightweight, but
that was not a blast that Donald Trump got in
on him. There there is talk about the fact that
Jenner Griswold, the Secretary of State, has been dodgy about
releasing all of these records that may be in question, and.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Why would that be, Why would that be? But President
Trump nevertheless going to bat for Tina Peters. We spoke
with Pam Anderson, the primary opponent of Tina Peters back
in twenty twenty two for that Secretary of State election
that year, in the mid term elections that those were
taking place, and she was rather direct in her assessment
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that Tina did something wrong that she deserved to be punished,
and much in the same way Dan Rubinstein, who was
on with Sheriff Steve Riems filling and for Dan Kaplis
yesterday said much the same. My problem is, once you
see that ground cede, once you surrender that ground on
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let's say one of our own Republicans, and that could
be either Rubinstein or Pam Anderson. I am of the
mind that what is good for the goose is good
for the gander. And if what Tina Peters did is
deserving of that type of punishment, that type of prosecution,
that type of sentencing. Well, there are many matters that
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we have serious concerns over much malfeasance on the watch
of one Jenna Griswold, and yet there have been no
repercussions for her. Also, proportional sentencing, and this is something
that Rubinstein was not willing to go there. It's not
really his realm of what the sentence might be. But
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there are a lot of Colorado judges who would be
adversarial to the interest let's just put it mildly of
a Tina Peters and that she would receive a harsher
sentence then perhaps a Democrat in the same position. And
that's my contention, that a Tina Peters would serve eight
plus years in prison for what she did, a nonviolent
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crime in which no individual was harmed. Now they can
claim that what she did was a mark of impropriety
and that it should be punished, and okay, I'll go
along with that. But when these same Democratic lawmakers are
begging that a sex offender who has raped or molested
a child not be given any jail or prison time,
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that's ridiculous to me. That's insane to me that violent
crime offenders, by virtue of their illegal alien status, because
Amy Patten, the district attorney might not want them to
be red flagged for deportation, would be given a milder
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sentence in that regard.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
That is insane to me.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
To me, it's all about proportionality of the sentencing here,
and this is egregious in my opinion, that the sentencing,
the term of it. You can send a message, you
can set a precedent, you can have that serve as
a deterrent for from future violations along those lines through
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a much shorter term of sentence. Now Rubenstein claims that,
you know, based on parole good behavior, Tina Peter should
be out before then, But that's beside the point. The
sentence should fit the crime. And in Colorado we are
asked backwards on so much of this. It's insane, it
is literally crazy. Well, Michael Bennett, he came out from
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under his desk. He's a cicada. Every thirteen years, maybe
he says something. He's running for governor. I've been told
and this is what he had to say on the
Senate floor.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Senator, please state you're in glory. Thank you, miss President.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
The president of September eleventh, twenty twenty five, that established
a majority.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Vote threshold vote for.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Cloture on an executive resolution that provided for the en
bloc consideration of nominations excluded nominations at level one of
the executive schedule under five USC fifty three twelve or
Article three judges. Is that correct, mister President.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
That is correct, mister President.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
I'm sorry to say this slate of nominations in ESRAS
five point twenty includes calendar number four seven six Sarah
Bailey of Texas to be Director of National Drug Control Policies.
That position is among those listed in five USC. I
agree one two. Therefore, the threshold for kloture on this
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vote would be three fifths of those dually chosen and sworn.
Is that correct, mister President.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
That is correct?
Speaker 6 (07:15):
Five Jeff.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
So, this is a procedural move by Bennett on the
Senate floor temporarily blocking dozens of Trump nominees in the
neighborhood of eighty from being confirmed. And he's citing a
Senate rule on cloture in which they need to get
to sixty votes instead of a simple majority of fifty
one votes or fifty votes with Vice President Vance serving
as a tiebreaker. All of this to say that the
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Republicans are going to repackage this and likely get it
through anyway. But Bennett gets a mark on his record,
and he joined our own Nia Bender in the KOA
newsroom to give further he details as to why he
did this.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Today, they put eighty almost ninety nominees on the floor
without following the rules that they had just agreed to
just a few weeks ago. And one of the nominees
was the first and for the drugs are which is
somebody who by our rules requires what sixty votes, can't
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be approved with fifty one votes. And this person is
just another Fox News television host that's now been appointed
to one of the highest jobs in the land, and
I think should have the proper vetting of a proper
vote on the floor of the setup.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Okay, what were Pete boodha judges qualifications to be the
Secretary of Transportation? He liked trains and planes, and maybe
he liked the movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles, but that
was from his initial press conference.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Nothing qualified him for that job.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
He was gay, He checked a wolf box, and therefore
he was appointed to that position. What qualified my former
governor in the state of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm, to be
Secretary of Energy? What about her background dictated that now
she was governor of a state. No, she had no qualification.
She was a woman, back checked the wolf box. And
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so she was appointed to the Biden administration in a
cabinet post. So I don't want to hear it from
Senator Michael Bennett on any of this Fox News hosts
or not, but he did add this.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
They've tried to move all of them together as a
slate of almost ninety so they were moving them in
a block of eighty eight. And one of the people
in the block was this this nominee, and she was
coming before the Senate at a moment when the Secretary
of Defense, Pete Hesath, who also is a former former
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broadcaster on Fox News, you know, is having a terrible week,
I think representing the United States in the context of
these of these bombings that are occurring off the coast
of Venezuela. And and I don't have, by the way,
anything against Fox News myself. This is a question about
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whether or not these people are qualified for some of
the most important jobs in the country.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
He's talking about Sarah Carter, and the war on drugs
just got scaled up considerably as we are blowing narco
terrorist boats out of the water trying to bring cocaine
and fentanyl into the United States and kill Americans.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
So I would say that's a noble endeavor.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Now.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Whether or not Secretary hegsep order a second strike word
is he didn't. New York Times refuted a Washington Post
report along those lines, and even so there was talk
about was Martha Radditt's I think ABC News saying that
some fishermen quote unquote right, we're trying to climb back
into a boat that had been bombed and save the
cocaine and then it was struck again. I don't really
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have a problem with that. I'm not sure why anybody
would five seven, seven, three nine and get your votes
in for our Friday Fool of the Week as we
continue now on the local scale. Good friend of mine,
she is the founder of Never Surrender National, Natalie Tennant.
She's got a big event coming up tomorrow in welld
County and she joins us now on Ryan Schuling Live.
Natalie Welcome, Okay, well this is Michael Bennett.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Okay, Natalie, I mean you know, yeah, you know how
it is Ted.
Speaker 8 (11:18):
Cruise every time I just put your South Park.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Well, this is where I ask you to start them
because at this event, now, this is gonna be cookies
and crafts with Sanna. It sounds great two pm to
six pm at the Wave of Hope Learning Center in Greeley.
Special appearances from Sanna, Buddy, the Elf, Elsa from Frozen,
and The Grinch. But what if we're able to get
Michael Bennett there as counselor Mackie from South Park? Tell
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us more about the event there, Natalie, Oh, I'll do it.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Ye okay.
Speaker 8 (11:56):
Hey, we also and I have I have a couple
others that are joining us too. We're going to have
ol Off and Elsa's sister.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yeah, you're trying to get me to dress up as
oll Off.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
And while I'm dedicated to the cause, I think you
can find somebody better to do that.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
I found I did.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Oh you did, you got an Off?
Speaker 8 (12:14):
Okay, I did. And the greatest part of the whole
thing is it's our electeds and candidates that are doing this,
and it just makes it my heart is so full
right now with Christmas spirit and merriment. It's just this
has really come together and everybody who has helped, the
big thank yous to everybody. I just step some bake
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goods as we speak. So I'm really excited. I'm anxious
for tomorrow. It's going to be a fun time. We're
going to have coffee and cocoa and bake goods and
crafts and just fun. We're going to have fun. We're
going to have a really good time. And it's for
about the family. And I want to do more events
in Well County that are family oriented. I want more
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people to get involved in how do you do that?
You have the whole family come and we have a
good time. The hoedown was successful and it was great.
It just proved that we could do this, so so
many donations and so many people helping put this together.
I encourage everybody come out. We've got people across the
state coming too, and I'm very humbled.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
By that as well.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
It's on six Straight and Greeley. It's the Wave of
Hope Learning Center, Cookies and crafts with Santa and a
cast of thousands, or at least there'll be several other
characters in attendance there in costumes that you mentioned. You
said they're going to be elected officials and candidates that
are dressed up.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
Yes, sir. The greatest one though, is I don't know
if you saw the flyer. I have a new flyer
circulating about the Grinch because we were able to get
the Grinch. And not only were we able to get
the Grinch, but his heart has grown four sizes and
he is registered Republican.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Oh wow, that's a twist.
Speaker 8 (13:51):
If we can get the Grinch to register as Republican
in Wild County, which he now calls it Weldville, and
the Beast, the roast Beast is now called a sure
cup that I put, it's just great. It's great. If
we could get the Grinch to register Republican. I think
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we can get others to register Republican.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
I'm lucky for you. I got the flyer right in
front of me. The roast Beast is grass fed and
freedom seasoned. That sounds delicious. Is Sheriff Steve Reen's going
to be the Grinch?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Is okay? Okay? I thought maybe he'd be dressed up
as well.
Speaker 8 (14:27):
He is not, And I know Sheriff would have been there,
but I believe it is his wife's birthday, that is correct.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
He told me that absolutely.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
So I want to touch on what you're kind of
getting after with all of this, Natalie Tenant. Our guests
never surrender national here in weilld County, just to our north.
About these events, Natalie, where it's not just your typical
kind of political rally gathering speech driven. You're making these
fun You're making these events that you know the whole
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family can participate in. You talk about the hoedown, talking
about now cookies and crafts with Santa. I mean, this
seems to be a very important driver of getting people
together and bringing them on board.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
And then it is. And it started with Summit County
did what they called their Lincoln Day hodown and my
husband and I went and he you've METO. He does
not like the politics stuff, but I kind of, you know,
had him go. He loves LORI. So we went to
support our friend and he had a blast because it
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was fun.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
It was chill.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
It wasn't you know, tied in Lincoln Day. And you know,
chairman's clubs and all those those are important, don't get
me wrong, but it's not for everybody. So i want
to breathe into life these events where you know, family
can come and we could just gather like minded people
together to have a good time. My other goal is
to put together events that cost Weald County zero dollars.
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Right and as of this moment, this event has cost
well County GOP zero dollars because people donated, they donated spaces,
they donated time, they donated crafts. It's been overwhelming and
I'm proud of it. I'm proud of everybody that's helped
and being able to have the chance to do this
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and show that we can do it this way. It
doesn't always cost money to do this. All you got
to do is ask. And there's a lot of people
that can't, you know, just fork out, you know, one
hundreds of dollars to their state party. But they can
donate their time, they can donate their crafts and their talents,
or a space they might have a space. So we're
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always looking and we I'm going to try to do
one of these every month. I'm really hoping to be
able to get it proved to do more of these
because this is what a fire and mean I found
my thing. I've truly enjoyed putting this together. I truly have.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Got to me a great time.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
It's tomorrow, that's Saturday, December sixth, from two pm to
six pm.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
The Wild County Republicans putting.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
This on Cookies and Crafts with Santa at the Wave
of Hope Learning Center Street in Greeley. So if you
live in Weld County, be sure to circle up there. Santa, Buddy,
the elf, Elsa, the Grinch, others that will be in attendance.
Natalie Tennant doing the good work on behalf of Never
Surrender and the Weld County Republicans. Natalie, thanks so much
for your time, good luck with the event. Do you
(17:15):
have a vote for Friday Fool the Week? By the way,
come on out, okay, Michael Bennett, Okay, off the board.
She goes for Michael Bennett. That is not a surprise,
my good friend, Natalie Tennant. And again that's tomorrow two
to six pm Wave of Hope Learning Center for Cookies
and crafts with Santa. And if you got the cookies,
(17:36):
then it gives you the fuel, the rocket fuel to
work on these crafts and get into the holiday spirit.
And as you mentioned, the Grinch, his heart now grew
four sizes, not just three. He's registered Republicans, so that's
encouraging to hear. Joining us next Aaron Lee. She has
an event also scheduled throughout the state to sign petitions
(17:58):
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We are at the youth gone wild, even in our
advanced years. Jesse Thomas onongside here on Ryan Shuling Live
this Friday edition sending you into your weekend with fun
and activities and things that matter that you can show up,
participate in and make a difference with. We're joining us
now from Protect Kids, Colorado. She is the founder and
(19:50):
she has not one, not two, not three, but nine
locations for events where these ballot petition signatures will be
athered for twenty twenty six. Here to tell us more
about it, Aaron Lee, and she joins us now on RSL.
Speaker 9 (20:06):
Aaron, Welcome, Hey Brian, thanks for having me.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Okay, I want to start at the beginning here because
people may be hearing about these petitions for the first time,
and these are for three separate ballot measures that you,
Jennifer say, Lori Gimmelstein and others are attempting to gather
and get on the ballot for twenty twenty six as
best as you can bullet point them.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
What are the three ballot initiatives that you are pursuing.
Speaker 9 (20:31):
Yes, we have three very simple, very common sense issues.
One is protecting girls sports, so keeping them male, female
and co ed. Prohibiting irreversible sex change surgeries on children.
That's a mouthful, but it's very simple, just you cannot
hack off the healthy body parts of children seventeen and
younger for mental health stress issues. And then punishing child
(20:54):
sex traffickers, so allowing das to prosecute with life in
prison no chance of parole if you buy or sell
a child for sex. In Colorado, we rank number ten
in child beutilation surgeries and in child sex trafficking in Colorado.
So these are really significant issues that we can very
easily tackle by allowing the voters to have a say.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
You can find out more on our website Protect Kidscolorado
dot org. Slash events and you can find the one
closest to you to put your signature on all three
petitions Aurora, Colorado, Springs for Colin Slash Windsor Grand Junction, Greeley, Lafayette, Lakewood, Montrose,
and Oohay. There also be more signings coming up, six
(21:37):
of them on Sunday as well. So question right there, erin,
where are you getting the manpower to staff all of
these locations?
Speaker 9 (21:46):
Yeah, we have over fifteen hundred volunteers, wow, in all
sixty four counties that have activated. We kicked off early September,
and when we kicked off, we already had one thousand
volunteers chomping at the bit ready to go. So this
is truly a weave people effort and it was really
our heart. You know, these are really important issues that
we need laws to protect kids from these things in
(22:07):
the state. We have some of the most radical laws
that harm children in Colorado. But this is such an
easy way for everyone to do their part. You know,
it's so easy to feel hopeless in Colorado or feel
like our legislature is stacked we can't get anything done.
But anyone can.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
Take a petition.
Speaker 9 (22:24):
You don't even have to be from Colorado. You only
have to be a registered voter to sign it. Anyone
can take a petition and just have these conversations with
friends and family and their own sphere of influence, educating
the people around them on these issues, and then offering
them a solution which is as simple as signing their name.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Aaron Lee was activated after her daughter was indoctrinated in
an LGBTQ club disguised as an art club. I'll never
get over that detail. That infuriates me. And you can
watch that documentary Art Club on YouTube and also it's
available at her website, Protect Kids Colorado dot org. Now,
(23:02):
I want to go back to that part of it, Aaron,
because as much as the whole ordeal I know, was
a nightmare for you, the very fact that they had
to lie about it.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Right out front and say, oh no, no, it's an
art club.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Come have fun, We'll draw pictures, do paintings, you know,
just suggests that the nefarious nature of it, they're aware
of it.
Speaker 9 (23:23):
Yeah, I've said it before. Nothing in the world and
my entire life has been so violating as being lied
to by our public school about my daughter being sexualized
by actual predators and then push down this path of
irreversible harm to her body, to her mind or psyche
being told that she's been born in the wrong body
(23:44):
because she's experiencing pubescent discomfort. So it was so violating,
and they taught her to lie to us, and even
more egregious, I think than them sexualizing her and telling
her she was born wrong's teaching her to lie to
her parents about secret meetings that they're having with her.
Like you said, if you have to keep it secret.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
You know it's wrong.
Speaker 9 (24:04):
That was what activated me for sure. But then when
I woke up, I learned how ubiquitous the issue is,
how widespread, how many people it's affected, and why taking
action like these valot measures is so necessary.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Aaron, on the ballot measures, we know that it's a
steep hurdle to clear in order to get the number
of signatures that you need, not just to get them,
but then they have to be validated, verified, and they
have to pass muster for that number. So taking that
into consideration, if you can just tell the people out there,
we know that listeners in our audience are going to
be very enthusiastic, I believe about signing these petitions. Getting
(24:38):
there getting that done. But about how far down the
road are you? How many signatures do you still need
to get? How many have you gotten already?
Speaker 9 (24:47):
So we're a little over halfway through our timeline. We've
got about nine weeks left. These are due in February,
and the Secretary of State requires one hundred and twenty
five thousand valid signatures. Jenna Griswold will invalidate a thirty
percent of those, so we are shooting for two hundred
thousand on each issue, and by our calculations, we're about
(25:07):
halfway there.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
So we're in a good spot.
Speaker 9 (25:09):
We're halfway through the timeline, We've got half the signatures,
but it's going to have to be a really heavy
push for the next nine weeks to get those remaining
one hundred thousand.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Signatures and get nine locations tomorrow where you can sign
these find out more protect Kids Colorado dot org six
locations on Sunday as well. I want to go back
to a detail that you just focused on and get
a little bit more under the hood on that you said,
Jenna Griswold, the very corrupt, very inept Secretary of State
(25:38):
is going to invalidate thirty percent of the signatures.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
First, where do you base that number? What do you
base that number on? In two?
Speaker 4 (25:45):
How can she do that by fiat or just from
her own judgment. I'm trying to follow on that.
Speaker 9 (25:51):
So that's not Jenna that will personally.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Value right right right.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
Secretary of State's office and they outsource it. But we're
blessed to ask Scott Gessler, as our attorney on these initiatives,
who was the Secretary of state who ran this process?
And so we've got good counsel on those percentages that
we can anticipate. And it makes sense. Some people have
chicken scratch signatures you can't read, some people are not
actually registered to vote, Some people may sign twice on accident,
(26:16):
and so there are valid reasons that people's signatures will
be struck. That's a pretty standard percentage to look out for.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Now.
Speaker 9 (26:23):
I can say that the soos and the age at
the title board process did everything in their power to
try to prevent us from even getting to the signature phase.
I mean, you know, they said the word parent was
too confusing for voters. They said voters would not understand
male and female according to their reproductive organs. They through
everything at the wall to prevent us from even getting
(26:43):
to this point, but we overcame some major hurdles with
Scott Guesser's help. Definitely a title board, and now if
we can get two hundred thousand signatures, we can guarantee
these get on the ballot, and I am positive they
will pass.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Not only do the measures themselves need, but if they're
on the ballot, that is a driving determining factor as
to whether conservative voters might turn out when they otherwise
would not, and that's to vote for Republican candidates like
let's say, Gabe Evans in the highly contested eighth congressional district.
So there's a lot on the line tied into these petitions.
(27:18):
So if you can sign these measures to get them
on the ballot, I strongly encourage you to do so.
Aaron Lee, Our guests Protect Kids Colorado. Aaron, you and
I have talked about the legal process as well, that
you've been pursuing this through the courts. You had a
setback on that front. However, we do know that the
Supreme Court gave Tennessee a win in banning these child
mutilation surgeries, and that that might open the door in
(27:40):
the floodgates for it to happen nationwide, but we know
that it's more likely to happen in Red states than
Blue states. Can you update us on the legal status
of your pursuits on that front.
Speaker 9 (27:52):
Yeah, So twenty seven states have already enacted laws that
protect giral sports, that prevent child mutilation, child gender mutilation.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
We would be the first Blue.
Speaker 9 (28:01):
State to pass these issues, and it would be the
first to do it by the will of the people,
which is really significant. And what those Supreme Court wins
do is ensure that these laws cannot be overturned once
we pass them. So that's for Mady case from Tennessee
upheld that laws can ban child mutilation. And then there
are two cases going before the Supreme Court on January thirteenth,
(28:23):
I believe on girls sports, one from West Virginia and
one from Idaho, and those we know we will win.
So once again the Supreme Court will uphold that you
can define sports according to biological sex. And that just
means that when we do this at the state level,
it cannot be undone and it's going to have to
be on at the state level, Like, yes, we're setting
(28:43):
Supreme Court precedent, but we don't see the federal government
working on laws to address these issues. It's going to
have to be done at the state level.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Aaron Is, You've discussed with me. Nobody could do this alone.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
You've got so many volunteers that are helping out and
it's truly a two or D fource, but also working
in a coalition with somebody like I've gotten to know
Jennifer say xxxy Athletics and the massive platform that she
has not just here in Colorado but nationwide as well.
How important has she been? How important has the team
that you've built, Ben, I'm talking about the leadership at
(29:15):
the top to be able to drive this forward.
Speaker 9 (29:18):
And we have the best people behind us, you know,
Ryan at the entire Catholic Diocese signed on that all
four Catholic bishops put out a mandate that you will
preach and sign these petitions at every all the two
hundred Catholic parishes, and some mega pastors like Jim Bergin
and Flatirons and braved her to have gotten behind what
we're doing. Our founder is former Senator Kevin Lundberg, who
(29:40):
is just a powerhouse and a brilliant man in his
own right, and he's helped build a great team around us.
But it's been so cool to have these you know
who I perceive as celebrities come out, Jennifer Say and
James Lindsay and Billboard, Chris and Riley Gaines, And there
are so many people whose eyes are watching Colorado as
the first state to be able to pull this off. Truly,
if we can pass these ballot measures in Colorado, the
(30:03):
dominoes will fall in all of the other Blue states.
And there's a lot of people invested in rooting for
us one.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
More time tomorrow Aurora, Colorado, Springs, Fort Collins, Slash Windsor
Grand Junction, Greeley, Lafayette, Lakewood, Montrose, Oure. If you live
close to any of those locations and you've not yet
signed these petitions, please make a plan to go out
and do so. You can find out the times on
the website protect Kids Colorado dot org. In addition to then,
this is the most important part, Aaron, getting these ballot
(30:30):
signatures and getting those submitted. But are there other events
coming up? I know I just attended one. It was
a very moving event there with James Lindsay. What might
be coming up on the calendar that people can look
forward to?
Speaker 9 (30:43):
Yes, well, We don't have final confirmation yet, but we're
going to have a big girl sports event January fifteenth
at Brave Church with Jen Say and tit Hymon, who's
that brilliant woman from the Gold Gym who called out
the man in her locker room who's gone viral, and
Paula Scanlon who had to swim with Will Thomas. It's
going to be a powerhouse lineup. But we'll do another
(31:03):
one of these drive up events on January tenth as well.
And the goal here is you can drive up. It
takes three minutes, you don't have to leave the warmth
of your car. All you have to do is sign
your name three times, and you've contributed to major change
in Colorado. So that's our hope is to make it
as easy as possible for people to be part of
this movement. And it's tomorrow nine to noon at six
(31:24):
different locations all over the state, and then we're at
all slat irons, church campuses on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Protect Kids Colorado dot org.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
If you take nothing else away from this conversation, remember
that website and check out the details on their events page.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Doing the good work.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
This is such an important issue in our state and nationwide,
to protect girls and women's sports and spaces, and to
protect our kids from having their body parts chopped off,
healthy body parts. Aaron Lee, thankful for all you do.
Merry Christmas to you and your family, and we'll talk again.
Speaker 9 (31:56):
Soon, he se Ryan, thank you Aaronlee.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Right there, seventy three nine year votes for our Friday
Fool of the Week. It will be revealed, but you
still have time to submit those. Ryan Schuling Live concludes
after this, I did.
Speaker 7 (32:11):
Get a lot of when I met Erica and I
started posting pictures, I did get a lot of people
that were like, you're gonna ruin your brand or used
to being a loser, You're gonna ruin and I and
I that might say worth it, you know.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Totally live your life, to live your life.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
Rodney, remember Rodney Dangerfield was like I gotta get any
respect his whole career, and we love that about Rodney.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
He was my favorite comedian of all time.
Speaker 7 (32:37):
Holds the number one spot. There's no close second. I
think the world would have been okay though with a
Rodney that had a couple of successes as time went on,
like he's on the Tonight Show, it's his twentieth ath appearance,
and he's like, oh, I got no respect. I'm like that,
this feels like respect to twentieth appearance. You got a
club named after you. I don't know, sort of embracing it,
(32:58):
you know.
Speaker 6 (32:58):
JB.
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Lissel, he's that Comedy South tonight for two shows and
Tomorrow night for two shows, one of the late shows,
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Yours Truly and a cast of hundreds I believe will
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(33:19):
forward to Jamie Lisso. Now he is not our fool
of the week. He's definitely maybe the funniest person that
I'll mention here. But it was a close vote going
down the stretch for a Friday Fool of the Week.
In the nominees, Jake Tamper was close, Mark Warner got votes.
Jasmine Crockett did as well, and normally she might win.
But because it was such a horrific, no good, terrible
(33:42):
awful week for Governor Tim Walls, who oversaw one of
the biggest fraud scandals in American history, it should probably
resign because of it.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
What was he concerned about that? Donald Trump called him retarded?
Speaker 10 (33:55):
This creates danger, and I'll tell you what. In my
time on this, yes, i'd never seen this before. People
driving my house by my house and using the R
word in front of people.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
This is shameful.
Speaker 10 (34:07):
And I have yet to see an elected official, a
Republican elected official, say you're right, that's shameful. Your shit
should not say it. So, look, I'm worried. We know
how these things go. They start with taunts, they turn
to violence.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
So deeply concerned a little more concerned about the leftist
violence since Charlie Kirk got shot in the jugular and
murdered in broad daylight by a leftist, Yeah, that's where
the violence is coming from. None of this white supremacist crap.
Cite me the examples. Where has that happened? Where are
the lynchings? Where are all these neo Nazis committing crimes?
(34:40):
Show me the evidence presented. I'm not justifying those wack
of doodles, but they're not doing these things. The left
is doing these things. They're the ones committed to violence,
justifying violence, whistling past the graveyard regarding violence and yet
Tim Walls, he just can't out of his own way. Ryan,
(35:02):
the current Democratic Party is the largest ssyop gaslighting experiment
in all of history. It is, and unfortunately for way
too many, it's working. And this one Why can't Colorado
voters see how evil the Dems are and they continue
to just vote for the DS because Orange Man bad
whiskey tango foxtrot. I share each of those letters with you.
(35:22):
This is why I can't figure out. I get why
some people. Trump rubs them the wrong way. You don't
like them, maybe you hate them. Can your hate for
one man, the Orange Man, exceed your love of the
country or your love for our kids? And in maybe
you don't, you know, talk about voting for Donald Trump?
But how can you continue to support Democrat policies which
(35:44):
are so detrimental, so dangerous for our youngsters, as we
just discussed with Aaron Lee, protect kids Colorado. I can't
get behind him, But I've talked to so many people,
Aaron Lee being one of them, Jennifer Say being another,
handfuls of others that were Democrats, lifelong Democrats, and then
that crap started happening and suddenly they were red pilled
and that's what did it.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
That was the tipping point.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Our thanks once again to Aaron Lee and Natalie Tennant
for joining us this hour, Christian Toto and Deborah Flora
in our number one, and of course Jesse Thomas manning
the controls for our program today. That'll do it for me.
From here for now, I'll talk to you again on Monday.
Right here, I'll Bryan Schewing Live
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