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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Current chairman of the Colorado GOP Eli Bremmer, you may
have heard of. On Monday. He was elected to the
position after the Republican Party voted Dave Williams, his predecessor, out,
and Eli reached out today and said, well, we got
some stuff to talk about. So here he is chairman.
Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Hey, thanks for having me on. I appreciate your time.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I no problem. What's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well we are. We are rocket and rolling moving forward,
and a lot of people have contacted me and said, hey,
we want to pitch, and we want to we want
to support what's going on. We're going to open up
a new program here in Colorado. I discovered earlier this
week that nobody had done anything to the state Party
had not done anything to bring in uh Trump door
(00:47):
hangers and collateral into that into the state because Trump
hadn't been hadn't placed us on the list of states
that they were pursuing. That has a downtaket impact. And
so we're putting together a program and people can participate
in it where we're going to go buy the collateral
that should have been bought and use that to help
(01:08):
activate people who want to knock on doors and then
that's going to help us in the State House and
the state Senate seats, and that's going to be up
and running here very shortly.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Well, that's exciting. And obviously you are not in control
of the bank accounts yet because the former chairman is
clinging to power like an aging starlet. And so are
you recommending that people? How can people sign up to help?
What are the ways the steps they can take?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Well, we are partnering with the Well County Republican Party
and this is totally legal. We can work with a
county party. They have agreed to accept and cage the
donations for the state party until we have control of
the bank account and that means that we have people
that want to help us to really kick start this
election cycle. They can make donations over to the Weld
(01:57):
County Party and then we'll be able to extend those
resources towards the general election here in November.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Excellent. Has there been any progress on getting the RNC
to recognize the change that we've seen in this last week.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
It's going to be a bit of a process that
starts in the Colorado court system. We're going to have
some news on that coming up. There's several legal things
going on right now that I'm not at liberty to discuss.
But you know, I believe that the RNC, based on
conversations we have, they want to see this play out
in the Colorado court system first and then from there.
(02:33):
We did not anticipate a big hurdle to get the
final recognition of the RNC.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So I'm just going to ask this, and I don't
expect you to reveal any insider information. But it's my
understanding that party politics are outside the purview of the courts.
So how would that work?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Well, the internal party politics are. That being said, the
courts have jurisdiction over insement of something in the party.
So for instance, let's say that after my term I
said I don't really want to leave and the Central
Committee voted. Somebody else in the party can go to
the court to kick me out of the office. And
(03:14):
that's what we're doing right now. Is the courts have
the ability to enforce that, to say, hey, you're a
squatter in the office. You've got to give up the keys,
you got to give up the bank account. So that
is adjudicatable in court. Okay, ironically, it's the former chairman
who took Todd Watkins and Nancy Flagsi to court and
lied to the court and said that the Central Committee
(03:34):
had made the decision already not to pursue removal, which
was a flat out lie. When the judge discovered that,
he removed his own tro and let us move forward
with the removals.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Okay, good, good to know. So action right now. If
you want to donate to support Republican candidates, but you're
not going to give money to the current state GOP,
which is good, you can donate to the Weld County
Republican Party. And if you want to sign up to
be active in these campaigns, what's the best way to
do that?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Eli, Well, tell you what I'm gonna say. I'm gonna
call an audible on this one because we didn't have
a data system set up yet. But if you sign
up on the Weld site, their chairman over there has
been great to work with and we'll catch those emails
and things like that. But right now you can go
to weldcountygop dot com now dot org, weldcountygop dot com.
(04:24):
There's a donate button, and if you're excited about any
of our candidates, if you want to help us bring
in the collateral for the top of the ticket, particularly
that seems to be the number one issue right now.
We have volunteers walking in the door and saying, why
don't we have collateral for our candidates. We're going to
be working on bringing that in. So we're doing a
(04:44):
mass order. We're hoping to have about one thousand billboard
signs back into Colorado within about four weeks. We're buying
one hundred thousand walk pieces for our volunteers to hand out,
so we have a big need on that right now.
A billboard sign costs about twenty five bucks, so every
one hundred dollars someone gives there, they're putting up four billboards.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Excellent, excellent. So, Eli, I have been sharing all of
the stuff that you're putting out on X and I
would urge people you do a great job communicating with
people on X at your account at Eli Bremmer easy
to find, and uh, I commend you for letting people
know about things like just calling candidates and offering support
(05:24):
and that that had not happened before you guys took over.
So keep doing what you're doing, and as things change
and as you gain control of the party finances. We'll
get you back on to let people know as things
are moving that way. But right now, the Weld County
Republican Party is acting as a conduit for pretty much everything.
If people want to make a donation, do they need
to ear market for the state party? How does that work?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You know, we'll figure that out on the backside. And
they're not. They had been doing a major, you know,
major fundraise right now. So if there's a if there's
a note on there and they say this is for
the state party operations, that's fine. That We are fully
coordinated now with the Weld County Republican Party and we'll
be working with a number of other major parties. But
(06:08):
for the finance part of what we're doing, if folks
want to contribute, they can go to weldcountygop dot com,
click the donate button, and that money is going in.
It'll be properly and legally reported. That's a big issue
because right now we can't accept donations into the state
account because we can't report them. So people can donate
money there it it's all legally done now, and then
(06:30):
we can use those funds to help out our candidates
in November.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
And I'm just going to say this. If you are,
like me, excited about the fact that we are moving
on from some of the worst leadership I've ever seen
in my life, a perfect way to affirm that and
let people in the Republican Party know that you support
what's going on is to make a donation like today
to the Weld County Republican Party, just as a symbolic gesture, right,
(06:55):
if for no other reason, just say, look, I am
glad we're moving on from the failed leadership that we've had,
and the easiest way to do that is to throw
a little money into the account and show what real
fundraising looks like. Eli, appreciate your time today. Is there
anything else you need to get out before we go?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
We appreciate your support. We got nine hundred thousand Republicans
in the state of Colorado. The Republican Party is there
to serve them in our candidates, and I wish everybody
a great late for a weekend. If I don't have
a chance to be on your show before then.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
All right, Eli Bremer, I appreciate you and we'll talk
again soon. All right, all right, thank you? That is
Eli Bremmer, And again By the way, I would welcome
Dave Williams on this show. I would welcome him. We
were never able to get him on the show previously.
I know he has been dodging Dan Kaplis. I know
(07:47):
that he's been dodging others. And if anybody knows to say, hey,
you know what, if you want to come on and
defend yourself, I'm more than happy to. I will call
him the former chairman, just to let you know, because
I have officially recognized Librummer as the chairman of the
Republican Party. If you're a Republican in Colorado and you've
just been embarrassed and disheartened, and you know, generally unhappy
(08:13):
with the way that the Republican Party has been in Colorado,
now's the time to re engage. Now's the time to say,
you know what, we have to have a functioning Republican
Party in Colorado or the state is going to continue
going in a direction that is going to make it
unaffordable for everyone except for the rich elites. And if
you are a rich elite, they're going to text you
(08:34):
to death to redistribute your money to people that they
feel deserve it more who didn't work for it. That's
what Colorado has become, and without a Republican Party, we
have to rely on Advanced Colorado. We talked about this already,
the property tax ballot initiatives that have been run. Advanced
Colorado is essentially functioning as the opposition party right now.
(08:57):
But they can't function as the opposition party on every
issue right We can't rely on the Independence Institute to
come by with a balid initiative and try and clean
everything up. We need to have Republicans that can be
elected in their districts. We need to give voters a
reason to vote for Republicans. We need to figure out
(09:18):
a way to convince young people that the Republican Party
in Colorado is something they want to be a part of.
And there's so many arguments to be made right now,
so many about fiscal responsibility, about truly lowering the cost
of living by stripping away unnecessary roadblocks for affordable housing
(09:39):
in government. I mean, young people are bearing the brunt
of these price increases and they're not making a lot
of money. Now's the perfect time for that messaging. And
we don't have anyone that is making or we haven't
had anyone that's making it
Current chairman of the Colorado GOP Eli Bremmer, you may
have heard of. On Monday. He was elected to the
position after the Republican Party voted Dave Williams, his predecessor, out,
and Eli reached out today and said, well, we got
some stuff to talk about. So here he is chairman.
Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Hey, thanks for having me on. I appreciate your time.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I no problem. What's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well we are. We are rocket and rolling moving forward,
and a lot of people have contacted me and said, hey,
we want to pitch, and we want to we want
to support what's going on. We're going to open up
a new program here in Colorado. I discovered earlier this
week that nobody had done anything to the state Party
had not done anything to bring in uh Trump door
(00:47):
hangers and collateral into that into the state because Trump
hadn't been hadn't placed us on the list of states
that they were pursuing. That has a downtaket impact. And
so we're putting together a program and people can participate
in it where we're going to go buy the collateral
that should have been bought and use that to help
(01:08):
activate people who want to knock on doors and then
that's going to help us in the State House and
the state Senate seats, and that's going to be up
and running here very shortly.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Well, that's exciting. And obviously you are not in control
of the bank accounts yet because the former chairman is
clinging to power like an aging starlet. And so are
you recommending that people? How can people sign up to help?
What are the ways the steps they can take?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Well, we are partnering with the Well County Republican Party
and this is totally legal. We can work with a
county party. They have agreed to accept and cage the
donations for the state party until we have control of
the bank account and that means that we have people
that want to help us to really kick start this
election cycle. They can make donations over to the Weld
(01:57):
County Party and then we'll be able to extend those
resources towards the general election here in November.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Excellent. Has there been any progress on getting the RNC
to recognize the change that we've seen in this last week.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
It's going to be a bit of a process that
starts in the Colorado court system. We're going to have
some news on that coming up. There's several legal things
going on right now that I'm not at liberty to discuss.
But you know, I believe that the RNC, based on
conversations we have, they want to see this play out
in the Colorado court system first and then from there.
(02:33):
We did not anticipate a big hurdle to get the
final recognition of the RNC.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So I'm just going to ask this, and I don't
expect you to reveal any insider information. But it's my
understanding that party politics are outside the purview of the courts.
So how would that work?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Well, the internal party politics are. That being said, the
courts have jurisdiction over insement of something in the party.
So for instance, let's say that after my term I
said I don't really want to leave and the Central
Committee voted. Somebody else in the party can go to
the court to kick me out of the office. And
(03:14):
that's what we're doing right now. Is the courts have
the ability to enforce that, to say, hey, you're a
squatter in the office. You've got to give up the keys,
you got to give up the bank account. So that
is adjudicatable in court. Okay, ironically, it's the former chairman
who took Todd Watkins and Nancy Flagsi to court and
lied to the court and said that the Central Committee
(03:34):
had made the decision already not to pursue removal, which
was a flat out lie. When the judge discovered that,
he removed his own tro and let us move forward
with the removals.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Okay, good, good to know. So action right now. If
you want to donate to support Republican candidates, but you're
not going to give money to the current state GOP,
which is good, you can donate to the Weld County
Republican Party. And if you want to sign up to
be active in these campaigns, what's the best way to
do that?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Eli, Well, tell you what I'm gonna say. I'm gonna
call an audible on this one because we didn't have
a data system set up yet. But if you sign
up on the Weld site, their chairman over there has
been great to work with and we'll catch those emails
and things like that. But right now you can go
to weldcountygop dot com now dot org, weldcountygop dot com.
(04:24):
There's a donate button, and if you're excited about any
of our candidates, if you want to help us bring
in the collateral for the top of the ticket, particularly
that seems to be the number one issue right now.
We have volunteers walking in the door and saying, why
don't we have collateral for our candidates. We're going to
be working on bringing that in. So we're doing a
(04:44):
mass order. We're hoping to have about one thousand billboard
signs back into Colorado within about four weeks. We're buying
one hundred thousand walk pieces for our volunteers to hand out,
so we have a big need on that right now.
A billboard sign costs about twenty five bucks, so every
one hundred dollars someone gives there, they're putting up four billboards.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Excellent, excellent. So, Eli, I have been sharing all of
the stuff that you're putting out on X and I
would urge people you do a great job communicating with
people on X at your account at Eli Bremmer easy
to find, and uh, I commend you for letting people
know about things like just calling candidates and offering support
(05:24):
and that that had not happened before you guys took over.
So keep doing what you're doing, and as things change
and as you gain control of the party finances. We'll
get you back on to let people know as things
are moving that way. But right now, the Weld County
Republican Party is acting as a conduit for pretty much everything.
If people want to make a donation, do they need
to ear market for the state party? How does that work?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You know, we'll figure that out on the backside. And
they're not. They had been doing a major, you know,
major fundraise right now. So if there's a if there's
a note on there and they say this is for
the state party operations, that's fine. That We are fully
coordinated now with the Weld County Republican Party and we'll
be working with a number of other major parties. But
(06:08):
for the finance part of what we're doing, if folks
want to contribute, they can go to weldcountygop dot com,
click the donate button, and that money is going in.
It'll be properly and legally reported. That's a big issue
because right now we can't accept donations into the state
account because we can't report them. So people can donate
money there it it's all legally done now, and then
(06:30):
we can use those funds to help out our candidates
in November.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
And I'm just going to say this. If you are,
like me, excited about the fact that we are moving
on from some of the worst leadership I've ever seen
in my life, a perfect way to affirm that and
let people in the Republican Party know that you support
what's going on is to make a donation like today
to the Weld County Republican Party, just as a symbolic gesture, right,
(06:55):
if for no other reason, just say, look, I am
glad we're moving on from the failed leadership that we've had,
and the easiest way to do that is to throw
a little money into the account and show what real
fundraising looks like. Eli, appreciate your time today. Is there
anything else you need to get out before we go?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
We appreciate your support. We got nine hundred thousand Republicans
in the state of Colorado. The Republican Party is there
to serve them in our candidates, and I wish everybody
a great late for a weekend. If I don't have
a chance to be on your show before then.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
All right, Eli Bremer, I appreciate you and we'll talk
again soon. All right, all right, thank you? That is
Eli Bremmer, And again By the way, I would welcome
Dave Williams on this show. I would welcome him. We
were never able to get him on the show previously.
I know he has been dodging Dan Kaplis. I know
(07:47):
that he's been dodging others. And if anybody knows to say, hey,
you know what, if you want to come on and
defend yourself, I'm more than happy to. I will call
him the former chairman, just to let you know, because
I have officially recognized Librummer as the chairman of the
Republican Party. If you're a Republican in Colorado and you've
just been embarrassed and disheartened, and you know, generally unhappy
(08:13):
with the way that the Republican Party has been in Colorado,
now's the time to re engage. Now's the time to say,
you know what, we have to have a functioning Republican
Party in Colorado or the state is going to continue
going in a direction that is going to make it
unaffordable for everyone except for the rich elites. And if
you are a rich elite, they're going to text you
(08:34):
to death to redistribute your money to people that they
feel deserve it more who didn't work for it. That's
what Colorado has become, and without a Republican Party, we
have to rely on Advanced Colorado. We talked about this already,
the property tax ballot initiatives that have been run. Advanced
Colorado is essentially functioning as the opposition party right now.
(08:57):
But they can't function as the opposition party on every
issue right We can't rely on the Independence Institute to
come by with a balid initiative and try and clean
everything up. We need to have Republicans that can be
elected in their districts. We need to give voters a
reason to vote for Republicans. We need to figure out
(09:18):
a way to convince young people that the Republican Party
in Colorado is something they want to be a part of.
And there's so many arguments to be made right now,
so many about fiscal responsibility, about truly lowering the cost
of living by stripping away unnecessary roadblocks for affordable housing
(09:39):
in government. I mean, young people are bearing the brunt
of these price increases and they're not making a lot
of money. Now's the perfect time for that messaging. And
we don't have anyone that is making or we haven't
had anyone that's making it
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