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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I've dragged out the dead horse so I could continue
beating it. And we have another example from the clown
show running the Colorado GOP State Party joining me. Now,
I would not put those words in his mouth. I'll
let Hunter Rivera explain exactly what just happened at a
Weld County reorganization meeting.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Now, Hunter, I've got to tell you welcome to the show.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
First of all, But I got to tell you I
don't think I ever thought in my lifetime I would
be covering a reorg meeting from a political party in
a county. It's just not something that really ever makes
a ripple, you know. It's one of those things that
happens and it's great, but we don't ever really talk
about this stuff. So what happened at the Weld County Oh, jeez, Hunter,
(00:45):
unmute the computer there, Grant.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I muted it because it was looping. So we're just
going to.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Get that now, Hunter, I just laid out everything that
you could not hear.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
So what just happened? Wait? Is that I think you're
still muted?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Grant?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Hang out.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I can hear it.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Now, you can hear us. Great, don't do anything else.
We're all good.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
We can all be heard right now now, Hundre, I
just laid out that the state party and I never
thought I would be covering the state party or the
county reorg meeting of a political party, but here we are.
So what should have been a pretty pedestrian event where
you guys came in the Weld County Republicans came in
and you what do you elect at these county reorg meetings?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Who gets elected into what positions?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah? So it's everything from your county chairman to your
county vice chair or in our case, vice chairman. We
have multiple secretary of treasurer. And then additionally, if your
county got enough votes for president in the preceding general election,
then you also get a bunch of bonus members. In
Weald County, we have twenty two bonus members to our
state Central Committee.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
That is a lot of bonus members. I mean, that's
a lot of bonus members.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
So what happened when you guys were just there going
about your business electing the people from your county that you.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Know and all of that?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
What has gone sideways that the party is now saying, nah,
that didn't count Well.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
My goodness, I mean it all started back at the
beginning of January. We were gaming ready for our County
Reork meeting. We announced the date. About a week after
we announced the date, we ended up getting a list
of individuals that Dave Williams, the state Party Chair, ended
up recommending to fill precinct committee vacancies precting committee people
are voting members of our Central Committee. We checked the
(02:25):
authority on that. We found out he had the authority
to do that under state law. All it said is
it had to be those individuals had to be ratified
therefore become members of our Central Committee, but those are
subject to ratification by our county Central Committee. We ended
up putting it on our agenda at our County Central
Committee and we satisfied the requirements of the law. There
was an individual who did like that ended up filing
(02:47):
a complaint with the state GOP, and the state GOP
inserted themselves made a ruling which I believe was improperly given,
which said we had to put that at the top
of our agenda. Asked our County Central Committee meeting at
the eighth we asked the body, would you like to
consider the ratification of these new voting members from Dave
Williams and the State GOP at the beginning of our agenda,
(03:10):
like they've asked, our Central Committee overwhelmingly said no. And
then the state GOP came back on the conclusion of
our meeting and invalidated all of our election results.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
So let me just put this into simple terms. Dave Williams,
the chairman of the Colorado GOP, sent you a list
of people that he chose from Weld County to just
be part of the bonus voters that you have in
the Central Committee. So he just wanted them ratified, even
if you guys in the Weld County Party did not
(03:40):
want them. And I'm assuming that all of them were
Williams loyalist that he thought would make it easier for
him to do things like change by laws or win
another election to be Colorado's chairman of the GOP. So
that's pretty much what happened, right, And he tried to
stack the deck and you guys rejected it.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yep, that is exactly it. We we went before the
state Central Committee or excuse me, the State Executive Committee,
he was asked point blank, who helped you put together
these lists? One of those individuals is now running for
State Party chair. You know, we told our County Central
Committee this, and you know, I don't think they liked
the optics of that. They told the state no when
they told us to put it at the top of
(04:18):
our agenda.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
So, well, now what happens next because they invalidated the elections.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
What happens next?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Well, you know the unfortunate thing is when they invalidated
the elections, the normals process is that you have the
ability to appeal those types of decisions from the Executive
Committee to the State Central Committee. On the email set
by Chairman Williams, he put on there that regardless of
if I appeal the decision, he will come in and
rerun our reort meeting. He would execute the authority of
(04:47):
whatever decision the State Executive Committee came up with. So
basically it put us into the position of we could
appeal the decision and be at the mercy of the
State Central Committee and I have no idea how they
would rule on this case, which I felt it was
a bit of an unknown, or I could strike a
deal with the Chairman, and we ended up directing a
deal to where I felt like my county would still
have some be somewhat respected in a process of redoing
(05:11):
our rear meeting, because honestly, I believe my county is
still going to hold firm and I believe the results
are going to end up being the exact same as
they were a month ago.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I like that confidence. I like it a lot. I've
was lucky enough to.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Attend the Weld County Women's rumbles this year, and they
are just really strong organization, full of great people, and
I think probably one of the best Republican organizations in
the state. That's my opinion about the Weld County GOP.
I just want to talk about one more thing before
I let you go, Hunter, because I'm just doing this
to bludge in the leadership of the Republican Party here
(05:42):
in the state.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Further because I've.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Beaten them to a bloody pulp as often as possible,
because they're terrible and divisive and awful and need to
be completely out.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
But how old are you Hunter? Oh, I'm only twenty
two years old.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
And you were just what is your position going to be?
What are you?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Are you the chairman of the Colorado Weld County GOP
right now or is that in limbo?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Well, according to my County Central Committee. I am according
to Dave Williams and the State GOP, I am not
the chairman, but yes, I am the county chairman in
Weald County.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I think that's amazing and I'm incredibly happy to see
that there are young people who are not just in
the party for parties. They're in the party to make
sure that things get executed properly. So good on you
and the rest of the team they're in Weld County because,
as you said, you fully expect this to hold steady
and hold fast and not have this nonsense shoved down
(06:35):
your throat by the state Committee. What made you want
to be active on the committee?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
First of all, yeah, Well, I actually was a RNC
staffer about two years ago RNC slash plorouse GOP. I
worked for Bark Kirkfier's campaign, helped her out in the HCD,
and as you know, we came up a fifteen hundred
votes short or so in that race, and I kind
of got fed up as an individual and was like,
well man, and I think the county Party could do more.
(07:01):
So I started looking around seeing what positions I could
run for. I initially ran for versus Vice chairman. So
that's the position I was in for the last two years,
and then got involved with a bunch of different candidates.
I helped run Yasmin Navara's campaign and Ryan Gonzalez's campaigns,
and I also ran the cure effort for Dan Woog's race.
So just you know, I've just been activated for a while,
been involved at the state capitol as a legislative aid
(07:23):
and just see the stuff that's coming down from Democrats
at the state level, and you know, just got fed
up with it and decided to get involved and talk
to my neighbors and talk to my community, get involved
in my county, and just get good conservative leaders elected here.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Wellndre, I'm glad to have you and I'll be following
along what happens on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
But I hope you're right.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I hope everything goes as you as you think, and
Weld will have their bonus members that they choose instead
of members that are shoved down their throat. And I
look forward to coming back to Weld County again at
some point for another event, because, like I said, I
think you guys are doing an amazing job.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Well, I certainly appreciate that, and you're certainly always welcome
up at a Well County GPE event.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
All right, thank you, Hunter Rivera. He is the chairman
of the Weld County GOP. As far as I'm concerned,
we'll talk against you man.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yes, sounds good.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Thank you.
I've dragged out the dead horse so I could continue
beating it. And we have another example from the clown
show running the Colorado GOP State Party joining me. Now,
I would not put those words in his mouth. I'll
let Hunter Rivera explain exactly what just happened at a
Weld County reorganization meeting.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Now, Hunter, I've got to tell you welcome to the show.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
First of all, But I got to tell you I
don't think I ever thought in my lifetime I would
be covering a reorg meeting from a political party in
a county. It's just not something that really ever makes
a ripple, you know. It's one of those things that
happens and it's great, but we don't ever really talk
about this stuff. So what happened at the Weld County Oh, jeez, Hunter,
(00:45):
unmute the computer there, Grant.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I muted it because it was looping. So we're just
going to.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Get that now, Hunter, I just laid out everything that
you could not hear.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
So what just happened? Wait? Is that I think you're
still muted?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Grant?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Hang out.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I can hear it.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Now, you can hear us. Great, don't do anything else.
We're all good.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
We can all be heard right now now, Hundre, I
just laid out that the state party and I never
thought I would be covering the state party or the
county reorg meeting of a political party, but here we are.
So what should have been a pretty pedestrian event where
you guys came in the Weld County Republicans came in
and you what do you elect at these county reorg meetings?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Who gets elected into what positions?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah? So it's everything from your county chairman to your
county vice chair or in our case, vice chairman. We
have multiple secretary of treasurer. And then additionally, if your
county got enough votes for president in the preceding general election,
then you also get a bunch of bonus members. In
Weald County, we have twenty two bonus members to our
state Central Committee.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
That is a lot of bonus members. I mean, that's
a lot of bonus members.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
So what happened when you guys were just there going
about your business electing the people from your county that you.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Know and all of that?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
What has gone sideways that the party is now saying, nah,
that didn't count Well.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
My goodness, I mean it all started back at the
beginning of January. We were gaming ready for our County
Reork meeting. We announced the date. About a week after
we announced the date, we ended up getting a list
of individuals that Dave Williams, the state Party Chair, ended
up recommending to fill precinct committee vacancies precting committee people
are voting members of our Central Committee. We checked the
(02:25):
authority on that. We found out he had the authority
to do that under state law. All it said is
it had to be those individuals had to be ratified
therefore become members of our Central Committee, but those are
subject to ratification by our county Central Committee. We ended
up putting it on our agenda at our County Central
Committee and we satisfied the requirements of the law. There
was an individual who did like that ended up filing
(02:47):
a complaint with the state GOP, and the state GOP
inserted themselves made a ruling which I believe was improperly given,
which said we had to put that at the top
of our agenda. Asked our County Central Committee meeting at
the eighth we asked the body, would you like to
consider the ratification of these new voting members from Dave
Williams and the State GOP at the beginning of our agenda,
(03:10):
like they've asked, our Central Committee overwhelmingly said no. And
then the state GOP came back on the conclusion of
our meeting and invalidated all of our election results.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
So let me just put this into simple terms. Dave Williams,
the chairman of the Colorado GOP, sent you a list
of people that he chose from Weld County to just
be part of the bonus voters that you have in
the Central Committee. So he just wanted them ratified, even
if you guys in the Weld County Party did not
(03:40):
want them. And I'm assuming that all of them were
Williams loyalist that he thought would make it easier for
him to do things like change by laws or win
another election to be Colorado's chairman of the GOP. So
that's pretty much what happened, right, And he tried to
stack the deck and you guys rejected it.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yep, that is exactly it. We we went before the
state Central Committee or excuse me, the State Executive Committee,
he was asked point blank, who helped you put together
these lists? One of those individuals is now running for
State Party chair. You know, we told our County Central
Committee this, and you know, I don't think they liked
the optics of that. They told the state no when
they told us to put it at the top of
(04:18):
our agenda.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
So, well, now what happens next because they invalidated the elections.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
What happens next?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Well, you know the unfortunate thing is when they invalidated
the elections, the normals process is that you have the
ability to appeal those types of decisions from the Executive
Committee to the State Central Committee. On the email set
by Chairman Williams, he put on there that regardless of
if I appeal the decision, he will come in and
rerun our reort meeting. He would execute the authority of
(04:47):
whatever decision the State Executive Committee came up with. So
basically it put us into the position of we could
appeal the decision and be at the mercy of the
State Central Committee and I have no idea how they
would rule on this case, which I felt it was
a bit of an unknown, or I could strike a
deal with the Chairman, and we ended up directing a
deal to where I felt like my county would still
have some be somewhat respected in a process of redoing
(05:11):
our rear meeting, because honestly, I believe my county is
still going to hold firm and I believe the results
are going to end up being the exact same as
they were a month ago.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I like that confidence. I like it a lot. I've
was lucky enough to.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Attend the Weld County Women's rumbles this year, and they
are just really strong organization, full of great people, and
I think probably one of the best Republican organizations in
the state. That's my opinion about the Weld County GOP.
I just want to talk about one more thing before
I let you go, Hunter, because I'm just doing this
to bludge in the leadership of the Republican Party here
(05:42):
in the state.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Further because I've.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Beaten them to a bloody pulp as often as possible,
because they're terrible and divisive and awful and need to
be completely out.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
But how old are you Hunter? Oh, I'm only twenty
two years old.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
And you were just what is your position going to be?
What are you?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Are you the chairman of the Colorado Weld County GOP
right now or is that in limbo?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Well, according to my County Central Committee. I am according
to Dave Williams and the State GOP, I am not
the chairman, but yes, I am the county chairman in
Weald County.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I think that's amazing and I'm incredibly happy to see
that there are young people who are not just in
the party for parties. They're in the party to make
sure that things get executed properly. So good on you
and the rest of the team they're in Weld County because,
as you said, you fully expect this to hold steady
and hold fast and not have this nonsense shoved down
(06:35):
your throat by the state Committee. What made you want
to be active on the committee?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
First of all, yeah, Well, I actually was a RNC
staffer about two years ago RNC slash plorouse GOP. I
worked for Bark Kirkfier's campaign, helped her out in the HCD,
and as you know, we came up a fifteen hundred
votes short or so in that race, and I kind
of got fed up as an individual and was like,
well man, and I think the county Party could do more.
(07:01):
So I started looking around seeing what positions I could
run for. I initially ran for versus Vice chairman. So
that's the position I was in for the last two years,
and then got involved with a bunch of different candidates.
I helped run Yasmin Navara's campaign and Ryan Gonzalez's campaigns,
and I also ran the cure effort for Dan Woog's race.
So just you know, I've just been activated for a while,
been involved at the state capitol as a legislative aid
(07:23):
and just see the stuff that's coming down from Democrats
at the state level, and you know, just got fed
up with it and decided to get involved and talk
to my neighbors and talk to my community, get involved
in my county, and just get good conservative leaders elected here.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Wellndre, I'm glad to have you and I'll be following
along what happens on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
But I hope you're right.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I hope everything goes as you as you think, and
Weld will have their bonus members that they choose instead
of members that are shoved down their throat. And I
look forward to coming back to Weld County again at
some point for another event, because, like I said, I
think you guys are doing an amazing job.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Well, I certainly appreciate that, and you're certainly always welcome
up at a Well County GPE event.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
All right, thank you, Hunter Rivera. He is the chairman
of the Weld County GOP. As far as I'm concerned,
we'll talk against you man.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yes, sounds good.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Thank you.
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