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Well, a happy Monday to you, my friend's glad to have you here.
It's a gusty monday. Dry verycarefully well. When I was out
moving about before the sun came up, occasional gust of wind. I think
as the sun comes up and itwarms up and all that that weather atmospheric
stuff happens, it gets a littlegustyer wind gust up to seventy miles per
hour in some places today. Soboth hands on the wheel, please,

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high profile vehicles, be very safeout there, high wind warnings. And
it's good to have you here onthe radio show on a windy day.
And hopefully the only hot air coldair you're feeling out there is a I
don't want a lot of hot air. I just want to average conversation here
on this radio program, and thehot air can be left on this winds
Eddy, are these the Chinook winds? I don't know. They don't we
call them Chinook wins anymore. Theyused to be called the Chinook wins in

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Colorado. So any glad to haveyou here. Jimmy is my name,
and let's dive into the conversation athand. Representative Mike Lynch. It's a
it's a double blessing. He's notonly the representative of the House District sixty
five, he's also a member ofa candidate for US Congress, and we
can give you all the websites tolearn more about him if you're if you're

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in parts of well County, LairmoerCounties including Windsor, Wellington, Severance,
tim Nith Eaton area, he's probablyyour state representative on the hotline now Representative
Mike Lynch and also candidate for Congressin Congressional district for Mike Lynch. Good
morning, sir, Happy Monday.Yeah, happy Monday, Jimmy. I
can tell you where that wind's comingfrom. That big sucking that is the

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state Capitol. That is the stateCapitol sucking all the money out of your
pocket, and of abbreviating all kindsof high winds. Let's starve in you
guys. Are the final couple ofhours I think Wednesdays, the signe Died
has to be wrapped up by sometimeon Wednesday. I was saying last hour
of the program that people have whatthey call the kitchen table of the morning
commute. They're wondering how to putthe eggs and the bacon on the table.

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They're dropping their kids off at school, hoping the schools are getting better
and the kids are safe there.They're hoping that the potholes are filled in
the traffic and the stripes and theroads, and there's basic things that Connor
Madewin's the average person's thinking about.They're thinking the property tax bill they got
this spring, and every news headlinethat I've read for the last one hundred
plus days has been about gun bills. It's been about wine displays and liquor

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displays at grocery stores. Let meask you to be honest with me.
Did you I know you guys arethe minority down there, did they get
to any of these kitchen table issueswith any real solutions in the last several
days. No, Jimmy, it'sreally horrible. You know, we still
in the House have not seen theirsolution to property tax. I mean,

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we started the session with this issueand it has not arrived at the House
yet. So the Senate is workingon it. But you know, this
is what this is what happened lastyear. Last year, we ended up
not dealing with property tax until likeliterally the last few days. And that's
what's going to happen again. Idon't see that we're going to we're going

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to have a good solution. I'mafraid we're gonna have to have a special
session again to deal with this.Now we had a special session last time?
Was that not permittent? I mean, if they if Polish doesn't call
a special session, are we justkind of stuck with the system we're in?
Absolutely? Yep. Absolutely, wehave done nothing towards that end.

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Been talking about it whole time.There's been a special committee that's been meeting,
but as far as as far asactual legislation, nothing has come across.
But this is what this is whatPolist does is that he waits until
until they don't come up with asolution, and then he will run his
little minions from the first floor upto the second floor and say, here's

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what we're going to do. Uh. And I'm afraid that's what we're going
to see. But we literally havenot in the House of Representatives, have
not seen what that property tax billis going to look like. I have
a piece from CPR color on thepublic radio. It says there's still three
hundred bills as of Friday that arestill just kind of being launched out there.
I mean, it's just like justthrow everything out there. That means

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public comment, public consideration, newscoverage. Is that a true number and
accurate number? Around three hundred bills? Yeah, that's a little high.
I think I think we're down undertwo now. But I mean, you
know, we worked throughout the weekend. I didn't get home until nine o'clock
last night because we worked all dayyesterday. And we're cranking out about sixty
a day through the House. Soyeah, but there's no but you're exactly

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right, there's no public commentary.We'll have a committee, the community will
meet, they will just talk amongstthemselves for a few minutes and then and
then pass the bill out of there. It's this is this is government at
its worst. Yeah, So we'reone people. My listeners have pay attention
to that. They're running right now, the Democrat majority. Sixty bills a
day. I mean that means noone's really able to read, if no

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one's able to kind of discuss them, do the you know, we have
the committee hearings, get the publicsentiment. Even though the facts on everything,
there is no way you can bepassing sixty bills that become law running
sixty bills do there and really knowwhat you're voting on or what you're voting
against that, but they're just ina mad rush to get it done.
Is this just is this just poorclock management that they're they're so stuck up

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here at the end with this logjam. Well, you know, Jimmy,
I think they know that the peopleof Colorado are kind of to a
point where they're going to start payingattention in elections, and so they're just
trying to jam any of their woke, crazy stuff through right here at the
last minute. And uh so they'rejust jamming jamming stuff through it. I

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mean, we spent a good bitof time talking about about a hand texting
in your car, and that suddenlybecame some sort of a woke that was
a racist bill. Suddenly. It'sjust insane the stuff that they're doing.
But it's kind of funny because they'rethey're using these these work policies, but

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now it's beginning to come around andbite them in the rear end. It
is absolutely insanity down the right.You know, even if the Republicans were
in charge, I don't want youguys scramm in sixty bills under consideration in
the day, I like you withsome deliberation and consideration, and let's find
out what the public thinks about thesethings. I talked about a bill that
is in a couple of websites saythat it died. It's one of the

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final reforms efforts to reform it.It died on Friday, said it was
by party. So I haven't readthe bill, but it was about construction
defects reform, and that's something thatwould really help if we could get some
repair there that could help lower thecost of buying a house, lower the
cost of living a little bit,I think long term in Colorado. Are

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you familiar with the bill about themajor the construction defects reform? Was it
a good bill? Did anything getdone on this? Yeah? I'm not
overly familiar with that one, butthat is truly that is the one thing
that's holding developers back. Right.So if if they can't feel like they
can build a property without having tocome back and get sued on it,

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they're not going to do it.And so really what they had done is
they started to build rental units becausethe rules are different for rentals than they
are for sale properties, and andthey've done nothing. They've done nothing to
fix that. That's the that'll reallylower the cost of housing in Colorado if
we take the government burden off ofthese developers. But no, they there's

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there's not a real solution to that. I think there's another one still in
the works, so that's not allthe way dead. But really they just
need to repeal the craziness that they'vedone in the past. And and and
developers, would you know, beable to build and not have that huge
burden of liability that what they buildthey're going to get sued for later.

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Nothing except the one build I guessdied. I'm just reading. Get a
cursory glance. It would allow propertyinsurers to convince them to offer reasonably priced
policies on condominiums, which insurance nowmakes it makes it cost up to five
times and the construction cost if you'rebuilding an apartment versus so it's a it's
cost prohibitive. But again, youtry to think of things that are going

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to help people be able to havetheir first home here, have their first
entry level real estate purchase, andwe just don't have that in the market
in Colorado. And this is theone thing that is out there that prevents
that. I mean, I thinkthat this paper, this newspaper says three
percent of the new housing stock isa condos into state, just three percent.

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That means a lot of folks justnot going to be able to get
into the housing market in this state. And therefore, Mike, they end
up moving out of state, right, absolutely, Jimmy, or the end
of renting. What they want usto uphold this green agenda, and the
Green Agenda says, let's pack peoplevery tightly into houses that are the end

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of a rail line. So wespent a lot of time yesterday on the
floor talking about the governor's rail plan. You know, he is determined to
put a train between here in Denver, and at the end of that train
line there needs to be and thisis actually this actually did past forty units
per acre. Forty housing units peracre. Is now you as a municipality,

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you can't fight that that is thestate law that you're going to have
that sort of density if they decidethat they want to build something like that
at the end of a rail line. So you're not driving your car,
it's crazy. So the new statelaw would be that they're going to put
a rail line, and we've beenhere about rail lines forever, and I
think a lot of folks sitting intraffic this morning and every morning, and

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the potholes, the lack of striping, I mean, all the stuff that
Colorado's kind of known for. Alot of folks say, well, did
they do anything to fix the infrastructure, anything to make commuting better? Help
us with that one, is anythingit's still in the pipeline or did anything
get through the pipeline that's going tomake that can be better? Now that
ship is sailed, all of yourtransportation dollars are going towards towards that Green

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Agenda, which does not include fixingthe roads. But they want less people
on the road. They believe thatif there's less folks on the road and
they're all on a bus or they'rein a train, then that's what that's
what your moneys want to As faras actually fixing the roads, and this
is a huge fetevam line, there'sno more money put towards that. But

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there's a ton of money put towardscreating infrastructure that creates denity and mass transfit.
So yeah, yeah, nothing nothingfor popholes, Jimmy, Yeah,
and yet we had a bills yearsago. John Cowdero spoke out of him
against it extensively that they took allthis tax dollars, we're still paying for
it. I believe there was goingto be a magic rail line that ran
from Denver to Boulder and then Boulderto Longmond. We still were twenty years

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past that. We still haven't seenit. So there's no reason for me
to believe that any action that theytake right now, they're taking money,
but we're never even seeing the resultsof that infrastructure. I mean, is
any as any of this magic touchootrain stuff ever going to become a reality.
We've been paying the RTD for Denverto Boulder for twenty years now.

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Yeah, we just we just Saturdaydid kind of a restructuring, if you
will, of the RTD to putmoney towards that millions, hundreds of millions
of dollars towards this rail system.But that doesn't We did this ten years
ago as well, so we'll seewhat happens with that. But there was

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nothing in there to maintain what wecurrently have. And they really do believe
that. You know, the Coloradosjust want to hop on a trainer bus.
But on a crappy road. Onthe crappy road. Are there things
right now that you as a Republicancaucus, you're the extreme minority, you
just kind of fight where you can. Are there any bills right now you

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know that are in these two hundredplosita or they're trying to sneak through and
squeak through at the very end thatyou're really got your eye open, your
spidy senses are up on. Isthere anything in particular, Well, it's
that property tax I mean, Imean that still remains to be seen at
least over on the house side.And so this is exactly what they did
last year. You know, thisday last year is the first time we

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saw what became pop Ah sen Atbuilt three h three. So you know,
any second, probably today, wewill see what that property tax bill
looks like. And you know,the Senate actually went till about one o'clock
on Saturday night or in the Sundaymorning working on this, and so we're
going to see it here shortly.But it's going to be a mess right
up to the end with the propertytax issue, which was what we started

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talking about day one, and westill don't have a solution. So Are
they offering any explanations that why ittook them so long? I mean,
are they Is there any shame downthere that, hey, we were gonna
this should have been top priority outof the shoot. Nothing else gets talked
about until this gets fixed. Andthat didn't happen, is there? Do
they have any reason why they didn'thappen or they're not really serious? Oh?

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I don't think they're serious about it, Jimmy. At the end of
the day, this state, themajority of the people in Denver, once
they're guarding that state's money, notrealizing that it's not really their money,
it is the people's money. Andso so no, I think part of
this is a strategy. This isI mean, this is the second year
in a row they've done this,and so we'll we'll see. But no,

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that's the big thing that is yetto get to come down the pipe,
and that'll be probably what we spendright up to the last minute talking
about, is trying to figure outthe stoppee texting last question. Mike Lynch
is my guest House District sixty threeis also running for Congress, and we'll
give you his websites here. Injust a moment, Gun bills always,

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always, always, rather than realissues, a come back, same gun
bills every year. How successful wereyou guys just stopping the assault on the
second Amendment of the State. Ohmy gosh, you mean this? This
was epic season for that. Therewas seven bills, you know, one
of them and I don't know whichone one of them I think died the
other day. I can't imagine thatthe assault weapons which is really a semi

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automatic weapons ban, is going tomake it. That is just too extreme,
that would that would outlaw every singlethen. But now the things that
did pass where that you must haveinsurance if you as a homeowner, you
have to have insurance for your firearms, if your FFL, you've got to
have an additional licensing. No,they they took it to us on the

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gun bills. Once again, theassault weapons ban is still up in the
air. I'm not sure if thegovernor will actually veto that. So we'll
see that that went to the wrongcommittee. So there was a switch in
the Senate and it ended up goingto it different committee where we had planned
on it dying, So there's somemore drama. Le's with that. But

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this is the worst attack on thesecond minute. As we've seen, Mike
Lynch, you're running for Congress.You're still representing the people the folks want
to first of all, in thelast obviously they're just cram and bills,
true, sixty the bills a day, it looks like, which is a
pathetic and just totally dereliction of theirduty. If folk, does it matter
at this point, I mean aconstituency, should they still be calling down

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there and raising hell? And ifso, what are we raising the hell
about? Yeah, it'll be theproperty Texas. That is what's going to
be the grand finale here. Butby all means, I always want people
to reach out and talk to theirrepresentatives because they you know, they're stuck
in a big room down there andnot hearing what's going on in the real
world. So absolutely reach out.You represent House thiser sixty five, but

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you're also running for Congress as aRepublican in the primary of June twenty fifth
in CD four. If folks wantto, they can go to Lynch for
Colorado dot com US at the websitefor all Things Mike Lynch. That's it,
Jimmy Lynch fo R not the number, but spelled out Lynchfoclorado dot com.
That's it My appreciation of a friendto keep fighting the fight, and

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I hope you get a little breakand rest but after this, but you're
after the campaign trail shortly after,so probably no rest for the weary representative.
Mike Lynch House District sixty five.If you're in parts of Weld County,
laramer County including Windsor Wellington, Severance, Timnethan eaton those areas, he's
probably is your representative down to theState Assembly, the General Assembly, and

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he's also running for Congress in CDfour to fulfill that seat that has been
vacated by Ken Buck, who fledthe abandoned, abandoned ship and left the
people of the fourth Congressional District withseveral months of no representative, a lot
of taxation with no representation happening inCD four thanks to Ken Buck. Mike
Lynch would like to earn your votethere. If you want to learn more

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about Mike Lynch, l y nC four College, Colorado, the letter
spell it out the letters four.Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah Lynch
Forclorado dot Com. Mike Lynch,thanks for hopping on the program. My
name is Jimmy Lakey, I'll beback in just a moment. Lakey on
the radio, six hundred k col