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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(00:40):
a House District fifty two. He's running. He's the there's
no Republican in that race, there's just a Democrat and him.
He's a center party guy. And we'll talk to Steve
Rash tomorrow this time, but right now I want to
walk him in from the eighth Congressional District it's mister
Gabe Evans. He's on the hotline. Gabe. Welcome to the
program sir, thanks for hopping on.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Great to be honest you this morning, Gabe A hot
and heavy.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I can't turn on a television show a football game
without back to back you do you want caraveo? Gabe
Evans ads, how's the race going? Let's start there.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Well, we had speaker Mike Johnson in town about a
week ago on Sunday and his words not mine. This
is a national top five priority race. So my opponent
and I are neck and neck. But that's actually a
win for us because she's just getting fulllooded with you know,
out of state money. She's outspent us over two to one,
and so the fact that in the last poll we
were actually up zero point two percent means that her
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money is not going to be able to buy her
an election because because folks are seeing through the disasters
results of her far left policies and they're ready for
a change.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I want to talk about her record. She has a
record even before Congress, she had a record in the
legislature which I think was even worse than what her
record in Congress was. But before we go there. I
watched these ads and I was just talking off air,
and we're talking about these negative ads. Negative ads seem
to work. Now, there's a lot of negative ads. And
when I ran for Congress years ago, I remember that
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they say some nasty things about me. You I ever
watching any of these negative ads about yourself and go,
where the hell they come up with that idea? Why
are they saying that? I mean, what is your response
when you see some of these things, because negative advertising
does work? What what are there anything on those ads
that you're like, wait, let's let's clarify something.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, I mean, the Wall Street Journal did a fact
check of a lot of the ads that they're running
about me and other Republican candidates across the country, say
for abortion, and the Wall Street Journal called these Democrat
attack ads just outright fiction. It was also a fact
checked by CBS Colorado, which said that there's a lot
of half truth truth adjacent and then you know, some
(02:50):
blatant misrepresentation in a lot of these ads. So it's
what we see from the left of their panic that
they may lose this seat, and so they're going to
say whatever they think they need to say in order
to try to pull wool over the voter's eyes.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
So you said, CBS Colorado folks, and do the research there.
They can also go to the Wall Street Journal and
fact check these things because they are They're flowing all
over the country as far as your race and every race,
and you've just got to be oftentimes cognizant that these
ads are exactly what they are. They're advertising, a lot
of them put on by money from out of state,
and they're saying what they will. So make sure you're
(03:23):
fact checking all these ads. Gabe, if you go to
Congress representing the eighth congressional district, kind of talk about
your agenda. Everybody goes to Congress with some kind of focus.
Some people have a fiscal or economic focus, some people
have a border focus. Kind of go back to the
day's of old Tom tan Credo. I mean, what's the
passion of Gabe Evans, What drives you to want to
(03:45):
go to Washington, d C. And what do you hope
you'll be known for.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
This congressional bit of mine is just the continuation of
the life of service I've led as an adult. I
was born and raised in Colorado, served twelve years US
Army Colorado Army National Guard, one combat deployment to the
Middle East, and then everything that we do here in
Colorado with Blackhawk helicopters, which is what my job in
the Army was. Did another ten years in law enforcement
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with the city of Arvada, and so I watched public
safety collapse under progressive leftist rule when I started my
law enforcement career in twenty eleven. Colorado is thirty first
in the nation for our crime rate. We're now the
third worst state in the nation for crime rate, worse
than California, New York State, Illinois, Oregon, Washington State. We're
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the number two state in the nation for teenagers overdosing
and dying on fentanyl. We're number one for bank robberies,
number one for cocaine usage. We've recently been number one
for auto theft. This is a major problem. We've got
thirteen over thirteen thousand convicted murderers who are running free
in our country who illegally crossed one of our borders.
That's a recent memo from Ice. And we've got ninety
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nine folks as of last count, ninety nine folks on
the terrorist watch list who have been released into our
country after illegally trying to cross over our borders. This
isn't why I spent almost a year in the Middle
East as part of the global War on Terror. This
is why I spent ten years as a cop in Colorado.
For these things to happen, and these things are happening
is a direct result of the failed policies of my
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opponent and of the progressive left when it comes to
securing the border, when it comes to supporting law enforcement,
and when it comes to criminals, the Left is just
outright coddling of folks that go out into our communities
and commit violent, dangerous crimes. And so it's time to
send a cop to Congress to fight back against this stuff.
And that's what I'm planning to do.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
One of the things that I mentioned the legacy or
the history of your opponent in the state legislature was
something that happened on her watch, signed by Jared Poulos,
and it was the softening and there were almost the
decriminalization of fentanyl and refusing to punish. And now we
have an fentanyl epidemic to where peace people are. It's
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the number one killer in so many age categories right now,
and that it's an albatross that I don't think you
can take the way your neck when you decriminalize this
nasty fentanyl and make it less punishable and now you
have a crisis on your hand. I don't know how
they explain that, but talk about fentanyl and the fentanyl
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crisis we have.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, I mean, so it's actually like six or eight
different votes that she made that got us to this point.
So we know where fentanyl comes from. It originates in China,
it comes through the predominantly the southern border through Mexico,
and then in the United States. So that means when
you're soft on border security, you're allowing this stuff to
just freely flow into our country. She's voted for policies
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that keep our southern border open. When we create sanctuary
state policies in Colorado, guess we're in the cartels set
up shop to deal all of their fentanyl. And so
she's voted for you mentioned the one where it reduces
to effectively an unenforceable level the penalty for fentanyl. But
she also voted for defund the police policies that makes
Colorado a more lucrative target for cartels and transnational gangs
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to set up shop in She's voted for multiple sanctuary
state style policies. One we were I was talking about
with my team this morning. In twenty twenty one, she
voted for, and this was passed and signed into law,
a piece of legislation that makes it outright illegal for
law enforcement in Colorado to even call Immigration and Customs
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for anything related to a deportation hearing if they're going
to give any sort of identifiable information. So we see
what's happening on the national stage over in Aurora, just
remember it is illegal right now because of a build
that my opponent voted for. It is illegal for Aurora
PD to be able to pick up the phone and
call Immigration and Customs and say, hey, we got some
violent gang members in our community doing all sorts of
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bad stuff. We know a soft on crime judge is
going to let these folks out on a really low bond,
So come get your person and deport those folks. That
phone call is illegal. My opponent voted for that, so
you can come to Colorado set up shop. The police
are demoralized because of her defund the police policies. She's
empowered criminals by reducing the penalties for criminality to effectively
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an unenforceable level. She made us a sanctuary state by
voting for these policies that not only prohibit law enforcement
from being able to reach out to immigration and customs,
but they reward folks by that come here illegally with
taxpayer funded benefit. Housing, legal representation, even retirement is all
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given to these folks at the taxpayer dime. And she's
continued that horrible voting record in Congress. The result of
that is, if I'm a drug dealer, you know where
I'm going to go to set up shop. I'm going
to go set up shop at Colorado. That's what we're seeing.
That's why we have an epidemic that's worse in many
ways than some of the surrounding states. And it's because
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of policies that my opponent has championed, and she's continuing
to push for those things in Congress, and I think folks.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Have had enough the voice of Gabe Evans. He's running
into Congressional District eight CD eight against the incumbent youd
At Caravello. A couple more questions. One of those is
is you're pound of the pavement, You're knocking the doors,
you're shaking the hands. You know, there's what the television
ads say, there's the agenda that they put out, and
all these topics that they want to throw against you.
But when you talk to the people in CD eight,
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it's a pretty evenly distributed district as far as voter registration,
Republican Democrats, et cetera. What are the people talking about,
not what the politicians or the special interest groups that
by commercials talking about. What are the people talking about
in CD eight? What's the top two or three?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
When I knock on doors and somebody comes and we'll
talk to me for thirty or forty five seconds, usually
my second question too, and well my second sentence, it's
the first question. First question to him is what's top
of your mind? What issues are you concerned about? Because
I think that people that want to be your representative
should be able to listen to those things. And I
would say probably ninety percent of folks tell me unsecure border,
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illegal immigration in some form or another. There's a lot
of different nexuses there. It could be, you know, illegal immigration,
the fact that hundreds of millions of tax payer dollars
just in Colorado are going to folks who have illegally
crossed our border, and that's stretching some of our critical
resources like hospitals and schools and just some of these
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basic government functions. It's stretching those thin It could be
illegal immigration, like we just talked about, from a public
safety perspective of Look, when the southern borders wide open
in Colorado's got sanctuary state policies, this is where the
criminals and the drug dealers and cartels choose to set
up shop. It could be illegal immigration from just the
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humanitarian perspective of it, which when we don't enforce the laws,
that's what happens. You manufacture humanitarian crises because we get
to taken advantage of on the world stage. So there's
a lot of different perspectives that I hear when it
comes to illegal immigration, and say probably ninety percent of
people bring that one up. The other ones that I
hear a lot, again the very related public safety component
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of it, and then I also hear about cost of
living a lot.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Again. The voice of Gabe Evans gave who would give
your website here in just a moment. There's a lot
of times we vote that we send people to Congress,
and it happens people go up to Washington, d C.
And suddenly it seems like Washington changes them. Suddenly they
come back to the district a year after a year,
and you kind of get the feeling that they're representing
DC back in the district rather than the district back
in d C. Talk about Gabe Evans, you win this seat,
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how do you make sure that Gabe Evans stays. Gabe
Evans a guy connected to the community, connected to law
enforcement and part of the community, is a part of
the machine, the swamp, if you will, and the inner
workings of career politicians. How do you avoid that if
you get to Washington.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
So it's what I mentioned earlier is the motivation. I
served at combined total of twenty two years in the
military and law enforcement, and what pushed me to take
the jump from me and I was at I was
the night shift watch commander at my old agency, and
I loved that job. I love taking care of my community,
but I could not do it because of how I'd
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been handcuffed by a bunch of progressive, leftist policies. So
that's what made me take the jump into politics to
try to fix some of these policy things that have
made it very difficult it's not outright impossible to keep
our communities safe, to keep our families safe. But one
thing that I've taken with me physically taken with me
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my morning routine and routine hasn't changed in fourteen years.
I still wear my cop boots. They polish up nice.
I can get away with wearing them with a suit
and tie. It's what I've worn for every day that
I've been down at the State Capitol in Denver, and
it's what I've worn and planned to wear when I
go to Congress because that part of my morning routine
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hasn't changed. I'm putting on the exact same pair of
boots that I used to wear as a police officer,
and that reminds me why I'm doing what I'm doing.
It quite really and physically grounds me and what the
purpose of this is. And that's what that's one of
the ways that I plan to stay grounded in Congress.
And you know, as I've had to make a few
trips back to DC, several folks have noticed that They've
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asked about it, and now it's kind of a running joke.
Oh yeah, Gave wears his combat boots. Well, not my
combat boots. They're my police boots. But I wear those
because I wear those because of what they represent and
because that part of my morning routine. Why I'm doing
this hasn't changed. I've done those boots for the last
fourteen years.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Next time I see you, I go to look at
your feet. I haven't haven't looked at your shoes. I
guess I'm not paying attention to that. Sorry, I'll do
that next time. I'm going to check out his shoes
and how we'll report back that he's got his cop
boots on. I gave real quick. You know that's CDA's
kind of evenly divided. You got people there's going to
vote for you, Dearra Caravello because she has the D
behind her name. There's people going to vote for you
just they're loyal to their party and they like you.
(13:53):
But you got that swath in the middle that could
go either way very quickly. What is your message to
those people, because I'm guessing that's who you're really targeting
in this final three election day is three weeks people
are voting now, I'm guessing that's who you're targeting. What
is your message of those people that aren't firmly ensconced
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in the red team of the blue team, and they're
just trying to figure this out.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
When I was a comp and a soldier, nobody cared
what political party I was, and I didn't care what
political party anybody else was. We were there to do
a mission to take care of our country, take care
of the state, take care of the community. That's the
attitude that I've taken into politics. It's why even in
a super minority done at the state Capitol in Denver,
nineteen Republicans to forty six Democrats, i still got almost
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sixty percent of my bills passed because I can work
with folks. I'm policy focused and to try to come
up with the policy solutions that are going to make
our lives better. It's why I've got two thirds of
the mayors in this district that are publicly backing me,
sitting mayors publicly backing me over the incumbent congresswoman because
she's just not representing their communities well. And so that's
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what I bring to the table is I'm focused, just
as I was when I was a cop. I'm focused
on how do we work together to solve the problems,
to make our community safe and anybody that's willing to
have a rational conversation about those things, doesn't matter what
party they're in. We can sit down, we can figure
out how to move the ball forward. I did it
as the state Capitol, and I'm looking forward to doing
it at Congress.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
That's a pretty outstanding record. I haven't seen that when
sixty percent of your bills get passed when you're the
super minority. That's pretty impressive. Down to what I call
the Dome of dummies down there. So a nice, nice
work there, Gabe. If somebody does want to sit down
and have that civil conversation with you, they want to
learn more about you. They are part of those people
that like, I don't know who I'm going to vote
for here on this one. How do they reach out
(15:43):
to the campaign? How do they learn more about you?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Electgabevans dot com is the website. Electgabeevans dot com. You'll
have to ease right next to each other. You can
shoot us an email there. From the website, you can
read more about us. We put our lot of the
big policy up on the website, and so that's your
one stop shop to reach out and learn more about me.
Electgabevans dot com.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Gabe Evans, it's a pleasure to have you here on
the program. Thanks for taking the time. Glad we were
able to get this on the calendar. Gabe Evans. Electgabeevans
dot com is his website. If you're out there in
that middle ground and you're trying to figure out who
you're going to vote for, go to his website. Electgabeevans
dot com. Taking gun you dear at Caravello in Congressional
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District eight. All right, that wraps up that segment. Coming
up on the program. The conversations will continue here. We
will be talking this morning a little bit later to
we'll talk about the electriccar mandates. Jay Bieber going to
be on the program. He's coming up later on the show.
And I'll also give you a little bit more of
that Leslie Hollywood conversation about mountain lions in Colorado. You
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have your ballots, make sure you're paying attention to him.
It's a big ballot. You're going to have to take
some time and vote accordingly. Do some research on some
of the propositions and amendments and some of the candidates
as well. And I'll to give you as much information
here as I can on this radio show. Committed to
do that. And if you haven't heard your candidate yet
or heard that topic that you want to hear, make
sure you go to my website Jimmy Lakey dot com
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Jimmy Lakey dot com, and I think you can find
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All right, the choir has informed you that I am
Hi made loggos Jimmy Lakey. However you want to say
it that name and Nickel will get you pretty much nothing.
But if you're welcome to say it anyway, don't use
it in vain though, that's not polite. Jimmy Lakey, my name,
News Talk six hundred kcoll don't forget all the interviews
(00:20):
you hear on the program. Go up at my website
Jimmy Lakey dot com. Shortly after they happen. We'll get
them all up there Jimmy Lakey dot com, and you
can go back and listen to everything again. If you
miss something, you want to go back and here, you're
welcome to do that. All right. Tomorrow at this time,
we're trying to get you some candidate. Steve your Rash
is going to be on the program tomorrow at from
(00:40):
a House District fifty two. He's running. He's the there's
no Republican in that race, there's just a Democrat and him.
He's a center party guy. And we'll talk to Steve
Rash tomorrow this time, but right now I want to
walk him in from the eighth Congressional District it's mister
Gabe Evans. He's on the hotline. Gabe. Welcome to the
program sir, thanks for hopping on.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Great to be honest you this morning, Gabe A hot
and heavy.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I can't turn on a television show a football game
without back to back you do you want caraveo? Gabe
Evans ads, how's the race going? Let's start there.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Well, we had speaker Mike Johnson in town about a
week ago on Sunday and his words not mine. This
is a national top five priority race. So my opponent
and I are neck and neck. But that's actually a
win for us because she's just getting fulllooded with you know,
out of state money. She's outspent us over two to one,
and so the fact that in the last poll we
were actually up zero point two percent means that her
(01:37):
money is not going to be able to buy her
an election because because folks are seeing through the disasters
results of her far left policies and they're ready for
a change.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I want to talk about her record. She has a
record even before Congress, she had a record in the
legislature which I think was even worse than what her
record in Congress was. But before we go there. I
watched these ads and I was just talking off air,
and we're talking about these negative ads. Negative ads seem
to work. Now, there's a lot of negative ads. And
when I ran for Congress years ago, I remember that
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they say some nasty things about me. You I ever
watching any of these negative ads about yourself and go,
where the hell they come up with that idea? Why
are they saying that? I mean, what is your response
when you see some of these things, because negative advertising
does work? What what are there anything on those ads
that you're like, wait, let's let's clarify something.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, I mean, the Wall Street Journal did a fact
check of a lot of the ads that they're running
about me and other Republican candidates across the country, say
for abortion, and the Wall Street Journal called these Democrat
attack ads just outright fiction. It was also a fact
checked by CBS Colorado, which said that there's a lot
of half truth truth adjacent and then you know, some
(02:50):
blatant misrepresentation in a lot of these ads. So it's
what we see from the left of their panic that
they may lose this seat, and so they're going to
say whatever they think they need to say in order
to try to pull wool over the voter's eyes.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
So you said, CBS Colorado folks, and do the research there.
They can also go to the Wall Street Journal and
fact check these things because they are They're flowing all
over the country as far as your race and every race,
and you've just got to be oftentimes cognizant that these
ads are exactly what they are. They're advertising, a lot
of them put on by money from out of state,
and they're saying what they will. So make sure you're
(03:23):
fact checking all these ads. Gabe, if you go to
Congress representing the eighth congressional district, kind of talk about
your agenda. Everybody goes to Congress with some kind of focus.
Some people have a fiscal or economic focus, some people
have a border focus. Kind of go back to the
day's of old Tom tan Credo. I mean, what's the
passion of Gabe Evans, What drives you to want to
(03:45):
go to Washington, d C. And what do you hope
you'll be known for.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
This congressional bit of mine is just the continuation of
the life of service I've led as an adult. I
was born and raised in Colorado, served twelve years US
Army Colorado Army National Guard, one combat deployment to the
Middle East, and then everything that we do here in
Colorado with Blackhawk helicopters, which is what my job in
the Army was. Did another ten years in law enforcement
(04:11):
with the city of Arvada, and so I watched public
safety collapse under progressive leftist rule when I started my
law enforcement career in twenty eleven. Colorado is thirty first
in the nation for our crime rate. We're now the
third worst state in the nation for crime rate, worse
than California, New York State, Illinois, Oregon, Washington State. We're
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the number two state in the nation for teenagers overdosing
and dying on fentanyl. We're number one for bank robberies,
number one for cocaine usage. We've recently been number one
for auto theft. This is a major problem. We've got
thirteen over thirteen thousand convicted murderers who are running free
in our country who illegally crossed one of our borders.
That's a recent memo from Ice. And we've got ninety
(04:55):
nine folks as of last count, ninety nine folks on
the terrorist watch list who have been released into our
country after illegally trying to cross over our borders. This
isn't why I spent almost a year in the Middle
East as part of the global War on Terror. This
is why I spent ten years as a cop in Colorado.
For these things to happen, and these things are happening
is a direct result of the failed policies of my
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opponent and of the progressive left when it comes to
securing the border, when it comes to supporting law enforcement,
and when it comes to criminals, the Left is just
outright coddling of folks that go out into our communities
and commit violent, dangerous crimes. And so it's time to
send a cop to Congress to fight back against this stuff.
And that's what I'm planning to do.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
One of the things that I mentioned the legacy or
the history of your opponent in the state legislature was
something that happened on her watch, signed by Jared Poulos,
and it was the softening and there were almost the
decriminalization of fentanyl and refusing to punish. And now we
have an fentanyl epidemic to where peace people are. It's
(06:01):
the number one killer in so many age categories right now,
and that it's an albatross that I don't think you
can take the way your neck when you decriminalize this
nasty fentanyl and make it less punishable and now you
have a crisis on your hand. I don't know how
they explain that, but talk about fentanyl and the fentanyl
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crisis we have.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, I mean, so it's actually like six or eight
different votes that she made that got us to this point.
So we know where fentanyl comes from. It originates in China,
it comes through the predominantly the southern border through Mexico,
and then in the United States. So that means when
you're soft on border security, you're allowing this stuff to
just freely flow into our country. She's voted for policies
(06:44):
that keep our southern border open. When we create sanctuary
state policies in Colorado, guess we're in the cartels set
up shop to deal all of their fentanyl. And so
she's voted for you mentioned the one where it reduces
to effectively an unenforceable level the penalty for fentanyl. But
she also voted for defund the police policies that makes
Colorado a more lucrative target for cartels and transnational gangs
(07:05):
to set up shop in She's voted for multiple sanctuary
state style policies. One we were I was talking about
with my team this morning. In twenty twenty one, she
voted for, and this was passed and signed into law,
a piece of legislation that makes it outright illegal for
law enforcement in Colorado to even call Immigration and Customs
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for anything related to a deportation hearing if they're going
to give any sort of identifiable information. So we see
what's happening on the national stage over in Aurora, just
remember it is illegal right now because of a build
that my opponent voted for. It is illegal for Aurora
PD to be able to pick up the phone and
call Immigration and Customs and say, hey, we got some
violent gang members in our community doing all sorts of
(07:49):
bad stuff. We know a soft on crime judge is
going to let these folks out on a really low bond,
So come get your person and deport those folks. That
phone call is illegal. My opponent voted for that, so
you can come to Colorado set up shop. The police
are demoralized because of her defund the police policies. She's
empowered criminals by reducing the penalties for criminality to effectively
(08:10):
an unenforceable level. She made us a sanctuary state by
voting for these policies that not only prohibit law enforcement
from being able to reach out to immigration and customs,
but they reward folks by that come here illegally with
taxpayer funded benefit. Housing, legal representation, even retirement is all
(08:32):
given to these folks at the taxpayer dime. And she's
continued that horrible voting record in Congress. The result of
that is, if I'm a drug dealer, you know where
I'm going to go to set up shop. I'm going
to go set up shop at Colorado. That's what we're seeing.
That's why we have an epidemic that's worse in many
ways than some of the surrounding states. And it's because
(08:53):
of policies that my opponent has championed, and she's continuing
to push for those things in Congress, and I think folks.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Have had enough the voice of Gabe Evans. He's running
into Congressional District eight CD eight against the incumbent youd
At Caravello. A couple more questions. One of those is
is you're pound of the pavement, You're knocking the doors,
you're shaking the hands. You know, there's what the television
ads say, there's the agenda that they put out, and
all these topics that they want to throw against you.
But when you talk to the people in CD eight,
(09:20):
it's a pretty evenly distributed district as far as voter registration,
Republican Democrats, et cetera. What are the people talking about,
not what the politicians or the special interest groups that
by commercials talking about. What are the people talking about
in CD eight? What's the top two or three?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
When I knock on doors and somebody comes and we'll
talk to me for thirty or forty five seconds, usually
my second question too, and well my second sentence, it's
the first question. First question to him is what's top
of your mind? What issues are you concerned about? Because
I think that people that want to be your representative
should be able to listen to those things. And I
would say probably ninety percent of folks tell me unsecure border,
(10:01):
illegal immigration in some form or another. There's a lot
of different nexuses there. It could be, you know, illegal immigration,
the fact that hundreds of millions of tax payer dollars
just in Colorado are going to folks who have illegally
crossed our border, and that's stretching some of our critical
resources like hospitals and schools and just some of these
(10:22):
basic government functions. It's stretching those thin It could be
illegal immigration, like we just talked about, from a public
safety perspective of Look, when the southern borders wide open
in Colorado's got sanctuary state policies, this is where the
criminals and the drug dealers and cartels choose to set
up shop. It could be illegal immigration from just the
(10:43):
humanitarian perspective of it, which when we don't enforce the laws,
that's what happens. You manufacture humanitarian crises because we get
to taken advantage of on the world stage. So there's
a lot of different perspectives that I hear when it
comes to illegal immigration, and say probably ninety percent of
people bring that one up. The other ones that I
hear a lot, again the very related public safety component
(11:07):
of it, and then I also hear about cost of
living a lot.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Again. The voice of Gabe Evans gave who would give
your website here in just a moment. There's a lot
of times we vote that we send people to Congress,
and it happens people go up to Washington, d C.
And suddenly it seems like Washington changes them. Suddenly they
come back to the district a year after a year,
and you kind of get the feeling that they're representing
DC back in the district rather than the district back
in d C. Talk about Gabe Evans, you win this seat,
(11:33):
how do you make sure that Gabe Evans stays. Gabe
Evans a guy connected to the community, connected to law
enforcement and part of the community, is a part of
the machine, the swamp, if you will, and the inner
workings of career politicians. How do you avoid that if
you get to Washington.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
So it's what I mentioned earlier is the motivation. I
served at combined total of twenty two years in the
military and law enforcement, and what pushed me to take
the jump from me and I was at I was
the night shift watch commander at my old agency, and
I loved that job. I love taking care of my community,
but I could not do it because of how I'd
(12:09):
been handcuffed by a bunch of progressive, leftist policies. So
that's what made me take the jump into politics to
try to fix some of these policy things that have
made it very difficult it's not outright impossible to keep
our communities safe, to keep our families safe. But one
thing that I've taken with me physically taken with me
(12:30):
my morning routine and routine hasn't changed in fourteen years.
I still wear my cop boots. They polish up nice.
I can get away with wearing them with a suit
and tie. It's what I've worn for every day that
I've been down at the State Capitol in Denver, and
it's what I've worn and planned to wear when I
go to Congress because that part of my morning routine
(12:50):
hasn't changed. I'm putting on the exact same pair of
boots that I used to wear as a police officer,
and that reminds me why I'm doing what I'm doing.
It quite really and physically grounds me and what the
purpose of this is. And that's what that's one of
the ways that I plan to stay grounded in Congress.
And you know, as I've had to make a few
trips back to DC, several folks have noticed that They've
(13:13):
asked about it, and now it's kind of a running joke.
Oh yeah, Gave wears his combat boots. Well, not my
combat boots. They're my police boots. But I wear those
because I wear those because of what they represent and
because that part of my morning routine. Why I'm doing
this hasn't changed. I've done those boots for the last
fourteen years.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Next time I see you, I go to look at
your feet. I haven't haven't looked at your shoes. I
guess I'm not paying attention to that. Sorry, I'll do
that next time. I'm going to check out his shoes
and how we'll report back that he's got his cop
boots on. I gave real quick. You know that's CDA's
kind of evenly divided. You got people there's going to
vote for you, Dearra Caravello because she has the D
behind her name. There's people going to vote for you
just they're loyal to their party and they like you.
(13:53):
But you got that swath in the middle that could
go either way very quickly. What is your message to
those people, because I'm guessing that's who you're really targeting
in this final three election day is three weeks people
are voting now, I'm guessing that's who you're targeting. What
is your message of those people that aren't firmly ensconced
(14:13):
in the red team of the blue team, and they're
just trying to figure this out.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
When I was a comp and a soldier, nobody cared
what political party I was, and I didn't care what
political party anybody else was. We were there to do
a mission to take care of our country, take care
of the state, take care of the community. That's the
attitude that I've taken into politics. It's why even in
a super minority done at the state Capitol in Denver,
nineteen Republicans to forty six Democrats, i still got almost
(14:39):
sixty percent of my bills passed because I can work
with folks. I'm policy focused and to try to come
up with the policy solutions that are going to make
our lives better. It's why I've got two thirds of
the mayors in this district that are publicly backing me,
sitting mayors publicly backing me over the incumbent congresswoman because
she's just not representing their communities well. And so that's
(15:02):
what I bring to the table is I'm focused, just
as I was when I was a cop. I'm focused
on how do we work together to solve the problems,
to make our community safe and anybody that's willing to
have a rational conversation about those things, doesn't matter what
party they're in. We can sit down, we can figure
out how to move the ball forward. I did it
as the state Capitol, and I'm looking forward to doing
it at Congress.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
That's a pretty outstanding record. I haven't seen that when
sixty percent of your bills get passed when you're the
super minority. That's pretty impressive. Down to what I call
the Dome of dummies down there. So a nice, nice
work there, Gabe. If somebody does want to sit down
and have that civil conversation with you, they want to
learn more about you. They are part of those people
that like, I don't know who I'm going to vote
for here on this one. How do they reach out
(15:43):
to the campaign? How do they learn more about you?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Electgabevans dot com is the website. Electgabeevans dot com. You'll
have to ease right next to each other. You can
shoot us an email there. From the website, you can
read more about us. We put our lot of the
big policy up on the website, and so that's your
one stop shop to reach out and learn more about me.
Electgabevans dot com.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Gabe Evans, it's a pleasure to have you here on
the program. Thanks for taking the time. Glad we were
able to get this on the calendar. Gabe Evans. Electgabeevans
dot com is his website. If you're out there in
that middle ground and you're trying to figure out who
you're going to vote for, go to his website. Electgabeevans
dot com. Taking gun you dear at Caravello in Congressional
(16:26):
District eight. All right, that wraps up that segment. Coming
up on the program. The conversations will continue here. We
will be talking this morning a little bit later to
we'll talk about the electriccar mandates. Jay Bieber going to
be on the program. He's coming up later on the show.
And I'll also give you a little bit more of
that Leslie Hollywood conversation about mountain lions in Colorado. You
(16:49):
have your ballots, make sure you're paying attention to him.
It's a big ballot. You're going to have to take
some time and vote accordingly. Do some research on some
of the propositions and amendments and some of the candidates
as well. And I'll to give you as much information
here as I can on this radio show. Committed to
do that. And if you haven't heard your candidate yet
or heard that topic that you want to hear, make
sure you go to my website Jimmy Lakey dot com
(17:10):
Jimmy Lakey dot com, and I think you can find
we're covering a lot of territory here the last several
weeks on the show Jimmy Lakey dot com. Everybody stand by.
Thank you for being on the program. More to come.
It's Lakey on the radio. You're in front of the speakers.
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