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Speaker 1 (00:00):
To me anywhere a matter of fact, people do. It's
amazing hear from people really all over the globe listening
on that iHeartRadio app. And so I got people the
vacation overseas or stationed overseas and they're tired of well,
they'll need they need their Jimmy fix, and so they
listened to me. And I appreciate you for doing that.
Good to have you here for you streaming me live
(00:21):
this morning. Good morning from Colorado. If you're not live
and you're listening on the podcast, I call the Laky effect.
Welcome back into the show, and hello from the past.
It's the sixteenth day of October, Year of Our Lord,
twenty twenty four. All right, I don't live in Larimer County,
but I do sometimes well, I oftentimes follow news in
Larimer County. One of the things that's always kfuffled me is,
(00:41):
first of all, as huge as Larimer County, as there's
only three commissioners. There's three districts and three commissioners, which
to me seems really small for such a big district.
And unfortunately, you get some boneheads or jackwagons, or as
Tim Wallas call them, knuckleheads that end up serving on
the Board of Commissioners, and yesterday I want you to
go back to my podcast listen to an interview that
(01:01):
I had with UH with with a local business owner
and you will find it at Jimmy Lakey dot com.
Tiffany Weber was on the program and Tiffany Weber talked
about a an interaction she had with the Border Commissioners
because of her winery and a balloon that was up
for twelve minutes and the Border Commissioners basically shut her
(01:22):
down for six months out of business. Twenty six people
laid off out of business. Jody Shaddick McNally from District
three on the Border Commissioners actually said we ought to
go into the I want to go into the back
home and tear up your vineyards. I mean, this is
a this is a tyrannical type Board of Commissioners with
that kind of attitude, all because of a balloon. They said,
(01:43):
you're you're not supposed to have balloons and supposed to
have a private party. Well, I didn't put the balloon up,
so somebody came in with had a big seating and
they put up the balloon to say, hey, we're in here.
But Nevertheless, the Blaurerman County Border Commissioners shut them down.
A Jodey Shattick McNally, running for reelection on your ballot
in lair mc county, wants to be seated back on
that border Commissioners. I want to welcome to the program,
(02:04):
Ben asked. He's a candidate in District three and he's
taking on Jody Shaddick McNally for the Larimer County boarder commissions.
Ben Walker to the show, Sir, how are you?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Thank you? Jimmy doing well. My name is Ben Ouste.
We'll just say stay with Oste. It's a difficult Swiss
name to pronounce around here.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Austy. I apologize for that. Ben, I screwed that up.
I know your signs. I've seen those around and it's
Uncle Benny. So give us the background of Uncle Benny.
Your background at the end of the Lamber County area.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Sure, that's a nickname I was given in college, Uncle Benny.
And so we opened a business called Uncle Bennie's Building Supply.
It was quaint. People loved it, grassroots, they embraced it.
I ran in twenty twenty Jimmy with as Ben Oustey.
People said, who in the heck is this asked this?
Ben asked ay or OSTI couldn't pronounce, And then later
we found we should have run with Uncle Benny on
(02:56):
the ballot, and that is what we did this time around.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So Benny is what people see. I'm not a Larimer
County guy, so uncle I'm a Weld County guy. So
it actually says uncle Benny, so they know it's you.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
That is correct. We have name branding big time here
in the county. I got nearly one hundred thousand votes.
In fact, they still have that garnered record there for
any elected official Lamber County back in twenty twenty. Not
bad for Riddeneck businessman.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Ben Austin, my guest, he's running for Laramber County commissioners
and Commissioner's seat in District three. I'm sure you're familiar
with the story that I've told you about Jody Shaddick
McNally and the winery in Fort Collins that got shut down.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Give me your thoughts on that story. It was a
crazy story.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I want people to go listen to Tiffany's story yesterday
on my website jimmy Linky dot com.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
My interview with her.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Give me your thoughts on six months because of a
balloon doesn't seem like they're very business friendly, local business friendly.
When it comes to the current Board of Commissioners and
District three.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
One of many stories, Jimmy, I can't even I don't
have enough fingers and toasts, so you have many. This
is one I started to hear about, actually from Tiffany
four years ago when I was just running actually in
twenty twenty for your Dermoc County Commissioner three. So I'm
very familiar with it. And that is, as I say,
she's brave. There's so many other business owners that do
(04:18):
not want to They feel there could be retaliation, and
they have experience retaliation for speaking up and telling their stories.
Backlash if you will. Again, because I'm out here in
the business sector, people feel comfortable telling me these stories
two years, one month. I try to listen, and seriously,
it's grievous. The hardest thing, probably for me, has been
(04:39):
for the last four years, since twenty twenty. For three
years people said, are you going to run again? Was
a question. Then the last year it became you've got
to run again. It was a demand. So you can
tell the seriousness that's surfacing from the people's voices here
in the county.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Can you help me understand what's going on with the
current representative from District three. I mean, it seems like
the layer mccawn, the Border commissioners that want to be
pro business have an environment to where businesses are surviving.
Especially when places like wineries and restaurants really struggled because
of the lockdowns during COVID many went out of business.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
It seems like they would be kind of partnering with them.
What's the deal?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Why the evidently victory all towards some businesses and you're
hearing more stories than just Tiffany Webers.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah, it's what once was six months to a year
on pulling getting a permit to proved, whether it be
residential or commercial. It's become two and three year testimonies
for many many I mean up to date real time.
I still hear this, Jimmy, some one of them took
a cake the other day. It was four to five
years they've been working on it in Larimer County. Now
(05:42):
it's a bigger development, so they're more complicated to design infrastructure.
But understanding that you see it becoming more difficult. I
don't know what to end to what end this is, Jimmy, honestly,
because we the brick and mortar montop businesses are the
backbone of this county, in any county, any municipality, to
drive them off and to your testimonies of people going
to Border County, honest to God is my witness, and
(06:03):
other counties around us for years has been very alarming.
That even started three years ago.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Jimmy, Wow, the voice of ben Ouste.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
He's running in District three, Uncle Benny as you might
know him, for Larimer County Border Commissioners.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Can you help me understand.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Why Larimer County other county Commissioners board seem to be
much larger. This is only three people. Should that change?
I think in my estimation it should because you get
one or two people that are tyrannical, like maybe you
have here, and suddenly the whole county shut down and
all the citizens paid the price because there's not really
enough people to build some kind of a large consensus.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Is it too small?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I don't know that that's the way to go. I
have been talking with one of my mentors, who happened
to be Darryl Clawson, who was a commissioner for Lumber
County years ago, ninety two years old. A man of wisdom.
He's just one of several that are awesome commissioners that
were reasonable, affordable, and sustainable through the years. I mean
he actually made a ruling for me twenty eight years ago,
(07:02):
changed an ordinance if you can imagine, so it can
be done, and softened some codes that were unreasonable even then.
So he said, and this is one of his estimations
is he served as commissioner and on a board for
a city municipality, and he said, the more people you
have involved on a decision making, the more difficult it
can become. Now, that's one opinion. There's a lot of
(07:23):
folks that like to be like, we have two hundred
I'm estimating two hundred and eighty thousand Larmber County now
on our census because the last was two fifty nine
and twenty twenty, so we have to wait obviously obviously
till two thirty to make it official. But indicators are
saying we must have about two hundred eighty thousand. So
I think that at the moment it's going to cost
(07:43):
more money right now, our budget I don't think would
allow another several offices because people are proposing three and
two three center three that are the full time commissioners
and two at large, So the budget has to be
looked at. I mean, I'm not saying no to that idea,
but I am really looking into it. It's come around
for several cycles through the years.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, well, well, well all we do know, whether you
know that's the kind of a big term, long term picture.
Is that Just the audio that I've seen at the
county Commissioner Board of Jody Shaddick just talking such trash
to a local business owner and literally wanting to her opinions.
She got blocked by other people in the commission. She
wanted to knock them out of business and just say
you can't do business anymore, you're done, revoke their license altogether.
(08:27):
I mean, that's tyrannical type stuff. And you just wonder
how an elected official feels that they have that much authority,
that much power, that much gravitas, that's that much ego.
There's just something that in my opinion, not yours. I'm
sure maybe it is, but in my opinion, there's just
something wrong with that type of an elected official continue
to go back when they really are not looking for
(08:48):
a solution. They want to drive a person out of business.
That's why you're running, ben Ostae. If somebody wants to
learn more about your campaign in District three for the
Layerma County Boarder commissioners, where.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Do they go?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I'd love it if they'd go to vote the number
four ASTE dot com. Stay with Ostay, remember, stay with OSTA.
And from the people's mounds to my ears to this
radio station, we have got to become more reasonable, sustainable
and affordable. We're not gonna make it. We need this
income from these businesses, not driving them out. And I
(09:20):
have to tell you, Jimmy, lastly, many Democrat business owners
have been telling me, I don't care what party this
guy's from. I want some more common sense. All the
accolades that I have, we don't have time to list
out for this job. I can do it, no problem.
I'm looking forward to it. Are two words I want
common sense in this bocc.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Ye all right, one more time, give that website real quick,
real quick.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
It is vote the number four a ste dot com.
We need or el thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Vote for the number four a ste dot com. That's OSTI,
but it spelled asty. If you get my drip. There
a ste pronounced Osti. Uncle Benny. Appreciate you coming on,
Ben and good luck to you.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Thanks Jimmy, I'll talk.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
To you soon, I hope. And ladies and gentlemen, I
gotta take a break. It's Lady on the radio, six
hundred KCl.
To me anywhere a matter of fact, people do. It's
amazing hear from people really all over the globe listening
on that iHeartRadio app. And so I got people the
vacation overseas or stationed overseas and they're tired of well,
they'll need they need their Jimmy fix, and so they
listened to me. And I appreciate you for doing that.
Good to have you here for you streaming me live
(00:21):
this morning. Good morning from Colorado. If you're not live
and you're listening on the podcast, I call the Laky effect.
Welcome back into the show, and hello from the past.
It's the sixteenth day of October, Year of Our Lord,
twenty twenty four. All right, I don't live in Larimer County,
but I do sometimes well, I oftentimes follow news in
Larimer County. One of the things that's always kfuffled me is,
(00:41):
first of all, as huge as Larimer County, as there's
only three commissioners. There's three districts and three commissioners, which
to me seems really small for such a big district.
And unfortunately, you get some boneheads or jackwagons, or as
Tim Wallas call them, knuckleheads that end up serving on
the Board of Commissioners, and yesterday I want you to
go back to my podcast listen to an interview that
(01:01):
I had with UH with with a local business owner
and you will find it at Jimmy Lakey dot com.
Tiffany Weber was on the program and Tiffany Weber talked
about a an interaction she had with the Border Commissioners
because of her winery and a balloon that was up
for twelve minutes and the Border Commissioners basically shut her
(01:22):
down for six months out of business. Twenty six people
laid off out of business. Jody Shaddick McNally from District
three on the Border Commissioners actually said we ought to
go into the I want to go into the back
home and tear up your vineyards. I mean, this is
a this is a tyrannical type Board of Commissioners with
that kind of attitude, all because of a balloon. They said,
(01:43):
you're you're not supposed to have balloons and supposed to
have a private party. Well, I didn't put the balloon up,
so somebody came in with had a big seating and
they put up the balloon to say, hey, we're in here.
But Nevertheless, the Blaurerman County Border Commissioners shut them down.
A Jodey Shattick McNally, running for reelection on your ballot
in lair mc county, wants to be seated back on
that border Commissioners. I want to welcome to the program,
(02:04):
Ben asked. He's a candidate in District three and he's
taking on Jody Shaddick McNally for the Larimer County boarder commissions.
Ben Walker to the show, Sir, how are you?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Thank you? Jimmy doing well. My name is Ben Ouste.
We'll just say stay with Oste. It's a difficult Swiss
name to pronounce around here.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Austy. I apologize for that. Ben, I screwed that up.
I know your signs. I've seen those around and it's
Uncle Benny. So give us the background of Uncle Benny.
Your background at the end of the Lamber County area.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Sure, that's a nickname I was given in college, Uncle Benny.
And so we opened a business called Uncle Bennie's Building Supply.
It was quaint. People loved it, grassroots, they embraced it.
I ran in twenty twenty Jimmy with as Ben Oustey.
People said, who in the heck is this asked this?
Ben asked ay or OSTI couldn't pronounce, And then later
we found we should have run with Uncle Benny on
(02:56):
the ballot, and that is what we did this time around.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So Benny is what people see. I'm not a Larimer
County guy, so uncle I'm a Weld County guy. So
it actually says uncle Benny, so they know it's you.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
That is correct. We have name branding big time here
in the county. I got nearly one hundred thousand votes.
In fact, they still have that garnered record there for
any elected official Lamber County back in twenty twenty. Not
bad for Riddeneck businessman.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Ben Austin, my guest, he's running for Laramber County commissioners
and Commissioner's seat in District three. I'm sure you're familiar
with the story that I've told you about Jody Shaddick
McNally and the winery in Fort Collins that got shut down.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Give me your thoughts on that story. It was a
crazy story.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I want people to go listen to Tiffany's story yesterday
on my website jimmy Linky dot com.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
My interview with her.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Give me your thoughts on six months because of a
balloon doesn't seem like they're very business friendly, local business friendly.
When it comes to the current Board of Commissioners and
District three.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
One of many stories, Jimmy, I can't even I don't
have enough fingers and toasts, so you have many. This
is one I started to hear about, actually from Tiffany
four years ago when I was just running actually in
twenty twenty for your Dermoc County Commissioner three. So I'm
very familiar with it. And that is, as I say,
she's brave. There's so many other business owners that do
(04:18):
not want to They feel there could be retaliation, and
they have experience retaliation for speaking up and telling their stories.
Backlash if you will. Again, because I'm out here in
the business sector, people feel comfortable telling me these stories
two years, one month. I try to listen, and seriously,
it's grievous. The hardest thing, probably for me, has been
(04:39):
for the last four years, since twenty twenty. For three
years people said, are you going to run again? Was
a question. Then the last year it became you've got
to run again. It was a demand. So you can
tell the seriousness that's surfacing from the people's voices here
in the county.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Can you help me understand what's going on with the
current representative from District three. I mean, it seems like
the layer mccawn, the Border commissioners that want to be
pro business have an environment to where businesses are surviving.
Especially when places like wineries and restaurants really struggled because
of the lockdowns during COVID many went out of business.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
It seems like they would be kind of partnering with them.
What's the deal?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Why the evidently victory all towards some businesses and you're
hearing more stories than just Tiffany Webers.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah, it's what once was six months to a year
on pulling getting a permit to proved, whether it be
residential or commercial. It's become two and three year testimonies
for many many I mean up to date real time.
I still hear this, Jimmy, some one of them took
a cake the other day. It was four to five
years they've been working on it in Larimer County. Now
(05:42):
it's a bigger development, so they're more complicated to design infrastructure.
But understanding that you see it becoming more difficult. I
don't know what to end to what end this is, Jimmy, honestly,
because we the brick and mortar montop businesses are the
backbone of this county, in any county, any municipality, to
drive them off and to your testimonies of people going
to Border County, honest to God is my witness, and
(06:03):
other counties around us for years has been very alarming.
That even started three years ago.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Jimmy, Wow, the voice of ben Ouste.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
He's running in District three, Uncle Benny as you might
know him, for Larimer County Border Commissioners.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Can you help me understand.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Why Larimer County other county Commissioners board seem to be
much larger. This is only three people. Should that change?
I think in my estimation it should because you get
one or two people that are tyrannical, like maybe you
have here, and suddenly the whole county shut down and
all the citizens paid the price because there's not really
enough people to build some kind of a large consensus.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Is it too small?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I don't know that that's the way to go. I
have been talking with one of my mentors, who happened
to be Darryl Clawson, who was a commissioner for Lumber
County years ago, ninety two years old. A man of wisdom.
He's just one of several that are awesome commissioners that
were reasonable, affordable, and sustainable through the years. I mean
he actually made a ruling for me twenty eight years ago,
(07:02):
changed an ordinance if you can imagine, so it can
be done, and softened some codes that were unreasonable even then.
So he said, and this is one of his estimations
is he served as commissioner and on a board for
a city municipality, and he said, the more people you
have involved on a decision making, the more difficult it
can become. Now, that's one opinion. There's a lot of
(07:23):
folks that like to be like, we have two hundred
I'm estimating two hundred and eighty thousand Larmber County now
on our census because the last was two fifty nine
and twenty twenty, so we have to wait obviously obviously
till two thirty to make it official. But indicators are
saying we must have about two hundred eighty thousand. So
I think that at the moment it's going to cost
(07:43):
more money right now, our budget I don't think would
allow another several offices because people are proposing three and
two three center three that are the full time commissioners
and two at large, So the budget has to be
looked at. I mean, I'm not saying no to that idea,
but I am really looking into it. It's come around
for several cycles through the years.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, well, well, well all we do know, whether you
know that's the kind of a big term, long term picture.
Is that Just the audio that I've seen at the
county Commissioner Board of Jody Shaddick just talking such trash
to a local business owner and literally wanting to her opinions.
She got blocked by other people in the commission. She
wanted to knock them out of business and just say
you can't do business anymore, you're done, revoke their license altogether.
(08:27):
I mean, that's tyrannical type stuff. And you just wonder
how an elected official feels that they have that much authority,
that much power, that much gravitas, that's that much ego.
There's just something that in my opinion, not yours. I'm
sure maybe it is, but in my opinion, there's just
something wrong with that type of an elected official continue
to go back when they really are not looking for
(08:48):
a solution. They want to drive a person out of business.
That's why you're running, ben Ostae. If somebody wants to
learn more about your campaign in District three for the
Layerma County Boarder commissioners, where.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Do they go?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I'd love it if they'd go to vote the number
four ASTE dot com. Stay with Ostay, remember, stay with OSTA.
And from the people's mounds to my ears to this
radio station, we have got to become more reasonable, sustainable
and affordable. We're not gonna make it. We need this
income from these businesses, not driving them out. And I
(09:20):
have to tell you, Jimmy, lastly, many Democrat business owners
have been telling me, I don't care what party this
guy's from. I want some more common sense. All the
accolades that I have, we don't have time to list
out for this job. I can do it, no problem.
I'm looking forward to it. Are two words I want
common sense in this bocc.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Ye all right, one more time, give that website real quick,
real quick.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
It is vote the number four a ste dot com.
We need or el thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Vote for the number four a ste dot com. That's OSTI,
but it spelled asty. If you get my drip. There
a ste pronounced Osti. Uncle Benny. Appreciate you coming on,
Ben and good luck to you.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Thanks Jimmy, I'll talk.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
To you soon, I hope. And ladies and gentlemen, I
gotta take a break. It's Lady on the radio, six
hundred KCl.
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