102124 Scott Bright

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of conversation. Let's switch over to the state legislature. You

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have a state House, you have a state Senate. Do
you have a bicameral form of government in the state
of Colorado as well? In both houses. In both chambers
of the state legislature, Republicans have pretty much one They
have a definitely a super minority. The other team has
a super majority. And we're real close in the other chamber.
Hoping to make a difference in one of the northern

(02:10):
Colorado districts is Scott Bright. He's running for Senate District
thirteen and he's on the hotline.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
He's been with us before, but now that your ballot
is out, I want to reintroduce you. Scott Bright, candidate
for Senate District thirteen. Scott, welcome back to the show.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Hey Jimmy, Thanks, it's great to be here.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Well, let's set the tables. A lot of folks maybe
are looking at their ballot. They haven't looked at their ballot.
They're going to look at their ballot and Senate District thirteen,
who will see you on the ballot?

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Give me the.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Boundaries all right on, so you'll see Greeley, Brighton and
all the small towns in between on a Highway eighty
five corridor.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
So the Highway eighty five corridor or how far south
do you go down there?

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Yeah, south through Brighton and including Henderson. So Greeley Evans
with sal Billchrestplattville, Fort Than, Brighton, Henderson, all the towns
along there.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
All the way all from Greeley to Brighton on the
US eighty five corridor there.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Basically, let's talk about it.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
That's the Democrats have controlled the state capitol. Talk about
the control of Senate District thirteen and what's it look
like now, and.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
What do you hope it looks like?

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yeah, you know, Senate District thirteen has long been a
Republican stronghold. The Democrats, who were in charge of redistricting
in twenty twenty one, tried to change that and so
they really tried to level up that district and make
it a competitive one that the Democrats could win. As
you might know, Kevin Priola has been term limited out

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of Senate District thirteen and he was voted in his
Republican and then switched parties two years into his term.
So we spent the last two years as a Democrat.
So it's time to bring that Senate District thirteen back
into the hands of the Republicans.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yeah, Priola is one of the biggest turn coach you've
ever had in the history of Colorado's for a state legislature,
and even when he declared himself with the Republican most
people thought it was disgraceful. So Gladdie's term limited. In
my humble opinion, your website is Scott Bright for Colorado,
Scott Bright, Coloradosenate dot com, Scott Bright br ighd coloradosenate

(04:16):
dot com. First of all, give us a little background
about who you are. I know you have a background
in the private sector of the business world. Tell us
who Scott Bright is.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Absolutely well. I've lived my entire life here in north
of Colorado, especially specifically in Senate District thirteen. Is the
way the boundaries are drawn up right now. I've lived
in Greeley and Platteville, worked in those communities my entire life.
I own several childcar centers. If you know ABC Child
Development Centers, you know who our family business has been.

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So I've been working in that industry for thirty five
years and advocating for the highest quality opportunities for parents
and families and kids that they can possibly have for
their kids while they're at work. Really happy to provide
that service, and that's what drew me to the legislature,
is advocating on behalf of parents for those things.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
I always got to be curious when I ask.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
I mean, I'm looking at You've got great endorsements as
Steve Reims, as Byron Pelton, the mayor of Greenley, the
mayor of Platteville, all on your endorsement list. The list
goes on. I'm missing out some Guilcrest mayor as well.
There's a lot of folks that have thrown their endorsement
behind you. But I'm always curious, astill, why it if
somebody wants to kind of get out of the private
sector and head down to the Colorado State Senate. You're

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not going to make a lot of money. It's not
you can't make a wage off of it. What drive
someone out of the private sector that want to head
down into a really hostile environment where Republicans are the
super minority.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Why do you want to go down there?

Speaker 3 (05:44):
Yeah, great question, Jimmy. You know I've been down there
advocating on behalf of childcare center owners and chalker opportunities
for the last ten years or so. Two years ago,
during that legislative session, I was trying to correct an
injustice that had been put together. Parents were not allowed
to direct the education of their three year old children.

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So I was down there meeting with the House Democrat
Education Committee president, and I was allowed about ten minutes
to have a discussion with her about my case about
parents directing their own kids education. And part way into that,
three or four minutes into that, she kind of stood
up and walked to the door and opened the door
and I said, wow, I guess we're done having this conversation.

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She said, yeah, we're done. You're heading a direction that
I can't sign up for. So she ushered me out
of her office. Then I met with every other legislator
on the House Education Committee and they all agreed with me, Yep,
we want to see parents direct their own kids' education
blah blah blah. And forty eight hours later when they

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all took the vote, they all voted against that. And
it was at that point in time where I said,
I can no longer be effective from this position. I
need to step into the chamber and have a better
voice for parents and kids.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
Help us understand. We know that you headed the public
schools they had the first grade K through twelve, if
you will, and there's been a big battle about how
much influence you have and how much they have to
let parents know about.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
But you're talking three year olds. Unpack that.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
What is it that the needed to be protected? What
who who was taking the direction of a three year
old's education and how was it? How was it off
the rails here? Help us understand?

Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah, you know, quite honestly, as you know, our governor
put together full day kindergarten for families, and then the
second feather he wanted his gap was universal preschool program
for families. So that means a taxpayer funded half day
preschool for four year olds. As that as that legislation

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got put together at the eleventh hour, what was snuck
into there that even I did not pick up before
it was voted on, was that three year old would
then be included in the universal preschool program. The caveats
would be that they would have to be served through
local school districts rather than parent choices in childcare or

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family childcare homes. And so what you had was the
scenario where at the eleventh hour this was put in.
Three year olds were forced through school districts, where as
four year olds were allowed to go to any licensed
childcare provider that signed up for UPK. So it was
a really odd scenario where you know, up through two
years old, you could take your child to a childcare center,

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but at three, if they qualified for universal pre school,
you had to go to a school district facility. At
four you could go back to your childcare provider, and
then at five you had to go back to the
school district. Obviously, so I was standing up for those
three year olds and the parents of those three year olds,
saying parents need to drive the location and the provider

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of that care, and they just didn't want to hear
about it in the legislature.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
The voice of Scott Bridey's running or state Senate and
if you want to get to know him, you can
go to Scott Bright coloradosenate dot com, Scott Bright coloradosenate
dot com. But Senate District thirteen and if you're in
Greeley all the way down through Brighton, it's at US
eighty five corridor. Is that Senate District thirteen And it's

(09:18):
one that's actually probably winnable and Scott Bright needs your
help to do that. Help us walk through the scenario.
What will be your I mean, obviously education, early childhood
education is kind of your professional background, but what else
in the state capital in the state of Colorado. Do
you see that hopefully you can see addressed and you

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can lend a voice of reason.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
To you know, I really feel like as I'm knocking
on doors and I'm talking to people the groups that
I address, the number one issue that people are having
today is the high cost of living. Folks are talking
about how expensive rent is, how expensive groceries are, how
expensive it is to fill up their car, how expensive
childcare is, how expensive all these things are. And I
got to tell you that what creates those high costs

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are these arbitrary pieces of legislation and that get passed
by do goods who think that they're improving society. But
what they're really doing is they're just packing on to
the costs of what it costs for folks to live
every day. And so I want to do the best
I can to reduce those unnecessary regulations. I mean, regulations
are there for a reason to provide a basic level

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of safety for folks. But anytime you start stacking regulations
higher and higher upon that, all you're doing is you're
driving up the cost of looting for everybody. So when
when legislators dream up you know, their pet projects and
increase taxes and fees and regulations. That just drives up
the cost of products. And I feel like we're headed
in the wrong direction if we do that. I'd like
to turn that around and bring it back to center. Also,

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I'd really love to address public safety. People just don't
quite feel as safe as they used to be. You know,
they're putting double locks on their doors, and they're worried
about what's going on in the streets outside and at night.
And I just want to do what I can to
provide law enforcement with the tools that they need and
quit handcuffing the law enforcement on really taking care of

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the crime that it's some taking over some of our communities.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
The website is Scott Bright, coloradocenter dot com. Obviously it's
a winnable seat for you. What do you need We're
fourteen fifteen days away from the election. What do you need? Obviously,
people have a ballot. They need to look for you
on the ballot. Go to your website, Scott brightcoloradosenate dot com.
What else do you need to get across the finish line?

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Well, you know, I really feel at this point in time,
everybody has a phone and if you look at your
contacts list and your phone, I bet you know not one,
probably not just ten, but probably a lot more than
that of folks that live in Senate District thirteen. Please
use your phone, look through your contacts and talk to
those folks that are in Senate District thirteen and encourage

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them to vote. It's really important that we turn out
the vote this year. It's really important that folks not
stay home. So it really low to have spread the
word and get folks to turn up and vote.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
Scott Bright, Coloradosenate dot com. I'm sure there's a contact page.
There's a donation page here as well. They can learn
more about you, Scott Bright, coloradosenate dot com. Is that
the best way to proceed?

Speaker 3 (12:18):
That's it? And you can contact me there. I'm happy
to answer the phone, return emails, whatever you'd like, hypod
engage with anyone.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
Scott Bright, b R I g HD Scott Bright, Colorado
Senate dot com and reach out to him there. Scott
appreciate you hopping on the program. If go to this website,
especially that USAD five corridor from Greeley all the way
through Brighton, so you go through Well County all the
way down into parts of Adams County. It's a big
swath of people a winnable seat. And Scott Bright, Colorado

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Senate does District thirteen and again. His website is Scott
Bright Coloradosenate dot com. You can learn more about how
to get involved in to contact him. Indeed, notice a
cooler weather over the weekend. I'm sure as heck did.
Some of my friends were like, I turned on the furnace.
I'm like, now, the furnace ain't coming on for a while.
At my house, I keep it kind of meat locker

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year round compared to most people. But I did on
Friday night, came home from some events and activities that
I was doing, and I decided it was time to
turn on my beautiful fireplace. I turned that thing on,
and I've got a gorgeous fireplace. It's a linear flame,
and from my fireplace in the great room of my home,
the main living area, it's actually glass. Well, it's open flame.

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It's an open flame, which is phenomenal technology, so you
can actually reach in and burn yourself if you're not careful.
But you also can see out into the backyard where
there's a fire pit and outdoor living space, and it's
really kind of a cool setup that we created a
couple of years ago. Listen, I don't know. My fireplace
is beautiful, but it also is a great heat source.
A matter of fact, it can become a real crazy

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heat source. I've got to turn it down low because
I don't like it that warm in my home. But
it's beautiful flame. I love it.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Listen.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
You need a fireplace you love, a fireplace that can
provide you the heat you need. I didn't have to
turn on my furnace because my fireplace turned it on
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News Talk six hundred KCl Megan Barth with me next spot.

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