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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm Christy Burton Brown and for Dan today.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
If you haven't heard, California had a new law take
effect this week. It was signed last year by Democrat
Governor Gavin Newsom, and the law controls local governments, which
I guess is not surprising for California, who likes to
control anything and everything they can get their hands on.
But it specifically bans local governments from requiring IDs to vote.
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A very wide ranging law that would say no city,
no county, no municipality that has its own election can
have a different view than the state on this. So
the state went in and banned any voter ID requirements whatsoever.
Troubling law, I think the Gavin Newsom path and that
just came into effect this week. But also interesting when
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you take in context the fact that Nevada had a
similar law on their ballot in this last November as
their voter statewide on a ballot measure whether or not
they would like to impose voter ID requirements, and over
seventy percent of Nevada and said yes. Now, this law
also had voter ID requirements even for those who vote
by mail. It required them, I believe, to submit a
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driver's license or social security number that could then be confirmed.
So Nevada is a mixed voting state. You can vote
in person or you can vote mail in ballot. Colorado,
of course, is an all mail in ballot state. So
that would actually be a way that Colorado could impose
voter ID requirements, something we haven't done, but a lot
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of people on both sides of the aisle think we
should because it makes our elections even more secure, or
I should say, gives people confidence that they are secure,
which in many cases is what people want to need.
Ornea always has to lead the nation in the opposite direction,
this time banning any local government from imposing any form
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of voter ID. In other news, Mike Johnson has been
reelected Speaker of the House. Now, many people thought it
might take a couple of ballots for this to get done,
and in fact, when it came down to it, when
the vote was happening on the floor. It did actually
look like it was going to a second ballot. Some
of the main reporters that cover all the happenings in
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Congress actually had even tweeted out that a second ballot
was happening, and then suddenly it didn't, and he was
a reelected speaker on the first ballot. What actually happened
is he had lost enough Republican votes initially to not
be re elected on the first ballot. I believe he
had lost five votes, but two of those people got
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a call from President elect Donald Trump flipped their votes
before the tally was called, and he was then re
elected speaker. I'm going to play a clip that Mike
Johnson had said, of course all the news surrounding him
on his way into the Capitol today, and here was
his take on what was going to happen.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Next part of the process.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
But I expect that we'll get it done.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
What about what has Trump done to help you here in.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
This after well you've seen his statement simul time, get
these posolate members.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
How many members as he spoken in this point to day,
I don't know how we hope, So we hope, so
would you grind.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
From so basically, Mike Johnson's take was, we're getting it done.
He said he was in there for the long haul.
He also basically said, you know, maybe Trump's going to
help us out, maybe he's not, but he believed he'd
had the votes, counted the votes, and obviously, either way
he got it done. Even Marjorie Taylor Green, who has
been an interesting ally of this speaker, sometimes speaking out
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in his favor, sometimes pushing on him from the other direction,
had released a video the night before the vote saying, Hey, Republicans,
we have to come together. We have to actually have
a working Congress and get this done. I found it
funny that a number of the Democrat representatives also went
on TV, which of course everyone does before speakers vote,
claiming that the people wanted Hakeem Jeffries and that's who
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should actually be elected speaker. And one of them, Democrat
Representative Clark, specifically said, we have heard lay and clearly
from the American people. They want good public schools to
send their children to and to make sure we're continuing
to have clean air and clean water in this country.
And apparently she added all that up to somehow indicate
that they wanted Hikeem Jeffries to be Speaker, even though
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the popular vote across the nation elected Republicans in the House,
in the Senate, and in the presidency.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
So I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Which people she's listening to, but it's not the majority
of the American people, and that was confirmed by the
vote in Congress that re elected Mike Johnson as Speaker.
I think a lot of people question Mike Johnson's abilities
and wonder sometimes why he loses votes, say on the
Continuing Resolution, had to remake that deal before the end
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of the year. My opinion is that he actually knows
what he's doing the entire time, that he has a strategy,
that he knows he's going to lose specific votes but
needs to take them anyway, and that he actually has
the end goal in sight the entire time. I think
he's very smart. Used to be an attorney for Alliance
Defending Freedom. That's an excellent organization that defends constitutional rights,
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religious liberty, equal protection, pro life, pro family policies across
the nation. They've won many victories at the US Supreme Court,
and Mike Johnson used to be an attorney working for them.
In addition to a number of other things he's done
in his career, but they don't hire people who aren't
extremely smart and strategic. I think Mike Johnson definitely fits
the bill, and sometimes even the things that appear to
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be losses for him, I think are actually strategic losses
that lead toward a win in the end. If you
have different thoughts or seated to cerently, you can always
call in during the show eight five to five four
zero five eight two five five. I'm Christy Burton Brown
in for Dan Kaplis today. Another interesting happening after the vote.
Chip Roy, Congressman Chip Roy kind of loves to, I
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don't know, get himself and the indius and have his
own thoughts and opinions. Many respect him for his extremely
conservative viewpoint and the way he pushes on Congress to
actually deliver for the American people, to cut the budget and.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
To actually keep their word. A lot of good things
that he does.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
But he sent a letter and was only able to
get ten other Congressmen to sign onto it with him,
So I'm not really sure how effective this is going
to be. But they signed a letter saying that members
in the House should work at least as hard as
the Senate. During the first portion of President Trump's second
term in office, and that for the first ten weeks
they should all.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Work five days a week.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
If you weren't aware, Congress typically meets three days a
week on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. They meet Mondays and
Fridays as needed. Sometimes there's committee meetings that happen on
either or both of those days. Certainly a lot of
talks and negotiations and all of those things that go
on among the leadership on those days. But your average
congressman is in DC for votes on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
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So chip Roy thinks that should change, and that they
should show up five days a week, just like the
Senate to get it done.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I would have a.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Different argument if his goal is to be more effective.
I think instead, perhaps some of their colleagues should limit
the number of speeches they give on the House floor.
Perhaps they should limit some of the theatrics in committee,
and perhaps they should actually do the work to get
the right bills passed and do the right negotiations behind
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the scenes. I personally find it somewhat interesting that it's
chip Roy calling for Congress to do more work when
he's been one of the main congressmen to actually delay
the work of the House when Kevin McCarthy was in charge,
and when Mike Johnson has been in charge, And however
you may feel about Kevin McCarthy specifically, or even Mike
Johnson as Speaker of the House, it's always very interesting
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to be when someone who has been one of the
biggest delayers out there is now saying, oh, now, I
think we should show up more days to get work done. Well,
I think there's other ways to get more work done,
and it would probably be called not doing some of
these delay tactics and not enjoying listening to yourself talk
so much on the House floor. You know, I think
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there's a whole lot of speeches that happen that don't
necessarily need to happen. If you want to speak out
on an issue that resonates with your district, you're representing
your district. Maybe you should spend more time in district
talking to your people instead of giving a speech on
the House floor that almost no one hears.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
But anyway, I'm.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Not so sure his letter is going to get that far.
One of funny thing that happened before the speaker vote
Jim Jordan, who most people know who he has a
congressman from Ohio who's been out to Colorado to speak
at Lincoln Day Dinners friends with Congresswoman Lauren Bobert. He
actually had to correct the media today. They were all
up in arms over a tweet from Representative Bob Good
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saying that he was not going to vote for Mike
Johnson as speaker. And so of course the media is like, oh,
maybe he's not going to get the votes, maybe he can't,
you know, bring this home. And Jim Jordan had to say,
Bob Good is no longer a congressman. The media literally
said to him, are you sure that he's not a congressman?
Can you double check that? And he said he lost
his primary last June. He's definitely not a congressman anymore.
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So his opinion on Mike Johnson as speaker actually has
a relevant to the discussion. So always fun when the
media has to be corrected. You're on the Dankpla Show.
I'm Christy Burton Brown. When we come back, I'm go
we give you an update on the Jeffco Public school
situation with a chief of schools being fired for possession
of child pornography.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Keep it here on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 7 (09:54):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
As an update, if you were listening to the show
oh yesterday, you might have heard that the Chief of
schools in Jefferson County Public Schools was terminated by the
district roughly a month ago when there was an active
investigation into him by the Jefferson County Sheriff's office, but
the Jeffico Public Schools had not updated parents on what
was going on. And it's particularly due to the long
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string of arrests by employees of the Jefferson County Public Schools,
including a school counselor a social worker, a number of
whom were arrested for sexual assault on a child by
a person in a position of trust. This happened at
least five times last year in Jefferson County Public Schools.
Parents were obviously concerned when the chief of schools, who
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is in charge of a lot of the employees, was
terminated with no explanation. Yesterday, County in Maryland, their Sheriff's
office released to details that David Weize, who was the
chief of schools, had killed himself and committed suicide in
Maryland over the holidays, and so the Jefferson County Sheriff's
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Department released a statement on that and then today or actually,
you know what, I think it actually happened yesterday.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I'm looking at the email right now.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
So on January second, the superintendent and board president finally
released an email to parents in the district. But the
way they explain it, I think is very concerning for
any parents who are concerned about the priorities of this
district when it comes to the.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Protection of children.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
So they say, dear jeff Co staff and families, we
learned yesterday of the passing of Jeffco's former Chief of Schools,
David Wice, who he terminated last month.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
And here's the part you shoulday attention to.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
As soon as we learned of an active investigation into
a personal legal issue by the Jefferson County Sheriff's office,
and they go on to write more, but no explanation
to parents of what this personal legal issue was. I
can understand that a sheriff's department might ask the school
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to be cautious in the information it provides, and often
you're not allowed to give a whole lot of details
when there's an active investigation going on.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I get that.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
But when you are putting out an email because there
already is information out there that parents are able to
see on social media, and you are in charge of this,
You're the board chair of the school district, you're the
superintendent of the school district, and you want to call
the possession of child sexual assault material also called child
pornography as a personal legal issue that he was being
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investigated for. I think that right there shows any parent
who has a child in the Jefferson County School District
the priorities and concerns of the leadership of that district.
And if I were a parent who lived in that
district personally, I would be very, very concerned with the
way they're handling the situation, especially again when you consider
all of the arrests that have happened in Jefferson County
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schools last year for the exact same reason. Every single
arrest that I'm aware of in the Corral. Republic Radio
detailed this in an article yesterday, was for sexual assault
on a child by a person in position of trust, or,
in the case of the chief of public schools, possession
of child sexual assault material. So Jefferson County Public Schools
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has a whole lot to deal with right now, and
I think top of their list should be being transparent
with parents so they can actually figure out how to
protect children and what the world is going on with
employees in that district who are committing these crimes against
children over and over again.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Another bit of news.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Since the legislative session is about to start next Wednesday,
it will be in full swing. Tom Sullivan, he is
a senator from a Rapahoe County known to be against
gun rights pro gun control. He has set Supposedly, this
has not been confirmed. I've not seen a copy of
the bill, but it is being reported that he is
going to bring back the assault weapons ban under a
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different name, and specifically.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It's going to be a very long bill.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I think ban control restrict a whole lot of things
related to firearms. But he wants to ban firearms that
accept detachable magazines. So if you have a gun that
accepts those kind of magazines that you could use, he
wants to ban all forms of that. That's the report
the kind of bill he is expected to drop. He
moved from the House to the Senate recently, so the
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Senate's a little harder to get that kind of legislation
out of But while the Democrats were held back from
having a super majority in the Senate, and while the
super majority in the House was removed in November's election,
they still have a definite majority control the House, the Senate,
and the Governor's office. If an assault weapons ban of
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any form is able to get through the two houses,
I'm very curious to see what Governor Polis would do
with this. He's been very cagy, i would say about
his take on assault assault weapons bans in the past,
made a variety of statements, But when Elizabeth EPP's, a
representative from Denver who lost her primary last year, ran
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the assault weapons ban during her term in office, it
appeared the guner Poles did not support that version. But
it also seemed like, based on his statements, that he
might be open to other versions of assault weapons bans.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
So we'll see where this goes.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
I have no doubt that there are organizations in the
state like Rocky Mountain Gun Owners and the Colorado Shooting
Association who would be very willing to take these kind
of laws to.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Court if they pass. So plenty of.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Things to watch out for in the next legislative session,
like another thing that's important for people to watch out
for is more attacks on charter schools. Last session, we
saw a bill called a Charter School Accountability Act, And
as someone who's evaluated a lot of laws and policy,
and I'm a constitue lawyer as well, I definitely suggest
you don't ever just take a bill title at its
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audit face value. They can set whatever bill title they want.
I mean, sure, it has to be relevant to the
subject of the bill, but they could absolutely make a
bias title that's framed in the way they want to
present it to the media and to people. So when
we looked last year at the Charter School Accountability Act,
it was very clear that it was not about accountability
for charter schools.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
It was about shutting charter schools down.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
In fact, one of the main sponsors of the bill,
Lisa Cutter, went around and said that the goal of
this bill was to create the beginning of the end
of charter schools in Colorado. Now, Colorado has the second
highest charter school population in the entire nation. We have
a long history of bipartisan support for charter schools school
choice options for families across our state. But the Teacher's
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Union likes to jump into the mix and mess around
with it every so often and try to take away
options from parents. So they would love nothing more than
to create the beginning of the end for charter schools
here in Colorado. We really need to be on the
watch for bills like this. Thankfully, this bill got killed
in committee last year. There was a bipartisan opposition to
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the bill. But again, when you look into the details,
you look at the states that the Democrat reps on
the House Education Committee made, it wasn't a definite support
for charter schools or school choice. They just thought this
particular version of the bill needed work and they weren't
going to go for it. I do think there's a
very good piece of news in who the Democrats chose
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to elect as the Senate president this year.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
James Coleman as Senate President.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
He actually is a supporter of school choice, and it
probably would be hard to get a bill like this
flat out attacking charter schools and trying to close them
down through the Senate with James Coleman as the president. Now,
as we've seen with Governor Polis all the time, you
can have a particular position as a Democrat if you
want to that's opposed to the majority of your party,
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but then often and your party tries to hold you
in line and make you vote with their majority, whether
or not it's your personal position. We've seen Governor Polis
cave numerous times on that, and then sometimes we see
him vetoing bills that his party really wanted. So I
think we'll see where Senator Coleman comes down on it.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I have in the past.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I've spoken at an event with him on the topic
of school choice, and he is a strong supporter. Has
run a nonprofit organization helping to get more school choice
options into Colorado community.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
So I would expect him to be a strong supporter
of that.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
But we will have to watch and see, as with
everything else in the legislative session in Colorado, I'm Christy
Burton Brown. You're here on the DANKPLA Show. When we
come back from the break, we're going to welcome newly
elected state.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Representative Jarvis Caldwell.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Who is bringing what I think is one of the
most important bills of the next session to stop violent
and repeat criminals from getting back out on the streets
immediately after they're arrested.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Keep you right here, on the Dankpla Show.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
And now back to the Dankaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
We have a great guest with us for this segment.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Newly elected State Representative Jarvis Caldwell, representing Colorado Springs, is
bringing what I think is one of the most important
bills of this session. I'm going to bring him into
the Dan Caplis Show. Now, welcome to the show, Representative Caldwell.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
And Christy, thanks so much for having me on.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Absolutely and I know you've worked on a lot of
good issues over the years in various capacities and now
you get to do it at the State House representing
Colorado Springs. And so I'd love for our listeners to
hear about your bill banning pr bonds and maybe you
could explain what those are exactly for violent and repeat criminals.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Absolutely, so just to get your listeners some context here.
Governor pull Us has said repeatedly that he wants when
he leaves office for Colorado to be a top ten
safe state. And the reality of said is is one
of the number three most dangerous state right now, and
we rank in the top five for a lot of things.
You don't want to be ranked in the top five.
Four whether that's carsift, whether that's property crime, I think
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we're number two nationally, whether that's cocaine use, bank robbery.
I mean, we're just completely on the other end of
the spectrum here. And so one of those issues we're
ranked number ace nationally and violent crime, which is extremely
disturbing and everybody should be concerned about that. And so
what we're seeing right now with current Colorado law is
that repeat violent offenders can get arrested for committing a
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violent crime and just bond themselves out basically. I mean
you think of it as cashless veil when you think
of the PR bonds, which stands for personal Recognizance bond.
They get arrested and they basically sign a piece of
paper saying, you know, yes, I won't commit any more
crimes before my court date.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
And I'll show up to my court date. So they're
getting arrested.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
For a violent crime. Remember this is a violent crime.
This is not getting arrested for jaywalking. This is doing
something against someone else, getting arrested for it, and then
just bailing themselves out with no kind of bail whatsoever.
And so what my bill is going to do is
it's going to stay that that if you've been convicted
of a violent crime in the last two years, or
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you are currently pending two or more violent crime charges,
you cannot get a PR bond. Now, constitutionally, we have
to have some level of bond, So it's going to
set it at seventy five hundred dollars, which is pretty steep,
but I think also reasonable. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Absolutely, And that's actually an interesting point that you bring
up what level you would set that bond at, because
I've been told by law enforcement officials across the state
that when PR bonds aren't allowed some of the judges,
we'll just get around it by granting one to two
dollars bonds.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Which is pretty much the same thing as a PR bond.
So I'm glad that you have a little.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Absolutely, and what kind of you know, this incentive is
that for a riki violent criminal. You know, we've got
to turn things around in the state. It's interesting someone
had posted earlier today about u HAUL said that we're
one of the states that are actually losing citizens, and
I had commented that, you know, I was campaigning, I
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was going around door knocking. I would see realtor signs
in people's front yard and I would say to them,
you know, are you.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Coming or going?
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Are are you buying the house or are you selling
the house? And almost always they said, this is my house,
I'm selling it and I'm leaving Colorado. And when I
would ask them, well, why is that, it's usually cost
of living and crime, and crime is something that we
can address that there's not going to be a big
cost to it, because right now we all know that
we're in a budget crisis, which I have opinions on
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that as well, but this is a bill that it's
not going to most likely it's not going to carry
any kind of physical notes. So this is something we
can get done and it's not going to cost state.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Anything absolutely, and we'll keep our communities safer. We're talking
with Representative Jarvis Caldwell, who is a newly elected state
representative representing an area of Colorado Springs. He'll start the
legislative session on Wednesday along with all the rest of
the legislators. But so I agree with you that it's
been very clear from voters if you look at the
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ballot in November, that they want criminal justice measures that
keep communities safe, that are pro law enforcement to pass.
And when the legislature isn't willing to do it. The
people will do it for themselves. But I am curious
with this particular bill. I know State Rep. Gave Evans,
who's now Congressman, had run a similar bill last year.
It had gotten some Democrat support, but not enough to
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get out of committee. So how are you feeling about
your bill when it comes to bipartisan support?
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Absolutely so, Yes.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
Congressman gave Evans originally ran this still earlier this year.
Like you said, it had some support from Democrats that
got killed in Judiciary Committee, which I imagine is where
it's going to go back to.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
I am going to be a member of.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
The Judiciary Committee, so I'm going to try to use
those Yeah, thank you. I'm going to try to use
those relationships on the Judiciary Committee to try to win
some people over. And I appreciate that you brought up
the point about the invalid initiatives that just passed recently,
because that is a signal from the people of Colorado
that they want to support our law enforcement and they
want to clean up our streets, and so that's going
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to be a huge issue that I'm pushing there. As
far as the bipartisan support. So Representative Shandon Bert, a Democrat,
was on that bill which Congressman gave Evans earlier this year.
She has signed back up on this bill. She is
one of the prime sponsors. I have a Republican and
the Senate signed on Senator Byron Pelton, and I'm working
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to secure a Democrat on that side. But the big
thing I want to push here and the idea that
I want to push to heered listeners. If you've been
around the legislature at all, you know that if Governor
Polis wants something passed, it's going to get passed, right,
whether it goes to Judiciary and those are some tuck
on crime members on there or not. If he wants
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it passed, it will get passed, even if it has
to get assigned to a different.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Committee to make sure it passes.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
So I think we really need a pressure the governor
as well as the members on the Judiciary committee if
that's where the bill ends up, to pass this bill.
And as I told the governor's people when I met
with him a few weeks ago, but the governor has
two years left on his term, so yeah, he's got
two years to turn things around. And all was straight
up with these people, and I said, we all know
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it's the worst cut secret at the capital that the
governor has higher ambitions one day most likely.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Yeah, and so you know, here's.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
His chance to try to turn things around in his
last two years and be able to telt that one
day when he pursues something different.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Well exactly.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
And I do think that's a huge piece of what
he's missing is the crime side. He hasn't done a
whole lot other than say, in his State of this
date addresses that his goal is to move Colorado to
the tenth one of the top ten most safe estates
in the nation, and as you pointed out, we are
extremely far from that right now. So yeah, it'll be
interesting to see if he actually gets behind these kind
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of bills, especially seeing the verdict from the people on
last year's ballot.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Right, that's exactly right. I mean, the people have spoken.
When they have a chance to do this, when they
have a chance to vote on cracking down on crime,
they do it overwhelmingly. You know what, Let's let's save
a BALLID initiative and r hit all the money and
time and resources that go into getting a balid initiive
pack let's just do it from a legislature.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Let's do our job.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
We can have this thing passed and it'll be done
here in a couple of months, and we can start
cracking down on violent crime.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Absolutely, and I think the fact that you're focusing on
violent and repeat criminals should be a no brainer for
any elected official to want to keep those people off
the streets. And you know, if they pay bond, they
can still get off, but.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
At least they're hearing.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
You know, they have to have to stand in front
of a judge and they have to be held accountable
instead of just let out on the street immediately after
being arrested.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Giant problem in Colorado.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
If you live anywhere in the state, or you talk
to any law enforcement and represent a call. Well, I know,
I'm a little bit putting on the spot right here.
We have one minute left. I'm curious. You said you
had thoughts on the budget shortfall. Do you want to
could you share a few of them in a minute?
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
So the bottom line is is we keep hearing that.
You know, the governor says it's six hundred million dollars
budget deficay. Our JBC people are a Republicans they're saying
it's more like one point three one point four billion dollars.
Just I want the listeners and the people have called rather.
Keep in mind, it's a one billion or however much
shortfall from a record high budget, right from a forty
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two billion dollar budget.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
So while it is a.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
Deficit, it's a deficit from a record high budget. And
so what I'm doing with other Republicans, we're putting together
a list of what we feel is wasteful spending, kind
of like Ran Paul does with his Best of this
Year in December. And so whenever we want a public
safety build to pass, like securing our schools more or
helping our police officers, when we're told that there's no
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money for that, we're going to push forward a list
and say, okay.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Well what about all these?
Speaker 6 (27:43):
A budget is a replection.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Of your priorities.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
Yes, it's a replection of your priorities and your commitments
to constituents.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
So where are your priorities?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Love it?
Speaker 3 (27:51):
That's an excellent question to ask any elected official, where
are your priorities?
Speaker 2 (27:54):
And then make sure they can prove it out.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Well.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
We have to take a break on The Dankapa Show
but Representative called, well, well, loved having you here.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
I hope you come back and talk to us during
the session.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Absolutely, thanks so much for having me. Christy.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
All right, that was Representative Jarvis Caldwell. I'm Christy Burton
Brown here on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Welcome back to the Dan Kaplis Now. I'm Christy Burton
Brown and for Dan.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Today, the US Surgeon General is coming out with a
new warning today, claiming that alcohol is the third leading
cause of cancer now behind tobacco and obesity. I on
to play a clip for you, but the Surgeon General
is basically recommending that they're actually have warning labels placed
on alcohol products.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Now, which would be a huge, huge change. But here
you go, all.
Speaker 8 (28:48):
Right, the US Surgeon General is sounding the alarm about
the link between alcohol and increased cancer risk in a
new advisory. He's linking alcohol consumption to seven of cancer
and is calling for warning labels on alcoholic beverages just
like the ones you see on cigarettes. Stenen's Meg Trell
is joining us now with the details. This is quite something.
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I'm very curious to hear. What these links are.
Speaker 9 (29:18):
Yeah, Sarah, I mean, this is the direction that the
scientific research has been headed for some time. We've increasingly
been hearing that no amount of alcohol is really recommended
for your health, and that really goes against the suggestions
we've been hearing since the nineties that maybe alcohol, at
least in moderation, maybe red wine, maybe it's good for you.
Increasingly that's been going in the opposite direction, and so
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today the US Surgeon General is issuing this advisory, noting
that alcohol is the third leading preventable cause of cancer
in the United States, after tobacco and obesity.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
So if you're making New Year's resolution still, if you're
a little bit behind and creating your list, maybe staying
away from alcohol could be a good thing to add
to your list. With this new warning, I'm curious when
it comes to all the health and nutrition topics, if
there's going to be a shift towards I don't know,
healthier living, more nutrition encouraged by the government once Trump
takes office, If Robert F. Kennedy Junior RFK is appointed
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as Health and Human Services Secretary, if the Senate decides
to confirm him or not, you know, there's a lot
of debate over some of his positions and whether he
goes too far in some regards. Certainly I have issues
with his stances on the life and abortion issue. However,
I have also seen that President Trump is appointing pro
life people to the positions that typically will deal with
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the abortion pill and planned parenthood funding and other issues
like that. So presuming pro life people actually get to
say in those areas, then I think RFK Junior's appointment
is an interesting decision because it really would push the
conversation towards real health. There's so many areas when you
look at health and nutrition that Europe is so far
ahead of the United States on, and companies that manufacture
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cereal and basic foods that we're all eating and feeding
our kids on a daily basis are produced in a
very different way in Europe and the United States, proving
that these companies actually can create this food with fewer chemicals,
fewer dies, and all these things that clearly lead to
giant health risks for people. So this alcohol warning I
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found interesting actually coming from the Biden Administration's surgeon General,
and as a reporter was indicating from CNN, research has
been pointing in this direction for quite some time. But
now finally it's just clearing everyone in the face. So
the Surgeon General recommending that those warning labels actually get
put on so that people know the risks when they
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are consuming alcohol. And I'm a big fan of people
being aware of what they're doing. I think transparency accountability,
whether it's from corporations, companies, whether it's from the government.
Elected officials almost can never have enough transparency or accountability.
People should be aware of the risks of what they're
engaging in. And I'm all four people researching and figuring
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it out for themselves. But there's no reason that companies
or the government shouldn't disclose known risks when they are
putting something in front of people. That tends to make
society better, when people have more information rather than less.
I'm Christy Burton Brown. You're on the Dan Kapla show.
You can call in anytime eight five to five four
zero five eight two five five. Let's see. I think
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today some of the biggest news really was Mike Johnson
getting reelected a speaker, not a huge surprise to a
lot of people. He claimed he had the votes counted
and he did. President Trump coming in at the end
to call to Republicans who flipped their votes away from
Johnson back to him before the tally was actually counted.
But I'll play this other clip from Democrat Representative Clark
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claiming that she had really heard from the American people
before the vote.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Jeff Raes, yes to belt, Happy new year to you,
and the Democrats are going to be at full strength
at two point fifteen and committed to voting for Haking
Jeffries First Speaker, because he has shown time and time
again that he is committed to bringing the concerns the
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American people have to Congress and returning solutions to them.
And we have heard loudly and clearly from the American people.
They are concerned with the cost of living, whether that
is housing or childcare, making sure that we have affordable groceries.
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They want good public schools to send their children to,
and make sure that we are continuing to have clean
air and clean water.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
In this country.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
Those are the issues we need to get to work on.
Those are the issues that Haking Jeffries has been a
leader on. That is why he'll have one hundred percent
Democratic support today.
Speaker 8 (33:57):
Joining us now is Democratic conson We made.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Hair repeat of that, but What's interesting about that clip
is that if that is actually what Democrats have been
focused on in the November election, maybe they would actually
be in control of Congress right now and actually able
to elect a speaker instead of having Mike Johnson, a
Republican as speaker. Those issues that are representative Clark brought up,
like affordability issues, education issues, are not the ones that
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Democrats were campaigning on. They were campaigning if you looked
at Kamala Harris's campaign largely on abortion and largely on
criticisms of President Trump and Republicans, not with new ideas
on how to solve affordability and education and crime issues
across the US. So that is exactly why we do
not have Speaker hackem Jeffries and instead have Speaker Mike
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Johnson re elected today on a first ballot, which many
people are saying is very very impressive, especially when you
see how many ballots it took to actually elect him
originally when there was that big fight over the speaker
and how Kevin McCarthy was let go. Oh, one extra
change was actually made in the rules, because they make
a lot of rule changes when they real x speakers.
Is that now instead of one Republican or Democrat being
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able to ask to remove the speaker and have a
vote on it, and the party would be determined on
who the speaker is. Democrats can't ask it for a
Republican speaker. It actually got moved to nine members. Now
you have to have nine people asking for a vote
to remove the speaker. So a small change on that,
but I think that's definitely better than one. I'm not
sure how they arrived on nine, but one is definitely
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overkill and just delays the process of actually getting things
done for the American people. If you stay tuned here
on the Dan Kapla Show, I'm Christy Burton Brown and
in the next hour I'm going to.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Bring in State Senator Barbara Kirkmeyer, one of.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
The most powerful Republican senators at the Capitol, who sits
on the Joint Budget Committee and can bring a lot
of insight into the state's budget shortfall debates between Democrats
and Republicans of exactly how big that shortfall is.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Is it six hundred million or is it over a
billion dollars?
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Senator Kirkmeyer will definitely shed light on that when she
joins us at the top of the next hour, keep
it here on the day and capital.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
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Speaker 3 (00:18):
If you haven't heard, California had a new law take
effect this week. It was signed last year by Democrat
Governor Gavin Newsom, and the law controls local governments, which
I guess is not surprising for California, who likes to
control anything and everything they can get their hands on.
But it specifically bans local governments from requiring IDs to vote.
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A very wide ranging law that would say no city,
no county, no municipality that has its own election can
have a different view than the state on this. So
the state went in and banned any voter ID requirements whatsoever.
Troubling law, I think the Gavin Newsom path and that
just came into effect this week. But also interesting when
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you take in context the fact that Nevada had a
similar law on their ballot in this last November as
their voter statewide on a ballot measure whether or not
they would like to impose voter ID requirements, and over
seventy percent of Nevada and said yes. Now, this law
also had voter ID requirements even for those who vote
by mail. It required them, I believe, to submit a
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driver's license or social security number that could then be confirmed.
So Nevada is a mixed voting state. You can vote
in person or you can vote mail in ballot. Colorado,
of course, is an all mail in ballot state. So
that would actually be a way that Colorado could impose
voter ID requirements, something we haven't done, but a lot
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of people on both sides of the aisle think we
should because it makes our elections even more secure, or
I should say, gives people confidence that they are secure,
which in many cases is what people want to need.
Ornea always has to lead the nation in the opposite direction,
this time banning any local government from imposing any form
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of voter ID. In other news, Mike Johnson has been
reelected Speaker of the House. Now, many people thought it
might take a couple of ballots for this to get done,
and in fact, when it came down to it, when
the vote was happening on the floor. It did actually
look like it was going to a second ballot. Some
of the main reporters that cover all the happenings in
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Congress actually had even tweeted out that a second ballot
was happening, and then suddenly it didn't, and he was
a reelected speaker on the first ballot. What actually happened
is he had lost enough Republican votes initially to not
be re elected on the first ballot. I believe he
had lost five votes, but two of those people got
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a call from President elect Donald Trump flipped their votes
before the tally was called, and he was then re
elected speaker. I'm going to play a clip that Mike
Johnson had said, of course all the news surrounding him
on his way into the Capitol today, and here was
his take on what was going to happen.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Next part of the process.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
But I expect that we'll get it done.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
What about what has Trump done to help you here in.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
This after well you've seen his statement simul time, get
these posolate members.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
How many members as he spoken in this point to day,
I don't know how we hope, So we hope, so
would you grind.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
From so basically, Mike Johnson's take was, we're getting it done.
He said he was in there for the long haul.
He also basically said, you know, maybe Trump's going to
help us out, maybe he's not, but he believed he'd
had the votes, counted the votes, and obviously, either way
he got it done. Even Marjorie Taylor Green, who has
been an interesting ally of this speaker, sometimes speaking out
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in his favor, sometimes pushing on him from the other direction,
had released a video the night before the vote saying, Hey, Republicans,
we have to come together. We have to actually have
a working Congress and get this done. I found it
funny that a number of the Democrat representatives also went
on TV, which of course everyone does before speakers vote,
claiming that the people wanted Hakeem Jeffries and that's who
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should actually be elected speaker. And one of them, Democrat
Representative Clark, specifically said, we have heard lay and clearly
from the American people. They want good public schools to
send their children to and to make sure we're continuing
to have clean air and clean water in this country.
And apparently she added all that up to somehow indicate
that they wanted Hikeem Jeffries to be Speaker, even though
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the popular vote across the nation elected Republicans in the House,
in the Senate, and in the presidency.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
So I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Which people she's listening to, but it's not the majority
of the American people, and that was confirmed by the
vote in Congress that re elected Mike Johnson as Speaker.
I think a lot of people question Mike Johnson's abilities
and wonder sometimes why he loses votes, say on the
Continuing Resolution, had to remake that deal before the end
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of the year. My opinion is that he actually knows
what he's doing the entire time, that he has a strategy,
that he knows he's going to lose specific votes but
needs to take them anyway, and that he actually has
the end goal in sight the entire time. I think
he's very smart. Used to be an attorney for Alliance
Defending Freedom. That's an excellent organization that defends constitutional rights,
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religious liberty, equal protection, pro life, pro family policies across
the nation. They've won many victories at the US Supreme Court,
and Mike Johnson used to be an attorney working for them.
In addition to a number of other things he's done
in his career, but they don't hire people who aren't
extremely smart and strategic. I think Mike Johnson definitely fits
the bill, and sometimes even the things that appear to
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be losses for him, I think are actually strategic losses
that lead toward a win in the end. If you
have different thoughts or seated to cerently, you can always
call in during the show eight five to five four
zero five eight two five five. I'm Christy Burton Brown
in for Dan Kaplis today. Another interesting happening after the vote.
Chip Roy, Congressman Chip Roy kind of loves to, I
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don't know, get himself and the indius and have his
own thoughts and opinions. Many respect him for his extremely
conservative viewpoint and the way he pushes on Congress to
actually deliver for the American people, to cut the budget and.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
To actually keep their word. A lot of good things
that he does.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
But he sent a letter and was only able to
get ten other Congressmen to sign onto it with him,
So I'm not really sure how effective this is going
to be. But they signed a letter saying that members
in the House should work at least as hard as
the Senate. During the first portion of President Trump's second
term in office, and that for the first ten weeks
they should all.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Work five days a week.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
If you weren't aware, Congress typically meets three days a
week on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. They meet Mondays and
Fridays as needed. Sometimes there's committee meetings that happen on
either or both of those days. Certainly a lot of
talks and negotiations and all of those things that go
on among the leadership on those days. But your average
congressman is in DC for votes on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
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So chip Roy thinks that should change, and that they
should show up five days a week, just like the
Senate to get it done.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I would have a.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Different argument if his goal is to be more effective.
I think instead, perhaps some of their colleagues should limit
the number of speeches they give on the House floor.
Perhaps they should limit some of the theatrics in committee,
and perhaps they should actually do the work to get
the right bills passed and do the right negotiations behind
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the scenes. I personally find it somewhat interesting that it's
chip Roy calling for Congress to do more work when
he's been one of the main congressmen to actually delay
the work of the House when Kevin McCarthy was in charge,
and when Mike Johnson has been in charge, And however
you may feel about Kevin McCarthy specifically, or even Mike
Johnson as Speaker of the House, it's always very interesting
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to be when someone who has been one of the
biggest delayers out there is now saying, oh, now, I
think we should show up more days to get work done. Well,
I think there's other ways to get more work done,
and it would probably be called not doing some of
these delay tactics and not enjoying listening to yourself talk
so much on the House floor. You know, I think
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there's a whole lot of speeches that happen that don't
necessarily need to happen. If you want to speak out
on an issue that resonates with your district, you're representing
your district. Maybe you should spend more time in district
talking to your people instead of giving a speech on
the House floor that almost no one hears.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
But anyway, I'm.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Not so sure his letter is going to get that far.
One of funny thing that happened before the speaker vote
Jim Jordan, who most people know who he has a
congressman from Ohio who's been out to Colorado to speak
at Lincoln Day Dinners friends with Congresswoman Lauren Bobert. He
actually had to correct the media today. They were all
up in arms over a tweet from Representative Bob Good
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saying that he was not going to vote for Mike
Johnson as speaker. And so of course the media is like, oh,
maybe he's not going to get the votes, maybe he can't,
you know, bring this home. And Jim Jordan had to say,
Bob Good is no longer a congressman. The media literally
said to him, are you sure that he's not a congressman?
Can you double check that? And he said he lost
his primary last June. He's definitely not a congressman anymore.
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So his opinion on Mike Johnson as speaker actually has
a relevant to the discussion. So always fun when the
media has to be corrected. You're on the Dankpla Show.
I'm Christy Burton Brown. When we come back, I'm go
we give you an update on the Jeffco Public school
situation with a chief of schools being fired for possession
of child pornography.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Keep it here on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 7 (09:54):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
As an update, if you were listening to the show
oh yesterday, you might have heard that the Chief of
schools in Jefferson County Public Schools was terminated by the
district roughly a month ago when there was an active
investigation into him by the Jefferson County Sheriff's office, but
the Jeffico Public Schools had not updated parents on what
was going on. And it's particularly due to the long
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string of arrests by employees of the Jefferson County Public Schools,
including a school counselor a social worker, a number of
whom were arrested for sexual assault on a child by
a person in a position of trust. This happened at
least five times last year in Jefferson County Public Schools.
Parents were obviously concerned when the chief of schools, who
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is in charge of a lot of the employees, was
terminated with no explanation. Yesterday, County in Maryland, their Sheriff's
office released to details that David Weize, who was the
chief of schools, had killed himself and committed suicide in
Maryland over the holidays, and so the Jefferson County Sheriff's
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Department released a statement on that and then today or actually,
you know what, I think it actually happened yesterday.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I'm looking at the email right now.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
So on January second, the superintendent and board president finally
released an email to parents in the district. But the
way they explain it, I think is very concerning for
any parents who are concerned about the priorities of this
district when it comes to the.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Protection of children.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
So they say, dear jeff Co staff and families, we
learned yesterday of the passing of Jeffco's former Chief of Schools,
David Wice, who he terminated last month.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
And here's the part you shoulday attention to.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
As soon as we learned of an active investigation into
a personal legal issue by the Jefferson County Sheriff's office,
and they go on to write more, but no explanation
to parents of what this personal legal issue was. I
can understand that a sheriff's department might ask the school
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to be cautious in the information it provides, and often
you're not allowed to give a whole lot of details
when there's an active investigation going on.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I get that.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
But when you are putting out an email because there
already is information out there that parents are able to
see on social media, and you are in charge of this,
You're the board chair of the school district, you're the
superintendent of the school district, and you want to call
the possession of child sexual assault material also called child
pornography as a personal legal issue that he was being
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investigated for. I think that right there shows any parent
who has a child in the Jefferson County School District
the priorities and concerns of the leadership of that district.
And if I were a parent who lived in that
district personally, I would be very, very concerned with the
way they're handling the situation, especially again when you consider
all of the arrests that have happened in Jefferson County
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schools last year for the exact same reason. Every single
arrest that I'm aware of in the Corral. Republic Radio
detailed this in an article yesterday, was for sexual assault
on a child by a person in position of trust, or,
in the case of the chief of public schools, possession
of child sexual assault material. So Jefferson County Public Schools
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has a whole lot to deal with right now, and
I think top of their list should be being transparent
with parents so they can actually figure out how to
protect children and what the world is going on with
employees in that district who are committing these crimes against
children over and over again.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Another bit of news.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Since the legislative session is about to start next Wednesday,
it will be in full swing. Tom Sullivan, he is
a senator from a Rapahoe County known to be against
gun rights pro gun control. He has set Supposedly, this
has not been confirmed. I've not seen a copy of
the bill, but it is being reported that he is
going to bring back the assault weapons ban under a
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different name, and specifically.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It's going to be a very long bill.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I think ban control restrict a whole lot of things
related to firearms. But he wants to ban firearms that
accept detachable magazines. So if you have a gun that
accepts those kind of magazines that you could use, he
wants to ban all forms of that. That's the report
the kind of bill he is expected to drop. He
moved from the House to the Senate recently, so the
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Senate's a little harder to get that kind of legislation
out of But while the Democrats were held back from
having a super majority in the Senate, and while the
super majority in the House was removed in November's election,
they still have a definite majority control the House, the Senate,
and the Governor's office. If an assault weapons ban of
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any form is able to get through the two houses,
I'm very curious to see what Governor Polis would do
with this. He's been very cagy, i would say about
his take on assault assault weapons bans in the past,
made a variety of statements, But when Elizabeth EPP's, a
representative from Denver who lost her primary last year, ran
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the assault weapons ban during her term in office, it
appeared the guner Poles did not support that version. But
it also seemed like, based on his statements, that he
might be open to other versions of assault weapons bans.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
So we'll see where this goes.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
I have no doubt that there are organizations in the
state like Rocky Mountain Gun Owners and the Colorado Shooting
Association who would be very willing to take these kind
of laws to.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Court if they pass. So plenty of.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Things to watch out for in the next legislative session,
like another thing that's important for people to watch out
for is more attacks on charter schools. Last session, we
saw a bill called a Charter School Accountability Act, And
as someone who's evaluated a lot of laws and policy,
and I'm a constitue lawyer as well, I definitely suggest
you don't ever just take a bill title at its
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audit face value. They can set whatever bill title they want.
I mean, sure, it has to be relevant to the
subject of the bill, but they could absolutely make a
bias title that's framed in the way they want to
present it to the media and to people. So when
we looked last year at the Charter School Accountability Act,
it was very clear that it was not about accountability
for charter schools.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
It was about shutting charter schools down.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
In fact, one of the main sponsors of the bill,
Lisa Cutter, went around and said that the goal of
this bill was to create the beginning of the end
of charter schools in Colorado. Now, Colorado has the second
highest charter school population in the entire nation. We have
a long history of bipartisan support for charter schools school
choice options for families across our state. But the Teacher's
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Union likes to jump into the mix and mess around
with it every so often and try to take away
options from parents. So they would love nothing more than
to create the beginning of the end for charter schools
here in Colorado. We really need to be on the
watch for bills like this. Thankfully, this bill got killed
in committee last year. There was a bipartisan opposition to
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the bill. But again, when you look into the details,
you look at the states that the Democrat reps on
the House Education Committee made, it wasn't a definite support
for charter schools or school choice. They just thought this
particular version of the bill needed work and they weren't
going to go for it. I do think there's a
very good piece of news in who the Democrats chose
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to elect as the Senate president this year.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
James Coleman as Senate President.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
He actually is a supporter of school choice, and it
probably would be hard to get a bill like this
flat out attacking charter schools and trying to close them
down through the Senate with James Coleman as the president. Now,
as we've seen with Governor Polis all the time, you
can have a particular position as a Democrat if you
want to that's opposed to the majority of your party,
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but then often and your party tries to hold you
in line and make you vote with their majority, whether
or not it's your personal position. We've seen Governor Polis
cave numerous times on that, and then sometimes we see
him vetoing bills that his party really wanted. So I
think we'll see where Senator Coleman comes down on it.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I have in the past.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I've spoken at an event with him on the topic
of school choice, and he is a strong supporter. Has
run a nonprofit organization helping to get more school choice
options into Colorado community.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
So I would expect him to be a strong supporter
of that.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
But we will have to watch and see, as with
everything else in the legislative session in Colorado, I'm Christy
Burton Brown. You're here on the DANKPLA Show. When we
come back from the break, we're going to welcome newly
elected state.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Representative Jarvis Caldwell.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Who is bringing what I think is one of the
most important bills of the next session to stop violent
and repeat criminals from getting back out on the streets
immediately after they're arrested.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Keep you right here, on the Dankpla Show.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
And now back to the Dankaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
We have a great guest with us for this segment.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Newly elected State Representative Jarvis Caldwell, representing Colorado Springs, is
bringing what I think is one of the most important
bills of this session. I'm going to bring him into
the Dan Caplis Show. Now, welcome to the show, Representative Caldwell.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
And Christy, thanks so much for having me on.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Absolutely and I know you've worked on a lot of
good issues over the years in various capacities and now
you get to do it at the State House representing
Colorado Springs. And so I'd love for our listeners to
hear about your bill banning pr bonds and maybe you
could explain what those are exactly for violent and repeat criminals.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Absolutely, so just to get your listeners some context here.
Governor pull Us has said repeatedly that he wants when
he leaves office for Colorado to be a top ten
safe state. And the reality of said is is one
of the number three most dangerous state right now, and
we rank in the top five for a lot of things.
You don't want to be ranked in the top five.
Four whether that's carsift, whether that's property crime, I think
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we're number two nationally, whether that's cocaine use, bank robbery.
I mean, we're just completely on the other end of
the spectrum here. And so one of those issues we're
ranked number ace nationally and violent crime, which is extremely
disturbing and everybody should be concerned about that. And so
what we're seeing right now with current Colorado law is
that repeat violent offenders can get arrested for committing a
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violent crime and just bond themselves out basically. I mean
you think of it as cashless veil when you think
of the PR bonds, which stands for personal Recognizance bond.
They get arrested and they basically sign a piece of
paper saying, you know, yes, I won't commit any more
crimes before my court date.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
And I'll show up to my court date. So they're
getting arrested.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
For a violent crime. Remember this is a violent crime.
This is not getting arrested for jaywalking. This is doing
something against someone else, getting arrested for it, and then
just bailing themselves out with no kind of bail whatsoever.
And so what my bill is going to do is
it's going to stay that that if you've been convicted
of a violent crime in the last two years, or
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you are currently pending two or more violent crime charges,
you cannot get a PR bond. Now, constitutionally, we have
to have some level of bond, So it's going to
set it at seventy five hundred dollars, which is pretty steep,
but I think also reasonable. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Absolutely, And that's actually an interesting point that you bring
up what level you would set that bond at, because
I've been told by law enforcement officials across the state
that when PR bonds aren't allowed some of the judges,
we'll just get around it by granting one to two
dollars bonds.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Which is pretty much the same thing as a PR bond.
So I'm glad that you have a little.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Absolutely, and what kind of you know, this incentive is
that for a riki violent criminal. You know, we've got
to turn things around in the state. It's interesting someone
had posted earlier today about u HAUL said that we're
one of the states that are actually losing citizens, and
I had commented that, you know, I was campaigning, I
(22:01):
was going around door knocking. I would see realtor signs
in people's front yard and I would say to them,
you know, are you.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Coming or going?
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Are are you buying the house or are you selling
the house? And almost always they said, this is my house,
I'm selling it and I'm leaving Colorado. And when I
would ask them, well, why is that, it's usually cost
of living and crime, and crime is something that we
can address that there's not going to be a big
cost to it, because right now we all know that
we're in a budget crisis, which I have opinions on
(22:29):
that as well, but this is a bill that it's
not going to most likely it's not going to carry
any kind of physical notes. So this is something we
can get done and it's not going to cost state.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Anything absolutely, and we'll keep our communities safer. We're talking
with Representative Jarvis Caldwell, who is a newly elected state
representative representing an area of Colorado Springs. He'll start the
legislative session on Wednesday along with all the rest of
the legislators. But so I agree with you that it's
been very clear from voters if you look at the
(22:58):
ballot in November, that they want criminal justice measures that
keep communities safe, that are pro law enforcement to pass.
And when the legislature isn't willing to do it. The
people will do it for themselves. But I am curious
with this particular bill. I know State Rep. Gave Evans,
who's now Congressman, had run a similar bill last year.
It had gotten some Democrat support, but not enough to
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get out of committee. So how are you feeling about
your bill when it comes to bipartisan support?
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Absolutely so, Yes.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
Congressman gave Evans originally ran this still earlier this year.
Like you said, it had some support from Democrats that
got killed in Judiciary Committee, which I imagine is where
it's going to go back to.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
I am going to be a member of.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
The Judiciary Committee, so I'm going to try to use
those Yeah, thank you. I'm going to try to use
those relationships on the Judiciary Committee to try to win
some people over. And I appreciate that you brought up
the point about the invalid initiatives that just passed recently,
because that is a signal from the people of Colorado
that they want to support our law enforcement and they
want to clean up our streets, and so that's going
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to be a huge issue that I'm pushing there. As
far as the bipartisan support. So Representative Shandon Bert, a Democrat,
was on that bill which Congressman gave Evans earlier this year.
She has signed back up on this bill. She is
one of the prime sponsors. I have a Republican and
the Senate signed on Senator Byron Pelton, and I'm working
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to secure a Democrat on that side. But the big
thing I want to push here and the idea that
I want to push to heered listeners. If you've been
around the legislature at all, you know that if Governor
Polis wants something passed, it's going to get passed, right,
whether it goes to Judiciary and those are some tuck
on crime members on there or not. If he wants
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it passed, it will get passed, even if it has
to get assigned to a different.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Committee to make sure it passes.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
So I think we really need a pressure the governor
as well as the members on the Judiciary committee if
that's where the bill ends up, to pass this bill.
And as I told the governor's people when I met
with him a few weeks ago, but the governor has
two years left on his term, so yeah, he's got
two years to turn things around. And all was straight
up with these people, and I said, we all know
(25:06):
it's the worst cut secret at the capital that the
governor has higher ambitions one day most likely.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Yeah, and so you know, here's.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
His chance to try to turn things around in his
last two years and be able to telt that one
day when he pursues something different.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Well exactly.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
And I do think that's a huge piece of what
he's missing is the crime side. He hasn't done a
whole lot other than say, in his State of this
date addresses that his goal is to move Colorado to
the tenth one of the top ten most safe estates
in the nation, and as you pointed out, we are
extremely far from that right now. So yeah, it'll be
interesting to see if he actually gets behind these kind
(25:45):
of bills, especially seeing the verdict from the people on
last year's ballot.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Right, that's exactly right. I mean, the people have spoken.
When they have a chance to do this, when they
have a chance to vote on cracking down on crime,
they do it overwhelmingly. You know what, Let's let's save
a BALLID initiative and r hit all the money and
time and resources that go into getting a balid initiive
pack let's just do it from a legislature.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Let's do our job.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
We can have this thing passed and it'll be done
here in a couple of months, and we can start
cracking down on violent crime.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Absolutely, and I think the fact that you're focusing on
violent and repeat criminals should be a no brainer for
any elected official to want to keep those people off
the streets. And you know, if they pay bond, they
can still get off, but.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
At least they're hearing.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
You know, they have to have to stand in front
of a judge and they have to be held accountable
instead of just let out on the street immediately after
being arrested.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Giant problem in Colorado.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
If you live anywhere in the state, or you talk
to any law enforcement and represent a call. Well, I know,
I'm a little bit putting on the spot right here.
We have one minute left. I'm curious. You said you
had thoughts on the budget shortfall. Do you want to
could you share a few of them in a minute?
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
So the bottom line is is we keep hearing that.
You know, the governor says it's six hundred million dollars
budget deficay. Our JBC people are a Republicans they're saying
it's more like one point three one point four billion dollars.
Just I want the listeners and the people have called rather.
Keep in mind, it's a one billion or however much
shortfall from a record high budget, right from a forty
(27:14):
two billion dollar budget.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
So while it is a.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
Deficit, it's a deficit from a record high budget. And
so what I'm doing with other Republicans, we're putting together
a list of what we feel is wasteful spending, kind
of like Ran Paul does with his Best of this
Year in December. And so whenever we want a public
safety build to pass, like securing our schools more or
helping our police officers, when we're told that there's no
(27:38):
money for that, we're going to push forward a list
and say, okay.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Well what about all these?
Speaker 6 (27:43):
A budget is a replection.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Of your priorities.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
Yes, it's a replection of your priorities and your commitments
to constituents.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
So where are your priorities?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Love it?
Speaker 3 (27:51):
That's an excellent question to ask any elected official, where
are your priorities?
Speaker 2 (27:54):
And then make sure they can prove it out.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Well.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
We have to take a break on The Dankapa Show
but Representative called, well, well, loved having you here.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
I hope you come back and talk to us during
the session.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Absolutely, thanks so much for having me. Christy.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
All right, that was Representative Jarvis Caldwell. I'm Christy Burton
Brown here on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Welcome back to the Dan Kaplis Now. I'm Christy Burton
Brown and for Dan.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Today, the US Surgeon General is coming out with a
new warning today, claiming that alcohol is the third leading
cause of cancer now behind tobacco and obesity. I on
to play a clip for you, but the Surgeon General
is basically recommending that they're actually have warning labels placed
on alcohol products.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Now, which would be a huge, huge change. But here
you go, all.
Speaker 8 (28:48):
Right, the US Surgeon General is sounding the alarm about
the link between alcohol and increased cancer risk in a
new advisory. He's linking alcohol consumption to seven of cancer
and is calling for warning labels on alcoholic beverages just
like the ones you see on cigarettes. Stenen's Meg Trell
is joining us now with the details. This is quite something.
(29:12):
I'm very curious to hear. What these links are.
Speaker 9 (29:18):
Yeah, Sarah, I mean, this is the direction that the
scientific research has been headed for some time. We've increasingly
been hearing that no amount of alcohol is really recommended
for your health, and that really goes against the suggestions
we've been hearing since the nineties that maybe alcohol, at
least in moderation, maybe red wine, maybe it's good for you.
Increasingly that's been going in the opposite direction, and so
(29:39):
today the US Surgeon General is issuing this advisory, noting
that alcohol is the third leading preventable cause of cancer
in the United States, after tobacco and obesity.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
So if you're making New Year's resolution still, if you're
a little bit behind and creating your list, maybe staying
away from alcohol could be a good thing to add
to your list. With this new warning, I'm curious when
it comes to all the health and nutrition topics, if
there's going to be a shift towards I don't know,
healthier living, more nutrition encouraged by the government once Trump
takes office, If Robert F. Kennedy Junior RFK is appointed
(30:17):
as Health and Human Services Secretary, if the Senate decides
to confirm him or not, you know, there's a lot
of debate over some of his positions and whether he
goes too far in some regards. Certainly I have issues
with his stances on the life and abortion issue. However,
I have also seen that President Trump is appointing pro
life people to the positions that typically will deal with
(30:39):
the abortion pill and planned parenthood funding and other issues
like that. So presuming pro life people actually get to
say in those areas, then I think RFK Junior's appointment
is an interesting decision because it really would push the
conversation towards real health. There's so many areas when you
look at health and nutrition that Europe is so far
ahead of the United States on, and companies that manufacture
(31:02):
cereal and basic foods that we're all eating and feeding
our kids on a daily basis are produced in a
very different way in Europe and the United States, proving
that these companies actually can create this food with fewer chemicals,
fewer dies, and all these things that clearly lead to
giant health risks for people. So this alcohol warning I
(31:23):
found interesting actually coming from the Biden Administration's surgeon General,
and as a reporter was indicating from CNN, research has
been pointing in this direction for quite some time. But
now finally it's just clearing everyone in the face. So
the Surgeon General recommending that those warning labels actually get
put on so that people know the risks when they
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are consuming alcohol. And I'm a big fan of people
being aware of what they're doing. I think transparency accountability,
whether it's from corporations, companies, whether it's from the government.
Elected officials almost can never have enough transparency or accountability.
People should be aware of the risks of what they're
engaging in. And I'm all four people researching and figuring
(32:04):
it out for themselves. But there's no reason that companies
or the government shouldn't disclose known risks when they are
putting something in front of people. That tends to make
society better, when people have more information rather than less.
I'm Christy Burton Brown. You're on the Dan Kapla show.
You can call in anytime eight five to five four
zero five eight two five five. Let's see. I think
(32:27):
today some of the biggest news really was Mike Johnson
getting reelected a speaker, not a huge surprise to a
lot of people. He claimed he had the votes counted
and he did. President Trump coming in at the end
to call to Republicans who flipped their votes away from
Johnson back to him before the tally was actually counted.
But I'll play this other clip from Democrat Representative Clark
(32:50):
claiming that she had really heard from the American people
before the vote.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Jeff Raes, yes to belt, Happy new year to you,
and the Democrats are going to be at full strength
at two point fifteen and committed to voting for Haking
Jeffries First Speaker, because he has shown time and time
again that he is committed to bringing the concerns the
(33:15):
American people have to Congress and returning solutions to them.
And we have heard loudly and clearly from the American people.
They are concerned with the cost of living, whether that
is housing or childcare, making sure that we have affordable groceries.
(33:36):
They want good public schools to send their children to,
and make sure that we are continuing to have clean
air and clean water.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
In this country.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
Those are the issues we need to get to work on.
Those are the issues that Haking Jeffries has been a
leader on. That is why he'll have one hundred percent
Democratic support today.
Speaker 8 (33:57):
Joining us now is Democratic conson We made.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Hair repeat of that, but What's interesting about that clip
is that if that is actually what Democrats have been
focused on in the November election, maybe they would actually
be in control of Congress right now and actually able
to elect a speaker instead of having Mike Johnson, a
Republican as speaker. Those issues that are representative Clark brought up,
like affordability issues, education issues, are not the ones that
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Democrats were campaigning on. They were campaigning if you looked
at Kamala Harris's campaign largely on abortion and largely on
criticisms of President Trump and Republicans, not with new ideas
on how to solve affordability and education and crime issues
across the US. So that is exactly why we do
not have Speaker hackem Jeffries and instead have Speaker Mike
(34:42):
Johnson re elected today on a first ballot, which many
people are saying is very very impressive, especially when you
see how many ballots it took to actually elect him
originally when there was that big fight over the speaker
and how Kevin McCarthy was let go. Oh, one extra
change was actually made in the rules, because they make
a lot of rule changes when they real x speakers.
Is that now instead of one Republican or Democrat being
(35:04):
able to ask to remove the speaker and have a
vote on it, and the party would be determined on
who the speaker is. Democrats can't ask it for a
Republican speaker. It actually got moved to nine members. Now
you have to have nine people asking for a vote
to remove the speaker. So a small change on that,
but I think that's definitely better than one. I'm not
sure how they arrived on nine, but one is definitely
(35:26):
overkill and just delays the process of actually getting things
done for the American people. If you stay tuned here
on the Dan Kapla Show, I'm Christy Burton Brown and
in the next hour I'm going to.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Bring in State Senator Barbara Kirkmeyer, one of.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
The most powerful Republican senators at the Capitol, who sits
on the Joint Budget Committee and can bring a lot
of insight into the state's budget shortfall debates between Democrats
and Republicans of exactly how big that shortfall is.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Is it six hundred million or is it over a
billion dollars?
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Senator Kirkmeyer will definitely shed light on that when she
joins us at the top of the next hour, keep
it here on the day and capital.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
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