Denver 7 airs an eye-opening report on a new Colorado law designed to expedite the issuing of driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants (illegal aliens) residing in the state. Dan argues this puts the safety of every legal citizen in Colorado at risk.
Rep. Jeff Hurd (R, CO-3) joins Dan to discuss passage of the continuing resolution (CR) of Congressional spending to keep the government open through September, along with other issues facing the U.S. House of Representatives currently.
Jeff Hurd For Colorado
Rep. Jeff Hurd (R, CO-3) joins Dan to discuss passage of the continuing resolution (CR) of Congressional spending to keep the government open through September, along with other issues facing the U.S. House of Representatives currently.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
How wild this is?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Right just there, getting ready to start the segment watching
this Elon Musk rocket ship take off, just launching folks
up to rescue the astronauts stranded at the International Space Station.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
So, boy, I personally am glad.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
That Elon Musk is very, very very involved in the
Trump administration. I'm not saying he's perfect, none of us are,
but boy, talk about a brilliant guy, courageous guy, and
above all. And I don't want to get into the weeds,
but this is what I think the left is so
terrified of with Musk. Two things, right, the money, because
he can alter the playing field. The left has been
used to being able to buy the playing field through
(00:53):
Soros and others. Musk can alter the playing field and
he has right, We've seen it. But the thing I
can I think they're even more scared of is when
it comes to doze and it comes to looking in
how money spent and everything else. This is the first
time I'm aware of that the Republicans have had somebody
who is really absolutely brilliant, you know, when it comes
(01:16):
to electronically stored information. And I can tell you from
my own law practice, where I spend much of my
time when I'm representing injured folks, much of my time,
you know, doing the detective work finding the electronically stored
information of the defending corporation or whatever, Digging in there. Okay,
(01:36):
what's in there? What emails are in there? Have there
been emails you know redacted? Have there been emails that
have been destroyed? And then we can find the trace
of those emails and maybe resurrect them. But Musk and
this team of young techies he has, from everything I've
read so far, it looks like they are particularly good
at being able to track down that information, recogni patterns,
(02:01):
and then be able to get to the bottom of
some some nasty stuff that if you took a traditional
kind of approach that I'm guessing most government investigators take,
you may not find. I think that's what the left
is most terrified of with Elon Musk. But yeah, looks
like hopefully his rocket is up there successfully.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Is that right? Ryan? Looks like other.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Successful awful arms going to embrace it when it comes back.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I'm sure they will. I'm sure they will do that. Hey,
you know, this should really make you mad. I don't
care if you're a Democrat, Republican, unaffiliated, whatever. This should
make you mad because chances are you're either listening in
the car or you were in the car at some
point today.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
And as you know, unless.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
You're one of our brain brave armed forces, military police,
et cetera, firefighters, then the greatest danger you and I
will ever be in is when we get in our
cars on Colorado Roads, or really any roads, but Colorado
Roads in particular, because obviously the Left has pupped a
bunch of druggies in here and everything else. So what
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have they done now after all the stuff they've done
before to make the roads more dangerous? They just really
topped themselves in a way that I think is going
to make people furious at cross party lines if they
actually find out about it. So Channel seven fortunately did
a story here.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
It is.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Colorado's handling of the immigration crisis, as you know, has
been roundly criticized by the new Trump administration.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Just last week, Denver's mayor was in the hot seat
on Capitol Hill, grilled in front of members of Congress
over the city's immigration policies. Mike Johnston was joined by
other Democratic mayors to testify before the House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee. Now, state lawmakers want to allow undocumented
immigrants to obtain a driver's license.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Every seventh question Lopez explains why they say this move
could make all the safer.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Yeah, this bill is going to help a lot of
undocumented people.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
A new law going into effect on March thirty first,
will fast track the process for immigrants to obtain a
driver's license.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
But not only are they going to know the rules
and the laws of the road, but they're going to
be able to get insurance on their cars and plates.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
Yeaval Days, a driving instructor at the American Driving Academy
in Aurora, says it'll benefit the whole state.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Many people are already driving without driver's licenses, so this
gives them the opportunity to be able to drive safely
and legally.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Colorado already allows undocumented immigrants to obtain their driver's licenses,
but they must live in the state for two years
and provide a Social Security or I ten number. This
new law will streamline that process by getting rid of
those and several other requirements, and now it is going
to be simply just a passport and current proof of
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address for immigrants like I'm my bias, It'll be an
immediate process as long as they have an ID from
their home country and proof of address in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
But not everyone agrees with these changes.
Speaker 8 (05:06):
The biggest concern I have is no different than last year.
Speaker 9 (05:11):
It's the public aspect.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Public safety aspect, of course, I mean think about it,
think about what polists in the left are doing, and
it becomes long a few days. All you have to
do you come into this country illegally, right, all you
have to do is show your passport or home i
D show you have a place to live here, and
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you get a Colorado driver's license. It has to be
a top five magnet, right, So they are going out
of their way, The Left is going out of their
way to attract folks to come here illegally. Well, why
do you think Johnston and polists, the whole Democratic Party
in Colorado, why do you think they want to attract
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more folks here illegally attract here more folks. And by
the way, there's no screening, criminal background check, or anything
else to get this driver's license. So, as we all know,
a lot of otherwise good people come over the border illegally.
They shouldn't, but they do. But at the same time,
you get a lot of hardened criminals who come over too.
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And so why do Polis and Mike Johnson all these
other Democrats want to give hardened criminals coming in from
the other side of the border a driver's license? But
more importantly, why do they want to attract them here?
Because they know I mean, this is like the ultimate
welcome Matt, right, just come here, show.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Us an ID, We'll give you a driver's license.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Wow. But whatever their motive is, and we all know
their motive, right, we all know their motive, which is
they see these individuals as votes and they are importing
people here to vote for them.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I mean, we talked about on this show.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
You can see it at Dan Capitalist at Twitter where
Hickelooper and Bennett are pushing a bill that would say
ICE cannot detain any illegal immigrant when they're at the
voting booths. Think about that for a second. It's right there,
look at the Bill. I've got it on my Twitter.
Why in the world would Hickin look for in Bennett
want to stop by us from detaining somebody here illegally
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when they're at the voting booth.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I think it's pretty obvious, right, What other conclusion do
you draw?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Let me get to some text on this, But I
hope what would outrage most people who will probably not
even hear about this, what will outrage most people who
do hear about it, is that, by definition, inarguably, it
puts you and your family in more danger. Puts everybody
here legally on Colorado's roadways in more danger, because, ay,
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each time you add a driver from anywhere, it increases
the danger. Then when you're trying to attract more people
to come here illegally, that increases the danger. Plus because
think about that, you're not only attracting more people here
to be on our roads, but you're attracting people to
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come here who have not been driving on American roads. Ryan,
have you ever been anywhere else in the world as
crazy as our roads are in Colorado, particularly crazy because
of what the left's doing. Yeah, even before this, but
there are a lot of countries where it's even more
insane on the road. So what Jared pol Is and
the Democratic Party in Colorado is saying, Hey, you don't
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have to have driven a single day on American roads.
Whatever country you're from, you're here illegally. You know, you
show up, you don't have to be here more than
a minute. Just have that ID and we're going to
hand you a driver's license. I mean, think about how
much more dangerous folks who come here who have not
been driving American roads are likely to be.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Yeah, I've driven the four to ZHO one in Ontario
and it's a little bit different. Yeah, to read in
kilometers instead of miles per hour and so forth. But yeah, yeah,
I mean you can't have people just the premise that
they're talking about here too, this one, Well they're driving anyway.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
What what about the ability to read our roads?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I know, well, Dan I talked about that earlier on
my program Sheet Plug about the runaway truck driver who
you knew couldn't read English in the in the getaway
ramps and then ended up killing five people in an inferno.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I have so many of those cases. Yeah, it's it's
just terrific.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
But but again, it comes back to just not caring
about innocent human life. But whether you want to talk
about the ability to read road signs or or whether
people have any experience at all American roadways, anybody knows
elementally that if you put somebody on a roadways who
has never driven in this country, they are likely to
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be more dangerous, right, just lack of familiarity, lack of
familiar to it, the flow, et cetera, whatever bad habits
they may bring from whatever country they've been driving in.
It's it's literally second abortion. Maybe arguably that the most
blatant disrespect for innocent human life is the Left shows
and the biggest information that they are so desperate to
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get folks up here illegally to vote for them, that
they are willing to just get citizens killed and maimed
on the roadways. It's hopefully people start to pay attention
to that. Three or three someone three eight two five
five text d A N five seven seven three nine
will come back. We'll start on the phones with Justin.
We'll get to some great texture on the Dan Capla Show.
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(10:49):
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We really do, We really do. So any area of
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Speaker 10 (11:55):
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Speaker 1 (12:04):
Thank you and your very kind Let's go back to
the phone lines. Hey, if you just joined us, thank you.
What we're talking about is the latest truly fatal lunacy
from the Left. If you had any doubt about the
fact that they don't value your life or your family's life,
that doubt should now be gone, as they have starting
the twenty fifth. Now, in Colorado, any legal immigrant, a
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legal immigrant from anywhere over the world can just come
across the border, come straight to Colorado and it doesn't
have to be here a full day, as long as
they can show they're living here and show an ID
from their home country. At that point they get a
Colorado driver's license. What could possibly go wrong? Let's find
out from Justin and Little Ten. You're on the Dan
Caplis show.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Welcome Justin. Hello, Justin.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
The deep thinker, deep thinker, the strong, silent type, which
is great in life. Maybe not radio, but great in life,
John and beautiful Fort Lupton.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
You're on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Welcome, thank you. Sure I haven't called you before, Dan,
but thank you. I was just wondering these people that
get this driver's license who aren't citizens, aren't aren't supposed
to be here? Do they? Are they required to get
insurance for their automobile?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yes, well, I'm assuming so I'm not seeing that in
the bill, but it's probably in the the underlying requirements.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
But let me let me just let me just so.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I may have spoken too quickly on that, but this
Colorado Road In Community Safety Act talk about an obscenely
backwards named law. Right, let me just read you quick
bill summary and for those who haven't seen it yet,
the Colorado Road In Community Safety Act authorizes the issuance
of a driver's license or identification card to an individual
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who is not lawfully present in the United States if
the individual meets certain requirements. The Act changes these requirements
by so this is the new law, repealing the requirement
that the applicant have filed a Colorado resident tax return,
repealing the requirement that the applicant demonstrate residency in the
state for the immediate immediately preceding two years, repealing the
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requirement that the applicant provide a documented Social Security number
or individual taxpayer identification number, and allowing an applicant to
present a passport, consular identification card, or military identification document
from the applicant's country of origin if that is unexpired
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or expired less than ten years before the applicant's application
for a driver's license.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
So you can present here in.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Colorado, according to Jared Polis, and expired and expired identification
card from a foreign country as long as it expired
within the last ten years.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
The way I read.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
That, well, that's kind of zippity, dude. I mean, what
happens if, say, somebody who's off the illegal immigrant that
has a driver's license piles into my car and injures
me and doesn't have any insurance?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Can I sue the state of Colorado for that?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
No?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
No, you can't, my friend, under current law. I personally
believe that laws need to be passed that would allow
injured people and those damaged other ways to sue sanctuary
cities and states for the damages caused by people here illegally,
because that would end the problem almost instantly at that
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point that the city and state would have its own
selfish financial motive to stop what they should have stopped
a long time ago.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Well, it's kind of interesting. I hope I don't run
into anybody.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Well, well, my friend, unfortunately, that is beyond your control.
And what the Colorado Democratic Party is now doing is
going out of its way to magnetize and attract even
more in much larger numbers folks to come here illegally.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Think about that.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
What more could you do to send the message across
the world, Hey, you want to come to this country
I legally, and you want a place that is going
to welcome you, a state that's going to welcome you
and embrace you.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
What more could you do? Then?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Say to folks, Hey, the very first day here, what
we're going to give you a Colorado driver's license. You
don't have to have been here for a while. In
this one example, you can have an idea that's been
expired nine.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Years and we'll still hand you a driver's license.
Speaker 8 (16:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
So why do you think they're doing it?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
I think clearly they view all these folks coming here
illegally as their voters. Justin in Littleton, I hope is
back with us.
Speaker 12 (16:54):
I did, sorry, Yeah, you went to me and I
cut that. So when I was sixteen, I had apply
for a driver's license permit. If the one hundred hours
of driving driving tests in person? Whatnot? So the reason
there's actually no driving test here? The insurance left guy
brought up as a great point, absolutely ridiculous. What if
the guy had five do UIs in Honduras know that?
Speaker 4 (17:18):
What if he.
Speaker 12 (17:19):
Never took a driver's class in his life? I mean,
I've you know, I'm sure you have. I've driven in Mexico,
I've driven in Thailand and China and Indonesia, Malaysia going
down the road on you know what they say, it's
several countries and we all know that India the laws
are a little different there. Or red light means a
suggestion at best, so to say it's getting more dangerous
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is probably an understatement. I what do we do about this?
I mean, I'm more than outrage.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Hey, what do we do? You're asking just the right question, right,
and there's only one answer to it, and that's a
really hard one, and it's to vote these people out.
Because the reason they're doing it right justin is they
feel politically on touch as if there's no way they
can lose office, so they can do anything they want,
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no matter how harmful it is to the people who
vote for them.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
So that's their bad.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
That they're politically untouchable. But think about what it says
about them that they're willing to do this. You're on
the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 10 (18:19):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplish Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I don't think there's that been an American born, including
Congressman Jeff Herdy, joins us. Now, everybody jamming the lines,
please say you will get on air and you'll get
an air pronto. Who has not had this innate desire
where we're born with to just get out on the
highway and drive. Congressman, if you're in DC now, you
probably have a stronger urge than others.
Speaker 9 (18:43):
Dan, Fortunately, I'm back here in Tolado. Home free Home.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yeah, absolutely, Hey, what's popping? What's hot right now there?
Speaker 9 (18:52):
Well, the big news of the day is we have
the continuing Resolution that will you know, keep our government open,
cut overall spending modestly. And it sounds like the Senate
has agreed to that continuing resolution. So that's a good thing.
It's a small step in the right direction, and I'm
excited to see what comes next.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah, but a good thing except for all the ruined
carpets in Washington because lefty heads are exploding all over
the place because some of these Senate Dems agreed to
keep the government open. So do we have like an
all out civil war on the left right now?
Speaker 9 (19:26):
Yeah, there's quite a bit of disarray on the other side,
for sure, Dan. And what I tell people is, look,
this continuing resolution cuts overall spending by seven billion dollars. Again,
that's a step in the right direction. It increases support
for veterans healthcare and housing. There's a pay increase for
junior enlisted personnel in the military, increases border security and
funding to ICE. There's also funding in there for women
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inf and in children and supplemental nutrition, and funding increase
for air traffic control as well. I'm not sure why
the Democrats are opposed to this. I think it's the
right thing. Look, a continuing resolution is not the ideal
way to govern. We need long term funding solutions, but
keeping the government running while working toward responsible spending reforms
is essential, and that's what's happening. Not sure why there's
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so much controversy on the Democratic side.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Well, on the Democratic side, it's just a party with
his finger in the socket right like twenty four to seven.
It's like they've stuck their finger into an electrical outlet.
They're just spassy, right because they they're living a lie
that people don't want what they're selling and they don't
know what to do.
Speaker 9 (20:29):
One of the things I've noticed in Congress is there's
a generational issue within the within the Democratic Party where
the older leadership in the party there's a little bit
of an internal civil war with the younger folks in
the Republican Party, for example, just committe chairmanships. We have
a term limit on the number of terms that you
can serve as committee chairing of the Republican Party. Democrats
that they don't have that. It's just who's never been
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to the longest gets in those plumb spots, and there's
a lot of dissension within the Democratic side that we're
not seeing on the Republican side.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
It's very interesting, yeah, and fun to watch, and hopefully
we'll see some here in Colorado too, because I thought
they're supposed to be the big enlightened totallier than now
party and far as I can tell, three of the
four top jobs go to boring, old white guys, So
I think they're being exposed as the phonies they are.
Speaker 9 (21:14):
Yeah, it's within the state of Colorado. There is a
lot of work to be done, you know, And I
think hopefully the voters will see that as well, Dan,
and they'll see that we need to move things in
a different direction if we're going to help working families
and move our economy in the right direction. Sometimes I
wonder what's going on in the state when you look
at what the state legislature's doing. But I'm optimistic that
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we can change course.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Congressman Jeff heard our guests, Well, they saw it in
your race, right because you were running against a guy
with more money than Elon Musk. It wasn't his own,
but it was given to them by lefties and you
still beat them.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (21:45):
It just goes to show Dan that dollars don't vote.
People vote, And I think if we get the right
message out and we have the right messengers, we can
win as Republicans. And that's something that I take heart
in and I hope other reasonable, common sense Colorado and
see as well.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Congressman, how do people follow you?
Speaker 9 (22:03):
The best way to do that is on either Facebook
or x Just go to at Rep Jeff Heard is
the handle go ahead sign up for updates there. Also,
if you go to herd dot house dot gov, you
can sign up for updates email updates that we sent
out every Friday evening as well. You won't get spammed,
I promise, it's just once a week common sense updates.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Fantastic. Appreciate the time, sir, Thank.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
You, Thanks Dan, have a great weekend you too. That's
Congressman Jeff Heard. Let's go to Linda in a Rora.
Our lines are completely jammed, as they should be. If
you haven't heard Democrats in Colorado though, well they jumped
the shark a long time ago. They've jumped the whole
tank at this point. Now about to be in Colorado.
You can come here illegally from anywhere in the world
and day one get a Colorado driver's license. Yeah, that's
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not going to magnetize this state. But as we go
to Linda and all of our other callers think about this,
I just found this in the law. I haven't talked
seen this talked about in the reporting This is how
easy Polis in the left wants to make it for
an illegal immigrant to come here, either a person who's
otherwise a good person or a hard and criminal somebody
who said five DUIs in their country of origin killed
people on the roadway. You know what document qualifies you here, Linda?
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You know what document qualifies you under Jared Polis's Colorado.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
If you're here illegally.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Day one, all you have to show is a photo
ID from your home country, let's say a passport, a
consular identification card, military ID card that is expired for less.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Than ten years.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
So you can present a card that expired nine years ago,
nine years and let's say three hundred and sixty three
days ago, and Colorado will hand you a driver's license.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
So why do you think they did that?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Why do you say you can even present an expired
card and will give you license.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (23:53):
Well, this is my comment on the whole thing. I
think it's ridiculous. There's no common sense in it. When
I learned to drive, I had to take so many hours.
I had to take a test, I had to have
my parents sign up say I did it. I had
to do the same for my kids. I have to
do the same for my grandkids because I want to
keep them safe. This is the most unsafe thing that
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you can do, is to put these drivers on our roads.
He doesn't have to worry. He's going to be safe
wherever he goes, and my grandkids aren't going to be
is ridiculous, boy.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Linda, thank you and very righteous outrage that you have,
and you should. She's thinking of her grandkids, she's thinking
of her family. Jared Paulish couldn't care less about them. Mary,
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 13 (24:41):
Yes, I'm a little off subject. I think that the
governors should have to live in the governor's mansion right
down there with the mess that he and his mayors,
cause we're paying for that. We're saying for Spice and
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Boulder too.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I don't know about the bulderpet but that's interesting, Mary,
and we should talk about that separately someday.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
What do you think about that, Ryan, Like, if you
were governor, would you live in the governor's mansion or
one of the shoeling estates?
Speaker 3 (25:15):
I mean the mansion because we go back to the
whole Black Lives Matter riots scenario.
Speaker 10 (25:20):
Dan, he was just.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Able to go up in the woods and the mountains
and hide, and you illustrated very clearly at the time.
I know that Gretchen Whitmer, to her credit, the Governor Michigan,
lives in the rather modest Governor's mansion in Lansing, Michigan,
but she does reside there.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Poulis appears to be too good for that. Yeah, too
good for that. Max and Denver, you're on the dan
Kaplis show. Welcome. Yes, what are you thinking?
Speaker 8 (25:47):
Yes, sir, I just had a small comment, which is
a comment of war and against but just starting from
the beginning gold Rush, everybody came here to Colorado and
beyond for the gold rush. Yes, they have the issue,
I know. And then we had four to twenty when
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Colorado had legalized marijuana. Everybody came here. Nobody complained, no aboudy,
but it helped Colorado. Our roads, our economy, our stores
are renders. Everybody promis spread it on that. Now this
I understand, there's some flaws in this, that letting, letting
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immigrants come in to Colorado. But again, they're gonna buy gas,
they're gonna buy insurance, they're gonna give us.
Speaker 13 (26:40):
They're gonna help our economy.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
One way or another.
Speaker 8 (26:44):
Yes, they're undocumented, they're illegal, but I'm.
Speaker 10 (26:48):
Just here to see that.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Well, Max, thank.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
You we first make through this process before.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Yeah, first of all, thank you for calling to take
the opposite position. I really am grateful for that. I
would not compare this attempt to attract the largest possible
number of illegal immigrants to Colorado to the gold Rush
or anything else, because, first of all, those folks weren't
(27:14):
coming here illegally. Second, we live at a different time
now where our roads are a killing field. And so
in this situation, you start with the fact that that
fundamental obligation of government in the beginning is to you know,
help protect its citizens, is certainly when it comes to
(27:34):
the roadways, and so to be actively trying to recruit
people to come here illegally to add to the danger
of the roadways is to meet immoral. But then the
second thing, Max, is, you're not just attracting more drivers
onto our roadways. You're attracting drivers, many of whom have
never driven in America, and you're allowing them to drive
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on our roadways day one. You know, whether they killed
ten people in their country of origin on the roadways
or anything like that I mean, and Max, I don't
want you to go because you're kind enough to call
and disagree. But think about that. There's no vetting here.
Somebody comes here. They're knowingly attracting people to come here
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knowing that they have no way to to vet in
that country of origin. Right, It's like in Colorado, you
come here from another country, we have the interstate Compact,
and they're able to do a quick search of your records,
your driving records, everything else. There's, best of my knowledge,
there's no way they're able to do that for all
these people coming here illegally from all over the world.
(28:39):
It is truly suicidal insanity, but not suicidal for the
ones who passed the laws, just for the rest of us.
You're on the Dan Caplas Show.
Speaker 10 (28:51):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
I've never seen anything like it. There can be no doubt, right,
no doubt whatsoever. The Colorado Democratic already is absolutely determined
to attract as many illegal immigrants to Colorado as possible,
regardless of whether they're otherwise good people or hardened criminals,
or have killed ten people on the roadways down there,
because in a few days from now, a few days
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from now, illegal immigrants from anywhere in the world can
come to Colorado and first day, first day, get a
driver's license. Say no requirement, they've ever driven a single
day on American roadways.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
And get this.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Colorado Democratic Party they want to make it so easy
for somebody coming here, no matter what their criminal background
or anything else, to get a driver's license and be
out there with your family on the roadway. That Guess
what they require for identification. Guess what they require. All
they require is either a passport, a consular identification card,
or a military identification card.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
And get this.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
It can be it could be expired as long as
it didn't expire more than ten years ago. It can
be expired for nine years, three hundred and sixty four days,
and Colorado Democrats will still accept it.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Why do you think that is right? Why do you
think that is It's obvious.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
They view all of these people coming here illegally, whether
they're otherwise good people, harden criminals, killers on the roadway,
and their country of origin. They view them as Democrat
voters and that's all that matters to them. And hopefully
the people of Colorado start noticing that. Let's go to
Mike and Portland. You're on the Dan Kaplo show.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
How you doing, Michael, Hey.
Speaker 13 (30:29):
I'm doing just fine.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Dan.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
I don't think you're thinking your position through.
Speaker 13 (30:33):
On Thank you on this law.
Speaker 9 (30:35):
Yes, sir, education, this is gonna this is going to
increase injuries on the road.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Everything I'm opposed to does that.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
This will be a boom for your business.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Oh man, it is? It is sick. Is this eerie?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Mike Eurie going stealths on us Erie? You can just
say eerie, Mic and we'll take your call even sooner
than Mike and Portland.
Speaker 8 (31:02):
But it's just your secretary always asks where am I
calling from?
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Sia answered the question, okay.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Okay, well you are you are at least honest on
this occasion, Mike.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
The point is is this right? I mean, think about
what I.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Spend my time campaigning against on this show. Legalize marijuana.
Legalize marijuana is causing so many horrific crashes around Colorado.
You bet for somebody who represents survivors like I do, yeah,
there are more of those cases.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
That's why I want legalize marijuana band so that we
save these lives and people don't get in these crashes.
Same things here. That that's why I say no, you
can't be given And I know even you agree with this, right, Mike,
you can't be handing drivers' licenses to folks here, come
here illegally, and then you hand it to them first day,
no vetting, no vetting of their driving history in the
(31:54):
country of origin or anything else. Even you don't support that, right.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
No, of course not, I don't. But man, this is
your business man. You got to be thinking about yourself.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Come on, yeah, yeah, Mike, appreciate the call. Be safe
out there. Wow, absolutely insane.
Speaker 10 (32:11):
Five o'clock somewhere.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Yeah, five o'clock somewhere.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
But what it comes back to, right, is that, first
of all, quite obviously the left, and this goes to
something deeper philosophically, because so many people used to be
a Democrat, right, so many people just reflexively vote Democrat
without being aware, really or consciously aware of who controls
the Democratic Party right now, which is these far left,
secular types who just have a fundamentally different view of
(32:34):
the value of human life than the vast majority of Americans.
Human life means nothing to them unless it's their owner,
one of their cronies, and they show it in all
these different laws they pass. If you cared about innocent
human life, you cared about that child who right now
they're sitting at home waiting for mom or dad. Right
but mom or dad may not be coming home tonight
(32:54):
because of or ever because of something the left did
that made our roads more dangerous. And they do so
many different things that make our roads more dangerous. But
you think Polis or any of these lefties in power
lose a second's worth of sleep over the fact that
child will never see their mom or dad again, not
at all, or they wouldn't pass the kind of laws
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they passed. So it's just a fundamental difference in how
you view the value of human life. And our Colorado
voter is going to see that in enough numbers to
make the difference. Well, well we'll find out over time.
But Dan Colorado driver's license for illegal sounds like a
middle finger to Donald Trump. Yeah, well, listen, we've seen
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a lot of that.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Right.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
This law was actually it's becoming effective now. It was
signed in late June. But do you see where the
Trump administration now telling Denver that it it may withhold
thirty two million in funding, saying it was improperly diverted
to improperly diverted to support folks here illegally so followed
(34:00):
that story and we'll close with this today. And that
is just more irrefutable proof the Left doesn't care about
the people who claims to serve. If Mike Johnston cared
about the people of Denver, why would he go so
far out of his way to make an enemy of
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President Trump, which is what he's done.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
Right.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
He'll send the police out to take on the Feds
as they come into the county and all that.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Yeah, it just shows he doesn't care about the people
he served, because how do the people of Denver benefit
from that? Just so typical Left. Great job, Brian, great job, Kelly.
Have a wonderful, safe weekend.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
See you next week.
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
How wild this is?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Right just there, getting ready to start the segment watching
this Elon Musk rocket ship take off, just launching folks
up to rescue the astronauts stranded at the International Space Station.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
So, boy, I personally am glad.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
That Elon Musk is very, very very involved in the
Trump administration. I'm not saying he's perfect, none of us are,
but boy, talk about a brilliant guy, courageous guy, and
above all. And I don't want to get into the weeds,
but this is what I think the left is so
terrified of with Musk. Two things, right, the money, because
he can alter the playing field. The left has been
used to being able to buy the playing field through
(00:53):
Soros and others. Musk can alter the playing field and
he has right, We've seen it. But the thing I
can I think they're even more scared of is when
it comes to doze and it comes to looking in
how money spent and everything else. This is the first
time I'm aware of that the Republicans have had somebody
who is really absolutely brilliant, you know, when it comes
(01:16):
to electronically stored information. And I can tell you from
my own law practice, where I spend much of my
time when I'm representing injured folks, much of my time,
you know, doing the detective work finding the electronically stored
information of the defending corporation or whatever, Digging in there. Okay,
(01:36):
what's in there? What emails are in there? Have there
been emails you know redacted? Have there been emails that
have been destroyed? And then we can find the trace
of those emails and maybe resurrect them. But Musk and
this team of young techies he has, from everything I've
read so far, it looks like they are particularly good
at being able to track down that information, recogni patterns,
(02:01):
and then be able to get to the bottom of
some some nasty stuff that if you took a traditional
kind of approach that I'm guessing most government investigators take,
you may not find. I think that's what the left
is most terrified of with Elon Musk. But yeah, looks
like hopefully his rocket is up there successfully.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Is that right? Ryan? Looks like other.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Successful awful arms going to embrace it when it comes back.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I'm sure they will. I'm sure they will do that. Hey,
you know, this should really make you mad. I don't
care if you're a Democrat, Republican, unaffiliated, whatever. This should
make you mad because chances are you're either listening in
the car or you were in the car at some
point today.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
And as you know, unless.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
You're one of our brain brave armed forces, military police,
et cetera, firefighters, then the greatest danger you and I
will ever be in is when we get in our
cars on Colorado Roads, or really any roads, but Colorado
Roads in particular, because obviously the Left has pupped a
bunch of druggies in here and everything else. So what
(03:06):
have they done now after all the stuff they've done
before to make the roads more dangerous? They just really
topped themselves in a way that I think is going
to make people furious at cross party lines if they
actually find out about it. So Channel seven fortunately did
a story here.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
It is.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Colorado's handling of the immigration crisis, as you know, has
been roundly criticized by the new Trump administration.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Just last week, Denver's mayor was in the hot seat
on Capitol Hill, grilled in front of members of Congress
over the city's immigration policies. Mike Johnston was joined by
other Democratic mayors to testify before the House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee. Now, state lawmakers want to allow undocumented
immigrants to obtain a driver's license.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Every seventh question Lopez explains why they say this move
could make all the safer.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Yeah, this bill is going to help a lot of
undocumented people.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
A new law going into effect on March thirty first,
will fast track the process for immigrants to obtain a
driver's license.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
But not only are they going to know the rules
and the laws of the road, but they're going to
be able to get insurance on their cars and plates.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
Yeaval Days, a driving instructor at the American Driving Academy
in Aurora, says it'll benefit the whole state.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Many people are already driving without driver's licenses, so this
gives them the opportunity to be able to drive safely
and legally.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Colorado already allows undocumented immigrants to obtain their driver's licenses,
but they must live in the state for two years
and provide a Social Security or I ten number. This
new law will streamline that process by getting rid of
those and several other requirements, and now it is going
to be simply just a passport and current proof of
(04:52):
address for immigrants like I'm my bias, It'll be an
immediate process as long as they have an ID from
their home country and proof of address in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
But not everyone agrees with these changes.
Speaker 8 (05:06):
The biggest concern I have is no different than last year.
Speaker 9 (05:11):
It's the public aspect.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Public safety aspect, of course, I mean think about it,
think about what polists in the left are doing, and
it becomes long a few days. All you have to
do you come into this country illegally, right, all you
have to do is show your passport or home i
D show you have a place to live here, and
(05:33):
you get a Colorado driver's license. It has to be
a top five magnet, right, So they are going out
of their way, The Left is going out of their
way to attract folks to come here illegally. Well, why
do you think Johnston and polists, the whole Democratic Party
in Colorado, why do you think they want to attract
(05:54):
more folks here illegally attract here more folks. And by
the way, there's no screening, criminal background check, or anything
else to get this driver's license. So, as we all know,
a lot of otherwise good people come over the border illegally.
They shouldn't, but they do. But at the same time,
you get a lot of hardened criminals who come over too.
(06:14):
And so why do Polis and Mike Johnson all these
other Democrats want to give hardened criminals coming in from
the other side of the border a driver's license? But
more importantly, why do they want to attract them here?
Because they know I mean, this is like the ultimate
welcome Matt, right, just come here, show.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Us an ID, We'll give you a driver's license.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Wow. But whatever their motive is, and we all know
their motive, right, we all know their motive, which is
they see these individuals as votes and they are importing
people here to vote for them.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I mean, we talked about on this show.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
You can see it at Dan Capitalist at Twitter where
Hickelooper and Bennett are pushing a bill that would say
ICE cannot detain any illegal immigrant when they're at the
voting booths. Think about that for a second. It's right there,
look at the Bill. I've got it on my Twitter.
Why in the world would Hickin look for in Bennett
want to stop by us from detaining somebody here illegally
(07:10):
when they're at the voting booth.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I think it's pretty obvious, right, What other conclusion do
you draw?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Let me get to some text on this, But I
hope what would outrage most people who will probably not
even hear about this, what will outrage most people who
do hear about it, is that, by definition, inarguably, it
puts you and your family in more danger. Puts everybody
here legally on Colorado's roadways in more danger, because, ay,
(07:40):
each time you add a driver from anywhere, it increases
the danger. Then when you're trying to attract more people
to come here illegally, that increases the danger. Plus because
think about that, you're not only attracting more people here
to be on our roads, but you're attracting people to
(08:01):
come here who have not been driving on American roads. Ryan,
have you ever been anywhere else in the world as
crazy as our roads are in Colorado, particularly crazy because
of what the left's doing. Yeah, even before this, but
there are a lot of countries where it's even more
insane on the road. So what Jared pol Is and
the Democratic Party in Colorado is saying, Hey, you don't
(08:23):
have to have driven a single day on American roads.
Whatever country you're from, you're here illegally. You know, you
show up, you don't have to be here more than
a minute. Just have that ID and we're going to
hand you a driver's license. I mean, think about how
much more dangerous folks who come here who have not
been driving American roads are likely to be.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Yeah, I've driven the four to ZHO one in Ontario
and it's a little bit different. Yeah, to read in
kilometers instead of miles per hour and so forth. But yeah, yeah,
I mean you can't have people just the premise that
they're talking about here too, this one, Well they're driving anyway.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
What what about the ability to read our roads?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I know, well, Dan I talked about that earlier on
my program Sheet Plug about the runaway truck driver who
you knew couldn't read English in the in the getaway
ramps and then ended up killing five people in an inferno.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I have so many of those cases. Yeah, it's it's
just terrific.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
But but again, it comes back to just not caring
about innocent human life. But whether you want to talk
about the ability to read road signs or or whether
people have any experience at all American roadways, anybody knows
elementally that if you put somebody on a roadways who
has never driven in this country, they are likely to
(09:42):
be more dangerous, right, just lack of familiarity, lack of
familiar to it, the flow, et cetera, whatever bad habits
they may bring from whatever country they've been driving in.
It's it's literally second abortion. Maybe arguably that the most
blatant disrespect for innocent human life is the Left shows
and the biggest information that they are so desperate to
(10:03):
get folks up here illegally to vote for them, that
they are willing to just get citizens killed and maimed
on the roadways. It's hopefully people start to pay attention
to that. Three or three someone three eight two five
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We'll get to some great texture on the Dan Capla Show.
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Speaker 1 (12:04):
Thank you and your very kind Let's go back to
the phone lines. Hey, if you just joined us, thank you.
What we're talking about is the latest truly fatal lunacy
from the Left. If you had any doubt about the
fact that they don't value your life or your family's life,
that doubt should now be gone, as they have starting
the twenty fifth. Now, in Colorado, any legal immigrant, a
(12:26):
legal immigrant from anywhere over the world can just come
across the border, come straight to Colorado and it doesn't
have to be here a full day, as long as
they can show they're living here and show an ID
from their home country. At that point they get a
Colorado driver's license. What could possibly go wrong? Let's find
out from Justin and Little Ten. You're on the Dan
Caplis show.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Welcome Justin. Hello, Justin.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
The deep thinker, deep thinker, the strong, silent type, which
is great in life. Maybe not radio, but great in life,
John and beautiful Fort Lupton.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
You're on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Welcome, thank you. Sure I haven't called you before, Dan,
but thank you. I was just wondering these people that
get this driver's license who aren't citizens, aren't aren't supposed
to be here? Do they? Are they required to get
insurance for their automobile?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yes, well, I'm assuming so I'm not seeing that in
the bill, but it's probably in the the underlying requirements.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
But let me let me just let me just so.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I may have spoken too quickly on that, but this
Colorado Road In Community Safety Act talk about an obscenely
backwards named law. Right, let me just read you quick
bill summary and for those who haven't seen it yet,
the Colorado Road In Community Safety Act authorizes the issuance
of a driver's license or identification card to an individual
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who is not lawfully present in the United States if
the individual meets certain requirements. The Act changes these requirements
by so this is the new law, repealing the requirement
that the applicant have filed a Colorado resident tax return,
repealing the requirement that the applicant demonstrate residency in the
state for the immediate immediately preceding two years, repealing the
(14:17):
requirement that the applicant provide a documented Social Security number
or individual taxpayer identification number, and allowing an applicant to
present a passport, consular identification card, or military identification document
from the applicant's country of origin if that is unexpired
(14:39):
or expired less than ten years before the applicant's application
for a driver's license.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
So you can present here in.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Colorado, according to Jared Polis, and expired and expired identification
card from a foreign country as long as it expired
within the last ten years.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
The way I read.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
That, well, that's kind of zippity, dude. I mean, what
happens if, say, somebody who's off the illegal immigrant that
has a driver's license piles into my car and injures
me and doesn't have any insurance?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Can I sue the state of Colorado for that?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
No?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
No, you can't, my friend, under current law. I personally
believe that laws need to be passed that would allow
injured people and those damaged other ways to sue sanctuary
cities and states for the damages caused by people here illegally,
because that would end the problem almost instantly at that
(15:44):
point that the city and state would have its own
selfish financial motive to stop what they should have stopped
a long time ago.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Well, it's kind of interesting. I hope I don't run
into anybody.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Well, well, my friend, unfortunately, that is beyond your control.
And what the Colorado Democratic Party is now doing is
going out of its way to magnetize and attract even
more in much larger numbers folks to come here illegally.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Think about that.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
What more could you do to send the message across
the world, Hey, you want to come to this country
I legally, and you want a place that is going
to welcome you, a state that's going to welcome you
and embrace you.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
What more could you do? Then?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Say to folks, Hey, the very first day here, what
we're going to give you a Colorado driver's license. You
don't have to have been here for a while. In
this one example, you can have an idea that's been
expired nine.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Years and we'll still hand you a driver's license.
Speaker 8 (16:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
So why do you think they're doing it?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
I think clearly they view all these folks coming here
illegally as their voters. Justin in Littleton, I hope is
back with us.
Speaker 12 (16:54):
I did, sorry, Yeah, you went to me and I
cut that. So when I was sixteen, I had apply
for a driver's license permit. If the one hundred hours
of driving driving tests in person? Whatnot? So the reason
there's actually no driving test here? The insurance left guy
brought up as a great point, absolutely ridiculous. What if
the guy had five do UIs in Honduras know that?
Speaker 4 (17:18):
What if he.
Speaker 12 (17:19):
Never took a driver's class in his life? I mean,
I've you know, I'm sure you have. I've driven in Mexico,
I've driven in Thailand and China and Indonesia, Malaysia going
down the road on you know what they say, it's
several countries and we all know that India the laws
are a little different there. Or red light means a
suggestion at best, so to say it's getting more dangerous
(17:39):
is probably an understatement. I what do we do about this?
I mean, I'm more than outrage.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Hey, what do we do? You're asking just the right question, right,
and there's only one answer to it, and that's a
really hard one, and it's to vote these people out.
Because the reason they're doing it right justin is they
feel politically on touch as if there's no way they
can lose office, so they can do anything they want,
(18:06):
no matter how harmful it is to the people who
vote for them.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
So that's their bad.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
That they're politically untouchable. But think about what it says
about them that they're willing to do this. You're on
the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 10 (18:19):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplish Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I don't think there's that been an American born, including
Congressman Jeff Herdy, joins us. Now, everybody jamming the lines,
please say you will get on air and you'll get
an air pronto. Who has not had this innate desire
where we're born with to just get out on the
highway and drive. Congressman, if you're in DC now, you
probably have a stronger urge than others.
Speaker 9 (18:43):
Dan, Fortunately, I'm back here in Tolado. Home free Home.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yeah, absolutely, Hey, what's popping? What's hot right now there?
Speaker 9 (18:52):
Well, the big news of the day is we have
the continuing Resolution that will you know, keep our government open,
cut overall spending modestly. And it sounds like the Senate
has agreed to that continuing resolution. So that's a good thing.
It's a small step in the right direction, and I'm
excited to see what comes next.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah, but a good thing except for all the ruined
carpets in Washington because lefty heads are exploding all over
the place because some of these Senate Dems agreed to
keep the government open. So do we have like an
all out civil war on the left right now?
Speaker 9 (19:26):
Yeah, there's quite a bit of disarray on the other side,
for sure, Dan. And what I tell people is, look,
this continuing resolution cuts overall spending by seven billion dollars. Again,
that's a step in the right direction. It increases support
for veterans healthcare and housing. There's a pay increase for
junior enlisted personnel in the military, increases border security and
funding to ICE. There's also funding in there for women
(19:47):
inf and in children and supplemental nutrition, and funding increase
for air traffic control as well. I'm not sure why
the Democrats are opposed to this. I think it's the
right thing. Look, a continuing resolution is not the ideal
way to govern. We need long term funding solutions, but
keeping the government running while working toward responsible spending reforms
is essential, and that's what's happening. Not sure why there's
(20:10):
so much controversy on the Democratic side.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Well, on the Democratic side, it's just a party with
his finger in the socket right like twenty four to seven.
It's like they've stuck their finger into an electrical outlet.
They're just spassy, right because they they're living a lie
that people don't want what they're selling and they don't
know what to do.
Speaker 9 (20:29):
One of the things I've noticed in Congress is there's
a generational issue within the within the Democratic Party where
the older leadership in the party there's a little bit
of an internal civil war with the younger folks in
the Republican Party, for example, just committe chairmanships. We have
a term limit on the number of terms that you
can serve as committee chairing of the Republican Party. Democrats
that they don't have that. It's just who's never been
(20:50):
to the longest gets in those plumb spots, and there's
a lot of dissension within the Democratic side that we're
not seeing on the Republican side.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
It's very interesting, yeah, and fun to watch, and hopefully
we'll see some here in Colorado too, because I thought
they're supposed to be the big enlightened totallier than now
party and far as I can tell, three of the
four top jobs go to boring, old white guys, So
I think they're being exposed as the phonies they are.
Speaker 9 (21:14):
Yeah, it's within the state of Colorado. There is a
lot of work to be done, you know, And I
think hopefully the voters will see that as well, Dan,
and they'll see that we need to move things in
a different direction if we're going to help working families
and move our economy in the right direction. Sometimes I
wonder what's going on in the state when you look
at what the state legislature's doing. But I'm optimistic that
(21:34):
we can change course.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Congressman Jeff heard our guests, Well, they saw it in
your race, right because you were running against a guy
with more money than Elon Musk. It wasn't his own,
but it was given to them by lefties and you
still beat them.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (21:45):
It just goes to show Dan that dollars don't vote.
People vote, And I think if we get the right
message out and we have the right messengers, we can
win as Republicans. And that's something that I take heart
in and I hope other reasonable, common sense Colorado and
see as well.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Congressman, how do people follow you?
Speaker 9 (22:03):
The best way to do that is on either Facebook
or x Just go to at Rep Jeff Heard is
the handle go ahead sign up for updates there. Also,
if you go to herd dot house dot gov, you
can sign up for updates email updates that we sent
out every Friday evening as well. You won't get spammed,
I promise, it's just once a week common sense updates.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Fantastic. Appreciate the time, sir, Thank.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
You, Thanks Dan, have a great weekend you too. That's
Congressman Jeff Heard. Let's go to Linda in a Rora.
Our lines are completely jammed, as they should be. If
you haven't heard Democrats in Colorado though, well they jumped
the shark a long time ago. They've jumped the whole
tank at this point. Now about to be in Colorado.
You can come here illegally from anywhere in the world
and day one get a Colorado driver's license. Yeah, that's
(22:51):
not going to magnetize this state. But as we go
to Linda and all of our other callers think about this,
I just found this in the law. I haven't talked
seen this talked about in the reporting This is how
easy Polis in the left wants to make it for
an illegal immigrant to come here, either a person who's
otherwise a good person or a hard and criminal somebody
who said five DUIs in their country of origin killed
people on the roadway. You know what document qualifies you here, Linda?
(23:15):
You know what document qualifies you under Jared Polis's Colorado.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
If you're here illegally.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Day one, all you have to show is a photo
ID from your home country, let's say a passport, a
consular identification card, military ID card that is expired for less.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Than ten years.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
So you can present a card that expired nine years ago,
nine years and let's say three hundred and sixty three
days ago, and Colorado will hand you a driver's license.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
So why do you think they did that?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Why do you say you can even present an expired
card and will give you license.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (23:53):
Well, this is my comment on the whole thing. I
think it's ridiculous. There's no common sense in it. When
I learned to drive, I had to take so many hours.
I had to take a test, I had to have
my parents sign up say I did it. I had
to do the same for my kids. I have to
do the same for my grandkids because I want to
keep them safe. This is the most unsafe thing that
(24:14):
you can do, is to put these drivers on our roads.
He doesn't have to worry. He's going to be safe
wherever he goes, and my grandkids aren't going to be
is ridiculous, boy.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Linda, thank you and very righteous outrage that you have,
and you should. She's thinking of her grandkids, she's thinking
of her family. Jared Paulish couldn't care less about them. Mary,
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 13 (24:41):
Yes, I'm a little off subject. I think that the
governors should have to live in the governor's mansion right
down there with the mess that he and his mayors,
cause we're paying for that. We're saying for Spice and
(25:01):
Boulder too.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I don't know about the bulderpet but that's interesting, Mary,
and we should talk about that separately someday.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
What do you think about that, Ryan, Like, if you
were governor, would you live in the governor's mansion or
one of the shoeling estates?
Speaker 3 (25:15):
I mean the mansion because we go back to the
whole Black Lives Matter riots scenario.
Speaker 10 (25:20):
Dan, he was just.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Able to go up in the woods and the mountains
and hide, and you illustrated very clearly at the time.
I know that Gretchen Whitmer, to her credit, the Governor Michigan,
lives in the rather modest Governor's mansion in Lansing, Michigan,
but she does reside there.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Poulis appears to be too good for that. Yeah, too
good for that. Max and Denver, you're on the dan
Kaplis show. Welcome. Yes, what are you thinking?
Speaker 8 (25:47):
Yes, sir, I just had a small comment, which is
a comment of war and against but just starting from
the beginning gold Rush, everybody came here to Colorado and
beyond for the gold rush. Yes, they have the issue,
I know. And then we had four to twenty when
(26:11):
Colorado had legalized marijuana. Everybody came here. Nobody complained, no aboudy,
but it helped Colorado. Our roads, our economy, our stores
are renders. Everybody promis spread it on that. Now this
I understand, there's some flaws in this, that letting, letting
(26:33):
immigrants come in to Colorado. But again, they're gonna buy gas,
they're gonna buy insurance, they're gonna give us.
Speaker 13 (26:40):
They're gonna help our economy.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
One way or another.
Speaker 8 (26:44):
Yes, they're undocumented, they're illegal, but I'm.
Speaker 10 (26:48):
Just here to see that.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Well, Max, thank.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
You we first make through this process before.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Yeah, first of all, thank you for calling to take
the opposite position. I really am grateful for that. I
would not compare this attempt to attract the largest possible
number of illegal immigrants to Colorado to the gold Rush
or anything else, because, first of all, those folks weren't
(27:14):
coming here illegally. Second, we live at a different time
now where our roads are a killing field. And so
in this situation, you start with the fact that that
fundamental obligation of government in the beginning is to you know,
help protect its citizens, is certainly when it comes to
(27:34):
the roadways, and so to be actively trying to recruit
people to come here illegally to add to the danger
of the roadways is to meet immoral. But then the
second thing, Max, is, you're not just attracting more drivers
onto our roadways. You're attracting drivers, many of whom have
never driven in America, and you're allowing them to drive
(27:57):
on our roadways day one. You know, whether they killed
ten people in their country of origin on the roadways
or anything like that I mean, and Max, I don't
want you to go because you're kind enough to call
and disagree. But think about that. There's no vetting here.
Somebody comes here. They're knowingly attracting people to come here
(28:18):
knowing that they have no way to to vet in
that country of origin. Right, It's like in Colorado, you
come here from another country, we have the interstate Compact,
and they're able to do a quick search of your records,
your driving records, everything else. There's, best of my knowledge,
there's no way they're able to do that for all
these people coming here illegally from all over the world.
(28:39):
It is truly suicidal insanity, but not suicidal for the
ones who passed the laws, just for the rest of us.
You're on the Dan Caplas Show.
Speaker 10 (28:51):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
I've never seen anything like it. There can be no doubt, right,
no doubt whatsoever. The Colorado Democratic already is absolutely determined
to attract as many illegal immigrants to Colorado as possible,
regardless of whether they're otherwise good people or hardened criminals,
or have killed ten people on the roadways down there,
because in a few days from now, a few days
(29:15):
from now, illegal immigrants from anywhere in the world can
come to Colorado and first day, first day, get a
driver's license. Say no requirement, they've ever driven a single
day on American roadways.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
And get this.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Colorado Democratic Party they want to make it so easy
for somebody coming here, no matter what their criminal background
or anything else, to get a driver's license and be
out there with your family on the roadway. That Guess
what they require for identification. Guess what they require. All
they require is either a passport, a consular identification card,
or a military identification card.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
And get this.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
It can be it could be expired as long as
it didn't expire more than ten years ago. It can
be expired for nine years, three hundred and sixty four days,
and Colorado Democrats will still accept it.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Why do you think that is right? Why do you
think that is It's obvious.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
They view all of these people coming here illegally, whether
they're otherwise good people, harden criminals, killers on the roadway,
and their country of origin. They view them as Democrat
voters and that's all that matters to them. And hopefully
the people of Colorado start noticing that. Let's go to
Mike and Portland. You're on the Dan Kaplo show.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
How you doing, Michael, Hey.
Speaker 13 (30:29):
I'm doing just fine.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Dan.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
I don't think you're thinking your position through.
Speaker 13 (30:33):
On Thank you on this law.
Speaker 9 (30:35):
Yes, sir, education, this is gonna this is going to
increase injuries on the road.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Everything I'm opposed to does that.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
This will be a boom for your business.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Oh man, it is? It is sick. Is this eerie?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Mike Eurie going stealths on us Erie? You can just
say eerie, Mic and we'll take your call even sooner
than Mike and Portland.
Speaker 8 (31:02):
But it's just your secretary always asks where am I
calling from?
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Sia answered the question, okay.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Okay, well you are you are at least honest on
this occasion, Mike.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
The point is is this right? I mean, think about
what I.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Spend my time campaigning against on this show. Legalize marijuana.
Legalize marijuana is causing so many horrific crashes around Colorado.
You bet for somebody who represents survivors like I do, yeah,
there are more of those cases.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
That's why I want legalize marijuana band so that we
save these lives and people don't get in these crashes.
Same things here. That that's why I say no, you
can't be given And I know even you agree with this, right, Mike,
you can't be handing drivers' licenses to folks here, come
here illegally, and then you hand it to them first day,
no vetting, no vetting of their driving history in the
(31:54):
country of origin or anything else. Even you don't support that, right.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
No, of course not, I don't. But man, this is
your business man. You got to be thinking about yourself.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Come on, yeah, yeah, Mike, appreciate the call. Be safe
out there. Wow, absolutely insane.
Speaker 10 (32:11):
Five o'clock somewhere.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Yeah, five o'clock somewhere.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
But what it comes back to, right, is that, first
of all, quite obviously the left, and this goes to
something deeper philosophically, because so many people used to be
a Democrat, right, so many people just reflexively vote Democrat
without being aware, really or consciously aware of who controls
the Democratic Party right now, which is these far left,
secular types who just have a fundamentally different view of
(32:34):
the value of human life than the vast majority of Americans.
Human life means nothing to them unless it's their owner,
one of their cronies, and they show it in all
these different laws they pass. If you cared about innocent
human life, you cared about that child who right now
they're sitting at home waiting for mom or dad. Right
but mom or dad may not be coming home tonight
(32:54):
because of or ever because of something the left did
that made our roads more dangerous. And they do so
many different things that make our roads more dangerous. But
you think Polis or any of these lefties in power
lose a second's worth of sleep over the fact that
child will never see their mom or dad again, not
at all, or they wouldn't pass the kind of laws
(33:15):
they passed. So it's just a fundamental difference in how
you view the value of human life. And our Colorado
voter is going to see that in enough numbers to
make the difference. Well, well we'll find out over time.
But Dan Colorado driver's license for illegal sounds like a
middle finger to Donald Trump. Yeah, well, listen, we've seen
(33:40):
a lot of that.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Right.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
This law was actually it's becoming effective now. It was
signed in late June. But do you see where the
Trump administration now telling Denver that it it may withhold
thirty two million in funding, saying it was improperly diverted
to improperly diverted to support folks here illegally so followed
(34:00):
that story and we'll close with this today. And that
is just more irrefutable proof the Left doesn't care about
the people who claims to serve. If Mike Johnston cared
about the people of Denver, why would he go so
far out of his way to make an enemy of
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President Trump, which is what he's done.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
Right.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
He'll send the police out to take on the Feds
as they come into the county and all that.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Yeah, it just shows he doesn't care about the people
he served, because how do the people of Denver benefit
from that? Just so typical Left. Great job, Brian, great job, Kelly.
Have a wonderful, safe weekend.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
See you next week.
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