December 4, 2025 • 36 mins
Bob Brinkerhoff, Republican candidate for Colorado governor, joins Sheriff Steve Reams to discuss his candidacy among a field of about 20 announced candidates in the GOP primary.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Capless and welcome to today's online podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Welcome back to the Dan Caplis Show. Here on a
lovely Thursday afternoon in the Denver Mile High City. You're
listening to Well County Shriff Steve Reims as the guest
host today. This is day three of three, so if
you're sick of me, don't worry. You'll have someone else tomorrow.
Maybe Dan, maybe somebody else. I'm not real sure. Dan
called this morning or texted this morning and asked if
I could do another day of the show, But my
(00:35):
schedule does not allow tomorrow. So you're going to get
somebody different. Maybe it'll be Dan back in the driver's seat,
or who knows, maybe one of his other guest hosts,
or maybe he'll ask Ryan to stay over and do
four hours of radio. If you never care, Hey, that
doesn't sound very genuine. Ryan, Well, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
I like changing it up like I do the Dan
Caplis Pregame Show. Take a great deal, pride in that,
and then when I hand it off to somebody like
yourself or I'm going to text Dan now, like maybe
g brock I know he'sus. He's so jealous of you, dude,
that you've been doing these shows the last three days.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I think that's great. That just makes me happy, even
if the listeners don't care to hear what I have
to say. The fact that George Brockler is jealousy is
a win. It is I love it.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
It's a big capital W.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, big time. Yeah, that's a that's a donk right there.
And George is short, so it's even better. George is
my buddy, so I have to pick on him. Everyone.
It's all good. Hey, we're gonna have a kind of
another fun show here today. You know, I always like
to talk about governor races governor candidates, and you know,
some of you may be sick of this topic. Some
of you may not be. I don't know. I guess
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it really doesn't matter. This is the last day I'm
hosting hosting for Dan for a while. But I want
to revisit something we talked about a little bit yesterday,
and that's that we have forty candidates in the governor's
race in Colorado. I just double checked those numbers right
before we came on air at the Colorado Secretary of
State's website under the tracer tab. And if you're thinking
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maybe that's not the most accurate place to look for
candidates because it's manned by Jennet Griswold, I'm certain she
didn't have anything to do with establishing this website. Her
name is just simply on it, and I believe the
numbers to be accurate. All that being said, there's twenty
one Republicans running, seven Democrats and twelve we'll just say
others because they range in all kinds of party affiliation
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or unaffiliated, whatever you want to call them. But of
those twenty one Republicans as of today, we are going
to interview I believe the last person I'll be able
to get on who's an active candidate, and that's Bob Brinkerhoff.
And I didn't save him for last. He was just
one of the later persons to enter the race, and
I got a hold of him, worked out well for
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his schedule to come on today, and so we're going
to dive into who Bob Brinkerhoff is. There's again twenty
one candidates. I read them off yesterday. We'll go through
them again here in just a few minutes. There's four
that I just flat out can't get a decent response from.
We had one scheduled for the early part of the
show yesterday and for whatever reason that didn't work out.
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That was Jim Runberg, and maybe at some point you'll
hear about who he is, but I'm not going to
make another attempt at that one. So again, we're going
to have a governor's candidate here on the top of
the show. We'll talk to him for a little while,
see what his game plan is. And in the second
half of the show, we're going to go to something
very non controversial, something that doesn't get a lot of
people excited, and that's the Tina Peter saga. I'm saying
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that tongue in cheek. Obviously, we'll have Dan Rubinstein on
and Carly koppas the Weld County Clerk and Recorder, who
is also very active in the Clerk's Association. I think
she may be the president that association currently or the
upcoming president. Dan Rubinstein was obviously the district attorney that
prosecuted Tina Peters and the reason this is kind of
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reagend in the news is because President Trump has been
putting out I don't know, I still call him tweets.
He's been putting out stuff on social media saying TENA
Peters and some very very colorful language in coordination with that.
So I thought, well, let's make the second hour all
about Tina Peters and some of the people who disagree
with President Trump, and then we'll have you guys and
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the listeners give your feedback through text or phone calls
when we can fit them in and see exactly what
you think. I kind of I kind of believe I
know where this is going to go. But you know,
there's definitely two sides of this argument, two sides of
this coin, and I want to hear what these people
who are definitely against the Tina Peters release have to
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say and why they're saying it. But again, we'll revisit
that governor's stuff in this first hour and then I'll
bury it after that unless a candidate really wants to
come on and I'm hosting again in the future, we'll
try to stick to those who are looking for that
earned media and not trying to drag them out onto air.
But I want to go through the candidates one more
time so you can hear all twenty one Republicans in
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no particular order other than alphabetical. Here they are Mark Baisley,
Scott Bottoms, Bob Brinkerhoff, who will have on today, John Brooks,
who we had on yesterday, Jason Clark we've had on
in the past. Actually most of these. Bryce and Garrison
was on the show. Steven Guess. I cannot get a
hold of that guy. John Gray Ginsburg. He was on
and it was confusing, to say the least, but he
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came on the show. Joshua Griffin, Barb Kirkmyer, very well known.
Greg Lopez was on with Ryan Shuling in the earlier show.
Victor Marx He's been on with both myself and Dan Caplis,
and I think is looking to schedule with Ryan Shoeling.
William will McBride, he was on this show. Sorry, I
got to go to page two. Jason Michael he's been
on this show, I believe on Ryan's show. Potentially, he's
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been on with Dan. Robert Moore he was on this
show as well. Alexander Magutu he was on this show.
He was one of the first persons we interviewed Maria ORMs.
She's recently entered the race and I can get no
response from her as of now. Jim Runberg was the
no show yesterday, Daniel Thomas, Gregory Thomas, and then Kelvin
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k Man Wimberley. That was one of the more interesting
interviews that I've done, And honest to goodness, if you
meet this guy in person, he is a character. He
is more of a caricature when you talk with him.
He's very entertaining. If he were to become the governor
of the state of Colorado, there would be no lack
of headlines, that's for sure. I don't know if those
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would be good or bad, but regardless, they would be entertaining,
much like sometimes with Donald Trump in the presidential seat.
But I want to make this entertaining fun for you guys.
I also want to get your feedback. I believe we'll
have a segment open just to take phone calls. I
dared you guys to do this yesterday, But line up
those phone calls. When we get to bout probably half
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hour mark, I think we'll open up the phone lines
and I want to hear what your guys' criticisms. Are
these candidates are the things you think they're doing well?
Which candidate like? Which candidate you say is an absolute
no go? And the second question of that is are
there any of these candidates that you can just absolutely
not get behind? And why? Because when it all said
and done, whoever wins that primary. If we can't get
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Republicans to unite behind one particular candidate, there is absolutely
no hope for Republican to win in this state. So
we kind of got to be honest. Can a Republican
garner your support even if it's not the person that
you would primarily want to vote for? So I guess
the question is who's your number one? Pick, who's your
number two? And so on and so forth. But I
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want to hear it from you, guys, and you can
always call in three oh three seven to one, three eight,
two five five. Like I said, towards the end of
this first hour or the halfway point of this first hour,
we're definitely going to take some calls. You can always
text into at five seven seven three nine. Start your
text out with Dan having said that, we got a
text to the to the wall here before the show
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even started. It says Tina Peters gets nine years for
breaking into an election system. Rohell gil Aguilera Maderis gets
only one more year for killing five people, which is
kind of accurate. He actually got sentence to one hundred
and ten years, but then his sentence was modified or
commuted by Governor Polis when Kim Kardashian got him on
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the phone and whispered in his ear and went from
one hundred and ten years down to ten. So if
you're doing the math, if Donald Trump is persuasive with
Governor Polis, Tina Peters should be getting out already, you know,
if the same rules apply, because she's definitely done at
least that much of her sentence already. So you know,
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I'm kind of I struggle with how to interpret the
Tina Peters case because I don't know all the inside information.
I don't know election law the way that I would
look at criminal law, and I don't understand how her
sentence computes to nine years. When some guy that kills
five people on a roadway, he gets his sentence commuted
down to ten years by the same governor that doesn't
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want to do any bending for Tina Peters. It's just
confusing to me, I understand setting an example, but again
we'll get to that in the second hour. Let's go
to break. When we come back, we'll have Bob Brinkerhoff
on with us, and well hear why he's getting in
the governor's race. Here listening to the Dan capless Show
here on six point thirty k how with Well County
Sheriff Steve Riams.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Welcome back to the Dan Capla Show here with Well
County Sheriff Steve Riams as the guest host for day
three of three. You'll have a different host tomorrow, either
Dan will be back in the studio or you have
a different guest host. Either way there'll be a change
in the seat. That being said, when we went to break,
I was telling you that we were going to have
probably the last governor's candidate new governor's candidate that I
could get scheduled, and that's mister Bob Brinkerhoff. I got
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to listen to Bob at a candidate forum up in
northern Colorado at the Resurrection Church. It was an event
that was put together, I think primarily by a young
man named Trent Lacy who's pretty active in the Republican
Party in Weld County and a great event. I think
there were twelve or thirteen of at that time, the
sixteen or seventeen Governor's candidates that were in the race.
Obviously there's been some added since then. And it was
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the first time I'd ever heard of Bob or heard
Bob speak. I believe he's been out on the Governor's
tour quite a bit since that time, and I wanted
to give him a chance to come on this show
and tell us what his platform is. So with that,
mister Brinkerhoff, are you on the phone with us? I
am good to hear from you, Bob. I didn't get
a chance to meet you in person up in Welld
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County and Windsor when you were up there for that
candidate form, but your story was interesting to me, and
I thought, well, you know what, let's see if we
can get this guy on the radio and ask him
a few questions. So with that, we'll dive right into it.
And if you would, Bob, would you tell the listeners
a little bit about your background. I know you've been
around for a while and you have quite a unique background,
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but tell the listeners kind of you're working ground and
how your life in Colorado kind of evaulved.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Okay, Well, first of all, I am a Colorado native.
In fact, both of my parents were born and raised
in Colorado. I went to work for the Colorado State
Patrol in nineteen seventy nine, and I worked for the
State Patrol as a uniformed officer until two thousand and five,
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a little over twenty six years the State Patrol and
the executive branch of Colorado's government. And you can tell
from the numbers two thousand and five, I've been retired
for a little more than twenty years. Sure, And I
didn't really plan on running for office. In fact, I
had other plans, but I was asked to run for governor.
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And that's kind of explained on my Facebook web page,
my Facebook page under Bob C. Brinker Hoff. There's several
videos there where they can we'll see why I ran
for office.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Why don't you just tell us, Bob, you're on the air,
you got a great listening on it, and tell us
the reason why you decided to go ahead and hop
in this race.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Well, in December, a little bit before Christmas, I had
a visitor at my house. I couldn't see him, but
I heard a voice that asked me to run for governor. Okay,
so I want you to run for governor. And I
looked around and I didn't see anybody. And I spent
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thirty or forty five seconds trying to figure out where
that voice came from, because I thought I was in
the house by myself, okay. And I thought about what
he said, and I wasn't able to come up for
with a logical explo nation from where that voice came from.
So I looked up at the ceiling and I said, Lord,
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if that was you, I don't think you realize how
difficult that would be. As a matter of fact, I
got no name recognition statewide, I don't have any political clout.
I've never ran for an office. I think it might
be impossible, if not completely impossible, and I don't think
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I could do that. And as soon as I got
done talking, he said, you told me all I had
to do was ask, which in many of my prayers
in twenty twenty three. In twenty twenty four, when I
was praying for our country, I told God, if he
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could say to our country there was anything I could
do for him. There that would help him. All he
had to do was ask. The only caveat I put
on that was I'd have to know that it was
him that was asking, okay, And he just told me
he's asking. So I said, well, if you want me
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to do that, okay, I'll do it. I'll run for governor.
But I sure I'm going to need a lot of help.
In fact, I'll probably need a tremendous amount of help.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Sure.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
And I thought he might tell me that he was
going to help a little bit, but instead he said,
I will be with you always. And I was a
little bit taken back by that. And I sat there
thinking about it for a I don't know, ten or
fifteen seconds, and the more I thought about it, the
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more comforting I thought.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
That was sure.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
So anyway, that's that's what prompted me to do it.
I've been watching as our state kind of went in
a downward spiral.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
That's a nice way that you lay under this governor.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Yes, and he's kind of violated our constitution in a
couple of places, and I'm sure you're probably aware of it.
He's the supreme executive power of the state shall be
vested in the governor, who shall take care that the
laws be faithfully executed. They are ignoring not just an
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inestimators in this state, but they're ignoring felonies. There's people
committing felonies out there. The district attorneys aren't filing any
charges on and they're not prosecuting these people. And that's
his primary job as the top law enforcement officer in
the state, to make sure that these laws are executed.
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So he hasn't done that. And then he went ahead
and made it a sanctuary state for illegal aliens. We
had statutes on the book for decades and I'm sure
you probably aware of them too. Would assist our federal partners.
This wasn't a sanctuary state for criminals.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
It is now. So Bob, you know, as you've been
going through this process and kind of getting out on
the campaign trail, what's been the reception you Have you
gotten a warm reception from the voters out there. Are
you getting some support out on the campaign trail?
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Well, I have been getting a lot of support everywhere
I've been able to go so far. The Colorado GOP
chair has refused to give me a red book so
I cannot contact every county and asked for an opportunity
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to speak there, so I've been a little bit hampered
by that, but everywhere that I've been I've been accepted
well and I've got a lot of support from those
that were present.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Bob, if people want to learn more about you, do
you have a website out there? You mentioned your Facebook
page earlier, but do you have a website or any
other social media platforms that people can can find you.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Well, I've been able to do pretty much everything that
I wanted to accomplish on my Facebook, and I thought
about doing a website, but I just I didn't know
if that would be a fruitful expense. So Facebook, I'm
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not accepting donations from anyone. I'm running on my own
money and I'm not a poor man. I'm seventy years
old and I didn't really think I needed a job
that I am willing to do this for two reasons.
The person that asked me to run, and I care
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about the people of this state.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Bob. We got to go to a We're going to
a break. Hey, I appreciate you coming on the show.
That's Bob. See Brinkerhoff on Facebook is where people can
locate you. And again, Bob, best of luck. Thanks for
coming on the show and kind of giving a little
bit about your platform and while you're running, and we'll
try to get you on again sometime in the future
if you're open to it again. Thanks, thanks for coming
on the show. You're listening to The Dan capless Show
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on six point thirty KHW with Well Kenny Sheriff Steve Riams.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
You're listening to the Dankplis Show Podcastcome.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Back to the Dan Capliss Show here with Well Kenny
Sheriff Steve Raams as your guest host. And we just
finished up an interview with Bob Brinkerhoff. He's making his
initial stump here on the Dan Caplis Show. So we
always try to keep those a little short and maybe
bring them on a little later for additional segments if
such is warranted. But Bob's interest in running for the
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governor's race is one those evangelical reasons, like a few
of the other candidates have kind of hinted to but
not necessarily said in such direct words. Bob said he
got a message from God and decided it was time
to get in the race, And hey, who can doubt
the guy. It's his faith, and you know, if that's
what he's called to do. So be it. Twenty one
candidates and he's one of them, so good luck to him,
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and I hope the best for all of them. To
be honest with you, we just need a good one.
All that being said, I challenge you guys at the
top of the show. I want to hear who your
candidate is, who's your second favorite, who's your third, who's
your absolute no go? If that person wins the primary,
you can't get behind him no matter what. You know,
we need we need to start talking about all this
stuff because I think it's important as this stuff heads
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to state Assembly and to a primary vote, who's got
a chance at winning and who doesn't. You can text
in at five seven, seven, three nine, start your text
out with Dan or watch. What I would most prefer
is if you call in three o three seven to one,
three eight two five five. I want to hear it
straight from your lips through these through these headphones, why
do you support a particular candidate? And the text wall
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is already kind of heating up a little bit, but
hopefully the phone lines will as well. I know sometimes
people are a little afraid to share their their comments,
but it's just you and the listening audience. No one's
going to know who you are, so feel free to
call in again. That's what this is is talk radio,
not just me talking, but all of us talking. I
will get to the text wall hopefully you guys are
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loading up the phone line again. Three oh three, seven
to one, three eight, two five five. Who's your favorite candidate?
Who's your no go candidate? Let's hear it. You know
who are you going to get behind? But while we're
doing that, the text wall at five seven, seven, three
nine says, this one's from Alexa. You know, we were
making some jokes about Brocclar and him being jealous about
me being on the show for a few days. Alexi says,
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Sheriff reriemes do whatever you can to make Broccoli jealous,
and so everybody likes to pick on Brocclar. It's it's
just a habit. It's fun.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
It is fun.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
It's I mean, shoot a message to Dan saying if
we're still looking for a fill in host, g Brock
has been chomping at the bed. So I did send
that along, and then we did get a recommendation on
the text line as well for Matt Dunn.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
So I passed that along as well textor just so you.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Know well, and that being said, you know there's another
text right alongside the Matt Dunn text that says, I
hope you'll have Joe Oltman on to discuss the Tina
Peters situation. I'm not going to be on to schedule him.
I think Matt Dunn probably has a relationship with Joe
Oltman from some of my memory of Matt Dunn's show
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on a different station, so maybe he can make that
connection if he's the host tomorrow. And then the text
goes on to say, once again, no on Kirkmeyer and
Lopez might be the best option. And this text is
out driving a semi truck again today, So hopefully you're
not texting while you're driving, because if that's the case,
Dan would be very upset with you, and so would
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your friends in law enforcement. So I'm sure you were
pulled over somewhere safely while you were listening to the
radio and sending text But keep them coming in five seven, seven,
three nine again start your text out with Dan or
call in three oh three seven one three eight two
five five. Tell me who's the candidate? Is it? Victor
Marx is at Scott Bottoms. Is it Barb Kirkmeyer, is it?
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Is it Greg Lopez? Is it Bob Brinkerhoff? Who's your person?
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
And this one says Republicans have twenty one running, Democrats
have two. They will crush anyone that isn't Victor Marx.
Colorado is nearly gone. Man, I wish you'd call in
and explain to me why you think Victor Marx is
the person. And as a way to correct that, there
aren't just two candidates on the Democrat side, Okay, there
are seven seven, seven candidates. Now there may only be
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two that are recognizable prominently, but out of the twenty
one Republican candidates, there's only about six that are recognizable.
So you know, it doesn't mean that someone couldn't come
up through the Democrat ranks and wrinkle the wrinkle the
noses of a few folks. So who knows?
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (22:56):
With this text from Kevin this following up on the
Dan Campells pre show also known as Ryan Schuling Live.
You can subscribe, download listen. Would appreciate that on your
favorite podcast platform. Jamie Lisso for Colorado governor now one,
I like the idea.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Really, he is one of us, if you know what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
And three, Denver holds a special place in his heart,
and I was a central part of it. I don't
like to take too much credit, but I'm gonna yeah,
I do it because Erica, his beautiful wife, hails from
Idaho and she met him in person for the very
first time coming here at Comedy Works South at the
Landmark YEP.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Nice. And for those of you that don't know, Ryan's
constantly working with Comedy Works to help promote the guys
down there are the people that are going down there
to make appearances on the show. One last text here
says is Bob Brinkerhoff associated with Savina's and Brinkerhoff Restaurants.
I don't believe. So I googled those two restaurants. Those
are in the Denver metro area, and I believe Bob
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hailes from the Springfield, Colorado area, so south eastern Colorado.
At least that's what shows up on the Secretary of
State's website. So you know, that's not to say Bob
couldn't own the restaurants up here be associated with them,
but I don't think that is the case. And I
believe we have a caller on the line who maybe
wants to mix it up a little bit about the
governor's race. Caller, what do you have to say?
Speaker 6 (24:13):
Well, number one, I think it's ridiculous that all these
people are running anyway. I am definitely for Scott Bottom.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
He is on top of everything and people need to
follow him on his Facebook. He has been going to
probably every district he can. He's been here twice. I
think he's the best.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Carol, where is here? You said he's been here twice?
Where's that?
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Oh? I'm sorry worthen Old County.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Worthin No County, Okay. So a little more remote out there.
And the fact that you got a candidate that's coming
out to see you, that's uh. That matters. That stuff
does matter. So your connection with Bottoms, I mean you
said he's on top of everything. What is it that
resonates with him the most for you?
Speaker 6 (24:59):
Well, I just think his protection of our families. I
think that he knows exactly what's going on in every
aspect of our lives. And I really appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Okay, all right, fair enough. Do you have a candidate
you absolutely can't get behind? Is there a candidate in
the race that if that person wins the primary. You say,
there's no way I can get behind that person.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Greg Lopez, and I don't think I really would go
for Victor Marx.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Okay, fair enough. Thank you for the call, Carol. And
that's what we're looking for. We want to hear you
know who's resonating who's not. I think we have another
caller queued up, but before we get to those, I
just want to throw this one out here. I want
to put my text. I want to put my support
behind Victor Marx, but I still have a bad taste.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
In my mouth.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
From the Dan Mays or from Dan Mays. This one
signed from one of my friends. Eric Jones says, don't
remember his name, but controls clerk and recorder clerk and
recorders and wife worked for Dominion for twenty years. David,
I'm not exactly sure who that is. I don't know
what we're talking about. Here's another one, says Gabe Evans
for governor. Well, he's not in the race yet, so
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that's gonna have to be a different cycle. And he
endorsed Barb kirk Mayer did indorse Barbe Kirkmeyer. That's correct.
Who's our next caller? Ryan?
Speaker 4 (26:15):
That is David in Denver, David in Denver, what do
you have.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
To say to us, Sri Rings, thanks for taking the
call and free driving the truck now? And I was
part does that sex. I was switching my trailers perfect.
I'm trying to remember that gentleman's name that Joe old
Me calls out that controls the clerk and reporters, but
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behind those governors real quick interviewed Bottom. It's a few
weeks back. Good interviews. But he also exposed, like Ryan,
a little bit about Victor Marx. Sure he didn't talk negatives,
but he just said the stuff I found out I
cannot back and uh he left it there. So he
support him, you know, the originally said he thought about
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having him on his cabinet. Blah blah blah. Seems like
Bottoms putting a lot of thoughts into this process. Sure
he might be a good one, but I just can't
get behind kirk Meyer after meet her and talks to people.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Okay, so Kirk Myer is your Nogo. Bottoms is right now?
Kind of your your number one guy?
Speaker 7 (27:23):
Don't Bottoms? And I don't know why people are against Lopez.
He sounds like I listened to him on Ryan Show today,
and I listened to him before and they shoved.
Speaker 8 (27:31):
Him in to be a representative.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Sure, I've heard him with I think Oldman probably a
year ago on an interview if you will didn't come back.
I just, uh, do you think it's better than polish
or my dead dogs?
Speaker 8 (27:45):
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Do you know what you're saying? David? Thanks for calling
in and thank you for being such a loyal Texter.
We're gonna try to get one more caller before we
go to break. Ryan. Let's switch over to the This
one's in Conifer. I think we have Grant. Yeah, what
do you have to say to us?
Speaker 8 (28:05):
Oh, I was just responding to I sent your text
calling him. But looking at how the Republican Party is
sitting right now for this race, I don't see a
route this. This has to be an election by the
man or the woman that is going to be a
personality for the state. And really not so much as
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much as most people are arguing about right now over
how he's going to do this, how is she going
to do that? It has to come down to who's
going to win this thing. Victor Marx is not a politician.
He's a man that has an interesting history, to say
the least, a lot of the country Club Republicans. But
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in the reality of the entire thing, it's got to
be somebody that can win this. It can be somebody
that's just going to say some things, because it all
comes down to how does how does the Democrat Party
run anybody? And you still get one hundred percent of
the vote.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
So you think it's a little bit of defendance. You
think it's a little bit more marketing at this point
than it is maybe even substance. And I'm not trying
to put words.
Speaker 8 (29:13):
Absolutely every one of the Republican candidates are going to
do fantastic because it's common sense, you know, lifestyles. But
it's got to be it's got to go to win. Okay,
it has to be a person that can take it.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Do you have a do you have an absolute no?
Go Canada. They win the primary and you just can't
get behind them.
Speaker 8 (29:31):
Oh not at all. There's good people everywhere. There's a
lot of good people trying to do the same thing.
It's got to come down to each of you who
can win this thing.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
I love that answer. Hey, with that, we're going to
go to break if you're on the line, stay on
the line and we'll come back. We'll clear up the
rest of the calls. You're listening to Dan Capless Show
here on six thirty k HOW with Well Candy Shaff,
Steve Riams.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
The show here with Well County Shriff Steve. We've been
talking about governor's candidates and who do you love? Coming
back with some George thorough Good. They're perfect music. Ryan
always nails it on that stuff. But you guys have
been great. I mean, you're you're very thoughtful in the
way you're looking at these candidates right now. A couple
of you have some no goes. But I loved our
last caller who said, hey, you know, I think Victor
Marx is a He's a good marketer for a lack
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of better terms, and you know that might be what
it takes to win a race. And then you know,
the follow up question was are there anybody that you
wouldn't get behind? And he said, no, whoever wins, I'm
going to support. I like that. I like that thought process,
and I know some of you will say that's unpopular.
You know, you got to stick to your your your guns,
and follow your person all the way through. But we
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haven't exactly done well as a Republican party and winning
the governor's race. Sometimes I think for that very reason,
we go into our corners and then if our candidate
loses at the primary level, we just check out. And
that's not a winning combination. And I understand sometimes you
have to hold your nose and vote for that person
that may not be your favorite, but it's got to
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be better than the other side of the aisle. While
we were at break, quite a few texts coming in.
This last one here says my gut doesn't trust Victor Marx.
I think we have the best chance with kirk Meyer,
but I really like Lopez as well. Okay, so a
few options there. Again, I'd love for you guys to
call in. You can do that at three oh three
seven one, three eight two five five, keep the text
(31:23):
going at five seven, seven three nine. Here's one. Somebody
has definitely had too much to drink. By four fifty
three in the evening, it says Dan aimed at me,
you should run for governor. Nah, I don't. I don't
think that's in the cards right now.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Well, you left part of that out there. What does
that mean, beid.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Bro it was supposed to Yeah, that's even weirder. It's weird.
I think it's supposed to be Beard Bro.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Beard Bro.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
I know who it's calling, Bro, Yeah, I know who
it's coming from. And uh yeah that this person's obviously
been in the sauce for a few hours.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Now, five o'clock somewhere in last here.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Yeah, it's almost so, you know, I'm not judging them.
I'm just saying that they're not they don't have their
head on straight. But you know, again, the the wall
is kind of interesting when you're reading these texts because
it's all over the place, and I think that's kind
of indicative of where the Republican Party is right now.
It's like we're lost souls searching for that savior and
(32:19):
I don't know what the right answer is. I do
what's that?
Speaker 4 (32:23):
You know, my ticket idea And I'm a great marketer myself. Okay,
let's the lawyer and the law man. Jesus he Brocler
and Reeves. I'm just saying, Brocler at the top of
the ticket.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
This allows you to kind of slide down and you're
in that you know, kind of vice role, and I
think you would shine in that role, and you'd be
a great.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Publicity person for the ticket. You know I'm not wrong.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Well, and then I'm going to have to help broccoler
up to the high things on the tall shelves. Oh boy,
you've remember that movie Twins. I do yeah with Danny DeVito.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
And you're Swarzennig and he's the veato.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
That.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
But it's better than the stepbrother's reference.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
Well, that one. I don't know who's who.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
That's my point. Yeah, right, yeah, I know it'd be
tough for to nail down.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
We are both more on sometimes.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
I'll tell you this though, in all seriousness, Brockler has
fared I believe the best. If you go back over
the last whatever eight plus years that there's been statewide elections,
when he ran for attorney General against Phil Wiser in
a very difficult year for Republicans, he's still fared better
than any other Republican on the ticket. And you know,
he's got the chops, he's got the goods.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Yeah. You know, remember when he started into that election cycle,
he was actually running for governor.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
I was supporting I was supporting George in that effort,
and that was just again a crowded field, not twenty
one crowded, but a crowded field. And at that time,
Walker Stapleton was the money guy. He was the old money,
had some ties to the George Bush family, and people thought, well,
that's our best bet, and come to find out, that
was not our best bet.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
I look back, and I had first moved here sheriff
right after that election, and I couldn't understand the logic
behind the Walkers Stapleton pick. It was just casper milk toast.
It was kind of like what you're saying. It was
the safe pick, but not an inspired pick. You know,
he had you know, the Democrats would do this, the
ties to.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
The old clan family lines, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Just wasn't going to play in Peoria, and wasn't going
to play in Pueblo, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
And it didn't he came up to Actually, I borrowed
a friend's party bus and picked Walker and his crew
up from the local airport, drove him around to a
few events in Wild County, and every event we went
to it was like, man, I mean, it was you know,
stumping right on election day or the day before, and
it just didn't feel like there was any energy in
the room.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Energy.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Yeah, and you know, again to take a line from
Donald Trump, low.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Energy, low energy.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
But no, we really need an ace in the whole
pick and that's difficult to do. To thread that needle.
Republican that can win here in Colorado statewide. You won't
have to go up against as much money as Paul
has had, but it'll be either Benet or Wiser, probably Bennett.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Yeah, you're looking at two or three million already in
both of their coffee.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
In the Democratic machine that will be behind either one
and again probably Bennett. But we need kind of a
unifying figure in the mold. I've said this before of
a Ron de Santis with a soaring rhetoric, deep policy knowledge,
a strong personality, and somebody that's not afraid to campaign
on solidly conservative values that are shared not just by
Republicans but by unaffiliated voters in this state.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Well, and in talking about Georgia, you know, he's in
a seat that he loves right now for obvious reasons.
He's a heck of a prosecutor. He loves that work.
But being in that seat has you know, it's elevated
him to a level that is much higher than even
the first time he ran. So true, Yeah, that could
be a possibility. Maybe after his four years in this
seat he'll consider it again. Who knows. If he's on
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the radio tomorrow, you can ask him. When they come back,
we'll get to a much less controversial topic. Tina Peters
in the second hour here listening to the DANKPLA Show
here with Well County Sheriff Steve Reims as your guest
hosting
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Welcome back to the Dan Caplis Show. Here on a
lovely Thursday afternoon in the Denver Mile High City. You're
listening to Well County Shriff Steve Reims as the guest
host today. This is day three of three, so if
you're sick of me, don't worry. You'll have someone else tomorrow.
Maybe Dan, maybe somebody else. I'm not real sure. Dan
called this morning or texted this morning and asked if
I could do another day of the show, But my
(00:35):
schedule does not allow tomorrow. So you're going to get
somebody different. Maybe it'll be Dan back in the driver's seat,
or who knows, maybe one of his other guest hosts,
or maybe he'll ask Ryan to stay over and do
four hours of radio. If you never care, Hey, that
doesn't sound very genuine. Ryan, Well, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
I like changing it up like I do the Dan
Caplis Pregame Show. Take a great deal, pride in that,
and then when I hand it off to somebody like
yourself or I'm going to text Dan now, like maybe
g brock I know he'sus. He's so jealous of you, dude,
that you've been doing these shows the last three days.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I think that's great. That just makes me happy, even
if the listeners don't care to hear what I have
to say. The fact that George Brockler is jealousy is
a win. It is I love it.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
It's a big capital W.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, big time. Yeah, that's a that's a donk right there.
And George is short, so it's even better. George is
my buddy, so I have to pick on him. Everyone.
It's all good. Hey, we're gonna have a kind of
another fun show here today. You know, I always like
to talk about governor races governor candidates, and you know,
some of you may be sick of this topic. Some
of you may not be. I don't know. I guess
(01:39):
it really doesn't matter. This is the last day I'm
hosting hosting for Dan for a while. But I want
to revisit something we talked about a little bit yesterday,
and that's that we have forty candidates in the governor's
race in Colorado. I just double checked those numbers right
before we came on air at the Colorado Secretary of
State's website under the tracer tab. And if you're thinking
(02:00):
maybe that's not the most accurate place to look for
candidates because it's manned by Jennet Griswold, I'm certain she
didn't have anything to do with establishing this website. Her
name is just simply on it, and I believe the
numbers to be accurate. All that being said, there's twenty
one Republicans running, seven Democrats and twelve we'll just say
others because they range in all kinds of party affiliation
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or unaffiliated, whatever you want to call them. But of
those twenty one Republicans as of today, we are going
to interview I believe the last person I'll be able
to get on who's an active candidate, and that's Bob Brinkerhoff.
And I didn't save him for last. He was just
one of the later persons to enter the race, and
I got a hold of him, worked out well for
(02:44):
his schedule to come on today, and so we're going
to dive into who Bob Brinkerhoff is. There's again twenty
one candidates. I read them off yesterday. We'll go through
them again here in just a few minutes. There's four
that I just flat out can't get a decent response from.
We had one scheduled for the early part of the
show yesterday and for whatever reason that didn't work out.
(03:06):
That was Jim Runberg, and maybe at some point you'll
hear about who he is, but I'm not going to
make another attempt at that one. So again, we're going
to have a governor's candidate here on the top of
the show. We'll talk to him for a little while,
see what his game plan is. And in the second
half of the show, we're going to go to something
very non controversial, something that doesn't get a lot of
people excited, and that's the Tina Peter saga. I'm saying
(03:30):
that tongue in cheek. Obviously, we'll have Dan Rubinstein on
and Carly koppas the Weld County Clerk and Recorder, who
is also very active in the Clerk's Association. I think
she may be the president that association currently or the
upcoming president. Dan Rubinstein was obviously the district attorney that
prosecuted Tina Peters and the reason this is kind of
(03:51):
reagend in the news is because President Trump has been
putting out I don't know, I still call him tweets.
He's been putting out stuff on social media saying TENA
Peters and some very very colorful language in coordination with that.
So I thought, well, let's make the second hour all
about Tina Peters and some of the people who disagree
with President Trump, and then we'll have you guys and
(04:14):
the listeners give your feedback through text or phone calls
when we can fit them in and see exactly what
you think. I kind of I kind of believe I
know where this is going to go. But you know,
there's definitely two sides of this argument, two sides of
this coin, and I want to hear what these people
who are definitely against the Tina Peters release have to
(04:35):
say and why they're saying it. But again, we'll revisit
that governor's stuff in this first hour and then I'll
bury it after that unless a candidate really wants to
come on and I'm hosting again in the future, we'll
try to stick to those who are looking for that
earned media and not trying to drag them out onto air.
But I want to go through the candidates one more
time so you can hear all twenty one Republicans in
(04:58):
no particular order other than alphabetical. Here they are Mark Baisley,
Scott Bottoms, Bob Brinkerhoff, who will have on today, John Brooks,
who we had on yesterday, Jason Clark we've had on
in the past. Actually most of these. Bryce and Garrison
was on the show. Steven Guess. I cannot get a
hold of that guy. John Gray Ginsburg. He was on
and it was confusing, to say the least, but he
(05:22):
came on the show. Joshua Griffin, Barb Kirkmyer, very well known.
Greg Lopez was on with Ryan Shuling in the earlier show.
Victor Marx He's been on with both myself and Dan Caplis,
and I think is looking to schedule with Ryan Shoeling.
William will McBride, he was on this show. Sorry, I
got to go to page two. Jason Michael he's been
on this show, I believe on Ryan's show. Potentially, he's
(05:44):
been on with Dan. Robert Moore he was on this
show as well. Alexander Magutu he was on this show.
He was one of the first persons we interviewed Maria ORMs.
She's recently entered the race and I can get no
response from her as of now. Jim Runberg was the
no show yesterday, Daniel Thomas, Gregory Thomas, and then Kelvin
(06:08):
k Man Wimberley. That was one of the more interesting
interviews that I've done, And honest to goodness, if you
meet this guy in person, he is a character. He
is more of a caricature when you talk with him.
He's very entertaining. If he were to become the governor
of the state of Colorado, there would be no lack
of headlines, that's for sure. I don't know if those
(06:29):
would be good or bad, but regardless, they would be entertaining,
much like sometimes with Donald Trump in the presidential seat.
But I want to make this entertaining fun for you guys.
I also want to get your feedback. I believe we'll
have a segment open just to take phone calls. I
dared you guys to do this yesterday, But line up
those phone calls. When we get to bout probably half
(06:51):
hour mark, I think we'll open up the phone lines
and I want to hear what your guys' criticisms. Are
these candidates are the things you think they're doing well?
Which candidate like? Which candidate you say is an absolute
no go? And the second question of that is are
there any of these candidates that you can just absolutely
not get behind? And why? Because when it all said
and done, whoever wins that primary. If we can't get
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Republicans to unite behind one particular candidate, there is absolutely
no hope for Republican to win in this state. So
we kind of got to be honest. Can a Republican
garner your support even if it's not the person that
you would primarily want to vote for? So I guess
the question is who's your number one? Pick, who's your
number two? And so on and so forth. But I
(07:35):
want to hear it from you, guys, and you can
always call in three oh three seven to one, three eight,
two five five. Like I said, towards the end of
this first hour or the halfway point of this first hour,
we're definitely going to take some calls. You can always
text into at five seven seven three nine. Start your
text out with Dan having said that, we got a
text to the to the wall here before the show
(07:56):
even started. It says Tina Peters gets nine years for
breaking into an election system. Rohell gil Aguilera Maderis gets
only one more year for killing five people, which is
kind of accurate. He actually got sentence to one hundred
and ten years, but then his sentence was modified or
commuted by Governor Polis when Kim Kardashian got him on
(08:18):
the phone and whispered in his ear and went from
one hundred and ten years down to ten. So if
you're doing the math, if Donald Trump is persuasive with
Governor Polis, Tina Peters should be getting out already, you know,
if the same rules apply, because she's definitely done at
least that much of her sentence already. So you know,
(08:39):
I'm kind of I struggle with how to interpret the
Tina Peters case because I don't know all the inside information.
I don't know election law the way that I would
look at criminal law, and I don't understand how her
sentence computes to nine years. When some guy that kills
five people on a roadway, he gets his sentence commuted
down to ten years by the same governor that doesn't
(09:02):
want to do any bending for Tina Peters. It's just
confusing to me, I understand setting an example, but again
we'll get to that in the second hour. Let's go
to break. When we come back, we'll have Bob Brinkerhoff
on with us, and well hear why he's getting in
the governor's race. Here listening to the Dan capless Show
here on six point thirty k how with Well County
Sheriff Steve Riams.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Welcome back to the Dan Capla Show here with Well
County Sheriff Steve Riams as the guest host for day
three of three. You'll have a different host tomorrow, either
Dan will be back in the studio or you have
a different guest host. Either way there'll be a change
in the seat. That being said, when we went to break,
I was telling you that we were going to have
probably the last governor's candidate new governor's candidate that I
could get scheduled, and that's mister Bob Brinkerhoff. I got
(09:53):
to listen to Bob at a candidate forum up in
northern Colorado at the Resurrection Church. It was an event
that was put together, I think primarily by a young
man named Trent Lacy who's pretty active in the Republican
Party in Weld County and a great event. I think
there were twelve or thirteen of at that time, the
sixteen or seventeen Governor's candidates that were in the race.
Obviously there's been some added since then. And it was
(10:16):
the first time I'd ever heard of Bob or heard
Bob speak. I believe he's been out on the Governor's
tour quite a bit since that time, and I wanted
to give him a chance to come on this show
and tell us what his platform is. So with that,
mister Brinkerhoff, are you on the phone with us? I
am good to hear from you, Bob. I didn't get
a chance to meet you in person up in Welld
(10:36):
County and Windsor when you were up there for that
candidate form, but your story was interesting to me, and
I thought, well, you know what, let's see if we
can get this guy on the radio and ask him
a few questions. So with that, we'll dive right into it.
And if you would, Bob, would you tell the listeners
a little bit about your background. I know you've been
around for a while and you have quite a unique background,
(10:57):
but tell the listeners kind of you're working ground and
how your life in Colorado kind of evaulved.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Okay, Well, first of all, I am a Colorado native.
In fact, both of my parents were born and raised
in Colorado. I went to work for the Colorado State
Patrol in nineteen seventy nine, and I worked for the
State Patrol as a uniformed officer until two thousand and five,
(11:26):
a little over twenty six years the State Patrol and
the executive branch of Colorado's government. And you can tell
from the numbers two thousand and five, I've been retired
for a little more than twenty years. Sure, And I
didn't really plan on running for office. In fact, I
had other plans, but I was asked to run for governor.
(11:54):
And that's kind of explained on my Facebook web page,
my Facebook page under Bob C. Brinker Hoff. There's several
videos there where they can we'll see why I ran
for office.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Why don't you just tell us, Bob, you're on the air,
you got a great listening on it, and tell us
the reason why you decided to go ahead and hop
in this race.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Well, in December, a little bit before Christmas, I had
a visitor at my house. I couldn't see him, but
I heard a voice that asked me to run for governor. Okay,
so I want you to run for governor. And I
looked around and I didn't see anybody. And I spent
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thirty or forty five seconds trying to figure out where
that voice came from, because I thought I was in
the house by myself, okay. And I thought about what
he said, and I wasn't able to come up for
with a logical explo nation from where that voice came from.
So I looked up at the ceiling and I said, Lord,
(13:04):
if that was you, I don't think you realize how
difficult that would be. As a matter of fact, I
got no name recognition statewide, I don't have any political clout.
I've never ran for an office. I think it might
be impossible, if not completely impossible, and I don't think
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I could do that. And as soon as I got
done talking, he said, you told me all I had
to do was ask, which in many of my prayers
in twenty twenty three. In twenty twenty four, when I
was praying for our country, I told God, if he
(13:48):
could say to our country there was anything I could
do for him. There that would help him. All he
had to do was ask. The only caveat I put
on that was I'd have to know that it was
him that was asking, okay, And he just told me
he's asking. So I said, well, if you want me
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to do that, okay, I'll do it. I'll run for governor.
But I sure I'm going to need a lot of help.
In fact, I'll probably need a tremendous amount of help.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Sure.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
And I thought he might tell me that he was
going to help a little bit, but instead he said,
I will be with you always. And I was a
little bit taken back by that. And I sat there
thinking about it for a I don't know, ten or
fifteen seconds, and the more I thought about it, the
(14:42):
more comforting I thought.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
That was sure.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
So anyway, that's that's what prompted me to do it.
I've been watching as our state kind of went in
a downward spiral.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
That's a nice way that you lay under this governor.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Yes, and he's kind of violated our constitution in a
couple of places, and I'm sure you're probably aware of it.
He's the supreme executive power of the state shall be
vested in the governor, who shall take care that the
laws be faithfully executed. They are ignoring not just an
(15:23):
inestimators in this state, but they're ignoring felonies. There's people
committing felonies out there. The district attorneys aren't filing any
charges on and they're not prosecuting these people. And that's
his primary job as the top law enforcement officer in
the state, to make sure that these laws are executed.
(15:45):
So he hasn't done that. And then he went ahead
and made it a sanctuary state for illegal aliens. We
had statutes on the book for decades and I'm sure
you probably aware of them too. Would assist our federal partners.
This wasn't a sanctuary state for criminals.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
It is now. So Bob, you know, as you've been
going through this process and kind of getting out on
the campaign trail, what's been the reception you Have you
gotten a warm reception from the voters out there. Are
you getting some support out on the campaign trail?
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Well, I have been getting a lot of support everywhere
I've been able to go so far. The Colorado GOP
chair has refused to give me a red book so
I cannot contact every county and asked for an opportunity
(16:47):
to speak there, so I've been a little bit hampered
by that, but everywhere that I've been I've been accepted
well and I've got a lot of support from those
that were present.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Bob, if people want to learn more about you, do
you have a website out there? You mentioned your Facebook
page earlier, but do you have a website or any
other social media platforms that people can can find you.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Well, I've been able to do pretty much everything that
I wanted to accomplish on my Facebook, and I thought
about doing a website, but I just I didn't know
if that would be a fruitful expense. So Facebook, I'm
(17:37):
not accepting donations from anyone. I'm running on my own
money and I'm not a poor man. I'm seventy years
old and I didn't really think I needed a job
that I am willing to do this for two reasons.
The person that asked me to run, and I care
(17:58):
about the people of this state.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Bob. We got to go to a We're going to
a break. Hey, I appreciate you coming on the show.
That's Bob. See Brinkerhoff on Facebook is where people can
locate you. And again, Bob, best of luck. Thanks for
coming on the show and kind of giving a little
bit about your platform and while you're running, and we'll
try to get you on again sometime in the future
if you're open to it again. Thanks, thanks for coming
on the show. You're listening to The Dan capless Show
(18:21):
on six point thirty KHW with Well Kenny Sheriff Steve Riams.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
You're listening to the Dankplis Show Podcastcome.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Back to the Dan Capliss Show here with Well Kenny
Sheriff Steve Raams as your guest host. And we just
finished up an interview with Bob Brinkerhoff. He's making his
initial stump here on the Dan Caplis Show. So we
always try to keep those a little short and maybe
bring them on a little later for additional segments if
such is warranted. But Bob's interest in running for the
(18:58):
governor's race is one those evangelical reasons, like a few
of the other candidates have kind of hinted to but
not necessarily said in such direct words. Bob said he
got a message from God and decided it was time
to get in the race, And hey, who can doubt
the guy. It's his faith, and you know, if that's
what he's called to do. So be it. Twenty one
candidates and he's one of them, so good luck to him,
(19:20):
and I hope the best for all of them. To
be honest with you, we just need a good one.
All that being said, I challenge you guys at the
top of the show. I want to hear who your
candidate is, who's your second favorite, who's your third, who's
your absolute no go? If that person wins the primary,
you can't get behind him no matter what. You know,
we need we need to start talking about all this
stuff because I think it's important as this stuff heads
(19:43):
to state Assembly and to a primary vote, who's got
a chance at winning and who doesn't. You can text
in at five seven, seven, three nine, start your text
out with Dan or watch. What I would most prefer
is if you call in three o three seven to one,
three eight two five five. I want to hear it
straight from your lips through these through these headphones, why
do you support a particular candidate? And the text wall
(20:06):
is already kind of heating up a little bit, but
hopefully the phone lines will as well. I know sometimes
people are a little afraid to share their their comments,
but it's just you and the listening audience. No one's
going to know who you are, so feel free to
call in again. That's what this is is talk radio,
not just me talking, but all of us talking. I
will get to the text wall hopefully you guys are
(20:28):
loading up the phone line again. Three oh three, seven
to one, three eight, two five five. Who's your favorite candidate?
Who's your no go candidate? Let's hear it. You know
who are you going to get behind? But while we're
doing that, the text wall at five seven, seven, three
nine says, this one's from Alexa. You know, we were
making some jokes about Brocclar and him being jealous about
me being on the show for a few days. Alexi says,
(20:49):
Sheriff reriemes do whatever you can to make Broccoli jealous,
and so everybody likes to pick on Brocclar. It's it's
just a habit. It's fun.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
It is fun.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
It's I mean, shoot a message to Dan saying if
we're still looking for a fill in host, g Brock
has been chomping at the bed. So I did send
that along, and then we did get a recommendation on
the text line as well for Matt Dunn.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
So I passed that along as well textor just so you.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Know well, and that being said, you know there's another
text right alongside the Matt Dunn text that says, I
hope you'll have Joe Oltman on to discuss the Tina
Peters situation. I'm not going to be on to schedule him.
I think Matt Dunn probably has a relationship with Joe
Oltman from some of my memory of Matt Dunn's show
(21:32):
on a different station, so maybe he can make that
connection if he's the host tomorrow. And then the text
goes on to say, once again, no on Kirkmeyer and
Lopez might be the best option. And this text is
out driving a semi truck again today, So hopefully you're
not texting while you're driving, because if that's the case,
Dan would be very upset with you, and so would
(21:53):
your friends in law enforcement. So I'm sure you were
pulled over somewhere safely while you were listening to the
radio and sending text But keep them coming in five seven, seven,
three nine again start your text out with Dan or
call in three oh three seven one three eight two
five five. Tell me who's the candidate? Is it? Victor
Marx is at Scott Bottoms. Is it Barb Kirkmeyer, is it?
(22:14):
Is it Greg Lopez? Is it Bob Brinkerhoff? Who's your person?
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
And this one says Republicans have twenty one running, Democrats
have two. They will crush anyone that isn't Victor Marx.
Colorado is nearly gone. Man, I wish you'd call in
and explain to me why you think Victor Marx is
the person. And as a way to correct that, there
aren't just two candidates on the Democrat side, Okay, there
are seven seven, seven candidates. Now there may only be
(22:40):
two that are recognizable prominently, but out of the twenty
one Republican candidates, there's only about six that are recognizable.
So you know, it doesn't mean that someone couldn't come
up through the Democrat ranks and wrinkle the wrinkle the
noses of a few folks. So who knows?
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (22:56):
With this text from Kevin this following up on the
Dan Campells pre show also known as Ryan Schuling Live.
You can subscribe, download listen. Would appreciate that on your
favorite podcast platform. Jamie Lisso for Colorado governor now one,
I like the idea.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Really, he is one of us, if you know what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
And three, Denver holds a special place in his heart,
and I was a central part of it. I don't
like to take too much credit, but I'm gonna yeah,
I do it because Erica, his beautiful wife, hails from
Idaho and she met him in person for the very
first time coming here at Comedy Works South at the
Landmark YEP.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Nice. And for those of you that don't know, Ryan's
constantly working with Comedy Works to help promote the guys
down there are the people that are going down there
to make appearances on the show. One last text here
says is Bob Brinkerhoff associated with Savina's and Brinkerhoff Restaurants.
I don't believe. So I googled those two restaurants. Those
are in the Denver metro area, and I believe Bob
(23:51):
hailes from the Springfield, Colorado area, so south eastern Colorado.
At least that's what shows up on the Secretary of
State's website. So you know, that's not to say Bob
couldn't own the restaurants up here be associated with them,
but I don't think that is the case. And I
believe we have a caller on the line who maybe
wants to mix it up a little bit about the
governor's race. Caller, what do you have to say?
Speaker 6 (24:13):
Well, number one, I think it's ridiculous that all these
people are running anyway. I am definitely for Scott Bottom.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
He is on top of everything and people need to
follow him on his Facebook. He has been going to
probably every district he can. He's been here twice. I
think he's the best.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Carol, where is here? You said he's been here twice?
Where's that?
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Oh? I'm sorry worthen Old County.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Worthin No County, Okay. So a little more remote out there.
And the fact that you got a candidate that's coming
out to see you, that's uh. That matters. That stuff
does matter. So your connection with Bottoms, I mean you
said he's on top of everything. What is it that
resonates with him the most for you?
Speaker 6 (24:59):
Well, I just think his protection of our families. I
think that he knows exactly what's going on in every
aspect of our lives. And I really appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Okay, all right, fair enough. Do you have a candidate
you absolutely can't get behind? Is there a candidate in
the race that if that person wins the primary. You say,
there's no way I can get behind that person.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Greg Lopez, and I don't think I really would go
for Victor Marx.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Okay, fair enough. Thank you for the call, Carol. And
that's what we're looking for. We want to hear you
know who's resonating who's not. I think we have another
caller queued up, but before we get to those, I
just want to throw this one out here. I want
to put my text. I want to put my support
behind Victor Marx, but I still have a bad taste.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
In my mouth.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
From the Dan Mays or from Dan Mays. This one
signed from one of my friends. Eric Jones says, don't
remember his name, but controls clerk and recorder clerk and
recorders and wife worked for Dominion for twenty years. David,
I'm not exactly sure who that is. I don't know
what we're talking about. Here's another one, says Gabe Evans
for governor. Well, he's not in the race yet, so
(26:07):
that's gonna have to be a different cycle. And he
endorsed Barb kirk Mayer did indorse Barbe Kirkmeyer. That's correct.
Who's our next caller? Ryan?
Speaker 4 (26:15):
That is David in Denver, David in Denver, what do
you have.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
To say to us, Sri Rings, thanks for taking the
call and free driving the truck now? And I was
part does that sex. I was switching my trailers perfect.
I'm trying to remember that gentleman's name that Joe old
Me calls out that controls the clerk and reporters, but
(26:38):
behind those governors real quick interviewed Bottom. It's a few
weeks back. Good interviews. But he also exposed, like Ryan,
a little bit about Victor Marx. Sure he didn't talk negatives,
but he just said the stuff I found out I
cannot back and uh he left it there. So he
support him, you know, the originally said he thought about
(27:02):
having him on his cabinet. Blah blah blah. Seems like
Bottoms putting a lot of thoughts into this process. Sure
he might be a good one, but I just can't
get behind kirk Meyer after meet her and talks to people.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Okay, so Kirk Myer is your Nogo. Bottoms is right now?
Kind of your your number one guy?
Speaker 7 (27:23):
Don't Bottoms? And I don't know why people are against Lopez.
He sounds like I listened to him on Ryan Show today,
and I listened to him before and they shoved.
Speaker 8 (27:31):
Him in to be a representative.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Sure, I've heard him with I think Oldman probably a
year ago on an interview if you will didn't come back.
I just, uh, do you think it's better than polish
or my dead dogs?
Speaker 8 (27:45):
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Do you know what you're saying? David? Thanks for calling
in and thank you for being such a loyal Texter.
We're gonna try to get one more caller before we
go to break. Ryan. Let's switch over to the This
one's in Conifer. I think we have Grant. Yeah, what
do you have to say to us?
Speaker 8 (28:05):
Oh, I was just responding to I sent your text
calling him. But looking at how the Republican Party is
sitting right now for this race, I don't see a
route this. This has to be an election by the
man or the woman that is going to be a
personality for the state. And really not so much as
(28:27):
much as most people are arguing about right now over
how he's going to do this, how is she going
to do that? It has to come down to who's
going to win this thing. Victor Marx is not a politician.
He's a man that has an interesting history, to say
the least, a lot of the country Club Republicans. But
(28:50):
in the reality of the entire thing, it's got to
be somebody that can win this. It can be somebody
that's just going to say some things, because it all
comes down to how does how does the Democrat Party
run anybody? And you still get one hundred percent of
the vote.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
So you think it's a little bit of defendance. You
think it's a little bit more marketing at this point
than it is maybe even substance. And I'm not trying
to put words.
Speaker 8 (29:13):
Absolutely every one of the Republican candidates are going to
do fantastic because it's common sense, you know, lifestyles. But
it's got to be it's got to go to win. Okay,
it has to be a person that can take it.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Do you have a do you have an absolute no?
Go Canada. They win the primary and you just can't
get behind them.
Speaker 8 (29:31):
Oh not at all. There's good people everywhere. There's a
lot of good people trying to do the same thing.
It's got to come down to each of you who
can win this thing.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
I love that answer. Hey, with that, we're going to
go to break if you're on the line, stay on
the line and we'll come back. We'll clear up the
rest of the calls. You're listening to Dan Capless Show
here on six thirty k HOW with Well Candy Shaff,
Steve Riams.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
The show here with Well County Shriff Steve. We've been
talking about governor's candidates and who do you love? Coming
back with some George thorough Good. They're perfect music. Ryan
always nails it on that stuff. But you guys have
been great. I mean, you're you're very thoughtful in the
way you're looking at these candidates right now. A couple
of you have some no goes. But I loved our
last caller who said, hey, you know, I think Victor
Marx is a He's a good marketer for a lack
(30:22):
of better terms, and you know that might be what
it takes to win a race. And then you know,
the follow up question was are there anybody that you
wouldn't get behind? And he said, no, whoever wins, I'm
going to support. I like that. I like that thought process,
and I know some of you will say that's unpopular.
You know, you got to stick to your your your guns,
and follow your person all the way through. But we
(30:42):
haven't exactly done well as a Republican party and winning
the governor's race. Sometimes I think for that very reason,
we go into our corners and then if our candidate
loses at the primary level, we just check out. And
that's not a winning combination. And I understand sometimes you
have to hold your nose and vote for that person
that may not be your favorite, but it's got to
(31:02):
be better than the other side of the aisle. While
we were at break, quite a few texts coming in.
This last one here says my gut doesn't trust Victor Marx.
I think we have the best chance with kirk Meyer,
but I really like Lopez as well. Okay, so a
few options there. Again, I'd love for you guys to
call in. You can do that at three oh three
seven one, three eight two five five, keep the text
(31:23):
going at five seven, seven three nine. Here's one. Somebody
has definitely had too much to drink. By four fifty
three in the evening, it says Dan aimed at me,
you should run for governor. Nah, I don't. I don't
think that's in the cards right now.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Well, you left part of that out there. What does
that mean, beid.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Bro it was supposed to Yeah, that's even weirder. It's weird.
I think it's supposed to be Beard Bro.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Beard Bro.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
I know who it's calling, Bro, Yeah, I know who
it's coming from. And uh yeah that this person's obviously
been in the sauce for a few hours.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Now, five o'clock somewhere in last here.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Yeah, it's almost so, you know, I'm not judging them.
I'm just saying that they're not they don't have their
head on straight. But you know, again, the the wall
is kind of interesting when you're reading these texts because
it's all over the place, and I think that's kind
of indicative of where the Republican Party is right now.
It's like we're lost souls searching for that savior and
(32:19):
I don't know what the right answer is. I do
what's that?
Speaker 4 (32:23):
You know, my ticket idea And I'm a great marketer myself. Okay,
let's the lawyer and the law man. Jesus he Brocler
and Reeves. I'm just saying, Brocler at the top of
the ticket.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
This allows you to kind of slide down and you're
in that you know, kind of vice role, and I
think you would shine in that role, and you'd be
a great.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Publicity person for the ticket. You know I'm not wrong.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Well, and then I'm going to have to help broccoler
up to the high things on the tall shelves. Oh boy,
you've remember that movie Twins. I do yeah with Danny DeVito.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
And you're Swarzennig and he's the veato.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
That.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
But it's better than the stepbrother's reference.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
Well, that one. I don't know who's who.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
That's my point. Yeah, right, yeah, I know it'd be
tough for to nail down.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
We are both more on sometimes.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
I'll tell you this though, in all seriousness, Brockler has
fared I believe the best. If you go back over
the last whatever eight plus years that there's been statewide elections,
when he ran for attorney General against Phil Wiser in
a very difficult year for Republicans, he's still fared better
than any other Republican on the ticket. And you know,
he's got the chops, he's got the goods.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Yeah. You know, remember when he started into that election cycle,
he was actually running for governor.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
I was supporting I was supporting George in that effort,
and that was just again a crowded field, not twenty
one crowded, but a crowded field. And at that time,
Walker Stapleton was the money guy. He was the old money,
had some ties to the George Bush family, and people thought, well,
that's our best bet, and come to find out, that
was not our best bet.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
I look back, and I had first moved here sheriff
right after that election, and I couldn't understand the logic
behind the Walkers Stapleton pick. It was just casper milk toast.
It was kind of like what you're saying. It was
the safe pick, but not an inspired pick. You know,
he had you know, the Democrats would do this, the
ties to.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
The old clan family lines, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Just wasn't going to play in Peoria, and wasn't going
to play in Pueblo, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
And it didn't he came up to Actually, I borrowed
a friend's party bus and picked Walker and his crew
up from the local airport, drove him around to a
few events in Wild County, and every event we went
to it was like, man, I mean, it was you know,
stumping right on election day or the day before, and
it just didn't feel like there was any energy in
the room.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Energy.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Yeah, and you know, again to take a line from
Donald Trump, low.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Energy, low energy.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
But no, we really need an ace in the whole
pick and that's difficult to do. To thread that needle.
Republican that can win here in Colorado statewide. You won't
have to go up against as much money as Paul
has had, but it'll be either Benet or Wiser, probably Bennett.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Yeah, you're looking at two or three million already in
both of their coffee.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
In the Democratic machine that will be behind either one
and again probably Bennett. But we need kind of a
unifying figure in the mold. I've said this before of
a Ron de Santis with a soaring rhetoric, deep policy knowledge,
a strong personality, and somebody that's not afraid to campaign
on solidly conservative values that are shared not just by
Republicans but by unaffiliated voters in this state.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Well, and in talking about Georgia, you know, he's in
a seat that he loves right now for obvious reasons.
He's a heck of a prosecutor. He loves that work.
But being in that seat has you know, it's elevated
him to a level that is much higher than even
the first time he ran. So true, Yeah, that could
be a possibility. Maybe after his four years in this
seat he'll consider it again. Who knows. If he's on
(35:48):
the radio tomorrow, you can ask him. When they come back,
we'll get to a much less controversial topic. Tina Peters
in the second hour here listening to the DANKPLA Show
here with Well County Sheriff Steve Reims as your guest
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