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Speaker 1 (00:00):
KRFX HD two Denver khow Denver, Denver's talk station radio
station Guaranteed Human and become a statewide GOP office holder
in the critical Office of Attorney General.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Michael Welcome back to the Dan Kapla ship.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Dan.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
It's really fun to actually be in studio with you.
This is this is cool.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
It's much better.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
It's very much better.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yeah, yeah, and and I hope this happens a lot
and open door for Jenna Griswold as well.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
You know what, you should actually have us both in
the studio at the same time.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Oh yeah, trust me, I would trade my car for
that one. We could just sell the pay per view
on that. But any talk of debates in that RACEO.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Well, we we definitely are on the schedule. It looks
like for a Club twenty out in Grand Junction.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Good.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
So that's gonna be good. But you know that's not
going to hit the metro area. She really needs to
step up and face the music.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I assume she'll flee to the warm embrace of Kyle Clark, right.
I mean that's kind of the dem pattern, is that's
you know, in many of these races, they'll say that's
the only place they'll.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Go oftentimes it is, although Kyle actually has kind of
held her feet to the fire on several different issues.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah, and it'll be interesting to see how a debate goes.
It would it would be, And I don't want to
burn your time with it. But I don't know if
you watch that joint BackRub between Wiser and Bennett that
Kyle moderated or it was, you don't you can't find
time asks feel Wiser about getting thumped repeatedly by the
US Supreme Court. That just didn't make the list. Yeah,
but you're asking about some obscure regulation for landlords.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
It was just all marshmallows. Yeah, yeah, as soft as
could be.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Not a single question on all these DEM failures, not
a single question on crime because thems have been on
the job.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Forever here, right, Yeah, that's right to blame the Republicans.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Or how about asking them about the wing of their
party that wants to do away with US constitution.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Well, there's a start.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Or how about their nominee melak Kiros, Yeah exactly who
literally she will tell you to your face, you.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Know, she wants to to do way with the state
of Israel.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, Yeah, it's just right by the way.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Defund the Pentagon, I don't know, and that's not getting
any press. But she was on an NPR interview where
she was asked about defunding the Pentagon said that'd be
the most common sense solution, but at least cut their budget.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
I mean, it's well and also and defund police. She
wants to actually totally disbanded police department. She wants to
get rid of prisons.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
And actually, did you see the study that Common Sense
Institute issued fairly recently on crime.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I saw a headline, didn't read it.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
So basically they compared Colorado Springs in Denver and they
were looking at if you're investing in law enforcement or not.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
And so crime in.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Denver has continued to go up and actually has gone
down in Colorado Springs because they've made an investment in
funding their police department.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
It's funny.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
That's a good conversation AV And to his credit, I
saw the police chief out there publicly talking about how
budget cuts are jeopardizing public safety. But now when you've
got Mike Johnston who literally came out and said, we
play the sound come to Denver, we will get you home.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Ultimate socialism they're now spending more on the whole homeless
than they are on the police budget. I mean much
much more on homelessness and police budget. And listen, if
they were helping folks get fixed, that's one thing.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
But they're just warehousing them.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
They're just putting them in the hotel rooms, right, taking
over the whole building.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, so Johnsin could say, see, they're not on the street,
but you can't afford this, and it's not helping those people.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
It does not improve human dignity for those folks. Yeah,
it is not actually getting them better. It's not helping
them to get their feet under them and fight the
addiction demons that they're fighting with.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
And it is the epitome of not honoring the human
dignity in a person.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I think, No, that is so true, and I think
it fits that damn pattern of like luring all these
people up through our southern border, right, and you get
so many women and girls trafficked and raped and otherwise abused.
But you think these the office holders up here care
about them as humans. Got They just they just want
the future votes.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Yeah, that's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Michael Allen with us running for Attorney general, and listen,
if you can give a buck, five bucks, if you
can give a million. We know there are some gazillionaires
who listen. It's going to take all of that to
beat Jenna Griswold. So just so tell us about your
opponent and the path to victory here.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Well, you know, one of the things that actually just
came out yesterday I think it was, is that the
Republican Attorney General's off Association rather has identified Colorado as
a top tier race, meaning that they have identified Colorado
as winnable, which is important when we're talking about fundraising
and beating an opponent like Jenna Griswold. So we need
to put away the idea that a Republican can't win statewide.
(04:33):
We have it won one obviously, in ten years, we
should be coming off of George Brockler's end of his
two term run as Attorney General. He's a great friend
of mine, he's a great mentor. We joke around quite
a bit. I know that you know there were some
jokes going back and forth on that last segment.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
But I have a ton of respect for the guy.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
He would have been miles better than Phil Wiser's attorney general.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
So very true.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
As bad as Phil has been.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Imagine how bad Jenna Griswald will be if she has
given the power of the Attorney General's office.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Well, the good news is a lot of Democrats realize that. Yeah,
at least a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
And I was telling George, I'm a former Democrat. I
have some really good friends who are a Democrat and
some of them are big donor Democrats, And without naming names,
there is a lot of fear within those active Democrats.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Circles about her, That's right.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
So how do you tap into that?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Well, I think it's one. It's getting word out.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
You know, in my jurisdiction down in the fold, judicial
people know me.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I've prosecuted big cases down there. But the Denver media
doesn't do a good job of covering southern part of Colorado,
and frankly, they don't do a good job of covering
you know, rural parts of Colorado either. So it's coming
up to do these kinds of radio shows.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
We're actually going to an event at the Botanic Gardens
with the Hispanic Denver Hispanic Chamber, a Subora event tonight
to meet with folks and you know, just spread the word.
But ultimately it's going to come down to people having
these conversations and what I've I've known now for a
while and what I've really learned having conversations around the
state of Colorado. And it's a question I ask people,
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have you had enough of crime being out of control?
Have you had enough of cost of living shooting through
the roof? Have you had enough of our young folks,
people like my oldest son David, who just got married
three weeks ago today, he's got a beautiful new wife.
They can't afford to buy a home in Denver where
they live. Have we had enough of those things?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
And if we have had enough of those things, we
need to look at who's been responsible for driving all
these things through the roof, crime and cost of living
and all these things.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
And it's the Democrats. They've been in control for ten years.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
No, and a key point, right, And I think the
other big thing, well, you have a lot of big
things going for you, But the other big thing is
your opponent is bat blank crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yes, And people know that that's not a pejorative.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
They know that well.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
And the Republican Attorney General's Association pointed that out in
their press release. They said, this is a race about
credentials versus crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, and that is the word, that is she is.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
And like you were saying with the wiser example, right,
he's hyperpartisan, he's far left, he's not himself an accomplished
trial lawyer type.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
But but he's not crazy, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
And he actually had a legal background, and she doesn't.
She just doesn't lied about it. And and and the
crazy part's clear in the line. Now all lies are wrong, right,
But but she comes out and says she argued before
the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
That's something people can check.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Why would you lie about something that's so easily disprovable
like that, right, unless you were crazy? Yeah, it's it's
it's really The analogy is very close to if you
were going to take a transatlantic flight and you got
on the plane and the pilot got over the intercomm
and said, I've never flown a plane before.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
We'll see in Italy. Would you say on that plane?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Right?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
No, exactly exactly, And and if he added to it,
you know, I've never flown a plane before. And uh,
and if I I don't like you, I'm going to
put this plane in the ocean. I think could get
off even quicker because She's had her own former staff
come out and say that they're afraid she will abuse
the office. That's right, And I think that's what scares
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a lot of Democrats. I mean, they deal with incompetence
all the time, they support incompetent officeholders all the time.
But somebody who's willing to abuse their power to punish
their enemies, that's right. I think you got a bunch
of big Democrats thinking what if I end up one
of her enemies.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Well, and I think I heard you talking earlier while
we were driving up, talking about these politically motivated prosecutions
and how as Republicans we need to stay away.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
From those kinds of things.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
We can't do the same things that the Democrats have
done because we are a rule of law country. We
don't use political differences or political disagreements to then prosecute criminally.
Our enemies, right, are the people that we disagree with.
We should never do those things. We should never stand
for those things. As Republicans. We know, based on her
track record that she's been that way as the Secretary
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of State. With her own staff, they've described her as
toxic and chaotic and vindictive in the way that she
leads that office. In seven and a half years as
Secretary of State, she has had seven deputy secretary of States.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Wow, that's not easy.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
That's not easy to do, just to get the paperwork
done that quick. We're going to pop this break, Michael.
But before we go to the next segment, what's the website?
How do people help?
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Yeah, thank you Michael Allen for foor Colorado dot com.
And donations are up to one thy four to fifty
per person. And as you mentioned, any donation that people
are willing to make to this campaign will go towards
beating Jennier Gerswald in November.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
And Michael will be with us for another segment and
then now please do tell your friends as well, because
that's what it's going to take. Coman that the whole
grass roots thing is real, and that's what it's going
to take.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Here. You're on the Dan Kapla show.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Real chance for Michael to win, starting with the fact
that he just be very very good at the job.
Tell people a little bit about yourself if you would.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah, thanks, Dan one.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I just want to point out how nice it is
to be in studio with you.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
You're such a great host. Thank you for doing that.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Yeah, I'm the I'm a Colorado native, grew up in
Denver Metro area, Arvada, West in nineteen ninety one, and
then enlisted in the Navy, did that for eight years.
That's when I met my beautiful wife, Heidi. We've been
married for thirty one years now. We have two adult sons.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
David and his new wife Olivia, they just got married
three weeks ago. And then our youngest son, Matthew, is
serving the United States Navy currently. And I'm the elected
DA and L Paso County.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
I've got over twenty years experience as a prosecutor, which
is a start contrast to my opponent in this general election,
Jenna Griswold, who has zero experience other than telling fabrications
about arguing in front of the US Supreme Court and
that she had to use an outhouse as a child.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
At least she's going big, right, at least she's going big,
go bigger, go home. And she stated a holiday in
last night, so apparently that's her defense there you go. Yeah, yeah,
Now you mentioned your wife, Heidi, you can introduce your
daughter who's in the studio.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
That's my wife.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah, yeah, So Griswold lies about the Supreme.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Court, you lie about who your wife is.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Holy col I am beyond blessed to have Heidi next
to me for the last thirty one years and for
the next thirty one years.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah, that is everything, God blessed, that is everything. But
but yeah, this griswold thing. I've never seen a dynamic
like that in Colorado before.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
The closest I think we've seen was maybe when George
and Phil Weiser ran against each other. But even there,
as you mentioned in the last segment, the difference between
Phil Wiser, who is on personal level, I like him.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
He's a very nice guy.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
He just didn't have the credentials really that George had.
Totally different with this particular race.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
And again, Phil's not crazy. He's far left. He's got
terrible ideas, but he's not.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Crazy, and he's a nice person, and he.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Has legal credentials.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yeah, so you got a crazy who doesn't have any
legal credentials.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
And wants to be the chief law enforcement officer for
the entire state of Colorado.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Wow, where in a lot of ways you can do
more damage than in any other job.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
I think if you have somebody that is as politically
motivated as she is, and as as prosecutorial inept as
she is, because she doesn't have any experience that is
a recipe for disaster. And you know, it's also very
clear that she has got her eyes on other campaigns
in the future.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
As we are talking today. She already has an exploratory
committee for the United States Senate.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
No, she does.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
You're a kid in made Well, you wouldn't say it
if there wasn't a paperwork, wasn't there?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah, how could they make that mistake?
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Well, that's what she does, right, She's always looking ahead
to the next step.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
You know. Wow.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Prior to to Phil.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Wiser and Michael Bennett getting into the governor's race, everybody
thought odds on favorite was Jenna Griswold. She thought she
was the odds on favorite to be the Democrat nominee.
She was planning to run for governor until those who
got in and talked her out of it, is my opinion.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Yeah, and I'm guessing that she has promised the achief job.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I'm sure she was just.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
To move her out of there. Yeah, And I wonder
how they got her out. Was it posting all those
passwords online for four months?
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Those passwords that she put out there that you know,
that's the crazy thing to Dan as as much of
a front burner issue as election integrity is. Everybody cares
that they're vote counts, right, It doesn't matter if you're Democrat,
even Democrats socialists, they want their votes account to or
Republican or unaffiliated.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
We all want our vote to count.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
And she will shout to the high heavens about how
Republicans have undermined confidence in elections, and yet she's the
one that's responsible for posting our security passwords for every
voting machine across the state of Colorado.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Well, and she's also undermined confidence through hyper partisanship. Absolutely,
I mean because truly, how could you fault to anybody
for doubting elections in Colorado when she's in charge. Now, hey,
I think in the end are all actions are clean,
But I think she seems to go out of her way.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Do you undermine confidence?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yeah, if you're posting the security passwords for our voting
machines across the state, that undermines voter confidence.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I will tell.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
You you know, there is voter fraud every single election cycle.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
We all prosecuted. I know, George does I've talked to
him about it. I prosecuted in the fourth Judicial District.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
It's just not on the scale that some people think
it is, but it absolutely exists and we need to
prosecute those things. But you can't have the person that's
in charge of running our elections leaking passwords and not
wonder what's going on here?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Right, and everybody I think should be zero tolerance when
it comes to any fraud.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
As you say, you've actually prosecuted it, that's right, Michael Ellen.
Our guest. What's that website again?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Michael Allen fo fo or Colorado dot com.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
And I do want to ask you some more policy
tip questions. But what do you need most in the
care Every campaign needs money, right, But how else can
people help?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Well? Get on social media share our things around.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Actually I met a gentleman last night at an event
that we had in Littleton who said, are you on
social media?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Because I don't see you?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
So, yes, we're on social media on Twitter, Instagram or
ex Instagram, Facebook, all the things LinkedIn. Get on there,
find our accounts and share those things out. Those help
get the word out as well. Obviously you mentioned campaign donations. Unfortunately,
money is the lifeblood of campaigns, especially winning campaigns, and
we need as much money as we can get to
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beat Jenna.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Now, George was talking in an earlier segment about the
possibility that some big money Dems may actually put a
group together to try to defeat her. Are you hearing
anything like that, because I happen to know some of
those people who who are very, very concerned about her,
and it wouldn't surprise me if they did something like that.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Well, I know that there were people that were associated
with the Democrat Party that actually tried to talk her
out of running for attorney general. They really liked some
of the other candidates that were running against her in
the primary. Know there's disaffected Democrats that don't want her
to be the attorney general. I've heard rumors that there
are people that are thinking about doing the thing that
you just asked about. I don't have anything concrete, but
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I can tell you when I'm talking to folks around
the state, I don't ask them are you Republican or Democrat?
I just ask them, are you have you had enough
of what's been happening in the state.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Universally, people have said they've had enough?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah, Yeah, And that's such an interesting dynamic in your race. Again,
because it's attorney general. It's a choice between a lawyer
and a non lawyer. I mean, I know she has
a life, but she's a non lawyer in practical.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
At least she tells us she has a law license.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Well, and she argued to the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Right, But not only that, I mean you are a
highly credentialed, highly experienced, highly successful prosecutor.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I mean you could be a guy out doing wills
and estates and you'd still be a lawyer versus a
practical matter non lawyer, that's right, But you're an actual prosecutor.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Actually know how to get to the court room and
argue a case and get a conviction.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
And last point, because we're about to run out of time,
I hope you guys can back off and appreciate you
being here today. But also you would be able to
keep top high quality lawyers in that Attorney General's office
and attract more. And that's really important.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
The Attorney General's office serves a very important function. That's
the point that you're making.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
And we can't have somebody going into the Attorney General's
office with no credentials and runs everybody off, and then
you're left with no talent to actually do the important
business of the Attorney General's office.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Now I've led a strong office, So Michael, grateful for
the time, and you hope everybody gets behind you, and
please come back off and thank you Dan. That's how
Michael l and hopefully our next Attorney general please help him.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Make that happen. You're on the game, Catholic.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Though, after careful consideration and reviewing the current doability guidelines,
I am officially declaring myself a WNBA prospect. If simply
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declaring who you are is all that's required, that I
meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA.
My team and I have carefully examined the WNBA's eligibility
criteria and governing framework surrounding self identification and inclusion. Based
on the current guidelines, I can and am officially declaring
my eligibility for the upcoming WNBA Draft in May twenty
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twenty seven. I am definitely not here to mock, make
fun of, or disrespect any community or personal choices. I
am simply asking that the current rules be applied equally
to everyone. The rules that represent the very values many
WNBA players and coaches have publicly advocated for my team,
and I are prepared to ensure these guidelines are applied equally, consistently,
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and without exception. And I look forward to the WNBA
honoring its stated principles. See your training camp.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
I love that, right, and it's Canter. It was quite
a center in the NBA, right was wasn't he a
drafted third man? I thought it was drafted third when
he came out, wasn't he? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
And then he hung around with the Thunder and Celtics
for a little bit.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Yeah, yeah, good player. I think he'd farewell in the WNBA.
So Zach is so protective of the WNBA.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
I'll say, here's my thing with cancer. He's been out
of the NBA for a few years. I'm just I
don't know if teams will be tripping over themselves to
draft wow.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
I think the WNBA would be smart to welcome him.
I mean, can you imagine what it would do for
the ratings?
Speaker 2 (19:33):
I would watch. I would watch that.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
And that's not out of disrespect to any of the women.
It's just exposing the hypocrisy of this. But three oh
three seven, one three eight, two five five, the number
d a N five, seven, seventh or nine. Hey, Yeah,
thanks to Michael Allen, who's a GOP nominee for Attorney
General in the House, for two segments in the five
o'clock hour. If you missed it, please consider picking it
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off the podcast. He's he's a really impressive guy. And
I know we talk about just how crazy Jenna Griswold is,
and she is, I mean, you've got to be crazy
to lie about arguing to the US Supreme Court and
to do a lot of the things she's done. But
Michael is really accomplished and very impressive. And I hope
you listen to that interview and I think you'll come
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away feeling the same way about him. And I think
we've had two guests on the show today who are
really worthy of your consideration and considering financial support. If
you have a dollar five dollars big, you know something bigger.
You know, we had Aaron Lee at four h six
who got all three of these protect Kids Colorado ballot
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measures on and is leading that campaign and all three
you know, should pass. I mean, but she's up against
twenty million bucks on the left, So anything you can
do to help that campaign would be greater.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Than Michael Allen. I mean, I know, I don't have.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
To tell you what a big thing it would be
for this state if he was able to be attorney general,
because there is a danger to this state from her
that we've never faced with an attorney general before. You know,
the distinct danger that she would abuse that office. At best,
she would be incompetent and scare off and drive off
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good lawyers in that office at best, but we're not
likely to get the best from her. So you're looking
at a disaster in the making for attorney general. If
Jenna Griswell wins. On the other hand, if Michael Allen
wins that, then you get an experienced prosecutor as your age,
a really sharp, talented, accomplished person. And then the GOP
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also gets a state wide office holder, which would be
so important to this state in so many different ways.
You need checks and balances, but also once the GOP
gets one state wide office holder, that toe hold can
help open things up because then you know it's going
to be easier to raise money because yes, a Republican
can win statewide, it's possible. Then the GOP has a
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face of the party in Colorado, who's the face of
the GOP in Colorado right now, because we don't have
a state wide officeholders, there's not one clear face of
the party in Colorado. So the stakes are really high there.
And again, when the starting point is your opponent is
and it's not a pejorative, I mean, your opponent is crazy.
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You gotta be crazy to lie about arguing to the
US Supreme Court when you didn't. He does that, shouldn't
lie at all. Let me get to some text here. Oh,
let me check with Zach Grant. His wife had their baby,
right right, So you're going to cross the hall covering
on KOA.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Yeah, Dave told me little.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Girl that is that is what I understand. Yeah, little
girl delivered this morning. And they're first right, sorry, what
their first child?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yes, first, oh man, just one of the gay and
you will experience this, Zach. It's just an unimaginably great
moment in life. I mean, when every kid's born.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Throw textures.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, and you'll be pulling a lot of
double and triple shifts now right.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Yeah, he's not gonna how to leave. Yeah, I get it.
Text or Dan, The elections are not clean. I don't
believe that for one minute.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
And the Texters right, they're not perfectly clean, as Michael
Allen said, No, there is fraud in our elections, no question,
and then you know we should have zero tolerance. And
then the issue becomes is the fraud large enough to
be changing the outcome? I haven't seen proof that it is,
but that doesn't mean we should tolerate any at all,
because we know what why do you think the Dems
(23:38):
opened up the whole southern border and magnetized everybody to
come in here. You know, whether they were otherwise good
people or whether they were convicted murders and rapists. Because
the DEM see each and every one as potential votes.
So yeah, no, it's zero tolerance for that stuff. Dan
Michael Allen is the man for the job. Griswold is horrible.
(23:59):
He will blow her away in a debate home that
would be paid per view right there. However, the Dems
have the system so rigged. I don't know that he
can win regardless. Please don't, please don't, please don't believe that.
You know, the Dems use this against us very successfully.
I don't have the data to back this up, but
(24:19):
I have got to believe that the GOP gives up
a point or two in every race because of otherwise
Republican voters who stay home because they think it's rigged
and their vote won't matter. So please do not stay
home because you think elections are rigged. Dan, if you're
a Martian, aren't you from Mars. That's a very deep,
(24:39):
deep question there, Dan, I leave Marco for twenty eight
because Cuba will become the fifty first state.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
On one, nineteen twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Listen, I am so excited for this race because whether
it's j D or Marco, we're going to have a
very strong candidate, and the Dems are not because even
their strongest candidate is weak and they're more likely candidates
Griswold crazy. So I'm very excited for that. I be
happy with either. I do think Marco has a bigger
upside in terms of growing the tent and uniting the
(25:12):
nation more broadly. But I'd be very very happy with
the vance presidents he Besides, I'm not going to get
to make that call. Donald Trump will make that call.
I mean President Trump will decide to the GOP nominee
is going to be, and then I think the nominee
will be the next president.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Uh. This one's too long, that one's too long.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Three or three seven, one, three eight, two five five,
and break him up, please break them up into two
or three different texts. But just the pace of the
show and all that we just need We just need
shorter text. Hey, want to get a couple of other.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Hits to you today.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
This is part of what's going on across the country. Now,
you know, we have this malt Kiros craziness in Colorado.
Wants to literally do away with the state of Israel.
Says that it became and sense to defund the Pentagon
campaigns with Hassan Piker, which is a whole nother story.
I mean, just wants to abolish ice all that stuff.
(26:09):
But here's Wisconsin's version. This Francesca hang according to one
pole at least is almost thirty points up in the
DEM primary. You can see different poles with different status.
But listener for a second. Tipping is racist.
Speaker 7 (26:24):
That is in the service industry. We are finally having
this conversation about, you know, how our industry really did
come from it and kind of is rooted in white supremacy.
That tipping in itself. If we look at the history
of tipping and how racist it is, and how it
has kept wages low for black people for very long time.
(26:45):
And if you look at tipping now, how different the
scales are in terms of who receives higher per Wow.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
So see, this is why this is such an exciting
moment in America, because the Dems are showing who they
really are and and someone like her. She's not going
to become the next governor Wisconsin, so let's hope she's
the DEM nominee. You know, the DSA guy in Michigan.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
LSI ed.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
There's a real chance for the Republican to win where
otherwise there wouldn't be here in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Yeah, a lot. Cairos is likely to win. We're going
to have her opponent.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
With us Monday at five oh six, and look forward
to having doctor blowin and to admire him getting in
the race to run that very very uphill battle. But
if she does win that seat, then hey, is she
going to be a two term congress person?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Hey? I very much hope not. But in the.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Meantime, she is the voice in face of the Colorado
Democratic parties, so which I think creates a lot of
great openings. Three oh three is sevene three eight two
five five d an five seven seven three nine. Hey,
when we come back the latest with doctor Fauci and
the buzz is a very real chance he's about to
be charged criminally.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Do you think you shoul should be?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
You're on the Dan Kapitlo show, but the one on
this pretty afternoon, and it's going to be pretty warm
over the weekend. Triple digits in the front range and
up in the nineties and a lot of mountain towns.
But you don't have to shovel hot so three or
three seven one three eight two five five d A
N five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Getting a lot of response to Michael Allen in Studio
GP nominee for Attorney General in Colorado. And I think
part of it is that Michael's just very impressive, and
I hope you listen to that interview on the podcast
if you missed it live. And then the second part
of it is Griswold's just whack. I mean, I'm trying
to remember other than this malot Kiros, who is just
(28:43):
this this extreme, in my opinion, hateful socialist. You know,
normally in Colorado elections you get some people who are
radicals and very harmful ideas, but not just flat crazy
and Griswald is I think that most people but would
agree with that to lie about arguing to the US
Supreme Court and do a lot of other.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Stuff that she's done. So, yeah, this is an opportunity here.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Some of the texts coming in on that, Dan, we
need to get all Republicans and Independents to vote against Griswold.
You know it doesn't stop there. Well, first, good point
by the Texter. The GOP really needs to be united
behind GOP nominee for that nominee in any race to
have any chance.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
That's just simple math.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
And I do hope though we've had a divided GOP
in Colorado for a long time, I do hope it
can unite behind Michael Allen. And there should be a
realistic possibility of that because he's a very good candidate
and Griswold should scare the hell out of everybody. And
then on top of that, if you want to talk
about self interest when it comes to the Attorney General's office,
(29:52):
you know, public safety, Yeah, that rises to.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
A different level.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Right, So I'm optimistic the GOP can actually unite behind
Michael Allen. And whether they're united behind Michael or against
Jenna or some combination. It doesn't matter as long as
the GOP is voting for Michael Allen full throated.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
But here's the secret sauce. Here's the secret sauce.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
And that is much more so than in any race
we've seen in my lifetime. There is a real chance
to get a lot of Democrat votes for the GOP candidate,
and because there is such fear about Chris Wald. But
also again you come back to self interest the Attorney
General's office. You got a choice between a lawyer and
(30:42):
as a practical matter, or a non lawyer. I mean,
she has her license, but as a practical matter, she's
a non lawyer. And just the audacity and goofiness of
a non lawyer running for attorney general, whether they have
a license like she does or not. And on top
of that, he's a prosecutor as a practical matter of
non lawyer. So I think the key is Michael Allen
(31:05):
getting a fair number of Democrat votes and Democrat leaning
on affiliateds, and I think he's got a real shot
at that. Oh, zach Man, we have not had a
chance to talk. Tell me what you think about this story.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
This is one of.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
The odder stories I've read. This is in the Denver Post,
and the reason it's so odd to me is they
do not name the person who was arrested. And I'm
trying to understand why man charged with driving on US
thirty six bikeway in Boulder County. Did you see that video, Zach,
the guy driving about fifty miles an hour, Yeah, down
the bike path.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
They said it on our news earlier, but I can't
remember it right now, so the name find.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
It and maybe I just went through it too quick.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
But I'm looking at the Denver Post story and it
tells the story. Arrested charge with driving on US thirty
six bikeway, car speeding along in broad daylight. They say,
forty four year old man charged with recklessness.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Reckless that.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Booked and released daily Camera does not name defendants and
accused and misdemeanor cases.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
What give me a break?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
I mean, this isn't your typical misdemeanor case driving fifty
miles an hour down the bike path.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
KDVR has it, Oh, okay, gardo agiar aguilar.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Cruise okay, okay. Seems to me if you're going to choose.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
To endanger life and limb by driving fifty miles an
hour in a card down a bike path. You should
have your name in the paper.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
It's terrible, Like you really really is lucky he didn't
run someone down.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Yeah, or like you know how you get a mom
or dad out there.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
They got a couple of kids in the basket and
for real, the trailer, I guess don't seem.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Too of propped up in the basket.
Speaker 6 (32:58):
But yeah, I'd say eighty percent of the time. And
you know, I went to see u Boulder. I've got
family up that way. Eighty percent of the time. I'm
on thirty six going down that hill.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
I see at least.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
One or two people on that path. Maybe they were
on it before they saw the car coming at him.
But yeah, I think the name should have been in
that article. And I wouldn't understand that drawing the line,
if you're a paper drawing the line at misdemeanor, you
get some misdemeanors that are really serious stuff.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
Or if the criminal was a minor, I know that
that can be a thing sometimes.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Yeah, that can be a thing.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
But just a forty four year old man driving a
bike path at fifty miles an hour because it's a misdemeanor.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
You're not putting the name in the paper. That just
seems very odd to me, very odd to me.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
But that's the thing is, there are so many misdemeanors
that are very serious crimes.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
That's why. And I'm very proud of our show.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Back when there was a Democrat just a few years ago,
was Polis's top priority for the session pushing a bill
Leslie Herritshe was pushing this bill that would have decriminalized
well wait, it would have made every misdemeanor non prosecutable
against kids in Colorado public schools, which would have been
(34:09):
about a million kids, and that included some really really
serious crimes like serious sex crimes, serious violence crimes.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
And this show led the charge against it.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
And credit to the Denver Post because you know, they
let me write it out bed. They published it on
Easter Sunday, front and center, and the bill was pulled
two or three days later. So credit the Denver Post
on that as well, for stepping up. We don't get
to say that often on the show.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Zac.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Hey have a great weekend, my friend.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
I hope everybody does, and can't wait to get together Monday.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Right here on the Dan Kapla show
KRFX HD two Denver khow Denver, Denver's talk station radio
station Guaranteed Human and become a statewide GOP office holder
in the critical Office of Attorney General.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Michael Welcome back to the Dan Kapla ship.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Dan.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
It's really fun to actually be in studio with you.
This is this is cool.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
It's much better.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
It's very much better.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yeah, yeah, and and I hope this happens a lot
and open door for Jenna Griswold as well.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
You know what, you should actually have us both in
the studio at the same time.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Oh yeah, trust me, I would trade my car for
that one. We could just sell the pay per view
on that. But any talk of debates in that RACEO.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Well, we we definitely are on the schedule. It looks
like for a Club twenty out in Grand Junction.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Good.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
So that's gonna be good. But you know that's not
going to hit the metro area. She really needs to
step up and face the music.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I assume she'll flee to the warm embrace of Kyle Clark, right.
I mean that's kind of the dem pattern, is that's
you know, in many of these races, they'll say that's
the only place they'll.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Go oftentimes it is, although Kyle actually has kind of
held her feet to the fire on several different issues.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah, and it'll be interesting to see how a debate goes.
It would it would be, And I don't want to
burn your time with it. But I don't know if
you watch that joint BackRub between Wiser and Bennett that
Kyle moderated or it was, you don't you can't find
time asks feel Wiser about getting thumped repeatedly by the
US Supreme Court. That just didn't make the list. Yeah,
but you're asking about some obscure regulation for landlords.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
It was just all marshmallows. Yeah, yeah, as soft as
could be.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Not a single question on all these DEM failures, not
a single question on crime because thems have been on
the job.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Forever here, right, Yeah, that's right to blame the Republicans.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Or how about asking them about the wing of their
party that wants to do away with US constitution.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Well, there's a start.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Or how about their nominee melak Kiros, Yeah exactly who
literally she will tell you to your face, you.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Know, she wants to to do way with the state
of Israel.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, Yeah, it's just right by the way.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Defund the Pentagon, I don't know, and that's not getting
any press. But she was on an NPR interview where
she was asked about defunding the Pentagon said that'd be
the most common sense solution, but at least cut their budget.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
I mean, it's well and also and defund police. She
wants to actually totally disbanded police department. She wants to
get rid of prisons.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
And actually, did you see the study that Common Sense
Institute issued fairly recently on crime.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I saw a headline, didn't read it.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
So basically they compared Colorado Springs in Denver and they
were looking at if you're investing in law enforcement or not.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
And so crime in.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Denver has continued to go up and actually has gone
down in Colorado Springs because they've made an investment in
funding their police department.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
It's funny.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
That's a good conversation AV And to his credit, I
saw the police chief out there publicly talking about how
budget cuts are jeopardizing public safety. But now when you've
got Mike Johnston who literally came out and said, we
play the sound come to Denver, we will get you home.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Ultimate socialism they're now spending more on the whole homeless
than they are on the police budget. I mean much
much more on homelessness and police budget. And listen, if
they were helping folks get fixed, that's one thing.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
But they're just warehousing them.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
They're just putting them in the hotel rooms, right, taking
over the whole building.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, so Johnsin could say, see, they're not on the street,
but you can't afford this, and it's not helping those people.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
It does not improve human dignity for those folks. Yeah,
it is not actually getting them better. It's not helping
them to get their feet under them and fight the
addiction demons that they're fighting with.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
And it is the epitome of not honoring the human
dignity in a person.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I think, No, that is so true, and I think
it fits that damn pattern of like luring all these
people up through our southern border, right, and you get
so many women and girls trafficked and raped and otherwise abused.
But you think these the office holders up here care
about them as humans. Got They just they just want
the future votes.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Yeah, that's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Michael Allen with us running for Attorney general, and listen,
if you can give a buck, five bucks, if you
can give a million. We know there are some gazillionaires
who listen. It's going to take all of that to
beat Jenna Griswold. So just so tell us about your
opponent and the path to victory here.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Well, you know, one of the things that actually just
came out yesterday I think it was, is that the
Republican Attorney General's off Association rather has identified Colorado as
a top tier race, meaning that they have identified Colorado
as winnable, which is important when we're talking about fundraising
and beating an opponent like Jenna Griswold. So we need
to put away the idea that a Republican can't win statewide.
(04:33):
We have it won one obviously, in ten years, we
should be coming off of George Brockler's end of his
two term run as Attorney General. He's a great friend
of mine, he's a great mentor. We joke around quite
a bit. I know that you know there were some
jokes going back and forth on that last segment.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
But I have a ton of respect for the guy.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
He would have been miles better than Phil Wiser's attorney general.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
So very true.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
As bad as Phil has been.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Imagine how bad Jenna Griswald will be if she has
given the power of the Attorney General's office.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Well, the good news is a lot of Democrats realize that. Yeah,
at least a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
And I was telling George, I'm a former Democrat. I
have some really good friends who are a Democrat and
some of them are big donor Democrats, And without naming names,
there is a lot of fear within those active Democrats.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Circles about her, That's right.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
So how do you tap into that?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Well, I think it's one. It's getting word out.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
You know, in my jurisdiction down in the fold, judicial
people know me.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I've prosecuted big cases down there. But the Denver media
doesn't do a good job of covering southern part of Colorado,
and frankly, they don't do a good job of covering
you know, rural parts of Colorado either. So it's coming
up to do these kinds of radio shows.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
We're actually going to an event at the Botanic Gardens
with the Hispanic Denver Hispanic Chamber, a Subora event tonight
to meet with folks and you know, just spread the word.
But ultimately it's going to come down to people having
these conversations and what I've I've known now for a
while and what I've really learned having conversations around the
state of Colorado. And it's a question I ask people,
(06:07):
have you had enough of crime being out of control?
Have you had enough of cost of living shooting through
the roof? Have you had enough of our young folks,
people like my oldest son David, who just got married
three weeks ago today, he's got a beautiful new wife.
They can't afford to buy a home in Denver where
they live. Have we had enough of those things?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
And if we have had enough of those things, we
need to look at who's been responsible for driving all
these things through the roof, crime and cost of living
and all these things.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
And it's the Democrats. They've been in control for ten years.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
No, and a key point, right, And I think the
other big thing, well, you have a lot of big
things going for you, But the other big thing is
your opponent is bat blank crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yes, And people know that that's not a pejorative.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
They know that well.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
And the Republican Attorney General's Association pointed that out in
their press release. They said, this is a race about
credentials versus crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, and that is the word, that is she is.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
And like you were saying with the wiser example, right,
he's hyperpartisan, he's far left, he's not himself an accomplished
trial lawyer type.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
But but he's not crazy, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
And he actually had a legal background, and she doesn't.
She just doesn't lied about it. And and and the
crazy part's clear in the line. Now all lies are wrong, right,
But but she comes out and says she argued before
the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
That's something people can check.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Why would you lie about something that's so easily disprovable
like that, right, unless you were crazy? Yeah, it's it's
it's really The analogy is very close to if you
were going to take a transatlantic flight and you got
on the plane and the pilot got over the intercomm
and said, I've never flown a plane before.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
We'll see in Italy. Would you say on that plane?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Right?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
No, exactly exactly, And and if he added to it,
you know, I've never flown a plane before. And uh,
and if I I don't like you, I'm going to
put this plane in the ocean. I think could get
off even quicker because She's had her own former staff
come out and say that they're afraid she will abuse
the office. That's right, And I think that's what scares
(08:13):
a lot of Democrats. I mean, they deal with incompetence
all the time, they support incompetent officeholders all the time.
But somebody who's willing to abuse their power to punish
their enemies, that's right. I think you got a bunch
of big Democrats thinking what if I end up one
of her enemies.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Well, and I think I heard you talking earlier while
we were driving up, talking about these politically motivated prosecutions
and how as Republicans we need to stay away.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
From those kinds of things.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
We can't do the same things that the Democrats have
done because we are a rule of law country. We
don't use political differences or political disagreements to then prosecute criminally.
Our enemies, right, are the people that we disagree with.
We should never do those things. We should never stand
for those things. As Republicans. We know, based on her
track record that she's been that way as the Secretary
(09:00):
of State. With her own staff, they've described her as
toxic and chaotic and vindictive in the way that she
leads that office. In seven and a half years as
Secretary of State, she has had seven deputy secretary of States.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Wow, that's not easy.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
That's not easy to do, just to get the paperwork
done that quick. We're going to pop this break, Michael.
But before we go to the next segment, what's the website?
How do people help?
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Yeah, thank you Michael Allen for foor Colorado dot com.
And donations are up to one thy four to fifty
per person. And as you mentioned, any donation that people
are willing to make to this campaign will go towards
beating Jennier Gerswald in November.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
And Michael will be with us for another segment and
then now please do tell your friends as well, because
that's what it's going to take. Coman that the whole
grass roots thing is real, and that's what it's going
to take.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Here. You're on the Dan Kapla show.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Real chance for Michael to win, starting with the fact
that he just be very very good at the job.
Tell people a little bit about yourself if you would.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah, thanks, Dan one.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I just want to point out how nice it is
to be in studio with you.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
You're such a great host. Thank you for doing that.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Yeah, I'm the I'm a Colorado native, grew up in
Denver Metro area, Arvada, West in nineteen ninety one, and
then enlisted in the Navy, did that for eight years.
That's when I met my beautiful wife, Heidi. We've been
married for thirty one years now. We have two adult sons.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
David and his new wife Olivia, they just got married
three weeks ago. And then our youngest son, Matthew, is
serving the United States Navy currently. And I'm the elected
DA and L Paso County.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
I've got over twenty years experience as a prosecutor, which
is a start contrast to my opponent in this general election,
Jenna Griswold, who has zero experience other than telling fabrications
about arguing in front of the US Supreme Court and
that she had to use an outhouse as a child.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
At least she's going big, right, at least she's going big,
go bigger, go home. And she stated a holiday in
last night, so apparently that's her defense there you go. Yeah, yeah,
Now you mentioned your wife, Heidi, you can introduce your
daughter who's in the studio.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
That's my wife.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah, yeah, So Griswold lies about the Supreme.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Court, you lie about who your wife is.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Holy col I am beyond blessed to have Heidi next
to me for the last thirty one years and for
the next thirty one years.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah, that is everything, God blessed, that is everything. But
but yeah, this griswold thing. I've never seen a dynamic
like that in Colorado before.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
The closest I think we've seen was maybe when George
and Phil Weiser ran against each other. But even there,
as you mentioned in the last segment, the difference between
Phil Wiser, who is on personal level, I like him.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
He's a very nice guy.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
He just didn't have the credentials really that George had.
Totally different with this particular race.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
And again, Phil's not crazy. He's far left. He's got
terrible ideas, but he's not.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Crazy, and he's a nice person, and he.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Has legal credentials.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yeah, so you got a crazy who doesn't have any
legal credentials.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
And wants to be the chief law enforcement officer for
the entire state of Colorado.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Wow, where in a lot of ways you can do
more damage than in any other job.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
I think if you have somebody that is as politically
motivated as she is, and as as prosecutorial inept as
she is, because she doesn't have any experience that is
a recipe for disaster. And you know, it's also very
clear that she has got her eyes on other campaigns
in the future.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
As we are talking today. She already has an exploratory
committee for the United States Senate.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
No, she does.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
You're a kid in made Well, you wouldn't say it
if there wasn't a paperwork, wasn't there?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah, how could they make that mistake?
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Well, that's what she does, right, She's always looking ahead
to the next step.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
You know. Wow.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Prior to to Phil.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Wiser and Michael Bennett getting into the governor's race, everybody
thought odds on favorite was Jenna Griswold. She thought she
was the odds on favorite to be the Democrat nominee.
She was planning to run for governor until those who
got in and talked her out of it, is my opinion.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Yeah, and I'm guessing that she has promised the achief job.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I'm sure she was just.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
To move her out of there. Yeah, And I wonder
how they got her out. Was it posting all those
passwords online for four months?
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Those passwords that she put out there that you know,
that's the crazy thing to Dan as as much of
a front burner issue as election integrity is. Everybody cares
that they're vote counts, right, It doesn't matter if you're Democrat,
even Democrats socialists, they want their votes account to or
Republican or unaffiliated.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
We all want our vote to count.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
And she will shout to the high heavens about how
Republicans have undermined confidence in elections, and yet she's the
one that's responsible for posting our security passwords for every
voting machine across the state of Colorado.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Well, and she's also undermined confidence through hyper partisanship. Absolutely,
I mean because truly, how could you fault to anybody
for doubting elections in Colorado when she's in charge. Now, hey,
I think in the end are all actions are clean,
But I think she seems to go out of her way.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Do you undermine confidence?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yeah, if you're posting the security passwords for our voting
machines across the state, that undermines voter confidence.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I will tell.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
You you know, there is voter fraud every single election cycle.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
We all prosecuted. I know, George does I've talked to
him about it. I prosecuted in the fourth Judicial District.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
It's just not on the scale that some people think
it is, but it absolutely exists and we need to
prosecute those things. But you can't have the person that's
in charge of running our elections leaking passwords and not
wonder what's going on here?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Right, and everybody I think should be zero tolerance when
it comes to any fraud.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
As you say, you've actually prosecuted it, that's right, Michael Ellen.
Our guest. What's that website again?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Michael Allen fo fo or Colorado dot com.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
And I do want to ask you some more policy
tip questions. But what do you need most in the
care Every campaign needs money, right, But how else can
people help?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Well? Get on social media share our things around.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Actually I met a gentleman last night at an event
that we had in Littleton who said, are you on
social media?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Because I don't see you?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
So, yes, we're on social media on Twitter, Instagram or
ex Instagram, Facebook, all the things LinkedIn. Get on there,
find our accounts and share those things out. Those help
get the word out as well. Obviously you mentioned campaign donations. Unfortunately,
money is the lifeblood of campaigns, especially winning campaigns, and
we need as much money as we can get to
(15:27):
beat Jenna.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Now, George was talking in an earlier segment about the
possibility that some big money Dems may actually put a
group together to try to defeat her. Are you hearing
anything like that, because I happen to know some of
those people who who are very, very concerned about her,
and it wouldn't surprise me if they did something like that.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Well, I know that there were people that were associated
with the Democrat Party that actually tried to talk her
out of running for attorney general. They really liked some
of the other candidates that were running against her in
the primary. Know there's disaffected Democrats that don't want her
to be the attorney general. I've heard rumors that there
are people that are thinking about doing the thing that
you just asked about. I don't have anything concrete, but
(16:11):
I can tell you when I'm talking to folks around
the state, I don't ask them are you Republican or Democrat?
I just ask them, are you have you had enough
of what's been happening in the state.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Universally, people have said they've had enough?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah, Yeah, And that's such an interesting dynamic in your race. Again,
because it's attorney general. It's a choice between a lawyer
and a non lawyer. I mean, I know she has
a life, but she's a non lawyer in practical.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
At least she tells us she has a law license.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Well, and she argued to the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Right, But not only that, I mean you are a
highly credentialed, highly experienced, highly successful prosecutor.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I mean you could be a guy out doing wills
and estates and you'd still be a lawyer versus a
practical matter non lawyer, that's right, But you're an actual prosecutor.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Actually know how to get to the court room and
argue a case and get a conviction.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
And last point, because we're about to run out of time,
I hope you guys can back off and appreciate you
being here today. But also you would be able to
keep top high quality lawyers in that Attorney General's office
and attract more. And that's really important.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
The Attorney General's office serves a very important function. That's
the point that you're making.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
And we can't have somebody going into the Attorney General's
office with no credentials and runs everybody off, and then
you're left with no talent to actually do the important
business of the Attorney General's office.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Now I've led a strong office, So Michael, grateful for
the time, and you hope everybody gets behind you, and
please come back off and thank you Dan. That's how
Michael l and hopefully our next Attorney general please help him.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Make that happen. You're on the game, Catholic.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Though, after careful consideration and reviewing the current doability guidelines,
I am officially declaring myself a WNBA prospect. If simply
(18:06):
declaring who you are is all that's required, that I
meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA.
My team and I have carefully examined the WNBA's eligibility
criteria and governing framework surrounding self identification and inclusion. Based
on the current guidelines, I can and am officially declaring
my eligibility for the upcoming WNBA Draft in May twenty
(18:28):
twenty seven. I am definitely not here to mock, make
fun of, or disrespect any community or personal choices. I
am simply asking that the current rules be applied equally
to everyone. The rules that represent the very values many
WNBA players and coaches have publicly advocated for my team,
and I are prepared to ensure these guidelines are applied equally, consistently,
(18:50):
and without exception. And I look forward to the WNBA
honoring its stated principles. See your training camp.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
I love that, right, and it's Canter. It was quite
a center in the NBA, right was wasn't he a
drafted third man? I thought it was drafted third when
he came out, wasn't he? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
And then he hung around with the Thunder and Celtics
for a little bit.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Yeah, yeah, good player. I think he'd farewell in the WNBA.
So Zach is so protective of the WNBA.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
I'll say, here's my thing with cancer. He's been out
of the NBA for a few years. I'm just I
don't know if teams will be tripping over themselves to
draft wow.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
I think the WNBA would be smart to welcome him.
I mean, can you imagine what it would do for
the ratings?
Speaker 2 (19:33):
I would watch. I would watch that.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
And that's not out of disrespect to any of the women.
It's just exposing the hypocrisy of this. But three oh
three seven, one three eight, two five five, the number
d a N five, seven, seventh or nine. Hey, Yeah,
thanks to Michael Allen, who's a GOP nominee for Attorney
General in the House, for two segments in the five
o'clock hour. If you missed it, please consider picking it
(19:56):
off the podcast. He's he's a really impressive guy. And
I know we talk about just how crazy Jenna Griswold is,
and she is, I mean, you've got to be crazy
to lie about arguing to the US Supreme Court and
to do a lot of the things she's done. But
Michael is really accomplished and very impressive. And I hope
you listen to that interview and I think you'll come
(20:18):
away feeling the same way about him. And I think
we've had two guests on the show today who are
really worthy of your consideration and considering financial support. If
you have a dollar five dollars big, you know something bigger.
You know, we had Aaron Lee at four h six
who got all three of these protect Kids Colorado ballot
(20:39):
measures on and is leading that campaign and all three
you know, should pass. I mean, but she's up against
twenty million bucks on the left, So anything you can
do to help that campaign would be greater.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Than Michael Allen. I mean, I know, I don't have.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
To tell you what a big thing it would be
for this state if he was able to be attorney general,
because there is a danger to this state from her
that we've never faced with an attorney general before. You know,
the distinct danger that she would abuse that office. At best,
she would be incompetent and scare off and drive off
(21:15):
good lawyers in that office at best, but we're not
likely to get the best from her. So you're looking
at a disaster in the making for attorney general. If
Jenna Griswell wins. On the other hand, if Michael Allen
wins that, then you get an experienced prosecutor as your age,
a really sharp, talented, accomplished person. And then the GOP
(21:37):
also gets a state wide office holder, which would be
so important to this state in so many different ways.
You need checks and balances, but also once the GOP
gets one state wide office holder, that toe hold can
help open things up because then you know it's going
to be easier to raise money because yes, a Republican
can win statewide, it's possible. Then the GOP has a
(21:58):
face of the party in Colorado, who's the face of
the GOP in Colorado right now, because we don't have
a state wide officeholders, there's not one clear face of
the party in Colorado. So the stakes are really high there.
And again, when the starting point is your opponent is
and it's not a pejorative, I mean, your opponent is crazy.
(22:20):
You gotta be crazy to lie about arguing to the
US Supreme Court when you didn't. He does that, shouldn't
lie at all. Let me get to some text here. Oh,
let me check with Zach Grant. His wife had their baby,
right right, So you're going to cross the hall covering
on KOA.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Yeah, Dave told me little.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Girl that is that is what I understand. Yeah, little
girl delivered this morning. And they're first right, sorry, what
their first child?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yes, first, oh man, just one of the gay and
you will experience this, Zach. It's just an unimaginably great
moment in life. I mean, when every kid's born.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Throw textures.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, and you'll be pulling a lot of
double and triple shifts now right.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Yeah, he's not gonna how to leave. Yeah, I get it.
Text or Dan, The elections are not clean. I don't
believe that for one minute.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
And the Texters right, they're not perfectly clean, as Michael
Allen said, No, there is fraud in our elections, no question,
and then you know we should have zero tolerance. And
then the issue becomes is the fraud large enough to
be changing the outcome? I haven't seen proof that it is,
but that doesn't mean we should tolerate any at all,
because we know what why do you think the Dems
(23:38):
opened up the whole southern border and magnetized everybody to
come in here. You know, whether they were otherwise good
people or whether they were convicted murders and rapists. Because
the DEM see each and every one as potential votes.
So yeah, no, it's zero tolerance for that stuff. Dan
Michael Allen is the man for the job. Griswold is horrible.
(23:59):
He will blow her away in a debate home that
would be paid per view right there. However, the Dems
have the system so rigged. I don't know that he
can win regardless. Please don't, please don't, please don't believe that.
You know, the Dems use this against us very successfully.
I don't have the data to back this up, but
(24:19):
I have got to believe that the GOP gives up
a point or two in every race because of otherwise
Republican voters who stay home because they think it's rigged
and their vote won't matter. So please do not stay
home because you think elections are rigged. Dan, if you're
a Martian, aren't you from Mars. That's a very deep,
(24:39):
deep question there, Dan, I leave Marco for twenty eight
because Cuba will become the fifty first state.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
On one, nineteen twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Listen, I am so excited for this race because whether
it's j D or Marco, we're going to have a
very strong candidate, and the Dems are not because even
their strongest candidate is weak and they're more likely candidates
Griswold crazy. So I'm very excited for that. I be
happy with either. I do think Marco has a bigger
upside in terms of growing the tent and uniting the
(25:12):
nation more broadly. But I'd be very very happy with
the vance presidents he Besides, I'm not going to get
to make that call. Donald Trump will make that call.
I mean President Trump will decide to the GOP nominee
is going to be, and then I think the nominee
will be the next president.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Uh. This one's too long, that one's too long.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Three or three seven, one, three eight, two five five,
and break him up, please break them up into two
or three different texts. But just the pace of the
show and all that we just need We just need
shorter text. Hey, want to get a couple of other.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Hits to you today.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
This is part of what's going on across the country. Now,
you know, we have this malt Kiros craziness in Colorado.
Wants to literally do away with the state of Israel.
Says that it became and sense to defund the Pentagon
campaigns with Hassan Piker, which is a whole nother story.
I mean, just wants to abolish ice all that stuff.
(26:09):
But here's Wisconsin's version. This Francesca hang according to one
pole at least is almost thirty points up in the
DEM primary. You can see different poles with different status.
But listener for a second. Tipping is racist.
Speaker 7 (26:24):
That is in the service industry. We are finally having
this conversation about, you know, how our industry really did
come from it and kind of is rooted in white supremacy.
That tipping in itself. If we look at the history
of tipping and how racist it is, and how it
has kept wages low for black people for very long time.
(26:45):
And if you look at tipping now, how different the
scales are in terms of who receives higher per Wow.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
So see, this is why this is such an exciting
moment in America, because the Dems are showing who they
really are and and someone like her. She's not going
to become the next governor Wisconsin, so let's hope she's
the DEM nominee. You know, the DSA guy in Michigan.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
LSI ed.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
There's a real chance for the Republican to win where
otherwise there wouldn't be here in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Yeah, a lot. Cairos is likely to win. We're going
to have her opponent.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
With us Monday at five oh six, and look forward
to having doctor blowin and to admire him getting in
the race to run that very very uphill battle. But
if she does win that seat, then hey, is she
going to be a two term congress person?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Hey? I very much hope not. But in the.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Meantime, she is the voice in face of the Colorado
Democratic parties, so which I think creates a lot of
great openings. Three oh three is sevene three eight two
five five d an five seven seven three nine. Hey,
when we come back the latest with doctor Fauci and
the buzz is a very real chance he's about to
be charged criminally.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Do you think you shoul should be?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
You're on the Dan Kapitlo show, but the one on
this pretty afternoon, and it's going to be pretty warm
over the weekend. Triple digits in the front range and
up in the nineties and a lot of mountain towns.
But you don't have to shovel hot so three or
three seven one three eight two five five d A
N five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Getting a lot of response to Michael Allen in Studio
GP nominee for Attorney General in Colorado. And I think
part of it is that Michael's just very impressive, and
I hope you listen to that interview on the podcast
if you missed it live. And then the second part
of it is Griswold's just whack. I mean, I'm trying
to remember other than this malot Kiros, who is just
(28:43):
this this extreme, in my opinion, hateful socialist. You know,
normally in Colorado elections you get some people who are
radicals and very harmful ideas, but not just flat crazy
and Griswald is I think that most people but would
agree with that to lie about arguing to the US
Supreme Court and do a lot of other.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Stuff that she's done. So, yeah, this is an opportunity here.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Some of the texts coming in on that, Dan, we
need to get all Republicans and Independents to vote against Griswold.
You know it doesn't stop there. Well, first, good point
by the Texter. The GOP really needs to be united
behind GOP nominee for that nominee in any race to
have any chance.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
That's just simple math.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
And I do hope though we've had a divided GOP
in Colorado for a long time, I do hope it
can unite behind Michael Allen. And there should be a
realistic possibility of that because he's a very good candidate
and Griswold should scare the hell out of everybody. And
then on top of that, if you want to talk
about self interest when it comes to the Attorney General's office,
(29:52):
you know, public safety, Yeah, that rises to.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
A different level.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Right, So I'm optimistic the GOP can actually unite behind
Michael Allen. And whether they're united behind Michael or against
Jenna or some combination. It doesn't matter as long as
the GOP is voting for Michael Allen full throated.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
But here's the secret sauce. Here's the secret sauce.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
And that is much more so than in any race
we've seen in my lifetime. There is a real chance
to get a lot of Democrat votes for the GOP candidate,
and because there is such fear about Chris Wald. But
also again you come back to self interest the Attorney
General's office. You got a choice between a lawyer and
(30:42):
as a practical matter, or a non lawyer. I mean,
she has her license, but as a practical matter, she's
a non lawyer. And just the audacity and goofiness of
a non lawyer running for attorney general, whether they have
a license like she does or not. And on top
of that, he's a prosecutor as a practical matter of
non lawyer. So I think the key is Michael Allen
(31:05):
getting a fair number of Democrat votes and Democrat leaning
on affiliateds, and I think he's got a real shot
at that. Oh, zach Man, we have not had a
chance to talk. Tell me what you think about this story.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
This is one of.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
The odder stories I've read. This is in the Denver Post,
and the reason it's so odd to me is they
do not name the person who was arrested. And I'm
trying to understand why man charged with driving on US
thirty six bikeway in Boulder County. Did you see that video, Zach,
the guy driving about fifty miles an hour, Yeah, down
the bike path.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
They said it on our news earlier, but I can't
remember it right now, so the name find.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
It and maybe I just went through it too quick.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
But I'm looking at the Denver Post story and it
tells the story. Arrested charge with driving on US thirty
six bikeway, car speeding along in broad daylight. They say,
forty four year old man charged with recklessness.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Reckless that.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Booked and released daily Camera does not name defendants and
accused and misdemeanor cases.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
What give me a break?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
I mean, this isn't your typical misdemeanor case driving fifty
miles an hour down the bike path.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
KDVR has it, Oh, okay, gardo agiar aguilar.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Cruise okay, okay. Seems to me if you're going to choose.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
To endanger life and limb by driving fifty miles an
hour in a card down a bike path. You should
have your name in the paper.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
It's terrible, Like you really really is lucky he didn't
run someone down.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Yeah, or like you know how you get a mom
or dad out there.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
They got a couple of kids in the basket and
for real, the trailer, I guess don't seem.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Too of propped up in the basket.
Speaker 6 (32:58):
But yeah, I'd say eighty percent of the time. And
you know, I went to see u Boulder. I've got
family up that way. Eighty percent of the time. I'm
on thirty six going down that hill.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
I see at least.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
One or two people on that path. Maybe they were
on it before they saw the car coming at him.
But yeah, I think the name should have been in
that article. And I wouldn't understand that drawing the line,
if you're a paper drawing the line at misdemeanor, you
get some misdemeanors that are really serious stuff.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
Or if the criminal was a minor, I know that
that can be a thing sometimes.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Yeah, that can be a thing.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
But just a forty four year old man driving a
bike path at fifty miles an hour because it's a misdemeanor.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
You're not putting the name in the paper. That just
seems very odd to me, very odd to me.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
But that's the thing is, there are so many misdemeanors
that are very serious crimes.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
That's why. And I'm very proud of our show.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Back when there was a Democrat just a few years ago,
was Polis's top priority for the session pushing a bill
Leslie Herritshe was pushing this bill that would have decriminalized
well wait, it would have made every misdemeanor non prosecutable
against kids in Colorado public schools, which would have been
(34:09):
about a million kids, and that included some really really
serious crimes like serious sex crimes, serious violence crimes.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
And this show led the charge against it.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
And credit to the Denver Post because you know, they
let me write it out bed. They published it on
Easter Sunday, front and center, and the bill was pulled
two or three days later. So credit the Denver Post
on that as well, for stepping up. We don't get
to say that often on the show.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Zac.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Hey have a great weekend, my friend.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
I hope everybody does, and can't wait to get together Monday.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Right here on the Dan Kapla show
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