November 17, 2025 • 34 mins
Jon Gray-Ginsberg is an unconventional candidate for governor in the Colorado Republican primary. He joins Sheriff Steve Reams (in for Dan) for the first segmetnt.
Weld County Commissioner Scott James also checks in with the man (Reams) who may be joining him on the board of commissioners next year.
Weld County Commissioner Scott James also checks in with the man (Reams) who may be joining him on the board of commissioners next year.
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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 (00:14):
Welcome back to hour two of the Dan Caplis Show
here with Well Kenny Sheriff Steve Riems as your guest host.
And you know, if you've followed this show at all,
if you listen in from time to time, anytime you
hear me on here, I'm always talking about, Hey, let's
try to give a platform for these governors candidates. And
I think today will be fourteenth or fifteenth governor's candidate.
I will have interviewed while filling in for this show,
(00:36):
and we had Victor Marx on earlier, and now we're
going to have another candidate that I'm kind of thrilled
to bring on because he's a different kind of guy.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
His name is.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
John Gray Ginsburg. And John, are you with us on
the line?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Yes, I am okay.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Hello Kay, how and hello Colorado.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Great to have you on, John, And for the listeners
out there, if you want to text in any kind
of questions, you may have, you can do so at
five seven seven three nine and just start your text
with Dan. But John, let's get right to this. If
you would tell the listeners a little bit about your background,
kind of where you come from and you know, just
a little bit of your backstory.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Okay, well, thank you, thank you for interviewing me on
your show. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, my pleasure.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
I'm the Colorado Natis. I graduated from Kent, Denver Country
Day High School in nineteen eighty four and I won
the National Scholastic Award for Colorado. I'm a big proponent
of family in charge of schools. And then I went
to ASNU in Dallas, that's where George Bush has his
Presidential library, Sir, and got two degrees. And I'm in
(01:40):
the computer business. I'm a programmer and I do IT
work and cybersecurity work. My computer company has been in
Frisco since nineteen ninety seven. Okay, so some of your
listeners may already know me and my company from fixing
and selling computers and doing cybersecurity work.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Well, that's interesting. So you go from that realm to
kind of get involved in politics a little bit. What
made you decide Hey, this is my time. I'm going
to run for governor and this is how I'm going
to win. What made you decide to take that leap?
Speaker 6 (02:12):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (02:12):
So I'm a homeowner in Frisco. About my house in
nineteen ninety eight and it's on a lake. And what
happened is in will County, Bob Lemkey and the United
Water moved into a neighborhood and started doing zudar land transfers,
identity theft, and land fraud to acquire water rights from
the years twenty twenty, from two thousand and four until
(02:34):
currently in my neighborhood. Okay, so I'm part of the
special district. My house is part of the United Water
and Sanitation, which is Colorado's biggest special district. So by
default I've been forced into politics. Additionally, my father is
a lawyer on Main Street, Parker since nineteen seventy seven.
He is one of the oldest offices in Parker. And
(02:55):
he threw me under the bus, and I'm running for office.
And think of that like maybe a country song. He
threw me under the bus, the lawyer and I'm running
for office. Anyways, I come from a family of attorneys
in politics on both sides, and now since two thousand
and four, I've been part of unied Water. I'm a
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delegate for the Republican Party in Summit County and they
canceled the elections for this is why I'm running. I
try to run in Frisco, which is my hometown, for office,
and they canceled the elections. I saves.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
When you say they canceled there.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I say that Jamie fit Simmons, the actor and who's
our sheriff, canceled the elections. He's been in some really
good movies too, actually, like Suicide Squad and Fury. He's
also my sheriff and he's responsible one of the people
in the group for canceling the elections. Well, I was
trying to run for office, and I represent legally as
(03:55):
a Republican delegates for Summit County. I represent other people
who are trying to run, and they just cancel the elections,
said no one who's interested, y'all move on. Now, that
is a representative of cartels taking over, and it's more.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
There's more.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
So I was trying to point out that in the
text that I sent earlier, I sent a picture of
the map, a map of Google map on Main Street Frisco,
which maps is Wrecorage, and what's happened in Frisco's There's
been some land fraud in tax edasion. I say that
Summit County is responsible for two hundred and fifty million
dollars of the tax deficit, of the billion dollar tax deficit.
(04:37):
I think that is a political statement in my campaign,
and that is manifested by Google Maps being broken. So
what's happened is when you do land fraud in America
that breaks Google Maps, you'll get miss mappings or errors
on Google One city will map is another in this
case my house and Main Street Frisco and one hundred
other properties, one hundred other properties double map on Google Maps. Well,
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the Department of Justice is suing Google, and there's an
obstruction of justice by Jamie fitz Simmons to tell the
Department of Justice that the maps are broken in Summit
County while there's an ongoing case by the DOJ. I'm
bringing up things that aren't in the media because the
Denver Post is owned by the state state run media.
(05:21):
And unfortunately it's not until now that I'm given voice
to say, hey, it was criminal to cancel first go
called Rado elections and that the map is broken and
the water is tainted according to CBS News And anyways,
United Water, this private special district, the largest in Colorado,
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is a private government and so it has its own
private membership. And Phil Wiser and Jared Poles are some
of the politicians who are part of and who receive
campaign contributions from the United Water and Sanitation, which is
an end of that stills Land for water rights.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Okay, it's really interesting.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
I mean it's.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
It's worthy of literature rights, sure, worthy of book.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Well, So, having said that, you're putting a lot of
information out there, and I'm doing my back my best
to track you, but you sent me a lot of
data earlier in the day. Where where can people go
find what you're what you're putting together? Do you have
a website out there that people can go to? And
what is that?
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Yeah? All right, so if you Google search. I'm with
the Colorado Republican ATHLETs Committee, which is a group of people, okay,
in the Republican Party, and we produced a number of
videos complaining about this and put them on YouTube for instance,
and send it to Supreme Court. We did this last year.
I also filed the complaint in federal court and got
(06:46):
a case number. Okay, now it's my belief. I keep
mentioning Phil why I'm talking about several people who are
part of the dynamic of canceling elections to stand power.
Bill Wiser is part of a real estate entity that's
also a special district called United Water and Sanitation. He's
part of it in several ways. As attorney General. He
(07:08):
also receives, according to Tracer campaign finance contributions from me,
neither water, this private political entity canceled the elections or
what was one of the entities that canceled elections in Frisco.
And I'm part of it. I'm like behind the scenes,
I'm a computer guy, behind the scenes. My father's an attorney,
and behind the scenes my father's offices behind the scenes.
(07:31):
And what's happened is I'm trying to get out into
the narrative that there should be a on your show,
there should be talked about the canceling the elections. When
I went to Kent, Denver Country Day and where I
graduated in Greenwood Village, Colorado, I learned that it's criminally
cancel American elections. I learned that communs do that. I
learned that it's anti from the anti christ to cancel
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American elections unless there's an earthquake or a fire or
force measure. And I'm pointing out that against somebody who's
involved in my land in the background, he and many others,
including Julie McCluskey, she canceled the elections and first go
two to stay in power because she could. And when
I say cancel elections, it's through manipulation, voter intimidation, racketeering,
(08:18):
intimidation as simple as you don't get a lawyer if
you try running for office. You don't get a lawyer
for your house, that kind of thing, for instance. So
or you don't get services from the local government. Oh
you're running for office. Well, sorry, I can't help you, John,
So there's a bias.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
So you said that people could find some of this
stuff on YouTube, But do you have like a campaign
website or do you have a social social.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Media Prosonce grey Ginsburg Www. Grey Ginsburg for co gov
dot com, Www. Grey Ginsburg for co I mean Greg
Ginsburg's for Colorado. I'm sorry, Greg Ginsburg for co Gov.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Grey Ginsburg for cogov dot com. Okay, great. Yeah, John,
we don't. We got to go to a break. I
appreciate you coming on, and I encourage everybody get out
there and you know, dig into these candidates, find out
a little bit more about them. But John, when we
can get you on again in a future show, we'll
try to do that and you can expand more on
on some of these issues that you're talking about. Again,
(09:21):
thanks for being on with us, and we're gonna break
break here, but you're listening to the Dan Capless Show
here on six point thirty k how with Well Kenny Sheriff,
Steve Dreams.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
And now back to the Dan Tapless Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Welcome back to the Dan Kapla Show here with Well
Kenny Sheriff Steve Rireams as your guest host. And man,
we've had a jam packed show and uh, we're gonna
take a little bit of a breath here in this
segment and just get to some of these texts and
maybe even take some phone calls.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
If you want to.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Call in, you can do so at three oh three
seven one, three eight two five five, or you can
text in at five seven seven three nine. Start your
text out with Dan, and as always, I tell you guys,
if you type them in, I'll read them as long
as as long as I can read them on the
airc imply, Yeah, we had got to be careful. The
non FCC compliant ones definitely come into my personal cell
phone because you guys have been tearing that one apart.
(10:09):
So some of these are our most recent guest John
Gray Ginsberg says the candidate John needs to work on
his presentation. Very scattered and hard to understand on some
of his points. I can't understand that because I was
not tracking on some of it either. Another one here says, Wow,
I have no idea what this guy is saying. Okay,
(10:30):
this one I think is just pretty much what people
want to know from every governor's candidate. Tell me where
you stand on the Second Amendment, the death penalty, and abortion.
And unfortunately on a radio show sometimes you just don't
get to ask those very direct questions. And you know
some some answers take longer to get out of a
of a person than others. Let's see another great one here.
(10:52):
As much as I want to like Victor Marx, I
don't think he has a chance of winning the governor's race.
So we're getting to the Marx text.
Speaker 8 (11:00):
To be fair on that front, it's going to be
at best an inside straight draw for any Republican candidate
to win in this state.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah, I've said this before on this show. I think
it's going to have to take you know, lightning in
a bottle, if you will, and just everything lining up
perfectly for any Republican to have a fighter's chance. But
as I said the last time I hosted the show,
what we can't do is replicate a Dan May's experience.
And I don't care who the candidate is, we have
(11:29):
to vet them. And that's my whole purpose for having
these candidates on the radio, because sometimes you know, candidates
get on and tell a story, but they don't necessarily
answer questions. They kind of just pontificate. And so when
you get a chance to dig in a little bit,
you know, we should. And I think, like I said earlier,
we've had fourteen or fifteen of the candidates on. I
need to do a hard count and make sure, but
(11:49):
that's out of twenty candidates that are running on the
Republican side. Just a little crazy, but yeah, we had
two of them on today. And you can make your
you can make your opinions or your decisions to John
Gray Ginsburg or Victor Marx. And you know we'll have
others in the future too. Here's one says tigers are ducks.
I stick by that total whack job. This is in
(12:10):
reference to Victor Marx. He's another Joe Oday. Love your passion.
This is from me. Love your passion, but relax a little.
I think that's for me. What I'm waiting for is
the day that Dan and I square off. Used to
drive Craig nuts. It'll be good radio, for sure. I'd
be happy to do a show with Dan and toss
(12:31):
up some of the issues, but I think we agree
on most things, so I don't know how controversial that
would get. Another one here about Victor Marx, says on
Victor Marx's biography. Victor's past includes struggles and controversies. In
two thousand and six, he was arrested in the UAE
after a fight that led to a German engineer's death.
Initially charged with murder, he spent seven years on death
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row before released in twenty thirteen. And again I asked
him about that story on the radio because I had
heard that same thing, and he just says, that's that's
a pure work of fiction, doesn't know where it came from.
You know, what you read on the internet isn't always true.
So he says that story is not true. So unless
someone can find where he's told that story in the past,
(13:14):
I think that's a dead story.
Speaker 8 (13:15):
Two things I'll say in response to his appearance with you, Sheriff,
was that the stories that we had questions about he
retold for you bit by bit.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
I think lockstep with what he had said before.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Now on this UAE story that's out there, he seems
to be aware that it's out there.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
He denies it out right.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
And then he made the request to listeners or voters,
those that might be curious about his story to just,
you know, read what he wrote.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
He's written two books, I think it is.
Speaker 8 (13:41):
And then there's information on his website my advice and
not that Roger Hudson needs it. He's the one running
comms for communications for Victor's campaign.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
You got to just come out with everything.
Speaker 8 (13:51):
You got to put it all out there, the whole story,
the good, the bad, the ugly, the indifferent.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Put it all out there. I agree.
Speaker 8 (13:57):
And then that's that scorches the earth so that anybody
else coming for Victor Marx will have the information right there.
He's consistent the retelling of those stories. He sticks to
that script and there's no waffling or wavering, there are
no holes in the story. For instance, that's the first
time I've heard him confirm in public that it was
his brother in law who attacked him. And that was
(14:21):
the video that I had gotten from Instagram where Victor
himself is in a vehicle had just been pulled over.
Registration was to this other guy. Well, he failed to
mention in that video that other guy was his brother
in law. That's pertinent. That's a very important part of
the story. And that's the part you know, the sheriff
you're in politics. Now, I'm so glad you called that
out with him directly. Now you're in the arena, my man,
(14:44):
and you can't go telling half stories and leaving details out.
You got to get through the whole thing, because there's
a thing called apple research that democrats are going to
do against.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
You, and they will bury you with it. So just
come out with all of it.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
So you know, as a guy who's run for office
several times, now, you know it's not uncommon for someone
to make up a story about your background or you
know something, or even take something out of context.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I think with.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
How fantastic Victor's story is, and I say that it's
not a typical background, it invites itself. That background invites
people to come in and say, I want to know
a little bit more about this guy. So you're right, Ryan,
if he wants to put the naysayers to rest, I
think you got to put it all out there. That's
why I asked him about his DD two fourteen. You know,
(15:31):
there's a lot of questions about his military service, you know,
because everything is kind of fantastic in that background of his.
You know, it leads people to question whether or not
his military service was necessarily true. He committed to putting
that out there where everybody can see it, said he
looks for that and people that come to work for him.
So I think that should be a pretty easy thing
(15:52):
for folks to answer. Again, I think he served three
years in the Marine Corps back in the eighties, So
you know that d D two fourteen should clear all
that up and put that rumor to rest. When it
comes to interviewing or talking with these governors candidates, I'm
always amazed at kind of what triggers them, what makes
(16:13):
them want to get into the race, and and you know,
all right, what was that pivotal moment. I'm not sure
that Victor was real clear on that. John greg Ginsburg
was definitely a different story. But every one of these folks,
you know, there's been something that has happened and they say, Okay,
I'm the person to fix it.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
And you know, I got to tell you.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
While some of them are a little more polished than others,
you know, we've had Barb Kirkmeyer on here. I think
she does a great job of explaining why why she
jumped into the race. You know, it is practice, it
is as you've referred to Ryan, it's it's earned media.
And man, no one should run from these interviews. If
if you're going to be a candidate, this is the
world you have to live in. You have to get
out there and tell your story. Victor likes telling his story.
(16:54):
I don't know if he necessarily likes talking about certain
aspects of his growing up, but he's obviously a public speaker,
and I think it shows when he's on the radio.
He definitely likes to to tell about.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Who he is.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
And you know, I guess there needs to be a
little bit more meat on the the why he's running
for governor. But I agree he's he's got a media
director in Roger Hudson that can probably help clear some
of that up as well. Back to the text line
or text board here, there are a lot of people saying,
all right, I wish he'd put some more meat on
the bone for what he's he'd do as a governor.
(17:26):
More precise information would be helpful as to how in
all caps he'd get things done. You know, the background
story is fine, but at some point you got to
get to the meet and this one why he didn't
tell us it was his brother in law who murdered
his sister. Well he did kind of clear that up
a little bit when we asked him about it. I
didn't ask him if it was his sister that was
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the victim, but I think.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
It was the brother in law's girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Okay, Well, regardless, you know, he does seem willing to
do interviews, so I'm sure he'll be back on this station,
either with me or with you or with Dan at
some point. But well, crazy, crazy couple of interviews. But
we got to take a quick break here when we
come back, we'll have Weld County Commissioner Scott James on
with us to share some of the Weld County wonderness.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
You're listening to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Welcome back to the Dan Capleas Show here with Welld
County shaff Steve Raims as your guest host. We're just
wrapping up the show, but I wanted to bring on
a person who I've had the opportunity to work with
for quite some time. This is a Weld County commissioner
and we're getting him on the line right now. But
he's one of those guys that you know, when you
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set across the table from him, you start chopping up
some ideas. It's kind of interesting where the conversation goes
sometimes because he is definitely an outside the box thinker
on some issues. And so I wanted to have him
to come on the show and talk a little bit
about the difference from Weld County and the rest of
the state. Eight And you know, I speak about it
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all the time as a law enforcement officer, but as
a person who's kind of the law lawmaker if you will,
up in Welld County or to a degree at least
as in that county commissioner's role. Scott's got a little
bit of different perspective about how Weld County does things
different And Scott, I think you're with us on the line.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Is that correct? I'm out, No, you're with us.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
So if you if you recognize that voice, it's because
Scott James is truly one of those radio professionals that
did that did radio up in northern Colorado for a
long time. He and Sadie had a show on every
morning and had a loyal following. And then Dan made
this Scott made this crazy decision to jump into politics
(19:48):
and kind of ended the radio career. But it's come
full circle. You're on the Dan Cavlis show. How cool
is that.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
It's probably the biggest I've ever been too, Sheriff, I
appreciate that breakthrough opportunity.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
You had a great listening audience when you were doing
your show, but you got into Weld County politics. You
know what made you decide to run for county commissioner
and what is the role that you see of the
border county commissioners. That's a little different in Weld County
compared to some other places it is.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
I was obviously in Johnstown, I was on the planning
commission in that town council and a mayor, and the
opportunity arose to run for county commissioner. And I just
love the very concept of local governments that you know,
the best government's government's closest to home, and we get
the opportunity to be directly involved with their constituencies. And
at the county commissioner level, you truly have the opportunity
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to get something done. And in Well County it's especially
different because sixty four counties in the state of Colorado,
sixty two of them are statutory ruled. Weld County is
home rule, meaning we have a home road charter that
are citizens past nineteen seventy five, that we have the
ability to do things a little bit differently. One of
the ways that we do things differ diferently as a
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border county Commissioners is our charter actually forbids us having
a county manager. In fact, sixty three counties have a
county manager. The five of us, the five commissioners act
is as a county manager, working directly with their department
heads and other elected officials such as yourself that may
it happen around Weell County.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yeah, it is a little different environment. And that Weld
County Charter also gives you some flexibility and kind of
pushing back against the state a little bit, which we
saw during some of the oil and gas i'll say
attacks that were coming on welld County. Can you expound
on that a little bit.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Well, absolutely, we have the ability to pass ordinances and
govern ourselves when it comes to matters of what they
call local concern. Senate Bill nineteen point eighty one, which
was the means of legislation that kind of began the
tough parts for the oiler gas industry, did grant US
ten forty one authority to be able to stand up
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our own a lot of gas energy departments. So, led
at that time by Commissioner Kurt, the Border County Commissaries
that I sat on at that time made the decision
to go ahead and open our own gas energy department.
We have our own land use process and citing the
way it was supposed to work, any unique memo developed
with at that time the COGCC, we had a membrantum
of understanding that said, hey, we'll handle the land use
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aspect of exploration, if you guys handled the geology of
the downhole. Well, of course, we don't feel like the
now ECMCS necessarily undered their words that memorandum of understanding,
but we have the ability to do that in Weld
County and we did well.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
So taking that one step further, and you and I
have kind of tossed this back and forth, is there
a way to push back against some of the sanctuary
policies and that the state keeps pushing. I know Governor
Polo says we're not a sanctuary state, but everything he
signs into law when it has to do with immigration
seems to indicate that we're a sanctuary state. Do you
think that there's some navigable room there in the Weld
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County Charter to maybe push back a little bit there?
Speaker 6 (23:00):
I do, Shriff, and you know I'm passionate about it.
You know that I've shared some of my what I
call brain tickles. I'd use it another analogy, but they
run broadcast. I've shared those with you and said, can
we not pass an ordinance, for example, revolving around some
of the statue that says that the people will not
cooperate with ice that law enforcement officers cannot cooperate with
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ICE in the state of Colorado. What says that we,
as a home rule county cannot pass an ordinance saying
it's a matter of extreme local concern of public safety
that our law enforcement officials that are well county employees
be allowed to cooperate with ICE. I believe it's a
matter of extreme local concern. I believe we can codify that,
even take it to our voter, have them pass it,
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because quite frankly, I want the law enforcement officers that
work for you, and I want I want our human
services folks and our employees being able to follow federal
statute and cooperate with ICE.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Quite right, You and me both, brother, You and me both.
And it's it's been a tough road with you know,
the previous administration and some of the stuff that came down,
and then you know, our state on top of that,
passing some just ridiculous laws that aren't in the interest
of public safety whatsoever. But here we are, and you know,
trying to figure out how to push back. It'd be
nice if we could just get some decent laws passed
(24:18):
at the state level. All that being said, you signed
up for this job. I think you're about to be
in year eight. You've done here in your second term,
you can run for one more. Do you have an
announcement you want to make.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
I appreciate you offering me the opportunity. I may be
the worst kept secret in Weald County. I am formally
announcing my candidacy for the third and final term as
County Commissioner. I have had a wonderful, wonderful opportunity to
serve the people to Weald County, first in Johnstown and
now as a county commissioner. And while I'm proud of
what we have accomplished while I've been a County commissioner,
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I'm proud of the organ This is of the code,
and it's just the running of a good government. There's
so much more, or Steve, and so much more that
you and I have spoken of of things that need
to be done on behalf of the Weald County people.
Can we truly take our home rule Charter out for
a spin. Can we find ways that we cannot only
continue to run a good government in the state of
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area in Weald County, but show the state of Colorado
how it's pragmatically done. I mean, no debts, no sales tax.
We run things well on fifteen point ninety five six mills.
We continue to refund money back to the taxpayer in
Weald County. Steve, I want to continue that tradition, but
I want to go ahead and push a little harder,
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quite frankly, because as Denver continues to invade, I just
feel that that Weald County and other counties who want
to follow our lead need to find ways to push back.
And that's what I am going to continue to look
for in a third term.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Well, as you know, I've also announced a campaign to
hopefully join you on that board beginning in twenty twenty seven,
and if all things go well, hopefully we'll be in
that same fight together. But Scott, I just I appreciate
the work that you do as a Weld County Commissioner.
I know sometimes it's not always fun, you know, hearing
people complain about certain issues in the county. But you know,
(26:13):
I think for the most part, you guys are getting
things right more often than wrong, and I look forward
to hopefully working alongside you in the near future.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
Sheriff. It will be a grave loss for well, can
it lose you? Is a sheriff, but a great gain
for us to gain you as a county commissioner. I
think there's so much the beginning can be done, and
we can serve as an example for the rest of
the state how good local government is done. And I
look forward to doing it with you.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Well, I appreciate that, Scott, Thanks for coming on the show,
and welcome back to radio.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
For a short little gig there, I get.
Speaker 6 (26:45):
A little taste you can't get keep dragging me back in.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
You know, you got a website you want to throw
out there real quick so people can donate to your
third campaign.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Here it is James F.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
O R.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
James four Weld James four dot com.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
You can go there you and learn all about me.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
You can read what I write and yes, if you
want to chip a couple of bucks towards the campaign,
it would be appreciated. James four weel dot com.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Awesome, thanks for coming on with us. And with that
we'll cut to a break and we'll get to our
last and final segment. And you're listening to the Dan
Capless Show here on six thirty k how.
Speaker 7 (27:19):
And now back to the Dan Kapless Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Welcome back to the Dan Kapliss show here in the
last segment of two Hours Well Koming Shriff Steve Riems
setting in as the guest host. Fill in whatever you
want to call me today. I've been called pretty much
everything in my life at some point, so when you
work in law enforcement, you get used to all kinds
of special nicknames. But if we got time, I'd love
to take some phone calls. You can call in at
(27:43):
three oh three seven one, three eight two five five,
where you can keep sending in those text messages at
five seven seven three nine. Start your text off with
Dan And I always say, if you send them in,
I'll read them. And this one, whoever since it in,
must have a little bit of TDS. Trump just rang
the Trump derangement syndrome. Your president has turned us into
a third World country with his cruel and violent production
(28:06):
and yeah, my president, well I did vote for him,
violent abduction and treatment of immigrants. He's a lying, conning,
uh conniving piece of work. He's I'm not going to
say that we're done something to the White House to
reflect his gaudy, soulless existence, not to mention severe lack
of taste. So I don't I don't think that person
necessarily likes Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
The ballroom coming, I guess not.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I think it's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
There's a song about ballrooms. Yes, we can probably play
that at some point, maybe not today.
Speaker 8 (28:40):
They have much bigger festivities there, festivities the thing that
I'll guarantee it's gonna be awesome. It's going to be
top of the line, and the next Democrat president is
going to love having.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
It, and they're going to do all kinds of events
in there, and I hope they name it the Trump.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Ballroom, totally. Totally.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
So I think we have a caller on here. He's
one of our loyal listeners, Kevin from Boulder. Kevin, are
you on the line with us?
Speaker 4 (29:06):
I am Kevin.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
What do you have to say?
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Well, nobody ever mentioned this, but the Democrat Party has
been evil from day one. They were created to protect slavery.
They killed tens of thousands of Americans in the Civil
War attempting to protect slavery. They created the income tax,
promising it would never be any more than four percent.
(29:32):
They created the Federal Reserve, which is a private bank
that stole the gold standard out of the Constitution. In
the Bible and they constantly.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
Lie and.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Omit the truth and they're just not to be trusted.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Well, I can't argue with any of those points that
you've made there, Kevin. And you know, if you look
at kind of just the messaging around the Democrat Party
right now, especially you know, taking reference to like Charlie
Kirk and some of the vitriol that spewed from a
few of those folks in the wake of his death,
quite honestly, it was shocking.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Well, they have publicly declared that the Democrat Party is
now the new communist Socialist Marxist Party, and I heard
them declare that on Hannige or Glenn Beck.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Well, yeah, there's a lot out there. I mean, the
fact that they're associating themselves is Democrats socialists now and
not necessarily just Democrats. That says a lot to me.
But Kevin, thanks for calling in and thanks for being
a listener. I know that you're a very loyal listener
because you do text in and call in and we
greatly appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Thanks for calling in sure.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
All right, So in this last little bit here, I
just got a text coming straight into me. It says
I thought, Steve, I thought I took. I taught a
class on Saturday. This is for a conceill weapons permit.
Sent the guy in on Monday and he had his
permit all in one day. Are you guys really doing
a one day turnaround in Wild County for consial weapons
permits for renewals. Yeah, oftentimes we're turning those round in
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one day. If it's a brand new permit, we can't
necessarily do that. It takes a little bit of time
to get things through the state. But our goal is
to have as many people who want to exercise their
Second Amendment rights out there in the public space as possible.
And if you want to have a conceal weapons permit,
I want to make sure you get that permit as
fast as you possibly can, despite what the state has
done in trying to create all kinds of barriers and
(31:28):
ridiculous restrictions on people to exercise a right that quite frankly,
you shouldn't even have to come to the sheriff to
talk about. But regardless, we live in this state and
sometimes we got to just navigate the waters. Ryan, you
got any words of wisdom to end with today? Based
on the show that we put together.
Speaker 8 (31:46):
This is a pretty interesting cast of characters that you
had coming on through the program today.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Sheriff reems, Yeah, I wasn't quite expecting things to work
out exactly how they did.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Correct.
Speaker 8 (31:57):
You got a couple candidates on for governor, including one
that people are asking a lot of questions about, and
I guess you know, when it comes to Victor Marx,
kind of like he's going to be the target because
he's the source of so much information that's out there
being circulated. And also he's raised a lot of money,
He's garnered a couple of very big endorsements, Heidie Ganall
and Representative Lauren Bobert. He's generated a lot of buzz
(32:19):
and with that comes greater scrutiny.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
I think absolutely what you did.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
Well was kind of give him a chance to respond
to whatever's out there. And I think, again, I can't
stress this strongly enough, it is very important that Victor
Marx not let whatever this is out there that he
may disagree with, hav a problem with, feels a misrepresentation.
He's got to nip that in the bud. He's got
to address it. He's got to take it head on.
He's got to get in front of it. Because you
(32:44):
let that linger, it's going to define you rather than
the other way around.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Yeah, And there's just so much out there that if
you don't unpack that and just knock it, I mean,
knock everything right into the dirt. This is going to
be the it's going to be every interview. Hey, before
we get off here, Ryan, and it's just kind of
text and Steve, I sure hope you have been interviewed
for the empty AM slot. You would be great. I
have not been interviewed for that empty AM slot, but
(33:08):
I bet Ryan has. Ryan, is there any any news
on that development?
Speaker 8 (33:13):
I will be filling in tomorrow and Wednesday here in
Denver locally on.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Six thirty K inquiring minds.
Speaker 8 (33:19):
Well, the names that are being bandied about, and it's
no mystery, no secret, okay. John Caldera did both Mondays
just today and then last Monday.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (33:28):
Deborah Flora did last Tuesday and Wednesday. Leland Conway did
last Thursday and Friday. Jimmy Sangeberger will be doing this
Thursday and Friday, and yours truly tomorrow and Wednesday, and
from that pool of candidates I think will emerge the
next morning host of six thirty k out here in Denver.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Well, that's fair.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
So no matter what, there's going to be a little
bit of a change in the in the programming because
we know that someone has to take over that former
Michael Brown time slot. But Ryan, are you a morning person?
Speaker 8 (33:56):
I am not. Not really, I can make it happen.
Am I fault by nature wired that way?
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Absolutely not. I'm a night owl, honey.
Speaker 8 (34:03):
I sleep all day long, just kidding, But I do
like waking up at noon and figure out what T
shirt I'm gonna wear, like Tenacious D style. But you know,
whatever happens. So if it's me, we'll see. That would
mean somebody would have to fill into two to four slot.
But I would say, stay tuned, you're gonna like who
they pick.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Whoever it is, all right, No, that sounds good.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Well again, thanks for tuning into the Dan Kaplis Show
and giving me a chance to steal the airwaves for
a couple of hours. It was the pleasure being with you.
Well Kenny Sheriff Steve Reims signing off,
This is Dan Capless and welcome to today's online podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome back to hour two of the Dan Caplis Show
here with Well Kenny Sheriff Steve Riems as your guest host.
And you know, if you've followed this show at all,
if you listen in from time to time, anytime you
hear me on here, I'm always talking about, Hey, let's
try to give a platform for these governors candidates. And
I think today will be fourteenth or fifteenth governor's candidate.
I will have interviewed while filling in for this show,
(00:36):
and we had Victor Marx on earlier, and now we're
going to have another candidate that I'm kind of thrilled
to bring on because he's a different kind of guy.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
His name is.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
John Gray Ginsburg. And John, are you with us on
the line?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Yes, I am okay.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Hello Kay, how and hello Colorado.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Great to have you on, John, And for the listeners
out there, if you want to text in any kind
of questions, you may have, you can do so at
five seven seven three nine and just start your text
with Dan. But John, let's get right to this. If
you would tell the listeners a little bit about your background,
kind of where you come from and you know, just
a little bit of your backstory.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Okay, well, thank you, thank you for interviewing me on
your show. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, my pleasure.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
I'm the Colorado Natis. I graduated from Kent, Denver Country
Day High School in nineteen eighty four and I won
the National Scholastic Award for Colorado. I'm a big proponent
of family in charge of schools. And then I went
to ASNU in Dallas, that's where George Bush has his
Presidential library, Sir, and got two degrees. And I'm in
(01:40):
the computer business. I'm a programmer and I do IT
work and cybersecurity work. My computer company has been in
Frisco since nineteen ninety seven. Okay, so some of your
listeners may already know me and my company from fixing
and selling computers and doing cybersecurity work.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Well, that's interesting. So you go from that realm to
kind of get involved in politics a little bit. What
made you decide Hey, this is my time. I'm going
to run for governor and this is how I'm going
to win. What made you decide to take that leap?
Speaker 6 (02:12):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (02:12):
So I'm a homeowner in Frisco. About my house in
nineteen ninety eight and it's on a lake. And what
happened is in will County, Bob Lemkey and the United
Water moved into a neighborhood and started doing zudar land transfers,
identity theft, and land fraud to acquire water rights from
the years twenty twenty, from two thousand and four until
(02:34):
currently in my neighborhood. Okay, so I'm part of the
special district. My house is part of the United Water
and Sanitation, which is Colorado's biggest special district. So by
default I've been forced into politics. Additionally, my father is
a lawyer on Main Street, Parker since nineteen seventy seven.
He is one of the oldest offices in Parker. And
(02:55):
he threw me under the bus, and I'm running for office.
And think of that like maybe a country song. He
threw me under the bus, the lawyer and I'm running
for office. Anyways, I come from a family of attorneys
in politics on both sides, and now since two thousand
and four, I've been part of unied Water. I'm a
(03:17):
delegate for the Republican Party in Summit County and they
canceled the elections for this is why I'm running. I
try to run in Frisco, which is my hometown, for office,
and they canceled the elections. I saves.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
When you say they canceled there.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I say that Jamie fit Simmons, the actor and who's
our sheriff, canceled the elections. He's been in some really
good movies too, actually, like Suicide Squad and Fury. He's
also my sheriff and he's responsible one of the people
in the group for canceling the elections. Well, I was
trying to run for office, and I represent legally as
(03:55):
a Republican delegates for Summit County. I represent other people
who are trying to run, and they just cancel the elections,
said no one who's interested, y'all move on. Now, that
is a representative of cartels taking over, and it's more.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
There's more.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
So I was trying to point out that in the
text that I sent earlier, I sent a picture of
the map, a map of Google map on Main Street Frisco,
which maps is Wrecorage, and what's happened in Frisco's There's
been some land fraud in tax edasion. I say that
Summit County is responsible for two hundred and fifty million
dollars of the tax deficit, of the billion dollar tax deficit.
(04:37):
I think that is a political statement in my campaign,
and that is manifested by Google Maps being broken. So
what's happened is when you do land fraud in America
that breaks Google Maps, you'll get miss mappings or errors
on Google One city will map is another in this
case my house and Main Street Frisco and one hundred
other properties, one hundred other properties double map on Google Maps. Well,
(05:00):
the Department of Justice is suing Google, and there's an
obstruction of justice by Jamie fitz Simmons to tell the
Department of Justice that the maps are broken in Summit
County while there's an ongoing case by the DOJ. I'm
bringing up things that aren't in the media because the
Denver Post is owned by the state state run media.
(05:21):
And unfortunately it's not until now that I'm given voice
to say, hey, it was criminal to cancel first go
called Rado elections and that the map is broken and
the water is tainted according to CBS News And anyways,
United Water, this private special district, the largest in Colorado,
(05:43):
is a private government and so it has its own
private membership. And Phil Wiser and Jared Poles are some
of the politicians who are part of and who receive
campaign contributions from the United Water and Sanitation, which is
an end of that stills Land for water rights.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Okay, it's really interesting.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
I mean it's.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
It's worthy of literature rights, sure, worthy of book.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Well, So, having said that, you're putting a lot of
information out there, and I'm doing my back my best
to track you, but you sent me a lot of
data earlier in the day. Where where can people go
find what you're what you're putting together? Do you have
a website out there that people can go to? And
what is that?
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Yeah? All right, so if you Google search. I'm with
the Colorado Republican ATHLETs Committee, which is a group of people, okay,
in the Republican Party, and we produced a number of
videos complaining about this and put them on YouTube for instance,
and send it to Supreme Court. We did this last year.
I also filed the complaint in federal court and got
(06:46):
a case number. Okay, now it's my belief. I keep
mentioning Phil why I'm talking about several people who are
part of the dynamic of canceling elections to stand power.
Bill Wiser is part of a real estate entity that's
also a special district called United Water and Sanitation. He's
part of it in several ways. As attorney General. He
(07:08):
also receives, according to Tracer campaign finance contributions from me,
neither water, this private political entity canceled the elections or
what was one of the entities that canceled elections in Frisco.
And I'm part of it. I'm like behind the scenes,
I'm a computer guy, behind the scenes. My father's an attorney,
and behind the scenes my father's offices behind the scenes.
(07:31):
And what's happened is I'm trying to get out into
the narrative that there should be a on your show,
there should be talked about the canceling the elections. When
I went to Kent, Denver Country Day and where I
graduated in Greenwood Village, Colorado, I learned that it's criminally
cancel American elections. I learned that communs do that. I
learned that it's anti from the anti christ to cancel
(07:52):
American elections unless there's an earthquake or a fire or
force measure. And I'm pointing out that against somebody who's
involved in my land in the background, he and many others,
including Julie McCluskey, she canceled the elections and first go
two to stay in power because she could. And when
I say cancel elections, it's through manipulation, voter intimidation, racketeering,
(08:18):
intimidation as simple as you don't get a lawyer if
you try running for office. You don't get a lawyer
for your house, that kind of thing, for instance. So
or you don't get services from the local government. Oh
you're running for office. Well, sorry, I can't help you, John,
So there's a bias.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
So you said that people could find some of this
stuff on YouTube, But do you have like a campaign
website or do you have a social social.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Media Prosonce grey Ginsburg Www. Grey Ginsburg for co gov
dot com, Www. Grey Ginsburg for co I mean Greg
Ginsburg's for Colorado. I'm sorry, Greg Ginsburg for co Gov.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Grey Ginsburg for cogov dot com. Okay, great. Yeah, John,
we don't. We got to go to a break. I
appreciate you coming on, and I encourage everybody get out
there and you know, dig into these candidates, find out
a little bit more about them. But John, when we
can get you on again in a future show, we'll
try to do that and you can expand more on
on some of these issues that you're talking about. Again,
(09:21):
thanks for being on with us, and we're gonna break
break here, but you're listening to the Dan Capless Show
here on six point thirty k how with Well Kenny Sheriff,
Steve Dreams.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
And now back to the Dan Tapless Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Welcome back to the Dan Kapla Show here with Well
Kenny Sheriff Steve Rireams as your guest host. And man,
we've had a jam packed show and uh, we're gonna
take a little bit of a breath here in this
segment and just get to some of these texts and
maybe even take some phone calls.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
If you want to.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Call in, you can do so at three oh three
seven one, three eight two five five, or you can
text in at five seven seven three nine. Start your
text out with Dan, and as always, I tell you guys,
if you type them in, I'll read them as long
as as long as I can read them on the
airc imply, Yeah, we had got to be careful. The
non FCC compliant ones definitely come into my personal cell
phone because you guys have been tearing that one apart.
(10:09):
So some of these are our most recent guest John
Gray Ginsberg says the candidate John needs to work on
his presentation. Very scattered and hard to understand on some
of his points. I can't understand that because I was
not tracking on some of it either. Another one here says, Wow,
I have no idea what this guy is saying. Okay,
(10:30):
this one I think is just pretty much what people
want to know from every governor's candidate. Tell me where
you stand on the Second Amendment, the death penalty, and abortion.
And unfortunately on a radio show sometimes you just don't
get to ask those very direct questions. And you know
some some answers take longer to get out of a
of a person than others. Let's see another great one here.
(10:52):
As much as I want to like Victor Marx, I
don't think he has a chance of winning the governor's race.
So we're getting to the Marx text.
Speaker 8 (11:00):
To be fair on that front, it's going to be
at best an inside straight draw for any Republican candidate
to win in this state.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah, I've said this before on this show. I think
it's going to have to take you know, lightning in
a bottle, if you will, and just everything lining up
perfectly for any Republican to have a fighter's chance. But
as I said the last time I hosted the show,
what we can't do is replicate a Dan May's experience.
And I don't care who the candidate is, we have
(11:29):
to vet them. And that's my whole purpose for having
these candidates on the radio, because sometimes you know, candidates
get on and tell a story, but they don't necessarily
answer questions. They kind of just pontificate. And so when
you get a chance to dig in a little bit,
you know, we should. And I think, like I said earlier,
we've had fourteen or fifteen of the candidates on. I
need to do a hard count and make sure, but
(11:49):
that's out of twenty candidates that are running on the
Republican side. Just a little crazy, but yeah, we had
two of them on today. And you can make your
you can make your opinions or your decisions to John
Gray Ginsburg or Victor Marx. And you know we'll have
others in the future too. Here's one says tigers are ducks.
I stick by that total whack job. This is in
(12:10):
reference to Victor Marx. He's another Joe Oday. Love your passion.
This is from me. Love your passion, but relax a little.
I think that's for me. What I'm waiting for is
the day that Dan and I square off. Used to
drive Craig nuts. It'll be good radio, for sure. I'd
be happy to do a show with Dan and toss
(12:31):
up some of the issues, but I think we agree
on most things, so I don't know how controversial that
would get. Another one here about Victor Marx, says on
Victor Marx's biography. Victor's past includes struggles and controversies. In
two thousand and six, he was arrested in the UAE
after a fight that led to a German engineer's death.
Initially charged with murder, he spent seven years on death
(12:53):
row before released in twenty thirteen. And again I asked
him about that story on the radio because I had
heard that same thing, and he just says, that's that's
a pure work of fiction, doesn't know where it came from.
You know, what you read on the internet isn't always true.
So he says that story is not true. So unless
someone can find where he's told that story in the past,
(13:14):
I think that's a dead story.
Speaker 8 (13:15):
Two things I'll say in response to his appearance with you, Sheriff,
was that the stories that we had questions about he
retold for you bit by bit.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
I think lockstep with what he had said before.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Now on this UAE story that's out there, he seems
to be aware that it's out there.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
He denies it out right.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
And then he made the request to listeners or voters,
those that might be curious about his story to just,
you know, read what he wrote.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
He's written two books, I think it is.
Speaker 8 (13:41):
And then there's information on his website my advice and
not that Roger Hudson needs it. He's the one running
comms for communications for Victor's campaign.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
You got to just come out with everything.
Speaker 8 (13:51):
You got to put it all out there, the whole story,
the good, the bad, the ugly, the indifferent.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Put it all out there. I agree.
Speaker 8 (13:57):
And then that's that scorches the earth so that anybody
else coming for Victor Marx will have the information right there.
He's consistent the retelling of those stories. He sticks to
that script and there's no waffling or wavering, there are
no holes in the story. For instance, that's the first
time I've heard him confirm in public that it was
his brother in law who attacked him. And that was
(14:21):
the video that I had gotten from Instagram where Victor
himself is in a vehicle had just been pulled over.
Registration was to this other guy. Well, he failed to
mention in that video that other guy was his brother
in law. That's pertinent. That's a very important part of
the story. And that's the part you know, the sheriff
you're in politics. Now, I'm so glad you called that
out with him directly. Now you're in the arena, my man,
(14:44):
and you can't go telling half stories and leaving details out.
You got to get through the whole thing, because there's
a thing called apple research that democrats are going to
do against.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
You, and they will bury you with it. So just
come out with all of it.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
So you know, as a guy who's run for office
several times, now, you know it's not uncommon for someone
to make up a story about your background or you
know something, or even take something out of context.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I think with.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
How fantastic Victor's story is, and I say that it's
not a typical background, it invites itself. That background invites
people to come in and say, I want to know
a little bit more about this guy. So you're right, Ryan,
if he wants to put the naysayers to rest, I
think you got to put it all out there. That's
why I asked him about his DD two fourteen. You know,
(15:31):
there's a lot of questions about his military service, you know,
because everything is kind of fantastic in that background of his.
You know, it leads people to question whether or not
his military service was necessarily true. He committed to putting
that out there where everybody can see it, said he
looks for that and people that come to work for him.
So I think that should be a pretty easy thing
(15:52):
for folks to answer. Again, I think he served three
years in the Marine Corps back in the eighties, So
you know that d D two fourteen should clear all
that up and put that rumor to rest. When it
comes to interviewing or talking with these governors candidates, I'm
always amazed at kind of what triggers them, what makes
(16:13):
them want to get into the race, and and you know,
all right, what was that pivotal moment. I'm not sure
that Victor was real clear on that. John greg Ginsburg
was definitely a different story. But every one of these folks,
you know, there's been something that has happened and they say, Okay,
I'm the person to fix it.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
And you know, I got to tell you.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
While some of them are a little more polished than others,
you know, we've had Barb Kirkmeyer on here. I think
she does a great job of explaining why why she
jumped into the race. You know, it is practice, it
is as you've referred to Ryan, it's it's earned media.
And man, no one should run from these interviews. If
if you're going to be a candidate, this is the
world you have to live in. You have to get
out there and tell your story. Victor likes telling his story.
(16:54):
I don't know if he necessarily likes talking about certain
aspects of his growing up, but he's obviously a public speaker,
and I think it shows when he's on the radio.
He definitely likes to to tell about.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Who he is.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
And you know, I guess there needs to be a
little bit more meat on the the why he's running
for governor. But I agree he's he's got a media
director in Roger Hudson that can probably help clear some
of that up as well. Back to the text line
or text board here, there are a lot of people saying,
all right, I wish he'd put some more meat on
the bone for what he's he'd do as a governor.
(17:26):
More precise information would be helpful as to how in
all caps he'd get things done. You know, the background
story is fine, but at some point you got to
get to the meet and this one why he didn't
tell us it was his brother in law who murdered
his sister. Well he did kind of clear that up
a little bit when we asked him about it. I
didn't ask him if it was his sister that was
(17:47):
the victim, but I think.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
It was the brother in law's girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Okay, Well, regardless, you know, he does seem willing to
do interviews, so I'm sure he'll be back on this station,
either with me or with you or with Dan at
some point. But well, crazy, crazy couple of interviews. But
we got to take a quick break here when we
come back, we'll have Weld County Commissioner Scott James on
with us to share some of the Weld County wonderness.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
You're listening to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Welcome back to the Dan Capleas Show here with Welld
County shaff Steve Raims as your guest host. We're just
wrapping up the show, but I wanted to bring on
a person who I've had the opportunity to work with
for quite some time. This is a Weld County commissioner
and we're getting him on the line right now. But
he's one of those guys that you know, when you
(18:42):
set across the table from him, you start chopping up
some ideas. It's kind of interesting where the conversation goes
sometimes because he is definitely an outside the box thinker
on some issues. And so I wanted to have him
to come on the show and talk a little bit
about the difference from Weld County and the rest of
the state. Eight And you know, I speak about it
(19:03):
all the time as a law enforcement officer, but as
a person who's kind of the law lawmaker if you will,
up in Welld County or to a degree at least
as in that county commissioner's role. Scott's got a little
bit of different perspective about how Weld County does things
different And Scott, I think you're with us on the line.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Is that correct? I'm out, No, you're with us.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
So if you if you recognize that voice, it's because
Scott James is truly one of those radio professionals that
did that did radio up in northern Colorado for a
long time. He and Sadie had a show on every
morning and had a loyal following. And then Dan made
this Scott made this crazy decision to jump into politics
(19:48):
and kind of ended the radio career. But it's come
full circle. You're on the Dan Cavlis show. How cool
is that.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
It's probably the biggest I've ever been too, Sheriff, I
appreciate that breakthrough opportunity.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
You had a great listening audience when you were doing
your show, but you got into Weld County politics. You
know what made you decide to run for county commissioner
and what is the role that you see of the
border county commissioners. That's a little different in Weld County
compared to some other places it is.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
I was obviously in Johnstown, I was on the planning
commission in that town council and a mayor, and the
opportunity arose to run for county commissioner. And I just
love the very concept of local governments that you know,
the best government's government's closest to home, and we get
the opportunity to be directly involved with their constituencies. And
at the county commissioner level, you truly have the opportunity
(20:40):
to get something done. And in Well County it's especially
different because sixty four counties in the state of Colorado,
sixty two of them are statutory ruled. Weld County is
home rule, meaning we have a home road charter that
are citizens past nineteen seventy five, that we have the
ability to do things a little bit differently. One of
the ways that we do things differ diferently as a
(21:00):
border county Commissioners is our charter actually forbids us having
a county manager. In fact, sixty three counties have a
county manager. The five of us, the five commissioners act
is as a county manager, working directly with their department
heads and other elected officials such as yourself that may
it happen around Weell County.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yeah, it is a little different environment. And that Weld
County Charter also gives you some flexibility and kind of
pushing back against the state a little bit, which we
saw during some of the oil and gas i'll say
attacks that were coming on welld County. Can you expound
on that a little bit.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Well, absolutely, we have the ability to pass ordinances and
govern ourselves when it comes to matters of what they
call local concern. Senate Bill nineteen point eighty one, which
was the means of legislation that kind of began the
tough parts for the oiler gas industry, did grant US
ten forty one authority to be able to stand up
(21:55):
our own a lot of gas energy departments. So, led
at that time by Commissioner Kurt, the Border County Commissaries
that I sat on at that time made the decision
to go ahead and open our own gas energy department.
We have our own land use process and citing the
way it was supposed to work, any unique memo developed
with at that time the COGCC, we had a membrantum
of understanding that said, hey, we'll handle the land use
(22:19):
aspect of exploration, if you guys handled the geology of
the downhole. Well, of course, we don't feel like the
now ECMCS necessarily undered their words that memorandum of understanding,
but we have the ability to do that in Weld
County and we did well.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
So taking that one step further, and you and I
have kind of tossed this back and forth, is there
a way to push back against some of the sanctuary
policies and that the state keeps pushing. I know Governor
Polo says we're not a sanctuary state, but everything he
signs into law when it has to do with immigration
seems to indicate that we're a sanctuary state. Do you
think that there's some navigable room there in the Weld
(22:56):
County Charter to maybe push back a little bit there?
Speaker 6 (23:00):
I do, Shriff, and you know I'm passionate about it.
You know that I've shared some of my what I
call brain tickles. I'd use it another analogy, but they
run broadcast. I've shared those with you and said, can
we not pass an ordinance, for example, revolving around some
of the statue that says that the people will not
cooperate with ice that law enforcement officers cannot cooperate with
(23:23):
ICE in the state of Colorado. What says that we,
as a home rule county cannot pass an ordinance saying
it's a matter of extreme local concern of public safety
that our law enforcement officials that are well county employees
be allowed to cooperate with ICE. I believe it's a
matter of extreme local concern. I believe we can codify that,
even take it to our voter, have them pass it,
(23:44):
because quite frankly, I want the law enforcement officers that
work for you, and I want I want our human
services folks and our employees being able to follow federal
statute and cooperate with ICE.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Quite right, You and me both, brother, You and me both.
And it's it's been a tough road with you know,
the previous administration and some of the stuff that came down,
and then you know, our state on top of that,
passing some just ridiculous laws that aren't in the interest
of public safety whatsoever. But here we are, and you know,
trying to figure out how to push back. It'd be
nice if we could just get some decent laws passed
(24:18):
at the state level. All that being said, you signed
up for this job. I think you're about to be
in year eight. You've done here in your second term,
you can run for one more. Do you have an
announcement you want to make.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
I appreciate you offering me the opportunity. I may be
the worst kept secret in Weald County. I am formally
announcing my candidacy for the third and final term as
County Commissioner. I have had a wonderful, wonderful opportunity to
serve the people to Weald County, first in Johnstown and
now as a county commissioner. And while I'm proud of
what we have accomplished while I've been a County commissioner,
(24:53):
I'm proud of the organ This is of the code,
and it's just the running of a good government. There's
so much more, or Steve, and so much more that
you and I have spoken of of things that need
to be done on behalf of the Weald County people.
Can we truly take our home rule Charter out for
a spin. Can we find ways that we cannot only
continue to run a good government in the state of
(25:15):
area in Weald County, but show the state of Colorado
how it's pragmatically done. I mean, no debts, no sales tax.
We run things well on fifteen point ninety five six mills.
We continue to refund money back to the taxpayer in
Weald County. Steve, I want to continue that tradition, but
I want to go ahead and push a little harder,
(25:38):
quite frankly, because as Denver continues to invade, I just
feel that that Weald County and other counties who want
to follow our lead need to find ways to push back.
And that's what I am going to continue to look
for in a third term.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Well, as you know, I've also announced a campaign to
hopefully join you on that board beginning in twenty twenty seven,
and if all things go well, hopefully we'll be in
that same fight together. But Scott, I just I appreciate
the work that you do as a Weld County Commissioner.
I know sometimes it's not always fun, you know, hearing
people complain about certain issues in the county. But you know,
(26:13):
I think for the most part, you guys are getting
things right more often than wrong, and I look forward
to hopefully working alongside you in the near future.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
Sheriff. It will be a grave loss for well, can
it lose you? Is a sheriff, but a great gain
for us to gain you as a county commissioner. I
think there's so much the beginning can be done, and
we can serve as an example for the rest of
the state how good local government is done. And I
look forward to doing it with you.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Well, I appreciate that, Scott, Thanks for coming on the show,
and welcome back to radio.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
For a short little gig there, I get.
Speaker 6 (26:45):
A little taste you can't get keep dragging me back in.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
You know, you got a website you want to throw
out there real quick so people can donate to your
third campaign.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Here it is James F.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
O R.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
James four Weld James four dot com.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
You can go there you and learn all about me.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
You can read what I write and yes, if you
want to chip a couple of bucks towards the campaign,
it would be appreciated. James four weel dot com.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Awesome, thanks for coming on with us. And with that
we'll cut to a break and we'll get to our
last and final segment. And you're listening to the Dan
Capless Show here on six thirty k how.
Speaker 7 (27:19):
And now back to the Dan Kapless Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Welcome back to the Dan Kapliss show here in the
last segment of two Hours Well Koming Shriff Steve Riems
setting in as the guest host. Fill in whatever you
want to call me today. I've been called pretty much
everything in my life at some point, so when you
work in law enforcement, you get used to all kinds
of special nicknames. But if we got time, I'd love
to take some phone calls. You can call in at
(27:43):
three oh three seven one, three eight two five five,
where you can keep sending in those text messages at
five seven seven three nine. Start your text off with
Dan And I always say, if you send them in,
I'll read them. And this one, whoever since it in,
must have a little bit of TDS. Trump just rang
the Trump derangement syndrome. Your president has turned us into
a third World country with his cruel and violent production
(28:06):
and yeah, my president, well I did vote for him,
violent abduction and treatment of immigrants. He's a lying, conning,
uh conniving piece of work. He's I'm not going to
say that we're done something to the White House to
reflect his gaudy, soulless existence, not to mention severe lack
of taste. So I don't I don't think that person
necessarily likes Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
The ballroom coming, I guess not.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I think it's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
There's a song about ballrooms. Yes, we can probably play
that at some point, maybe not today.
Speaker 8 (28:40):
They have much bigger festivities there, festivities the thing that
I'll guarantee it's gonna be awesome. It's going to be
top of the line, and the next Democrat president is
going to love having.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
It, and they're going to do all kinds of events
in there, and I hope they name it the Trump.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Ballroom, totally. Totally.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
So I think we have a caller on here. He's
one of our loyal listeners, Kevin from Boulder. Kevin, are
you on the line with us?
Speaker 4 (29:06):
I am Kevin.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
What do you have to say?
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Well, nobody ever mentioned this, but the Democrat Party has
been evil from day one. They were created to protect slavery.
They killed tens of thousands of Americans in the Civil
War attempting to protect slavery. They created the income tax,
promising it would never be any more than four percent.
(29:32):
They created the Federal Reserve, which is a private bank
that stole the gold standard out of the Constitution. In
the Bible and they constantly.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
Lie and.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Omit the truth and they're just not to be trusted.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Well, I can't argue with any of those points that
you've made there, Kevin. And you know, if you look
at kind of just the messaging around the Democrat Party
right now, especially you know, taking reference to like Charlie
Kirk and some of the vitriol that spewed from a
few of those folks in the wake of his death,
quite honestly, it was shocking.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Well, they have publicly declared that the Democrat Party is
now the new communist Socialist Marxist Party, and I heard
them declare that on Hannige or Glenn Beck.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Well, yeah, there's a lot out there. I mean, the
fact that they're associating themselves is Democrats socialists now and
not necessarily just Democrats. That says a lot to me.
But Kevin, thanks for calling in and thanks for being
a listener. I know that you're a very loyal listener
because you do text in and call in and we
greatly appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Thanks for calling in sure.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
All right, So in this last little bit here, I
just got a text coming straight into me. It says
I thought, Steve, I thought I took. I taught a
class on Saturday. This is for a conceill weapons permit.
Sent the guy in on Monday and he had his
permit all in one day. Are you guys really doing
a one day turnaround in Wild County for consial weapons
permits for renewals. Yeah, oftentimes we're turning those round in
(31:06):
one day. If it's a brand new permit, we can't
necessarily do that. It takes a little bit of time
to get things through the state. But our goal is
to have as many people who want to exercise their
Second Amendment rights out there in the public space as possible.
And if you want to have a conceal weapons permit,
I want to make sure you get that permit as
fast as you possibly can, despite what the state has
done in trying to create all kinds of barriers and
(31:28):
ridiculous restrictions on people to exercise a right that quite frankly,
you shouldn't even have to come to the sheriff to
talk about. But regardless, we live in this state and
sometimes we got to just navigate the waters. Ryan, you
got any words of wisdom to end with today? Based
on the show that we put together.
Speaker 8 (31:46):
This is a pretty interesting cast of characters that you
had coming on through the program today.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Sheriff reems, Yeah, I wasn't quite expecting things to work
out exactly how they did.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Correct.
Speaker 8 (31:57):
You got a couple candidates on for governor, including one
that people are asking a lot of questions about, and
I guess you know, when it comes to Victor Marx,
kind of like he's going to be the target because
he's the source of so much information that's out there
being circulated. And also he's raised a lot of money,
He's garnered a couple of very big endorsements, Heidie Ganall
and Representative Lauren Bobert. He's generated a lot of buzz
(32:19):
and with that comes greater scrutiny.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
I think absolutely what you did.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
Well was kind of give him a chance to respond
to whatever's out there. And I think, again, I can't
stress this strongly enough, it is very important that Victor
Marx not let whatever this is out there that he
may disagree with, hav a problem with, feels a misrepresentation.
He's got to nip that in the bud. He's got
to address it. He's got to take it head on.
He's got to get in front of it. Because you
(32:44):
let that linger, it's going to define you rather than
the other way around.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Yeah, And there's just so much out there that if
you don't unpack that and just knock it, I mean,
knock everything right into the dirt. This is going to
be the it's going to be every interview. Hey, before
we get off here, Ryan, and it's just kind of
text and Steve, I sure hope you have been interviewed
for the empty AM slot. You would be great. I
have not been interviewed for that empty AM slot, but
(33:08):
I bet Ryan has. Ryan, is there any any news
on that development?
Speaker 8 (33:13):
I will be filling in tomorrow and Wednesday here in
Denver locally on.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Six thirty K inquiring minds.
Speaker 8 (33:19):
Well, the names that are being bandied about, and it's
no mystery, no secret, okay. John Caldera did both Mondays
just today and then last Monday.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Okay.
Speaker 8 (33:28):
Deborah Flora did last Tuesday and Wednesday. Leland Conway did
last Thursday and Friday. Jimmy Sangeberger will be doing this
Thursday and Friday, and yours truly tomorrow and Wednesday, and
from that pool of candidates I think will emerge the
next morning host of six thirty k out here in Denver.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Well, that's fair.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
So no matter what, there's going to be a little
bit of a change in the in the programming because
we know that someone has to take over that former
Michael Brown time slot. But Ryan, are you a morning person?
Speaker 8 (33:56):
I am not. Not really, I can make it happen.
Am I fault by nature wired that way?
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Absolutely not. I'm a night owl, honey.
Speaker 8 (34:03):
I sleep all day long, just kidding, But I do
like waking up at noon and figure out what T
shirt I'm gonna wear, like Tenacious D style. But you know,
whatever happens. So if it's me, we'll see. That would
mean somebody would have to fill into two to four slot.
But I would say, stay tuned, you're gonna like who
they pick.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Whoever it is, all right, No, that sounds good.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Well again, thanks for tuning into the Dan Kaplis Show
and giving me a chance to steal the airwaves for
a couple of hours. It was the pleasure being with you.
Well Kenny Sheriff Steve Reims signing off,
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