April 17, 2025 • 35 mins
In the first hour of today's edition of The Dan Caplis Show, Dan reacts to the tragic shooting at Florida State University and discusses what we should do next.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Capless and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to
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single day on your favorite podcast platform. The American way is,
we protect our children. And as we sit here right
now at four h six, we know that the next
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mass shootings, the next school shootings in Colorado, are being
planned as we speak, and we hope and we pray
and we work to make sure that those monsters who
are planning the next school shootings here, that they fail,
that they're thwarted along the way. But we know that's happening,
and we know it's coming. And yet we have so many,
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so many on the left who are opposed to just
these practical, common sense efforts to protect the kids. They
would rather literally, they would rather have the kids their defenseless,
the teachers, the staff, they're defenseless when the monsters show up.
Then they would have a good guy or good gale
with a gun there to give him a fighting chance.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It's it's one of.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
The sickest, most bizarre things I've ever seen in my life.
But that's the reality on the ground in Colorado. And
you think of all those schools out there right now,
all those schools out there right now that no, they
know they have gaping holes in their security. Those schools
that don't have an armed good guy or gale, they
know for sure they are defenseless if the monster chooses
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their school. And guess what, the monsters notice that two.
Look at the pattern of the monsters. Look at where
the monsters go, and yes, sometimes they'll go to a
school with the gun there, but very very often they
know where there are no guns, and that's where they go,
or that's why they go. Three all three seven three
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seven seven three nine. Obviously, we're talking about that today
because of the latest school shooting, this at Florida State
University and two dead, five injured at this point, so
we'll weave that in and out of the show today.
But it is it's just so stunning to me that
the Left would really leave these schools unprotected and undefended.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
The other piece of it is, well.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
First of all, listen, any state, any society, any organization
of any kind that can't protect their children at that
point is fatally flawed to begin with, or won't protect
their children. But what's remarkable to me here is we've
got this sacred trust to protect the kids. Right, and
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then on top of that, the left at this point,
the modern Democratic Party totally beholden to two things. One
is abortion on demand and the other is teachers' unions.
Screw the kids, it's pleased the teachers' unions. The kids
don't have the money, the kids can't vote, the kids
don't have the boots on the ground.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
The teachers' union does.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So the attitude of the Colorado Democratic Party and the
modern Democratic Party is screw the kids, We just got
to make the teachers unions happy. But what's so remarkable
about this, this fierce opposition to doing what actually would
protect the kids in schools from these school shooters good
guy Gail with guns, is that you've got faculty in
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staff in harm's way as well, and the top priority
should be the children. And the faculty and staff would
agree with that too, Right. We've seen such heroic faculty
and staff in the face of gunfire before, such as
Dave Sanders at Columbine, the janitors at Columbine. There are
other examples out there, but yet the Democratic Party in
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Colorado would leave the faculty and staff totally defenseless as well.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
In so many of these situations.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
So well, eventually, I hope the voters at Colorado can
see that and say, no, we don't want those people
in charge. Three or three seOne three eight two five
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So not the plan topic for the show because we
were hoping there wouldn't be a school shooting today, but
all too often it turns out that way.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Lots to kick around today.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Remarkable editorial in the Denver Post, and I guess they're
one for two this week, right because they did hammer
Michael Bennett just after his announcement, which was well deserved
and very much fun for.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
The rest of us.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
They swining missed on this one, though Polue's signature can
end Colorado's two tier justice system. This is a house editorial.
Now listen, you don't have to live in Denver for
this to matter to you. In fact, this applies directly
to everybody across the state. But what it's talking about
is it's talking about the fact that because statewide that
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the Colorado Democratic Party police, etc. Has become so overtly
pro criminal and anti victim. You have all these state
laws now that are just way, way, way too soft.
So of course you have the increasing crime that comes
with that. So you have some cities and towns that
have set no, wait a second, no, we can't have this,
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we can't have all this crime. I don't care what
Jared Polish wants. I don't care what the Colorado Democrats want.
We don't want this here. We can't survive filling the
blank here. So what do they do? They go out
and they get these municipal local ordinances where they have
stiffer penalties.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
It maybe for shoplifting, it may be for other things.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And so what are the criminal loving Colorado Democrat Party
folks do? They come in and say, oh, no, you
can't have that anymore. They pass a bill that say no,
you can't have any penalties stiffer in your town, your
city or village. Then we have state wide Well think
about how wrong that is on multiple levels, right, But anyway,
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so they have passed this law. Now, my law partner,
John Kellner at our firm, who is DA in Repo, Douglas, Albert,
and Lincoln until recently wrote a great piece, a great
piece on why Polish should veto this and why this
new legislation is so wrong that was published in the gazette.
But Police has indicated that he is probably going to
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veto this bill, as as my partner John wanted him
to do. But the Denver Post is having none of that,
so they step in with this editorial today.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Listen to this.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Polus's signature can end Colorado's two tier justice system. Colorado
lawmakers have passed an end to two tier justices Colorado's
two tier justice system. Now Governor Jared Polis just needs
to sign House Bill eleven forty seven. The Denver Post
reporters highlighted the injustice of allowing municipal courts to carry
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much harsher sentences for nonviolent petty crimes than state courts.
In a series of stories last year, The Posts found
that not only were people spending months in jail for
minor retail thefts that would have resulted in only a
few days sentence in state court, but that indi gender
poor defendants weren't guaranteed access to an attorney in unicourt,
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resulting in longer sentences without any representation. House Bill eleven
forty seven would prohibit municipal courts from having harsher minimum
sentences than state courts, thus reducing the temptation for law
enforcement and prosecutors to funnel cases to municipal courts to
get harsher sentences without facing tough legal counsel. So anyway,
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that's the way that they started these Wait a second,
like these police officers and prosecutors would be diabolically tempted to, Oh,
let's be evil, let's go file this cad in case
in municipal courts so we can wrongfully punish this person
over here. No, wait a second, deadver post. These are
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the people out there putting their lives on the line
as law enforcement officers and the prosecutors who are taking
their God given skills to a prosecutor's job to serve
the public.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
And you make them out to.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Be plotting this diabolical scheme to wrongly punish people. No,
they are trying to protect the community. Jared Polis and
the Colorado Democrats are not. It's that simple.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
That's why these communities pass these laws.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
They don't want crime, they don't like crime, they don't
worship criminals. They exist for victims. So anyway, and here's
where I think that just the starting point the Post
gets it backwards. This isn't a two tiered justice system
in Colorado when municipalities can punish more severely. No, the
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problem is Colorado right now has a one tiered justice system,
and that is the one that exists in the cities
and municipalities, et cetera. The one that should exist at
the state level is being undermined and gutted all the
time by Jared Polis and the Colorado Democratic Party. So
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the one tiered justice system we have have is in
the cities and towns and villages. The one they want
to do away with is the one we have. You
can't call what we have at the state level now
a justice system, not the way that the people of
the state would want it. You have a lot of good,
hardworking people in it, but you got the politicians undermining
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the good hardworking people within that state justice system. So no,
we got a one tiered system now. It is in
the municipalities, and the Denver Post and the rest of
the Colorado Democratic Party want.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
To take that away.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
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Speaker 2 (09:37):
You're on the Dankpla Show.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast. See.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
One of the topics we're going to have on the
show today is is just the surge in Christianity in
Colorado and listen, it may very well be the same
in Judaism. It might be and other faiths as well.
You know, I happen to be Catholic, and so I
see it in the Catholic Church and you can also
see it very much on the ground and other Christian
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denominations and just want to talk about and you can
see in the numbers it's happening nationally as well. Just
what you think is behind that and how to keep
this growth going in the future. So it's just it's
a fascinating thing to see. It's a really cool thing
to see. There are some theories that it kind of
lines up with with Trump getting this second term and
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Americans just feeling freed, you know, freed from the cancel culture,
et cetera. But I can tell you anecdotally, and you
shouldn't even say anecdotally because it's all the time, just
the numbers at church and you know, depending upon we
have a home parish. But we bounce around some just
depending upon what's going on that week, maybe where I'm
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trying a case where where some family stuff's.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Happening, but it's just all over the place.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
It's not like, okay, we go to these churches and
they're jammed and then the other one's crickets. Now it's
all over the place, which makes it a little tough
if you're looking for parking.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
But yesterday I thought, okay, you know, I'll head over
hit confession on my way into work.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Et cetera.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
And I'm usually at work very very very early, but
I got my stuff done and confession starts at eight.
I walk in at eight. How many people do you
think we're in line for confession at eight in the morning?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Ran?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
How many people do you think we're in line for
confession at eight in the morning. Eleven?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
It was probably close to one hundred, oh wow, And
so it was. Then it was over a two hour
a way, which, hey, it's great, but it's remarkable. And
then you know, in the middle of that, there was
a full mass, like the normal nine o'clock mass. I
thought I'd be out of there long before the nine
o'clock mass, and the nine o'clock Mass was jammed. But
and then people say, well it's Holy week, but you
know what, let's say bless me father. I've said my
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last confession was I think three months three months ago,
but that wasn't a Holy week then. And the last
time I went, there are about one hundred people in line.
So I'm just telling you, and this is happening all
over the place, and just just as surge in Christianity,
and we may hear from our Jewish brothers and sisters,
it's the same there.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
But yeah, it is a beautiful.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Remarkable thing to behold, and it ties into something else
I want to get to, probably in the next segment.
But some polling reported on by Newsweek that that young
voters are now solidly Republican. And you talk about sea
change kind of stuff, because we talk all the time about,
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you know, voters of color, and when we start to
see the shift happen there, generally that's going to be
death for the modern Democratic Party and then the GOP
just has to deliver, right, And we're starting to see
a shift there, but a dramatic shift among young voters.
And why do you think that is? I would love
your take. D An five seven, seven, three nine. You
will be shocked to hear that. I do have a
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take of my own on that. One of the goofier
things I've ever seen in my life is how you
now have all of these prominent national Democrats, and I
put prominent in quotes, I should say more precisely, they're
well known, who are now their cause? Their cause is
this alleged MS thirteen gang member who was deported to
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El Salvador, which happens to.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Be where he's from.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
There's a question as to whether a mistake was made
procedurally and whether he should not have been deported to
El Salvador, and the administration says no, the deportation was proper, etc.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
But there's a question out there on that.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
But what's so fascinating to me is that this has
become the cause for so many Democrats. The Maryland man
Kilmarrobrego Garcia, the Maryland man got to bring him back. Well,
they don't care at all, right about the Maryland woman
just absolutely viciously murdered by somebody here illegally, not by
this particular person here illegally. But you don't hear these
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democrats stepping up and talking about.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
The Maryland woman at all. We'll hear from her mother
in a bit.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
But listen to Tim Walls now saying, wait a second,
if you're not speaking up for the Maryland man.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Well there'll be no one left.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
I have come to understand what Donald Trump, what pops
into his head and he says he's going to carry
it out. I once again, he talked about the tariffs,
he talked about you know, he's going to deport people,
and this whole thing.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
With mister So his first line of attack on Trump
is he keeps his promises.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
You're off to a good start.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Braille Garcia.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
It's that old wisdom and terrifying is if you're not
speaking up for this man, there will be no one left.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
To speak up for you. Do they have legalized marijuana
in Minnesota?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Can not sure?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Oh my lord, one of the stupidest things I've ever said,
he's ever said. And I know he's not a stupid man.
Why is he saying things like this that if we
don't speak up for this guy. Have you seen this
guy's history, If we don't speak up for him.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
There'll be nobody left to speak up for you.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Please keep saying that, Tim, if there was a fund
riding we could contribute to and be sure it wouldn't
get siphoned off by Walls for other stuff or by
the Democratic Party for other stuff. I would contribute to
a fund that guaranteed that Tim Walls keeps saying these things.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
There's Chris Krabs that they're going after for simply I
know Chris Crabs.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
He's a Republican.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
He was there to provide election security in twenty twenty.
He did it, and all he said was it was
a fair election.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
They're come, boy, I hope they keep riding this horse, right,
and he's not alone. But then let's go over to
CNN and they've got some actual polling, which I know
Walls doesn't like.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Very much because it's never very good for him.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
But CNN talks about what the people of America want
to port.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
All undocumented immigrants, voters favoring the government trying to deport
all eleven million of them. Back in twenty sixteen, just
thirty eight percent of voters wanted the government to to
try to the port all eleven million undocumented immigrants.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Compare it to where we are in twenty.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Twenty five, fifty six percent. The majority the American people
have come a long way on this issue, much closer
to Donald Trump, and I think that's a big part
of the reason why Americans are increasingly saying the country
is on the right track when it comes to immigration policy,
and why Donald Trump's not approval rating on that issue
is in the positive.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah, which really bodes quite poorly right for Michael Bennett
an Fhelwise, whoever the nominey is, we're assuming it will
be Bennett, and Nanny.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Appears to have it wired. Speaking of which, I've got
to get to this.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Great clapback from Mayor webs supporting Bennett and going after
the Denver Post and the post saying the obvious common
sense thing, no Pennant should resign his Senate seat to
run for governors. So we'll get to that clapback after
the next break. But extraordinarily vulnerable is Bennett Wiser as well,
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but Bennett Moore. So when it comes to protecting those
illegally who commit other crimes, well, Wiser's equally vulnerable on that.
But they have been so extreme on that, so extreme
on that in the past. The challenge for the GOP
nominee is going to be finding a way to let
the people of Colorado know that, right, because Bennett and Wiser,
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whoever it is, they're going to be so protected by
almost all of the Colorado press that the challenge is
going to be how do you get the truth to
enough people to be able to defeat them on election day?
That's that's going to be the big challenge. Because you've
got the truth, you've got that electoral ammal, but how
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do you get it to the people when you've got
almost all of the media determined to make sure they
don't learn the truth because they can't handle the truth?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Right?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I mean, that's that's the idea of this leftist media.
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true Ryan that Letitia James, the New York Attorney General,
maybe facing prosecution.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Herself a man? What would you call that? What would
the word for that be? Karma?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
And just tremendous? And how do you define karma? My friend?
We should get your definition of karma?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Just tremendous.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Text coming in after doctor Catherine Willer, who used to
be an abortionist, talked on the show yesterday about the
reality of abortion.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
You're on the Dan Caplis Show.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Podcast Colorado, you can clearly see it. Anybody who happens
to be Christian and you're going to your different services, etc.
Certainly within the Catholic Christian community. It is so why
do you think that's happening? And what's it going to
take for that to continue? Three or three someone three
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Speaker 2 (18:52):
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Speaker 1 (18:53):
I was telling the story of going to confession yesterday
two hour line and God loved the priest for hanging
in there.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
It's one thing.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Ryan, when I was back in the seminary, and that
was high school, four high school years, you know, you
would think about you think of what would it be
like to hear these confessions.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I wonder what you're going to hear in there.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
And it's not like you do practice confessions or anything,
but yeah, what would that be like? That would have
to be fascinating. Now I can't even talk to my
uncle about it. You know.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
I called him the other night.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
I mean I called him to congratulate him on I
think his sixty seventh year as a priest anniversary. And
he's still doing three or four messes a week, incredible
and call him in his happy anniversary one anniversary. I mean,
he'd completely forgotten, you know, because he's so busy being
a priest.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
He forgot that was his anniversary.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
But I can never even talk to him about the
confession stuff because that's so locked up, that's so sacred.
You can't even hint at what's happening there. The closest
I've ever come to any good confession stories from him,
and it's not like I.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Push for it is I called him one day.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I think about, you know, the Bears had lost a
tough game or something, and I called him one day
because he's back at you. I'll go obviously, and and
he's whispery.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I say, hey, I get you a bad time.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
He said, no, I'm just hearing a confession and I'll
get you later.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
He said, no, I just told the guy that that
it's God calling.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
So it was not quite Obviously, President Trump, you will
said that.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
You aren't worried about allies broke closer to China, so
souls from.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Terras And this week we saw Chinese president and visit
three our allies.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Should you be worried?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
No, no, nobody, nobody can compete with us, nobody name.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Why didn't we have the phone call an We're going
to be a good deal. We'll have I think we
have a I think we're going to make a very
good deal with Channa.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I think I think that you will see it will
make a very good deal with Shadow.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
And that's going to be fascinating.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
We've seen it over and over again, right like Wiley,
Coyote and Roadrunner, and that is the Democrats freak over
this right.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Uh troup.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
He's crushing the economy, disaster, everybody in breadlines. And then
Trump's going to pull this off, and then the market's
going to soar. Everything's going to be better than it
was before, right because we're going to be in a
better place after we get whatever deal he's going to get,
even if it's not a perfect deal, maybe it will
be a big, beautiful deal, but we're going to be
better off than we were before. Trump's going to emerge victorious,
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as he almost always does, and the Democrats are going
to be left even worse for it, right because right
now they are openly rooting against the success of America, right,
and so they're going to end up worse for it.
I want to get to this. This is a Mayor
Wellington Web for those new to the area. He was
mayor of Denver for a long time. And you know,
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one of my favorite Democrats. I mean, we disagree on
virtually everything in my constitutionally protected opinion. His administration came
after me and tried to personally destroy me, is the
way I look at it. When when I was pursuing
on Channel four an investigation of the Web administration at
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that time in connection with Tia.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
And but Meri.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Webb's one of my absolute favorite Democrats because you know
he he's a big time guy.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I know that I'm going to disagree on the big
issues of the day with virtually every big time Democrat.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
But give me a big time guy or.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Gale instead of these small time operators. And and look
at the small time operators we have. We used to
have big time Democrats like you know a Wellington Webb,
Gary Hart.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Minus monkey business. You know, a Tim Worth and there
are others. But these are these are big Todd Dotty Lamb.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
These are big time people who would just they'd sit
down with you, they'd talk to you, they'd look you
in the eye. They'd tell you what they believed, why
they believed it. They'd listen to what you believe and
why you believe it, and you'd have the conversation. We
got a bunch of political midgets running around.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Didn't Wellington web also have a meeting with you where
he admitted he was wrong or something about what happened
to you was.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
What a cool story?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Right? Yeah? He called me up one day and he said, hey, Dan,
let's let's meet for lunch. He said, I've just heard
about what you think happened here. And he never admitted anything.
But what he said was he said, listen, man, if
that happened way wrong, okay, and I'm very sorry that happened.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
If that happened.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
He didn't admit anything, but but you know, that's what
I'm talking about, man and up or woman and up.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Just you know. But but we got a bunch of
small timers.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Now you look at Mike Johnson, you look at Michael Bennett,
these are small time operators.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
Well the guy you just named, could you imagine Jared
Polis add to that list doing what Wellington Webb did
right there at one point in time, at one point
right yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I don't know if.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Polish changed dramatically right around COVID, But before that we
used to agree on virtually everything. But we'd have lots
of conversations on air and they were always pleasant and fun.
And and then some big switch got thrown with him.
So no that that Jared poul Us of Today, No,
could not see that. At one point in time, John
Hick and Looper, Yes, right, yeah, he came on the show.
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He used to come on the show all the time.
We'd have these great conversations everything else. And then I
ran in a charity dinner once and he just said, hey, man,
my folks tell me I have nothing to gain by
going on the show.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Well that's honest.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yeah, yeah, right right, So Hick and Looper, I don't
put in the same small timer bucket that I put
a Mike Johnston or Michael Bennett.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
You know, I still disagree with Hick and Looper.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
And all that stuff, but oh, but where are the
big timers now?
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Bennett has done a bit by his standards of a
media blitz. You know, he was on Colorado's Morning News.
Kelly's laughing. He was that's a great show. Well, no
it is, but what I'm what I'm getting at is
because now he's in a gubernatorial race.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Yeah, do you think maybe he might come on with you?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
No, because I hope he does.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
But listen, we were, you know, back when Capitalist and
Silverman was like the show, and it was the show
for a long time.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Everybody came on, right, everybody from both sides came on.
Jimmy Carter came on. Everybody came on.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
He was the place that.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Bennett never would.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
And then ever, even then, he met the guy scared
of his own shadow. You heard him on CNN when
they ask him a simple question, so are you taking
money for you're not taking money from billionaires? And you know,
you would have thought the guy had a stroke. And
then in the and he saw I don't understand your question.
I mean, no, the guy scared of his own shadow.
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And then you heard with Rob Dawson from the News
throw Oh yeah, when he and Rob is the most
you know, down the middle kind of guy you can get.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
And Rob just asked the dis questions. So here, some
people say you're not in colorado't know?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
And Bennett blows a fuse. I'm not talking about He
didn't like lose his mind or anything.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
He was agitated.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
He was, he was annoyed, Yeah, you shouldn't get annoyed
a question like that, but then annoyed to the point
he had brain gass.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
And then he.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Says, no, look to official in Colorado's but Ben state
wide more than I have.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
You know, have you ever seen Michael Bennett anywhere?
Speaker 3 (26:10):
That's a pretty good Bennett impression.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
And I don't do impressions that just naturally happened. That's
just and I cannot allow that to happen.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
Here's a big question I have, Dan, and I'm just
calling this as like a pundit, a commentator like you
and I are, because we're neutral.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
On this truly, Why hasn't Phil.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Wiser come out and just come out swinging on Bennett
holding onto his head, wants.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
The Senate seed that's lame. He wants the Senate seats blame.
And what did I tell you the day this happened?
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Now, maybe Wiser stays in the race, but but right
now I know dead people who are louder than Phil Wiser.
And you just had Michael Bennett, you know, just kick
him in the teeth, and so no, I mean, that's
what Bennett's doing. And I want to get to what
mere Webb trying to defend Bennett on. They said, but
that's what Bennett's doing, right, So he's mocking the people
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of color and saying, oh, no, no, you.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Don't really need me as a senator.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
I'm going to run for governor and I'm going to
hold onto this job and I'm going to appoint my
own successor.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
And he's saying that so that he has that.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Powerful leverage to keep everybody else, including phil Wiser, in line,
because if phil Wiser wants that Senate appointment, well, phil
Wiser better play ball. And Phil Wiser is in maybe
one of the best positions to snare that job because
he's the only big announced candidate for the governor on
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the Den side. If he gets out of the way
for Bennett right now, he has to be thinking, ah,
that gives me the inside track to get that Senate appointment.
So it's just that the most typical Washington DC elitist,
silver spoon type of move you could imagine by Bennett,
and it's working.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
It's working.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
So when we come back, I'll tell you what Webb
had to say, Merrit Webb had to say about that,
And then want to get to much more and coming
up at five.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Zero, I hope you can be here.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Then, really really important bill be in advanced by Democrats.
I'm going to praise the heck out of it in
the legislature. That would do something I've been demanding four
years be done.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
It's on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Harris absolutely should not should not run for president in
twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Now, let's let me explain what we don't need any explanation.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
The reason I wanted to play that that's chrysalizza from
the left is the fact that it's even a topic
of conversation. Right There are so many reasons that we
should all be so optimistic right now about the future.
Colorado a tougher nut to crack, but the door's open.
But nationally, oh my goodness, the fact they're even talking
about Kamala Harris as a candidate in twenty and that
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Tim Waltz is out there saying that crazy Tim Waltz
stuff right, trying to put himself in position that just
tells you everything you need to know. Whereas on the
GOP side, it is a.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Bounty of riches.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
When you talk about all of the talent that's going
to be seeking that nomination in twenty eight, it's spectacular.
And it's another reason why you know, America suffered so
much because Trump didn't get consecutive terms, and the world
suffered so much because Trump didn't get consecutive terms. So
much of this awfulness would not have happened if he had.
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But there are going to be some enormous advantages to
the split terms, including the fact obviously he's just got
his A plus game, but which doesn't mean perfect.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
It's a human condition, right. But at the same time.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
There's so much more opportunity for this GOP talent now
to emerge and to keep growing. I mean, you see
how much Marco Rubio has grown.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Jd Ants.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
You've got so many who are going to be competing
for that twenty eight nomination, and across the country you've
got you've got a lot of great young GOP talents,
So very encouraging.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Hey, speaking of.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Colorado, so we've been talking a lot about Michael Bennett,
right because one of the things that is Colorado Republicans
so hopeful now is it looks like he'll be the
dem nominee, and he obviously is not qualified for this
governor's job. He's nobody's ever done less with more than
he has in the US Senate. So there's a real
opening there, and then he botches it right out of
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the gate with this ultimate elitist power move that he's
going to keep his Senate job and then appoint his
own successor. Right even the Post had to hammer him
for that, which brings us to Meyorweb, one of my
favorite Democrats, then blasting the Post for blasting Bennett. So
it says, Ray, this is from Mayorweb. Bennett should resign
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now and has run for governor. I write in response
to the Denver Post ridiculous editorial this week calling on
Senator Michael Bennett to resign his seat to run for governor.
As I recall, the Denver Post did not call on
Governor Jared Polis to resign from the House of Representatives
when he ran for governor at the beginning of President
Donald Trump's first term, nor did the Post call on
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John Hickenlooper to resign his position as mayor when he
first ran for governor in twenty fourteen. The Post conveniently
has not called on Attorney General Phil Wiser to resign
from his office to run for governor. Either Democrats will
go to the polls in June twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Let the people decide.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
I think the mayor has some good points and some
weak points. I think the good point is when it
comes to Wiser. No, the attorney general's job. The nature
of that job is if you're running for governor, you
should resign that job because that position really needs somebody
in it full time the public safety of the people
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at Colorado. So fair point, mayor Web. Now what that
means is that they both should resign their positions. It
doesn't mean Bennett should stay in his. It means both
Bennett and Wiser should resign their positions because Bennett's is
a Senate seat, and that US Senate seat is extraordinarily
important if it's used correctly. Thank goodness, Bennett has been
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a ghost. Bennett's been a.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Zero in that seat, and then you've got, obviously Wiser.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
So both of them should be resigning their seats. The
idea that somebody should resign a congressional seat much less
important in terms of overall impact than a US Senate
seat or the AG seat in terms of not calling
on Hick and Loper to resign as mayor. I think
there was just an acknowledgment that he wasn't doing much anyway.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
You know, he'd go to some charity dinners in this
and that.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
But what's really got the Post fired up, right, Ryan,
What's really got the Post fired up, and the reason
they hammered Bennett the other day, is that Bennett is
now in the postview. And I agree Bennett is now
using using this ultimate prize of an appointment to a
US Senate seat to keep all these other Democrats in
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line to make them support him instead of Wiser, and
even run Wiser out of the race so Wiser can
gravel for the seat. That's what really has the Post
fired up, because remember Plogoyevitch went to jail overselling the
Senate seat. And I'm not saying that Bennett is committing
a crime when he holds that Senate seat up is
the ultimate prize. You know that everybody needs to chase,
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so they need to support him and get out of
the race themselves.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
I'm not saying there's anything criminal in that, but there
should be.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
And this is why the point you just made, Damn
the Denver Post is absolutely right, and Wellington Webb his
argument falls apart. This is an Apple's and oranges argument.
Whether it's a House seat, the mayor's role, the attorney general,
none of those three. Unlike if Michael Bennett is victorious
in the governor's race, he gets to appoint his successor.
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In the case of the House seat with Jared Polis,
you have to have a special election for the House
of Representatives, don't for the Senate.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
That makes it a totally different argument, right, But.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
I would say, Ryan, I do think that age job
is so important if it's done right, which which Phil
has not been doing. But if it's done right, it's
so important that, Yeah, if you're going to run for governor,
which is a full time job, right, you need to
resign that seat to go and run for governor. I
do think the Post is right about that, and you
and I obviously aligned on the idea of Wait a second,
only one of these gets to appoint.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
The successor, right, right, But that's the level.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Yeah, And I think what's ticking the Post off, and
they should be ticked, is I think the Post wants
wiser and so they can just see it. Bennett by
doing what he's doing, as wrong as it is on
every level, and as much as I think it's going
to hurt him with voters, he is, he's probably able
to force Wiser out of the race, because you say,
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I mean, does anybody get mel Cartins anymore? If so,
if somebody gets a mel Carton, can you tell me
if Phil Wiser's picture is on the side, because I
don't think he's been heard from in days now since Bennett.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Pulled this movie.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
He's probably trying to figure out if he can get
that
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Appointment from Bennett to US Senate set if Bennett becomes governor.
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we protect our children. And as we sit here right
now at four h six, we know that the next
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mass shootings, the next school shootings in Colorado, are being
planned as we speak, and we hope and we pray
and we work to make sure that those monsters who
are planning the next school shootings here, that they fail,
that they're thwarted along the way. But we know that's happening,
and we know it's coming. And yet we have so many,
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so many on the left who are opposed to just
these practical, common sense efforts to protect the kids. They
would rather literally, they would rather have the kids their defenseless,
the teachers, the staff, they're defenseless when the monsters show up.
Then they would have a good guy or good gale
with a gun there to give him a fighting chance.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It's it's one of.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
The sickest, most bizarre things I've ever seen in my life.
But that's the reality on the ground in Colorado. And
you think of all those schools out there right now,
all those schools out there right now that no, they
know they have gaping holes in their security. Those schools
that don't have an armed good guy or gale, they
know for sure they are defenseless if the monster chooses
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their school. And guess what, the monsters notice that two.
Look at the pattern of the monsters. Look at where
the monsters go, and yes, sometimes they'll go to a
school with the gun there, but very very often they
know where there are no guns, and that's where they go,
or that's why they go. Three all three seven three
eight two five five. The number takes da N five
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seven seven three nine. Obviously, we're talking about that today
because of the latest school shooting, this at Florida State
University and two dead, five injured at this point, so
we'll weave that in and out of the show today.
But it is it's just so stunning to me that
the Left would really leave these schools unprotected and undefended.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
The other piece of it is, well.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
First of all, listen, any state, any society, any organization
of any kind that can't protect their children at that
point is fatally flawed to begin with, or won't protect
their children. But what's remarkable to me here is we've
got this sacred trust to protect the kids. Right, and
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then on top of that, the left at this point,
the modern Democratic Party totally beholden to two things. One
is abortion on demand and the other is teachers' unions.
Screw the kids, it's pleased the teachers' unions. The kids
don't have the money, the kids can't vote, the kids
don't have the boots on the ground.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
The teachers' union does.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So the attitude of the Colorado Democratic Party and the
modern Democratic Party is screw the kids, We just got
to make the teachers unions happy. But what's so remarkable
about this, this fierce opposition to doing what actually would
protect the kids in schools from these school shooters good
guy Gail with guns, is that you've got faculty in
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staff in harm's way as well, and the top priority
should be the children. And the faculty and staff would
agree with that too, Right. We've seen such heroic faculty
and staff in the face of gunfire before, such as
Dave Sanders at Columbine, the janitors at Columbine. There are
other examples out there, but yet the Democratic Party in
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Colorado would leave the faculty and staff totally defenseless as well.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
In so many of these situations.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
So well, eventually, I hope the voters at Colorado can
see that and say, no, we don't want those people
in charge. Three or three seOne three eight two five
five takes d a n five seven seven three nights.
So not the plan topic for the show because we
were hoping there wouldn't be a school shooting today, but
all too often it turns out that way.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Lots to kick around today.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Remarkable editorial in the Denver Post, and I guess they're
one for two this week, right because they did hammer
Michael Bennett just after his announcement, which was well deserved
and very much fun for.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
The rest of us.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
They swining missed on this one, though Polue's signature can
end Colorado's two tier justice system. This is a house editorial.
Now listen, you don't have to live in Denver for
this to matter to you. In fact, this applies directly
to everybody across the state. But what it's talking about
is it's talking about the fact that because statewide that
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the Colorado Democratic Party police, etc. Has become so overtly
pro criminal and anti victim. You have all these state
laws now that are just way, way, way too soft.
So of course you have the increasing crime that comes
with that. So you have some cities and towns that
have set no, wait a second, no, we can't have this,
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we can't have all this crime. I don't care what
Jared Polish wants. I don't care what the Colorado Democrats want.
We don't want this here. We can't survive filling the
blank here. So what do they do? They go out
and they get these municipal local ordinances where they have
stiffer penalties.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
It maybe for shoplifting, it may be for other things.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And so what are the criminal loving Colorado Democrat Party
folks do? They come in and say, oh, no, you
can't have that anymore. They pass a bill that say no,
you can't have any penalties stiffer in your town, your
city or village. Then we have state wide Well think
about how wrong that is on multiple levels, right, But anyway,
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so they have passed this law. Now, my law partner,
John Kellner at our firm, who is DA in Repo, Douglas, Albert,
and Lincoln until recently wrote a great piece, a great
piece on why Polish should veto this and why this
new legislation is so wrong that was published in the gazette.
But Police has indicated that he is probably going to
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veto this bill, as as my partner John wanted him
to do. But the Denver Post is having none of that,
so they step in with this editorial today.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Listen to this.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Polus's signature can end Colorado's two tier justice system. Colorado
lawmakers have passed an end to two tier justices Colorado's
two tier justice system. Now Governor Jared Polis just needs
to sign House Bill eleven forty seven. The Denver Post
reporters highlighted the injustice of allowing municipal courts to carry
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much harsher sentences for nonviolent petty crimes than state courts.
In a series of stories last year, The Posts found
that not only were people spending months in jail for
minor retail thefts that would have resulted in only a
few days sentence in state court, but that indi gender
poor defendants weren't guaranteed access to an attorney in unicourt,
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resulting in longer sentences without any representation. House Bill eleven
forty seven would prohibit municipal courts from having harsher minimum
sentences than state courts, thus reducing the temptation for law
enforcement and prosecutors to funnel cases to municipal courts to
get harsher sentences without facing tough legal counsel. So anyway,
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that's the way that they started these Wait a second,
like these police officers and prosecutors would be diabolically tempted to, Oh,
let's be evil, let's go file this cad in case
in municipal courts so we can wrongfully punish this person
over here. No, wait a second, deadver post. These are
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the people out there putting their lives on the line
as law enforcement officers and the prosecutors who are taking
their God given skills to a prosecutor's job to serve
the public.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
And you make them out to.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Be plotting this diabolical scheme to wrongly punish people. No,
they are trying to protect the community. Jared Polis and
the Colorado Democrats are not. It's that simple.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
That's why these communities pass these laws.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
They don't want crime, they don't like crime, they don't
worship criminals. They exist for victims. So anyway, and here's
where I think that just the starting point the Post
gets it backwards. This isn't a two tiered justice system
in Colorado when municipalities can punish more severely. No, the
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problem is Colorado right now has a one tiered justice system,
and that is the one that exists in the cities
and municipalities, et cetera. The one that should exist at
the state level is being undermined and gutted all the
time by Jared Polis and the Colorado Democratic Party. So
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the one tiered justice system we have have is in
the cities and towns and villages. The one they want
to do away with is the one we have. You
can't call what we have at the state level now
a justice system, not the way that the people of
the state would want it. You have a lot of good,
hardworking people in it, but you got the politicians undermining
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the good hardworking people within that state justice system. So no,
we got a one tiered system now. It is in
the municipalities, and the Denver Post and the rest of
the Colorado Democratic Party want.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
To take that away.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
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Speaker 2 (09:37):
You're on the Dankpla Show.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast. See.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
One of the topics we're going to have on the
show today is is just the surge in Christianity in
Colorado and listen, it may very well be the same
in Judaism. It might be and other faiths as well.
You know, I happen to be Catholic, and so I
see it in the Catholic Church and you can also
see it very much on the ground and other Christian
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denominations and just want to talk about and you can
see in the numbers it's happening nationally as well. Just
what you think is behind that and how to keep
this growth going in the future. So it's just it's
a fascinating thing to see. It's a really cool thing
to see. There are some theories that it kind of
lines up with with Trump getting this second term and
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Americans just feeling freed, you know, freed from the cancel culture,
et cetera. But I can tell you anecdotally, and you
shouldn't even say anecdotally because it's all the time, just
the numbers at church and you know, depending upon we
have a home parish. But we bounce around some just
depending upon what's going on that week, maybe where I'm
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trying a case where where some family stuff's.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Happening, but it's just all over the place.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
It's not like, okay, we go to these churches and
they're jammed and then the other one's crickets. Now it's
all over the place, which makes it a little tough
if you're looking for parking.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
But yesterday I thought, okay, you know, I'll head over
hit confession on my way into work.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Et cetera.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
And I'm usually at work very very very early, but
I got my stuff done and confession starts at eight.
I walk in at eight. How many people do you
think we're in line for confession at eight in the morning?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Ran?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
How many people do you think we're in line for
confession at eight in the morning. Eleven?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
It was probably close to one hundred, oh wow, And
so it was. Then it was over a two hour
a way, which, hey, it's great, but it's remarkable. And
then you know, in the middle of that, there was
a full mass, like the normal nine o'clock mass. I
thought I'd be out of there long before the nine
o'clock mass, and the nine o'clock Mass was jammed. But
and then people say, well it's Holy week, but you
know what, let's say bless me father. I've said my
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last confession was I think three months three months ago,
but that wasn't a Holy week then. And the last
time I went, there are about one hundred people in line.
So I'm just telling you, and this is happening all
over the place, and just just as surge in Christianity,
and we may hear from our Jewish brothers and sisters,
it's the same there.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
But yeah, it is a beautiful.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Remarkable thing to behold, and it ties into something else
I want to get to, probably in the next segment.
But some polling reported on by Newsweek that that young
voters are now solidly Republican. And you talk about sea
change kind of stuff, because we talk all the time about,
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you know, voters of color, and when we start to
see the shift happen there, generally that's going to be
death for the modern Democratic Party and then the GOP
just has to deliver, right, And we're starting to see
a shift there, but a dramatic shift among young voters.
And why do you think that is? I would love
your take. D An five seven, seven, three nine. You
will be shocked to hear that. I do have a
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take of my own on that. One of the goofier
things I've ever seen in my life is how you
now have all of these prominent national Democrats, and I
put prominent in quotes, I should say more precisely, they're
well known, who are now their cause? Their cause is
this alleged MS thirteen gang member who was deported to
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El Salvador, which happens to.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Be where he's from.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
There's a question as to whether a mistake was made
procedurally and whether he should not have been deported to
El Salvador, and the administration says no, the deportation was proper, etc.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
But there's a question out there on that.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
But what's so fascinating to me is that this has
become the cause for so many Democrats. The Maryland man
Kilmarrobrego Garcia, the Maryland man got to bring him back. Well,
they don't care at all, right about the Maryland woman
just absolutely viciously murdered by somebody here illegally, not by
this particular person here illegally. But you don't hear these
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democrats stepping up and talking about.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
The Maryland woman at all. We'll hear from her mother
in a bit.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
But listen to Tim Walls now saying, wait a second,
if you're not speaking up for the Maryland man.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Well there'll be no one left.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
I have come to understand what Donald Trump, what pops
into his head and he says he's going to carry
it out. I once again, he talked about the tariffs,
he talked about you know, he's going to deport people,
and this whole thing.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
With mister So his first line of attack on Trump
is he keeps his promises.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
You're off to a good start.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Braille Garcia.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
It's that old wisdom and terrifying is if you're not
speaking up for this man, there will be no one left.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
To speak up for you. Do they have legalized marijuana
in Minnesota?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Can not sure?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Oh my lord, one of the stupidest things I've ever said,
he's ever said. And I know he's not a stupid man.
Why is he saying things like this that if we
don't speak up for this guy. Have you seen this
guy's history, If we don't speak up for him.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
There'll be nobody left to speak up for you.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Please keep saying that, Tim, if there was a fund
riding we could contribute to and be sure it wouldn't
get siphoned off by Walls for other stuff or by
the Democratic Party for other stuff. I would contribute to
a fund that guaranteed that Tim Walls keeps saying these things.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
There's Chris Krabs that they're going after for simply I
know Chris Crabs.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
He's a Republican.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
He was there to provide election security in twenty twenty.
He did it, and all he said was it was
a fair election.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
They're come, boy, I hope they keep riding this horse, right,
and he's not alone. But then let's go over to
CNN and they've got some actual polling, which I know
Walls doesn't like.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Very much because it's never very good for him.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
But CNN talks about what the people of America want
to port.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
All undocumented immigrants, voters favoring the government trying to deport
all eleven million of them. Back in twenty sixteen, just
thirty eight percent of voters wanted the government to to
try to the port all eleven million undocumented immigrants.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Compare it to where we are in twenty.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Twenty five, fifty six percent. The majority the American people
have come a long way on this issue, much closer
to Donald Trump, and I think that's a big part
of the reason why Americans are increasingly saying the country
is on the right track when it comes to immigration policy,
and why Donald Trump's not approval rating on that issue
is in the positive.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah, which really bodes quite poorly right for Michael Bennett
an Fhelwise, whoever the nominey is, we're assuming it will
be Bennett, and Nanny.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Appears to have it wired. Speaking of which, I've got
to get to this.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Great clapback from Mayor webs supporting Bennett and going after
the Denver Post and the post saying the obvious common
sense thing, no Pennant should resign his Senate seat to
run for governors. So we'll get to that clapback after
the next break. But extraordinarily vulnerable is Bennett Wiser as well,
(16:56):
but Bennett Moore. So when it comes to protecting those
illegally who commit other crimes, well, Wiser's equally vulnerable on that.
But they have been so extreme on that, so extreme
on that in the past. The challenge for the GOP
nominee is going to be finding a way to let
the people of Colorado know that, right, because Bennett and Wiser,
(17:18):
whoever it is, they're going to be so protected by
almost all of the Colorado press that the challenge is
going to be how do you get the truth to
enough people to be able to defeat them on election day?
That's that's going to be the big challenge. Because you've
got the truth, you've got that electoral ammal, but how
(17:39):
do you get it to the people when you've got
almost all of the media determined to make sure they
don't learn the truth because they can't handle the truth?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Right?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I mean, that's that's the idea of this leftist media.
Three or three someone three eight two five five text
d A N five seven seven three nine. Is it
true Ryan that Letitia James, the New York Attorney General,
maybe facing prosecution.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Herself a man? What would you call that? What would
the word for that be? Karma?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
And just tremendous? And how do you define karma? My friend?
We should get your definition of karma?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Just tremendous.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Text coming in after doctor Catherine Willer, who used to
be an abortionist, talked on the show yesterday about the
reality of abortion.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
You're on the Dan Caplis Show.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Podcast Colorado, you can clearly see it. Anybody who happens
to be Christian and you're going to your different services, etc.
Certainly within the Catholic Christian community. It is so why
do you think that's happening? And what's it going to
take for that to continue? Three or three someone three
eight two five five of the number text d A
N five seven.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Seven three nine.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
I was telling the story of going to confession yesterday
two hour line and God loved the priest for hanging
in there.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
It's one thing.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Ryan, when I was back in the seminary, and that
was high school, four high school years, you know, you
would think about you think of what would it be
like to hear these confessions.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I wonder what you're going to hear in there.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
And it's not like you do practice confessions or anything,
but yeah, what would that be like? That would have
to be fascinating. Now I can't even talk to my
uncle about it. You know.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
I called him the other night.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
I mean I called him to congratulate him on I
think his sixty seventh year as a priest anniversary. And
he's still doing three or four messes a week, incredible
and call him in his happy anniversary one anniversary. I mean,
he'd completely forgotten, you know, because he's so busy being
a priest.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
He forgot that was his anniversary.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
But I can never even talk to him about the
confession stuff because that's so locked up, that's so sacred.
You can't even hint at what's happening there. The closest
I've ever come to any good confession stories from him,
and it's not like I.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Push for it is I called him one day.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I think about, you know, the Bears had lost a
tough game or something, and I called him one day
because he's back at you. I'll go obviously, and and
he's whispery.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I say, hey, I get you a bad time.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
He said, no, I'm just hearing a confession and I'll
get you later.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
He said, no, I just told the guy that that
it's God calling.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
So it was not quite Obviously, President Trump, you will
said that.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
You aren't worried about allies broke closer to China, so
souls from.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Terras And this week we saw Chinese president and visit
three our allies.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Should you be worried?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
No, no, nobody, nobody can compete with us, nobody name.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Why didn't we have the phone call an We're going
to be a good deal. We'll have I think we
have a I think we're going to make a very
good deal with Channa.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I think I think that you will see it will
make a very good deal with Shadow.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
And that's going to be fascinating.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
We've seen it over and over again, right like Wiley,
Coyote and Roadrunner, and that is the Democrats freak over
this right.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Uh troup.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
He's crushing the economy, disaster, everybody in breadlines. And then
Trump's going to pull this off, and then the market's
going to soar. Everything's going to be better than it
was before, right because we're going to be in a
better place after we get whatever deal he's going to get,
even if it's not a perfect deal, maybe it will
be a big, beautiful deal, but we're going to be
better off than we were before. Trump's going to emerge victorious,
(21:24):
as he almost always does, and the Democrats are going
to be left even worse for it, right because right
now they are openly rooting against the success of America, right,
and so they're going to end up worse for it.
I want to get to this. This is a Mayor
Wellington Web for those new to the area. He was
mayor of Denver for a long time. And you know,
(21:47):
one of my favorite Democrats. I mean, we disagree on
virtually everything in my constitutionally protected opinion. His administration came
after me and tried to personally destroy me, is the
way I look at it. When when I was pursuing
on Channel four an investigation of the Web administration at
(22:07):
that time in connection with Tia.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
And but Meri.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Webb's one of my absolute favorite Democrats because you know
he he's a big time guy.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I know that I'm going to disagree on the big
issues of the day with virtually every big time Democrat.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
But give me a big time guy or.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Gale instead of these small time operators. And and look
at the small time operators we have. We used to
have big time Democrats like you know a Wellington Webb,
Gary Hart.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Minus monkey business. You know, a Tim Worth and there
are others. But these are these are big Todd Dotty Lamb.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
These are big time people who would just they'd sit
down with you, they'd talk to you, they'd look you
in the eye. They'd tell you what they believed, why
they believed it. They'd listen to what you believe and
why you believe it, and you'd have the conversation. We
got a bunch of political midgets running around.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Didn't Wellington web also have a meeting with you where
he admitted he was wrong or something about what happened
to you was.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
What a cool story?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Right? Yeah? He called me up one day and he said, hey, Dan,
let's let's meet for lunch. He said, I've just heard
about what you think happened here. And he never admitted anything.
But what he said was he said, listen, man, if
that happened way wrong, okay, and I'm very sorry that happened.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
If that happened.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
He didn't admit anything, but but you know, that's what
I'm talking about, man and up or woman and up.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Just you know. But but we got a bunch of
small timers.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Now you look at Mike Johnson, you look at Michael Bennett,
these are small time operators.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
Well the guy you just named, could you imagine Jared
Polis add to that list doing what Wellington Webb did
right there at one point in time, at one point
right yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I don't know if.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Polish changed dramatically right around COVID, But before that we
used to agree on virtually everything. But we'd have lots
of conversations on air and they were always pleasant and fun.
And and then some big switch got thrown with him.
So no that that Jared poul Us of Today, No,
could not see that. At one point in time, John
Hick and Looper, Yes, right, yeah, he came on the show.
(24:17):
He used to come on the show all the time.
We'd have these great conversations everything else. And then I
ran in a charity dinner once and he just said, hey, man,
my folks tell me I have nothing to gain by
going on the show.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Well that's honest.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yeah, yeah, right right, So Hick and Looper, I don't
put in the same small timer bucket that I put
a Mike Johnston or Michael Bennett.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
You know, I still disagree with Hick and Looper.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
And all that stuff, but oh, but where are the
big timers now?
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Bennett has done a bit by his standards of a
media blitz. You know, he was on Colorado's Morning News.
Kelly's laughing. He was that's a great show. Well, no
it is, but what I'm what I'm getting at is
because now he's in a gubernatorial race.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Yeah, do you think maybe he might come on with you?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
No, because I hope he does.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
But listen, we were, you know, back when Capitalist and
Silverman was like the show, and it was the show
for a long time.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Everybody came on, right, everybody from both sides came on.
Jimmy Carter came on. Everybody came on.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
He was the place that.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Bennett never would.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
And then ever, even then, he met the guy scared
of his own shadow. You heard him on CNN when
they ask him a simple question, so are you taking
money for you're not taking money from billionaires? And you know,
you would have thought the guy had a stroke. And
then in the and he saw I don't understand your question.
I mean, no, the guy scared of his own shadow.
(25:38):
And then you heard with Rob Dawson from the News
throw Oh yeah, when he and Rob is the most
you know, down the middle kind of guy you can get.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
And Rob just asked the dis questions. So here, some
people say you're not in colorado't know?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
And Bennett blows a fuse. I'm not talking about He
didn't like lose his mind or anything.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
He was agitated.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
He was, he was annoyed, Yeah, you shouldn't get annoyed
a question like that, but then annoyed to the point
he had brain gass.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
And then he.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Says, no, look to official in Colorado's but Ben state
wide more than I have.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
You know, have you ever seen Michael Bennett anywhere?
Speaker 3 (26:10):
That's a pretty good Bennett impression.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
And I don't do impressions that just naturally happened. That's
just and I cannot allow that to happen.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
Here's a big question I have, Dan, and I'm just
calling this as like a pundit, a commentator like you
and I are, because we're neutral.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
On this truly, Why hasn't Phil.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Wiser come out and just come out swinging on Bennett
holding onto his head, wants.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
The Senate seed that's lame. He wants the Senate seats blame.
And what did I tell you the day this happened?
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Now, maybe Wiser stays in the race, but but right
now I know dead people who are louder than Phil Wiser.
And you just had Michael Bennett, you know, just kick
him in the teeth, and so no, I mean, that's
what Bennett's doing. And I want to get to what
mere Webb trying to defend Bennett on. They said, but
that's what Bennett's doing, right, So he's mocking the people
(26:59):
of color and saying, oh, no, no, you.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Don't really need me as a senator.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
I'm going to run for governor and I'm going to
hold onto this job and I'm going to appoint my
own successor.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
And he's saying that so that he has that.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Powerful leverage to keep everybody else, including phil Wiser, in line,
because if phil Wiser wants that Senate appointment, well, phil
Wiser better play ball. And Phil Wiser is in maybe
one of the best positions to snare that job because
he's the only big announced candidate for the governor on
(27:31):
the Den side. If he gets out of the way
for Bennett right now, he has to be thinking, ah,
that gives me the inside track to get that Senate appointment.
So it's just that the most typical Washington DC elitist,
silver spoon type of move you could imagine by Bennett,
and it's working.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
It's working.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
So when we come back, I'll tell you what Webb
had to say, Merrit Webb had to say about that,
And then want to get to much more and coming
up at five.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Zero, I hope you can be here.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Then, really really important bill be in advanced by Democrats.
I'm going to praise the heck out of it in
the legislature. That would do something I've been demanding four
years be done.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
It's on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Harris absolutely should not should not run for president in
twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Now, let's let me explain what we don't need any explanation.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
The reason I wanted to play that that's chrysalizza from
the left is the fact that it's even a topic
of conversation. Right There are so many reasons that we
should all be so optimistic right now about the future.
Colorado a tougher nut to crack, but the door's open.
But nationally, oh my goodness, the fact they're even talking
about Kamala Harris as a candidate in twenty and that
(29:00):
Tim Waltz is out there saying that crazy Tim Waltz
stuff right, trying to put himself in position that just
tells you everything you need to know. Whereas on the
GOP side, it is a.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Bounty of riches.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
When you talk about all of the talent that's going
to be seeking that nomination in twenty eight, it's spectacular.
And it's another reason why you know, America suffered so
much because Trump didn't get consecutive terms, and the world
suffered so much because Trump didn't get consecutive terms. So
much of this awfulness would not have happened if he had.
(29:34):
But there are going to be some enormous advantages to
the split terms, including the fact obviously he's just got
his A plus game, but which doesn't mean perfect.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
It's a human condition, right. But at the same time.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
There's so much more opportunity for this GOP talent now
to emerge and to keep growing. I mean, you see
how much Marco Rubio has grown.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Jd Ants.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
You've got so many who are going to be competing
for that twenty eight nomination, and across the country you've
got you've got a lot of great young GOP talents,
So very encouraging.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Hey, speaking of.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Colorado, so we've been talking a lot about Michael Bennett,
right because one of the things that is Colorado Republicans
so hopeful now is it looks like he'll be the
dem nominee, and he obviously is not qualified for this
governor's job. He's nobody's ever done less with more than
he has in the US Senate. So there's a real
opening there, and then he botches it right out of
(30:36):
the gate with this ultimate elitist power move that he's
going to keep his Senate job and then appoint his
own successor. Right even the Post had to hammer him
for that, which brings us to Meyorweb, one of my
favorite Democrats, then blasting the Post for blasting Bennett. So
it says, Ray, this is from Mayorweb. Bennett should resign
(30:58):
now and has run for governor. I write in response
to the Denver Post ridiculous editorial this week calling on
Senator Michael Bennett to resign his seat to run for governor.
As I recall, the Denver Post did not call on
Governor Jared Polis to resign from the House of Representatives
when he ran for governor at the beginning of President
Donald Trump's first term, nor did the Post call on
(31:20):
John Hickenlooper to resign his position as mayor when he
first ran for governor in twenty fourteen. The Post conveniently
has not called on Attorney General Phil Wiser to resign
from his office to run for governor. Either Democrats will
go to the polls in June twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Let the people decide.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
I think the mayor has some good points and some
weak points. I think the good point is when it
comes to Wiser. No, the attorney general's job. The nature
of that job is if you're running for governor, you
should resign that job because that position really needs somebody
in it full time the public safety of the people
(32:01):
at Colorado. So fair point, mayor Web. Now what that
means is that they both should resign their positions. It
doesn't mean Bennett should stay in his. It means both
Bennett and Wiser should resign their positions because Bennett's is
a Senate seat, and that US Senate seat is extraordinarily
important if it's used correctly. Thank goodness, Bennett has been
(32:24):
a ghost. Bennett's been a.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Zero in that seat, and then you've got, obviously Wiser.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
So both of them should be resigning their seats. The
idea that somebody should resign a congressional seat much less
important in terms of overall impact than a US Senate
seat or the AG seat in terms of not calling
on Hick and Loper to resign as mayor. I think
there was just an acknowledgment that he wasn't doing much anyway.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
You know, he'd go to some charity dinners in this
and that.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
But what's really got the Post fired up, right, Ryan,
What's really got the Post fired up, and the reason
they hammered Bennett the other day, is that Bennett is
now in the postview. And I agree Bennett is now
using using this ultimate prize of an appointment to a
US Senate seat to keep all these other Democrats in
(33:15):
line to make them support him instead of Wiser, and
even run Wiser out of the race so Wiser can
gravel for the seat. That's what really has the Post
fired up, because remember Plogoyevitch went to jail overselling the
Senate seat. And I'm not saying that Bennett is committing
a crime when he holds that Senate seat up is
the ultimate prize. You know that everybody needs to chase,
(33:37):
so they need to support him and get out of
the race themselves.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
I'm not saying there's anything criminal in that, but there
should be.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
And this is why the point you just made, Damn
the Denver Post is absolutely right, and Wellington Webb his
argument falls apart. This is an Apple's and oranges argument.
Whether it's a House seat, the mayor's role, the attorney general,
none of those three. Unlike if Michael Bennett is victorious
in the governor's race, he gets to appoint his successor.
(34:07):
In the case of the House seat with Jared Polis,
you have to have a special election for the House
of Representatives, don't for the Senate.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
That makes it a totally different argument, right, But.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
I would say, Ryan, I do think that age job
is so important if it's done right, which which Phil
has not been doing. But if it's done right, it's
so important that, Yeah, if you're going to run for governor,
which is a full time job, right, you need to
resign that seat to go and run for governor. I
do think the Post is right about that, and you
and I obviously aligned on the idea of Wait a second,
only one of these gets to appoint.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
The successor, right, right, But that's the level.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Yeah, And I think what's ticking the Post off, and
they should be ticked, is I think the Post wants
wiser and so they can just see it. Bennett by
doing what he's doing, as wrong as it is on
every level, and as much as I think it's going
to hurt him with voters, he is, he's probably able
to force Wiser out of the race, because you say,
(35:00):
I mean, does anybody get mel Cartins anymore? If so,
if somebody gets a mel Carton, can you tell me
if Phil Wiser's picture is on the side, because I
don't think he's been heard from in days now since Bennett.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Pulled this movie.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
He's probably trying to figure out if he can get
that
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Appointment from Bennett to US Senate set if Bennett becomes governor.
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