November 6, 2025 • 34 mins
Two members of Congress - Reps. Lauren Boebert (R, CO-4) and Gabe Evans (R, CO-8) - join Weld County Sheriff Steve Reams, filling in for Dan, to discuss the ongoing government shutdown and their endorsements for Colorado governor.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome to The Dan Caplis Show with Wellcunny Sheriff Steve
Reims as your guest host. Today, Dan's out playing hookey.
Maybe he's going to the Broncos game. I'm not exactly
sure what he's got planned. I didn't ask. It doesn't matter.
You got me tonight, and we've been talking about Governor's
candidates and why it's so important to vet those candidates
and figure out what they stand for, why they can
be a good representation of the Republican Party for the
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state of Colorado, and you know, maybe thin the herd
down from the nineteen candidates that we have. Before we
went to break, I referenced to a former Governor's candidate
primary winner by the name of Dan Mays that again,
twenty ten, I was just kind of starting to get
really active in Republican politics. I'd always paid attention, voted,
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but not necessar fairly got out and you know, got
my hands dirty in the races. But in that particular timeframe,
it was the Tea Party movement, and you know, it
just seemed like it was time for a change, and
everybody was pretty excited about what the Republican Party could
offer at that given time. You know, again, there was
some grassroots takeover and I was a grassroots guy, so
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why not get involved? And Dan Mays was constantly up
in Weld County, coming to different events, and it was
pretty easy to, you know, to try to figure out
what's this guy all about. And I got to tell you,
as a person in law enforcement, I had a bad
vibe from him a little early on because he was
introduced to me as someone who had had prior law
enforcement experience, and when I went to ask him what
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that was, he immediately said, well, I can't really talk
about it. And I thought, well, that's that's just odd.
That's not a typical answer for someone who's been in
the type of law enforcement he was reported to have
been in. So when things started coming off the rails,
to say I was surprised would be actually I wasn't.
I was angry, but I wasn't necessarily surprised. So here.
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In a second, we're going to play a little bit
of audio from Dan Mays just to get people back
in the spirit of twenty ten and why it's so
important to why it's so important to vet these candidates.
But before I do that, I'm going to go through
the quick rundown of all the names that are in
the race, just so you can hear them. Nineteen names
in alphabetical order by last name up until the last
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five that have entered in We have Mark Baisley, Scott Bottoms,
Jason Clark, Bryce and Garrison, Stephen Guess, John Gray, Ginsburg,
Joshua Griffin, Greg Lopez, William McBride, Jason Mike Sel, Robert Moore,
Alexander Alexander Move got to Jim Runberg, Daniel Thomas. Then
the last five that have entered Bob brinker Hoff, John Brooks,
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Barb Kirkmeyer, who we heard from tonight, Victor Marx and
Maria ORMs. So we've got a full house. Oh and
then I guess, did I get Kelvin Wimberley on here?
I think I missed him.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Would that be twenty?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
That's twenty really twenty candidates? Wow?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Who knew?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
So I think Maria ORMs is the last one that
entered the race from what I can tell, But how
did I miss Kelvin? I'll add him to the list. So, yeah,
twenty candidates. What could possibly go wrong if we don't
figure out how we can narrow this thing down? And
I know there's a natural process for doing so. We
have an assembly, we have caucuses or caucuses, then an assembly,
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all that stuff to narrow down through the formal process.
You know, candidates can petition on but at the end
of the day, it comes down to the voters saying
these are the candidates we want to represent our party.
And just to make sure we're all invested in that process.
For any of you that weren't involved in Colorado politics
in twenty ten, we're going to give you a little
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bit of flashback. Here's a video that Dan May's put out,
and we've got a broken into segments so we can
kind of comment about each one. But here's segment number one,
clip ten. Ryan.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Hi, I'm Dan Mays and I'm running for governor of Colorado.
This is my first video on my website, So it's
going to be casual, no scripts, no teleprompters, no fancy production.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Crews.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
It's just the two of us, all of us talking
together casually. I'm doing this from my home in Evergreen.
You know, like so many of you out there, I
had a dream of moving to the state of Colorado
one day before that. I'll tell you that I was
raised in a little rural town in northern Wisconsin called
grib Lake. It was a small town where there weren't
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a lot of opportunities, but hard work was kind of
the norm of the day. Nothing was glamorous, but it
was a wonderful life and a beautiful place.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
So that's the first little clip there. And you know
I'm triggering people here that are listening to the show
that the Dan Mays texts are starting to roll in. Really,
you know, anybody who was around in politics during that time,
it's tough. It's tough to hear his voice. Ryan, you
weren't here in twenty ten. No, what do you gather
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from that a little bit of video?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
In some ways I get more of the thirty thousand
foot view having not been involved in Colorado politics at
that time. But my initial reaction when you sent me
this video to cut was what is it about this
guy that appealed so much to Republican voters in this
state at that time. And he reminded me, as I
told you of mister Rogers on lithium.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
That's a very good descriptor. And I think, you know,
if I can speak for the voters, I can speak
for I think what some of the people around the
Dan Mace camp were enamored with is Dan was purported
to be a business guy. He had saved a lot
of businesses. This is all self reported work. He had
started up a couple of his own businesses, and he
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was just being taken it in face value. He also
had a law enforcement background, so he had some of
that criminal justice piece that you know, people just love.
And you know, it didn't hurt that. You know, people
were looking for a change, they were looking for someone
to represent the Republican party. And we're even getting callers
in here. I think we got Eric from Denver. Eric,
what do you have to say about good old Dan
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Mays our twenty ten candidate?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Eric?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Ahead?
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 7 (06:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Go ahead, Yeah, I'm just curious. Okay. As a police officer,
one of the things that you're prone to is a
negative perception of most people, or you end up dead.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Would you agree, So there's some of that. Yeah, you
always have to be a little bit of a skeptic. Yeah,
I would go there, sorry about that?
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Would it be fair? Would it also be fair to say,
and I don't know this, how many times did you
have a.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Chance to interact with d oh gosh?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Probably before before I got a chance to really form
an opinion, I mean probably six or seven with that actual.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
So my reason for asking is I worked with him
side by side over five years. I was actually a
youth pastor where he volunteered at a church and was
in Bible study with him for those same years. And
so the characterization that was put out there by so
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many of these people that and I went to to
toe with John Caldera and Brownie about this as well.
Sure he wasn't part of the Colorado GOP. The Colorado GOP,
as John Caldera went over and over again, knows how
to steal victory. So that was stell defeat.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
From the jobs of victory. Yeah, I've heard it many times.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Yes, And and they they took a candidate that drove
all over the state to your point, from Evergreen the
Valt County on a very regular basis all the other
counties he won, you know, the do you remember the
percentage of districts and precincts that he won in Colorado?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
You know, I don't. I know, it was pretty overwhelming.
He was he was a landslide victor in the in
the primary election. Yeah, yeah, he is, so Scott McGinnis.
So he was running Againstcott McGinnis at the time. And
Scott McGinnis had his own scandal. Yeah, he had his
own scandal that came out. There was a there was
a plagiarism scandal that came out. So yeah, that happened.
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And then Dan Mays You know, that's when I think
the wheels started falling off his campaign rather righteously or so.
And I can tell you're a fan of Dan Mayes,
but continue your thoughts.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
I was just going to point out that the GOP
had somebody, a man of integrity that I knew very
well and personally in business wise, that they decided since
he hadn't earned his right to run, which is long
until Trump came along. That's how most of the parties ran.
This person has a right to run, sure, and Dan
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Newis didn't earn his right to run. So he was
thrown under the bus and destroyed by the state GOP
and they took Tom Dan Crados put the vote and
led Colorado down the blue road that we're on right now.
That was done by the JU GOP. It wasn't done
by Dan Mades.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Well, I respect your opinion on that. I don't know
that I necessarily agree with all your points. Like I said,
my interactions with him weren't weren't indicative of a guy
that was representing his law enforcement career accurately, and that
proved to be the case. I won't speak about what
is involvement, what the church was, and what your involvement
was with him as a as a youth ministry or whatever.
(09:13):
You know. There can be lots of sides to a coin,
but that particular side on the on the law enforcement
thing was just absolutely broken. But I do appreciate your call.
We got to go to a break because we've got
another person scheduled for our next segment, but Eric, thank
you for calling in, and hey, it's nice to have
at least one person out there talking nice about Dan Mace.
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With that, we'll go to break. When we come back,
we'll have Congresswoman Lauren Bobert on the line with us
to talk about the federal shutdown and what the future holds.
Listen to Dan Caplas Show here on six thirty K
How with Well Kenny Sheriff Steve Rreams as your guest host.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
And now back to the Dan Kaplass Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Welcome back to the Dan capless Show here with Well
Kenny Sheriff Steve Rareams as your guest host on six
thirty K How. And if you recognize a music, it's
because that is the perennial music. Walk up music, if
you will. For our next guest, Congresswoman Lauren Robert, representing
the Mighty Fighting Congressional District. For Lauren, how are you
doing tonight?
Speaker 7 (10:15):
I am doing wonderful, Sheriff, And I'm gonna have to
ask you early to bear with me. I am looking
for an exit ramp on I seventy so I don't
lose you. So it's may be a little noisy, but
I'm getting there. You called me right on top of
ail path.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Well, hey, you're at least you'll be up high in
the mountains where you should get good cell phone reception.
Just find a nice safe place to pull off while
you're looking for a while, you're looking for a good
place to pull off. I think it's always good from
time to time when you get a chance to get
some positive feedback, because we know being in politics is
always tough. And one of the most recent texts we
got in I'll just read you the last half because
it's and it pertains to you says look forward to
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hearing from Lauren the Pride of Rifle Colorado, and it says,
go Broncos. So you got your fans out there, people
are called you the Pride of Rifle. Isn't that kind
of cool?
Speaker 7 (11:04):
You know? Rifle is a beautiful place, and I spent
twenty five years there. But I also just love how
Eastern Colorado, Northern Colorado has embraced my family and I
and it is such a wonderful place to finish raising
my boys, and my grandson is there with me, and
so I love our entire state as a whole, and
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I want to see everything that Colorado has to offer
for generations to come.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Well, you've definitely rooted into Northern Colorado. I know you're
enjoying your time up in your new homestead. If you
will up in the Windsor area, and we love having
you up there. All that being said, you're out in DC,
you know, fighting this big fight over the governmental shutdown.
Where do you see this thing going? It seems to
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me that the Democrats are just going to keep kicking
the can until it's extremely painful for one side or
the other. What's your take on this?
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Yes, well I think it's uh.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Oh, Laurenie found a bad exit. Did we lose you?
Of course you pulled off in the one poot. No, no, no,
we got you, We got you.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
Okay, okay, Well if I if I completely lose you,
you're calling me back because we have some good stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
No, no, let's restart that. So where do you see this
whole thing going with the congressional shutdown? Are we going
to get there? Are Republicans going to get this continuing
resolution across? And we know that's not the fix, but
are we going to get there? What's your take on this?
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Yes? So a continuing resolution is an immediate, temporary fix,
and it was always a temporary fix. And it is
a Democrats who are refusing to vote for the continuing resolution.
We have two senators from Colorado who have voted no
at least fourteen times to reopen the federal government. Federal
employees are going without pay, and of course snap benefits
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are impacted, and so much more air traffic control system
our airport are reducing. And so I really want our
government reopened and it's time for them to stop playing games.
I thought they would wait for these elections to be
over with and then they would decide to reopen the government,
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but we still have not been notified that they plan
to do so.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
So do you think they're going to try to push
this thing all the way to Thanksgiving? I mean, the
air traffic shut down are starting to you know, we're
starting to see our traffic delays, air traffic delays beginning tomorrow,
and they're only going to get worse as time goes by.
Do you think their plan is to try to push
this all the way until Thanksgiving? Or can they stand
it that long?
Speaker 7 (13:42):
Yeah, the currency r goes until November twenty first, So regardless,
we are going to have to have another fix immediately
when it comes to keeping the government opened. It's not
just pass it and everybody goes back home. We have
got to be there and do the work to ensure
that we do not endure another government shutdown. I think
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the best solution at this point is a one year
continuing resolution. I'm not a fan of continuing resolutions, but
if we go through mini buses and omnibuses where they
put all the federal funding together with all of the
pork and all of the wishless items, I do think
that that puts us at risk for another government shutdown.
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Because the Democrats want this to be President Trump's fault.
They want him to look like he has a failing administration.
But I think people are seeing that his administration is
anything but failing. He is still having successes in the
midst of this, and so this is the time where
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we need to buckle down and say whatever we could
do to keep the lights on. Democrats want government to
have more control over your personal life and less personal responsible,
less freedom, yet they're the first ones to shut off
the lights, lock the doors, and leave you without a check.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Yeah. Absolutely, that couldn't be better said. So, while you're
traveling around the states, specifically CD four, what kind of
feedback are you getting from the voters out there about
this shutdown? Are they mad at you? Mad at the Democrats?
Do they understand where all This is coming from.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
The voters that I have been speaking to all throughout
the fourth District. I've been in Colorado for several weeks now,
in traveling all twenty one counties of the district, and
they get it. They understand that our senators are both
voting continuously to keep the government shut down. Sure they
see the Democrats are the ones out there quoting union
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bosses like they didn't just spend four years shipping jobs
to China and letting illegals flood our communities. And now
even those same union bosses are calling on them to
reopen the government. They're pretending to care about farmers, like
they didn't let the Chinese Communist Party buy up all
of our farmland, especially in Colorado where we are losing
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so many farms. And they're walking main Street like they
didn't all just vote to give small businesses the biggest
tax hike in American history. And that's what the voters
are seeing. They are seeing the hypocrisy between word and
deed with the Democrats. Democrats are now calling themselves populist
because they don't have a clear message. They have policies
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of socialism and even communism, yet they don't have a
message that actually says to the voter, we are going
to empower you to live your very best life. And
instead they are coming up with conservative talking points that
they will never vote for, at least in a meaningful way,
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and rebranding themselves as something other than a Democrat socialist.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Well, and if I could, I think all that stuff
makes great sense. I think all of us that are
on the right side of the equation, correct, right, whatever
you want to call it, understand where we're at in
this issue. And I'm laying it firmly at the feet
of the Democrats at this point. If we could just
shift gears for a second, though, Lauren, you're one of
the few people in Colorado who represents a very loud
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voice when it comes to where this state's going. And
you endorsed Victor Marx. We only have like forty five seconds.
Can can you tell us what is it about Victor
Marx that got you going? And you know, twenty seconds?
Speaker 7 (17:28):
What can you give us on that Victor Marx is
a man of faith and a man of courage, and
even more, he has a badass wife. Sorry for saying
that on the radio, but I think she's even more
tough than him, and he is a fresh faith. He
is not a career politician. He's not a name that
you see on every ballot that gets to your home
every election cycle. He is what Colorado needs to stand
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firm right now and be the person of character that
we know will enforce the right policy that we need
to take Colorado back.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
You heard it from Lauren. You're listening to the Dan
Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Welcome back to the Dan Capless Show here with Welkounty
Sheriff Steve Raims, And if you're just tuning in, we
just wrapped up an interview with Congresswoman Lauren Bobert and
we're going from one great congress person to another because
with us on the line is Congressman Gabe Evans from
Congressional District eight, which is also up in northern Colorado.
He's been a fire brand, if you will, skyrocketing from
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being a police officer straight through the Colorado Republican Party
into the Republican Statehouse and right on into congress Congressman Evans.
How are you doing tonight, Sheriff.
Speaker 8 (18:39):
Always good to be with you.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I appreciate you being on you know, we had we
had Lauren Bobert on talking a little bit about this
government shutdown. She has her perspective on it. I'm assuming
you guys share some of the same same feelings about
where this thing is going. But if you would tell
all the listeners where you think this government shutdown's heading.
DC light at the end of the tunnel or Themocrats
starting to fold it all, where are we at?
Speaker 8 (19:03):
Yeah, I mean, so you and I both know in
law enforcement, when somebody tells you who they are, you
got to believe them. The Democrats have told us time
and again who they are. They're the party of defunding
the police. They're the party of more crime. They're the
party of open borders and taxpayer funded healthcare to illegal immigrants.
So they can't do those things right now with the
Trump administration back in the White House, and so they
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are truly packed practicing the politics of pain by shutting
down the government. Remember, you've got to have sixty votes
through the US Senate to get anything passed. So if
anyone says who Republicans are in charge, we got to
have seven Democrat senators to join with the Republicans to
pass anything through the US Senate. They're not joining us
now to keep the government funded because they want to
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do all of those things that they've told us over
and over and over again that they want to do.
It's just the only tool they have in the toolbox
right now is the politics of pain and shutting the
government down. We thought Tuesday night they made a socialist
and outright mark in New York City the face of
their party, and so it's tough to negotiate with that
because you know, what they're asking for is two hundred
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billion dollars of taxpayer funded healthcare going to illegal immigrants.
They're asking for one point five trillion dollars of deficit spending.
But they are also taking a ton of heat from
everyday working class Americans, to include folks that actually kind
of used to be their allies. The biggest labor union
of federal workers just told the Democrats to pass the
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Republican bill. It's a clean continuing resolution, no partisan deals,
no smoke filled back room pork spending. It just continues
the status quo. Democrats are under a ton of pressure
from at times their own party, their own previous supporters,
to turn the government back on. So I think things
are coming to a head right now. Air traffic control,
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it's going to get throttled down by ten percent. That's
going to harm the economy. That's going to harm travel
when people are trying to get home around Chris, excuse me,
around thank Thanksgiving. And so I think again, all of
these things are coming to a head. You know, the
Democrats are terrified of their Marxist base right now, but
the pressure is really getting turned up because the American
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people see and for who they are. They're a bunch
of defund the police, open borders, Marxists that want more
of your money. And that pressure is also starting to
build on the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Well, you represent I'm going to call it a purple district,
maybe just a slightly read district because you won that election.
So your voters kind of represent, you know, right down
the middle of the pipeline, if you will, for American values,
both sides of the equation. What's I asked Lauren this,
I'll ask you the same question. What's been the feedback
like from your constituents when you're out in the trail.
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I know you're in active campaign mode and that doesn't
just mean Republicans, So what's the feedback? Do people understand
who's responsible for this or is you know, is this
going to hurt Republicans in the end as well.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
Well, you can see that in the polling. I mean,
CNN aired this poll last week that showed that, you know, nationally,
the Republican brand is up not only twelve points among
Republicans who understand why we're fighting for those things, but
we're up eight points with independence. Folks understand, they know,
they intuitively realize that in places like Colorado, Democrats are
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taking money out of your pocket and they are giving
it to people illegally present in the country for healthcare.
In the state of Colorado, that bill is ninety four
million dollars just in the Medicaid space. There's more money
that's going to illegal immigrants through the Obamacare, the Affordable
Care credits. You know, we saw the headlines earlier this
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week people that are buying their healthcare through the marketplace
are going to see potentially a doubling of their premiums. Well,
you know why that is. That is because the Congressional
Budget Office, this is at the federal level, the Congressional
Budget Office, at ninety two billion dollars are going to
illegal immigrants in Obamacare. In the healthcare exchanges. This is
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separate from Medicaid. This is buying healthcare on the marketplaces.
Republicans shut that off. And so now that Democrats in
the state of Colorado can no longer double dip and
subsidize illegal immigrant healthcare, everybody that saw their premiums double,
they're the ones that are now paying the bill for
illegal immigrants that are still getting healthcare through the marketplaces.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Unbelievable. If you had to pick a date on the calendar, Yeah,
if you had to pick a date on the calendar
and say this is the date that I think it ends,
can you do that?
Speaker 8 (23:35):
I mean, again, it's tough to negotiate with socialists when
there's certain things that we're not going to compromise on.
We are not going to fund healthcare for people who
are legally present in the country. We are not going
to give one point five trillion dollars of deficit spending
in partisan demands, and so when that's what the Democrat
Party is demanding, it makes those negotiations difficult. But again,
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I think that, you know, I I want to be
an optimist. I think that things are coming to ahead,
and it's I think we're definitely in the second half,
probably the final quarter of the shutdown.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Okay, so maybe before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 8 (24:13):
I'm hoping before. I'm hoping before that. But again, it's
tough to negotiate with the Marxist.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
I got you, I got you. If we could just
a little bit. I did this with Lauren, I want
to do this with you as well. Lauren has endorsed
a governor's candidate and Victor Marx and I am aware
that you've endorsed a governor's candidate for the state of
Colorado as well, in state Senator Barbara Kirkmeyer. Could you
give a little rationale behind why you decided to get
behind barb and give her your endorsement.
Speaker 8 (24:40):
Yeah. Absolutely. In politics, especially when you're campaigning, there's only
one thing that matters, and that's winning. We saw that,
or I guess it was last year down in a
district in Colorado Springs that we flipped from Democrat to
Republican three votes. Wow, three votes. But you know what,
as the joke says, do you know what you call
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a congressman or a state representative or any other elected official?
You know what they call them? If they win by
one vote, you still call them congressman?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
That's right.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
We have to win. And I think that Barb Kirkmeyer
is our best chance to be able to be able
to flip the governor's seat in the state of Colorado.
And I know that because she ran for my seat
before I did, and she did not have the benefit
of having some of the alliances with our liberty minded
libertarian friends that I had, and she still came incredibly
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close again to being able to capture the eighth Congressional
District in twenty twenty two. And so in between her
proven track record in that space, and also the fact
that she sits on the Joint Budget Committee down at
the state Capitol on in Denver, she is the person
that I call, Like all of these numbers, numbers that
I've rattled off about how Democrats are wasting your money,
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half of that stuff I get from Barb Kirkmeyer. She
knows the state budget better than I and where else.
She knows where all of the skeletons are hidden in
the Democrats closet, and she knows how to fight back.
She is always my first phone call when I say, Barb,
I need to know what's going on in the state
of Colorado. How are they hiding and laundering and doing
shell games with your money. She's the person that I
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call so those two things. Like I said, winning is
the only thing that matters in political campaigns, and she's
the one who can win well.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
And I'll say this is a credit to both of you,
you and and Senator Kirkmeyer. You know, as a person
in law enforcement, when we're trying to tackle an issue,
I can pick up the phone, text you call you
and do the same with Senator Kirkmeyer, and you're both
Johnny on the spot to answer and at least try
to provide, you know, some help in whatever that matter
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might be. So credit to both of you because you
know that's that's asking a lot to be honest, you know,
to be that responsive, and you've both been just tremendous.
So any parting words you'd like to leave with us
game before we cut out of here.
Speaker 8 (26:57):
Don't believe the doom and gloom from from anybody that's
telling you that Tuesday night was a blow out night
for Democrats and that the Republicans are in jeopardy, because
I can tell you in Colorado's eighth Congressional district, we
actually made ground in our municipal races. From the northern
part of the district, we had resounding wins at our
local elections. In the southern part of my district, you
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get closer down to Denver, we saw radical far left
incumbent city council men and women be defeated. So we
know that here in Colorado's eighth Congressional District, we are
moving forward. Our brand sells people understand the good work
that we're doing to make sure that we're rewarding work
we're giving safe communities. We're working on making sure that
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people can afford and be safe and live and achieve
the American dream. So don't let anybody get you down.
We are absolutely making upground in Colorado's eighth Congressional District
and around the state. We are absolutely going to be
able to get the state back on the right track.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
That's Congressman Gabe Evans giving us that little pep talk
here at the end of his time with us here
on the Dan Capla Show. Gabe, thanks for being on
with us. You're always a great interview. With that, we'll
cut to break. You're listening to the Dan Caplis Show
here on six point thirty K how with well County
Sheriff Steve Riams as your guest host.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Welcome back to the Dan Caplis Show here with well
kunty Sheriff Steve Raams as your guest host for in
our final segment of the show, and just do a
little clean up here. But I can just in the
show with a little bit of funny talk, silly talk.
We got to go to one more audio clip just
to trigger a few of you about Dan Mays if
you would Ryan.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
In nineteen ninety four, I joined the Jefferson County Republican
Party and I did a lot of volunteer work with
the ultimate goal of running for government a political office.
But business took me away. My skill sets just drew
me to certain positions within corporate America that leverage my skills,
and the ones that I really got great at were
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turning around difficult situations where other people had failed. That's
another reason why I'd be a good governor for Colorado.
I would spend two years in one city and turn
things around or someone before me couldn't get it done.
Then I would go to another city for three years
and I turned that around. I was the one who
was able to create revenue where others had failed, which
means I created jobs, which means I created tax revenue
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to go into the treasury rather than taking taxes away
from people to pay the bills.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
All right, So for those of you that are listening
earlier in the show, that was another audio clip from
a introductory video that Dan May's put out back in
twenty ten in a in a governor's race that ended
up being I'm just going to call it a dumpster fire.
And we had a caller earlier that argued that, you know,
Dan May's got attacked by the Republican Party didn't meet
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the purity test. Maybe that's true. My recollection of some
of the issues he had are much different than that. Regardless,
we cannot repeat that same performance, if you will, where
the Republicans almost become a minority party in the state
of Colorado. We can't have that. And what that takes
is good, honest vetting of candidates. A lot of you
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have texted in you still have time to do, so
you can text Dan at five seven seventy three nine
with some feedback about some of the stuff we talked today.
And I want to get to those texts. This one
is in reference to Congressman Gabe Evans. It was just honest,
says his comments are are this Texas comments? That is
not true, se aroa city council, metro area, school board races, etc.
In saying that Republicans didn't have a night of defeat,
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You're right about the Denver metro area. But in Northern
Colorado that wasn't necessarily the case. And in CD eight
that wasn't necessarily the case. There were a lot of
areas where Republicans did have wins. They did gain seats
in certain areas. Now there were a couple places where
they took a punch in the nose, but overall, I
think Republicans probably gained seats in Northern Colorado over where
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they had begun the night. Here's another one. After listening
to both Lauren and Gabe, they seem to be a
lot of talking points to conservative radio stations that all
of us already know. Hey, that that might might be true.
You know, the Democrats are pretty good about, you know,
closing ranks using all the same language. You know, the
Republicans are, i think, speaking the same tune about a
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lot of where a lot of the issues where they
think spending and things are out of control and government.
I don't know how many different ways you can say it,
but you know, you send him in, we'll read them.
Here's another one, Sheriff, respectfully, I think he needs to
check his polls. We just had a poll on Tuesday.
It didn't work out real well for Republicans. That's another
one to get about Gabe Evans. Here's one. Lauren Bolbert
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didn't give a good enough reason to support Victor Marx.
What does she mean a career politician. I like Greg Lopez.
He understands what's going on. I also like Scott Bottoms.
I even like Barb Kirkmeyer. I absolutely disagree with Bobert
on Victor of Marx. Here's one in reference to Lauren Bobert,
she's another reason why Republicans are going to lose in
the mid terms. I'm assuming this person's not a fan.
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Says average people blame Republicans for the government shut down.
I don't know. I think I'm an average guy, and
I don't I'm not blaming the Republicans right now, but
I guess it's all perspective. Here's another one. The longer
the government is shut down, the more the economy will
take a hit. That the we'll say F word commies
will blame on Trump. You might have a point there.
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Everything gets blamed on Trump. I mean, global warming is
probably blamed on Trump. Well, I know it's blamed on Trump.
If you have a bad drive to work, it's probably
blamed on Trump. At this point, here's one. If we're
going to talk about Dan Mays, we also have to
talk about Tom tan Credo. What is he doing now?
I don't know exactly what Tom tan Credo is doing,
other than I know he endorses almost everyone who runs
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for office who asks for his endorsement. I've had a
chance to meet Tom tan Credo several times. I can't
call him a friend, but he is an interesting guy.
I think he's at the point in his life where
he's just he's having a great time from the sidelines.
But I don't have a personal relationship with tan Credo.
So that's the best answer I can give you. I
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like this one, great show. The Dan Mays era is
such a cloud in my brain. Thank you for your discussion.
Look forward to hearing from Lauren. That was the one
about the Pride of Colorado and the best ending to
a text. Here go Broncos, because you know what they're
playing tonight, and I have my Lucky Broncos shirt on.
I see that Ryan has his Lucky Broncos.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Had a really nice sweatshirt too that I got from
the Team Store.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Well there you go, a Team store sweatshirt with the
old Denver Bronco logo on it, which I gotta tell you,
that's the classic. I wish they'd stick with that in.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Those totally so slick, so clean.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
I don't know if they're wearing the throwback jerseys tonight.
I'd heard someone talking about that earlier today. Maybe either way,
a win's a win, especially if it's over the last
Vegas Raiders, so we'll hope for that. One last text
here says twenty candidates. All I can think is what
a waste of money funding all these campaigns. You might
not be wrong AnyWho. Thanks for tuning in tonight. It's
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always a pleasure to cover for Dan, and I am
hold he's on vacation, a well deserved vacation, so thanks
for listening. This is Weld Coudy Sheriff Steve Riems covering
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome to The Dan Caplis Show with Wellcunny Sheriff Steve
Reims as your guest host. Today, Dan's out playing hookey.
Maybe he's going to the Broncos game. I'm not exactly
sure what he's got planned. I didn't ask. It doesn't matter.
You got me tonight, and we've been talking about Governor's
candidates and why it's so important to vet those candidates
and figure out what they stand for, why they can
be a good representation of the Republican Party for the
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state of Colorado, and you know, maybe thin the herd
down from the nineteen candidates that we have. Before we
went to break, I referenced to a former Governor's candidate
primary winner by the name of Dan Mays that again,
twenty ten, I was just kind of starting to get
really active in Republican politics. I'd always paid attention, voted,
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but not necessar fairly got out and you know, got
my hands dirty in the races. But in that particular timeframe,
it was the Tea Party movement, and you know, it
just seemed like it was time for a change, and
everybody was pretty excited about what the Republican Party could
offer at that given time. You know, again, there was
some grassroots takeover and I was a grassroots guy, so
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why not get involved? And Dan Mays was constantly up
in Weld County, coming to different events, and it was
pretty easy to, you know, to try to figure out
what's this guy all about. And I got to tell you,
as a person in law enforcement, I had a bad
vibe from him a little early on because he was
introduced to me as someone who had had prior law
enforcement experience, and when I went to ask him what
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that was, he immediately said, well, I can't really talk
about it. And I thought, well, that's that's just odd.
That's not a typical answer for someone who's been in
the type of law enforcement he was reported to have
been in. So when things started coming off the rails,
to say I was surprised would be actually I wasn't.
I was angry, but I wasn't necessarily surprised. So here.
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In a second, we're going to play a little bit
of audio from Dan Mays just to get people back
in the spirit of twenty ten and why it's so
important to why it's so important to vet these candidates.
But before I do that, I'm going to go through
the quick rundown of all the names that are in
the race, just so you can hear them. Nineteen names
in alphabetical order by last name up until the last
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five that have entered in We have Mark Baisley, Scott Bottoms,
Jason Clark, Bryce and Garrison, Stephen Guess, John Gray, Ginsburg,
Joshua Griffin, Greg Lopez, William McBride, Jason Mike Sel, Robert Moore,
Alexander Alexander Move got to Jim Runberg, Daniel Thomas. Then
the last five that have entered Bob brinker Hoff, John Brooks,
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Barb Kirkmeyer, who we heard from tonight, Victor Marx and
Maria ORMs. So we've got a full house. Oh and
then I guess, did I get Kelvin Wimberley on here?
I think I missed him.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Would that be twenty?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
That's twenty really twenty candidates? Wow?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Who knew?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
So I think Maria ORMs is the last one that
entered the race from what I can tell, But how
did I miss Kelvin? I'll add him to the list. So, yeah,
twenty candidates. What could possibly go wrong if we don't
figure out how we can narrow this thing down? And
I know there's a natural process for doing so. We
have an assembly, we have caucuses or caucuses, then an assembly,
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all that stuff to narrow down through the formal process.
You know, candidates can petition on but at the end
of the day, it comes down to the voters saying
these are the candidates we want to represent our party.
And just to make sure we're all invested in that process.
For any of you that weren't involved in Colorado politics
in twenty ten, we're going to give you a little
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bit of flashback. Here's a video that Dan May's put out,
and we've got a broken into segments so we can
kind of comment about each one. But here's segment number one,
clip ten. Ryan.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Hi, I'm Dan Mays and I'm running for governor of Colorado.
This is my first video on my website, So it's
going to be casual, no scripts, no teleprompters, no fancy production.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Crews.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
It's just the two of us, all of us talking
together casually. I'm doing this from my home in Evergreen.
You know, like so many of you out there, I
had a dream of moving to the state of Colorado
one day before that. I'll tell you that I was
raised in a little rural town in northern Wisconsin called
grib Lake. It was a small town where there weren't
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a lot of opportunities, but hard work was kind of
the norm of the day. Nothing was glamorous, but it
was a wonderful life and a beautiful place.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
So that's the first little clip there. And you know
I'm triggering people here that are listening to the show
that the Dan Mays texts are starting to roll in. Really,
you know, anybody who was around in politics during that time,
it's tough. It's tough to hear his voice. Ryan, you
weren't here in twenty ten. No, what do you gather
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from that a little bit of video?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
In some ways I get more of the thirty thousand
foot view having not been involved in Colorado politics at
that time. But my initial reaction when you sent me
this video to cut was what is it about this
guy that appealed so much to Republican voters in this
state at that time. And he reminded me, as I
told you of mister Rogers on lithium.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
That's a very good descriptor. And I think, you know,
if I can speak for the voters, I can speak
for I think what some of the people around the
Dan Mace camp were enamored with is Dan was purported
to be a business guy. He had saved a lot
of businesses. This is all self reported work. He had
started up a couple of his own businesses, and he
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was just being taken it in face value. He also
had a law enforcement background, so he had some of
that criminal justice piece that you know, people just love.
And you know, it didn't hurt that. You know, people
were looking for a change, they were looking for someone
to represent the Republican party. And we're even getting callers
in here. I think we got Eric from Denver. Eric,
what do you have to say about good old Dan
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Mays our twenty ten candidate?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Eric?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Ahead?
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 7 (06:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Go ahead, Yeah, I'm just curious. Okay. As a police officer,
one of the things that you're prone to is a
negative perception of most people, or you end up dead.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Would you agree, So there's some of that. Yeah, you
always have to be a little bit of a skeptic. Yeah,
I would go there, sorry about that?
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Would it be fair? Would it also be fair to say,
and I don't know this, how many times did you
have a.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Chance to interact with d oh gosh?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Probably before before I got a chance to really form
an opinion, I mean probably six or seven with that actual.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
So my reason for asking is I worked with him
side by side over five years. I was actually a
youth pastor where he volunteered at a church and was
in Bible study with him for those same years. And
so the characterization that was put out there by so
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many of these people that and I went to to
toe with John Caldera and Brownie about this as well.
Sure he wasn't part of the Colorado GOP. The Colorado GOP,
as John Caldera went over and over again, knows how
to steal victory. So that was stell defeat.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
From the jobs of victory. Yeah, I've heard it many times.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Yes, And and they they took a candidate that drove
all over the state to your point, from Evergreen the
Valt County on a very regular basis all the other
counties he won, you know, the do you remember the
percentage of districts and precincts that he won in Colorado?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
You know, I don't. I know, it was pretty overwhelming.
He was he was a landslide victor in the in
the primary election. Yeah, yeah, he is, so Scott McGinnis.
So he was running Againstcott McGinnis at the time. And
Scott McGinnis had his own scandal. Yeah, he had his
own scandal that came out. There was a there was
a plagiarism scandal that came out. So yeah, that happened.
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And then Dan Mays You know, that's when I think
the wheels started falling off his campaign rather righteously or so.
And I can tell you're a fan of Dan Mayes,
but continue your thoughts.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
I was just going to point out that the GOP
had somebody, a man of integrity that I knew very
well and personally in business wise, that they decided since
he hadn't earned his right to run, which is long
until Trump came along. That's how most of the parties ran.
This person has a right to run, sure, and Dan
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Newis didn't earn his right to run. So he was
thrown under the bus and destroyed by the state GOP
and they took Tom Dan Crados put the vote and
led Colorado down the blue road that we're on right now.
That was done by the JU GOP. It wasn't done
by Dan Mades.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Well, I respect your opinion on that. I don't know
that I necessarily agree with all your points. Like I said,
my interactions with him weren't weren't indicative of a guy
that was representing his law enforcement career accurately, and that
proved to be the case. I won't speak about what
is involvement, what the church was, and what your involvement
was with him as a as a youth ministry or whatever.
(09:13):
You know. There can be lots of sides to a coin,
but that particular side on the on the law enforcement
thing was just absolutely broken. But I do appreciate your call.
We got to go to a break because we've got
another person scheduled for our next segment, but Eric, thank
you for calling in, and hey, it's nice to have
at least one person out there talking nice about Dan Mace.
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With that, we'll go to break. When we come back,
we'll have Congresswoman Lauren Bobert on the line with us
to talk about the federal shutdown and what the future holds.
Listen to Dan Caplas Show here on six thirty K
How with Well Kenny Sheriff Steve Rreams as your guest host.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
And now back to the Dan Kaplass Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Welcome back to the Dan capless Show here with Well
Kenny Sheriff Steve Rareams as your guest host on six
thirty K How. And if you recognize a music, it's
because that is the perennial music. Walk up music, if
you will. For our next guest, Congresswoman Lauren Robert, representing
the Mighty Fighting Congressional District. For Lauren, how are you
doing tonight?
Speaker 7 (10:15):
I am doing wonderful, Sheriff, And I'm gonna have to
ask you early to bear with me. I am looking
for an exit ramp on I seventy so I don't
lose you. So it's may be a little noisy, but
I'm getting there. You called me right on top of
ail path.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Well, hey, you're at least you'll be up high in
the mountains where you should get good cell phone reception.
Just find a nice safe place to pull off while
you're looking for a while, you're looking for a good
place to pull off. I think it's always good from
time to time when you get a chance to get
some positive feedback, because we know being in politics is
always tough. And one of the most recent texts we
got in I'll just read you the last half because
it's and it pertains to you says look forward to
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hearing from Lauren the Pride of Rifle Colorado, and it says,
go Broncos. So you got your fans out there, people
are called you the Pride of Rifle. Isn't that kind
of cool?
Speaker 7 (11:04):
You know? Rifle is a beautiful place, and I spent
twenty five years there. But I also just love how
Eastern Colorado, Northern Colorado has embraced my family and I
and it is such a wonderful place to finish raising
my boys, and my grandson is there with me, and
so I love our entire state as a whole, and
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I want to see everything that Colorado has to offer
for generations to come.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Well, you've definitely rooted into Northern Colorado. I know you're
enjoying your time up in your new homestead. If you
will up in the Windsor area, and we love having
you up there. All that being said, you're out in DC,
you know, fighting this big fight over the governmental shutdown.
Where do you see this thing going? It seems to
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me that the Democrats are just going to keep kicking
the can until it's extremely painful for one side or
the other. What's your take on this?
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Yes, well I think it's uh.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Oh, Laurenie found a bad exit. Did we lose you?
Of course you pulled off in the one poot. No, no, no,
we got you, We got you.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
Okay, okay, Well if I if I completely lose you,
you're calling me back because we have some good stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
No, no, let's restart that. So where do you see this
whole thing going with the congressional shutdown? Are we going
to get there? Are Republicans going to get this continuing
resolution across? And we know that's not the fix, but
are we going to get there? What's your take on this?
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Yes? So a continuing resolution is an immediate, temporary fix,
and it was always a temporary fix. And it is
a Democrats who are refusing to vote for the continuing resolution.
We have two senators from Colorado who have voted no
at least fourteen times to reopen the federal government. Federal
employees are going without pay, and of course snap benefits
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are impacted, and so much more air traffic control system
our airport are reducing. And so I really want our
government reopened and it's time for them to stop playing games.
I thought they would wait for these elections to be
over with and then they would decide to reopen the government,
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but we still have not been notified that they plan
to do so.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
So do you think they're going to try to push
this thing all the way to Thanksgiving? I mean, the
air traffic shut down are starting to you know, we're
starting to see our traffic delays, air traffic delays beginning tomorrow,
and they're only going to get worse as time goes by.
Do you think their plan is to try to push
this all the way until Thanksgiving? Or can they stand
it that long?
Speaker 7 (13:42):
Yeah, the currency r goes until November twenty first, So regardless,
we are going to have to have another fix immediately
when it comes to keeping the government opened. It's not
just pass it and everybody goes back home. We have
got to be there and do the work to ensure
that we do not endure another government shutdown. I think
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the best solution at this point is a one year
continuing resolution. I'm not a fan of continuing resolutions, but
if we go through mini buses and omnibuses where they
put all the federal funding together with all of the
pork and all of the wishless items, I do think
that that puts us at risk for another government shutdown.
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Because the Democrats want this to be President Trump's fault.
They want him to look like he has a failing administration.
But I think people are seeing that his administration is
anything but failing. He is still having successes in the
midst of this, and so this is the time where
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we need to buckle down and say whatever we could
do to keep the lights on. Democrats want government to
have more control over your personal life and less personal responsible,
less freedom, yet they're the first ones to shut off
the lights, lock the doors, and leave you without a check.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Yeah. Absolutely, that couldn't be better said. So, while you're
traveling around the states, specifically CD four, what kind of
feedback are you getting from the voters out there about
this shutdown? Are they mad at you? Mad at the Democrats?
Do they understand where all This is coming from.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
The voters that I have been speaking to all throughout
the fourth District. I've been in Colorado for several weeks now,
in traveling all twenty one counties of the district, and
they get it. They understand that our senators are both
voting continuously to keep the government shut down. Sure they
see the Democrats are the ones out there quoting union
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bosses like they didn't just spend four years shipping jobs
to China and letting illegals flood our communities. And now
even those same union bosses are calling on them to
reopen the government. They're pretending to care about farmers, like
they didn't let the Chinese Communist Party buy up all
of our farmland, especially in Colorado where we are losing
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so many farms. And they're walking main Street like they
didn't all just vote to give small businesses the biggest
tax hike in American history. And that's what the voters
are seeing. They are seeing the hypocrisy between word and
deed with the Democrats. Democrats are now calling themselves populist
because they don't have a clear message. They have policies
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of socialism and even communism, yet they don't have a
message that actually says to the voter, we are going
to empower you to live your very best life. And
instead they are coming up with conservative talking points that
they will never vote for, at least in a meaningful way,
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and rebranding themselves as something other than a Democrat socialist.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Well, and if I could, I think all that stuff
makes great sense. I think all of us that are
on the right side of the equation, correct, right, whatever
you want to call it, understand where we're at in
this issue. And I'm laying it firmly at the feet
of the Democrats at this point. If we could just
shift gears for a second, though, Lauren, you're one of
the few people in Colorado who represents a very loud
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voice when it comes to where this state's going. And
you endorsed Victor Marx. We only have like forty five seconds.
Can can you tell us what is it about Victor
Marx that got you going? And you know, twenty seconds?
Speaker 7 (17:28):
What can you give us on that Victor Marx is
a man of faith and a man of courage, and
even more, he has a badass wife. Sorry for saying
that on the radio, but I think she's even more
tough than him, and he is a fresh faith. He
is not a career politician. He's not a name that
you see on every ballot that gets to your home
every election cycle. He is what Colorado needs to stand
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firm right now and be the person of character that
we know will enforce the right policy that we need
to take Colorado back.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
You heard it from Lauren. You're listening to the Dan
Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Welcome back to the Dan Capless Show here with Welkounty
Sheriff Steve Raims, And if you're just tuning in, we
just wrapped up an interview with Congresswoman Lauren Bobert and
we're going from one great congress person to another because
with us on the line is Congressman Gabe Evans from
Congressional District eight, which is also up in northern Colorado.
He's been a fire brand, if you will, skyrocketing from
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being a police officer straight through the Colorado Republican Party
into the Republican Statehouse and right on into congress Congressman Evans.
How are you doing tonight, Sheriff.
Speaker 8 (18:39):
Always good to be with you.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I appreciate you being on you know, we had we
had Lauren Bobert on talking a little bit about this
government shutdown. She has her perspective on it. I'm assuming
you guys share some of the same same feelings about
where this thing is going. But if you would tell
all the listeners where you think this government shutdown's heading.
DC light at the end of the tunnel or Themocrats
starting to fold it all, where are we at?
Speaker 8 (19:03):
Yeah, I mean, so you and I both know in
law enforcement, when somebody tells you who they are, you
got to believe them. The Democrats have told us time
and again who they are. They're the party of defunding
the police. They're the party of more crime. They're the
party of open borders and taxpayer funded healthcare to illegal immigrants.
So they can't do those things right now with the
Trump administration back in the White House, and so they
(19:26):
are truly packed practicing the politics of pain by shutting
down the government. Remember, you've got to have sixty votes
through the US Senate to get anything passed. So if
anyone says who Republicans are in charge, we got to
have seven Democrat senators to join with the Republicans to
pass anything through the US Senate. They're not joining us
now to keep the government funded because they want to
(19:47):
do all of those things that they've told us over
and over and over again that they want to do.
It's just the only tool they have in the toolbox
right now is the politics of pain and shutting the
government down. We thought Tuesday night they made a socialist
and outright mark in New York City the face of
their party, and so it's tough to negotiate with that
because you know, what they're asking for is two hundred
(20:07):
billion dollars of taxpayer funded healthcare going to illegal immigrants.
They're asking for one point five trillion dollars of deficit spending.
But they are also taking a ton of heat from
everyday working class Americans, to include folks that actually kind
of used to be their allies. The biggest labor union
of federal workers just told the Democrats to pass the
(20:31):
Republican bill. It's a clean continuing resolution, no partisan deals,
no smoke filled back room pork spending. It just continues
the status quo. Democrats are under a ton of pressure
from at times their own party, their own previous supporters,
to turn the government back on. So I think things
are coming to a head right now. Air traffic control,
(20:53):
it's going to get throttled down by ten percent. That's
going to harm the economy. That's going to harm travel
when people are trying to get home around Chris, excuse me,
around thank Thanksgiving. And so I think again, all of
these things are coming to a head. You know, the
Democrats are terrified of their Marxist base right now, but
the pressure is really getting turned up because the American
(21:14):
people see and for who they are. They're a bunch
of defund the police, open borders, Marxists that want more
of your money. And that pressure is also starting to
build on the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Well, you represent I'm going to call it a purple district,
maybe just a slightly read district because you won that election.
So your voters kind of represent, you know, right down
the middle of the pipeline, if you will, for American values,
both sides of the equation. What's I asked Lauren this,
I'll ask you the same question. What's been the feedback
like from your constituents when you're out in the trail.
(21:45):
I know you're in active campaign mode and that doesn't
just mean Republicans, So what's the feedback? Do people understand
who's responsible for this or is you know, is this
going to hurt Republicans in the end as well.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
Well, you can see that in the polling. I mean,
CNN aired this poll last week that showed that, you know, nationally,
the Republican brand is up not only twelve points among
Republicans who understand why we're fighting for those things, but
we're up eight points with independence. Folks understand, they know,
they intuitively realize that in places like Colorado, Democrats are
(22:21):
taking money out of your pocket and they are giving
it to people illegally present in the country for healthcare.
In the state of Colorado, that bill is ninety four
million dollars just in the Medicaid space. There's more money
that's going to illegal immigrants through the Obamacare, the Affordable
Care credits. You know, we saw the headlines earlier this
(22:42):
week people that are buying their healthcare through the marketplace
are going to see potentially a doubling of their premiums. Well,
you know why that is. That is because the Congressional
Budget Office, this is at the federal level, the Congressional
Budget Office, at ninety two billion dollars are going to
illegal immigrants in Obamacare. In the healthcare exchanges. This is
(23:03):
separate from Medicaid. This is buying healthcare on the marketplaces.
Republicans shut that off. And so now that Democrats in
the state of Colorado can no longer double dip and
subsidize illegal immigrant healthcare, everybody that saw their premiums double,
they're the ones that are now paying the bill for
illegal immigrants that are still getting healthcare through the marketplaces.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Unbelievable. If you had to pick a date on the calendar, Yeah,
if you had to pick a date on the calendar
and say this is the date that I think it ends,
can you do that?
Speaker 8 (23:35):
I mean, again, it's tough to negotiate with socialists when
there's certain things that we're not going to compromise on.
We are not going to fund healthcare for people who
are legally present in the country. We are not going
to give one point five trillion dollars of deficit spending
in partisan demands, and so when that's what the Democrat
Party is demanding, it makes those negotiations difficult. But again,
(23:57):
I think that, you know, I I want to be
an optimist. I think that things are coming to ahead,
and it's I think we're definitely in the second half,
probably the final quarter of the shutdown.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Okay, so maybe before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 8 (24:13):
I'm hoping before. I'm hoping before that. But again, it's
tough to negotiate with the Marxist.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
I got you, I got you. If we could just
a little bit. I did this with Lauren, I want
to do this with you as well. Lauren has endorsed
a governor's candidate and Victor Marx and I am aware
that you've endorsed a governor's candidate for the state of
Colorado as well, in state Senator Barbara Kirkmeyer. Could you
give a little rationale behind why you decided to get
behind barb and give her your endorsement.
Speaker 8 (24:40):
Yeah. Absolutely. In politics, especially when you're campaigning, there's only
one thing that matters, and that's winning. We saw that,
or I guess it was last year down in a
district in Colorado Springs that we flipped from Democrat to
Republican three votes. Wow, three votes. But you know what,
as the joke says, do you know what you call
(25:01):
a congressman or a state representative or any other elected official?
You know what they call them? If they win by
one vote, you still call them congressman?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
That's right.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
We have to win. And I think that Barb Kirkmeyer
is our best chance to be able to be able
to flip the governor's seat in the state of Colorado.
And I know that because she ran for my seat
before I did, and she did not have the benefit
of having some of the alliances with our liberty minded
libertarian friends that I had, and she still came incredibly
(25:33):
close again to being able to capture the eighth Congressional
District in twenty twenty two. And so in between her
proven track record in that space, and also the fact
that she sits on the Joint Budget Committee down at
the state Capitol on in Denver, she is the person
that I call, Like all of these numbers, numbers that
I've rattled off about how Democrats are wasting your money,
(25:56):
half of that stuff I get from Barb Kirkmeyer. She
knows the state budget better than I and where else.
She knows where all of the skeletons are hidden in
the Democrats closet, and she knows how to fight back.
She is always my first phone call when I say, Barb,
I need to know what's going on in the state
of Colorado. How are they hiding and laundering and doing
shell games with your money. She's the person that I
(26:16):
call so those two things. Like I said, winning is
the only thing that matters in political campaigns, and she's
the one who can win well.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
And I'll say this is a credit to both of you,
you and and Senator Kirkmeyer. You know, as a person
in law enforcement, when we're trying to tackle an issue,
I can pick up the phone, text you call you
and do the same with Senator Kirkmeyer, and you're both
Johnny on the spot to answer and at least try
to provide, you know, some help in whatever that matter
(26:43):
might be. So credit to both of you because you
know that's that's asking a lot to be honest, you know,
to be that responsive, and you've both been just tremendous.
So any parting words you'd like to leave with us
game before we cut out of here.
Speaker 8 (26:57):
Don't believe the doom and gloom from from anybody that's
telling you that Tuesday night was a blow out night
for Democrats and that the Republicans are in jeopardy, because
I can tell you in Colorado's eighth Congressional district, we
actually made ground in our municipal races. From the northern
part of the district, we had resounding wins at our
local elections. In the southern part of my district, you
(27:19):
get closer down to Denver, we saw radical far left
incumbent city council men and women be defeated. So we
know that here in Colorado's eighth Congressional District, we are
moving forward. Our brand sells people understand the good work
that we're doing to make sure that we're rewarding work
we're giving safe communities. We're working on making sure that
(27:42):
people can afford and be safe and live and achieve
the American dream. So don't let anybody get you down.
We are absolutely making upground in Colorado's eighth Congressional District
and around the state. We are absolutely going to be
able to get the state back on the right track.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
That's Congressman Gabe Evans giving us that little pep talk
here at the end of his time with us here
on the Dan Capla Show. Gabe, thanks for being on
with us. You're always a great interview. With that, we'll
cut to break. You're listening to the Dan Caplis Show
here on six point thirty K how with well County
Sheriff Steve Riams as your guest host.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Welcome back to the Dan Caplis Show here with well
kunty Sheriff Steve Raams as your guest host for in
our final segment of the show, and just do a
little clean up here. But I can just in the
show with a little bit of funny talk, silly talk.
We got to go to one more audio clip just
to trigger a few of you about Dan Mays if
you would Ryan.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
In nineteen ninety four, I joined the Jefferson County Republican
Party and I did a lot of volunteer work with
the ultimate goal of running for government a political office.
But business took me away. My skill sets just drew
me to certain positions within corporate America that leverage my skills,
and the ones that I really got great at were
(28:59):
turning around difficult situations where other people had failed. That's
another reason why I'd be a good governor for Colorado.
I would spend two years in one city and turn
things around or someone before me couldn't get it done.
Then I would go to another city for three years
and I turned that around. I was the one who
was able to create revenue where others had failed, which
means I created jobs, which means I created tax revenue
(29:23):
to go into the treasury rather than taking taxes away
from people to pay the bills.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
All right, So for those of you that are listening
earlier in the show, that was another audio clip from
a introductory video that Dan May's put out back in
twenty ten in a in a governor's race that ended
up being I'm just going to call it a dumpster fire.
And we had a caller earlier that argued that, you know,
Dan May's got attacked by the Republican Party didn't meet
(29:49):
the purity test. Maybe that's true. My recollection of some
of the issues he had are much different than that. Regardless,
we cannot repeat that same performance, if you will, where
the Republicans almost become a minority party in the state
of Colorado. We can't have that. And what that takes
is good, honest vetting of candidates. A lot of you
(30:09):
have texted in you still have time to do, so
you can text Dan at five seven seventy three nine
with some feedback about some of the stuff we talked today.
And I want to get to those texts. This one
is in reference to Congressman Gabe Evans. It was just honest,
says his comments are are this Texas comments? That is
not true, se aroa city council, metro area, school board races, etc.
In saying that Republicans didn't have a night of defeat,
(30:33):
You're right about the Denver metro area. But in Northern
Colorado that wasn't necessarily the case. And in CD eight
that wasn't necessarily the case. There were a lot of
areas where Republicans did have wins. They did gain seats
in certain areas. Now there were a couple places where
they took a punch in the nose, but overall, I
think Republicans probably gained seats in Northern Colorado over where
(30:54):
they had begun the night. Here's another one. After listening
to both Lauren and Gabe, they seem to be a
lot of talking points to conservative radio stations that all
of us already know. Hey, that that might might be true.
You know, the Democrats are pretty good about, you know,
closing ranks using all the same language. You know, the
Republicans are, i think, speaking the same tune about a
(31:15):
lot of where a lot of the issues where they
think spending and things are out of control and government.
I don't know how many different ways you can say it,
but you know, you send him in, we'll read them.
Here's another one, Sheriff, respectfully, I think he needs to
check his polls. We just had a poll on Tuesday.
It didn't work out real well for Republicans. That's another
one to get about Gabe Evans. Here's one. Lauren Bolbert
(31:35):
didn't give a good enough reason to support Victor Marx.
What does she mean a career politician. I like Greg Lopez.
He understands what's going on. I also like Scott Bottoms.
I even like Barb Kirkmeyer. I absolutely disagree with Bobert
on Victor of Marx. Here's one in reference to Lauren Bobert,
she's another reason why Republicans are going to lose in
the mid terms. I'm assuming this person's not a fan.
(31:58):
Says average people blame Republicans for the government shut down.
I don't know. I think I'm an average guy, and
I don't I'm not blaming the Republicans right now, but
I guess it's all perspective. Here's another one. The longer
the government is shut down, the more the economy will
take a hit. That the we'll say F word commies
will blame on Trump. You might have a point there.
(32:19):
Everything gets blamed on Trump. I mean, global warming is
probably blamed on Trump. Well, I know it's blamed on Trump.
If you have a bad drive to work, it's probably
blamed on Trump. At this point, here's one. If we're
going to talk about Dan Mays, we also have to
talk about Tom tan Credo. What is he doing now?
I don't know exactly what Tom tan Credo is doing,
other than I know he endorses almost everyone who runs
(32:40):
for office who asks for his endorsement. I've had a
chance to meet Tom tan Credo several times. I can't
call him a friend, but he is an interesting guy.
I think he's at the point in his life where
he's just he's having a great time from the sidelines.
But I don't have a personal relationship with tan Credo.
So that's the best answer I can give you. I
(33:02):
like this one, great show. The Dan Mays era is
such a cloud in my brain. Thank you for your discussion.
Look forward to hearing from Lauren. That was the one
about the Pride of Colorado and the best ending to
a text. Here go Broncos, because you know what they're
playing tonight, and I have my Lucky Broncos shirt on.
I see that Ryan has his Lucky Broncos.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Had a really nice sweatshirt too that I got from
the Team Store.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Well there you go, a Team store sweatshirt with the
old Denver Bronco logo on it, which I gotta tell you,
that's the classic. I wish they'd stick with that in.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Those totally so slick, so clean.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
I don't know if they're wearing the throwback jerseys tonight.
I'd heard someone talking about that earlier today. Maybe either way,
a win's a win, especially if it's over the last
Vegas Raiders, so we'll hope for that. One last text
here says twenty candidates. All I can think is what
a waste of money funding all these campaigns. You might
not be wrong AnyWho. Thanks for tuning in tonight. It's
(33:57):
always a pleasure to cover for Dan, and I am
hold he's on vacation, a well deserved vacation, so thanks
for listening. This is Weld Coudy Sheriff Steve Riems covering
the Dan Caplis Show on six point thirty k how
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