December 2, 2025 • 36 mins
State Representative Scott Bottoms (R-15) joins Weld County Sheriff Steve Reams to discuss his prospects as a candidate among a field of about 20 Republican candidates in the race for Colorado governor.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome to the Dan Caplis Show here today with Well
Kenny Sheriff Steve Reems as your guest host. I get
this is day one of three that I'll be hosting,
so you can either enjoy it or turn the station.
I'd like for you to stay here, but you know,
sometimes having a guest host is difficult for some. But
I'll try to make this entertaining for everyone. You know,
yesterday Dan was on the radio talking about traffic in
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Colorado and just how dangerous our roadways have gotten here.
And I have to say, on my way down here,
sitting in ten fifteen mile an hour traffic from Colfax
all the way to Bellevue, it didn't feel like it
was extremely dangerous, but it was extremely frustrating. But it
just goes to speak to how overcrowded our roads roadways are,
how horrible the conditions of our roads are. Because while
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you're doing ten or fifteen miles an hour, you feel
every bump, every hole in the road, and man, there's
plenty of them from Colfax all the way to Bellevue. So,
you know, going through some of the text messages that
Dan got in yesterday about traffic concerns, I can tell
you this, the listeners out there are extremely dissatisfied with
the state of we'll just say, the justice system in
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Colorado and how it does or does not hold offenders
accountable for those those same traffic violations or other violations
in general. And I couldn't be in more agreement with that.
As a law enforcement person who's been doing this job
for darn near twenty eight years in the state of Colorado,
I have seen the pendulum swing from one direction to
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the other, and it is not in the benefit of
the safety of Colorado motorists whatsoever. And then, of course,
you know, you have all the infrastructure issues that we've
let Democrat rule just neglect in this state, so you
kind of get what you asked for. Elections have consequences.
I think Ryan said that in the last hour or two,
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and that thing holds true. I mean, it's just it's
tough to watch our state Crumble. Having said all that,
we do see some positive things in my personal opinion,
that are happening out on the national front. I'm going
to say, if you're thinking about a career and driving
a Venezuelan drug boat, you're probably rethinking that career right now,
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as we're seeing in the news these strikes that are
happening on the Venezuelan cartel members that are trying to
smuggle dope into the country and meeting a very difficult fate.
There's some question now about whether or not maybe one
of these boats was hit a couple of times, and
whether that's authorized under the Military Code of Justice, if
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you will, or military action. I'm not an expert on
any of that, but I can tell you from the
law enforcement side and seeing precipitous drop in encounters of
illegal narcotics on the street, whatever's happening at the border
or done in the Caribbean Sea is definitely having an
effect on that trickle up factor, if you will, from
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the border or South America up into the United States.
And I hope we continue to lock that problem down.
But I'd love to hear your comments on any of
these topics. You can text into five seven, seven, three nine,
start your text out with Dan because this is his show,
or you can call in three h three seven one
three eight two five five. But speaking of the rot
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that is Colorado in so many ways, I've kind of
prided myself on trying to get as many of the
governor the Republican governor candidates on this station as I
could in the times that I fill in. I think
current count, we've had fourteen of the now twenty one
Republican governor candidates on this station that have agreed to
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an interview, and after this week we should be up
to eighteen of the twenty one. And while that's a
huge number, I think it's important for us to interview
those candidates, to vet those candidates and figure out, Okay,
is this person serious about running? Are they just throwing
their name in the hat for a particular reason, you know,
or what brings them to the race, what makes them
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think that they're most qualified to be the governor in Colorado.
One of our candidates is a person that we've actually
interviewed before. Scott Bottoms is going to be on with
us in the next segment, But when I did that interview,
he was fairly I'm going to say young into his race,
he hadn't been campaigning for very long. We did a
pretty short segment and Scott's definitely gained some momentum, and
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I want to make sure that we give him the
justified airtime on this station if we can, and so
hopefully we'll have him on for a couple of segments
and he can tell us how his campaign is going.
And one of the reasons I bring Scott bottoms up
is because he has probably been most impacted by a
recent person that jumped into the race, and that's candidate
Victor Marx, who I did an interview with, and I
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think Ryan is working on potentially doing an interview with.
Dan's had him on the show, and he's become kind
of a firebrand as a candidate in a couple of ways.
He's definitely built a following behind him, and then he's
also built some naysayers behind him. And I mentioned all
this because when I interviewed Victor Marx, I never understood
the traction that it was going to get from so
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many of you, and the amount of videos and audio
clips and comments that many of you have sent through
social media to me. I appreciate it. I don't do
the radio show every day. I don't really have a
dog in the fight as far as you know, going
for one particular candidate filling in doing the radio show.
I'm trying to remain as neutral as I can and
just provide the information that these candidates bring to the table.
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But to say that Victor Marx has has definitely given
some opinionated responses from some of you folks would be
an understatement. To say the least. That was one of
the most i'll say interesting interviews I've done with a
person on the radio, and quite some time, his stories
are pretty fantastic. Dick is to his life history, and
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so just hearing some of that on the radio was
a little bit shocking, to be honest with you. But
we're gonna We're gonna keep bringing these governor candidates on
or I'm gonna keep bringing these governor candidates on and
trying to make sure we get as much background as
we can for everyone, because I think this upcoming governor's
race there is a chance for a Republican to do well.
And you know, sometimes lightning strikes and and you find
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that narrow pathway where a Republican can can make headway,
but right now it's that vetting process of figuring out
who who can win on the Republican side. So when
we come back from this break, we will have Scott
Bottoms on with us, and again I look forward to
hearing what he has to say. We're gonna try to
keep him on for a couple of segments. I want
to give him plenty of time and plenty of airwaves
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to get his message out. You're listening to the Dan
Caplas Show here on six point thirty k how with
well Kunty Sheriff Steve Reams as your guest host.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Welcome to the Dan Caplis Show here with Well Kenny
Sheriff Steve Rings. And if you're listening to that bumper music,
that's a good hint as to who our next guest
is going to be on the radio show. Maybe he'll
use that as some walk up audio at one of
his upcoming events. But we were talking about there's twenty
one Republican candidates in the race for in the Republican
side of the race for governor, forty candidates total in
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the race, so big crowded field and it's going to
have to narrow down. But we're fortunate enough to have
state Representative Scott Bottoms from House District fifteen on with
the Scott, how are you doing this afternoon?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
I am dandy and thanks for my walk up music.
That was great.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Well, you're gonna have to reuse that at every event now.
I feel like, I mean, it just fits right, Yeah,
I mean, how can you not? Well, it works, you know, Scott,
I know you've been in the race for quite some time,
built a lot of momentum early on, and you have
quite a following, especially down in southern Colorado, but for
the Denver metro market, they may not know you quite
as well because you are down in that Colorados. If
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you could just kind of start out by explaining what
HG fifteen covers, so people kind of have a little
idea of where you're centered as far as you know
physically where you live in the state.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Yeah, So, District fifteen is the eastern side of Paso County,
basically the entire eastern side of Coloro Springs. And this
is my second term, been re elected once and pretty
excited about this run. Everything that we're seeing is just
it is so strong and positive toward who I am,
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who are what are race is about in the direction that.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
We're going, and what was what's your history before getting
into the state legislature. What's your background prior to that.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Well, I've been a pastor since I was twenty years old.
I've been a pastor of Church of Briargate in Caloro Springs,
which is actually on the north side of Colora Springs.
I live on the east side. My district is the
east side my my representative I mean, my church is
in a different representative district and I've been there for
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thirteen years. I was also in the Navy early on.
I left home at seventeen to go be in the Navy.
And thank you for your sirvich Yeah, thank you. I
In fact, I just talked to a guy I was
calling getting trying to get campaign contribution today. Talked to
a guy that had been twenty years in the Navy,
and we spent way too much time talking nyvy stuff today.
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But I enjoyed my time in that and would have
stayed in and retired if it could have worked with
the ministry stuff that I was doing.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Okay, so ministry background, you jump into the State House
I get a little bit of a mix up in
politics and decided, Hey, this is my time to run
for governor. I know I've had you on the show before,
but it was a real short segment. And you know
what was it that drew you to this race? What
made you say, Hey, this is my time. I think
I can win this thing. And why do you think
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you got so much traction upon announcing?
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Yeah, so so the why I'm run and all that.
After after spending three years in the UH well, by
the time I had declared, I'd spent two and a
half years as a representative. I just realized, Man, we
are we are so broken in so many different ways.
We we are known. Colorado is known all over the
nation now for being the drug headquarters of Venezuelan, crime
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headquarters for the United States. It's it's gotten bad. We're
second in crime in the entire nation, right that is,
that is inexcusable. And you have to lay that directly
at the feet of Governor Polis. You have to lay
that directly at the feet of Attorney General Wiser, who's
also running for governor. He has no business being governor.
When you can't, when you can't, even when you grow
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every single year in crime and now you're leading the nation.
There's something wrong there.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
And I would argue that he doesn't deserve to be
the attorney general, and not just doesn't deserve to be
the governor. But keep going.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
I'm sorry, well, I'm argue and this usually causes people
to get nervous when I say these things, specifically my
campaign team. But I would argue that he needs to
be in jail. This is this is not okay. Where
he's brought our state to this is horrible. And now
he's wanting to take that same thing to the governor's office.
And so we're the grooming is off the charts. We're
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a destination state now for transgender surgeries around the entire
United States, and the taxpayers pay for it. That anybody
in the United States can come get a transgender surgery
for free to them on the backs of the taxpayer
in the state of Colorado. And by the way, they
can do it as young as twelve years old without
parental knowledge, much less consent. That is our law. People
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get confused by that. They think I'm making it up.
I tried to pass a bill last spring that said
that any medical procedure for a minor in the United
in the state of Colorado has to have parental consent,
and the Democrats voted unanimously against it. And so we're
in a very very bad place and if we don't
figure this out soon, we're going to lose our state.
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This is we have gone too far. Crime is totally
off the charts. There is no feeling of safety, and
in fact, that's the second most important issue in the
state of Colorado by about seventy percent. And so this
is what pushed me into the governor's race. And the
second half of your question, I really do believe very strongly,
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and if you had a couple hours, I could explain it.
But I can give you some brief ones that I
am actually going to be the next governor. The support
that I have is not just down in Olpaso County,
I am. I am so strong in the western Slope.
I mean, it's it's bizarre how to me how strongly
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these people have come out for me and said, Okay,
we're going to take our state back, We're going to
reclaim Colorado. We're going to do this for everyone. And
I'll give you another one that a lot of people
are not tracking. But I do know that the Democrats
are tracking this because I've had the conversations. I know
what's going on here. Their internal polls are saying the
same thing as ours are, and that is that the
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Democrats across the state of Colorado are not okay with
what is happening in the House, the Senate, and in
the governor's office specifically with grooming, specifically with crime, and
then coming in a pretty strong third right after that's
the economy. And so when you put those things together,
Democrats are going to vote for a Republican governor in
twenty six and I am such the front runner, and
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all of the Republicans right now most of them are
in single digits. There's only one Republican that's like in
double digits support and I'm in the seventy to eighty percentile.
And so if we did the vote right now, I'm
the next governor of the state of Colorado.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
We those are pretty impressive numbers. And I know when
you do internal polling, you know your opponents are going
to challenge that. One of the challenges I've heard from
one of your recent opponents that jumped in the race,
and I mean it's been out on social media. I'm
sure you've seen it. Is Well, you know you've been
in the state legislature. How come you know? How come
you haven't fixed it already? I think that's a pretty
shallow argument, but I want to give you a chance
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to address that.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Anybody that says that it has no idea how the
state works has no idea. I don't know who you're
talking about, so I haven't seen it. But if anybody
actually says that they don't know what's going on in
the state, they don't. They don't know how the House works,
They don't know how the Senate works. Sure, we had
nineteen when I first became a representative. We had nineteen
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Republicans in a House of sixty five. We have grown
that to twenty two. So basically always done is barely
got out of the super minority and got into the minority.
And so when somebody says, you know, you haven't fixed
it yet, that they whoever they are, they don't need
to be running for governor because they don't know how.
They don't know how the state works, and how votes work,
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and how anything works. That just shows a true ignorance
and a lack of of working knowledge, and so then
we don't have we can't pass anything unless the Democrats
allow us to. They've been in control of this state
for twenty years. And that's part of the reason that
the Democrats are starting to pull away from the Democrat
leadership is when you've been in charge that long and
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everything is only getting worse, at what point do you say, Okay,
maybe just maybe we should try a different viewpoint, Maybe
we should give somebody a chance that that actually has
a different mindset and a different idea. And when it
comes to the economy, I hands down and most of
my plan is online. But I can fix the economy
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literally over No, I think the average sixth grader could
fix the economy in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
And what's your what's your what's your fix for that?
I mean, let's hear it.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Okay. The simple thing is we are still a coal,
oil and gas state. We always have been, we always
will be. The idea of solar wind supplying electricity for
the future of Colorado is laughable. It has to be
subsidized by the government so much it's not even a conversation.
On top of that, then you've got all this solar
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conversation The problem is that solar for residential it is
starting to get to the point where it's almost viable.
The problem is is that the solar technology for a
corporate mentality, we're gonna have to We're gonna have to
up the infrastructure amazingly strong for all the data centers
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and the ai and everything. And part of my plan
also believe is that I believe we need to we
have a partnership with Taiwan. Already, we're like a sister state.
I mean, they're a country where a state, but we
have a sister relationship with them. I believe that Colorado
can be the data center headquarters for the United States.
We can eclipse some of the stuff that Elon Musk
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is doing if we do this right and we do
it quickly. But the first thing is we've got to
put our focus back on oil, coal and gas. And
I also believe we need to put emphasis on the
small nuclear reactors that is the future of electricity for
the massive increase that we're going to need over the
next decade and really over even the next three to
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four years. I'm also ranching and farming right now. Our
governor hates ranches and farms and the reason is because
he wants to own the land, the state to own
the land well. And then he and then his husband
is a vegan, and so he doesn't like people eating beef,
and so he brought in the wolves to destroy the
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cow population. But here's the thing. We're already buying most
of our beef in Colorado that we're consuming, except for
the military basis, most of the beef that we consume
in Colorado comes from China, Brazil, Argentina, and Australia. Well,
until we fix that and we start buying our beef
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from our own rank and consuming our beef from our
own ranchers, we're going to stay right where we are.
The way that we revitalize the rural communities too, is
that we buy our beef there, we do our farming,
We buy farming from there, and then we start with
the drilling again and we actually have oil, and then
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we have the natural gas. I've been talking to some
natural gas guys recently about pipelines and things like that,
and hey.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Scott, we're going to take a quick break hold that
thought because when we come back, I want to hear
I want to hear more of this, and who you
would appoint to some of those boards and commissions that
control that oil and gas industry and control some of
that agricultural industry. We'll take a quick break. When we
come back, we'll stay on with Scott Bottom's candidate for governor.
You're listening to the Dan Kaplas Show here on six
point thirty k High with Well County Sheriff Steve Riams.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Welcome back to the Dan Kaplis Show here with Well
County Sheriff Steve Reams as your guest host. And when
we went to break, we were speaking with Representative Scott Bottoms,
who's running for governor, and we're going to continue that conversation,
but I want to open up the text line for
you guys. If you have a question of mister Scott
Bottoms running for governor, you can text that in at
five seven, seven, three nine. Start your text out with
Dan and as those come in, we'll try to read
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them on air so that Scott can react to him
in live time. And when we were going to break,
you were talking about, you know, restarting oil and gas
and getting agriculture and ranching going again, and my question
to you is as the governor, if you're elected, you're
going to have the opportunity to put people on those
boards and commissions that oversee the oil and gas industry,
farming and ranching. You're going to have a lot of
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input there. Where do you see yourself being able to
make some of those changes, because I can tell you
right now in Weld County it takes about fourteen months
for a new oil or gas drill to be permitted,
fourteen months from the time that it's first apply for
because of the state regulatory process. That's just ridiculous. There's
no reason I should take that long, and I think
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a lot of that is due to bureaucracy. Do you
see it the same way and would you make changes there?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Oh? Yeah, definitely. In fact, I had a very long
conversation this morning with some guys in the natural gas
industry and they're saying the same things. In fact, they've
been working on a pipeline here in Colorado that at
the federal level it's going to take about three years
for the process for the stapework to go through for
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them to get some kind of permission. In these contents
that that is not normal regulation that's punitive. That that
is a group of people that are trying to attack
the industry and keep it from happening. But here's the
thing is, we're seeing this, Like I said earlier, we're
seeing it even in the ranching and farming industry. We're
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the sixth most regulated state in the United States. It
is we've lost forty percent of our businesses in the
last five years. That's due to mostly due to regulation
and taxes. Major companies are pulling out. We've had two
insurance companies pulled out just in the last nine months,
six and nine months, and they said, we're just not
going to be providing new policies anymore. In the state
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of Colorado. It's too it's too punitive for us. We
can't get due business, we can't get anything accomplished. And
this is due to the just the crazy amount of control,
just the just the Marxist mentality of control that says, no,
you're going to go by our rules, you're going to
do what we say. This has got to stop. We
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can we can be that. This is the part that
most people don't realize. And again I do have a
pretty extensive plan. Some of it I've just mentioned But
here's another part of this is if we'll do some
of this stuff, because I do want us to be
the data center headquarters of the United States, we can
be the wealthiest state in the United States if we
would stop playing all of these silly games. When it
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comes to the the fear mongering of environmental destruction and
disaster and and and all this stuff is not true.
It is just not true. We've built this this huge
fear that that the entire world is going to collapse
is somehow uh you know, somebody starts an internal combustible engine.
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It is so it is. It's just laughable. This stuff
is being disproved all the time. Well, so then you
got anything to do with energy is on the chopping block.
Now we'll do We'll do these big you know fans
all all around the Lineman area. But they're not producing it.
They're being subsidized to the government. They do not make
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a profit, not one time since they've been put together,
because they are subsidized by the government. You take that
government subsidy away, there is no there is no electricity
being provided by these people. It's all supported by the government.
Well that's how long do you do that? How long
do you just throw money after something that doesn't work
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until you say, hey, let's actually try something that does well.
A lot of my does.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
So on that topic, you know, you're I think you're
talking about priorities where you would you know, where you
would see your tax dollars or where you would prioritize
tax dollars going. One of the things I mentioned at
the top of the show was just the conditions of
the roadway roadways and infrastructures in Colorado. And we're spending
a lot of money on supporting a legal immigration. You
talked about transgender surgeries. You know, as the governor, you
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have a lot of you'd have a lot of authority
on where funding gets prioritized. What are some of your
top priorities and are roadways one of those?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Yes? So so here's this is a very layered answer,
but it's but it's very important in the process to understand.
So we we've hacked one bill left session that I didn't.
I voted against it, debated against it, attacked it everyone
I could, but we voted one bill in and there
was many many others that were just like this, but
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just one bill, and I believe it was HP twenty five,
thirteen oh nine, and that bill gave five hundred million
dollars to illegal immigrants. And it's specifically said you can
go read the bill. Because people think I'm making this
stuff up. I'm not. You can go read the bill.
It literally said it included in the bill illegal immigrant
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transgender surgeries. Well, the reason it said that is because
there's not there's not a five hundred million dollars worth
of people standing by to get transgender surgeries. What that
is is a smoke screen to be able to funnel
money in places that is not appropriate. It's corrupt. You
take our road systems, the doc is very corrupt. We
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we must fix that. First, we must actually address with
all of our education the departm into corrections. You've got
a lot of major groups in the state of Colorado
that are very corrupt that millions and million, tens of
millions of dollars are going places they should not go.
And here's the dirty little secret. Everybody knows it. We
have we have fitting representatives right now that have been
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taking money from the state and this is corruption. They
are not and they're paying all of their family members
for it. The Denver Post even did an article on
one of them. Well, when the Denver Post starts doing
articles on democrats, you know this is corrupt. This is done,
I mean, just crazy, way too far. But it's because
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we allow it. Well, the reason we don't six roads
in Colorado is because of corruption. It's not because of
the amounts of money we have or don't have. It's
that we're putting it in places it's not supposed to go.
We're doing things with it's not supposed to be done.
And this is at the at the it's the taxpayer's
money that's doing this. So when do we actually do something?
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But when do we stop this stuff? When I'm governor,
we're gonna doge everything in the state. We're going to
critically analyze every single thing. We're gonna go budget line
on him by lining on them, I'm going to present
a budget. You asked a little bit ago, who's going
to be helping me and who's gonna be cabinet and
stuff like that. Quite honestly, most of that I won't
answer right now. But that's that's the all of the
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conversations I've been having in the last two weeks, is
all of those conversations is who's going to work with me.
Who's gonna be on my cabinet, Who's gonna fill this position,
who's going to fill this position?
Speaker 2 (26:30):
I guess maybe the better question is a lot of
Maybe maybe the better question is is there is there
any Is there any state agency that you think is
running well now that you would say, hey, I'm going
to keep I'd want to keep that person on. Do
you see any state agency that you think, yeah, they're
getting it mostly right?
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Uh? No. The here, here's part of the thing with
who do you keep on? Who do you not keep on?
Just because the state agency is not running properly right
now doesn't necessarily mean that the people that are in
charge of it need to be booted. Sometimes they are
part of a system they can't control. And I've had
some of these conversations. I've had some conversations with with
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state agency leaders that are saying, we do not like
the way this is running, we do not want it
to run this way. But this is what our governor says,
this is what the representatives say, this is what the
senators say, and so we have to go by this sure.
And that's the part where I'm like, this has got
to stop. We can't keep doing this, and so yeah,
there are some there are some positions not agencies. There
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are some positions that the leader can stay in those positions.
And I would have a legitimate conversation with any state
leader of any agency, but they would have to really
be able to prove to me why has it been
so bad so far and why have you not worked
to stop it? Or if you have, how have you
worked to stop it? Scott, and try to clean some
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of this stuff up.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
We have Scott Bottom's represented from HD fifteen running for
Republican the Republican governor's nomination and the Republican governor's seat
hopefully for him in the future. We got to kind
of wrap up here. But if the listeners want to
go out and find a little bit more about you,
if they want to find your website, where do they
go to? Where do they go to find that information?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Yeah, Scott Bottoms dot com. Pretty simple, It's just my
name and there's all kinds of stuff on there. There
is all kinds of videos of stuff that speeches and
things that I've get in at town halls, also debates
on the floor of the House. I fight hard for
the people of Colorado and that comes out pretty clear.
I fight hard for mothers, I fight hard for business.
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I've been working with the Small Business Administration Chair for
the Trump administration for a while. Now we're going to
come out with some stuff here pretty soon. I'm about
small business. You can find all that on my website.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
All right, say that website one more time, Scottbottoms dot com. Well,
I appreciate you being on the right radio show. Hopefully
we'll get a chance to do this again in the future.
It's a long race. It's not untill next June when
that primary happens, and you know, I'm pretty certain you'll
still be in the race at that point, so we'll
plan on having you back on again. Scott Bottom's State
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rep for HD fifteen running for governor. Thanks for being
on the show with us, and appreciate you. I appreciate
you giving us some of your time.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Yes, sir, thanks Cher.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
With that, we'll go to break and when we come back,
we'll clean up some of your text. You're listening to
Dan Capless Show here on six thirty k how.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
And now back to the Dan Kapless Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Welcome back to the Dan Capless Show here with Well
County Sheriff Steve Reims setting in as your guest host
day one of three, so you're having me for the
next couple of days while Dan's often trialed down in
Colorado Springs. And I want to thank Scott Bottoms for
coming on, spending a little bit of time with us,
and trying to break down where his campaign's heading. And
I owe all the listeners a little bit of an apology.
The text machine here in the studio doesn't work exactly
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like your phone, so sometimes the texts are a little
delayed in getting in. But I want to make sure
that we read them on air. That way, Scott and
his team can listen to what your feedback is and
they can try to figure out how to answer that
in subsequent interviews or on his website, or whatever the
case may be. And I said this all along. You
send them in and I'll read them. I try not
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to try not to modify anything too much unless it's
inappropriate for the radio. This one's Scott Bottoms. Sorry. Moving on.
As a sixty plus year old native of the state Laurdi,
I hope the Republican Party can bring someone more qualified forward.
Please exclamation point. Here's another one. Thank you for giving
Scott Bottoms the same amount of time that the radio
gave Marks. Wow, thank you so much for letting Scott
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Bottoms tell us what he wants to do to help Colorado.
Thanks so much again, Sheriff, He's my guy. Here's another one,
What specifically will Scott Bottoms do? He's the typical firebrand
throwing haymakers, but not a single answer. I think it
is tough when you're doing these radio interviews to drill
down to the specifics, and I think sometimes the candidates
a little hesitant to do that only because they don't
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want to get into the weeds. And I'm not defending Scott,
but I think you're right, Texter, when when you're gonna
come on a radio show, you better have some very
specific information, like how can you bend the needle, move
the needle, change directions. I think roads, to me are
one of those things where people want to hear where's
the money coming from, how much are you going to spend?
How many lane miles are we going to work at fixing?
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Because I can tell you, as a person who lives
in Colorado, that stuff's extremely important to me because the
longer it goes the worse it's going to get another
one here. I would like to know where mister Bottom
stands on the use of imminent domain to bring power
lines through eastern Colorado areas farmers and ranchers properties that
do not wish to have those power lines run through them.
You know, that's that's probably a very important question to
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the to the farmers and ranchers out on the eastern
plains who make up a pretty good voting block. Another,
Scott Bottoms is nowhere near being ready as a guy
who's spent over sixty years in this state, he's just
not the guy. So there's two sixty plus year old
folks that have texted in that are not connecting with
Scott Bottoms. Clearly, this is a great question based on
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some of the data that Scott was throwing out here.
If most of the beef consumed in Colorado comes from
outside of the state, where's the beef that is being
produced in the state going. You have a big plan
out in Cargill and Fort Morgan, And I'll add this,
you have a huge plant in Greeley, JBS Swift that
does a giant amount of beef packing. So yeah, if
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we're importing most of our beef is the beef in
Colorado also being consumed, I guess is a good question.
Another one. Thank you for an interview with Scott Bottoms,
and I agree with him. The ag needs to go
to jail. I'm assuming most of the listening audience would
agree with that assessment. We need our Colorado back. All
the demon rats aka Democrats, and I do mean rats
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need to be ousted. Love it when you're on the show, Sheriff.
Thank you, and then I'll finish up with this one
because we started with a little bit of a he's
about Victor Marx, having been on the show before, says Dan,
I'm all in for Victor Marx because he's not one
of them like Trump. Just like Trump, Trump wasn't one
of them. I don't think you should be surprised at all.
We are now sick of the status quo. I don't
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care anymore who has the most experienced That's actually a
dud for me. I'm ready to change it up, and
I believe that Victor Marx will do that, and his
strength shows he will not back down. Just like Trump.
You got to think outside the political box. Well, I
don't know if I would compare Victor Marx to Donald Trump,
but in the sense of coming from outside of the
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political realm, I can see that. You know, I've never
seen a candidate come from basically nowhere in the political
spectrum and you know, build the following that he has
as quickly as he has, at least on social media
and Republican circles. I don't know if that translates in
a general election. I don't know if that translates with
unaffiliated voters. But I will give credit to Victor Marx.
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You know, he's he's definitely he's moving the needle for
his campaign. I think the next reporting cycle for how
much money these candidates have raised will be interesting. Victor's
been touting that he's out raising everyone, but it's pretty
hard to know if that's if that's factual right now,
because we don't have current reporting data, and I'd have
to get online to see when that next one is
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coming out. But that tends to be the measure of
how well a candidate is going to do in any
election season is how well they can raise money. You
can't raise the money, it's hard to get your name
out there, so on and so forth. Again, Victor has
one point nine million followers, I think he said on Facebook.
So it's a little easier to reach out and touch
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the masses if you will, and try to generate revenue
for your campaign. That may not all be from inside
the state, but that may not be that important either.
So we've got a lot to talk about. We're going
to go to break here in a little bit at
the end of the hour, but I want to tease
this next guest because I've never had a chance to
interview her on the radio. I've only talk to her
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in person. But she's a phenomenal person for the Second
Amendment out there. She's fighting hard every day. Her name's
Alicia Garcia. She also goes as the Boomstick Babe on
social media. But this is a gal who's in the fight.
She's out there pushing the Second Amendment agenda. And I
think all of you, if you're listening to this and
you know anything about my background, you know that I'm
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a big Second Amendment advocate as well. And I specifically
want to talk to Alicia in this next hour because
we've had some massive changes in gun laws in the
state of Colorado, and I've seen this as the sheriff
of Weld County, where we have thirty thousand concealed permit
holders in Weld County. Out of three hundred and forty
thousand citizens, thirty thousand of them are consaled weapon permit holders.
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And our numbers of people coming in to apply for
new consal permit are CONSIL carry permits or renew those
consil carry permits has dropped precipitously since the passage of
the bill recently HB twenty four Dash and seventy four.
So when we come back from this break, we'll have
Alicia Garcia on with us the boomstick Babe, and we're
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going to dive into second Amendment and get a little
away from this governor's talk and try to find out
if somebody out there is moving the needle in a
positive direction. If you listen to the Dan Caplis Show
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome to the Dan Caplis Show here today with Well
Kenny Sheriff Steve Reems as your guest host. I get
this is day one of three that I'll be hosting,
so you can either enjoy it or turn the station.
I'd like for you to stay here, but you know,
sometimes having a guest host is difficult for some. But
I'll try to make this entertaining for everyone. You know,
yesterday Dan was on the radio talking about traffic in
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Colorado and just how dangerous our roadways have gotten here.
And I have to say, on my way down here,
sitting in ten fifteen mile an hour traffic from Colfax
all the way to Bellevue, it didn't feel like it
was extremely dangerous, but it was extremely frustrating. But it
just goes to speak to how overcrowded our roads roadways are,
how horrible the conditions of our roads are. Because while
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you're doing ten or fifteen miles an hour, you feel
every bump, every hole in the road, and man, there's
plenty of them from Colfax all the way to Bellevue. So,
you know, going through some of the text messages that
Dan got in yesterday about traffic concerns, I can tell
you this, the listeners out there are extremely dissatisfied with
the state of we'll just say, the justice system in
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Colorado and how it does or does not hold offenders
accountable for those those same traffic violations or other violations
in general. And I couldn't be in more agreement with that.
As a law enforcement person who's been doing this job
for darn near twenty eight years in the state of Colorado,
I have seen the pendulum swing from one direction to
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the other, and it is not in the benefit of
the safety of Colorado motorists whatsoever. And then, of course,
you know, you have all the infrastructure issues that we've
let Democrat rule just neglect in this state, so you
kind of get what you asked for. Elections have consequences.
I think Ryan said that in the last hour or two,
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and that thing holds true. I mean, it's just it's
tough to watch our state Crumble. Having said all that,
we do see some positive things in my personal opinion,
that are happening out on the national front. I'm going
to say, if you're thinking about a career and driving
a Venezuelan drug boat, you're probably rethinking that career right now,
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as we're seeing in the news these strikes that are
happening on the Venezuelan cartel members that are trying to
smuggle dope into the country and meeting a very difficult fate.
There's some question now about whether or not maybe one
of these boats was hit a couple of times, and
whether that's authorized under the Military Code of Justice, if
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you will, or military action. I'm not an expert on
any of that, but I can tell you from the
law enforcement side and seeing precipitous drop in encounters of
illegal narcotics on the street, whatever's happening at the border
or done in the Caribbean Sea is definitely having an
effect on that trickle up factor, if you will, from
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the border or South America up into the United States.
And I hope we continue to lock that problem down.
But I'd love to hear your comments on any of
these topics. You can text into five seven, seven, three nine,
start your text out with Dan because this is his show,
or you can call in three h three seven one
three eight two five five. But speaking of the rot
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that is Colorado in so many ways, I've kind of
prided myself on trying to get as many of the
governor the Republican governor candidates on this station as I
could in the times that I fill in. I think
current count, we've had fourteen of the now twenty one
Republican governor candidates on this station that have agreed to
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an interview, and after this week we should be up
to eighteen of the twenty one. And while that's a
huge number, I think it's important for us to interview
those candidates, to vet those candidates and figure out, Okay,
is this person serious about running? Are they just throwing
their name in the hat for a particular reason, you know,
or what brings them to the race, what makes them
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think that they're most qualified to be the governor in Colorado.
One of our candidates is a person that we've actually
interviewed before. Scott Bottoms is going to be on with
us in the next segment, But when I did that interview,
he was fairly I'm going to say young into his race,
he hadn't been campaigning for very long. We did a
pretty short segment and Scott's definitely gained some momentum, and
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I want to make sure that we give him the
justified airtime on this station if we can, and so
hopefully we'll have him on for a couple of segments
and he can tell us how his campaign is going.
And one of the reasons I bring Scott bottoms up
is because he has probably been most impacted by a
recent person that jumped into the race, and that's candidate
Victor Marx, who I did an interview with, and I
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think Ryan is working on potentially doing an interview with.
Dan's had him on the show, and he's become kind
of a firebrand as a candidate in a couple of ways.
He's definitely built a following behind him, and then he's
also built some naysayers behind him. And I mentioned all
this because when I interviewed Victor Marx, I never understood
the traction that it was going to get from so
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many of you, and the amount of videos and audio
clips and comments that many of you have sent through
social media to me. I appreciate it. I don't do
the radio show every day. I don't really have a
dog in the fight as far as you know, going
for one particular candidate filling in doing the radio show.
I'm trying to remain as neutral as I can and
just provide the information that these candidates bring to the table.
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But to say that Victor Marx has has definitely given
some opinionated responses from some of you folks would be
an understatement. To say the least. That was one of
the most i'll say interesting interviews I've done with a
person on the radio, and quite some time, his stories
are pretty fantastic. Dick is to his life history, and
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so just hearing some of that on the radio was
a little bit shocking, to be honest with you. But
we're gonna We're gonna keep bringing these governor candidates on
or I'm gonna keep bringing these governor candidates on and
trying to make sure we get as much background as
we can for everyone, because I think this upcoming governor's
race there is a chance for a Republican to do well.
And you know, sometimes lightning strikes and and you find
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that narrow pathway where a Republican can can make headway,
but right now it's that vetting process of figuring out
who who can win on the Republican side. So when
we come back from this break, we will have Scott
Bottoms on with us, and again I look forward to
hearing what he has to say. We're gonna try to
keep him on for a couple of segments. I want
to give him plenty of time and plenty of airwaves
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to get his message out. You're listening to the Dan
Caplas Show here on six point thirty k how with
well Kunty Sheriff Steve Reams as your guest host.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Welcome to the Dan Caplis Show here with Well Kenny
Sheriff Steve Rings. And if you're listening to that bumper music,
that's a good hint as to who our next guest
is going to be on the radio show. Maybe he'll
use that as some walk up audio at one of
his upcoming events. But we were talking about there's twenty
one Republican candidates in the race for in the Republican
side of the race for governor, forty candidates total in
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the race, so big crowded field and it's going to
have to narrow down. But we're fortunate enough to have
state Representative Scott Bottoms from House District fifteen on with
the Scott, how are you doing this afternoon?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
I am dandy and thanks for my walk up music.
That was great.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Well, you're gonna have to reuse that at every event now.
I feel like, I mean, it just fits right, Yeah,
I mean, how can you not? Well, it works, you know, Scott,
I know you've been in the race for quite some time,
built a lot of momentum early on, and you have
quite a following, especially down in southern Colorado, but for
the Denver metro market, they may not know you quite
as well because you are down in that Colorados. If
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you could just kind of start out by explaining what
HG fifteen covers, so people kind of have a little
idea of where you're centered as far as you know
physically where you live in the state.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Yeah, So, District fifteen is the eastern side of Paso County,
basically the entire eastern side of Coloro Springs. And this
is my second term, been re elected once and pretty
excited about this run. Everything that we're seeing is just
it is so strong and positive toward who I am,
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who are what are race is about in the direction that.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
We're going, and what was what's your history before getting
into the state legislature. What's your background prior to that.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Well, I've been a pastor since I was twenty years old.
I've been a pastor of Church of Briargate in Caloro Springs,
which is actually on the north side of Colora Springs.
I live on the east side. My district is the
east side my my representative I mean, my church is
in a different representative district and I've been there for
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thirteen years. I was also in the Navy early on.
I left home at seventeen to go be in the Navy.
And thank you for your sirvich Yeah, thank you. I
In fact, I just talked to a guy I was
calling getting trying to get campaign contribution today. Talked to
a guy that had been twenty years in the Navy,
and we spent way too much time talking nyvy stuff today.
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But I enjoyed my time in that and would have
stayed in and retired if it could have worked with
the ministry stuff that I was doing.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Okay, so ministry background, you jump into the State House
I get a little bit of a mix up in
politics and decided, Hey, this is my time to run
for governor. I know I've had you on the show before,
but it was a real short segment. And you know
what was it that drew you to this race? What
made you say, Hey, this is my time. I think
I can win this thing. And why do you think
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you got so much traction upon announcing?
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Yeah, so so the why I'm run and all that.
After after spending three years in the UH well, by
the time I had declared, I'd spent two and a
half years as a representative. I just realized, Man, we
are we are so broken in so many different ways.
We we are known. Colorado is known all over the
nation now for being the drug headquarters of Venezuelan, crime
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headquarters for the United States. It's it's gotten bad. We're
second in crime in the entire nation, right that is,
that is inexcusable. And you have to lay that directly
at the feet of Governor Polis. You have to lay
that directly at the feet of Attorney General Wiser, who's
also running for governor. He has no business being governor.
When you can't, when you can't, even when you grow
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every single year in crime and now you're leading the nation.
There's something wrong there.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
And I would argue that he doesn't deserve to be
the attorney general, and not just doesn't deserve to be
the governor. But keep going.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
I'm sorry, well, I'm argue and this usually causes people
to get nervous when I say these things, specifically my
campaign team. But I would argue that he needs to
be in jail. This is this is not okay. Where
he's brought our state to this is horrible. And now
he's wanting to take that same thing to the governor's office.
And so we're the grooming is off the charts. We're
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a destination state now for transgender surgeries around the entire
United States, and the taxpayers pay for it. That anybody
in the United States can come get a transgender surgery
for free to them on the backs of the taxpayer
in the state of Colorado. And by the way, they
can do it as young as twelve years old without
parental knowledge, much less consent. That is our law. People
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get confused by that. They think I'm making it up.
I tried to pass a bill last spring that said
that any medical procedure for a minor in the United
in the state of Colorado has to have parental consent,
and the Democrats voted unanimously against it. And so we're
in a very very bad place and if we don't
figure this out soon, we're going to lose our state.
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This is we have gone too far. Crime is totally
off the charts. There is no feeling of safety, and
in fact, that's the second most important issue in the
state of Colorado by about seventy percent. And so this
is what pushed me into the governor's race. And the
second half of your question, I really do believe very strongly,
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and if you had a couple hours, I could explain it.
But I can give you some brief ones that I
am actually going to be the next governor. The support
that I have is not just down in Olpaso County,
I am. I am so strong in the western Slope.
I mean, it's it's bizarre how to me how strongly
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these people have come out for me and said, Okay,
we're going to take our state back, We're going to
reclaim Colorado. We're going to do this for everyone. And
I'll give you another one that a lot of people
are not tracking. But I do know that the Democrats
are tracking this because I've had the conversations. I know
what's going on here. Their internal polls are saying the
same thing as ours are, and that is that the
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Democrats across the state of Colorado are not okay with
what is happening in the House, the Senate, and in
the governor's office specifically with grooming, specifically with crime, and
then coming in a pretty strong third right after that's
the economy. And so when you put those things together,
Democrats are going to vote for a Republican governor in
twenty six and I am such the front runner, and
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all of the Republicans right now most of them are
in single digits. There's only one Republican that's like in
double digits support and I'm in the seventy to eighty percentile.
And so if we did the vote right now, I'm
the next governor of the state of Colorado.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
We those are pretty impressive numbers. And I know when
you do internal polling, you know your opponents are going
to challenge that. One of the challenges I've heard from
one of your recent opponents that jumped in the race,
and I mean it's been out on social media. I'm
sure you've seen it. Is Well, you know you've been
in the state legislature. How come you know? How come
you haven't fixed it already? I think that's a pretty
shallow argument, but I want to give you a chance
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to address that.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Anybody that says that it has no idea how the
state works has no idea. I don't know who you're
talking about, so I haven't seen it. But if anybody
actually says that they don't know what's going on in
the state, they don't. They don't know how the House works,
They don't know how the Senate works. Sure, we had
nineteen when I first became a representative. We had nineteen
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Republicans in a House of sixty five. We have grown
that to twenty two. So basically always done is barely
got out of the super minority and got into the minority.
And so when somebody says, you know, you haven't fixed
it yet, that they whoever they are, they don't need
to be running for governor because they don't know how.
They don't know how the state works, and how votes work,
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and how anything works. That just shows a true ignorance
and a lack of of working knowledge, and so then
we don't have we can't pass anything unless the Democrats
allow us to. They've been in control of this state
for twenty years. And that's part of the reason that
the Democrats are starting to pull away from the Democrat
leadership is when you've been in charge that long and
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everything is only getting worse, at what point do you say, Okay,
maybe just maybe we should try a different viewpoint, Maybe
we should give somebody a chance that that actually has
a different mindset and a different idea. And when it
comes to the economy, I hands down and most of
my plan is online. But I can fix the economy
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literally over No, I think the average sixth grader could
fix the economy in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
And what's your what's your what's your fix for that?
I mean, let's hear it.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Okay. The simple thing is we are still a coal,
oil and gas state. We always have been, we always
will be. The idea of solar wind supplying electricity for
the future of Colorado is laughable. It has to be
subsidized by the government so much it's not even a conversation.
On top of that, then you've got all this solar
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conversation The problem is that solar for residential it is
starting to get to the point where it's almost viable.
The problem is is that the solar technology for a
corporate mentality, we're gonna have to We're gonna have to
up the infrastructure amazingly strong for all the data centers
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and the ai and everything. And part of my plan
also believe is that I believe we need to we
have a partnership with Taiwan. Already, we're like a sister state.
I mean, they're a country where a state, but we
have a sister relationship with them. I believe that Colorado
can be the data center headquarters for the United States.
We can eclipse some of the stuff that Elon Musk
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is doing if we do this right and we do
it quickly. But the first thing is we've got to
put our focus back on oil, coal and gas. And
I also believe we need to put emphasis on the
small nuclear reactors that is the future of electricity for
the massive increase that we're going to need over the
next decade and really over even the next three to
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four years. I'm also ranching and farming right now. Our
governor hates ranches and farms and the reason is because
he wants to own the land, the state to own
the land well. And then he and then his husband
is a vegan, and so he doesn't like people eating beef,
and so he brought in the wolves to destroy the
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cow population. But here's the thing. We're already buying most
of our beef in Colorado that we're consuming, except for
the military basis, most of the beef that we consume
in Colorado comes from China, Brazil, Argentina, and Australia. Well,
until we fix that and we start buying our beef
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from our own rank and consuming our beef from our
own ranchers, we're going to stay right where we are.
The way that we revitalize the rural communities too, is
that we buy our beef there, we do our farming,
We buy farming from there, and then we start with
the drilling again and we actually have oil, and then
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we have the natural gas. I've been talking to some
natural gas guys recently about pipelines and things like that,
and hey.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Scott, we're going to take a quick break hold that
thought because when we come back, I want to hear
I want to hear more of this, and who you
would appoint to some of those boards and commissions that
control that oil and gas industry and control some of
that agricultural industry. We'll take a quick break. When we
come back, we'll stay on with Scott Bottom's candidate for governor.
You're listening to the Dan Kaplas Show here on six
point thirty k High with Well County Sheriff Steve Riams.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Welcome back to the Dan Kaplis Show here with Well
County Sheriff Steve Reams as your guest host. And when
we went to break, we were speaking with Representative Scott Bottoms,
who's running for governor, and we're going to continue that conversation,
but I want to open up the text line for
you guys. If you have a question of mister Scott
Bottoms running for governor, you can text that in at
five seven, seven, three nine. Start your text out with
Dan and as those come in, we'll try to read
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them on air so that Scott can react to him
in live time. And when we were going to break,
you were talking about, you know, restarting oil and gas
and getting agriculture and ranching going again, and my question
to you is as the governor, if you're elected, you're
going to have the opportunity to put people on those
boards and commissions that oversee the oil and gas industry,
farming and ranching. You're going to have a lot of
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input there. Where do you see yourself being able to
make some of those changes, because I can tell you
right now in Weld County it takes about fourteen months
for a new oil or gas drill to be permitted,
fourteen months from the time that it's first apply for
because of the state regulatory process. That's just ridiculous. There's
no reason I should take that long, and I think
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a lot of that is due to bureaucracy. Do you
see it the same way and would you make changes there?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Oh? Yeah, definitely. In fact, I had a very long
conversation this morning with some guys in the natural gas
industry and they're saying the same things. In fact, they've
been working on a pipeline here in Colorado that at
the federal level it's going to take about three years
for the process for the stapework to go through for
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them to get some kind of permission. In these contents
that that is not normal regulation that's punitive. That that
is a group of people that are trying to attack
the industry and keep it from happening. But here's the
thing is, we're seeing this, Like I said earlier, we're
seeing it even in the ranching and farming industry. We're
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the sixth most regulated state in the United States. It
is we've lost forty percent of our businesses in the
last five years. That's due to mostly due to regulation
and taxes. Major companies are pulling out. We've had two
insurance companies pulled out just in the last nine months,
six and nine months, and they said, we're just not
going to be providing new policies anymore. In the state
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of Colorado. It's too it's too punitive for us. We
can't get due business, we can't get anything accomplished. And
this is due to the just the crazy amount of control,
just the just the Marxist mentality of control that says, no,
you're going to go by our rules, you're going to
do what we say. This has got to stop. We
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can we can be that. This is the part that
most people don't realize. And again I do have a
pretty extensive plan. Some of it I've just mentioned But
here's another part of this is if we'll do some
of this stuff, because I do want us to be
the data center headquarters of the United States, we can
be the wealthiest state in the United States if we
would stop playing all of these silly games. When it
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comes to the the fear mongering of environmental destruction and
disaster and and and all this stuff is not true.
It is just not true. We've built this this huge
fear that that the entire world is going to collapse
is somehow uh you know, somebody starts an internal combustible engine.
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It is so it is. It's just laughable. This stuff
is being disproved all the time. Well, so then you
got anything to do with energy is on the chopping block.
Now we'll do We'll do these big you know fans
all all around the Lineman area. But they're not producing it.
They're being subsidized to the government. They do not make
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a profit, not one time since they've been put together,
because they are subsidized by the government. You take that
government subsidy away, there is no there is no electricity
being provided by these people. It's all supported by the government.
Well that's how long do you do that? How long
do you just throw money after something that doesn't work
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until you say, hey, let's actually try something that does well.
A lot of my does.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
So on that topic, you know, you're I think you're
talking about priorities where you would you know, where you
would see your tax dollars or where you would prioritize
tax dollars going. One of the things I mentioned at
the top of the show was just the conditions of
the roadway roadways and infrastructures in Colorado. And we're spending
a lot of money on supporting a legal immigration. You
talked about transgender surgeries. You know, as the governor, you
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have a lot of you'd have a lot of authority
on where funding gets prioritized. What are some of your
top priorities and are roadways one of those?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Yes? So so here's this is a very layered answer,
but it's but it's very important in the process to understand.
So we we've hacked one bill left session that I didn't.
I voted against it, debated against it, attacked it everyone
I could, but we voted one bill in and there
was many many others that were just like this, but
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just one bill, and I believe it was HP twenty five,
thirteen oh nine, and that bill gave five hundred million
dollars to illegal immigrants. And it's specifically said you can
go read the bill. Because people think I'm making this
stuff up. I'm not. You can go read the bill.
It literally said it included in the bill illegal immigrant
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transgender surgeries. Well, the reason it said that is because
there's not there's not a five hundred million dollars worth
of people standing by to get transgender surgeries. What that
is is a smoke screen to be able to funnel
money in places that is not appropriate. It's corrupt. You
take our road systems, the doc is very corrupt. We
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we must fix that. First, we must actually address with
all of our education the departm into corrections. You've got
a lot of major groups in the state of Colorado
that are very corrupt that millions and million, tens of
millions of dollars are going places they should not go.
And here's the dirty little secret. Everybody knows it. We
have we have fitting representatives right now that have been
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taking money from the state and this is corruption. They
are not and they're paying all of their family members
for it. The Denver Post even did an article on
one of them. Well, when the Denver Post starts doing
articles on democrats, you know this is corrupt. This is done,
I mean, just crazy, way too far. But it's because
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we allow it. Well, the reason we don't six roads
in Colorado is because of corruption. It's not because of
the amounts of money we have or don't have. It's
that we're putting it in places it's not supposed to go.
We're doing things with it's not supposed to be done.
And this is at the at the it's the taxpayer's
money that's doing this. So when do we actually do something?
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But when do we stop this stuff? When I'm governor,
we're gonna doge everything in the state. We're going to
critically analyze every single thing. We're gonna go budget line
on him by lining on them, I'm going to present
a budget. You asked a little bit ago, who's going
to be helping me and who's gonna be cabinet and
stuff like that. Quite honestly, most of that I won't
answer right now. But that's that's the all of the
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conversations I've been having in the last two weeks, is
all of those conversations is who's going to work with me.
Who's gonna be on my cabinet, Who's gonna fill this position,
who's going to fill this position?
Speaker 2 (26:30):
I guess maybe the better question is a lot of
Maybe maybe the better question is is there is there
any Is there any state agency that you think is
running well now that you would say, hey, I'm going
to keep I'd want to keep that person on. Do
you see any state agency that you think, yeah, they're
getting it mostly right?
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Uh? No. The here, here's part of the thing with
who do you keep on? Who do you not keep on?
Just because the state agency is not running properly right
now doesn't necessarily mean that the people that are in
charge of it need to be booted. Sometimes they are
part of a system they can't control. And I've had
some of these conversations. I've had some conversations with with
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state agency leaders that are saying, we do not like
the way this is running, we do not want it
to run this way. But this is what our governor says,
this is what the representatives say, this is what the
senators say, and so we have to go by this sure.
And that's the part where I'm like, this has got
to stop. We can't keep doing this, and so yeah,
there are some there are some positions not agencies. There
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are some positions that the leader can stay in those positions.
And I would have a legitimate conversation with any state
leader of any agency, but they would have to really
be able to prove to me why has it been
so bad so far and why have you not worked
to stop it? Or if you have, how have you
worked to stop it? Scott, and try to clean some
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of this stuff up.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
We have Scott Bottom's represented from HD fifteen running for
Republican the Republican governor's nomination and the Republican governor's seat
hopefully for him in the future. We got to kind
of wrap up here. But if the listeners want to
go out and find a little bit more about you,
if they want to find your website, where do they
go to? Where do they go to find that information?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Yeah, Scott Bottoms dot com. Pretty simple, It's just my
name and there's all kinds of stuff on there. There
is all kinds of videos of stuff that speeches and
things that I've get in at town halls, also debates
on the floor of the House. I fight hard for
the people of Colorado and that comes out pretty clear.
I fight hard for mothers, I fight hard for business.
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I've been working with the Small Business Administration Chair for
the Trump administration for a while. Now we're going to
come out with some stuff here pretty soon. I'm about
small business. You can find all that on my website.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
All right, say that website one more time, Scottbottoms dot com. Well,
I appreciate you being on the right radio show. Hopefully
we'll get a chance to do this again in the future.
It's a long race. It's not untill next June when
that primary happens, and you know, I'm pretty certain you'll
still be in the race at that point, so we'll
plan on having you back on again. Scott Bottom's State
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rep for HD fifteen running for governor. Thanks for being
on the show with us, and appreciate you. I appreciate
you giving us some of your time.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Yes, sir, thanks Cher.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
With that, we'll go to break and when we come back,
we'll clean up some of your text. You're listening to
Dan Capless Show here on six thirty k how.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
And now back to the Dan Kapless Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Welcome back to the Dan Capless Show here with Well
County Sheriff Steve Reims setting in as your guest host
day one of three, so you're having me for the
next couple of days while Dan's often trialed down in
Colorado Springs. And I want to thank Scott Bottoms for
coming on, spending a little bit of time with us,
and trying to break down where his campaign's heading. And
I owe all the listeners a little bit of an apology.
The text machine here in the studio doesn't work exactly
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like your phone, so sometimes the texts are a little
delayed in getting in. But I want to make sure
that we read them on air. That way, Scott and
his team can listen to what your feedback is and
they can try to figure out how to answer that
in subsequent interviews or on his website, or whatever the
case may be. And I said this all along. You
send them in and I'll read them. I try not
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to try not to modify anything too much unless it's
inappropriate for the radio. This one's Scott Bottoms. Sorry. Moving on.
As a sixty plus year old native of the state Laurdi,
I hope the Republican Party can bring someone more qualified forward.
Please exclamation point. Here's another one. Thank you for giving
Scott Bottoms the same amount of time that the radio
gave Marks. Wow, thank you so much for letting Scott
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Bottoms tell us what he wants to do to help Colorado.
Thanks so much again, Sheriff, He's my guy. Here's another one,
What specifically will Scott Bottoms do? He's the typical firebrand
throwing haymakers, but not a single answer. I think it
is tough when you're doing these radio interviews to drill
down to the specifics, and I think sometimes the candidates
a little hesitant to do that only because they don't
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want to get into the weeds. And I'm not defending Scott,
but I think you're right, Texter, when when you're gonna
come on a radio show, you better have some very
specific information, like how can you bend the needle, move
the needle, change directions. I think roads, to me are
one of those things where people want to hear where's
the money coming from, how much are you going to spend?
How many lane miles are we going to work at fixing?
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Because I can tell you, as a person who lives
in Colorado, that stuff's extremely important to me because the
longer it goes the worse it's going to get another
one here. I would like to know where mister Bottom
stands on the use of imminent domain to bring power
lines through eastern Colorado areas farmers and ranchers properties that
do not wish to have those power lines run through them.
You know, that's that's probably a very important question to
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the to the farmers and ranchers out on the eastern
plains who make up a pretty good voting block. Another,
Scott Bottoms is nowhere near being ready as a guy
who's spent over sixty years in this state, he's just
not the guy. So there's two sixty plus year old
folks that have texted in that are not connecting with
Scott Bottoms. Clearly, this is a great question based on
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some of the data that Scott was throwing out here.
If most of the beef consumed in Colorado comes from
outside of the state, where's the beef that is being
produced in the state going. You have a big plan
out in Cargill and Fort Morgan, And I'll add this,
you have a huge plant in Greeley, JBS Swift that
does a giant amount of beef packing. So yeah, if
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we're importing most of our beef is the beef in
Colorado also being consumed, I guess is a good question.
Another one. Thank you for an interview with Scott Bottoms,
and I agree with him. The ag needs to go
to jail. I'm assuming most of the listening audience would
agree with that assessment. We need our Colorado back. All
the demon rats aka Democrats, and I do mean rats
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need to be ousted. Love it when you're on the show, Sheriff.
Thank you, and then I'll finish up with this one
because we started with a little bit of a he's
about Victor Marx, having been on the show before, says Dan,
I'm all in for Victor Marx because he's not one
of them like Trump. Just like Trump, Trump wasn't one
of them. I don't think you should be surprised at all.
We are now sick of the status quo. I don't
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care anymore who has the most experienced That's actually a
dud for me. I'm ready to change it up, and
I believe that Victor Marx will do that, and his
strength shows he will not back down. Just like Trump.
You got to think outside the political box. Well, I
don't know if I would compare Victor Marx to Donald Trump,
but in the sense of coming from outside of the
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political realm, I can see that. You know, I've never
seen a candidate come from basically nowhere in the political
spectrum and you know, build the following that he has
as quickly as he has, at least on social media
and Republican circles. I don't know if that translates in
a general election. I don't know if that translates with
unaffiliated voters. But I will give credit to Victor Marx.
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You know, he's he's definitely he's moving the needle for
his campaign. I think the next reporting cycle for how
much money these candidates have raised will be interesting. Victor's
been touting that he's out raising everyone, but it's pretty
hard to know if that's if that's factual right now,
because we don't have current reporting data, and I'd have
to get online to see when that next one is
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coming out. But that tends to be the measure of
how well a candidate is going to do in any
election season is how well they can raise money. You
can't raise the money, it's hard to get your name
out there, so on and so forth. Again, Victor has
one point nine million followers, I think he said on Facebook.
So it's a little easier to reach out and touch
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the masses if you will, and try to generate revenue
for your campaign. That may not all be from inside
the state, but that may not be that important either.
So we've got a lot to talk about. We're going
to go to break here in a little bit at
the end of the hour, but I want to tease
this next guest because I've never had a chance to
interview her on the radio. I've only talk to her
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in person. But she's a phenomenal person for the Second
Amendment out there. She's fighting hard every day. Her name's
Alicia Garcia. She also goes as the Boomstick Babe on
social media. But this is a gal who's in the fight.
She's out there pushing the Second Amendment agenda. And I
think all of you, if you're listening to this and
you know anything about my background, you know that I'm
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a big Second Amendment advocate as well. And I specifically
want to talk to Alicia in this next hour because
we've had some massive changes in gun laws in the
state of Colorado, and I've seen this as the sheriff
of Weld County, where we have thirty thousand concealed permit
holders in Weld County. Out of three hundred and forty
thousand citizens, thirty thousand of them are consaled weapon permit holders.
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And our numbers of people coming in to apply for
new consal permit are CONSIL carry permits or renew those
consil carry permits has dropped precipitously since the passage of
the bill recently HB twenty four Dash and seventy four.
So when we come back from this break, we'll have
Alicia Garcia on with us the boomstick Babe, and we're
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going to dive into second Amendment and get a little
away from this governor's talk and try to find out
if somebody out there is moving the needle in a
positive direction. If you listen to the Dan Caplis Show
here on six point thirty k how with Weill Kunny
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