July 8, 2025 • 34 mins
Yet another candidate for Colorado governor, Republican Robert Moore joins the program to discuss his entry into the race.
Rep. Brandi Bradley and Jacqueline Anderson joined Ryan on his local program to provide details on accusations of sexual harassment against Rep. Ron Weinberg that continue to build momentum.
Rep. Brandi Bradley and Jacqueline Anderson joined Ryan on his local program to provide details on accusations of sexual harassment against Rep. Ron Weinberg that continue to build momentum.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Capless and welcome to today's online podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome back to The Dan Caplis Show and with you
today as well Kenny Sheriff Steve Reims as your guest host.
If you weren't with us in the first hour, shame
on you. But in this second hour, we're going to
recap a little bit of some of the stuff we've
talked about because we have some breaking news. And if
you weren't with us in the first hour, you probably
didn't hear Ryan shuling live. But you'll definitely want to
go back and listen to the podcast of that show
(00:35):
if you weren't listening to it today, because we had
a little bit of a hubbub breakup over the over
the night at the Colorado State Capitol, not actually at
the Capitol, but involving the folks down there on the
Republican side of the aisle. The Representative Ryan Armagos stepped
down a few days ago, or he's making his step
(00:56):
down effective September one, when he was the House Minority
so in accordance with leadership down there, they needed to
elect a new whip, which is the person who kind
of gets the votes together down at the Colorado State House.
That person ended up being Representative Carlos Baron out of
the forty eighth district, the Fort Lupton area of Wild County.
(01:17):
Congrats to him. But in the process of all that occurring,
there were a couple other candidates that jumped in the
race for that particular position within leadership, Representative Ron Weinberg,
excuse me, Ron Weinberg, and Representative Brandy Bradley. And as
all this stuff was kind of, I guess building up,
some information got put forward from different folks accusing Representative
(01:42):
Ron Weinberg of some sexually harassing comments and actions either
at the Capitol or even outside of the Capitol in
years past. So that kind of blew up and turned
into a back and forth between Representative Ron Weinberg wife
defending him on Facebook and other social media platforms, and
(02:03):
then Represented Brandy Bradley kind of coming back at him
on Ryan's show. So it's been a day for those
of you that aren't necessarily involved in state level politics.
This may be why, but for those of you who
haven't been or who even are involved in the day
to day stuff, you have to kind of look at
(02:23):
this and shake your head a little bit. Again, I
had planned on speaking quite a bit about the Big
Beautiful Bill and the goods and the bads that are
in that bill, but sometimes you have to go with
where the fire is for a particular show. So we're
going to continue to talk a little bit about this
Ron Weinberg story or this allegation against Ron Weinberg. We
will get to the Epstein stuff. We will get to
(02:44):
the Big Beautiful Bill. We're also going to have a
candidate for governor on at five point thirty six. Robert
Moore will be on with us. Again, I'm trying to
get as many of these people on the record so
you guys can have some idea of who they are
and why they're running. But the breaking news of it
is the Day Today with Representative Ron Weinbergen and Ryan
(03:06):
Schuling Show Ryan Schuling Live. He had one of the accusers,
Jacqueline Anderson, on, and she gave kind of a rundown
about what happened and why she decided to put her
story forward, and I think it's pretty compelling and I'd
like to play that interview if we could. It's cut
twenty three.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
When my husband and I both were a part of
the leadership program of the Rockies. I was class of
twenty one in which Ron was our class president. My
husband is class of twenty twenty two. So the two
incidents in my victim statement reports were both at events
hosted by LPR. We you know, similar to this. Unfortunately,
it's one of those things where fortunately I would say
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I wasn't sexually assaulted. It wasn't like he physically did
anything to me, so it wasn't anything I felt like
I could report to the police and have anything done
about it. But similar if you're being harassed at work,
you take it to your HR. So when I heard
of some incidents is happening in twenty twenty two, my
husband and I decided to go forward and deal and
speak with LPR leadership, bring forward to them the attention
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of what had been happening, you know, with his harassments.
And at that time they had a zoom call with
us and they had told us that they had decided
the disciplinary action for Ron would be that he would
be no longer allowed to attend any future LPR events,
and at that time we felt that was satisfactory. You know,
(04:31):
we sord appreciate that we don't have to be in
any spaces with him, and that's great. So we just
kind of moved on with our lives, you know, unfortunate
that you know it happened, but you move on. Even
though my husband and I have stepped out of the
political space over the last few years and just led
very quiet lives, I know a lot of people still
in the space who are still fighting for our freedoms
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here in Colorado, and I respect that they do. But
when I hear stories of young girls, young age who
are being harassed and afraid to come forward. And then
when I had found out that he was running for whip,
I said, enough is enough, And sometimes we just need
to go ahead and be bold and step forward and
speak our truth and say this is what happened, and
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hopes that people will feel saith in coming forward and
telling their stories. And I got to tell you, there
are people in our dms with information about their experience
on the house floor, in the offices, and they're very
scared to come forward. And we're trying to help them,
you know, be able to do that in a safe space.
But I'm tired of hearing how you know, at the
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end of the day, Listen, there's definitely a culture of
burying harassment in politics, and I'm just not willing to
be complicit in that anymore. And so that's why I
came forward with my statement.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
So that's the statement from Jacqueline Anderson on Ryan Schulings
Show earlier today. That kind of sets the groundwork for
the allegations against Representative Weinberg. And to make things clear,
you know, these things were put out on social media
starting last night through mainstream media. They kind of got
repeated in several different stories. So I reached out to
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Representative Weinberg early this morning, round five point thirty this
morning through Facebook, offered him an opportunity to come on
the show. We kind of had a little bit of
back and forth throughout the day and ultimately he elected
to just provide a statement, and that statement reads, I'm
taking this very serious under the advice of legal counsel.
I will respond when it is appropriate to do so.
(06:28):
So that's the statement I have. We've left the show
open if Ron wants to come on and say his
side of the story at any point during the show.
He's welcome to do so.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
And there's one point here, Sheriff, that I want to
kind of refocus on, based on what Jacqueline said, And
I'd be very curious to hear both the response from
Representative Weinberg himself and his wife Carolyn, who so vociferously
defended him in a Facebook post subsequent to what Jacqueline
Anderson put on that platform, and that is he has
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been banned from LPI. That is a provable fact or
a disprovable fact that either happened or it didn't right,
So he would have to acknowledge that, and then Representative
Weinberg would have to get into the reasons why, Well, then,
why did that happen? Why would they have banned you
if you didn't do anything wrong? And I think that
is a slippery slope for him personally.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Well to that point, Ryan, you know, there's a third
story that was provided as a victim impact story, and
it's rather lengthy. I'm not going to read it all
on air, not because it's not important, but I think
I can summarize it pretty well. Also, the author of
said statement didn't want her name release. She just used initials.
The initials are BD, and it says at the end
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of the retreat in twenty twenty two, and I'm inferring
that's LPR. They were celebrating a win at the bar
with a room packed full of people. I don't know
exactly what they want, but it infers that alcohol was involved.
Everybody's hanging out at the bar, and as the thing starts,
the event starts to wrap down for the night, this
BD says she's approached by Representative Weinberg who's kind of
(08:00):
in a jovial mood and says, Hey, let's go steal
a flag over there, and tries to get her to
go with him, and she thinks he's a little nuts
from what I'm inferring from the story, and kind of
blows him off. He makes a comment again, and then
he starts kind of turning this into more of a hey,
would you like to come hang out for the evening?
I think you're you know, you're interested, You're an interesting person,
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you know, a little more sexual in nature. And when
she doesn't respond in the way that it appears that
Representative Weinberg would allegedly hope she would then beade receives
a kind of a scream from Representative Weinberg, is explained
to her with a very you know, coarse tone that
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basically uses the efford and she begins to get very threatened.
At that point, according to her story, she gets another
person to escort her back to her room. And you know,
that's the story that she tells in a nutshell. It's
far more detailed than that. You can find it on
social media, but it kind of kind of goes along
with the narrative that you were just explaining Ryan that
(09:05):
you know, there's a little bit of alcohol going on,
there's some back and forth, there's some comments being made,
and you know, it just sounds as if a lot
of this nexus is around LPR and drinking. And I
think that takes us to cut twenty four that I'd
like to play. That's a follow up to Jacqueline Anderson's
first comments.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I want to talk about that first instance a little
bit because it does bring into Rod's wife, especially if
she just went to social media this afternoon to say
that they are false accusations. She was there when my
husband confronted Ron the day after and had a little
discussion about his behavior and how inappropriate it was. And
I was quite stopped that she seemed very disconnected your husband,
(09:49):
Like Carolyn standing there next to her husband Ron, and
you have another man telling him it's inappropriate for you
to say these things to my wife. You need to
step back, you know, give them the what for. And
she's just standing there like nothing's going on. How disconnected
do you have to be to completely shut down? So
for her to claim that they're false, she was there,
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she was a part of it.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
So that kind of just sums it up right, like
there's there's witnesses to this. To your point, Ryan, I mean,
there's way more to this story. And as I said earlier,
you know, Ron's side of the story is important to
We need to hear all sides so we can figure
out what is the absolute truth. But the absence of
a story is just giving the narrative over to the
accusers right now. And again, I have no reason to
(10:36):
disbelieve what they're saying. I think they're both reputable people.
But you know, there's there's my my law enforcement, my
law enforcement skepticism that says, you know, there's a little
little something more here. We're gonna go to break. When
we come back, we'll clean this up just a little bit.
We'll dive into the Epstein stuff and the Big Beautiful
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Bill and get ready for our big interview with Robert Moore.
You're listening to the Dan Caplas Show here on six
point thirty k HOW with Well County Sheriff Steve Dreams.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Welcome back to the Dan Caplas Show here with Well
County Sheriff Steve Riams as your guest host. This is
day two of two for me. Tomorrow you'll have Heidiganaal
and then Dan the Big Man will be back in
the seat for Thursday and Friday, I believe, hopefully crowing
about a win that he had in court. But you know,
we've kind of been talking about a lot today. There
was some breaking news with Representative Ron Weinberg being accused
of some we'll say sexual misconduct, both at the state
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Capitol and outside of the state Capitol, maybe at the
leadership program of the Rockies. We've also talked with Congressman
Gabe Evans about some of the benefits of the Big
Beautiful Bill that he helps sign or get through Congress,
I shouldn't say signed. Trump signed that on July fourth,
under a lot of fanfare. And then we've also kind
of revisited a little bit about the Epstein files, and
you know how the Trump administration is handling this particular issue.
(11:59):
And if you think they're being upfront with us or not,
you can call in and text on any of those topics.
You can text Dan at five seven seven three nine
or call three O three seven one three eight two
fivey five. I'd love to hear your comments on any
of the aforementioned topics. But one of the texts we
got in here says Sheriff Frames. Long ago, Julian Assan
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said the Epstein list would never be released because the
US alphabet agencies would lose their lose their control over
all the powerful people that spend decades setting it up.
At this point, I don't give a flying bleep underage
girls or sex trafficked being raped many times over. Pam
Bondi said they would arrest anyone committing criminal acts. Well,
they have thousands of hours of videos from Epstein's New
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York home, New Mexico ranch, and Epstein Island, which most
likely shows many crimes you know, there's a lot of
truth to that. That's from one of our faithful listeners, Alexa.
You know, I can't. I can't argue with any of that.
And when I when that, I guess that's where I'm
coming from, Like, how can there not be more out there? Yeah,
Epstein's dead. You can't press charges on a dead guy.
(13:03):
But there's a lot of information out there that we
just don't know. And we do know that there was,
you know, flight logs on the Lolita Express. There had
to have been tons of other people contacted in the
course of this investigation if it was done even remotely
like what would be expected in my law enforcement circles.
And I just can't believe that there aren't more people
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either on a formal list or an informal list, or
as a list of witnesses or a list of suspects.
It's just hard for me to wrap my brain around it. Then,
I also want to cover some of the points that
gave Evans made. Congressman gave Evans from the eighth Congressional
District about the Big Beautiful Bill. He highlighted a lot
of the stuff that they've been pounding the table about.
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It's one of the largest tax cuts in history, should
save families making less than fifty thousand dollars a year
the most. On average, you may see about ten thousand
more in your paychecks because of the reduction on tips,
no tax on tips, tax on overtime, no tax on
social Security, or at least a credit up to I
think six thousand dollars for people earning less than seventy
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five thousand on Social Security, twelve and a half billion.
Modernization of our air traffic control system. I hope that's enough,
because we've heard some pretty bad stuff. Permanently increasing the
child tax credit for more than forty million families. Securing
our borders by finishing the border wall and hiring thousands
of new ICE officers and border patrol agents. I think
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there's ten thousand ICE officers in this bill, in two
thousand border patrol agency our agents. Driving down energy costs
with massive expansion of domestic and oil and gas production,
to a tax deduction for American made automobiles, and protection
for two million family farms from punitive double taxation. A
lot more in here, about one point five trillion in
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cost savings by not giving some not giving medicaid to
folks who don't deserve it aren't here legally, whatever the
case may be. And I think one part that I
like the most is there is no longer a tax
credit for electric vehicles. You will not get the seventy
five hundred dollars tax credit for a new vehicle or
four thousand dollars tax credit for a used vehicle. I'm
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tired of subsidizing that crap. And no longer are you're
going to be subsidized for putting a charging station in
your home. I think that one kicks in in twenty
twenty six. That's not listed on this page here, that
came out from the White House, but that one personally,
I'm tired of helping other people buy cars. You know.
John Caldera is famous for having bought a Nissan Leaf,
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and I say, you should always turn in his man
card for driving that thing. And I've told him that personally,
so we're not airing any dirty laundry here. But he
did it because, hey, he took advantage of the tax
credits and apparently he doesn't care about driving a car
that a man should drive.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Yes, but think about though, who that tax credit benefits.
This isn't like a child tax credit for your absolutely family.
This is for high end, wealthy individuals. It's another write
off for them.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
And that's why it pisses me.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Yeah, same you and me, both sheriff, because this is
not something that's going to affect the average American working
men and woman. These are the people that are in
the higher tax bracket anyway. So what are you actually
doing here. You're giving them more free money to invest
in these electric vehicles. You're trying to push that into
the market. And that's where President Trump, I think, has
it exactly right, Like let the market, with the market
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dictate it.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah, so you know that's exactly it. How many people
do you know that own an electric car is their
primary vehicle. I'm sure there are some out there, but
most people it's a secondary vehicle. If you live in
Weld County, it's surely not your primary vehicle because it's
a four thousand square mile county. Good luck. It just
doesn't make sense, and in the Western United States it
really doesn't make sense. And quite frankly, I just I
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don't want to help my neighbor buy a car. You know,
I don't mind helping my kid buy a car, but
I don't want my tax dollars going to things that
are just ridiculous. Let the market dictate it. And I
don't know if that's what's driving the hatred between Elon
Musk and Donald Trump. But regardless, I'm sure y'all have
thoughts about all of this. Maybe I'm I'm the one
that's all wet. If you want to make a comment
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about it, you can text in five seven seven three nine,
start your text with Dan, or you can call in
it three oh three seven one three eight two five five. Again,
I'd love to dice it up with you a little bit,
but maybe not call in just right away, because we're
about to have a Governor's Canada and we're gonna have
Robert Moore. I don't know much about him, but we're
gonna find out everything we need to know and more. Uh,
(17:32):
get the play on words there when we come back
from break. You're listening to Dan Capleas Show here with
Weld County Sheriff Steve Raims as your guest host on
six point thirty k how.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Dankfa Show here with well kind of shriff Steve Raims
as your guest host, and we'll get right to this.
We've got another candidate for governor up. You know, we've
tried to serve up as many as we could. I
think Robert will be our tenth candidate to have as
I've been substituting in for Dan. That leaves us with
I think four or five more to go if they
ever decide to come on, but with us at this
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time as candidate for Colorado governor on the Republican side
of the aisle. Robert Moore, Robert, how are you doing.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
I'm good and thanks so much for having me. I
appreciate the time, you bet. Thanks to your listeners for
taking part of their valuable time to listen to us.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
You bet so, Robert, if you would, you know, I've
googled you. I've tried to do a little bit of research,
but it's probably better for you to just tell the
listeners what your background is and kind of where you
come from and what made you decide you're going to
throw your hat in this crazy race for Colorado governor.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Yeah, well it certainly is crazy. And thanks thanks for
that question. And we've got a lot of candidates and
before we started that get into that maybe I can
just say, you know, a hearts and thoughts and prayers
go out to those folks that are down there in
Central Texas with all the flooding, because that's been really tragic.
I've been watching that like many of you have on
the national news with the loss of life. So yeah,
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our sympathy and empathy with them for sure. For me,
I was born and raised in Colorado here, so I'm
quite proud of the state of Colorado. I graduated from
high school actually right here in Lakewood. My father was
in business, also state representative. My mother was a nurse
at the Denver Health Hospital. After graduation from high school,
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I was accepted to the Military Academy, West Point and
I earned my bachelor's degree there in physics, and then
was commissioned. Of course, as a result of that, and
I was commissioned in the Army corp of Engineers. While
I was in the Army, earned professional engineering license that
came in handy later as I was helping design the
rebuilding the infrastructure both in Iraq and Afghanistan. Did the
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Army then transition to the inactive reserve so I could
get into the private sector. I went to work and
helped build a small startup company, got in on the
ground floor. Company was called Compact Computer at that time,
which was purchased by Hewley Packard in about two thousand
and one. So that was pretty enjoyable and exciting about
that time. Then I was wanting to go to graduate school.
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Was accepted Yale, and actually ended up going to your
University of a Michigan for a master's degree in business
through their executive program, so I could keep working at HP.
After HP spun off, the Printed division became HPE. I
worked there as an executive responsible for the marketing of
our service software security products. And then while I was
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at HPE, the Army reactivated me and I deployed as
active duty officer to Iraq. Later attended the Army Cammanda
General Staff College. Finally Afghanistan whereas Commander of the Southern
part of Afghanistan in Kandahar. Culminated my Army career, my
Army Reserve career as an Army Special Operations Command Officer
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Fort Bragg, and then later about that same year about
twenty twenty, left HPE to work for super Micro, director
of marketing for our AI systems AI computer systems that
we built there. So, yeah, I've accumulated a little bit
of experience in both the business sector as well as
the military.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Well, thank you for your service. I shouldn't go on said,
So it sounds like you've you've done pretty well for yourself.
Why in the world would you decide to throw your
hat in the ring to run for Colorado governor.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
That's a great question. Thanks for that. You know, I think,
as I've watched Colorado, I think we just deserve a
whole lot better here, and a whole lot more than
what we've had in the past eight years. And some
of this really gets awfully personal for me because you know,
my parents raised five of us here in Colorado, and
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all all but myself, all the other four my siblings
have either moved out or will moved out because it's
just cost of living is too high, cost of housing
is too high. My own mother is looking at moving
out because she can't afford the property taxes and the
cost of living anymore. So, you know, that makes it
personal for me. We've got to have more affordability in
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this state for the essentials of life. We've got to
have more protection from the increasing taxes, We've got to
have more affordable housing for sure, and I could give
you some. I've been talking to some home builders and
I can see what's the problem is there, and well
we can maybe do solve that. We've got to have
more safety and security. As I talk to people in
different counties, they're actually setting up their own home watch
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programs because the crime has gotten so bad. We need
a more business friendly environment here of the you know,
we've got to be able to attract and retain business
for the incremental revenue that that brings into the state.
You know, on the Fortune five hundred list, Colorado's got
eight great companies on that Fortune five hundred. The next
state that's about our same size, the same electoral votes.
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Minnesota's got over twice that number of businesses. So we
should do a lot more to help small, medium, in
large businesses, and then more support for Colorado citizens as
well as our senior citizens that are leading a state
in droves it seems like because they just can't afford
it here. So yeah, that's why I got in the race.
You know, while we have these really big issues to solve,
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our state government has been, in my estimation, focused on
these superfluous and somewhat ludicrous bills trying to strip parental
rights away if you don't use their proper pronouns. So
I think we really got to focus and help colorado
Ons rather than these fringe issues that our government seems
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to be focused on.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yeah. So I will second that the left side of
the aisle right now is they're running a lot of
bills that I don't think resonate with mainstream Collorado. Maybe
I'm wrong, but whether that's republican, independent Democrat, I just
don't think that the normal voter is really in touch
with what's going on down at the state capitol. All
that being said, you know, you've got a platform there.
(24:13):
How do you plan on getting your message out? You know,
I've asked this of every candidate. You know, how do
you how do you overcome the left leaning media that
is here in Colorado? How do you you know, how
do you get those that airtime? How do you how
do you intend to do just that?
Speaker 6 (24:28):
Well? You, for one, for starters, this is a really
great platform to start getting the message out. Social media
is another one, uh, you know, to make sure that
you get your message out through there, because the media
in general, or you know, the left leaning media that
seems to be so far slanted that they really don't
resonate our message very well out there. So we've got
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to rely on those other things that we can use.
And there's some platforms that we've got out there. Heidi
Ganal's got a platform out there that helps get our
more conservative message out. So I think it's possible. I
just think it takes a lot of work. It takes
a lot of posting on social media, a lot of
these things like on your radio talk show here, as
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well as some of those other outlets that are more
conservative leaning.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
So what if you had that one driving thing in
your campaign? What is the one thing that just I mean,
it's your issue.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
It's affordability. I mean, I cannot believe that our state
has gone this far and not address major issues of affordability.
People are leaving the state affordability, costs of living homes.
You know, when as I talk to these because we're
short depending on what study you read, we're short like
between one hundred thousand two hundred thousand housing units. As
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they talk to the builders around, they tell me we're
the fourth most regulated state in the Union when it
comes to developing homes and getting permits and all that.
Another example that they told me when they build new
homes and they want to tap into the city water supply.
Depending on the size of the subdivision or area they're building,
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of course, it's about one hundred thousand. I can give
you an example another state that's south of here, the
same place that they have the big tragedy, it's four thousand,
so it's a whole lot more affordable to develop homes.
That same state has the fourth largest city in the country,
and they're just reducing their permitting length of time to
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get a new house permit down to thirty days. You know,
according to the twenty twenty three study in the city
of Denver, it was three hundred and eighteen days. It's
ten times longer to get a house permit to build
new homes. It's no wonder we're short houses, and it's
no wonder they're too expensive for people because of all
these extra permitting costs and all these regulations and stuff.
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And safety. I think is that we need more security
and safety. We can't afford to have what's been going
on we saw up in Boulder and other locations. We've
got to be able to make sure our citizens feel safe.
That's probably one of the biggest responsibility of government, Robert.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Just the few seconds we have left. If people want
to find you out there, where can they look for you?
Do you have a web page? Do you have a
social media site that they can find you on?
Speaker 6 (27:15):
Sure? Do got a website that's easy to remember? Colorado
deserves more? Or dot com? Colorado deserves more dot com.
You get there and you can see my platform and
get the links of the social media sites there as well.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
All right, Well, thank you, Sar, and good luck to you.
Thanks for being on the show, and we appreciate you
getting your word out to the voters. Hopefully they'll see
you out there on the campaign trail and you'll attract
a few of them along the way.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
Again, thank you for your time, Thanks so much, thanks for.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Being on the show. You're listening to the Dan Capless
Show here on six thirty k how with Well Kenny Sheriff,
Steve Rings.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
And now back to the Dan Kapless Show podcast. Welcome
back to.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
The Dankapless Show. In this last segment of hour two,
today's show didn't exactly go the way I thought it
was going to go. I spent quite a bit of
time planning to cover The Big Beautiful Bill. We were
going to have Representative Gabe Evans kind of cement all
that home, and then breaking news happened. We had the
and the allegations against Representative Ron Weinberg. That kind of
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came to the surface with three named persons and one
anonymous person accusing Representative Weinberg of inappropriate sexual conduct. I
don't know if that's the right wording to say, but
inappropriate sexual comments. Maybe that's the better, the better terminology.
I invited Representative Weinberg to come on the show. We
(28:34):
had a little back and forth. He left a statement
with me that says, I'm taking this very serious under
the advice of legal counsel. I will respond when it's
appropriate to do so. So the invitation still stands. If
he wants to come on this station. I'm sure Dan
will have him on. I'm sure Ryan will have him on.
I will not be back on this week, so if that,
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if that opportunity arises, it will be with another host.
During the downtime, we had to said, how about a
segment or entire show on the five best and five
worst parts of The Big Beautiful Bill. That's kind of
what I intended to do, but again, you kind of
got to go with where the news is for the day.
And that takes us to a comment from Representative Brandy
Bradley when she was on Ryan Schuling show, just to
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kind of seal home how inflammatory this whole thing has
kind of become cut twenty six if you would.
Speaker 7 (29:22):
Ryan, I just think it's funny that Carolyn is speaking
for her husband, is going to slander me after I
announced my candidacy for whip. I didn't even know he
was going to run for minority Whip. And I certainly
haven't talked to any of these women coming forward. I
don't know anyone in Larimer County, and I find these
accusations maybe I should get my own lawyer, Ryan, because
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I'm not going to sit here and be the problem
child or the witch hunt coming after me. I mean,
they also blame me for someone looking into his Tracer account.
You know, he's not coming forward and having accountability and transparency.
He's hiding behind a lawyer, and he's hiding behind slander
me through his wife, and I will not see him
for you. I will not tolerate it. It's like he's
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met me before.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
That's Representative Brandy Bradley kind of firing back at an
accusation that was put out on Facebook by Carolyn Weinberg,
Representative Ron Weinberg's wife, saying that they kind of believe
that Representative Bradley put these may have put these women
up to making allegations against Ron Weinberg through Facebook, and
you know, it's just it's become a complete mess. And
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I hope that it gets put to bed. And I
think the best way that that happens is for Representative
Weinberg to face this head on and say, here's what happened.
You know, here's my statement. I'll say no more or
no less, and you know, then everything just goes away
from that point in my opinion. You know, but you
can't you can't not respond. And maybe that's what he's
(30:51):
looking to do, but he wants to do so in
the most appropriate way. I don't know. For the Republican
Party in the state of Colorado, this isn't great. In fact,
it's terrible. And I can tell you as a lifelong
Republican this is this has been tough to tough to see.
This is one of those things that I would definitely
call an unforced error and I'm sure the listeners out
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there think the same way. Uh, we need to get
stuff done down at the state Capitol. And and this
ain't it. This is not what it looks like as
far as progress down in lawmaking. And I know that
it's a tense situation, but you know, when you have
representatives taking shots at each other and uh, you know,
unsavory allegations against one another, man, it's it's tough. And
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that's no knock on the on the women who have
come forward to report what they have. If if these
allegations are true, they deserve to be recognized and it
deserves to be handled correctly. I don't know where you
go from here if these allegations are even remotely true. Uh,
to me, that seems as if I don't know if
there's a way for Representative want Weinberg to keep serving.
(31:58):
I'm not calling for his resignation by any sense the word,
but I think those are things that'll have to be considered. Ryan,
in your take on your show today when you were
interviewing your individual folks, what do you think the outcome
of this ends up being.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
I don't know how he gets around all these numerous accusations.
We see this sometimes you know, and I don't, not
drawing a straight line comparison. But when allegations like this
come forward, and more women come forward, whether it's Harvey
Weinstein or Bill Cosby or Larry Nasser, it becomes more
and more difficult to refute the accounts of several different
women who have no association or connection to one another.
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The only thing you would have as a defense is
some kind of vast conspiracy, which seems to be what
Carolyn Weinberg is alleging with Representative Brandy Bradley. I doubt
there's any veracity to that. So it's what Representive Bradley said,
and I think you did as well. The longer this
continues to fester for Representative Weinberg with him not making
public comment in an interview or otherwise holding a press
conference or addressing it head on, then you're allowing these
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allegations to fill the void in the vacuum, and they
then determine the outcome of the story. Meaning if I
was his comms director at say Ron, come hell or
high water, no matter which way this goes, you got
to get in front of it, and he's not getting
in front of it.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Well not yet and again, I think that opportunity exists,
whether it's when I'm filling in, or when Dan's got
the show, or even if Heidi's in the guest set.
I'm sure she would offer that same opportunity, and I
know you would as well. So you know, hopefully in
the next couple of days this gets settled, whether he
does a press conference or comes on one of the
individual radio shows. But it's got to be put to bed,
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and I don't think that happens without a very direct
conversation to the listening public or the Colorado public. At
this point, it's been put out in this in the
sphere and it's not going away, there's no doubt about that. Well.
I have enjoyed myself thoroughly over the last two days
and some days last week when I filled in. It's
always a pleasure to fill in for the Dan Caplis show,
(33:54):
and I appreciate you guys for tuning in and listening. Dan,
we'll be back with you on Thursday tomorrow. You have
Heidi Ganal filling in and hopefully she'll have a fiery
show as well. Thanks for listening. Welcome the Sheriff Steve
Riems as your guest host signing off, Thank you,
This is Dan Capless and welcome to today's online podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome back to The Dan Caplis Show and with you
today as well Kenny Sheriff Steve Reims as your guest host.
If you weren't with us in the first hour, shame
on you. But in this second hour, we're going to
recap a little bit of some of the stuff we've
talked about because we have some breaking news. And if
you weren't with us in the first hour, you probably
didn't hear Ryan shuling live. But you'll definitely want to
go back and listen to the podcast of that show
(00:35):
if you weren't listening to it today, because we had
a little bit of a hubbub breakup over the over
the night at the Colorado State Capitol, not actually at
the Capitol, but involving the folks down there on the
Republican side of the aisle. The Representative Ryan Armagos stepped
down a few days ago, or he's making his step
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down effective September one, when he was the House Minority
so in accordance with leadership down there, they needed to
elect a new whip, which is the person who kind
of gets the votes together down at the Colorado State House.
That person ended up being Representative Carlos Baron out of
the forty eighth district, the Fort Lupton area of Wild County.
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Congrats to him. But in the process of all that occurring,
there were a couple other candidates that jumped in the
race for that particular position within leadership, Representative Ron Weinberg,
excuse me, Ron Weinberg, and Representative Brandy Bradley. And as
all this stuff was kind of, I guess building up,
some information got put forward from different folks accusing Representative
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Ron Weinberg of some sexually harassing comments and actions either
at the Capitol or even outside of the Capitol in
years past. So that kind of blew up and turned
into a back and forth between Representative Ron Weinberg wife
defending him on Facebook and other social media platforms, and
(02:03):
then Represented Brandy Bradley kind of coming back at him
on Ryan's show. So it's been a day for those
of you that aren't necessarily involved in state level politics.
This may be why, but for those of you who
haven't been or who even are involved in the day
to day stuff, you have to kind of look at
(02:23):
this and shake your head a little bit. Again, I
had planned on speaking quite a bit about the Big
Beautiful Bill and the goods and the bads that are
in that bill, but sometimes you have to go with
where the fire is for a particular show. So we're
going to continue to talk a little bit about this
Ron Weinberg story or this allegation against Ron Weinberg. We
will get to the Epstein stuff. We will get to
(02:44):
the Big Beautiful Bill. We're also going to have a
candidate for governor on at five point thirty six. Robert
Moore will be on with us. Again, I'm trying to
get as many of these people on the record so
you guys can have some idea of who they are
and why they're running. But the breaking news of it
is the Day Today with Representative Ron Weinbergen and Ryan
(03:06):
Schuling Show Ryan Schuling Live. He had one of the accusers,
Jacqueline Anderson, on, and she gave kind of a rundown
about what happened and why she decided to put her
story forward, and I think it's pretty compelling and I'd
like to play that interview if we could. It's cut
twenty three.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
When my husband and I both were a part of
the leadership program of the Rockies. I was class of
twenty one in which Ron was our class president. My
husband is class of twenty twenty two. So the two
incidents in my victim statement reports were both at events
hosted by LPR. We you know, similar to this. Unfortunately,
it's one of those things where fortunately I would say
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I wasn't sexually assaulted. It wasn't like he physically did
anything to me, so it wasn't anything I felt like
I could report to the police and have anything done
about it. But similar if you're being harassed at work,
you take it to your HR. So when I heard
of some incidents is happening in twenty twenty two, my
husband and I decided to go forward and deal and
speak with LPR leadership, bring forward to them the attention
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of what had been happening, you know, with his harassments.
And at that time they had a zoom call with
us and they had told us that they had decided
the disciplinary action for Ron would be that he would
be no longer allowed to attend any future LPR events,
and at that time we felt that was satisfactory. You know,
(04:31):
we sord appreciate that we don't have to be in
any spaces with him, and that's great. So we just
kind of moved on with our lives, you know, unfortunate
that you know it happened, but you move on. Even
though my husband and I have stepped out of the
political space over the last few years and just led
very quiet lives, I know a lot of people still
in the space who are still fighting for our freedoms
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here in Colorado, and I respect that they do. But
when I hear stories of young girls, young age who
are being harassed and afraid to come forward. And then
when I had found out that he was running for whip,
I said, enough is enough, And sometimes we just need
to go ahead and be bold and step forward and
speak our truth and say this is what happened, and
(05:13):
hopes that people will feel saith in coming forward and
telling their stories. And I got to tell you, there
are people in our dms with information about their experience
on the house floor, in the offices, and they're very
scared to come forward. And we're trying to help them,
you know, be able to do that in a safe space.
But I'm tired of hearing how you know, at the
(05:36):
end of the day, Listen, there's definitely a culture of
burying harassment in politics, and I'm just not willing to
be complicit in that anymore. And so that's why I
came forward with my statement.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
So that's the statement from Jacqueline Anderson on Ryan Schulings
Show earlier today. That kind of sets the groundwork for
the allegations against Representative Weinberg. And to make things clear,
you know, these things were put out on social media
starting last night through mainstream media. They kind of got
repeated in several different stories. So I reached out to
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Representative Weinberg early this morning, round five point thirty this
morning through Facebook, offered him an opportunity to come on
the show. We kind of had a little bit of
back and forth throughout the day and ultimately he elected
to just provide a statement, and that statement reads, I'm
taking this very serious under the advice of legal counsel.
I will respond when it is appropriate to do so.
(06:28):
So that's the statement I have. We've left the show
open if Ron wants to come on and say his
side of the story at any point during the show.
He's welcome to do so.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
And there's one point here, Sheriff, that I want to
kind of refocus on, based on what Jacqueline said, And
I'd be very curious to hear both the response from
Representative Weinberg himself and his wife Carolyn, who so vociferously
defended him in a Facebook post subsequent to what Jacqueline
Anderson put on that platform, and that is he has
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been banned from LPI. That is a provable fact or
a disprovable fact that either happened or it didn't right,
So he would have to acknowledge that, and then Representative
Weinberg would have to get into the reasons why, Well, then,
why did that happen? Why would they have banned you
if you didn't do anything wrong? And I think that
is a slippery slope for him personally.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Well to that point, Ryan, you know, there's a third
story that was provided as a victim impact story, and
it's rather lengthy. I'm not going to read it all
on air, not because it's not important, but I think
I can summarize it pretty well. Also, the author of
said statement didn't want her name release. She just used initials.
The initials are BD, and it says at the end
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of the retreat in twenty twenty two, and I'm inferring
that's LPR. They were celebrating a win at the bar
with a room packed full of people. I don't know
exactly what they want, but it infers that alcohol was involved.
Everybody's hanging out at the bar, and as the thing starts,
the event starts to wrap down for the night, this
BD says she's approached by Representative Weinberg who's kind of
(08:00):
in a jovial mood and says, Hey, let's go steal
a flag over there, and tries to get her to
go with him, and she thinks he's a little nuts
from what I'm inferring from the story, and kind of
blows him off. He makes a comment again, and then
he starts kind of turning this into more of a hey,
would you like to come hang out for the evening?
I think you're you know, you're interested, You're an interesting person,
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you know, a little more sexual in nature. And when
she doesn't respond in the way that it appears that
Representative Weinberg would allegedly hope she would then beade receives
a kind of a scream from Representative Weinberg, is explained
to her with a very you know, coarse tone that
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basically uses the efford and she begins to get very threatened.
At that point, according to her story, she gets another
person to escort her back to her room. And you know,
that's the story that she tells in a nutshell. It's
far more detailed than that. You can find it on
social media, but it kind of kind of goes along
with the narrative that you were just explaining Ryan that
(09:05):
you know, there's a little bit of alcohol going on,
there's some back and forth, there's some comments being made,
and you know, it just sounds as if a lot
of this nexus is around LPR and drinking. And I
think that takes us to cut twenty four that I'd
like to play. That's a follow up to Jacqueline Anderson's
first comments.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I want to talk about that first instance a little
bit because it does bring into Rod's wife, especially if
she just went to social media this afternoon to say
that they are false accusations. She was there when my
husband confronted Ron the day after and had a little
discussion about his behavior and how inappropriate it was. And
I was quite stopped that she seemed very disconnected your husband,
(09:49):
Like Carolyn standing there next to her husband Ron, and
you have another man telling him it's inappropriate for you
to say these things to my wife. You need to
step back, you know, give them the what for. And
she's just standing there like nothing's going on. How disconnected
do you have to be to completely shut down? So
for her to claim that they're false, she was there,
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she was a part of it.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
So that kind of just sums it up right, like
there's there's witnesses to this. To your point, Ryan, I mean,
there's way more to this story. And as I said earlier,
you know, Ron's side of the story is important to
We need to hear all sides so we can figure
out what is the absolute truth. But the absence of
a story is just giving the narrative over to the
accusers right now. And again, I have no reason to
(10:36):
disbelieve what they're saying. I think they're both reputable people.
But you know, there's there's my my law enforcement, my
law enforcement skepticism that says, you know, there's a little
little something more here. We're gonna go to break. When
we come back, we'll clean this up just a little bit.
We'll dive into the Epstein stuff and the Big Beautiful
(10:57):
Bill and get ready for our big interview with Robert Moore.
You're listening to the Dan Caplas Show here on six
point thirty k HOW with Well County Sheriff Steve Dreams.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Welcome back to the Dan Caplas Show here with Well
County Sheriff Steve Riams as your guest host. This is
day two of two for me. Tomorrow you'll have Heidiganaal
and then Dan the Big Man will be back in
the seat for Thursday and Friday, I believe, hopefully crowing
about a win that he had in court. But you know,
we've kind of been talking about a lot today. There
was some breaking news with Representative Ron Weinberg being accused
of some we'll say sexual misconduct, both at the state
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Capitol and outside of the state Capitol, maybe at the
leadership program of the Rockies. We've also talked with Congressman
Gabe Evans about some of the benefits of the Big
Beautiful Bill that he helps sign or get through Congress,
I shouldn't say signed. Trump signed that on July fourth,
under a lot of fanfare. And then we've also kind
of revisited a little bit about the Epstein files, and
you know how the Trump administration is handling this particular issue.
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And if you think they're being upfront with us or not,
you can call in and text on any of those topics.
You can text Dan at five seven seven three nine
or call three O three seven one three eight two
fivey five. I'd love to hear your comments on any
of the aforementioned topics. But one of the texts we
got in here says Sheriff Frames. Long ago, Julian Assan
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said the Epstein list would never be released because the
US alphabet agencies would lose their lose their control over
all the powerful people that spend decades setting it up.
At this point, I don't give a flying bleep underage
girls or sex trafficked being raped many times over. Pam
Bondi said they would arrest anyone committing criminal acts. Well,
they have thousands of hours of videos from Epstein's New
(12:40):
York home, New Mexico ranch, and Epstein Island, which most
likely shows many crimes you know, there's a lot of
truth to that. That's from one of our faithful listeners, Alexa.
You know, I can't. I can't argue with any of that.
And when I when that, I guess that's where I'm
coming from, Like, how can there not be more out there? Yeah,
Epstein's dead. You can't press charges on a dead guy.
(13:03):
But there's a lot of information out there that we
just don't know. And we do know that there was,
you know, flight logs on the Lolita Express. There had
to have been tons of other people contacted in the
course of this investigation if it was done even remotely
like what would be expected in my law enforcement circles.
And I just can't believe that there aren't more people
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either on a formal list or an informal list, or
as a list of witnesses or a list of suspects.
It's just hard for me to wrap my brain around it. Then,
I also want to cover some of the points that
gave Evans made. Congressman gave Evans from the eighth Congressional
District about the Big Beautiful Bill. He highlighted a lot
of the stuff that they've been pounding the table about.
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It's one of the largest tax cuts in history, should
save families making less than fifty thousand dollars a year
the most. On average, you may see about ten thousand
more in your paychecks because of the reduction on tips,
no tax on tips, tax on overtime, no tax on
social Security, or at least a credit up to I
think six thousand dollars for people earning less than seventy
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five thousand on Social Security, twelve and a half billion.
Modernization of our air traffic control system. I hope that's enough,
because we've heard some pretty bad stuff. Permanently increasing the
child tax credit for more than forty million families. Securing
our borders by finishing the border wall and hiring thousands
of new ICE officers and border patrol agents. I think
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there's ten thousand ICE officers in this bill, in two
thousand border patrol agency our agents. Driving down energy costs
with massive expansion of domestic and oil and gas production,
to a tax deduction for American made automobiles, and protection
for two million family farms from punitive double taxation. A
lot more in here, about one point five trillion in
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cost savings by not giving some not giving medicaid to
folks who don't deserve it aren't here legally, whatever the
case may be. And I think one part that I
like the most is there is no longer a tax
credit for electric vehicles. You will not get the seventy
five hundred dollars tax credit for a new vehicle or
four thousand dollars tax credit for a used vehicle. I'm
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tired of subsidizing that crap. And no longer are you're
going to be subsidized for putting a charging station in
your home. I think that one kicks in in twenty
twenty six. That's not listed on this page here, that
came out from the White House, but that one personally,
I'm tired of helping other people buy cars. You know.
John Caldera is famous for having bought a Nissan Leaf,
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and I say, you should always turn in his man
card for driving that thing. And I've told him that personally,
so we're not airing any dirty laundry here. But he
did it because, hey, he took advantage of the tax
credits and apparently he doesn't care about driving a car
that a man should drive.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Yes, but think about though, who that tax credit benefits.
This isn't like a child tax credit for your absolutely family.
This is for high end, wealthy individuals. It's another write
off for them.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
And that's why it pisses me.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Yeah, same you and me, both sheriff, because this is
not something that's going to affect the average American working
men and woman. These are the people that are in
the higher tax bracket anyway. So what are you actually
doing here. You're giving them more free money to invest
in these electric vehicles. You're trying to push that into
the market. And that's where President Trump, I think, has
it exactly right, Like let the market, with the market
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dictate it.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah, so you know that's exactly it. How many people
do you know that own an electric car is their
primary vehicle. I'm sure there are some out there, but
most people it's a secondary vehicle. If you live in
Weld County, it's surely not your primary vehicle because it's
a four thousand square mile county. Good luck. It just
doesn't make sense, and in the Western United States it
really doesn't make sense. And quite frankly, I just I
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don't want to help my neighbor buy a car. You know,
I don't mind helping my kid buy a car, but
I don't want my tax dollars going to things that
are just ridiculous. Let the market dictate it. And I
don't know if that's what's driving the hatred between Elon
Musk and Donald Trump. But regardless, I'm sure y'all have
thoughts about all of this. Maybe I'm I'm the one
that's all wet. If you want to make a comment
(17:11):
about it, you can text in five seven seven three nine,
start your text with Dan, or you can call in
it three oh three seven one three eight two five five. Again,
I'd love to dice it up with you a little bit,
but maybe not call in just right away, because we're
about to have a Governor's Canada and we're gonna have
Robert Moore. I don't know much about him, but we're
gonna find out everything we need to know and more. Uh,
(17:32):
get the play on words there when we come back
from break. You're listening to Dan Capleas Show here with
Weld County Sheriff Steve Raims as your guest host on
six point thirty k how.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Dankfa Show here with well kind of shriff Steve Raims
as your guest host, and we'll get right to this.
We've got another candidate for governor up. You know, we've
tried to serve up as many as we could. I
think Robert will be our tenth candidate to have as
I've been substituting in for Dan. That leaves us with
I think four or five more to go if they
ever decide to come on, but with us at this
(18:21):
time as candidate for Colorado governor on the Republican side
of the aisle. Robert Moore, Robert, how are you doing.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
I'm good and thanks so much for having me. I
appreciate the time, you bet. Thanks to your listeners for
taking part of their valuable time to listen to us.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
You bet so, Robert, if you would, you know, I've
googled you. I've tried to do a little bit of research,
but it's probably better for you to just tell the
listeners what your background is and kind of where you
come from and what made you decide you're going to
throw your hat in this crazy race for Colorado governor.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Yeah, well it certainly is crazy. And thanks thanks for
that question. And we've got a lot of candidates and
before we started that get into that maybe I can
just say, you know, a hearts and thoughts and prayers
go out to those folks that are down there in
Central Texas with all the flooding, because that's been really tragic.
I've been watching that like many of you have on
the national news with the loss of life. So yeah,
(19:16):
our sympathy and empathy with them for sure. For me,
I was born and raised in Colorado here, so I'm
quite proud of the state of Colorado. I graduated from
high school actually right here in Lakewood. My father was
in business, also state representative. My mother was a nurse
at the Denver Health Hospital. After graduation from high school,
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I was accepted to the Military Academy, West Point and
I earned my bachelor's degree there in physics, and then
was commissioned. Of course, as a result of that, and
I was commissioned in the Army corp of Engineers. While
I was in the Army, earned professional engineering license that
came in handy later as I was helping design the
rebuilding the infrastructure both in Iraq and Afghanistan. Did the
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Army then transition to the inactive reserve so I could
get into the private sector. I went to work and
helped build a small startup company, got in on the
ground floor. Company was called Compact Computer at that time,
which was purchased by Hewley Packard in about two thousand
and one. So that was pretty enjoyable and exciting about
that time. Then I was wanting to go to graduate school.
(20:23):
Was accepted Yale, and actually ended up going to your
University of a Michigan for a master's degree in business
through their executive program, so I could keep working at HP.
After HP spun off, the Printed division became HPE. I
worked there as an executive responsible for the marketing of
our service software security products. And then while I was
(20:46):
at HPE, the Army reactivated me and I deployed as
active duty officer to Iraq. Later attended the Army Cammanda
General Staff College. Finally Afghanistan whereas Commander of the Southern
part of Afghanistan in Kandahar. Culminated my Army career, my
Army Reserve career as an Army Special Operations Command Officer
(21:08):
Fort Bragg, and then later about that same year about
twenty twenty, left HPE to work for super Micro, director
of marketing for our AI systems AI computer systems that
we built there. So, yeah, I've accumulated a little bit
of experience in both the business sector as well as
the military.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Well, thank you for your service. I shouldn't go on said,
So it sounds like you've you've done pretty well for yourself.
Why in the world would you decide to throw your
hat in the ring to run for Colorado governor.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
That's a great question. Thanks for that. You know, I think,
as I've watched Colorado, I think we just deserve a
whole lot better here, and a whole lot more than
what we've had in the past eight years. And some
of this really gets awfully personal for me because you know,
my parents raised five of us here in Colorado, and
(22:01):
all all but myself, all the other four my siblings
have either moved out or will moved out because it's
just cost of living is too high, cost of housing
is too high. My own mother is looking at moving
out because she can't afford the property taxes and the
cost of living anymore. So, you know, that makes it
personal for me. We've got to have more affordability in
(22:22):
this state for the essentials of life. We've got to
have more protection from the increasing taxes, We've got to
have more affordable housing for sure, and I could give
you some. I've been talking to some home builders and
I can see what's the problem is there, and well
we can maybe do solve that. We've got to have
more safety and security. As I talk to people in
different counties, they're actually setting up their own home watch
(22:44):
programs because the crime has gotten so bad. We need
a more business friendly environment here of the you know,
we've got to be able to attract and retain business
for the incremental revenue that that brings into the state.
You know, on the Fortune five hundred list, Colorado's got
eight great companies on that Fortune five hundred. The next
state that's about our same size, the same electoral votes.
(23:06):
Minnesota's got over twice that number of businesses. So we
should do a lot more to help small, medium, in
large businesses, and then more support for Colorado citizens as
well as our senior citizens that are leading a state
in droves it seems like because they just can't afford
it here. So yeah, that's why I got in the race.
You know, while we have these really big issues to solve,
(23:30):
our state government has been, in my estimation, focused on
these superfluous and somewhat ludicrous bills trying to strip parental
rights away if you don't use their proper pronouns. So
I think we really got to focus and help colorado
Ons rather than these fringe issues that our government seems
(23:50):
to be focused on.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yeah. So I will second that the left side of
the aisle right now is they're running a lot of
bills that I don't think resonate with mainstream Collorado. Maybe
I'm wrong, but whether that's republican, independent Democrat, I just
don't think that the normal voter is really in touch
with what's going on down at the state capitol. All
that being said, you know, you've got a platform there.
(24:13):
How do you plan on getting your message out? You know,
I've asked this of every candidate. You know, how do
you how do you overcome the left leaning media that
is here in Colorado? How do you you know, how
do you get those that airtime? How do you how
do you intend to do just that?
Speaker 6 (24:28):
Well? You, for one, for starters, this is a really
great platform to start getting the message out. Social media
is another one, uh, you know, to make sure that
you get your message out through there, because the media
in general, or you know, the left leaning media that
seems to be so far slanted that they really don't
resonate our message very well out there. So we've got
(24:51):
to rely on those other things that we can use.
And there's some platforms that we've got out there. Heidi
Ganal's got a platform out there that helps get our
more conservative message out. So I think it's possible. I
just think it takes a lot of work. It takes
a lot of posting on social media, a lot of
these things like on your radio talk show here, as
(25:12):
well as some of those other outlets that are more
conservative leaning.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
So what if you had that one driving thing in
your campaign? What is the one thing that just I mean,
it's your issue.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
It's affordability. I mean, I cannot believe that our state
has gone this far and not address major issues of affordability.
People are leaving the state affordability, costs of living homes.
You know, when as I talk to these because we're
short depending on what study you read, we're short like
between one hundred thousand two hundred thousand housing units. As
(25:48):
they talk to the builders around, they tell me we're
the fourth most regulated state in the Union when it
comes to developing homes and getting permits and all that.
Another example that they told me when they build new
homes and they want to tap into the city water supply.
Depending on the size of the subdivision or area they're building,
(26:08):
of course, it's about one hundred thousand. I can give
you an example another state that's south of here, the
same place that they have the big tragedy, it's four thousand,
so it's a whole lot more affordable to develop homes.
That same state has the fourth largest city in the country,
and they're just reducing their permitting length of time to
(26:29):
get a new house permit down to thirty days. You know,
according to the twenty twenty three study in the city
of Denver, it was three hundred and eighteen days. It's
ten times longer to get a house permit to build
new homes. It's no wonder we're short houses, and it's
no wonder they're too expensive for people because of all
these extra permitting costs and all these regulations and stuff.
(26:50):
And safety. I think is that we need more security
and safety. We can't afford to have what's been going
on we saw up in Boulder and other locations. We've
got to be able to make sure our citizens feel safe.
That's probably one of the biggest responsibility of government, Robert.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Just the few seconds we have left. If people want
to find you out there, where can they look for you?
Do you have a web page? Do you have a
social media site that they can find you on?
Speaker 6 (27:15):
Sure? Do got a website that's easy to remember? Colorado
deserves more? Or dot com? Colorado deserves more dot com.
You get there and you can see my platform and
get the links of the social media sites there as well.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
All right, Well, thank you, Sar, and good luck to you.
Thanks for being on the show, and we appreciate you
getting your word out to the voters. Hopefully they'll see
you out there on the campaign trail and you'll attract
a few of them along the way.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
Again, thank you for your time, Thanks so much, thanks for.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Being on the show. You're listening to the Dan Capless
Show here on six thirty k how with Well Kenny Sheriff,
Steve Rings.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
And now back to the Dan Kapless Show podcast. Welcome
back to.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
The Dankapless Show. In this last segment of hour two,
today's show didn't exactly go the way I thought it
was going to go. I spent quite a bit of
time planning to cover The Big Beautiful Bill. We were
going to have Representative Gabe Evans kind of cement all
that home, and then breaking news happened. We had the
and the allegations against Representative Ron Weinberg. That kind of
(28:13):
came to the surface with three named persons and one
anonymous person accusing Representative Weinberg of inappropriate sexual conduct. I
don't know if that's the right wording to say, but
inappropriate sexual comments. Maybe that's the better, the better terminology.
I invited Representative Weinberg to come on the show. We
(28:34):
had a little back and forth. He left a statement
with me that says, I'm taking this very serious under
the advice of legal counsel. I will respond when it's
appropriate to do so. So the invitation still stands. If
he wants to come on this station. I'm sure Dan
will have him on. I'm sure Ryan will have him on.
I will not be back on this week, so if that,
(28:54):
if that opportunity arises, it will be with another host.
During the downtime, we had to said, how about a
segment or entire show on the five best and five
worst parts of The Big Beautiful Bill. That's kind of
what I intended to do, but again, you kind of
got to go with where the news is for the day.
And that takes us to a comment from Representative Brandy
Bradley when she was on Ryan Schuling show, just to
(29:16):
kind of seal home how inflammatory this whole thing has
kind of become cut twenty six if you would.
Speaker 7 (29:22):
Ryan, I just think it's funny that Carolyn is speaking
for her husband, is going to slander me after I
announced my candidacy for whip. I didn't even know he
was going to run for minority Whip. And I certainly
haven't talked to any of these women coming forward. I
don't know anyone in Larimer County, and I find these
accusations maybe I should get my own lawyer, Ryan, because
(29:44):
I'm not going to sit here and be the problem
child or the witch hunt coming after me. I mean,
they also blame me for someone looking into his Tracer account.
You know, he's not coming forward and having accountability and transparency.
He's hiding behind a lawyer, and he's hiding behind slander
me through his wife, and I will not see him
for you. I will not tolerate it. It's like he's
(30:04):
met me before.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
That's Representative Brandy Bradley kind of firing back at an
accusation that was put out on Facebook by Carolyn Weinberg,
Representative Ron Weinberg's wife, saying that they kind of believe
that Representative Bradley put these may have put these women
up to making allegations against Ron Weinberg through Facebook, and
you know, it's just it's become a complete mess. And
(30:29):
I hope that it gets put to bed. And I
think the best way that that happens is for Representative
Weinberg to face this head on and say, here's what happened.
You know, here's my statement. I'll say no more or
no less, and you know, then everything just goes away
from that point in my opinion. You know, but you
can't you can't not respond. And maybe that's what he's
(30:51):
looking to do, but he wants to do so in
the most appropriate way. I don't know. For the Republican
Party in the state of Colorado, this isn't great. In fact,
it's terrible. And I can tell you as a lifelong
Republican this is this has been tough to tough to see.
This is one of those things that I would definitely
call an unforced error and I'm sure the listeners out
(31:12):
there think the same way. Uh, we need to get
stuff done down at the state Capitol. And and this
ain't it. This is not what it looks like as
far as progress down in lawmaking. And I know that
it's a tense situation, but you know, when you have
representatives taking shots at each other and uh, you know,
unsavory allegations against one another, man, it's it's tough. And
(31:35):
that's no knock on the on the women who have
come forward to report what they have. If if these
allegations are true, they deserve to be recognized and it
deserves to be handled correctly. I don't know where you
go from here if these allegations are even remotely true. Uh,
to me, that seems as if I don't know if
there's a way for Representative want Weinberg to keep serving.
(31:58):
I'm not calling for his resignation by any sense the word,
but I think those are things that'll have to be considered. Ryan,
in your take on your show today when you were
interviewing your individual folks, what do you think the outcome
of this ends up being.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
I don't know how he gets around all these numerous accusations.
We see this sometimes you know, and I don't, not
drawing a straight line comparison. But when allegations like this
come forward, and more women come forward, whether it's Harvey
Weinstein or Bill Cosby or Larry Nasser, it becomes more
and more difficult to refute the accounts of several different
women who have no association or connection to one another.
(32:33):
The only thing you would have as a defense is
some kind of vast conspiracy, which seems to be what
Carolyn Weinberg is alleging with Representative Brandy Bradley. I doubt
there's any veracity to that. So it's what Representive Bradley said,
and I think you did as well. The longer this
continues to fester for Representative Weinberg with him not making
public comment in an interview or otherwise holding a press
conference or addressing it head on, then you're allowing these
(32:56):
allegations to fill the void in the vacuum, and they
then determine the outcome of the story. Meaning if I
was his comms director at say Ron, come hell or
high water, no matter which way this goes, you got
to get in front of it, and he's not getting
in front of it.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Well not yet and again, I think that opportunity exists,
whether it's when I'm filling in, or when Dan's got
the show, or even if Heidi's in the guest set.
I'm sure she would offer that same opportunity, and I
know you would as well. So you know, hopefully in
the next couple of days this gets settled, whether he
does a press conference or comes on one of the
individual radio shows. But it's got to be put to bed,
(33:31):
and I don't think that happens without a very direct
conversation to the listening public or the Colorado public. At
this point, it's been put out in this in the
sphere and it's not going away, there's no doubt about that. Well.
I have enjoyed myself thoroughly over the last two days
and some days last week when I filled in. It's
always a pleasure to fill in for the Dan Caplis show,
(33:54):
and I appreciate you guys for tuning in and listening. Dan,
we'll be back with you on Thursday tomorrow. You have
Heidi Ganal filling in and hopefully she'll have a fiery
show as well. Thanks for listening. Welcome the Sheriff Steve
Riems as your guest host signing off, Thank you,
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