Weld County Sheriff Steve Reams once again fills in for Dan and fields both calls and texts from listeners with their takes on the current field of candidates for Colorado governor in the 2026 Republican primary.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome to the Dan Kaplas Show with well Kenny Sheriff
Steve Reims filling in on day two of two or
Day two of three. I guess for today, man, if
you're out there traveling around right now, the roads are
probably going to only deteriorate from this point forward as
it starts to get cold. I drive down from Welld
County from the Greeley area was not too bad, but
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at the closer to the studio I got the worst
the condition's got and I think that has to do
a lot with the temperature just cooling off. I'm sure
the drive home is going to be great, but regardless,
if you're out there on the roadways, just be slow,
take your time. It's the first snow of the year
and a lot of people like to try to high
speed park into some of the ditches or curbs, and
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that's never really good for your car or your insurance rates.
So take your time and just get along, you know,
hopefully make it home one piece. Snow is part of
Colorado and we should all learn how to drive in it.
That's especially for those of you that may have just
moved here from California. Take a lesson, go out and
find a parking lot or something. As a person who
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works in law enforcement, the first snowstorm of the year
is always a struggle because I don't know what it
is about Colorado. I don't know what it is about
drivers here. I can't believe it on everybody coming here
from another state like California, but it seems like people
forget and they forget that you don't stop any faster
on the snow. And so that first snowstorm, and you know,
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for a law enforcement agency is always a little difficult
because we spend a lot of time responding to accidents
that probably didn't need to occur. So make sure you're
not one of those people. Take your time going home
today and get home safe. So that's my public safety
announcement for the day. We're going to continue with something
that I've kind of tried to make a habit of
when I'm filling in for Dan, and that's interviewing governor's
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candidates from the Republican side of the Aisle. I guess
if a Democrat wanted to come on, we'd happily have
them on. But they're not beating down the door to
get here. And you know, quite interestingly, with twenty one
Republican candidates, it's been difficult to get a hold of
even a few of the Republican candidates, and it kind
of makes you wonder why why they threw their name
in the hat. And I won't I won't drill down
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to which ones just yet, because I'm going to keep
trying until I just believe they absolutely refuse to do
an interview. But I want to read through this list
of names. When I first started doing some guest hosting
for Dan, I think there were a total of maybe
nineteen candidates in the field. If Alexis listened, I'm sure
she'll correct me if my math is wrong, but I
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think that's the number I remember announcing when I did
the show. Well, now we have twenty one Republicans, seven Democrats,
twelve unaffiliateds as of yesterday. I haven't rerun the list today,
that maybe there's four or five more by now for
a total of forty candidates. I mean, that's a crowded field.
When I first started doing the show, there were only
two Democrat candidates, so at least that field is starting
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to get a little crowded as well, seven with you know,
the two front runners being Bennett and Wiser. But I'm
going to go through these candidates and they're listed in
alphabetical order, so I'm not trying to show any kind
of well, I don't have a favorite. We'll just say
it that way. So we have Mark Baisley, Scott Bottoms
who was on yesterday, Bob Brinkerhoff who will be on tomorrow,
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John Brooks who will be on in the second hour,
Jason Clark who was on the show, Bryson Garrison who
was on the show, Steven Guess who has not been
on the show yet, John Grey Ginsberg was on the show,
Joshua Griffin on the show. Barb Kirkmeyer been on the
show several times. Greg Lopez was on the show. Victor
Marx also known as Von Marx, was on the show.
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Will William McBride also on the show. Let's see here
page two that tells you a lot. Jason mich Sel
Sheriff down and tell her he's been on the show
a couple of times. Robert Moore, he was on the show.
Alexander who got to one of the first candidates I
interviewed on the show. We have a Maria Ormes who
recently entered into the fray. I've reached out to her,
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she's responded back and we're trying to schedule that one,
but she has not been on the show yet. We
have Jim Runnenberg who will be on the show today,
and then Daniel Thomas and Gregory Thomas. I don't know
if they're related. Neither have been on the show. Those
have been some of the most difficult ones to get
a hold of. And then Kelvin came in Wimberley. He
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was on a couple of weeks ago as twenty one candidates.
And there's quite a variety of I would say, background, experience, ability.
And that's the purpose of having these folks on is
I think you need to get a good read on
each candidate while they're in the race. Are they taking
this thing serious? You know, do they really have a
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plan for turning Colorado around? Do they have a plan
for a win?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
You know?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
What was their purpose for running and I want to
give everybody a platform. You know, who knows where that
diamond in the rough is. But if you've got your
favorite candidate, I'd love to hear who it is. We've
heard a lot of Scott Bottoms, Victor Marx, Barb Kirkmeyer.
Is there a dark horse out there? And you can
always text that in at five seven, seven three nine.
Start your text out with Dan. You can also call
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in three oh three seven one three eight two five
five if you've got one you want to stump for.
I'm happy to put you on the air and listen
to what you have to say. And Alexa actually confirmed
when I first started first started doing the show, the
number was nineteen. So that tells you we've had twenty
one additional candidates jump in the race. And I've only
been guest hosting for Capitalists for I don't know, two
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or three months now, maybe a little longer. But that's
a whole lot of folks that want to run for
governor and get your vote. So it's important if you've
got a dark horse candidate out there, or if you've
got a reason why everybody should get behind a particular person.
I want to hear it. Text it in five, seven, seven,
three nine. Start your text out with Dan, and I'll
read it on the air. If you've got someone that
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you say is an absolute no, go tell me why.
We'll read that on the air too, as long as
you keep it radio appropriate. But also, if you want
to stump for a candidate, you got a you got
a strong opinion for a particular one, we'll try to
get you on the air. You can call in it
three oh three seven one, three eight two five five.
And I bring this up because I think the governor's
race in Colorado has been just to a lot of people,
especially on the Republican side of the aisle, just a
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foregone conclusion, like why waste my time, It's going to
be a Democrat. They're going to throw money at it.
And I just I can't take that as as the
way that things have to be. I just I can't
do it. I know that we had a Dan May's
experience back in twenty ten where the Republican Party kind
of went off the rails. We put a very very
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bad candidate forward. And I say we because I was
part of the mess when the Tea Party explosion happened
in the state of Colorado. I got in on that wave.
I was proud to be part of the Tea Party movement.
And you know, the Dan May his experience swept up
a lot of us. He got through that primary process,
squeaked through it, and then everything just went to hell
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in a handbasket in quick ways. And Tom tan Credo
jumped in as a constitutional candidate to try to, you know,
stand up against the Democrat at that time, which I
believe was John Hickenlooper if I'm not mistaken, and unfortunately
it just wasn't enough. Dan Mays pulled eleven and a
half percent of the vote or eleven point three something
like that. Well, the Republican Party almost became a minority party,
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and that would have been even more disastrous than where
we've ended up now as a state. But it's important.
We need to know who's running. We need to vet
these candidates, we need to give them a platform. And
even if it's painful to listen to a few of them,
I've sat here and kind of scratched my head and said,
I don't really know what this person's talking about. But
on others I've been like, Wow, this person's really put
some thought into this, and maybe they just don't have
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the you know, the horsepower yet to get their message out.
And that's what I'm really hoping for is find that
diamond in the rough or that that candidate that just starts, uh,
you know, building energy and moving forward. And if you
already have that candidate, if you if you know who
your candidate is, tell me why uh. Text in at
five seven, seven, three nine starts your text out with Dan.
Or if you want a debate on you know, who's
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the who's the front runner, who's the winner, I'll mix
that up with you too, and you can call in
it three oh three seven to one, three eight, two,
five five And just a little bit. When we come
back from break, we're going to have Jim Runnberg on.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
UH.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
He's kind of an unknown candidate. I think he's ran
for a few offices in the past. We'll find out
a little bit more about him. But stick with us,
stick with us through this break, and when we come back,
we'll have Jim run Berg, candidate for Colorado Governor. You're
listening to the Dan Capless Show here on six thirty
k how with Well County Sheriff Steve.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Dreams and now back to the Dan Tapless Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Welcome back to the Dan Capleas Show here with Well
County Sheriff Steve Riams. And when we went to break,
we were talking about bringing a governor's candidate on, and
I had mentioned that some of these folks were very
hard to get scheduled, and we had some difficulty getting
a commitment, and we're kind of having a little difficulty
getting a hold of mister Jim Runberg. So we're gonna
pivot just a little bit and try to get to
some phone calls out there. If you guys are willing
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to engage in this conversation, we can talk about how
bad the roads are too if you if you would
rather talk about that issue. But I'd like to hear
where you guys stand so far on this whole governor's
campaign a Republican party. Do Republicans have a chance at
all in the state of Colorado? Or is this just
a feudal exercise, exercise and futility. If you will go ahead,
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text in five seven, seven, three nine or call in,
which I would much prefer three oh three seven, one
three eight two five five. Like I said, we've interviewed
a whole bunch of these candidates, and they range from
I'm going to say a very novice experience level to
some that you know, you think, okay, this this person
might have the chops to make it. But you know,
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I'm I'm a little curious of the listening audience out there,
you just disinterested in a Republican even having a shot.
I mean, as a person who's been involved in politics
for a long time, sometimes my perspective is a little
skewed in that I think, well, you know, everybody should
be as invested as I am in this Republican experience
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and the conservative movement. I can tell you that watching
what Democrats have done to this state has been completely
detrimental in my mind to you know, public safety, road conditions,
you name it. Things have just kind of fallen apart
in my mind. I moved here in this to the
state in nineteen ninety five, and you know, it was
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blessed to come into Governor Owens being a Republican governor
here in the state of Colorado and doing yeoman's work
of kind of making this state a true red state
and you know, keeping it that way for quite some time.
And even he when he left office and we got
rid of for a little while. Things didn't immediately go
to go to to a bad place, but it didn't
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take long with Hick and Looper and pull us in office.
And I just wonder if it can even be pulled back.
And I have to think that some of you just
have written it off and said, well, this is the
conditions we live in. We can't change the narrative. This
is just the way it's going to be. And so
you've you've checked out. And I hope that's not the case.
But based on the fact that nobody's jumping in and saying, Hey,
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Victor Marx is my guy, Scott Bottoms is my guy,
maybe you've just checked out on this topic altogether and
you don't care.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Again.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I'd love to debate somebody on, hey, who's your candidate,
or love to hear your chops on why this person
is the is the person you definitely want to vote for?
You can call in three oh three seven one three
eight two five five or text in it dan five
seven seven three nine. Otherwise we'll just pivot away from
this all together and wait till the second hour when
we get a candidate on that I know wants to
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be here because he's been texting back and forth with
me quite time. That's John Brooks, Ryan. Are we just
striking out with Jim Rounberg.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
The update on that is I keep trying to dial
the number and it's going to a busy signal that's
not sounding like he's on the phone, but that it's
been disconnected.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
I also tried texting the number so far nothing.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, the only way I could get a hold of
him was through emails. So apparently he's not looking for
some earned media time, which is just rather rather unfortunate.
All that being said, I don't know what to say
when you have a candidate that is running from a
chance to tell his platform or doesn't want to get
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on the radio and tell his platform. That's a little disheartening.
So again, let's go back through this list real quick,
just so I can remind everybody. Let's see if this
is your candidate, Mark Baisley, he was on the radio,
Scott Bottoms, Bob Brinkerhoff, who will have on tomorrow, John Brooks,
Jason Clark, Bryson Garrison, Steven Guests, John Gray, Ginsburg, Joshua Griffin,
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Barb Kirkmeyer, Lopez, Vaughn Marx, Victor Marx, William will McBride,
Jason Mike Sel, Robert Moore, Alexander moo got to Maria Ormes,
who I think will be on at some point, Jim Runberg,
who we're still trying to get through to, Daniel Thomas,
Gregory Thomas, and then Kelvin K Man Wemberley. I will
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give a little background about Jim Runberg. I think he
ran for president in the last election cycle and may
have ran for governor as an unaffiliated person back in
like I don't know, twenty fourteen somewhere in there. So
maybe this is just a guy that likes to throw
his name in the hat see if he can get
any attention. He got enough of ours to try to
get him on the show, but then obviously no showed.
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Very frustrating in my personal opinion, for someone to say, yeah,
let's do the show and then apparently disconnect their phone.
So we'll just shift gears and talk about whatever you
want to talk about. It's Colorado, We're falling apart. You
can you can definitely text in five seven, seven, three
nine with any topics you want to cover. We covered
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a lot about CCW laws changing gun laws yesterday. That
definitely heated the text lineup. I'm always happy to try
to answer whatever questions you have when it comes to
guns and uh, what the Democrats have destroyed in the
state of Colorado or any other uh, you know, law
enforcement related questions. Uh, those are great too, But you
can also call in three o three seven to one
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three eight two five eight two five five. Sounds like
we have at least one caller. Maybe she's going to
uh uh stump for one of the candidates. I believe
it's Jennifer on on theline. Jennifer, what do you have
to say to us?
Speaker 7 (14:41):
Hey, Sriff, how are you?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
I'm great? How are you good?
Speaker 7 (14:45):
I want you to be careful driving home tonight.
Speaker 8 (14:47):
Okay, I'm out.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
And it's pretty slick.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Yeah, no, kid, And it was slick coming down here.
You got a candidate that you're stumping for or an
opinion on this governor's.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
Raa, what the heck? The governor's race is so frustrat
all these candidates. Most of the names you read I've
never heard of, and name recognition is going to be key.
But I mean, Barb Kirkmeyer I think stands the best
chance of winning. That unaffiliated voter who is tired of
Democrats and they're spending the affordability in Colorado just isn't there.
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And someone who knows fiscal responsibility is Barb Kirkmeyer.
Speaker 8 (15:24):
I didn't work for her or.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
Anything like that. I'm just really happy with the things
that she has brought forth legislatively.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
I think she's a good leader.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, you know, I worked with her as a commissioner
for many years, and then obviously she's become a state
senator that represents a large portion of Weld County. I
couldn't disagree with you about her ability. She's definitely a
very intelligent woman. She knows the state budget, she knows
how the sausage gets made down there, and definitely as
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a fighter, there is no.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Doubt about that.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
She's got a strong opinion and a strong but yeah,
I think more than qualified for the race. One of
the knocks I've heard now I'll see if you agree
with this, is that well, she's been in government too long.
What's your opinion of that, Jennifer.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
Oh, I think that's an art a generalized argument. I
think it depends on the candidate.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
You know.
Speaker 7 (16:20):
One of the things that has been I don't think
a good thing for the Republican Party is we have
these people who pop up who have no experience and
they say, I'm an outsider, I'm coming in, you know,
but you have to have a working understanding of government
and about how to get policy done, because at the
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end of the day, it's the policies that are on
the books that impact us all. I mean, you've talked
about gun policy, We've talked about a cost of living,
which is largely driven by policy, housing, et cetera. So
if you don't know how to get policy made and
what is good policy versus bad policy, and then at
the end of the day, you know, you're kind of
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get trying to get your seat under yourself the first
year or two. She's been in government a long time,
but she served at multiple levels. You know, She's worked
at the county level, she's and now at the state level.
And I see her experiencing her experience benefiting her, not
being a drawback maybe somebody else who's entrenched in in
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politics and what I mean is the good old boy system. No,
that doesn't benefit them. But I think she can get
stuff done.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
So, Jennifer, I don't know if you've ever attended the
State Assembly, but if you're a candidate and you're moving forward.
And I know that's a big ask of asking, you know,
a color to say, put yourself in the situation of
a candidate. But would you dare try to go through
the state Assembly with a crowd of twenty one candidates
or would you look at petitioning on to become a candidate?
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And those are two distinctly different paths. But you know,
the state of the Republican Party is a little tenuous
right now. And again, I don't know if you've ever
attended the Assembly, but would you even give it a shot?
Speaker 7 (18:06):
I've attended the Assembly, I've been a voting member of
the Assembly. But as far as where the party fits
right now, I think the only way for a reasonable
candidate to get onto.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
The ballot is the petition.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
Okay, there are so many factions within the Republican Party
and they all have their ways and there you know
what they want to see. Unfortunately, the party can't unify
behind three objectives to pick the best candidates. So I
think the only reasonable way is to petition on.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
That leaves it up to the to the vote of
the vote of the masses and the unaffiliated voter voters Jennifer,
thanks for calling in and it listens at least mixing
it up with me for a little bit. We've got
to go to break, But you're listening to the Dan
Cafles Show here on six point thirty kew with Well,
Kenny Sheriff Stevens.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Welcome back to the Dan Caplas Show here with Well,
koind of Shaff Steve Reims, and we went to break.
We were I was asking you guys to call in.
Tell me which governor candidate you're supporting or why you're
not supporting any of them. What your opinion is of
this governor's race? Are you just apathetic to it? And
during the break we started loading up the phone line,
so let's get right to it. Jenny, are you with us?
Speaker 5 (19:30):
I'm here, Hi, Jenny.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
What's your opinion on this governor's race? Do you have
a candidate you like or what's your take on this
whole mess?
Speaker 10 (19:38):
Well, I went to a forum and there was about
eighteen there at the time, so it's interesting that there's
twenty one now. I think there's a lot of Charlotte
Tuan's that are running.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
I hear.
Speaker 10 (19:51):
I didn't hear the first gal. I think her name
was Jennifer uh huh, and I think she was so
I didn't hear it all, but I kind of put a
little bit. I think she's a stumping for Barbara Kirkmeyer.
Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Well, I think she's supportive of Barb Kirkmeer. I don't
know if Barbs earned her vote yet, but she definitely
spoke highly ever, at least from what I heard on
the radio.
Speaker 10 (20:17):
Okay, well, I'm going to tell you a phrase. I
haven't ever seen Republicans run as Democrats, but I've seen
a lot of Democrats pose as Republicans.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Okay, Okay, So.
Speaker 10 (20:31):
I'm a fixed generation Colorado, so I used to know
what a free state looked like and lived it. And
so I'm going to talk about Barb Kirkmeyer. Okay, she
was at the forum, and she was the only one
that said she you know, she's done all these wonderful
things and stuff like that. But if you look at
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her liberty score, her liberty score is forty nine and
it's one point above the highest Democrats. So if you
remember your school grades, to tell you right, hey, that's
a failure.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
So Jenny, if you would just for the listeners. I
understand what the liberty score is, but can you give
just a little basic background on who does that liberty score?
Speaker 10 (21:21):
Uh, you know, I've been following it for a while,
but it's been in Colorado for many years, and so
the same thing with the Cut score, right and there again,
since it's been in and it's grassroots, it's important, not important,
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but involved citizens doing this to keep our government accountable
and are a candidate's accountable, we need a score to
see how they're voting on these bilds. So their liberty
score was forty nine and mac I said, it's one
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score above the Democrat, which is failing. Then you have
the Cut score that involves our freedoms, our taxes, and
you know, our property.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Yeah, Cut is called out a union of taxpayers. That's
their right.
Speaker 10 (22:27):
That's right, taxpayers, that's right. And that score is a
sixty one for miss Kirkmeyer. So all of those are failing. Great,
so she cannot come across as a wonderful, freedom loving Republican.
She is not a Republican.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
So, Jenny, I get I get them, I get the
impression you are not a bar kirk Kirkmeyer fan, which
I know, you know, your your entitled, your opinion. Do
you have a candidate that you're excited about?
Speaker 10 (23:00):
You know, it's too early to tell. And that's the thing.
There's lots of dark money that is coming in there. Again,
I'm going to go back to Kirkmeyer because she's against
the caucus, which brings I mean, I'm sure you Steve
went through caucus. Yep, that's right. She wants to go
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through both of them. Why would you want to go
through both of them? It's really then if you ballot
onto the what do I want to say onto the ballot,
then it's yeah, it's a money boys a game. Then
it doesn't give the little grassroot person a voice in
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any of their candidates. So then it becomes the big
money boys candidates. And we know that a lot of
out of state money, just like Peter Lewis spent twenty
million dollars putting marijuana. You know who, Peter lou Progressive
Insurance sent twenty million dollars out of state money to
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put marijuana on our ballot because it's one of the
easiest states to put an initiative on the ballot.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
With Mason Travert is this front man.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Yeah, look, I don't disagree with you, Jenny, and I
appreciate you calling in. We've got a couple other callers.
I want to make sure we get to you know,
when you make up your mind on a candidate, call
back in. I want to hear who that person is.
But Jenny, thank you for calling in with that information.
We're going to go next to Charles. Charles are y
on with us.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
I am a sheriff Raims.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
Pleasure to speak with you.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Yeah, you too, you too.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
You're doing a great job up there. That's a big
microphone to hold to try to fill in there you
get I know you you are otherwise employed and well
as well in a very important position as a sheriff
of Weal County.
Speaker 9 (24:58):
So so respectful.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
I was kind of calling just to get your opinion
on social media.
Speaker 9 (25:04):
I get a little bit.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
From Greg Lopez. He seems pretty good to me, but
I just.
Speaker 9 (25:09):
I don't know him.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
You know, I retired a few years ago from the
Denver area. I'm no longer in the state, but I
do my children still live there follow and obviously get
my talk radio out of there.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Well, so you know, social media is kind of the
new platform in which candidates are getting out to you know,
their constituents. You know, it's a cheap way of spreading
the message, and it seems like once you kind of
latch onto one candidate, that seems to be the way
the algorithms work in social media, so you'll get more
from that person. So if you watched a little bit
(25:44):
from Greg Lopez, you're probably going to get more Greg
Lopez stuff coming through your social media.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
You know.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Greg's also I think this is his third time to
run for governor in the state of Colorado. He does
have a you know, a pretty good reach, He's got
a good platform. He filled in for that time under Buck.
You know, right now, in my mind, there's like six
candidates that have kind of floated to the top. Greg
is one of them, and I don't know how it's
going to shake out, you know, I think Barb Kirkmeyer
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is one of them. I think Greg Lopez is one. Uh,
Mark Baisley's probably won, Scott Bottoms, Victor Marx and and
probably Jason Mike so sold down in Teler County. To me,
those are the top six and you know who am
I I have no idea if that's what everybody agrees with.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
But just basically Joe the interview with Jason last week
on the Ryan Shooling Show.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Well, I think Jason kind of he fills a gap
that a lot of the candidates don't, and that's his
experience in law enforcement. The same reason I like doing
this radio show. It's a it's a chance to kind
of tell people, Hey, this is this is what it
looks like on on that side of the badge. You know,
it's this is a tough state right now. And I
don't know what approach with any of those six candidates
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is going to be the winning approach, but you kind
of hit the nail on the head, you know, you
got to have a little different perspective. Y Lopez is
definitely a contender, but you know, I don't know who
the winning combination is going to be. I guess keep
watching social media and we'll find out.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
And for Charles, Greg Lopez will be on my program tomorrow,
Oh perfect at two thirty three pm, Ryan Shutling Live,
six thirty K how here on iHeart Denver.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Well, that's it.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
I'll look forward to that, and I promise this is
my last point. Your last caller was was good she
seems to be she knew what yeah, yeah, but why
would there be so many candidates? So that is suspicious
in me. To me, there should be less than you know,
four or five. It should be well so we can
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even use our brains. We don't have a big enough
brain to manage eighteen candidates. And I'll end with that,
Thank you, gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Thank you, Charles, and we'll go real quick to David
right before we go to break. David, I know you
got a point. We got just a few seconds before
we can go to break. David, what do you have
to say?
Speaker 8 (27:58):
Well, thanks for the opportunity to stare free. And I
had a chance to listen to Baisley and kirk Meyer
came to our county for various topics, and my wife
and I both walked away. Kirkmeyer is a good talk talker,
talks a big game, but chea rhino and I don't
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think she's the right solution. But they're going to try
to rammer down our throat. Okay, you're already watching some
of our congress people pushing that. But if I can
get some time back to the break, the bottom line
really is the thing about elections?
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Uh huh?
Speaker 8 (28:35):
And uh J. Bridgewall is pushing back from that. I'm
sure you heard about that today against the civil rights
divisions the Department of Justice.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Yeah, just a little bit.
Speaker 8 (28:46):
Yeah, yeah, Well that's a that's a really big issue
because we're not going to win the elections as honest
we continue down this path.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
I don't mail in ballot.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Yeah, so you know the mail in ballid issue we're
gonna we're going to talk about tomorrow. Tune in you'll
definitely want to hear what we're talking about in the
second hour tomorrow and call back in. We'll have some
time for that discussion tomorrow. We got to go to break,
but thanks for all the callers calling in. We won't
be able to get to everybody, but stick with us
here on the Dan Capliss Show, sixt thirty k how
with Well Keunty Sriff, Steve Dreams.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
And now back to the Dan Taplass Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Welcome back to the Dan capless Show.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
We're here with Well Kenny Sheriff, Steve Reams and we
started to get some pretty heated conversation going back and
forth about these governor candidates, which I absolutely absolutely love.
It's always a good time to mix it up and
hear what you guys have to say about the governor's candidates.
We'll keep that rolling in the second hour, but I
want to go to a special guest here to kind
of talk about something that's near and dear to my heart,
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and that's giving toys out to kids during the Christmas season.
And with us on the line is the guy who
I believe is going to be my replacement. That's Well
County Captain Matt Turner. Matt, how are you doing this afternoon?
Speaker 9 (29:57):
I'm great, Boss. How are you doing?
Speaker 3 (29:59):
I'm doing good. Hey.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I just wanted to bring you on for a couple
of minutes here because you've been out working with what
we call the Weld Elves to get toys for the
kids out in Weld County, and just if you could
kind of explain to the listeners exactly what those toy
drives do and how many people were able to help
out in the county by the generous donations of the
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people that you're coming into contact with.
Speaker 11 (30:25):
Absolutely, you know, I remember a time in my life
where my family struggled financially and one year the cops
showed up to my door with a Christmas gift it
was a fishing pole and I still have it in
my garage.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
That's awesome.
Speaker 11 (30:37):
Yeah, and it meant so much to me because we
almost didn't have Christmas that year. That was Santakaus back then.
Weld Elves is what we call it here in Weld
County and last year they helped over one five hundred
and seventy children. They served over six hundred and sixty
eight families. That's amazing. Yeah, but they delivered Christmas gifts
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about ten days out from Christmas all over the county,
four thousand square miles.
Speaker 9 (31:02):
They go out and do some great work.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
And how did people how did people get on the
list to receive those those gifts? You know, is there
a submission process? Explain that to the listeners in case
they're living in Weld County or or they're looking for
a similar program.
Speaker 9 (31:18):
There is a process for that.
Speaker 11 (31:19):
If you go to Weldelves dot com, you can submit
families on there. You can submit individual names, group names,
all kinds of stuff. You can also donate money on there.
And we've we've already done all the toy drives this year, right,
which were just amazing. In fact, on Saturday, we were
at Walmart and when I left there were over ten
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shopping carts full of toys.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
That's just awesome. You know, the charity that people are
willing to show from their heart to help, you know,
just causes. We had Weld food bank on yesterday. You know,
this time of this time of the year, people really
show what they're made of. And you, as someone who
received those gifts, you know, I have to believe that's
really peral to you at this point.
Speaker 11 (32:01):
It really is. And I don't leave this group. I
don't do anything, but I make sure that I'm there
to help, just because I really believe in the mission.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Yeah, and Matt, if you would, I know you're running
to replace me. The listeners out there that might be
in Welld County, where can they find out more about
your candidacy?
Speaker 11 (32:16):
Absolutely to go to Turner for sheriff dot com. You
can see anything about me and I update that as
frequent as I can.
Speaker 9 (32:23):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Thanks for coming on with us, Matt, and thanks for
sharing about the Weld Dels. I really appreciate that.
Speaker 9 (32:28):
Thanks Boss. Have a great night, you bet.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
And before we in this hour, I just want to
get to a few of the texts because we're going
to continue on with some of this governor discussion. Hopefully
we'll have some more phone line time, and I really
want you guys to queue it up when that time comes.
But some of the texts that have come in, says Steve,
I fell for some of the same Tea Party stuff,
and at one time I had a Democrat candidate at
my door and told them that I was going to
(32:50):
vote for whoever the Tea Party told me to.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
I don't know if I was that far in, but
not far from it. I mean, the Tea Party was
a definite movement. I kind of called that Maga point one.
I mean that was the early Maga movement, if you will,
kind of had the same energy and steam now the
one Harris says. A Google search has a KDVR list
of thirty four candidates, including libertarian and parties that people
have never heard of. September ninth, Westward list shows thirty
(33:16):
four as well. It doesn't seem to crosscheck with forty
that I listed, And that's from the real Ralph.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Ralph.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
What I would tell you to do is go to
the Colorado Secretary of State's website and go to a
section called tracer. You can do what's called a candidate search,
and you'd really have to drill down a little bit,
but you're looking for all statewide candidates for the Republican
or for the governor's race, and don't put any party
affiliation in and you'll get this list of forty. I
printed it yesterday. I'm not going to tell you that
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you couldn't had a one or two drop off for
five or six add on, because that seems to be the.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Way it goes.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
But that's the most accurate list that I've found, is
going through Colorado Secretary of State and on the tracer
website and just doing a candidate search. Another one here.
You know, we had some pretty fiery callers. We had
Jennifer and Jenny, similar names, but it says Sheriff, I've
stopped listening to political radio recently, mainly because of callers
(34:11):
like Jenny. She couldn't tell you what the liberty scorecard measures,
but she had significant opinion about burb Kirkmeyern on the
I turned on the show for the first time in
a month or so and Jenny was on.
Speaker 10 (34:22):
UG.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
I love you Ryan and Dan, but I'm struggling with
political talk lately. DK and Broomfield. Look, I get it,
political talk radio is tough because, especially on the conservative side,
we tend to tear each other apart in these primary seasons.
You know, I always use the term iron sharpens iron,
but sometimes we get a few wounds in the process.
And you know, uniting behind a candidate has been a
(34:47):
struggle for the Republican Party. And then you know, Jennifer
texted in while Jenny was on the radio and said,
that's exactly why Republicans cannot get elected in Colorado, you
know again, and it's that back and forth. We definitely, uh,
we view I say we conservatives view these primaries as
(35:07):
a blood sport. Elections as a blood sport, and we
go at it pretty hard. The thing that we seem
to miss as a conservative side or the Republican side,
is once we've done all this vetting and we've we've
picked our candidate through the primary process, this is the person.
Even if we didn't vote for him, Boy, we have
a we really struggle on getting behind that person. And
(35:28):
you've seen it in the last election cycle with Heidi
Ganall and you know, she won the primary, but then
there just wasn't the momentum to even stand a chance
against Governor Polis. So we got what we got. And
whether you like Heidi Ganall or not, I have to
believe she'd have been a better governor than Jared Polis
at this point. But maybe you'll debate me on that
(35:48):
in the next hour when we come back, we'll have
another governor's candidate. Bob'm sorry. John Brooks will be on
with us in the second hour. Here listening to the
Dan Caplis Show here on six thirty k High with
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome to the Dan Kaplas Show with well Kenny Sheriff
Steve Reims filling in on day two of two or
Day two of three. I guess for today, man, if
you're out there traveling around right now, the roads are
probably going to only deteriorate from this point forward as
it starts to get cold. I drive down from Welld
County from the Greeley area was not too bad, but
(00:35):
at the closer to the studio I got the worst
the condition's got and I think that has to do
a lot with the temperature just cooling off. I'm sure
the drive home is going to be great, but regardless,
if you're out there on the roadways, just be slow,
take your time. It's the first snow of the year
and a lot of people like to try to high
speed park into some of the ditches or curbs, and
(00:55):
that's never really good for your car or your insurance rates.
So take your time and just get along, you know,
hopefully make it home one piece. Snow is part of
Colorado and we should all learn how to drive in it.
That's especially for those of you that may have just
moved here from California. Take a lesson, go out and
find a parking lot or something. As a person who
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works in law enforcement, the first snowstorm of the year
is always a struggle because I don't know what it
is about Colorado. I don't know what it is about
drivers here. I can't believe it on everybody coming here
from another state like California, but it seems like people
forget and they forget that you don't stop any faster
on the snow. And so that first snowstorm, and you know,
(01:38):
for a law enforcement agency is always a little difficult
because we spend a lot of time responding to accidents
that probably didn't need to occur. So make sure you're
not one of those people. Take your time going home
today and get home safe. So that's my public safety
announcement for the day. We're going to continue with something
that I've kind of tried to make a habit of
when I'm filling in for Dan, and that's interviewing governor's
(01:59):
candidates from the Republican side of the Aisle. I guess
if a Democrat wanted to come on, we'd happily have
them on. But they're not beating down the door to
get here. And you know, quite interestingly, with twenty one
Republican candidates, it's been difficult to get a hold of
even a few of the Republican candidates, and it kind
of makes you wonder why why they threw their name
in the hat. And I won't I won't drill down
(02:22):
to which ones just yet, because I'm going to keep
trying until I just believe they absolutely refuse to do
an interview. But I want to read through this list
of names. When I first started doing some guest hosting
for Dan, I think there were a total of maybe
nineteen candidates in the field. If Alexis listened, I'm sure
she'll correct me if my math is wrong, but I
(02:44):
think that's the number I remember announcing when I did
the show. Well, now we have twenty one Republicans, seven Democrats,
twelve unaffiliateds as of yesterday. I haven't rerun the list today,
that maybe there's four or five more by now for
a total of forty candidates. I mean, that's a crowded field.
When I first started doing the show, there were only
two Democrat candidates, so at least that field is starting
(03:08):
to get a little crowded as well, seven with you know,
the two front runners being Bennett and Wiser. But I'm
going to go through these candidates and they're listed in
alphabetical order, so I'm not trying to show any kind
of well, I don't have a favorite. We'll just say
it that way. So we have Mark Baisley, Scott Bottoms
who was on yesterday, Bob Brinkerhoff who will be on tomorrow,
(03:31):
John Brooks who will be on in the second hour,
Jason Clark who was on the show, Bryson Garrison who
was on the show, Steven Guess who has not been
on the show yet, John Grey Ginsberg was on the show,
Joshua Griffin on the show. Barb Kirkmeyer been on the
show several times. Greg Lopez was on the show. Victor
Marx also known as Von Marx, was on the show.
(03:54):
Will William McBride also on the show. Let's see here
page two that tells you a lot. Jason mich Sel
Sheriff down and tell her he's been on the show
a couple of times. Robert Moore, he was on the show.
Alexander who got to one of the first candidates I
interviewed on the show. We have a Maria Ormes who
recently entered into the fray. I've reached out to her,
(04:15):
she's responded back and we're trying to schedule that one,
but she has not been on the show yet. We
have Jim Runnenberg who will be on the show today,
and then Daniel Thomas and Gregory Thomas. I don't know
if they're related. Neither have been on the show. Those
have been some of the most difficult ones to get
a hold of. And then Kelvin came in Wimberley. He
(04:37):
was on a couple of weeks ago as twenty one candidates.
And there's quite a variety of I would say, background, experience, ability.
And that's the purpose of having these folks on is
I think you need to get a good read on
each candidate while they're in the race. Are they taking
this thing serious? You know, do they really have a
(04:57):
plan for turning Colorado around? Do they have a plan
for a win?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
You know?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
What was their purpose for running and I want to
give everybody a platform. You know, who knows where that
diamond in the rough is. But if you've got your
favorite candidate, I'd love to hear who it is. We've
heard a lot of Scott Bottoms, Victor Marx, Barb Kirkmeyer.
Is there a dark horse out there? And you can
always text that in at five seven, seven three nine.
Start your text out with Dan. You can also call
(05:22):
in three oh three seven one three eight two five
five if you've got one you want to stump for.
I'm happy to put you on the air and listen
to what you have to say. And Alexa actually confirmed
when I first started first started doing the show, the
number was nineteen. So that tells you we've had twenty
one additional candidates jump in the race. And I've only
been guest hosting for Capitalists for I don't know, two
(05:44):
or three months now, maybe a little longer. But that's
a whole lot of folks that want to run for
governor and get your vote. So it's important if you've
got a dark horse candidate out there, or if you've
got a reason why everybody should get behind a particular person.
I want to hear it. Text it in five, seven, seven,
three nine. Start your text out with Dan, and I'll
read it on the air. If you've got someone that
(06:05):
you say is an absolute no, go tell me why.
We'll read that on the air too, as long as
you keep it radio appropriate. But also, if you want
to stump for a candidate, you got a you got
a strong opinion for a particular one, we'll try to
get you on the air. You can call in it
three oh three seven one, three eight two five five.
And I bring this up because I think the governor's
race in Colorado has been just to a lot of people,
especially on the Republican side of the aisle, just a
(06:27):
foregone conclusion, like why waste my time, It's going to
be a Democrat. They're going to throw money at it.
And I just I can't take that as as the
way that things have to be. I just I can't
do it. I know that we had a Dan May's
experience back in twenty ten where the Republican Party kind
of went off the rails. We put a very very
(06:48):
bad candidate forward. And I say we because I was
part of the mess when the Tea Party explosion happened
in the state of Colorado. I got in on that wave.
I was proud to be part of the Tea Party movement.
And you know, the Dan May his experience swept up
a lot of us. He got through that primary process,
squeaked through it, and then everything just went to hell
(07:08):
in a handbasket in quick ways. And Tom tan Credo
jumped in as a constitutional candidate to try to, you know,
stand up against the Democrat at that time, which I
believe was John Hickenlooper if I'm not mistaken, and unfortunately
it just wasn't enough. Dan Mays pulled eleven and a
half percent of the vote or eleven point three something
like that. Well, the Republican Party almost became a minority party,
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and that would have been even more disastrous than where
we've ended up now as a state. But it's important.
We need to know who's running. We need to vet
these candidates, we need to give them a platform. And
even if it's painful to listen to a few of them,
I've sat here and kind of scratched my head and said,
I don't really know what this person's talking about. But
on others I've been like, Wow, this person's really put
some thought into this, and maybe they just don't have
(07:55):
the you know, the horsepower yet to get their message out.
And that's what I'm really hoping for is find that
diamond in the rough or that that candidate that just starts, uh,
you know, building energy and moving forward. And if you
already have that candidate, if you if you know who
your candidate is, tell me why uh. Text in at
five seven, seven, three nine starts your text out with Dan.
Or if you want a debate on you know, who's
(08:17):
the who's the front runner, who's the winner, I'll mix
that up with you too, and you can call in
it three oh three seven to one, three eight, two,
five five And just a little bit. When we come
back from break, we're going to have Jim Runnberg on.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
UH.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
He's kind of an unknown candidate. I think he's ran
for a few offices in the past. We'll find out
a little bit more about him. But stick with us,
stick with us through this break, and when we come back,
we'll have Jim run Berg, candidate for Colorado Governor. You're
listening to the Dan Capless Show here on six thirty
k how with Well County Sheriff Steve.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Dreams and now back to the Dan Tapless Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Welcome back to the Dan Capleas Show here with Well
County Sheriff Steve Riams. And when we went to break,
we were talking about bringing a governor's candidate on, and
I had mentioned that some of these folks were very
hard to get scheduled, and we had some difficulty getting
a commitment, and we're kind of having a little difficulty
getting a hold of mister Jim Runberg. So we're gonna
pivot just a little bit and try to get to
some phone calls out there. If you guys are willing
(09:13):
to engage in this conversation, we can talk about how
bad the roads are too if you if you would
rather talk about that issue. But I'd like to hear
where you guys stand so far on this whole governor's
campaign a Republican party. Do Republicans have a chance at
all in the state of Colorado? Or is this just
a feudal exercise, exercise and futility. If you will go ahead,
(09:37):
text in five seven, seven, three nine or call in,
which I would much prefer three oh three seven, one
three eight two five five. Like I said, we've interviewed
a whole bunch of these candidates, and they range from
I'm going to say a very novice experience level to
some that you know, you think, okay, this this person
might have the chops to make it. But you know,
(09:59):
I'm I'm a little curious of the listening audience out there,
you just disinterested in a Republican even having a shot.
I mean, as a person who's been involved in politics
for a long time, sometimes my perspective is a little
skewed in that I think, well, you know, everybody should
be as invested as I am in this Republican experience
(10:19):
and the conservative movement. I can tell you that watching
what Democrats have done to this state has been completely
detrimental in my mind to you know, public safety, road conditions,
you name it. Things have just kind of fallen apart
in my mind. I moved here in this to the
state in nineteen ninety five, and you know, it was
(10:42):
blessed to come into Governor Owens being a Republican governor
here in the state of Colorado and doing yeoman's work
of kind of making this state a true red state
and you know, keeping it that way for quite some time.
And even he when he left office and we got
rid of for a little while. Things didn't immediately go
to go to to a bad place, but it didn't
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take long with Hick and Looper and pull us in office.
And I just wonder if it can even be pulled back.
And I have to think that some of you just
have written it off and said, well, this is the
conditions we live in. We can't change the narrative. This
is just the way it's going to be. And so
you've you've checked out. And I hope that's not the case.
But based on the fact that nobody's jumping in and saying, Hey,
(11:28):
Victor Marx is my guy, Scott Bottoms is my guy,
maybe you've just checked out on this topic altogether and
you don't care.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Again.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I'd love to debate somebody on, hey, who's your candidate,
or love to hear your chops on why this person
is the is the person you definitely want to vote for?
You can call in three oh three seven one three
eight two five five or text in it dan five
seven seven three nine. Otherwise we'll just pivot away from
this all together and wait till the second hour when
we get a candidate on that I know wants to
(11:57):
be here because he's been texting back and forth with
me quite time. That's John Brooks, Ryan. Are we just
striking out with Jim Rounberg.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
The update on that is I keep trying to dial
the number and it's going to a busy signal that's
not sounding like he's on the phone, but that it's
been disconnected.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
I also tried texting the number so far nothing.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, the only way I could get a hold of
him was through emails. So apparently he's not looking for
some earned media time, which is just rather rather unfortunate.
All that being said, I don't know what to say
when you have a candidate that is running from a
chance to tell his platform or doesn't want to get
(12:37):
on the radio and tell his platform. That's a little disheartening.
So again, let's go back through this list real quick,
just so I can remind everybody. Let's see if this
is your candidate, Mark Baisley, he was on the radio,
Scott Bottoms, Bob Brinkerhoff, who will have on tomorrow, John Brooks,
Jason Clark, Bryson Garrison, Steven Guests, John Gray, Ginsburg, Joshua Griffin,
(12:58):
Barb Kirkmeyer, Lopez, Vaughn Marx, Victor Marx, William will McBride,
Jason Mike Sel, Robert Moore, Alexander moo got to Maria Ormes,
who I think will be on at some point, Jim Runberg,
who we're still trying to get through to, Daniel Thomas,
Gregory Thomas, and then Kelvin K Man Wemberley. I will
(13:21):
give a little background about Jim Runberg. I think he
ran for president in the last election cycle and may
have ran for governor as an unaffiliated person back in
like I don't know, twenty fourteen somewhere in there. So
maybe this is just a guy that likes to throw
his name in the hat see if he can get
any attention. He got enough of ours to try to
get him on the show, but then obviously no showed.
(13:45):
Very frustrating in my personal opinion, for someone to say, yeah,
let's do the show and then apparently disconnect their phone.
So we'll just shift gears and talk about whatever you
want to talk about. It's Colorado, We're falling apart. You
can you can definitely text in five seven, seven, three
nine with any topics you want to cover. We covered
(14:06):
a lot about CCW laws changing gun laws yesterday. That
definitely heated the text lineup. I'm always happy to try
to answer whatever questions you have when it comes to
guns and uh, what the Democrats have destroyed in the
state of Colorado or any other uh, you know, law
enforcement related questions. Uh, those are great too, But you
can also call in three o three seven to one
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three eight two five eight two five five. Sounds like
we have at least one caller. Maybe she's going to
uh uh stump for one of the candidates. I believe
it's Jennifer on on theline. Jennifer, what do you have
to say to us?
Speaker 7 (14:41):
Hey, Sriff, how are you?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
I'm great? How are you good?
Speaker 7 (14:45):
I want you to be careful driving home tonight.
Speaker 8 (14:47):
Okay, I'm out.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
And it's pretty slick.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Yeah, no, kid, And it was slick coming down here.
You got a candidate that you're stumping for or an
opinion on this governor's.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
Raa, what the heck? The governor's race is so frustrat
all these candidates. Most of the names you read I've
never heard of, and name recognition is going to be key.
But I mean, Barb Kirkmeyer I think stands the best
chance of winning. That unaffiliated voter who is tired of
Democrats and they're spending the affordability in Colorado just isn't there.
(15:20):
And someone who knows fiscal responsibility is Barb Kirkmeyer.
Speaker 8 (15:24):
I didn't work for her or.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
Anything like that. I'm just really happy with the things
that she has brought forth legislatively.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
I think she's a good leader.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, you know, I worked with her as a commissioner
for many years, and then obviously she's become a state
senator that represents a large portion of Weld County. I
couldn't disagree with you about her ability. She's definitely a
very intelligent woman. She knows the state budget, she knows
how the sausage gets made down there, and definitely as
(15:54):
a fighter, there is no.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Doubt about that.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
She's got a strong opinion and a strong but yeah,
I think more than qualified for the race. One of
the knocks I've heard now I'll see if you agree
with this, is that well, she's been in government too long.
What's your opinion of that, Jennifer.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
Oh, I think that's an art a generalized argument. I
think it depends on the candidate.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
You know.
Speaker 7 (16:20):
One of the things that has been I don't think
a good thing for the Republican Party is we have
these people who pop up who have no experience and
they say, I'm an outsider, I'm coming in, you know,
but you have to have a working understanding of government
and about how to get policy done, because at the
(16:40):
end of the day, it's the policies that are on
the books that impact us all. I mean, you've talked
about gun policy, We've talked about a cost of living,
which is largely driven by policy, housing, et cetera. So
if you don't know how to get policy made and
what is good policy versus bad policy, and then at
the end of the day, you know, you're kind of
(17:03):
get trying to get your seat under yourself the first
year or two. She's been in government a long time,
but she served at multiple levels. You know, She's worked
at the county level, she's and now at the state level.
And I see her experiencing her experience benefiting her, not
being a drawback maybe somebody else who's entrenched in in
(17:23):
politics and what I mean is the good old boy system. No,
that doesn't benefit them. But I think she can get
stuff done.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
So, Jennifer, I don't know if you've ever attended the
State Assembly, but if you're a candidate and you're moving forward.
And I know that's a big ask of asking, you know,
a color to say, put yourself in the situation of
a candidate. But would you dare try to go through
the state Assembly with a crowd of twenty one candidates
or would you look at petitioning on to become a candidate?
(17:53):
And those are two distinctly different paths. But you know,
the state of the Republican Party is a little tenuous
right now. And again, I don't know if you've ever
attended the Assembly, but would you even give it a shot?
Speaker 7 (18:06):
I've attended the Assembly, I've been a voting member of
the Assembly. But as far as where the party fits
right now, I think the only way for a reasonable
candidate to get onto.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
The ballot is the petition.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
Okay, there are so many factions within the Republican Party
and they all have their ways and there you know
what they want to see. Unfortunately, the party can't unify
behind three objectives to pick the best candidates. So I
think the only reasonable way is to petition on.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
That leaves it up to the to the vote of
the vote of the masses and the unaffiliated voter voters Jennifer,
thanks for calling in and it listens at least mixing
it up with me for a little bit. We've got
to go to break, But you're listening to the Dan
Cafles Show here on six point thirty kew with Well,
Kenny Sheriff Stevens.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Welcome back to the Dan Caplas Show here with Well,
koind of Shaff Steve Reims, and we went to break.
We were I was asking you guys to call in.
Tell me which governor candidate you're supporting or why you're
not supporting any of them. What your opinion is of
this governor's race? Are you just apathetic to it? And
during the break we started loading up the phone line,
so let's get right to it. Jenny, are you with us?
Speaker 5 (19:30):
I'm here, Hi, Jenny.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
What's your opinion on this governor's race? Do you have
a candidate you like or what's your take on this
whole mess?
Speaker 10 (19:38):
Well, I went to a forum and there was about
eighteen there at the time, so it's interesting that there's
twenty one now. I think there's a lot of Charlotte
Tuan's that are running.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
I hear.
Speaker 10 (19:51):
I didn't hear the first gal. I think her name
was Jennifer uh huh, and I think she was so
I didn't hear it all, but I kind of put a
little bit. I think she's a stumping for Barbara Kirkmeyer.
Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Well, I think she's supportive of Barb Kirkmeer. I don't
know if Barbs earned her vote yet, but she definitely
spoke highly ever, at least from what I heard on
the radio.
Speaker 10 (20:17):
Okay, well, I'm going to tell you a phrase. I
haven't ever seen Republicans run as Democrats, but I've seen
a lot of Democrats pose as Republicans.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Okay, Okay, So.
Speaker 10 (20:31):
I'm a fixed generation Colorado, so I used to know
what a free state looked like and lived it. And
so I'm going to talk about Barb Kirkmeyer. Okay, she
was at the forum, and she was the only one
that said she you know, she's done all these wonderful
things and stuff like that. But if you look at
(20:53):
her liberty score, her liberty score is forty nine and
it's one point above the highest Democrats. So if you
remember your school grades, to tell you right, hey, that's
a failure.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
So Jenny, if you would just for the listeners. I
understand what the liberty score is, but can you give
just a little basic background on who does that liberty score?
Speaker 10 (21:21):
Uh, you know, I've been following it for a while,
but it's been in Colorado for many years, and so
the same thing with the Cut score, right and there again,
since it's been in and it's grassroots, it's important, not important,
(21:44):
but involved citizens doing this to keep our government accountable
and are a candidate's accountable, we need a score to
see how they're voting on these bilds. So their liberty
score was forty nine and mac I said, it's one
(22:08):
score above the Democrat, which is failing. Then you have
the Cut score that involves our freedoms, our taxes, and
you know, our property.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Yeah, Cut is called out a union of taxpayers. That's
their right.
Speaker 10 (22:27):
That's right, taxpayers, that's right. And that score is a
sixty one for miss Kirkmeyer. So all of those are failing. Great,
so she cannot come across as a wonderful, freedom loving Republican.
She is not a Republican.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
So, Jenny, I get I get them, I get the
impression you are not a bar kirk Kirkmeyer fan, which
I know, you know, your your entitled, your opinion. Do
you have a candidate that you're excited about?
Speaker 10 (23:00):
You know, it's too early to tell. And that's the thing.
There's lots of dark money that is coming in there. Again,
I'm going to go back to Kirkmeyer because she's against
the caucus, which brings I mean, I'm sure you Steve
went through caucus. Yep, that's right. She wants to go
(23:22):
through both of them. Why would you want to go
through both of them? It's really then if you ballot
onto the what do I want to say onto the ballot,
then it's yeah, it's a money boys a game. Then
it doesn't give the little grassroot person a voice in
(23:47):
any of their candidates. So then it becomes the big
money boys candidates. And we know that a lot of
out of state money, just like Peter Lewis spent twenty
million dollars putting marijuana. You know who, Peter lou Progressive
Insurance sent twenty million dollars out of state money to
(24:10):
put marijuana on our ballot because it's one of the
easiest states to put an initiative on the ballot.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
With Mason Travert is this front man.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Yeah, look, I don't disagree with you, Jenny, and I
appreciate you calling in. We've got a couple other callers.
I want to make sure we get to you know,
when you make up your mind on a candidate, call
back in. I want to hear who that person is.
But Jenny, thank you for calling in with that information.
We're going to go next to Charles. Charles are y
on with us.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
I am a sheriff Raims.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
Pleasure to speak with you.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Yeah, you too, you too.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
You're doing a great job up there. That's a big
microphone to hold to try to fill in there you
get I know you you are otherwise employed and well
as well in a very important position as a sheriff
of Weal County.
Speaker 9 (24:58):
So so respectful.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
I was kind of calling just to get your opinion
on social media.
Speaker 9 (25:04):
I get a little bit.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
From Greg Lopez. He seems pretty good to me, but
I just.
Speaker 9 (25:09):
I don't know him.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
You know, I retired a few years ago from the
Denver area. I'm no longer in the state, but I
do my children still live there follow and obviously get
my talk radio out of there.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Well, so you know, social media is kind of the
new platform in which candidates are getting out to you know,
their constituents. You know, it's a cheap way of spreading
the message, and it seems like once you kind of
latch onto one candidate, that seems to be the way
the algorithms work in social media, so you'll get more
from that person. So if you watched a little bit
(25:44):
from Greg Lopez, you're probably going to get more Greg
Lopez stuff coming through your social media.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
You know.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Greg's also I think this is his third time to
run for governor in the state of Colorado. He does
have a you know, a pretty good reach, He's got
a good platform. He filled in for that time under Buck.
You know, right now, in my mind, there's like six
candidates that have kind of floated to the top. Greg
is one of them, and I don't know how it's
going to shake out, you know, I think Barb Kirkmeyer
(26:10):
is one of them. I think Greg Lopez is one. Uh,
Mark Baisley's probably won, Scott Bottoms, Victor Marx and and
probably Jason Mike so sold down in Teler County. To me,
those are the top six and you know who am
I I have no idea if that's what everybody agrees with.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
But just basically Joe the interview with Jason last week
on the Ryan Shooling Show.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Well, I think Jason kind of he fills a gap
that a lot of the candidates don't, and that's his
experience in law enforcement. The same reason I like doing
this radio show. It's a it's a chance to kind
of tell people, Hey, this is this is what it
looks like on on that side of the badge. You know,
it's this is a tough state right now. And I
don't know what approach with any of those six candidates
(26:53):
is going to be the winning approach, but you kind
of hit the nail on the head, you know, you
got to have a little different perspective. Y Lopez is
definitely a contender, but you know, I don't know who
the winning combination is going to be. I guess keep
watching social media and we'll find out.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
And for Charles, Greg Lopez will be on my program tomorrow,
Oh perfect at two thirty three pm, Ryan Shutling Live,
six thirty K how here on iHeart Denver.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Well, that's it.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
I'll look forward to that, and I promise this is
my last point. Your last caller was was good she
seems to be she knew what yeah, yeah, but why
would there be so many candidates? So that is suspicious
in me. To me, there should be less than you know,
four or five. It should be well so we can
(27:41):
even use our brains. We don't have a big enough
brain to manage eighteen candidates. And I'll end with that,
Thank you, gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Thank you, Charles, and we'll go real quick to David
right before we go to break. David, I know you
got a point. We got just a few seconds before
we can go to break. David, what do you have
to say?
Speaker 8 (27:58):
Well, thanks for the opportunity to stare free. And I
had a chance to listen to Baisley and kirk Meyer
came to our county for various topics, and my wife
and I both walked away. Kirkmeyer is a good talk talker,
talks a big game, but chea rhino and I don't
(28:21):
think she's the right solution. But they're going to try
to rammer down our throat. Okay, you're already watching some
of our congress people pushing that. But if I can
get some time back to the break, the bottom line
really is the thing about elections?
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Uh huh?
Speaker 8 (28:35):
And uh J. Bridgewall is pushing back from that. I'm
sure you heard about that today against the civil rights
divisions the Department of Justice.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Yeah, just a little bit.
Speaker 8 (28:46):
Yeah, yeah, Well that's a that's a really big issue
because we're not going to win the elections as honest
we continue down this path.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
I don't mail in ballot.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Yeah, so you know the mail in ballid issue we're
gonna we're going to talk about tomorrow. Tune in you'll
definitely want to hear what we're talking about in the
second hour tomorrow and call back in. We'll have some
time for that discussion tomorrow. We got to go to break,
but thanks for all the callers calling in. We won't
be able to get to everybody, but stick with us
here on the Dan Capliss Show, sixt thirty k how
with Well Keunty Sriff, Steve Dreams.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
And now back to the Dan Taplass Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Welcome back to the Dan capless Show.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
We're here with Well Kenny Sheriff, Steve Reams and we
started to get some pretty heated conversation going back and
forth about these governor candidates, which I absolutely absolutely love.
It's always a good time to mix it up and
hear what you guys have to say about the governor's candidates.
We'll keep that rolling in the second hour, but I
want to go to a special guest here to kind
of talk about something that's near and dear to my heart,
(29:45):
and that's giving toys out to kids during the Christmas season.
And with us on the line is the guy who
I believe is going to be my replacement. That's Well
County Captain Matt Turner. Matt, how are you doing this afternoon?
Speaker 9 (29:57):
I'm great, Boss. How are you doing?
Speaker 3 (29:59):
I'm doing good. Hey.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I just wanted to bring you on for a couple
of minutes here because you've been out working with what
we call the Weld Elves to get toys for the
kids out in Weld County, and just if you could
kind of explain to the listeners exactly what those toy
drives do and how many people were able to help
out in the county by the generous donations of the
(30:22):
people that you're coming into contact with.
Speaker 11 (30:25):
Absolutely, you know, I remember a time in my life
where my family struggled financially and one year the cops
showed up to my door with a Christmas gift it
was a fishing pole and I still have it in
my garage.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
That's awesome.
Speaker 11 (30:37):
Yeah, and it meant so much to me because we
almost didn't have Christmas that year. That was Santakaus back then.
Weld Elves is what we call it here in Weld
County and last year they helped over one five hundred
and seventy children. They served over six hundred and sixty
eight families. That's amazing. Yeah, but they delivered Christmas gifts
(30:57):
about ten days out from Christmas all over the county,
four thousand square miles.
Speaker 9 (31:02):
They go out and do some great work.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
And how did people how did people get on the
list to receive those those gifts? You know, is there
a submission process? Explain that to the listeners in case
they're living in Weld County or or they're looking for
a similar program.
Speaker 9 (31:18):
There is a process for that.
Speaker 11 (31:19):
If you go to Weldelves dot com, you can submit
families on there. You can submit individual names, group names,
all kinds of stuff. You can also donate money on there.
And we've we've already done all the toy drives this year, right,
which were just amazing. In fact, on Saturday, we were
at Walmart and when I left there were over ten
(31:39):
shopping carts full of toys.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
That's just awesome. You know, the charity that people are
willing to show from their heart to help, you know,
just causes. We had Weld food bank on yesterday. You know,
this time of this time of the year, people really
show what they're made of. And you, as someone who
received those gifts, you know, I have to believe that's
really peral to you at this point.
Speaker 11 (32:01):
It really is. And I don't leave this group. I
don't do anything, but I make sure that I'm there
to help, just because I really believe in the mission.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Yeah, and Matt, if you would, I know you're running
to replace me. The listeners out there that might be
in Welld County, where can they find out more about
your candidacy?
Speaker 11 (32:16):
Absolutely to go to Turner for sheriff dot com. You
can see anything about me and I update that as
frequent as I can.
Speaker 9 (32:23):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Thanks for coming on with us, Matt, and thanks for
sharing about the Weld Dels. I really appreciate that.
Speaker 9 (32:28):
Thanks Boss. Have a great night, you bet.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
And before we in this hour, I just want to
get to a few of the texts because we're going
to continue on with some of this governor discussion. Hopefully
we'll have some more phone line time, and I really
want you guys to queue it up when that time comes.
But some of the texts that have come in, says Steve,
I fell for some of the same Tea Party stuff,
and at one time I had a Democrat candidate at
my door and told them that I was going to
(32:50):
vote for whoever the Tea Party told me to.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
I don't know if I was that far in, but
not far from it. I mean, the Tea Party was
a definite movement. I kind of called that Maga point one.
I mean that was the early Maga movement, if you will,
kind of had the same energy and steam now the
one Harris says. A Google search has a KDVR list
of thirty four candidates, including libertarian and parties that people
have never heard of. September ninth, Westward list shows thirty
(33:16):
four as well. It doesn't seem to crosscheck with forty
that I listed, And that's from the real Ralph.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Ralph.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
What I would tell you to do is go to
the Colorado Secretary of State's website and go to a
section called tracer. You can do what's called a candidate search,
and you'd really have to drill down a little bit,
but you're looking for all statewide candidates for the Republican
or for the governor's race, and don't put any party
affiliation in and you'll get this list of forty. I
printed it yesterday. I'm not going to tell you that
(33:45):
you couldn't had a one or two drop off for
five or six add on, because that seems to be the.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Way it goes.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
But that's the most accurate list that I've found, is
going through Colorado Secretary of State and on the tracer
website and just doing a candidate search. Another one here.
You know, we had some pretty fiery callers. We had
Jennifer and Jenny, similar names, but it says Sheriff, I've
stopped listening to political radio recently, mainly because of callers
(34:11):
like Jenny. She couldn't tell you what the liberty scorecard measures,
but she had significant opinion about burb Kirkmeyern on the
I turned on the show for the first time in
a month or so and Jenny was on.
Speaker 10 (34:22):
UG.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
I love you Ryan and Dan, but I'm struggling with
political talk lately. DK and Broomfield. Look, I get it,
political talk radio is tough because, especially on the conservative side,
we tend to tear each other apart in these primary seasons.
You know, I always use the term iron sharpens iron,
but sometimes we get a few wounds in the process.
And you know, uniting behind a candidate has been a
(34:47):
struggle for the Republican Party. And then you know, Jennifer
texted in while Jenny was on the radio and said,
that's exactly why Republicans cannot get elected in Colorado, you
know again, and it's that back and forth. We definitely, uh,
we view I say we conservatives view these primaries as
(35:07):
a blood sport. Elections as a blood sport, and we
go at it pretty hard. The thing that we seem
to miss as a conservative side or the Republican side,
is once we've done all this vetting and we've we've
picked our candidate through the primary process, this is the person.
Even if we didn't vote for him, Boy, we have
a we really struggle on getting behind that person. And
(35:28):
you've seen it in the last election cycle with Heidi
Ganall and you know, she won the primary, but then
there just wasn't the momentum to even stand a chance
against Governor Polis. So we got what we got. And
whether you like Heidi Ganall or not, I have to
believe she'd have been a better governor than Jared Polis
at this point. But maybe you'll debate me on that
(35:48):
in the next hour when we come back, we'll have
another governor's candidate. Bob'm sorry. John Brooks will be on
with us in the second hour. Here listening to the
Dan Caplis Show here on six thirty k High with
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