November 6, 2025 • 35 mins
Steve Reams, Weld County Sheriff lays down the law filling in for Dan, interviewing two of the 20 announced Republican candidates for governor in Colorado - Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer (R-23) and Kelvin 'K-Man' Wimberly.
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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 to the Dan Caplas Show, and today you're tuned
in with Weldkenny Sheriff Steve Riems as your guest host.
As you can probably guess, Dan is out playing hooky
again or doing whatever Dan does when he's not on
the radio, probably preparing to sue the bridges off of
somebody else again in the name of truth justice in
the American way as we all know. But it's always
my pleasure to be in studio filling in for Dan
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and trying to keep this thing on the rails while
we figure out where Colorado politics is going. And if
you were listening to the last show, the Ryan Schuling
Live Show, you can probably guess a little bit of
where we're going to go today, because after the slacking
that Republicans took on Tuesday, it's looking a little bleak
for the state of Colorado as to what's next year's
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election is going to. Where those things gonna end up
where our result's going to be. And we've got some
big races coming up. We've got governor's races, obviously, every
state wide race, well a couple of one of the
senator races, and you know, we're gonna we're gonna be
dealing with all the Colorado state wide races, governor, secretary
of state, treasurer, all those good things. And something that's
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been at the forefront of all these discussions has been
the governor's race. And we've had a ton of candidates
jumping into this thing. I say a ton. I don't
know if they necessarily way up to that, but I
would bet they do. Because there's nineteen candidates in the
race at this current time, and since the first time
that I came on the show for Dan Caplis, I
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think there's been seven or eight added. We were at
eleven or twelve when I first started doing some guest
hosting for Dan. In that time, I've interviewed I believe
ten of them formerly on the radio. I've invited every
one of them to come do an interview on this
radio show, with the exception of some of the more
recent ones that have jumped in. I don't believe I've
sent an invitation to Bob Brinkerhoff, to John Brooks or
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Maria Owhens ORMs. I'm sorry, ORMs, but I've invited every
other candidate, and for the most part, all of them
have responded. We're going to have one new candidate on today.
Hopefully we're going to have bart Kirkmeyern, because I haven't
formally interviewed her since she has introduced herself as a
governor's candidate. We're supposed to have her at the top
of the hour, but I know that she has a
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very full schedule today, so that maybe a little tougher
than what we had initially expected. Having said all that,
my initial planning for this radio show started out last
week when Dan called and said, hey, can you cover
the show? Sure, no problem. I've been seeing a lot
about Victor Marx jumping into the governor's race, and I
know nothing about the guy, so I thought, well, let's get.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Him on the radio.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So I just put a post out on social media
and said, if any of you are connected to the
Victor Marks campaign, please get in touch. I'd like to
get the guy on the radio and find out more
about who he is and you know what he's about
running for governor and basically asked him all the same
questions that I've been asking every other governor's candidate, because
I think listeners want to know who they have the
potential to vote for. And I had a back and
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forth with a few people through social media, and finally
I was connected with the person who was supposed to
be Victor Marx campaign manager, and we had some conversations
back and forth, and unfortunately we did not get him scheduled.
So I did the next best thing and brought on
people that I know very well, and I believe we
have Barb kirk Meyer on the line with this. Now Nope,
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she's coming up. Okay, I got it. She's We're waiting
for her to respond back. But I did the next
best thing I could and said, well, we'll schedule a
couple of other governor's candidates that one you may have
heard from, one you may not have. So I'm hoping
to have Barb Kirkmeyern, but also we're hoping to have
a very unique individual by the name of Kelvin k Man,
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not cave Man.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
K Man.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Wimberly got a chance to listen to him at one
of then's forums up in northern Colorado, and he's quite
the character. So no matter what, we're going to dive
into some of these folks. But back to the Victor
Marks scheduling thing. You know, I talked with his campaign manager.
We've talked for a couple of days. We were supposed
to have a on a live conversation, you know, about
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setting up this this interview with Victor. And eventually the
campaign manager and I got on a phone call and
he said, well, let me dial Victor in. So we
had a three way conversation. Victor was very energetic about
coming on the radio show, said make it happen. So
I thought today we'd be having Victor on, and this
conversation happened yesterday, and within just a couple of hours
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I got a message back from his campaign manager saying, hey,
we're already scheduled for Ryan Shuling. We're already scheduled for
Dan Caples. We'll just hold off. We'll try to find
another day to make this work. Okay, that's fine, But
obviously you know Ryan Shuling is one of the premier
hosts here on six thirty k HOW and he does
a lot of the scheduling for Dan Caplas. So I
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just I just passed along the information saying, hey, just
to let you know, these guys believe they're they're signed
up for some radio time, and I don't know that
that's actually the case. It sounds like we're a little
bit in a little bit of concern.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
TBD in the open door policy. Completely welcome, but yeah,
nothing on the books yet, nothing set in stone yet,
nothing arranged as far as a date and time yet.
I have had initial communications back and forth with Victor's team,
but no has not be borne fruit yet.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Okay, well, and again I think you know, the absence
of having that presence and TV media and radio media,
you know, it's hard for the voters out there to
to form a solid decision about where Victor Marx is
as a as a as a candidate. I mean, if
you go out and search who he is, for his ministry,
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for his efforts to save children, I think you can
form an opinion there about the work that this guy
is doing. You know, you can make your own opinion
about is this the Is this guy doing the thing
that you would most want to see someone doing in
that space. I don't think there's anyone that argues, you know,
we want to protect kids, we want to save kids
that are in war torn areas, we want to save
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kids that are potentially being abused here or abroad. And
you know, that's the space that Victor Marx and his
his ministry seemed to be fulfilling, or purported to be fulfilling.
So you know, who can besmirch a guy for that?
I mean, great on him. It sounds like he's been
doing that kind of work for many years, built a
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lot of connections in that space, at least from what's
reported online. But again, I don't know how that translates
over to being a governor's candidate, and that's what I
want to find out. You know, I've been very fair
with everybody that I've interviewed on the show, at least
I believe, so, you know, not to say we're asking
them softball questions, but we're asking them, hey, what you know,
where are you from, what's your background? Why did you
get it into this race? How are you gonna change Colorado?
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And I think that's fair for anybody that's listening that
wants to know why should I vote for this person
or that person to become governor. And if you got
some other questions you want to you want to have
me ask these candidates, feel free. You can text in
text Dan at five seven seven three nine, or you
can call in and we can have a conversation about
what you think needs to be in a governor's candidate.
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You can call in at three O three seven one
three eight two five five. That's three O three seven
one three eight two five five. Again, you can text
in at five seven seven three nine. Start your text
out with Dan. But we have nineteen candidates in this race,
and I think it's only appropriate that we start trying
to figure out how are we going to narrow this
field down, because when you have nineteen choices, that's maybe
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a little bit too much for a ballot, and it
just obviously won't work when you get to a primary
election and trying to get down and narrow down to
that one person who's going to face off against the Democrat,
who's likely to be Michael Bennett. And why we're speaking
to Michael Bennett Ryan if we could. He recently went
on a podcast, he being mister Michael Bennett, and made
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a statement that I thought, oh my gosh, this can't
be real. This can't be legitimate. And I believe that's
cut number three. If you could play that for me, Ryan,
that'd be great.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Listen.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
The median family cost of a single family house in
Colorado is six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The cost
of childcare in Colorado is twenty thousand dollars on average.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
That is a disgrace.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
We are the fifth most expensive state in America to
buy a single family house. We are the fourth, I
think most expensive state in America to buy childcare. That
is a disgrace and we have to address it because
people aren't going to be able to live in this
state if we don't.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Well, that's it's like he's campaigning for the Republicans. I mean,
isn't he just saying my party has trash this state?
You can't afford to live here. Things are out of control.
But it liked me because I'm from that same milk,
and I'll fix it. For some reason, that doesn't resonate
for me. And I don't know what podcast that was on.
I saw it posted and shared over to several other
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social media platforms, So shame on me for not giving
credit to who the initial podcaster was but it sounds
very rehearsed. It sounds like Bennett's trying to figure out
how to get some street cred by dropping an F
bomb on a podcast.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
And City cast Denver, Oh, City Cast, Citycast Denver.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
You know that's weird that one's not on my playlist
or my search list or my phone history. Well, what
we'll do, hopefully we'll still have a chance of getting
into barb here and getting her up on the line.
I'll text her during this break, and that's exactly where
we're gonna We're gonna take a break, we'll come back,
We'll see if we can get Barbon for a quick
segment and we'll pick her brain a little bit about
while she's running for governor, hopefully if we can get
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her on and maybe what she thinks of Victor Marx
and or Michael Bennett. With that, we'll cut to break.
You're listening to the Dan Kapla Show here on six
thirty k How.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Welcome back to the Dan Kapla Show here on six
thirty k How with Well Kenny Sheriff Steve Reims filling
in as your guest host and as we talked about
in the first break our first segment, we were planning
on having state Senator I always say Commissioner Barb Kirkmeyer
because I worked with her for so long in that
capacity in that first segment, but luckily we got her
in the second segment. So we'll go straight to Barb
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on the line, and Barb, how are you doing this afternoon?
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (10:31):
I'm doing great. Sorry about that somewhere between rifle and
Grand Junction, still am, but I've finally got in within range.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Perfect.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Perfect. Hey, we know how cell phone coverage works, even
though those Verizon commercials say you get it everywhere you go,
but it's not necessarily the case exact. So, Barb, we've
been talking about governor's candidates, and I've interviewed I think
ten or eleven of the candidates on this show as
a fill in guest, but I never interviewed you formally
as a governor's candidate. I'd always had you on here
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talking about the JBC or whatever the case may be,
and I only thought it would be fair. You came
into the race a little later than some of the
other candidates, and I have a history with you, but
I'd like to interview you as a new candidate in
my book for the show.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
If you're okay with that, absolutely sounds perfect to me.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
So let's take it like I would with any other candidate.
Let's pretend as if we don't know each other, and Barb,
if you would tell the listeners a little bit about
your background, kind of how you got involved in government,
for those those listeners that just may not know.
Speaker 7 (11:31):
So my background is this. I'm a fourth generation Colorado one.
I'm a mom, I'm a grandmother.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
I've grew up.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
On a dairy farm. I owned a dairy farm. I've
owned a small business and had a lot of different
things in my background. But the way I got involved
in politics was I was engaged in my community. They
were trying to put a bunch of different landfills and
disposal facility sites all over my rural community where my
dairy farm was. At the time, I had two little kids,
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was really busy. Just thought, you know, I just need
people to leave me alone, let me do my jobs
and take care of my kids. And I called my
county commissioner and asked him for his help, and said,
what do we need to do down here? You know,
because I live about an hour away from the county seat,
and he basically blew me off and told me that,
you know, it didn't really matter and that I was
just chasing windmills. And I told him he was going
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to be damn sorry when I caught one, and then
I ran against him in one. He became a county commissioner,
and ever since then, I've been really engaged. And you know,
it was it was that I don't know that drives
I have to take care of my community and look
out for my community, and it did. It just really
kind of ticked me off. He told me we didn't matter,
and I thought, yes, we do. We do matter, and
so but quite frankly, that's why I'm running for governor.
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You know, for the last seven years we've had one
party control. They have you know, taken us to the
point where we're unaffordable, we're unsafe, and quite frankly, we're
just unraveling in this state. And you know, I'm thinking
enough enough. You know, I'm fourth generation, my six grandsons
are sixth generation. Wow, And you know, we're as elected officials,
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we're supposed to be governing for the next generation and
building a better future and we're not doing that in
this state. So I just feel compelled to go out
and protect my state and go fight for it and
get us back on track.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Well, in your most recent you've spent seven years down
at the state legislature in the Senate for her Senate
District twenty three. You've gotten an inside track on what
the Joint Budget Committee's doing, what legislation looks like at
the state level. But I found it pretty interesting, and
I think you may have reposted this podcast clip from
Senator Michael Bennett where he's talking about the state of
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Colorado is just disgraceful and how all these things are
broken in the state of Colorado. But it goes exactly
to what you're saying. You have seven years of Democrat control.
How is this guy even considered relevant in the governor's race?
And quite frankly, you know, if and when you win
the primary, that's probably going to be your opponent. What
does that look like in a head to head match
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up with you and Michael Bennett. What are the arguments
you make to mister Bennett.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
Well, I'd be looking forward to it, and you know, honestly,
that coast I did. I did post on it and
I do agree with Senator Bennett. It is disgraceful that
we are the fifth most unaffordable state in the nation
and the fourth most unaffordable state when it comes to childcare.
And that's all because of his buddies down at the Capitol.
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You know, the governor, this administration, the majority that we
have of Democrats in both the House and the Senate,
they've been passing those bills, and you know what he's
stood by. I don't recall hearing over the course of
the last five years him saying that, hey, this is
not a good policy, this is bad for Colorado. In fact,
he's been sitting in Washington, d C. And he sits
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there and tells everybody he's going to take as governor,
he's going to take the fight to Trump. I'm like, well,
you're sitting in Washington, d C. Why don't you take
the fight to him there. Of course, what has he
done over the course of his seventeen years of being
a Nobody can really tell me what it is.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
That's a fact.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
I'm not sure he can really tell us what he's
done for the state of Colorado. So I don't know
why he thinks he would be a good governor. But
I found it very like to.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Oh, Barb, you're you're we're losing a little bit of
your coverage there. Oh man, Well, I think we know
where Barb was going with that. Maybe she'll cut back
in here in a second. But to the point where
she made I'd love to get on a debate stage
with this guy. I would love to see that happen.
I've watched Barb light into people quite a few times,
and watching her go up against Michael Bennett would be priceless.
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I hope we get her back on so she could
at least finish up that that comment. But I know
she's driving across the state right now to go participate
in one other form or another forum. So you know,
that's the life of someone out there on the road,
and you know you can't ask her to stop and
pull over and do all those things necessarily and make
herself late just to be on this radio show. But
the fact that she's willing to take the call and
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try to get on here, you know, that's what you
want in someone who's who's trying to win some votes
and trying to get that earned media, as Ryan would
describe it, by coming on radio shows and saying, hey,
this is where I stand, this is where i'm this
is where I'm at, this is what got me activated.
And I believe at this point she is the top
fundraiser as far as reported funds in the race so far,
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and one of the last ones to enter. I don't
know the exact date that she jumped in. I believe
it may have been October twenty second or something like that.
I think she announced on the same night that I
announced a race for County Commissioner. But regardless, she's hit
the ground running and obviously she's still running halfway across
the state, which is why we lost her audio. But
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you know, I can't I can't answer questions for so
we'll just move on. That being said, if you've got
some questions you want to know all these candidates, this
is the station to tune into because we're trying to
interview them all. You can text into five seven, seven,
three nine, start your text out with Dan or calling
at three three seven one, three eight two five y five.
Got a couple of texts here. One of them is
pretty funny, actually, both of them are pretty funny. This
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one kind of a carryover from the Ryan shooting live show.
It says Dan today has been the craziest introduction I've
ever had to a good manatorial candidate. And that's referencing
some of the stuff that I think Ryan played in
his show about Victor Marx. And these are things that
live out there in the open space. These are videos
that he himself has posted or his team has posted
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out on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, all those places, describing some
interactions he's had with the world. And then there's another one.
This text here says Steve, with nineteen candidates, the winner
could have six percent of the votes. And that's the problem.
That's the exact reason why we've got to figure out
how to narrow this down and find out which candidates
can actually have a chance in the state of Colorado.
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And I say that's a slim, slim chance. We know
Michael Bennett's got a funding machine behind him. He's got
several packs political action committees. I'm sure he's got some
independent expenditure committees that are they're going to help stand
him up. He's made connections while he's been out in Washington,
d C. For seventeen years doing absolutely nothing. I don't
think he's even sponsored a bill that has passed any
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to any measure, maybe a resolution here or there, but
I don't think that he's I don't think he's got
a resume. All that being said, let's go to this break.
When we come back, we're going to come back with
another governor's Candidate's name's Kelvin k Man Wemberley and he
is an interesting dude, not from your typical mold as
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a governor's candidate. So stick around when we come back,
we'll have Kelvin the k Man Wemberley on six point
thirty k Haw Dan capla show with well Kenny Shriff
Steve Rams as your guest host.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
You're listening to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Welcome back to the Dan Kaplas Show. And if you
haven't noticed, we have a little bit of a theme
today with our bumper music. It's who are the candidates?
And that's either the ones we're having on or the
ones that haven't come on yet. But with that, we're
about to interview a new candidate this show, and I
think maybe a new Canada to many of the airwaves,
and that is Kelvin k Man Wimberley. Kelvin, are you
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on the line with us.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
I am definitely on the line. And you know I
love that segway. I caused me to almost want to
dance right in the vehicle there.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Brother, I am not surprised by that at all, sir,
just for the audience's sake, I got a chance to
listen to Kelvin up at the Northern Colorado Governor's Forum
up at the Resurrection Christian Church, and you're quite an
interesting guy. You're definitely comfortable in your own skin. There's
no doubt about that. You bring something to this governor's race.
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I haven't seen in a really long time, and I thought,
why not have this gy on the show and just
let the listeners hear what he has to say. So, Kelvin,
if you would tell the listeners a little bit about
who you are, what's your background, where did you come from,
where did you grow up, and what brought you to Colorado.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Well, thank you so very much for asking me. I
came here when I was four years old. My dad
was stationed to come here to Colorado and came from
Oklahoma in nineteen sixty nine. I was four years old
and we came to an electrical storm and it was
quite a storm. Parents said, keep your hands off of everything,
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don't touch anything, and I'm watching this electrical storm was
pretty intense. Yet fortunately we end up got here, of course,
and went to ended up going to the southwest Jeffco area,
and my dad was in law enforcement, actually was a
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safety manager at FYC, the facility there, and so what happened,
I just that's how I kind of got here. And
when I was about till eight or nine years old,
I asked my mom. I thought that Oklahoma and Conrad
were the only things in the world, that's all that existed.
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And so I said, Mom, what is Colorado and Oklahoma
the only state? Said is that it? And well my
mom said, we got Colorado, we got Oklahoma. Those are
states of the Union of the United States, and there's
other states. And then my mom said, I'm in the
nation of the United States of America. There's other nations.
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Something activated in me at that point. So at that
point in time, when I was about nine years old,
I started paying attention to a lot of things. I
was watching news. I was able to get my accumulation
from that, and I started really listening to a lot
of things, and I was paying attention. I was paying
attention to our economy. Even at that age, I realized
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that Governor Lamb, we had at as quot mentality. Back then.
We didn't want no people to come here. We don't
want businesses because we had great skies. We didn't want
the overpopulation here in Colorado, and it wasn't much trash.
And we were the first ones to actually say we
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don't want the Olympics. So we actually climbed from the Olympics,
the first nation or state or whatever youone called to do. So,
so that was the mentality. What I learned from that
is a lot of business ended up leaving here. And
at that point I realized that you can't have status quo.
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You can't have you have to have a climate at
that point to extract businesses to come here. So I
realized that, and so then the businesses started coming back.
First started with storage Tech, then started with Heila Packer.
But I think it was about in the mid eighties
or whatever. But me working I worked at Montgomery Wards
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and actually I worked first at grounds for Jeffson County
and I didn't liked the atmosphere the first when I
went there to the main shop there. So they love
me to do my yarning at Piper Elementary and and
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also Colorado, and so that's where I went. The school
is Piper, and uh, I learned a lot, you know.
I enjoyed doing yards, but that was something my dad
was very good at. I mean, my dad was made
a lot of things. And my dad, of all the people, uh,
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besides Jews class in Nazare, my dad would have been
the greatest influence to me. Okay. And so father, father
and dad of bed, I.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Got you, I got you. So it's you explain how
you get to Colorado, A little bit about your childhood.
What's your what's your background look like in the in
the working world. You said you worked for Jefferson County
a little bit of Montgomery Wards, but uh, what what's
your recent I mean, what what do you think has
prepared you to take on this role in the work
in the work field as the as the next governor
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of Colorado.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Interesting enough, thank you for asking me that question. I
learned a lot my gouvern rewards. I saw the process
of things going from the receiving to the floor, and
I saw how much work it took. At that point,
it developed within me appreciation for labor and how things
get to people. I ended up working for D I A.
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I was at D I A the running surface at
the train rest On and West Brember Taxway tests that
Charlie Tuttle, Charlie t excuse me with him helped me
at least working on Sunday gave me an opportunity to
rest up to where I all that. I did a
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majority of all the tests and for the rain surface
and also for the train. But what it did is
I learned a lot. I learned a lot about when
replaced the When thed I was put there, there was
hardly anything out there. And then from I learned about
the importance of doing the city, doing the nation. But
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even before that was Highland's Wretch. I got a map
of Highland's Wretch. And I already when I got that map,
I said, we can collage ranch can build for the
next seven or ten years. Well that's about right. It
ended up building for eleven years. Well, that gave me
an understanding about how to set up counties out, how
to set up housing, how to set up for particular businesses.
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And it was really it's awesome how they set that up.
So that gave all those that made a factor with
me learning how to build a city, how to build
even a nation, and so I was paying attention to
all those things along with the climate of Colorado. It
gave me an insight. So now I'm led to run
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for office, and a good place was to start with
the governorship since that was available.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
I got you. So you're you get activated to run
for governor from from You're sitting in your living room.
You say, you know what this is? The state's in
a mass I'm making words for you, but I'm assuming
this is pretty correct. I'm the guy to jump in
here and fix it. How do you how do you
differ yourself from the other candidates? What makes you not
the same as the rest of the field, And how
are you gonna how are you going to distance yourself
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from the rest of that crowd? How are people going
to find you? How are they going to know where
what your message is.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
One of the things is I have an interesting background.
I've One of the things is I have I had
a situation and you know, and Alaura that wasn't favorable
and it should have never happened and stuff. But nevertheless,
with that, I still have appreciation forward police. So I've
(26:43):
I've gone through a lot of things. I've dealt with things,
I've seen the other side of that. But you know,
there's a lot of great police officers and I want
to I want to see, uh. I believe law enforcement.
We have to have law enforcement be able to do
what they need to do. And I'm one to not
one of those that believes and defund the police. Even
What's interesting, my dad actually was a police officer for
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the Washington d C. He actually show the pictures of
a Queen Elizabeth and things of that nature. So law enforcement,
even though I didn't go quite that route, but my
dad was in the was in the government or law
enforcement and also safety manager. He was in with that
for between nine and a half years and retired the
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same year. I graduated from high school from Bakery High
School in nineteen eighty three. So all those factors, those
are something unique things about me as well. One of
the things is that one I want to emphasize is
I want to emphasize on men taking the room for
men and fathers to be fathers and they take the
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role of being a father to being a father, being
a good husband. Those are one of the things I'm
gonna emphasize with if I want to emphasize with. But
at the same time, this is very important if we
want to have the content that's gonna stick. Whatever you
have to the family, the family has to has to
be stable, has to be good. And you know, people
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and sometimes cop my position, and there are things you
just do the best what you have.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
What you what's wen do with Kelvin? We're kind of Kevin.
We're running up against the break here. Hey, what what's
a Do you have a website or a social media page?
People can find you. I'm sorry we got to cut
a little short just because we're going to break. But
where can people find you if they want to support you?
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Well, you can find me at right now, I'm going
to go ahead and modify my my email, but you
can go k Man the digital for uh Ka why
why j at email dot com. Okay, I'm gonna I'm
(28:52):
going to modify that. But yes, I learned a lot
and I want to I want to make sure that
farmers we need to get the all gas up. We
have a lot of great natural resources here. We need
to ulize it all you bet, and I want to
bring that forth as well and business to give business
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incentives to put back it to the community. You have
to give him incentives and so Kelln we have the
right rules of write and sifts.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yes, I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
We got a wrap.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
I gotta go to a hard break here, but thanks
for coming on the show. And I'm sure you'll get
some some comments from the listeners. Stay tuned in and
you'll hear the feedback from the interview. But again, thanks
for being on the show. You're listening to the Dan
Capleas Show here on six thirty k how We're going
to break.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
And now back to the Dankaplas Show podcast. Welcome back to.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
The Dan Caplas Show here with well Kenny Sheriff Steve
Reims as your guest host today filling in for Dan
while he's out doing what Dan does when he's not
on the radio. And if you if you're just tuning in,
good for you if you were here for that last segment.
This is why we interview all candidates because we want
everyone to make sure they have an understanding of who
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is on the ballot or who is potentially on the ballot.
As I said going into that segment, Kelvin Wemberley is
a different guy different background for sure. But he did
come on the radio, that's right. And we have some
candidates that have not been willing to come on the
radio also correct, And so you know he's new to
the political world. His answers maybe aren't as concis as
(30:28):
we need for the radio, but he wasn't afraid to
come on.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
No, And where I was impressed with Kelvin I actually
met him at the Old County ho down that you
and I were both in attendant at, and he led
a very wonderful prayer at the official flag burning ceremony ayway,
And I guess there were protesters that were threatening to
come to the event and burn American flags.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Is that correct?
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Do I have it right?
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Yeah, So there was a little bit of hubbub about,
you know where, because it's a Republican event, we were
going to be Marxist and whatever, burn flag fascist. I
don't know you have those in World County. I'm a
little surprised. Well, I don't think they. I think they
were emailing from outside. There we go, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
So instead they had, you know, a formal disposal of
American flag. If you have a tattooed flag and it's
no longer suitable for use. Then there's a there's a
ceremony that you go about doing to properly.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Dispose the flag.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
And Kelvin stepped in impromptu and delivered a really nice prayer.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
And you can tell he loves this country and I
liked him. He's a good guy.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Yeah, again, he was an entertaining character, you know, jumping
into a governor's race with no political background to speak of,
and that's a tall task. But again, you know, if
we don't give the guy the platform, we don't give
him a chance to get out there and hone his message.
Are we really doing the guy any favors?
Speaker 3 (31:46):
I'm not going to this text to sheriff.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
It says he's still didn't answer your question about recent
job experience.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
What I compared that to You're gonna love this. So
there's the scene from Step Brothers where.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
They go around in the tuxedo and they do the
job interview and it's like kind of the pressure is on.
And yeah, the Montgomery Ward thing did stand out to
me though, because I remember my mom's I'm gonna go
to monkey Wards monkey Wards.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Yeah, you know, just as he's an old soul, there's
no doubt about it. When he when he answers questions,
he does so with a flare, especially when it's in
those forums. Oh yeah, yeah, he definitely got the crowd laughing.
And I think he was a little nervous today, but hey,
he came on the radio and that's the point. You know,
we've had now twelve candidates that are twelve of the
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nineteen that are in the race. I believe I'll go
through all the names at some point here today.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
You've had twelve of them on when filling in. Yeah, yeah,
it's pretty good. So you know, it's amazing when you
reach out to these guys and gals. Most of them
are looking for that chance to do some earned media.
They want to get out there and get their message
out and say, hey, this is this is my campaign,
this is what I'm about, this is why I'm running,
this is what activated me. And while Kelvin may kind
of go around the barn in the way he answers
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the questions, at least he's trying to answer him. And
of course, you know, is very direct and to the point.
She gets down to the brass tax and unfortunately we
had some cell phone issues. But regardless, people shouldn't be
afraid to come on and speak their message. And I
intend to reach out to a few of these others.
Like I said, there's a whole slew of candidates in
the race, nineteen total, and I'll go through all the
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names when we start the top of the next hour,
because the reason I'm doing this is that any of
you that were around in twenty ten, you may remember
a candidate named Dan Mays, and Dan Mays ended up
being the Republican governor's candidate for the state of Colorado.
And we found out through that process that Dan was
not who Dan purported to be, and it left Republicans
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very flat footed. It left us in a place where
we really had no chance at even being relevant and
almost became a minority party. If we had dropped below
or the ten percent or lower level in votes, the
Republicans would become a minority party. He garnered I think
eleven eleven and a half percent of the vote. So
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I don't want to ever see that again. And when
there's a chance to get these guys and gals out
here to give their platform, to let them earn the
vote of the listeners, and I believe a lot of
Republican voters out there do listen to talk radio. I
happen to be one of them. Hopefully the listeners out
there are are in agreement that, hey, these things are
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They're useful, even if sometimes they're not exactly easy to stomach.
It's good to hear what all these candidates have to say,
and we have to give them that platform to do so,
even if it's just one or two times. So when
we come back from break, we'll go into the Dan
Mays audio that triggers me to want to have all
these folks on to make sure we can vet what
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their backgrounds are exactly about. But you listen to the
Dan Cafleis show here on six point thirty K how
we will reload for that second hour, have a couple
of Congress persons on with us, Lauren Bobert and Gabe Evans,
and just a little bit of audio from proback with
Dan Mays. You listen to this six dy k how
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome to the Dan Caplas Show, and today you're tuned
in with Weldkenny Sheriff Steve Riems as your guest host.
As you can probably guess, Dan is out playing hooky
again or doing whatever Dan does when he's not on
the radio, probably preparing to sue the bridges off of
somebody else again in the name of truth justice in
the American way as we all know. But it's always
my pleasure to be in studio filling in for Dan
(00:36):
and trying to keep this thing on the rails while
we figure out where Colorado politics is going. And if
you were listening to the last show, the Ryan Schuling
Live Show, you can probably guess a little bit of
where we're going to go today, because after the slacking
that Republicans took on Tuesday, it's looking a little bleak
for the state of Colorado as to what's next year's
(00:59):
election is going to. Where those things gonna end up
where our result's going to be. And we've got some
big races coming up. We've got governor's races, obviously, every
state wide race, well a couple of one of the
senator races, and you know, we're gonna we're gonna be
dealing with all the Colorado state wide races, governor, secretary
of state, treasurer, all those good things. And something that's
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been at the forefront of all these discussions has been
the governor's race. And we've had a ton of candidates
jumping into this thing. I say a ton. I don't
know if they necessarily way up to that, but I
would bet they do. Because there's nineteen candidates in the
race at this current time, and since the first time
that I came on the show for Dan Caplis, I
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think there's been seven or eight added. We were at
eleven or twelve when I first started doing some guest
hosting for Dan. In that time, I've interviewed I believe
ten of them formerly on the radio. I've invited every
one of them to come do an interview on this
radio show, with the exception of some of the more
recent ones that have jumped in. I don't believe I've
sent an invitation to Bob Brinkerhoff, to John Brooks or
(02:06):
Maria Owhens ORMs. I'm sorry, ORMs, but I've invited every
other candidate, and for the most part, all of them
have responded. We're going to have one new candidate on today.
Hopefully we're going to have bart Kirkmeyern, because I haven't
formally interviewed her since she has introduced herself as a
governor's candidate. We're supposed to have her at the top
of the hour, but I know that she has a
(02:27):
very full schedule today, so that maybe a little tougher
than what we had initially expected. Having said all that,
my initial planning for this radio show started out last
week when Dan called and said, hey, can you cover
the show? Sure, no problem. I've been seeing a lot
about Victor Marx jumping into the governor's race, and I
know nothing about the guy, so I thought, well, let's get.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Him on the radio.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So I just put a post out on social media
and said, if any of you are connected to the
Victor Marks campaign, please get in touch. I'd like to
get the guy on the radio and find out more
about who he is and you know what he's about
running for governor and basically asked him all the same
questions that I've been asking every other governor's candidate, because
I think listeners want to know who they have the
potential to vote for. And I had a back and
(03:12):
forth with a few people through social media, and finally
I was connected with the person who was supposed to
be Victor Marx campaign manager, and we had some conversations
back and forth, and unfortunately we did not get him scheduled.
So I did the next best thing and brought on
people that I know very well, and I believe we
have Barb kirk Meyer on the line with this. Now Nope,
(03:33):
she's coming up. Okay, I got it. She's We're waiting
for her to respond back. But I did the next
best thing I could and said, well, we'll schedule a
couple of other governor's candidates that one you may have
heard from, one you may not have. So I'm hoping
to have Barb Kirkmeyern, but also we're hoping to have
a very unique individual by the name of Kelvin k Man,
(03:54):
not cave Man.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
K Man.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Wimberly got a chance to listen to him at one
of then's forums up in northern Colorado, and he's quite
the character. So no matter what, we're going to dive
into some of these folks. But back to the Victor
Marks scheduling thing. You know, I talked with his campaign manager.
We've talked for a couple of days. We were supposed
to have a on a live conversation, you know, about
(04:19):
setting up this this interview with Victor. And eventually the
campaign manager and I got on a phone call and
he said, well, let me dial Victor in. So we
had a three way conversation. Victor was very energetic about
coming on the radio show, said make it happen. So
I thought today we'd be having Victor on, and this
conversation happened yesterday, and within just a couple of hours
(04:39):
I got a message back from his campaign manager saying, hey,
we're already scheduled for Ryan Shuling. We're already scheduled for
Dan Caples. We'll just hold off. We'll try to find
another day to make this work. Okay, that's fine, But
obviously you know Ryan Shuling is one of the premier
hosts here on six thirty k HOW and he does
a lot of the scheduling for Dan Caplas. So I
(05:00):
just I just passed along the information saying, hey, just
to let you know, these guys believe they're they're signed
up for some radio time, and I don't know that
that's actually the case. It sounds like we're a little
bit in a little bit of concern.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
TBD in the open door policy. Completely welcome, but yeah,
nothing on the books yet, nothing set in stone yet,
nothing arranged as far as a date and time yet.
I have had initial communications back and forth with Victor's team,
but no has not be borne fruit yet.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Okay, well, and again I think you know, the absence
of having that presence and TV media and radio media,
you know, it's hard for the voters out there to
to form a solid decision about where Victor Marx is
as a as a as a candidate. I mean, if
you go out and search who he is, for his ministry,
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for his efforts to save children, I think you can
form an opinion there about the work that this guy
is doing. You know, you can make your own opinion
about is this the Is this guy doing the thing
that you would most want to see someone doing in
that space. I don't think there's anyone that argues, you know,
we want to protect kids, we want to save kids
that are in war torn areas, we want to save
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kids that are potentially being abused here or abroad. And
you know, that's the space that Victor Marx and his
his ministry seemed to be fulfilling, or purported to be fulfilling.
So you know, who can besmirch a guy for that?
I mean, great on him. It sounds like he's been
doing that kind of work for many years, built a
(06:39):
lot of connections in that space, at least from what's
reported online. But again, I don't know how that translates
over to being a governor's candidate, and that's what I
want to find out. You know, I've been very fair
with everybody that I've interviewed on the show, at least
I believe, so, you know, not to say we're asking
them softball questions, but we're asking them, hey, what you know,
where are you from, what's your background? Why did you
get it into this race? How are you gonna change Colorado?
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And I think that's fair for anybody that's listening that
wants to know why should I vote for this person
or that person to become governor. And if you got
some other questions you want to you want to have
me ask these candidates, feel free. You can text in
text Dan at five seven seven three nine, or you
can call in and we can have a conversation about
what you think needs to be in a governor's candidate.
(07:23):
You can call in at three O three seven one
three eight two five five. That's three O three seven
one three eight two five five. Again, you can text
in at five seven seven three nine. Start your text
out with Dan. But we have nineteen candidates in this race,
and I think it's only appropriate that we start trying
to figure out how are we going to narrow this
field down, because when you have nineteen choices, that's maybe
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a little bit too much for a ballot, and it
just obviously won't work when you get to a primary
election and trying to get down and narrow down to
that one person who's going to face off against the Democrat,
who's likely to be Michael Bennett. And why we're speaking
to Michael Bennett Ryan if we could. He recently went
on a podcast, he being mister Michael Bennett, and made
(08:06):
a statement that I thought, oh my gosh, this can't
be real. This can't be legitimate. And I believe that's
cut number three. If you could play that for me, Ryan,
that'd be great.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Listen.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
The median family cost of a single family house in
Colorado is six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The cost
of childcare in Colorado is twenty thousand dollars on average.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
That is a disgrace.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
We are the fifth most expensive state in America to
buy a single family house. We are the fourth, I
think most expensive state in America to buy childcare. That
is a disgrace and we have to address it because
people aren't going to be able to live in this
state if we don't.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Well, that's it's like he's campaigning for the Republicans. I mean,
isn't he just saying my party has trash this state?
You can't afford to live here. Things are out of control.
But it liked me because I'm from that same milk,
and I'll fix it. For some reason, that doesn't resonate
for me. And I don't know what podcast that was on.
I saw it posted and shared over to several other
(09:14):
social media platforms, So shame on me for not giving
credit to who the initial podcaster was but it sounds
very rehearsed. It sounds like Bennett's trying to figure out
how to get some street cred by dropping an F
bomb on a podcast.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
And City cast Denver, Oh, City Cast, Citycast Denver.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
You know that's weird that one's not on my playlist
or my search list or my phone history. Well, what
we'll do, hopefully we'll still have a chance of getting
into barb here and getting her up on the line.
I'll text her during this break, and that's exactly where
we're gonna We're gonna take a break, we'll come back,
We'll see if we can get Barbon for a quick
segment and we'll pick her brain a little bit about
while she's running for governor, hopefully if we can get
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her on and maybe what she thinks of Victor Marx
and or Michael Bennett. With that, we'll cut to break.
You're listening to the Dan Kapla Show here on six
thirty k How.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Welcome back to the Dan Kapla Show here on six
thirty k How with Well Kenny Sheriff Steve Reims filling
in as your guest host and as we talked about
in the first break our first segment, we were planning
on having state Senator I always say Commissioner Barb Kirkmeyer
because I worked with her for so long in that
capacity in that first segment, but luckily we got her
in the second segment. So we'll go straight to Barb
(10:27):
on the line, and Barb, how are you doing this afternoon?
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (10:31):
I'm doing great. Sorry about that somewhere between rifle and
Grand Junction, still am, but I've finally got in within range.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Perfect.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Perfect. Hey, we know how cell phone coverage works, even
though those Verizon commercials say you get it everywhere you go,
but it's not necessarily the case exact. So, Barb, we've
been talking about governor's candidates, and I've interviewed I think
ten or eleven of the candidates on this show as
a fill in guest, but I never interviewed you formally
as a governor's candidate. I'd always had you on here
(10:59):
talking about the JBC or whatever the case may be,
and I only thought it would be fair. You came
into the race a little later than some of the
other candidates, and I have a history with you, but
I'd like to interview you as a new candidate in
my book for the show.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
If you're okay with that, absolutely sounds perfect to me.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
So let's take it like I would with any other candidate.
Let's pretend as if we don't know each other, and Barb,
if you would tell the listeners a little bit about
your background, kind of how you got involved in government,
for those those listeners that just may not know.
Speaker 7 (11:31):
So my background is this. I'm a fourth generation Colorado one.
I'm a mom, I'm a grandmother.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
I've grew up.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
On a dairy farm. I owned a dairy farm. I've
owned a small business and had a lot of different
things in my background. But the way I got involved
in politics was I was engaged in my community. They
were trying to put a bunch of different landfills and
disposal facility sites all over my rural community where my
dairy farm was. At the time, I had two little kids,
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was really busy. Just thought, you know, I just need
people to leave me alone, let me do my jobs
and take care of my kids. And I called my
county commissioner and asked him for his help, and said,
what do we need to do down here? You know,
because I live about an hour away from the county seat,
and he basically blew me off and told me that,
you know, it didn't really matter and that I was
just chasing windmills. And I told him he was going
(12:20):
to be damn sorry when I caught one, and then
I ran against him in one. He became a county commissioner,
and ever since then, I've been really engaged. And you know,
it was it was that I don't know that drives
I have to take care of my community and look
out for my community, and it did. It just really
kind of ticked me off. He told me we didn't matter,
and I thought, yes, we do. We do matter, and
so but quite frankly, that's why I'm running for governor.
(12:43):
You know, for the last seven years we've had one
party control. They have you know, taken us to the
point where we're unaffordable, we're unsafe, and quite frankly, we're
just unraveling in this state. And you know, I'm thinking
enough enough. You know, I'm fourth generation, my six grandsons
are sixth generation. Wow, And you know, we're as elected officials,
(13:04):
we're supposed to be governing for the next generation and
building a better future and we're not doing that in
this state. So I just feel compelled to go out
and protect my state and go fight for it and
get us back on track.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Well, in your most recent you've spent seven years down
at the state legislature in the Senate for her Senate
District twenty three. You've gotten an inside track on what
the Joint Budget Committee's doing, what legislation looks like at
the state level. But I found it pretty interesting, and
I think you may have reposted this podcast clip from
Senator Michael Bennett where he's talking about the state of
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Colorado is just disgraceful and how all these things are
broken in the state of Colorado. But it goes exactly
to what you're saying. You have seven years of Democrat control.
How is this guy even considered relevant in the governor's race?
And quite frankly, you know, if and when you win
the primary, that's probably going to be your opponent. What
does that look like in a head to head match
(13:59):
up with you and Michael Bennett. What are the arguments
you make to mister Bennett.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
Well, I'd be looking forward to it, and you know, honestly,
that coast I did. I did post on it and
I do agree with Senator Bennett. It is disgraceful that
we are the fifth most unaffordable state in the nation
and the fourth most unaffordable state when it comes to childcare.
And that's all because of his buddies down at the Capitol.
(14:25):
You know, the governor, this administration, the majority that we
have of Democrats in both the House and the Senate,
they've been passing those bills, and you know what he's
stood by. I don't recall hearing over the course of
the last five years him saying that, hey, this is
not a good policy, this is bad for Colorado. In fact,
he's been sitting in Washington, d C. And he sits
(14:46):
there and tells everybody he's going to take as governor,
he's going to take the fight to Trump. I'm like, well,
you're sitting in Washington, d C. Why don't you take
the fight to him there. Of course, what has he
done over the course of his seventeen years of being
a Nobody can really tell me what it is.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
That's a fact.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
I'm not sure he can really tell us what he's
done for the state of Colorado. So I don't know
why he thinks he would be a good governor. But
I found it very like to.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Oh, Barb, you're you're we're losing a little bit of
your coverage there. Oh man, Well, I think we know
where Barb was going with that. Maybe she'll cut back
in here in a second. But to the point where
she made I'd love to get on a debate stage
with this guy. I would love to see that happen.
I've watched Barb light into people quite a few times,
and watching her go up against Michael Bennett would be priceless.
(15:33):
I hope we get her back on so she could
at least finish up that that comment. But I know
she's driving across the state right now to go participate
in one other form or another forum. So you know,
that's the life of someone out there on the road,
and you know you can't ask her to stop and
pull over and do all those things necessarily and make
herself late just to be on this radio show. But
the fact that she's willing to take the call and
(15:54):
try to get on here, you know, that's what you
want in someone who's who's trying to win some votes
and trying to get that earned media, as Ryan would
describe it, by coming on radio shows and saying, hey,
this is where I stand, this is where i'm this
is where I'm at, this is what got me activated.
And I believe at this point she is the top
fundraiser as far as reported funds in the race so far,
(16:17):
and one of the last ones to enter. I don't
know the exact date that she jumped in. I believe
it may have been October twenty second or something like that.
I think she announced on the same night that I
announced a race for County Commissioner. But regardless, she's hit
the ground running and obviously she's still running halfway across
the state, which is why we lost her audio. But
(16:38):
you know, I can't I can't answer questions for so
we'll just move on. That being said, if you've got
some questions you want to know all these candidates, this
is the station to tune into because we're trying to
interview them all. You can text into five seven, seven,
three nine, start your text out with Dan or calling
at three three seven one, three eight two five y five.
Got a couple of texts here. One of them is
pretty funny, actually, both of them are pretty funny. This
(16:59):
one kind of a carryover from the Ryan shooting live show.
It says Dan today has been the craziest introduction I've
ever had to a good manatorial candidate. And that's referencing
some of the stuff that I think Ryan played in
his show about Victor Marx. And these are things that
live out there in the open space. These are videos
that he himself has posted or his team has posted
(17:20):
out on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, all those places, describing some
interactions he's had with the world. And then there's another one.
This text here says Steve, with nineteen candidates, the winner
could have six percent of the votes. And that's the problem.
That's the exact reason why we've got to figure out
how to narrow this down and find out which candidates
can actually have a chance in the state of Colorado.
(17:42):
And I say that's a slim, slim chance. We know
Michael Bennett's got a funding machine behind him. He's got
several packs political action committees. I'm sure he's got some
independent expenditure committees that are they're going to help stand
him up. He's made connections while he's been out in Washington,
d C. For seventeen years doing absolutely nothing. I don't
think he's even sponsored a bill that has passed any
(18:03):
to any measure, maybe a resolution here or there, but
I don't think that he's I don't think he's got
a resume. All that being said, let's go to this break.
When we come back, we're going to come back with
another governor's Candidate's name's Kelvin k Man Wemberley and he
is an interesting dude, not from your typical mold as
(18:24):
a governor's candidate. So stick around when we come back,
we'll have Kelvin the k Man Wemberley on six point
thirty k Haw Dan capla show with well Kenny Shriff
Steve Rams as your guest host.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
You're listening to the Dan Kapliss Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Welcome back to the Dan Kaplas Show. And if you
haven't noticed, we have a little bit of a theme
today with our bumper music. It's who are the candidates?
And that's either the ones we're having on or the
ones that haven't come on yet. But with that, we're
about to interview a new candidate this show, and I
think maybe a new Canada to many of the airwaves,
and that is Kelvin k Man Wimberley. Kelvin, are you
(19:06):
on the line with us.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
I am definitely on the line. And you know I
love that segway. I caused me to almost want to
dance right in the vehicle there.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Brother, I am not surprised by that at all, sir,
just for the audience's sake, I got a chance to
listen to Kelvin up at the Northern Colorado Governor's Forum
up at the Resurrection Christian Church, and you're quite an
interesting guy. You're definitely comfortable in your own skin. There's
no doubt about that. You bring something to this governor's race.
(19:33):
I haven't seen in a really long time, and I thought,
why not have this gy on the show and just
let the listeners hear what he has to say. So, Kelvin,
if you would tell the listeners a little bit about
who you are, what's your background, where did you come from,
where did you grow up, and what brought you to Colorado.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Well, thank you so very much for asking me. I
came here when I was four years old. My dad
was stationed to come here to Colorado and came from
Oklahoma in nineteen sixty nine. I was four years old
and we came to an electrical storm and it was
quite a storm. Parents said, keep your hands off of everything,
(20:11):
don't touch anything, and I'm watching this electrical storm was
pretty intense. Yet fortunately we end up got here, of course,
and went to ended up going to the southwest Jeffco area,
and my dad was in law enforcement, actually was a
(20:34):
safety manager at FYC, the facility there, and so what happened,
I just that's how I kind of got here. And
when I was about till eight or nine years old,
I asked my mom. I thought that Oklahoma and Conrad
were the only things in the world, that's all that existed.
(20:57):
And so I said, Mom, what is Colorado and Oklahoma
the only state? Said is that it? And well my
mom said, we got Colorado, we got Oklahoma. Those are
states of the Union of the United States, and there's
other states. And then my mom said, I'm in the
nation of the United States of America. There's other nations.
(21:20):
Something activated in me at that point. So at that
point in time, when I was about nine years old,
I started paying attention to a lot of things. I
was watching news. I was able to get my accumulation
from that, and I started really listening to a lot
of things, and I was paying attention. I was paying
attention to our economy. Even at that age, I realized
(21:41):
that Governor Lamb, we had at as quot mentality. Back then.
We didn't want no people to come here. We don't
want businesses because we had great skies. We didn't want
the overpopulation here in Colorado, and it wasn't much trash.
And we were the first ones to actually say we
(22:04):
don't want the Olympics. So we actually climbed from the Olympics,
the first nation or state or whatever youone called to do. So,
so that was the mentality. What I learned from that
is a lot of business ended up leaving here. And
at that point I realized that you can't have status quo.
(22:24):
You can't have you have to have a climate at
that point to extract businesses to come here. So I
realized that, and so then the businesses started coming back.
First started with storage Tech, then started with Heila Packer.
But I think it was about in the mid eighties
or whatever. But me working I worked at Montgomery Wards
(22:46):
and actually I worked first at grounds for Jeffson County
and I didn't liked the atmosphere the first when I
went there to the main shop there. So they love
me to do my yarning at Piper Elementary and and
(23:08):
also Colorado, and so that's where I went. The school
is Piper, and uh, I learned a lot, you know.
I enjoyed doing yards, but that was something my dad
was very good at. I mean, my dad was made
a lot of things. And my dad, of all the people, uh,
(23:29):
besides Jews class in Nazare, my dad would have been
the greatest influence to me. Okay. And so father, father
and dad of bed, I.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Got you, I got you. So it's you explain how
you get to Colorado, A little bit about your childhood.
What's your what's your background look like in the in
the working world. You said you worked for Jefferson County
a little bit of Montgomery Wards, but uh, what what's
your recent I mean, what what do you think has
prepared you to take on this role in the work
in the work field as the as the next governor
(23:57):
of Colorado.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Interesting enough, thank you for asking me that question. I
learned a lot my gouvern rewards. I saw the process
of things going from the receiving to the floor, and
I saw how much work it took. At that point,
it developed within me appreciation for labor and how things
get to people. I ended up working for D I A.
(24:21):
I was at D I A the running surface at
the train rest On and West Brember Taxway tests that
Charlie Tuttle, Charlie t excuse me with him helped me
at least working on Sunday gave me an opportunity to
rest up to where I all that. I did a
(24:43):
majority of all the tests and for the rain surface
and also for the train. But what it did is
I learned a lot. I learned a lot about when
replaced the When thed I was put there, there was
hardly anything out there. And then from I learned about
the importance of doing the city, doing the nation. But
(25:04):
even before that was Highland's Wretch. I got a map
of Highland's Wretch. And I already when I got that map,
I said, we can collage ranch can build for the
next seven or ten years. Well that's about right. It
ended up building for eleven years. Well, that gave me
an understanding about how to set up counties out, how
to set up housing, how to set up for particular businesses.
(25:27):
And it was really it's awesome how they set that up.
So that gave all those that made a factor with
me learning how to build a city, how to build
even a nation, and so I was paying attention to
all those things along with the climate of Colorado. It
gave me an insight. So now I'm led to run
(25:49):
for office, and a good place was to start with
the governorship since that was available.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
I got you. So you're you get activated to run
for governor from from You're sitting in your living room.
You say, you know what this is? The state's in
a mass I'm making words for you, but I'm assuming
this is pretty correct. I'm the guy to jump in
here and fix it. How do you how do you
differ yourself from the other candidates? What makes you not
the same as the rest of the field, And how
are you gonna how are you going to distance yourself
(26:16):
from the rest of that crowd? How are people going
to find you? How are they going to know where
what your message is.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
One of the things is I have an interesting background.
I've One of the things is I have I had
a situation and you know, and Alaura that wasn't favorable
and it should have never happened and stuff. But nevertheless,
with that, I still have appreciation forward police. So I've
(26:43):
I've gone through a lot of things. I've dealt with things,
I've seen the other side of that. But you know,
there's a lot of great police officers and I want
to I want to see, uh. I believe law enforcement.
We have to have law enforcement be able to do
what they need to do. And I'm one to not
one of those that believes and defund the police. Even
What's interesting, my dad actually was a police officer for
(27:06):
the Washington d C. He actually show the pictures of
a Queen Elizabeth and things of that nature. So law enforcement,
even though I didn't go quite that route, but my
dad was in the was in the government or law
enforcement and also safety manager. He was in with that
for between nine and a half years and retired the
(27:26):
same year. I graduated from high school from Bakery High
School in nineteen eighty three. So all those factors, those
are something unique things about me as well. One of
the things is that one I want to emphasize is
I want to emphasize on men taking the room for
men and fathers to be fathers and they take the
(27:47):
role of being a father to being a father, being
a good husband. Those are one of the things I'm
gonna emphasize with if I want to emphasize with. But
at the same time, this is very important if we
want to have the content that's gonna stick. Whatever you
have to the family, the family has to has to
be stable, has to be good. And you know, people
(28:09):
and sometimes cop my position, and there are things you
just do the best what you have.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
What you what's wen do with Kelvin? We're kind of Kevin.
We're running up against the break here. Hey, what what's
a Do you have a website or a social media page?
People can find you. I'm sorry we got to cut
a little short just because we're going to break. But
where can people find you if they want to support you?
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Well, you can find me at right now, I'm going
to go ahead and modify my my email, but you
can go k Man the digital for uh Ka why
why j at email dot com. Okay, I'm gonna I'm
(28:52):
going to modify that. But yes, I learned a lot
and I want to I want to make sure that
farmers we need to get the all gas up. We
have a lot of great natural resources here. We need
to ulize it all you bet, and I want to
bring that forth as well and business to give business
(29:13):
incentives to put back it to the community. You have
to give him incentives and so Kelln we have the
right rules of write and sifts.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yes, I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
We got a wrap.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
I gotta go to a hard break here, but thanks
for coming on the show. And I'm sure you'll get
some some comments from the listeners. Stay tuned in and
you'll hear the feedback from the interview. But again, thanks
for being on the show. You're listening to the Dan
Capleas Show here on six thirty k how We're going
to break.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
And now back to the Dankaplas Show podcast. Welcome back to.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
The Dan Caplas Show here with well Kenny Sheriff Steve
Reims as your guest host today filling in for Dan
while he's out doing what Dan does when he's not
on the radio. And if you if you're just tuning in,
good for you if you were here for that last segment.
This is why we interview all candidates because we want
everyone to make sure they have an understanding of who
(30:05):
is on the ballot or who is potentially on the ballot.
As I said going into that segment, Kelvin Wemberley is
a different guy different background for sure. But he did
come on the radio, that's right. And we have some
candidates that have not been willing to come on the
radio also correct, And so you know he's new to
the political world. His answers maybe aren't as concis as
(30:28):
we need for the radio, but he wasn't afraid to
come on.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
No, And where I was impressed with Kelvin I actually
met him at the Old County ho down that you
and I were both in attendant at, and he led
a very wonderful prayer at the official flag burning ceremony ayway,
And I guess there were protesters that were threatening to
come to the event and burn American flags.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Is that correct?
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Do I have it right?
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Yeah, So there was a little bit of hubbub about,
you know where, because it's a Republican event, we were
going to be Marxist and whatever, burn flag fascist. I
don't know you have those in World County. I'm a
little surprised. Well, I don't think they. I think they
were emailing from outside. There we go, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
So instead they had, you know, a formal disposal of
American flag. If you have a tattooed flag and it's
no longer suitable for use. Then there's a there's a
ceremony that you go about doing to properly.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Dispose the flag.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
And Kelvin stepped in impromptu and delivered a really nice prayer.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
And you can tell he loves this country and I
liked him. He's a good guy.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Yeah, again, he was an entertaining character, you know, jumping
into a governor's race with no political background to speak of,
and that's a tall task. But again, you know, if
we don't give the guy the platform, we don't give
him a chance to get out there and hone his message.
Are we really doing the guy any favors?
Speaker 3 (31:46):
I'm not going to this text to sheriff.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
It says he's still didn't answer your question about recent
job experience.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
What I compared that to You're gonna love this. So
there's the scene from Step Brothers where.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
They go around in the tuxedo and they do the
job interview and it's like kind of the pressure is on.
And yeah, the Montgomery Ward thing did stand out to
me though, because I remember my mom's I'm gonna go
to monkey Wards monkey Wards.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Yeah, you know, just as he's an old soul, there's
no doubt about it. When he when he answers questions,
he does so with a flare, especially when it's in
those forums. Oh yeah, yeah, he definitely got the crowd laughing.
And I think he was a little nervous today, but hey,
he came on the radio and that's the point. You know,
we've had now twelve candidates that are twelve of the
(32:32):
nineteen that are in the race. I believe I'll go
through all the names at some point here today.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
You've had twelve of them on when filling in. Yeah, yeah,
it's pretty good. So you know, it's amazing when you
reach out to these guys and gals. Most of them
are looking for that chance to do some earned media.
They want to get out there and get their message
out and say, hey, this is this is my campaign,
this is what I'm about, this is why I'm running,
this is what activated me. And while Kelvin may kind
of go around the barn in the way he answers
(32:57):
the questions, at least he's trying to answer him. And
of course, you know, is very direct and to the point.
She gets down to the brass tax and unfortunately we
had some cell phone issues. But regardless, people shouldn't be
afraid to come on and speak their message. And I
intend to reach out to a few of these others.
Like I said, there's a whole slew of candidates in
the race, nineteen total, and I'll go through all the
(33:19):
names when we start the top of the next hour,
because the reason I'm doing this is that any of
you that were around in twenty ten, you may remember
a candidate named Dan Mays, and Dan Mays ended up
being the Republican governor's candidate for the state of Colorado.
And we found out through that process that Dan was
not who Dan purported to be, and it left Republicans
(33:43):
very flat footed. It left us in a place where
we really had no chance at even being relevant and
almost became a minority party. If we had dropped below
or the ten percent or lower level in votes, the
Republicans would become a minority party. He garnered I think
eleven eleven and a half percent of the vote. So
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I don't want to ever see that again. And when
there's a chance to get these guys and gals out
here to give their platform, to let them earn the
vote of the listeners, and I believe a lot of
Republican voters out there do listen to talk radio. I
happen to be one of them. Hopefully the listeners out
there are are in agreement that, hey, these things are
(34:24):
They're useful, even if sometimes they're not exactly easy to stomach.
It's good to hear what all these candidates have to say,
and we have to give them that platform to do so,
even if it's just one or two times. So when
we come back from break, we'll go into the Dan
Mays audio that triggers me to want to have all
these folks on to make sure we can vet what
(34:44):
their backgrounds are exactly about. But you listen to the
Dan Cafleis show here on six point thirty K how
we will reload for that second hour, have a couple
of Congress persons on with us, Lauren Bobert and Gabe Evans,
and just a little bit of audio from proback with
Dan Mays. You listen to this six dy k how
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