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Speaker 1 (00:00):
But before we get to Britta Horn, I got to
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
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Speaker 2 (01:08):
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Speaker 1 (01:10):
Now, I want to bring a woman that I am
fingers crossed, am hoping is going to make it through
the fray to become the next chairwoman of the Colorado GOP.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Bretta Horne. Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Thanks for having me, Mandy, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Now, Britta, you're no stranger to Republican politics. Okay, you've
had your you know, your little your little bruises here
and there. We are now in next level stupidity and
we are now in a situation and I'm not going
to ask you to confirm or deny what I'm saying here.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
This is my opinion.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
We now have leadership that has learned to do what
democrats do, and that is to try and use the
courts to keep people.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Out of office that they don't like.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
You got served at IHOP and I don't mean pancakes.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Tell me about that.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah, we wish it was the seven to ten blueberry
kit pancakes. No, not at all. No, I got ambush
and ambushed my opponent. That to serve us, serve me
one of many in this lawsuit, the latest of the
what the cabal is doing, what David's team is doing
to minimize their voice, to come create chaos, and to
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do everything they can to keep their brain.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
And ultimately this is about a move by Eli Bremmer
and Todd Watkins and several other people to hold a meeting,
reach a quorum, and vote to go in a different direction.
All Republicans showed up to do this, And so what
grounds are they suing Breddy?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
You hurt their feelings?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Well, there's like so many levels and you're like, I mean,
I don't want to get down into the weeds about it.
But then there was a tro to stop us from
doing it. Then we found out we could do it.
It was okay. Then we did it, and then there
was a countersuit, like I said with Eli Bremmer about
you know, reinstating it, and then that got thrown out
for all number of reasons of an opinion of a
a judge and now they're appealing that, and then in
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the meantime they're doing this lawsuit. It's, you know, in essence,
because of all the money and the ces and the
attorneys's that the Republican Party, the current Republican Party has
occurred occurred. They want us now to all pay for it.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Ah, Okay, Brittan, Now that we've talked about that, we'll
have to wait till that works this way through the courts,
wasting a ton of money in the process, money that
could be spent planning for the next election.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
But here we are.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Instead, I'd rather talk about the and I know you're
not officially out yet. Can we talk about the plan
that's not officially out yet? Even though it's not out yet?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Oh sure, yeah, I mean yeah, I thought it was
going to be and I gave it to you. I had
a time. It's fine. Yeah, we'll get up, yes, as
soon as we can.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
So first of all, I just want to say I've
never gotten a more thorough document from any candidate from
anywhere about what you'd like to see happen with the
Republican Party. And I was cheering as I read it.
It's just one great idea after or another, none of
which has to do with suing other Republicans, none of
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which has to do with putting out hate field videos.
What are the things that you want to put into
action if you're made chairwoman of the Colorado Republican Party.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I truly appreciate that and thank you very much for it.
So it is an action plan for the first one
hundred days as the next Colorado GOP chair. And you
know it's going to we have to start with unifying,
you know, unifying the party. We have to make sure
we're taking care of everybody. Everybody and we can use
said the word we just use all the time, the
big ten. We have so many different variations of Republicans
and we like it that way. We want to be independent,
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but we all definitely have things we agree with. We
want less government, you know, the less taxes are more freedom,
so let's work with those. So we need to unify
the party and we need to strengthen the county parties.
Two years ago, there were so many new party chairs.
They had no idea what they were doing manby, and
it chilled because that's all they did is doing this
infighting instead instead of working on you know, electing Republicans
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that you know locally, growing the party locally, having more
events than the one wink to day dinner. You have
to do more than that, and you also have the
fundraise and have fun. The newer generation Republicans they're sick
of this. I mean also young Republicans. They're all supporting
me because they're like, they're the new future and we
need to hand this over to them. But they want
to have fun too. Why we're doing this and protecting
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our conservative values and going on, I mean, I mean,
you want to have those at the beginning. And I
really wanted this one to be the first one because
this is how we get unified. This is how we
get integrity, This is how we get character of who
we are. We need to audit the books. We need
to tell the party what's going on. We need to
do a third party audit, and now what's going on
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with the financials of the GOP because not having put
that transparency causes all this havoc and we're seeing it
every day. People are angry and angrier.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Greta, I think that I just called you, Greta. Sorry
about that. My waitress at a restaurant last night was
Greta Rita.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
One of the things that I think would.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Be important is to put all expenditures online. Everything that
the party spends money on. Any Republicans should be able
to go and see, oh, they spent X amount of
dollars on office supplies, they spend X Every aspect of
the budget should be online.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Because I don't have any confidence.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Although I'm not a registered Republican right now, I left
the party when Dave Williams become chairman because I knew
what he was capable of, and.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I was right.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I'd love to come back, but I want some certainty
that if I'm giving money, it's going to be spent wisely.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Absolutely, and you're absolutely right. That's a great tool to
do that with. And there's a lot When I was
county treasurer, I saw a lot of the bigger counties.
Thank you that every day you know what's going on
in every county. Why wouldn't we know what's going on
in the county party?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Well, let me ask you this, and this is something
that I think is really important for the next leader.
I am sick to death of Republicans getting caught flat
footed on some idiotic social issue that isn't important to
most voters in Colorado, but the news media drives an
agenda and then they drive the conversation and the Republicans
follow them off of a cliff.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
It's happened over and over again.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
What issues do you think that the Republican Party should
be focused like a laser on for the next few
election cycles.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I think for Colorado, we obviously the rule of law.
I mean we could go you know, what's we're going
on right now? We're having this type of lawfair going
against each other and all the lawfair going on in Colorado.
We have what's going on in the capitol. I think
all the issues, we're staying with, the gun issues, we're
staying with the lotto. You know, I'm still as a
rancher's wife, egg issues, fire, She's made roof issues. Obviously,
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water issues. We definitely have to work on those things.
But now even down to education, I think education is
super important to all of us. I mean, you see
had every day we all think you're seeing with your
daughter in school, where you're going to put her and
we're going to you know, she's going to get a
good education and not worry about the politics of the
of the teacher. So I think those pieces, and I
would also say the economy. I mean I've taught. I
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was still shocked. You know. We talked about all the
egg stuff. The other day. We paid sixty eight cents
for an egg, and then I was like, going to Costco,
Go to Costco. I went to Costco on the way
home yesterday after all the meetings. There were no eggs. Yeah,
they were out. I was just like, that's affecting all
of us. So economy is definitely somewhere that we can
really get along with and agree with and start working
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lots from the county level all the way to the state.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So, Britter, what is going to happen when the state
Assembly happens?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
These lawsuits are out there?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
How do you plan on addressing the crowd that is
going to be very friendly to Dave Williams.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
He has managed to stack.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
The deck quite nicely and is working to disqualify some
well voters who may have been there to vote for
someone different. How do you address that crowd and ask
them for your vote?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Well, I think we're definitely looking at the numbers and
we're really tracking them. We're tracking by making phone calls
to every one of every advice and secretary of the
smaller counties and including the bonus members and the larger counties.
We're definitely making sure we're tracking in our numbers. We're
in the margins. This is going to go really well
as long as you're still more Humanicans. We have to
plan for all those different shenanigans that can happen, and
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my voice is going to be we have to figure
out how to unite, how to collaborate, and how to
focus on winning elections instead of fighting each other. And
it's going to have all those different levels. And you're
right when you said earlier when I was listening listening
in you know, this is the soul of the party.
We're fighting for the shall of the party. Do we
want to still continue to be this ugly, nasty, vindictive?
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How many more words would you like could use, you know,
attacking other Republicans because we think differently, or we're not
drinking the kool aid and we're not taking the purity test,
and it's all that's set up anyway. It's like, when
do we stop that. I have never manny, I'm looking
at the people who are saying it not only do
they have an ugly inside there, it's their continence is
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an ugly on the outside. And like what cave kid? Right?
You know, who has the right as adults and aged
adults to say such ugly things about each other?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
It's interesting to me.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
And we're talking about the Rhino watch crowd, and I'll
let you have the final word. What's interesting to me
is who made them the decider? And when you just
and they just randomly decide to move the goalposts on
what makes you the wrong kind of Republican? And I
don't understand why they've been given so much power. And
I'm genuinely curious about why who decided that they were
going to have so much power within this group of Republicans?
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And it's unfortunate that they do. Brit what's next? What's
the next step here? When is the State Assembly? When
will we find out?
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Well, what do you understand? We should be thirty one
days from this. So we heard you you know, social
media that it's March twenty ninth, council Rock Rock Church.
But we haven't seen anything. We haven't seen the call yet,
so we're still waiting and we're still I'm just working
it every day, more interviews later. Today, we're still making
the phone calls and I wanted to say what you
were having that call yesterday, the interview of yesterday, I
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had over six endorsements popping up my phone why we
were doing the interview.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
It was fantastic.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Everybody's going they're done with this, yeah, and I'm getting
some bigger calls and I can't wait, wait, God talk
about it yet. But they're getting the very calls because
they're set up too, and we need to all be
set up with this because you're right, who is the arbitrator?
They're anonymous man. Yeah, that's why they get rid of it,
and we need to change that too.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Brena Horne is my guest.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Brett.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
I appreciate you making time for me today. Maybe you
and I can go to ihop and we can actually
have a nice breakfast were served by someone else. I
appreciate your time today, Britta. We'll talk to you again soon.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Thanks again,