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(00:00):
Now I've got one of my favoriteguesses. He is running for the first
congressional district seat currently held by liberalwhite woman Diana to Get and joining me
now decidedly not a white woman.It's Valdemar Archiletta. Everybody. Now,
you probably don't get introduced like thatvery often, Valdemar. I do not,
(00:20):
but maybe I should, maybe ifit'll help. First of all,
I got to apologize my sound mightbe horrible. I'm in the middle of
Concourse B at Denver International Airport andI tried to find a little quiet spot
and I found this nice little nookand apparently ten seconds ago they just decided
this is where the custovial cart musthave park. So I am and now
(00:44):
I'm like standing in front of WolfgangPuck and everyone can hear me. Well,
you know what's funny is that whereyou go at First of all,
you're at the airport. I'm atwork, so it is not an exciting
trip to the airport working right now, I'm on break. Okay, good,
good, excellent. I'm here forwork. It's not I forget.
(01:04):
I always forget you work at theairport. Now, let's talk about why
you are putting your face in thepolitical woods, Chipper, I'm running for
Congress. Yes, well, Iam doing it because I believe somebody needs
to do it, and I thinkthat we cannot give up on our urban
communities. We need to reach outto them. They need to be able
(01:26):
to hear the conversations on both sidesof the aisle here are different solutions to
problems and issues, and be allowedto make up their mind as to which
way they think is the best wayto go. So I think it's only
fair that every district in our countryhas somebody on both sides at least preventing
(01:47):
different arguments. Anytime you have adistrict that is completely run by one party,
I think it's unfair to the people. So that's the prime reason I'm
doing this. And you know,like we we want to win. I
want to flip this seat. Andthat's not something that we've really had a
lot of conversations about in our campaignuntil recently. We've brought some people on
(02:09):
and we're going at this as tohow can we reach the people in Denver
and how can we have a winningargument and convince enough people to vote for
crazy me as the Republican and let'sknow you when you say crazy Republicans,
people think like George Santos. Sodon't put yourself or Marjorie Tania Green and
(02:30):
you're not in either of those categories. So let's walk that back from the
ledge there. Yes, I shouldintroduce myself. Let's go back to non
white ladies. Well, and that'sin the district, in the first congressional
district. What is the demographic makeupof that district? Do you know?
I mean, off the top ofyour head, roughly what the district is
(02:51):
made of. I don't have thenumbers right in front of me, but
Denver, there are two groups thatkind of I think folks fusing on might
be able to make a change thatwe have a very We have a much
younger voting base than most districts inColorado because the population of Denver tends to
be younger. We have a lotof millennials here. We also have a
(03:13):
very high Latino population in Denver,and I do believe that in talking to
them, the Latino population can bewon over. I think, and I
don't have any numbers or anything toback this up. It's just what I
think. What's happened in Pueblo andhow Pueblo has recently they have a Republican
(03:36):
mayor. They have several seats inPueblo that flipped to Republican, and I
think it's because there's a high Hispanicpopulation in Pueblo who were willing to look
at Republicans as an option. They'renot as hardcore Democrats as some other populations.
Well, I just pulled up thelatest census date I could find quickly,
(03:58):
and it is a twenty nine Hispanic, eight percent black, and then
fifty four percent white. So youstill have a white population, but they
are younger than a lot of places. Are the median ages thirty five and
the median agent there are Colorado isthirty seven, whereas in the US is
thirty nine. So what kind ofjust a little longer, Yeah, what
(04:20):
kind of conversations are you having withvoters as you're working through the district.
Well, we've gone out to severalevents I think I'd mentioned before. We
went to the Denver Marsh Powwow andwe had a booth. We recently had
a booth set up at Cinco deMayo downtown, and we're just kind of
talking to the population and seeing whatconcerns do they have. At both events
(04:43):
and some other events I've gone to, we take this big notepad, one
of those giant like three foot notepadsand markers and just encourage people to write
on there what concerns you, andwe let them write whatever they want.
And the majority I've found are concernedwith the cost of living, especially housing.
That that's the prime concern I've foundthe people in Denver is how expensive
(05:09):
it is getting to live in thecity of Denver. I was at one
event and a mother said that she'sconcerned that in the future her children will
not be able to afford to livehere with her. They're going to have
to move away, right, Andthat's probably true because it is expensive here,
and you know, young people havethe same concerns. I did a
(05:30):
brunch yesterday. A lovely family openedup their home. They have two college
age sons, and they had theirfriends come over and a bunch of young
people who are probably all under twentyfive till like eighteen eighteen to twenty five,
and so we had a good conversation. And I've actually found a lot
of these this younger generation are willingto talk to Republicans and listen to Republicans.
(05:56):
They're not as crazy liberal as Ithink we think young people are.
You know who is Isabel Brown?Is I know the name. She wrote
a book recently and I forget whatit's called, like a to z something
about. She's a gen Zer who'sconservative and she's very influential. I had
(06:21):
a chance to meet her a fewweeks ago, and she's very optimistic about
the younger generation and I asked her, like, what, how can I
talk to gen z and get themto listen to me? And she said,
just be honest with them, Justtell them fact and be honest because
(06:43):
the younger generations has so much propagandathrown at them that if you're just honest
with them about everything and just givethem facts and details, they will respect
that and they'll appreciate that. Thatcould be true. Great advice, Valdemore.
I mean, when when people talkabout things like the cost of living
in Colorado and housing specifically, Idon't know what you, as a member
(07:05):
of Congress, could you to helpthem? You know, because those are
all local issues, are you?Yeah, when it comes to the cost
of living or the housing, itis very much going to be up to
your local officials and state officials.The whole property tast the backle we have
right now is a mess regarding that. I think at a federal level,
(07:29):
if the prime concern is going tobe the fact that we're spending so much
money and the dollars being inflated sothe value goes down, it just makes
everything more expensive. And when itcomes to housing, we look at the
cost of building materials and I don'thave those numbers in front of me either,
said I'm in the middle of theairport, but they I've seen reports
(07:50):
where they show, like how muchmore it costs to build a house now
because of the cost of wood andlumber going up on an other things,
that's going to add to the costof housing going up. So at a
federal level, we need to getfederal spending under control and balance the budget.
And I know that's a monumental mammotingtake on. But when I was
(08:16):
at this event yesterday talking to theyoung people, if one of them had
asked, well, what bill wouldyou pass to do that? And so
I was talking about passing if weput out a bill that is for a
balanced budget. And I think wedo need to put out bills that are
single subjects, because then everyone's goingto have to vote on it, and
it will be known who voted forit and who voted against right, and
(08:39):
then the people of America need tosee that and decide is this someone I
want to send back. When theypassed these giant omnibus bills where there's there
are a thousand pages long and covera thousand subjects, it's easy to hide
what you voted. And that's preciselywhy they passed them. I mean,
that's why we have olilus bills becausethey put in all the all the grift
(09:00):
in there so they can buy votes. Yeah, that's one of the things
that makes me very angry. Thosebuilds. Valdimore. Tell people I'm up
against the break. Tell people aboutthe event this weekend and when they can
come out and meet you. Yeah. So tomorrow we're having a campaign kickoff
in the middle of Denver. It'sgoing to be at the Estorts Grant Avenue
Community Center to sixteen South Grant fromfive pm to seven pm. There's no
(09:26):
charge to get in. I wouldlove to have as many people there as
possible. There's gonna be a lotof fun. We're gonna have other candidates
there do some fun things. I'veallowed two people here in Denver to ask
me twenty one question anything they want, and I will see if I regret
giving them that freedom tomorrow. ButI said, twenty one questions, anything
(09:46):
you want, I'll answer them.Of course, we won't have time for
discussion and we'll move on. Butit is follow up questions. There you
go. There will be no followup questions to any of these twenty one
questions. Well, I put Valdemar'sevent in from on the blog today,
so you can go and find itat mandy'sblog dot com. Valdemar, get
back to work and I will talkto you soon. All right, thank
you, very thank you, Yeah, thank you. That is Valdemar Arch
(10:09):
letter will be right back koa AMninety four to one FM
Now I've got one of my favoriteguesses. He is running for the first
congressional district seat currently held by liberalwhite woman Diana to Get and joining me
now decidedly not a white woman.It's Valdemar Archiletta. Everybody. Now,
you probably don't get introduced like thatvery often, Valdemar. I do not,
(00:20):
but maybe I should, maybe ifit'll help. First of all,
I got to apologize my sound mightbe horrible. I'm in the middle of
Concourse B at Denver International Airport andI tried to find a little quiet spot
and I found this nice little nookand apparently ten seconds ago they just decided
this is where the custovial cart musthave park. So I am and now
(00:44):
I'm like standing in front of WolfgangPuck and everyone can hear me. Well,
you know what's funny is that whereyou go at First of all,
you're at the airport. I'm atwork, so it is not an exciting
trip to the airport working right now, I'm on break. Okay, good,
good, excellent. I'm here forwork. It's not I forget.
(01:04):
I always forget you work at theairport. Now, let's talk about why
you are putting your face in thepolitical woods, Chipper, I'm running for
Congress. Yes, well, Iam doing it because I believe somebody needs
to do it, and I thinkthat we cannot give up on our urban
communities. We need to reach outto them. They need to be able
(01:26):
to hear the conversations on both sidesof the aisle here are different solutions to
problems and issues, and be allowedto make up their mind as to which
way they think is the best wayto go. So I think it's only
fair that every district in our countryhas somebody on both sides at least preventing
(01:47):
different arguments. Anytime you have adistrict that is completely run by one party,
I think it's unfair to the people. So that's the prime reason I'm
doing this. And you know,like we we want to win. I
want to flip this seat. Andthat's not something that we've really had a
lot of conversations about in our campaignuntil recently. We've brought some people on
(02:09):
and we're going at this as tohow can we reach the people in Denver
and how can we have a winningargument and convince enough people to vote for
crazy me as the Republican and let'sknow you when you say crazy Republicans,
people think like George Santos. Sodon't put yourself or Marjorie Tania Green and
(02:30):
you're not in either of those categories. So let's walk that back from the
ledge there. Yes, I shouldintroduce myself. Let's go back to non
white ladies. Well, and that'sin the district, in the first congressional
district. What is the demographic makeupof that district? Do you know?
I mean, off the top ofyour head, roughly what the district is
(02:51):
made of. I don't have thenumbers right in front of me, but
Denver, there are two groups thatkind of I think folks fusing on might
be able to make a change thatwe have a very We have a much
younger voting base than most districts inColorado because the population of Denver tends to
be younger. We have a lotof millennials here. We also have a
(03:13):
very high Latino population in Denver,and I do believe that in talking to
them, the Latino population can bewon over. I think, and I
don't have any numbers or anything toback this up. It's just what I
think. What's happened in Pueblo andhow Pueblo has recently they have a Republican
(03:36):
mayor. They have several seats inPueblo that flipped to Republican, and I
think it's because there's a high Hispanicpopulation in Pueblo who were willing to look
at Republicans as an option. They'renot as hardcore Democrats as some other populations.
Well, I just pulled up thelatest census date I could find quickly,
(03:58):
and it is a twenty nine Hispanic, eight percent black, and then
fifty four percent white. So youstill have a white population, but they
are younger than a lot of places. Are the median ages thirty five and
the median agent there are Colorado isthirty seven, whereas in the US is
thirty nine. So what kind ofjust a little longer, Yeah, what
(04:20):
kind of conversations are you having withvoters as you're working through the district.
Well, we've gone out to severalevents I think I'd mentioned before. We
went to the Denver Marsh Powwow andwe had a booth. We recently had
a booth set up at Cinco deMayo downtown, and we're just kind of
talking to the population and seeing whatconcerns do they have. At both events
(04:43):
and some other events I've gone to, we take this big notepad, one
of those giant like three foot notepadsand markers and just encourage people to write
on there what concerns you, andwe let them write whatever they want.
And the majority I've found are concernedwith the cost of living, especially housing.
That that's the prime concern I've foundthe people in Denver is how expensive
(05:09):
it is getting to live in thecity of Denver. I was at one
event and a mother said that she'sconcerned that in the future her children will
not be able to afford to livehere with her. They're going to have
to move away, right, Andthat's probably true because it is expensive here,
and you know, young people havethe same concerns. I did a
(05:30):
brunch yesterday. A lovely family openedup their home. They have two college
age sons, and they had theirfriends come over and a bunch of young
people who are probably all under twentyfive till like eighteen eighteen to twenty five,
and so we had a good conversation. And I've actually found a lot
of these this younger generation are willingto talk to Republicans and listen to Republicans.
(05:56):
They're not as crazy liberal as Ithink we think young people are.
You know who is Isabel Brown?Is I know the name. She wrote
a book recently and I forget whatit's called, like a to z something
about. She's a gen Zer who'sconservative and she's very influential. I had
(06:21):
a chance to meet her a fewweeks ago, and she's very optimistic about
the younger generation and I asked her, like, what, how can I
talk to gen z and get themto listen to me? And she said,
just be honest with them, Justtell them fact and be honest because
(06:43):
the younger generations has so much propagandathrown at them that if you're just honest
with them about everything and just givethem facts and details, they will respect
that and they'll appreciate that. Thatcould be true. Great advice, Valdemore.
I mean, when when people talkabout things like the cost of living
in Colorado and housing specifically, Idon't know what you, as a member
(07:05):
of Congress, could you to helpthem? You know, because those are
all local issues, are you?Yeah, when it comes to the cost
of living or the housing, itis very much going to be up to
your local officials and state officials.The whole property tast the backle we have
right now is a mess regarding that. I think at a federal level,
(07:29):
if the prime concern is going tobe the fact that we're spending so much
money and the dollars being inflated sothe value goes down, it just makes
everything more expensive. And when itcomes to housing, we look at the
cost of building materials and I don'thave those numbers in front of me either,
said I'm in the middle of theairport, but they I've seen reports
(07:50):
where they show, like how muchmore it costs to build a house now
because of the cost of wood andlumber going up on an other things,
that's going to add to the costof housing going up. So at a
federal level, we need to getfederal spending under control and balance the budget.
And I know that's a monumental mammotingtake on. But when I was
(08:16):
at this event yesterday talking to theyoung people, if one of them had
asked, well, what bill wouldyou pass to do that? And so
I was talking about passing if weput out a bill that is for a
balanced budget. And I think wedo need to put out bills that are
single subjects, because then everyone's goingto have to vote on it, and
it will be known who voted forit and who voted against right, and
(08:39):
then the people of America need tosee that and decide is this someone I
want to send back. When theypassed these giant omnibus bills where there's there
are a thousand pages long and covera thousand subjects, it's easy to hide
what you voted. And that's preciselywhy they passed them. I mean,
that's why we have olilus bills becausethey put in all the all the grift
(09:00):
in there so they can buy votes. Yeah, that's one of the things
that makes me very angry. Thosebuilds. Valdimore. Tell people I'm up
against the break. Tell people aboutthe event this weekend and when they can
come out and meet you. Yeah. So tomorrow we're having a campaign kickoff
in the middle of Denver. It'sgoing to be at the Estorts Grant Avenue
Community Center to sixteen South Grant fromfive pm to seven pm. There's no
(09:26):
charge to get in. I wouldlove to have as many people there as
possible. There's gonna be a lotof fun. We're gonna have other candidates
there do some fun things. I'veallowed two people here in Denver to ask
me twenty one question anything they want, and I will see if I regret
giving them that freedom tomorrow. ButI said, twenty one questions, anything
(09:46):
you want, I'll answer them.Of course, we won't have time for
discussion and we'll move on. Butit is follow up questions. There you
go. There will be no followup questions to any of these twenty one
questions. Well, I put Valdemar'sevent in from on the blog today,
so you can go and find itat mandy'sblog dot com. Valdemar, get
back to work and I will talkto you soon. All right, thank
you, very thank you, Yeah, thank you. That is Valdemar Arch
(10:09):
letter will be right back koa AMninety four to one FM
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