December 5, 2025 • 6 mins
YOU NEED TO SIGN THESE PETITIONS Erin Lee from Protect Kids Colorado is on today at 1:30 to talk about some pop up signing events for the three ballot initiatives they are gathering signatures for.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Joining me now to talk about three potential ballot initiatives.
They will be on the ballot if they can collect
enough signatures. And as an all volunteer army, they got
organized and said we need to do something big this Saturday,
and now Aaron Lee from Protect Kids Colorado has joining
me to talk about it high erin. Well, first of all,
(00:21):
let's talk about what we're signing petitions for. Okay, so
there's nothing like being aggressive.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Oh we're going to run one petition.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Let's just run three petitions at the same time. So
let's start with what these petitions are about.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yeah, so we have three initiatives.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
They're all super common sense, really simple, one pager language,
and they're really eighty twenty even ninety ten issues. It's
protecting girls sports, so making sports male female co ed,
prohibiting these sex change surgeries on kids so you cannot
chop off the healthy body parts of children seventeen and younger,
which is absolutely happening in here in Colorado. We ranked
(00:58):
number ten on the list of hospitals doing this. And
then punishing child sex traffickers because right now in Colorado,
you can rape three children three times and you are
guaranteed probation, no accountability.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
So just giving DA's the ability to crossecute what life
in prison if you buy or sell a child?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
What did you just say?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Give me that statistic one more time.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Yeah, Actually, my friend Rett Brandy Bradley has run a
bipartisan bill multiple years and all Democrats have voted no
on it for mandatory jail time for raping children. So
you can rape three children on three separate occasions and
you are guaranteed one hundred percent of the time probation.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
A slap on the wrist.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
That just made me cool, that's all. That's awful.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Okay, So you've got these three ballid initiatives, all of
which I've already signed a petition for. So I'm I'm
in the system, ready to go. But this is like
we said, you guys are what halfway there?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
You said, yeah, we're about halfway through the timeline, and
we estimate we've got about half of the signatures, and
we know we grow as we go, so that's huge.
We have over fifteen hundred volunteers, over three hundred churches
that are fully activated in all sixty four counties, but
we still have half the signatures to get. So our
goal is two hundred thousand, and we're at about one
hundred thousand.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Now, okay, really good question.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
In the next nine weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Are you looking at like one what is it? One
seventy is what you need? Is that right?
Speaker 4 (02:22):
It's about one hundred and twenty five valid But Jenni
Griswold loves to invalidate for every reason she can, and
so we want to account for up to a thirty
percent in validation rate.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
So our goal is two hundred per issue.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Okay, So tomorrow in the morning, nine am to noon,
what do you do in you got drive ups all
over the place. What can people expect?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Yes, so we'll be in Woodland Park, Colorado Springs Cease,
Colorado Christian University in Denver, Fort Collins and Greeley and
Mantros as well out on the western slope where people
can just drive up. It takes three minutes to sign
the petitions. They don't have to leave the warmth of
their car, and you know it's three minutes, but it's
potentially huge impact for protecting kids in this state.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Aaron, I, obviously I signed the petitions. I want to
get them in there. What reasons were you given if
at all, did you get any kind of reason. I'm
still blown away by the statistic about you can rape
three children three times and you get probation. Why have
you ever been given a reason on why people would
vote against anything to stop that.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I had the misfortune of sitting in on those legislative
hearings when every single Democrat voted against it, and for example,
Repp Lorana Garcia said, we are not an eye for
an ice state. If you put rapists away, they will
get raped. Well, yes, they will in prison.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
That's the point. Don't do it. We're trying to deter
it from ever even happening.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I don't, I don't even I'm just going to sit
here quietly for a second. Aaron, I don't know why
I'm shocked anymore. I really don't, because Colorado has just
gone berserk when it comes to coddling criminals, and Colorado
has gone insane on so many levels.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Let me ask you a question.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
We had the superintendent of D forty nine on school
District D forty nine in the Springs. They just settled
with CHASA over keeping boys out of girls sports. And
CHASA has essentially said, Okay, we're gonna let you guys
do what you want and keep boys out of girl sports,
but they haven't really addressed how it's going to go
with the rest of the state. You're built or your
(04:28):
initiative would pretty much take that.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Out of chassa's hands.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Right right, And so there are one hundred and seventy
nine school districts in Colorado. Four of them now have
this safeguard against retribution from CHASSA for their common sense
policies that just designate facilities in sports male and female
according to your biological sex. That means one hundred and
seventy five school districts are still not doing the right thing.
And by the right thing, I mean basic common sense
(04:53):
measures to safeguard Title nine protected which have been protected
for decades single sex spaces for young g and so
this would just ensure that every minor league, not just
K through twelve education, but any minor league that takes
public funds, will be held to that standard.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
That your leagues will be male female co ed.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
This texter said any locations near Erie. But that leads
me to my next question, which is how can people
who are maybe not going to be able to go
to this drive tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
How can people find out where.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
They can sign a petition, get a petition to share
with their friends and family.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
How do they go through that process?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Great question, so protect Kids Colorado dot org on our
events page, it's just slash events. We have all kinds
of signing opportunities all over the state. In Erie, we're
actually at all of the Flathills Church campuses, all five
of them every weekend through the end of the year.
So people can go to any one of the Flat
Irons church campuses after any services and sign There is
(05:49):
one location there near Erie, but I really encourage people.
If you know twenty people, you can take a petition
packet and be a massive part of this change. You know,
we are an all volunteer effort. Are not the people
you see outside of the post office who get paid
to get signatures. We are just moms and dads and
concerned citizens who are trying to do the right thing.
And everyone can be involved by taking a petition packet
(06:12):
and you'll just email me at info at Protect Kids
Colorado dot org to get connected to the materials.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
That's info at protect Kids Colorado dot org. Aaronlee, thanks
for all you do. Erin was just a mom going
about our business and got activated, and oh boy, I
wish they had.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I bet. I bet those those.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
That you go up against regularly think, wow, we probably
should have just let her be okay, and you know,
like not mess with her kid, because now you've you've
become a real warrior for kids in the state.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
I hope, so yeah, they messed with the wrong kid
this time and again. These initiatives are so easy and
so simple and so common sense and will make such
a massive impact on the insane trajectory that we're seeing
here in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I hope so too. Erin thanks for making time for
us today. Thanks Fanny, all right, bye bye,
Joining me now to talk about three potential ballot initiatives.
They will be on the ballot if they can collect
enough signatures. And as an all volunteer army, they got
organized and said we need to do something big this Saturday,
and now Aaron Lee from Protect Kids Colorado has joining
me to talk about it high erin. Well, first of all,
(00:21):
let's talk about what we're signing petitions for. Okay, so
there's nothing like being aggressive.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Oh we're going to run one petition.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Let's just run three petitions at the same time. So
let's start with what these petitions are about.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yeah, so we have three initiatives.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
They're all super common sense, really simple, one pager language,
and they're really eighty twenty even ninety ten issues. It's
protecting girls sports, so making sports male female co ed,
prohibiting these sex change surgeries on kids so you cannot
chop off the healthy body parts of children seventeen and younger,
which is absolutely happening in here in Colorado. We ranked
(00:58):
number ten on the list of hospitals doing this. And
then punishing child sex traffickers because right now in Colorado,
you can rape three children three times and you are
guaranteed probation, no accountability.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
So just giving DA's the ability to crossecute what life
in prison if you buy or sell a child?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
What did you just say?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Give me that statistic one more time.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Yeah, Actually, my friend Rett Brandy Bradley has run a
bipartisan bill multiple years and all Democrats have voted no
on it for mandatory jail time for raping children. So
you can rape three children on three separate occasions and
you are guaranteed one hundred percent of the time probation.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
A slap on the wrist.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
That just made me cool, that's all. That's awful.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Okay, So you've got these three ballid initiatives, all of
which I've already signed a petition for. So I'm I'm
in the system, ready to go. But this is like
we said, you guys are what halfway there?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
You said, yeah, we're about halfway through the timeline, and
we estimate we've got about half of the signatures, and
we know we grow as we go, so that's huge.
We have over fifteen hundred volunteers, over three hundred churches
that are fully activated in all sixty four counties, but
we still have half the signatures to get. So our
goal is two hundred thousand, and we're at about one
hundred thousand.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Now, okay, really good question.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
In the next nine weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Are you looking at like one what is it? One
seventy is what you need? Is that right?
Speaker 4 (02:22):
It's about one hundred and twenty five valid But Jenni
Griswold loves to invalidate for every reason she can, and
so we want to account for up to a thirty
percent in validation rate.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
So our goal is two hundred per issue.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Okay, So tomorrow in the morning, nine am to noon,
what do you do in you got drive ups all
over the place. What can people expect?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Yes, so we'll be in Woodland Park, Colorado Springs Cease,
Colorado Christian University in Denver, Fort Collins and Greeley and
Mantros as well out on the western slope where people
can just drive up. It takes three minutes to sign
the petitions. They don't have to leave the warmth of
their car, and you know it's three minutes, but it's
potentially huge impact for protecting kids in this state.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Aaron, I, obviously I signed the petitions. I want to
get them in there. What reasons were you given if
at all, did you get any kind of reason. I'm
still blown away by the statistic about you can rape
three children three times and you get probation. Why have
you ever been given a reason on why people would
vote against anything to stop that.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I had the misfortune of sitting in on those legislative
hearings when every single Democrat voted against it, and for example,
Repp Lorana Garcia said, we are not an eye for
an ice state. If you put rapists away, they will
get raped. Well, yes, they will in prison.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
That's the point. Don't do it. We're trying to deter
it from ever even happening.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I don't, I don't even I'm just going to sit
here quietly for a second. Aaron, I don't know why
I'm shocked anymore. I really don't, because Colorado has just
gone berserk when it comes to coddling criminals, and Colorado
has gone insane on so many levels.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Let me ask you a question.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
We had the superintendent of D forty nine on school
District D forty nine in the Springs. They just settled
with CHASA over keeping boys out of girls sports. And
CHASA has essentially said, Okay, we're gonna let you guys
do what you want and keep boys out of girl sports,
but they haven't really addressed how it's going to go
with the rest of the state. You're built or your
(04:28):
initiative would pretty much take that.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Out of chassa's hands.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Right right, And so there are one hundred and seventy
nine school districts in Colorado. Four of them now have
this safeguard against retribution from CHASSA for their common sense
policies that just designate facilities in sports male and female
according to your biological sex. That means one hundred and
seventy five school districts are still not doing the right thing.
And by the right thing, I mean basic common sense
(04:53):
measures to safeguard Title nine protected which have been protected
for decades single sex spaces for young g and so
this would just ensure that every minor league, not just
K through twelve education, but any minor league that takes
public funds, will be held to that standard.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
That your leagues will be male female co ed.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
This texter said any locations near Erie. But that leads
me to my next question, which is how can people
who are maybe not going to be able to go
to this drive tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
How can people find out where.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
They can sign a petition, get a petition to share
with their friends and family.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
How do they go through that process?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Great question, so protect Kids Colorado dot org on our
events page, it's just slash events. We have all kinds
of signing opportunities all over the state. In Erie, we're
actually at all of the Flathills Church campuses, all five
of them every weekend through the end of the year.
So people can go to any one of the Flat
Irons church campuses after any services and sign There is
(05:49):
one location there near Erie, but I really encourage people.
If you know twenty people, you can take a petition
packet and be a massive part of this change. You know,
we are an all volunteer effort. Are not the people
you see outside of the post office who get paid
to get signatures. We are just moms and dads and
concerned citizens who are trying to do the right thing.
And everyone can be involved by taking a petition packet
(06:12):
and you'll just email me at info at Protect Kids
Colorado dot org to get connected to the materials.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
That's info at protect Kids Colorado dot org. Aaronlee, thanks
for all you do. Erin was just a mom going
about our business and got activated, and oh boy, I
wish they had.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I bet. I bet those those.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
That you go up against regularly think, wow, we probably
should have just let her be okay, and you know,
like not mess with her kid, because now you've you've
become a real warrior for kids in the state.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
I hope, so yeah, they messed with the wrong kid
this time and again. These initiatives are so easy and
so simple and so common sense and will make such
a massive impact on the insane trajectory that we're seeing
here in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I hope so too. Erin thanks for making time for
us today. Thanks Fanny, all right, bye bye,
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