1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:00,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, Mike. 2 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 2: Uh, what's that saying? 3 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:03,280 Speaker 1: Oh? 4 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, cats roll a dog's jewel. 5 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 4: We only got I just casually mentioned something about I 6 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,320 Speaker 4: forget it was a talkback or something yesterday, and I 7 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 4: made some smart ass comment about cats because I thought 8 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:25,120 Speaker 4: that would stir, you know, like people would just like 9 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 4: blow up, you know, man, we would get the cat 10 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 4: and dog fight going. 11 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 3: We had one text message. One text message. 12 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:34,320 Speaker 5: Is that the one that was complaining to me about 13 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:35,839 Speaker 5: standing up for the cat? 14 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 3: Yes, why didn't you stand up for the cats? 15 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:40,199 Speaker 5: Well, because I have three cats and every cat on 16 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 5: her nose. 17 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 3: Cats are a holes. Yep. So there you go. 18 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 4: So earballs, we've done earballs over here, We've done I 19 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 4: don't know what. And then I've got this thing. I'm 20 00:00:56,920 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 4: not going to do it necessary. I might do it 21 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 4: later today, but I'm not gonna do it right now. 22 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 4: And then yesterday I casually mentioned that there are three races. 23 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 4: We have Caucasian, Negroid, and Mongoloid. Those are the three races. 24 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:12,680 Speaker 4: And I've gotten several text messages about no, there's only 25 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:16,840 Speaker 4: I was only taught there's only one race, the human race. 26 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 4: Human is not a race. Human is a species. So 27 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:29,399 Speaker 4: go go check go check your dictionaries. Go go study 28 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:30,320 Speaker 4: a little bit further. 29 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 3: Go to the Google machine. It'll probably tell you. 30 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 4: You know, I bet, I bet Doctor Google probably could 31 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 4: or Professor Google, whichever one you happen to use. 32 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 3: It doesn't make any difference. It could be. 33 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:44,199 Speaker 4: Google Comma m D. It could be a Google Comma PhD. 34 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 4: It could be a Google Comma m A or Comma 35 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 4: or Google. And here's what it really is. Possibly even 36 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 4: r N it could be, but it really is just 37 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 4: Google Comma BS. But no period between the B and 38 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 4: the S. It's just and no I'm between the Google 39 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 4: and the BS. It's just Google BS. 40 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 3: So you got that. 41 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:12,680 Speaker 4: Ah on February twenty third, which is what was that money? 42 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:13,360 Speaker 3: Maybe? I don't know. 43 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:17,800 Speaker 4: Three three days ago I posted on x the following 44 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 4: having read a story from Colorado Politics. Let me just 45 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:28,800 Speaker 4: click on the post. The Colorado Politics story was in 46 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 4: a on Now it's not letting me. I don't want 47 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:32,919 Speaker 4: to log in right now. I don't want to do 48 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 4: all that. But it was. It was a story about 49 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 4: a weekend meeting that several members. 50 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 3: Or X number of members. 51 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 4: I don't have several X ninety one hundred, I don't know, 52 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 4: the Central Committee of the Colorado Republican Party held a zoom 53 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 4: meeting in which ninety percent of them or something that 54 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 4: the numbers in material to the point I want to make, 55 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 4: voted no confidence in Brita Horne, the current chair of 56 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 4: the Republican Party. And I read the story and then 57 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 4: I posted this. I don't know, I don't care what 58 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 4: prompted this. What I do care about is the Colorado 59 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 4: Republican Party has jumped the shark. Do I need to 60 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:14,520 Speaker 4: explain that when Dragon jumped the shark? 61 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 3: You think you wouldn't have to, but you know, I 62 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:20,360 Speaker 3: think it. 63 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 4: Would be condescending to explain to the people on the 64 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 4: Blue torch from KOVA. 65 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 5: I mean, those that know no and those that don't 66 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 5: know are just should just go figure it out. 67 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 4: If you know, it's like, you know, hey dad, how 68 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 4: do I spell this? What does this mean? 69 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 3: Go look it up? 70 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 5: Well, you can go to the Google machine too, for 71 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 5: you should. 72 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 4: Go to the Google machine too. Jump the shark? I wrote, 73 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 4: don't know, don't care what prompted this. What I do 74 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 4: care about is the Colorado Republican Party at Colorado gob 75 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 4: has jumped the shark. It should be completely dismantled, put 76 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 4: into chapter seven or worse, and start from scratch. Why 77 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 4: would anyone expect anything else? The continuous shooting of both 78 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 4: feet in an election year. Irrelevancy is too kind of 79 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 4: a word for this organization and its members. And then 80 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:17,280 Speaker 4: I cite the story best garnerd. I don't know. Thirty 81 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 4: six thirty seven comments has had over ten thousand views, 82 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 4: and there's been a lot of discussion about what. 83 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 3: I wrote online. 84 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 4: So let me paint you a picture of opportunity. I 85 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:39,160 Speaker 4: believe it's genuine, documented, once in a generation opportunity. 86 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 3: You need to. 87 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 4: Open your ears, open your eyes, set aside all of 88 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:53,840 Speaker 4: your preconceived notions about the Republican Party, the State Central Committee, 89 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 4: all of the members that are you know, just set 90 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:01,839 Speaker 4: all of that aside for a moment, because, uh, well, 91 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 4: I'm here just to kind of slap you around a 92 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:11,599 Speaker 4: little bit. Jared Polus's term limited. The governor's mansion is 93 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:16,600 Speaker 4: going to be open, Well, not the governor's mansion that 94 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 4: he lives in Boulder, but you get it. The the 95 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 4: governor's seat will be open. John Higgenlooper what a dufus 96 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 4: is a first term senator facing his first re election, 97 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:32,720 Speaker 4: and he's one hundred and seventy nine years old, and 98 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:36,599 Speaker 4: he's still just number than a box of rocks. Michael 99 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 4: Bennett is going to abandon his Senate seat to run 100 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:44,559 Speaker 4: for governor against state Attorney General Phil Wiser. That means 101 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:48,360 Speaker 4: Colorado Republicans have a shot at the governorship and at 102 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:53,840 Speaker 4: two US Senate seats simultaneously. But wait, I got a 103 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 4: little more throw in the lieutenant governor, the attorney general, 104 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:02,440 Speaker 4: state treasurer, Secretary of State, the entire US House delegation, 105 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:05,720 Speaker 4: more than half the Senate, the full state House, three 106 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:08,920 Speaker 4: seats on the state Board of Education, three University of 107 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 4: Colorado regent seats, a state Supreme Court retention election, six 108 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:18,600 Speaker 4: Appellate Court retention elections, and multiple state wide ballot measures. 109 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:25,159 Speaker 4: My friend Kelly Maher drew this not in particular to me, 110 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 4: but because she's one of my friends on well she's 111 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,039 Speaker 4: actually a real friend. She's not a Facebook friend, she's 112 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 4: a real friend. And she posted a story from the 113 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 4: Senior Political correspondent at and just hold on here. I 114 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 4: know the National Review. I've lost a lot of respect 115 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 4: for the National Review, but that's beside the point. I 116 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:48,280 Speaker 4: still read stuff that I don't respect because I'm curious 117 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 4: what they say. Jim Garretty, writing in the Washington Post, 118 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:55,839 Speaker 4: So let's be clear about something. This is a conservative. 119 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 4: You can argue that if you want to. But criticizing 120 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:02,880 Speaker 4: his own team, He traveled to Denver last week and 121 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 4: laid out the stakes in unsparing detail. His conclusion, the 122 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:13,680 Speaker 4: opportunity is real, and Republicans, I'm talking to all of 123 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 4: you who are running, who are on the Central Committee, 124 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 4: who are members, the chair on down to the janitor. 125 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 4: The opportunity we have is real, and you're throwing it 126 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 4: away in real time. Now, I want to give the 127 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 4: electoral math that that might sober you up and cause 128 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,200 Speaker 4: you to actually listen to me for a minute. Donald 129 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 4: Trump has pulled forty three point three percent in Colorado 130 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:46,440 Speaker 4: back in twenty sixteen, he pulled in twenty he pulled 131 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 4: in forty one point nine percent, and let's just say 132 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 4: forty two for sake of argument in twenty twenty, and 133 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 4: he pulled in forty three point one percent in twenty 134 00:07:55,520 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 4: twenty four. So forty three point three, forty one point nine, 135 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 4: forty three point one. That consistency isn't a baseline to 136 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 4: build from that consistency is a ceiling that has barely 137 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 4: moved in three election cycles. The Civic survey out this 138 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 4: week shows that only thirty six percent of all registered 139 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 4: Colorado voters approve of Donald Trump's jaw performance and sixty 140 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:30,840 Speaker 4: percent disapproved. Garretty's word for Trump's affecting Colorado Republicans is albatross, 141 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:34,400 Speaker 4: and I would say the numbers probably justify it. The 142 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:36,640 Speaker 4: last time that the Republican won a state wide race 143 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:38,560 Speaker 4: here was in twenty sixteen. 144 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 3: Four years ago. 145 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 4: Colorado Democrats won every single state wide race by double digits, 146 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 4: and yet the mood is not locked up. The election 147 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 4: is not locked up for Democrats. A November poll showed 148 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 4: polists that only forty five percent favorability Hick and Looper, 149 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:01,320 Speaker 4: even lower at forty three percent, and been of that 150 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:06,280 Speaker 4: forty one percent, Barely half of this blue state is 151 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 4: enthusiastic about its own Democrat leadership. Forty six percent of 152 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 4: Coloradoans think the state economy is going to get worse 153 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 4: put me in there. Another forty three percent expected to 154 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:21,080 Speaker 4: say the same me. I might be in that category two, 155 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 4: but almost nobody's optimistic. That is a gift to the 156 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:30,000 Speaker 4: party out of power, and all you have to do 157 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:35,640 Speaker 4: is be competent enough to accept that gift. So what 158 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 4: are the Colorado Republican officials doing with this gift? Why 159 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 4: they're holding zoom meetings to argue about whether their zoom 160 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 4: meetings are legal or not. This is insanity. The state 161 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:53,920 Speaker 4: party has about last I checked, not quite sixty four 162 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 4: thousand dollars in cash on hand as of January thirty. 163 00:09:57,520 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 3: First, I want you to hold that number in your head. 164 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 4: Sixty four thousand dollars flaffable. The calli Republican Party, staring 165 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:10,800 Speaker 4: at the most target rich election environment in a decade, 166 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 4: has less money than a decent used car. They've got 167 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 4: less money that I was given for my trade in 168 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:24,080 Speaker 4: for my old m sport BMW that was almost six 169 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 4: years old with ninety one thousand miles on it. 170 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 5: My ex wife was more than that than in back 171 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:30,720 Speaker 5: John's card support. 172 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 3: That's what you got. 173 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 4: Meanwhile, twenty two republic is a file to run for 174 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:40,440 Speaker 4: governor because apparently we think in Colorado the strategy is 175 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 4: quantity over quality. The top front fundraisers are State Senator 176 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:56,000 Speaker 4: Barbara Kirkmeyer, a air quote here motivational, motivational speaker and 177 00:10:56,240 --> 00:11:01,319 Speaker 4: marine named Victor Marx, and army veteran and business executive 178 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:05,199 Speaker 4: Bob Moore. And then there's in the fourth place, State 179 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 4: Representative Scott Bottoms. Now Guaranty notes with what I would 180 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 4: consider to be admirable restraint that bottom quote that Bottoms 181 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 4: quote claims pedophilia rings are being run out of the 182 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:23,200 Speaker 4: state House, Senate and the governor's office, and quote says 183 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 4: that he doesn't trust state police and the local FBI 184 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 4: to investigate these crimes. Now Guaranty further observes that, and 185 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 4: again I'm in all of his composure here that Bottom's 186 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:38,440 Speaker 4: quote has offered no evidence for these claims, but he 187 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:41,680 Speaker 4: vows to bring the perpetrators to justice as soon as 188 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:43,040 Speaker 4: the state elects him governor. 189 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 3: Close quote. 190 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:47,000 Speaker 4: Now that's a man currently running in fourth place in 191 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 4: a primary field for governor of Colorado. 192 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 3: I don't have words. 193 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:54,440 Speaker 4: I've had words earlier this week on X, but I 194 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:56,439 Speaker 4: think I might be running out of words. 195 00:11:57,600 --> 00:11:58,680 Speaker 3: Holy cow, you. 196 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:03,760 Speaker 4: That there is a pedophilia ring running around in the 197 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:07,080 Speaker 4: governor's office and a state capital and you have evidence 198 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 4: of it, but you're not going to turn it over 199 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:11,320 Speaker 4: to the FBI or to local law enforcement. Because you 200 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:13,240 Speaker 4: don't trust them, or even to the color out of 201 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 4: state patrol. But you will take care of it if 202 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:18,120 Speaker 4: and when we elect you governor. So meanwhile, what the 203 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 4: children are supposed to just continue to be subjected to 204 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 4: pedophilia because you don't trust law enforcement, mister Bobams, Michael 205 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:33,680 Speaker 4: brand Atiheartmedia dot com. It's secure. It's a corporate address. 206 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 4: It's very very secure. You can you can send me 207 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 4: the evidence and altern it over to the FBI, all 208 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 4: turn it over to the state patrol al turn it 209 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,680 Speaker 4: over to whatever jurisdiction is appropriate based on those kids. 210 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:46,839 Speaker 4: But you know, stop, stop the bull crap. Just stop 211 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 4: the bull crap. And now let's get to the party. 212 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:52,800 Speaker 4: Chairwoman Breda Horne was elected chairman in March of twenty 213 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:53,360 Speaker 4: twenty five. 214 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 3: Now, that followed the extended civil war. 215 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,760 Speaker 4: Over getting rid of her predecessor, a nut job by 216 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:06,160 Speaker 4: the name of Dave Williams. Colorado Republicans, honestly, and I 217 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:10,680 Speaker 4: think rightfully, so exhausted by the Dave Williams drama, chose 218 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 4: Breda Horne and hoped for stability. So what they got 219 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 4: was a sequel with a larger legal budget. The party 220 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:25,079 Speaker 4: has burned more burned through more than one hundred thousand 221 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:29,440 Speaker 4: dollars in legal fees in an attempt to recover costs 222 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 4: from a group of Republicans who tried to join a 223 00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 4: lawsuit that originated under the previous chair, Dave Williams, a 224 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:41,400 Speaker 4: lawsuit that a county or a district judge in El Paso. 225 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:42,840 Speaker 3: County threw out. 226 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:46,599 Speaker 4: And when he threw it out, he scolded everybody involved, 227 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 4: noting that the original case had been dismissed seven months earlier. 228 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:55,560 Speaker 4: So a pox on the lawyers, and a pox on 229 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:59,320 Speaker 4: the committee, and a pox on the Republicans so called 230 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 4: mukeeting mound ducks who are spending money to what revival 231 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 4: lawsuits has already been dismissed. 232 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:07,839 Speaker 3: One hundred thousand dollars in legal fees on. 233 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 4: A case that was already dead, and you got barely 234 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:12,079 Speaker 4: sixty four thousand dollars in the bank. 235 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:13,800 Speaker 3: Now. 236 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 4: Brita Horn's first vice chair lasted three months wow resigning 237 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 4: and saying he had been systematically sidelined. Now, her second 238 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 4: vice chair, Son Guy, blaming Richard Holdthorpe, I don't know 239 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 4: these people, announced his resignation earlier this month, saying he 240 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:32,200 Speaker 4: found it impossible to work with the chair. So, as 241 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 4: I said, last Saturday, two hundred fifty members of the 242 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:37,040 Speaker 4: state Central Committee convened on zoom and they voted with 243 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:40,000 Speaker 4: over ninety percent support. It's a passer resolution of no 244 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 4: confidence in Horne and demanded her immediate resignation. They also 245 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:47,320 Speaker 4: voted to freeze her spending authority. I don't preserve the 246 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 4: sixty four thousand dollars and in order to end the 247 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 4: legal activities, so she responded. The current chair responded by 248 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 4: declaring the meeting illegal and announcing it has zero impact. 249 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 4: So she's going to hold her own meeting. I guess 250 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 4: it's this coming Saturday, March two, with the same agenda, 251 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 4: which she says is the only legitimate one under the 252 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:12,360 Speaker 4: party by laws. Now, Party Secretary Russ Andrews, who organized 253 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 4: last Saturday's meeting, is urging members to show up to 254 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 4: horns meeting and quote vote the same way. So one 255 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 4: Central Committee member is urging Republicans to skip it entirely 256 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 4: because he doesn't want to. He doesn't want to legitimize 257 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:29,840 Speaker 4: anything that BRETA. Horne, the current chair, does. They're fighting 258 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 4: about whose zoom call actually counts. Meanwhile, there's a cold 259 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 4: math problem that Horn's critics haven't solved yet. Even if 260 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 4: you get ninety percent of everybody who shows up, you 261 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 4: still need sixty percent of the entire five hundred members 262 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:46,440 Speaker 4: Central Committee about three hundred votes to actually remove her. 263 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:50,760 Speaker 4: Saturday produced about two hundred. She's not going anywhere unless 264 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 4: the recall effort currently being circulated generates a much bigger turnout. 265 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:59,520 Speaker 4: So the circular firing squad continues publicly in an election 266 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:02,080 Speaker 4: year with less than sixty four thousand dollars in the 267 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 4: bank and Scott Bolin's running fourth in the governor's race, 268 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 4: faiming some secret pedophiliary in the state capitol that he's 269 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:10,120 Speaker 4: not going to tell anybody about until he gets like 270 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 4: the governor. So the children just suffer. In the meantime, 271 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:15,680 Speaker 4: I thought it was all about the children. And then 272 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:18,240 Speaker 4: in the Washington Post column, which you can go read 273 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:22,040 Speaker 4: for yourself, Garretty ends his column with a question, after 274 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 4: so many years in the wilderness, are they capable of it? 275 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 4: Meaning capable of nominating serious candidates who have concrete plans 276 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 4: to take advantage of this particular moment? Now, As I said, 277 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 4: I asked essentially the same thing earlier. This week, probably 278 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 4: less politely than Jim Garrity did. 279 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 2: Over on X. 280 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 4: I said the Kolibi Republican Party should be dismantled, put 281 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:47,600 Speaker 4: into chapter seven, started from scratch, and I still stand 282 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:50,640 Speaker 4: by that because Chapter seven is what you do when 283 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 4: an organization is is so structurally dysfunctional, so consumed by 284 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:02,600 Speaker 4: an internal warfare, so evidently incapable of self correction, the 285 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:04,800 Speaker 4: most productive thing you can do is to wind it 286 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 4: down as let something functional emerge from the ashes. We've 287 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:13,440 Speaker 4: got real problems in the state taxes, regulation, energy, the 288 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:16,000 Speaker 4: e columny, education. Their voters out there who are not 289 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:19,480 Speaker 4: satisfied with Democrat governance, who are open to a series alternative, 290 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:23,240 Speaker 4: who could be persuaded, and they deserve a serious opposition 291 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 4: party what they have right now. We got a party 292 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:28,400 Speaker 4: arguing about who zoom call is legitimate, while the treasury 293 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 4: is empty, the chairs in battle, the Gubernatoya candidate is 294 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 4: alleging unproven pedophilia rings. The state government and their primaries 295 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:37,720 Speaker 4: are four months away. The opportunity of twenty twenty six 296 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:40,880 Speaker 4: is a clock and it is ticking, and the Colorado 297 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:43,640 Speaker 4: Republican Party he ain't listening. 298 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:51,040 Speaker 1: Well done, Michael Brown I've been waiting for you to 299 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:55,160 Speaker 1: dip your toe into the Colorado state politics and light 300 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 1: a fire under the Republican Party in the state of 301 00:17:58,119 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 1: Colorado using the Ko blowtorch. And I hope you continue 302 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 1: down that path, because brother, do we need it. 303 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 3: Thank you. I have a great day. I thought she 304 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 3: was beating cat. 305 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:20,120 Speaker 4: All we knew were some cat screens behind them. Well, 306 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:25,840 Speaker 4: that had been the perfect segue. Well, sweetheart, stay tuned 307 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:29,640 Speaker 4: for a minute. Let's talk because I said, we need 308 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:34,879 Speaker 4: some serious candidates and we need a serious chair. So 309 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:39,560 Speaker 4: and let me just say right now, I don't and 310 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:43,399 Speaker 4: I deliberately don't do this. I don't interview candidates. I 311 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:47,720 Speaker 4: have been trying. I have reached out to the comms 312 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:51,600 Speaker 4: director of one candidate because this candidate made a claim 313 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:57,600 Speaker 4: that I found extraordinary. Wow, It's like if that's true, 314 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:01,200 Speaker 4: And so what I do? When I saw the claim, 315 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:03,639 Speaker 4: I started digging into it myself because I wanted I 316 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:06,679 Speaker 4: wanted to see I wanted the story. It was an 317 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:13,399 Speaker 4: amazing story. So I reached out to that candidate's organization 318 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:16,359 Speaker 4: first and said, hey, can you give me, you know, like, 319 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 4: can you give me some citations? Can you give me 320 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 4: some links and some r ls, and I've been met 321 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:26,119 Speaker 4: with utter silence. So I happened to personally know the 322 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:30,680 Speaker 4: comms director, and so I sent a my first call 323 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:34,320 Speaker 4: of comms director and asked, Hey, this, I'm just trying 324 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:36,639 Speaker 4: to find out whether this is true. That here's the claim, 325 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:38,439 Speaker 4: and I want to know whether it's true or not 326 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:41,639 Speaker 4: because that's a that's an amazing story, and and I 327 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:43,560 Speaker 4: can't talk about it on air until I can until 328 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:44,439 Speaker 4: I can verify it. 329 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 3: And I get a run around, and then I. 330 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 4: Get well the answer is So I hit record on 331 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:57,439 Speaker 4: my phone as we're talking and oh, somebody, So you're 332 00:19:57,480 --> 00:19:58,280 Speaker 4: going to record me now? 333 00:19:58,359 --> 00:19:59,480 Speaker 3: Now this is a friend of mine. 334 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:01,480 Speaker 4: I said, yes, I'm gonna record you because I want 335 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:03,800 Speaker 4: to hear. I don't want to misquote. I want exactly 336 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:06,679 Speaker 4: what the answer is so that I can one I 337 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 4: can remember because I'm driving, and two so that there's 338 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:13,119 Speaker 4: no dispute about what you told me or didn't tell me, 339 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 4: didn't tell me anything. I've since texted him back a 340 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 4: couple of times. I'm and now someone whom I thought 341 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:22,679 Speaker 4: was a friends not responding to me at all. That 342 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:27,440 Speaker 4: is not a serious candidate. It is not a serious candidate. 343 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 4: If you can't, if you can't tell, because I'm coming 344 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:36,920 Speaker 4: at it as you know. Other than mentioning the four 345 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:42,880 Speaker 4: leading candidates this morning, I don't discuss these candidates. I'll 346 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 4: tell you another reason why I don't discuss the candidates 347 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:50,080 Speaker 4: because I've been asked to moderate a debate in May, 348 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:52,680 Speaker 4: and I've agreed to do that along with a couple 349 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:57,680 Speaker 4: of other media people in town. So I am trying 350 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:02,919 Speaker 4: to I am death try and remain neutral, but that 351 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 4: does not prevent me from telling you the truth about 352 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:10,840 Speaker 4: the state of the party and what this party needs 353 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:11,240 Speaker 4: to do. 354 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 3: Now. 355 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:16,200 Speaker 4: If you go all the way back to then Jared 356 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 4: Polish and Tim Gill and Pat Striker put together the Blueprint, 357 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:26,159 Speaker 4: the Republican Party should have known from that very point. 358 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:30,800 Speaker 4: I mean, they publicized, they published it. It's the blueprint, 359 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 4: and you can go read it and you can see 360 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:36,520 Speaker 4: what their progressive plan was to turn this state from 361 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 4: red to blue. And they succeeded. They succeeded beyond their 362 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:44,639 Speaker 4: wildest dreams, and they did it over time. So for 363 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:47,880 Speaker 4: us to reverse this state is going to take time. 364 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:51,040 Speaker 4: But in order to do that, you have to have 365 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:56,680 Speaker 4: and don't misunderstand my adjective of serious. For that, I agree, 366 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,399 Speaker 4: but you have to have serious people like Jared Polis, 367 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:05,879 Speaker 4: Tim Gill, Pat Striker who are serious about turning this 368 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:10,880 Speaker 4: state back red. So let's start with the chair. 369 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:12,679 Speaker 3: Again. 370 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 4: I didn't know day that the last chair of this 371 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:21,120 Speaker 4: party that I can say I honestly knew more than 372 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:24,120 Speaker 4: just as an acquaintance, probably Dick Wadhams. 373 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 3: Burton Brown. 374 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:31,680 Speaker 4: I ran into her a few times here and there, 375 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 4: but no, there's no relationship among with any of these people. 376 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:39,879 Speaker 4: So I want you to know that I'm still above 377 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 4: or below the fray, whichever way you want to put it. 378 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:46,680 Speaker 4: The ideal chair is almost the opposite personality type from 379 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:50,639 Speaker 4: what you would typically see rise to party leadership, because 380 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:53,359 Speaker 4: the people who want to be party chair and have 381 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:57,359 Speaker 4: that job are usually exactly the wrong people for that job. 382 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:04,960 Speaker 4: The perfect coloridal Republican chair is somebody who genuinely, constitutionally, 383 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 4: and by constitutionally, I mean their personality does not want 384 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:15,000 Speaker 4: to be the story. They are a talented manager of 385 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:19,040 Speaker 4: difficult personalities, and they had the type of personality that 386 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:23,440 Speaker 4: gets the kind of professional satisfaction from other people winning 387 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:30,320 Speaker 4: rather than from winning themselves. They're financially obsessive in the 388 00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 4: best sense of that word. 389 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,640 Speaker 3: Somebody who's going to lose sleep or the. 390 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:36,639 Speaker 4: Fact that you've got less than sixty four thousand dollars 391 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:41,200 Speaker 4: in the bank, exactly the way any entrepreneur or business 392 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:46,200 Speaker 4: owner would act. They understand colors, specific geography, and they 393 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 4: understand the electorate instinctively that you cannot win statewide without 394 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:55,879 Speaker 4: the suburbs, that the suburbs have moved, and that ideology 395 00:23:55,960 --> 00:24:01,760 Speaker 4: without coalition math is just entertainment. The chair has to 396 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:05,800 Speaker 4: be a unifier, not because they're spineless, but because they 397 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 4: understand their job is addition, not subtraction. They consider across 398 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:15,840 Speaker 4: from a hardline Conservative and a moderate Republican and make 399 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:19,280 Speaker 4: both of them feel heard without promising either of them 400 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 4: something that they cannot deliver. And critically, they have almost 401 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:31,200 Speaker 4: no ego about credit. The chair's job is to make 402 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:39,400 Speaker 4: candidates successful, to raise money, and keep the machinery running. 403 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,159 Speaker 4: In the moment a chair starts competing for attention with 404 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:48,359 Speaker 4: the candidates, they've lost the battle. So the short version 405 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:54,920 Speaker 4: is this, the ideal chair is a selfless operator. Now, 406 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:59,120 Speaker 4: what's the ideal candidate? I said in that last segment, 407 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:04,040 Speaker 4: we need serious candidates. I want you to think less 408 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:07,080 Speaker 4: about someone's resume and instead I want you to think 409 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:13,160 Speaker 4: about their character, their temperament. A serious candidate in Colorado 410 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 4: is somebody who is relentlessly disciplined about staying on the 411 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:22,760 Speaker 4: issues that voters actually care about. You know what they 412 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 4: are come on, name four, economy, taxes, crime, energy, and 413 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:34,879 Speaker 4: someone who has the psychological security not to take every 414 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:39,560 Speaker 4: piece of bait thrown at them, to take the jabs, 415 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:40,680 Speaker 4: to take. 416 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:44,159 Speaker 3: The slings in the arrows, and to stay standing. 417 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:48,120 Speaker 4: Now in a state where Trump maxes out at say 418 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:52,480 Speaker 4: forty three percent, a serious candidate has to be comfortable 419 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,200 Speaker 4: in their own skin to say, you know, I agree 420 00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:58,480 Speaker 4: with the president on X, or I don't agree with 421 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:03,280 Speaker 4: the president on why, and do so either way without 422 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 4: groveling and without grandstanding about it. Just be matter of 423 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:14,720 Speaker 4: fact and be willing capable of explaining why you agree 424 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 4: or disagree with the president on certain policies. And that's 425 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 4: just being a smart candidate. But you've got to be 426 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 4: true to yourself. They've got to be able to walk 427 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,240 Speaker 4: into a room full of unaffiliated voters, say in some 428 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:37,760 Speaker 4: Denver suburb, and make a persuasive substantive case, not a 429 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:43,760 Speaker 4: tribal case, but a truly persuasive substantive case. A serious 430 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:46,119 Speaker 4: candidate is the kind of person who, when asked about 431 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:51,159 Speaker 4: say conspiracy theories that they don't entertain them and they 432 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:54,159 Speaker 4: don't pander to the people who believe them. They have 433 00:26:54,280 --> 00:27:01,160 Speaker 4: a gravitas, but without arrogance, they are a closing. All 434 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:04,040 Speaker 4: you salespeople out there know that you have to be 435 00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:09,159 Speaker 4: a closer. You've got to close the deal with the voters. 436 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:13,359 Speaker 4: You've got to tell them why they should vote for you, 437 00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:16,400 Speaker 4: why it's in their best interest to vote for you. 438 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,360 Speaker 4: You then have to ask for that vote, and then 439 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,959 Speaker 4: you've got to close it a closer because voters can 440 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 4: smell the difference between somebody who wants to do something 441 00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:31,200 Speaker 4: and someone who wants to be something. We need candidates 442 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 4: who want to do something. 443 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 2: Michael, I'm glad to believe that the governor of Colorado 444 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:41,680 Speaker 2: wants to put voto radar cams up and down I 445 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:47,160 Speaker 2: twenty five. I really hope that doesn't happen. I'm trying 446 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:50,240 Speaker 2: to let them write up and down from Fort Collins 447 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:52,240 Speaker 2: to Aurora and Commers City all the time, and to 448 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:56,119 Speaker 2: be honest, going a couple miles over is not worth 449 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:57,159 Speaker 2: getting a ticket for. 450 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 3: But just hold that thole. I'll get back to that 451 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 3: in a minute. 452 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:06,840 Speaker 4: But yes, it's it's in fact, I've already got a 453 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,640 Speaker 4: story about it, but it's for tomorrow. Now. I want 454 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 4: you to remember, Colorad didn't drift blue by accident. It 455 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:18,399 Speaker 4: was engineered. It was deliberate and was impatiently by Gil 456 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,399 Speaker 4: Striker and Polis and I, you know, I should throw 457 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 4: and rut bridges too, But whatever. They sat down after 458 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 4: the two thousand and four election, they looked at the 459 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:32,240 Speaker 4: changing demographics and they decided to build a permanent progressive 460 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:33,359 Speaker 4: infrastructure from. 461 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,959 Speaker 3: The ground up. They didn't just fund candidates. 462 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:40,200 Speaker 4: They funded think tanks, voter registration operations, messaging organizations, and 463 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:43,920 Speaker 4: a coordinated network of groups. Ng OASICK worked together election 464 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,600 Speaker 4: cycle after an election cycle, without depending on any one 465 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:52,440 Speaker 4: single candidate. Political scientists and strate to study what they 466 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 4: did and named it the Colorado model, and that became 467 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:59,600 Speaker 4: the blueprint that progressive organizations all across this country adopted. 468 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:02,760 Speaker 4: They didn't win in Colorado because the state woke up 469 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:04,000 Speaker 4: one morning he said, oh, let's. 470 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 3: Just go blue. 471 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,760 Speaker 4: They wanted the way you win a long trial through preparation, 472 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:10,920 Speaker 4: sustained effort, playing a longer game than the other side 473 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:14,440 Speaker 4: was willing to play. Now, flipping of state is not 474 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:18,280 Speaker 4: an event. It is a process, and that process works 475 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:21,080 Speaker 4: in layers. The first layer is local school boards, county 476 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 4: commissioned city councils, state legislative seats. The races most people 477 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,720 Speaker 4: ignore because they seem small. Now that's not to belive 478 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:32,920 Speaker 4: anybody running for governor. I wish them all well. I 479 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:37,959 Speaker 4: hope somebody wins. A Republican wins, but don't let that 480 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,840 Speaker 4: be your focus. Democrats understood that the races I just 481 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:47,080 Speaker 4: described do three things at the same time. They build 482 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:51,000 Speaker 4: a farm team of future candidates. They embed progressive policy 483 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,960 Speaker 4: at the local level, where it is the hardest to reverse. 484 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:57,240 Speaker 4: And then they generate the kind of organizing infrastructure they 485 00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:00,320 Speaker 4: now have volunteers, donors, data, and all that scale up 486 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:04,080 Speaker 4: when the bigger races come about. Republicans in Colorado just 487 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,200 Speaker 4: seated that ground for years. They just showed up for 488 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,880 Speaker 4: the big races, and they wondered why they kept losing them. 489 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:13,880 Speaker 4: You can't win the penthouse if you don't build the foundation. 490 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:19,160 Speaker 4: And the second Layer's demographic. Colorado has grown, and it 491 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,480 Speaker 4: hasn't grown in ways that naturally favor Republicans. The front 492 00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:26,239 Speaker 4: range verbs, particularly in Douglas Rapo Jefferson County, they used 493 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:29,320 Speaker 4: to be reliably with Republican territory, but they're not anymore. 494 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:34,320 Speaker 4: College educated suburban voters, particularly women, have moved away from 495 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,000 Speaker 4: the Republican Party during the Trump era and they didn't 496 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 4: come back. Winning those voters back requires candidates that those 497 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:46,000 Speaker 4: women can trust, and trust is not built in a 498 00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:51,600 Speaker 4: single election cycle, and it's not built by any unserious 499 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:54,840 Speaker 4: candidate or a candidate that's not telling you the truth, 500 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:57,640 Speaker 4: or a candidate that is just cow telling to whatever 501 00:30:57,640 --> 00:30:58,880 Speaker 4: they think whichever way. 502 00:30:58,680 --> 00:30:59,360 Speaker 3: The wind's blowing. 503 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:04,600 Speaker 4: You don't rebuild trust with a single good candidate. Do 504 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:10,200 Speaker 4: you rebuild it with a pattern. The honest version of 505 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,920 Speaker 4: this argument is that twenty twenty six is probably not 506 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,160 Speaker 4: the year Republicans take back to Colorado, but it could 507 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:18,239 Speaker 4: be the year that we stop the stupid bleeding and 508 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:24,479 Speaker 4: we start building credibility. A credible, serious gubernatorial candidate who 509 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:28,080 Speaker 4: runs a serious race and loses let's say fifty two 510 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,680 Speaker 4: to forty eight does more for the long term health 511 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:35,360 Speaker 4: of the party than a stupid clown show candidate who 512 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 4: will lose, say, sixty two to thirty eight. Why because 513 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:43,400 Speaker 4: the close lost candidate has now built a donor list, 514 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:48,840 Speaker 4: trained to volunteer, network, identify persuadable precincts, and it gave 515 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,280 Speaker 4: the party something to build on. A state legislative pickup 516 00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:55,080 Speaker 4: in a swing district matters, even if it's just one seat, 517 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:57,840 Speaker 4: because it means now a Republican incumbent can run for 518 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:01,800 Speaker 4: re election in two years with a record every single 519 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:06,600 Speaker 4: cycle of competent performance compounds, just like interest. Democrats figure 520 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,760 Speaker 4: that out in two thousand and four. We're still arguing 521 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:13,800 Speaker 4: stupidly about it in turning in twenty twenty six. The 522 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:17,080 Speaker 4: danger isn't that the Colorado Republicans try and fail. The 523 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,720 Speaker 4: danger is that they keep demanding overnight results. They keep 524 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:24,560 Speaker 4: elevating these why coadodle candidates who generate excitement within the 525 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,920 Speaker 4: base but alienate everybody else, And then they burn through 526 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:32,880 Speaker 4: party resources on internal litigation instead of electoral infrastructure, and 527 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:35,600 Speaker 4: then use the predictable losses as evidence. Well, it's just 528 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,200 Speaker 4: it's just hopeless. That's the doom loop. You're in a 529 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:42,560 Speaker 4: stupid doom loop. The exit from the doom loop is discipline, patience, 530 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:45,560 Speaker 4: and the willingness to measure success not by whether you 531 00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:49,880 Speaker 4: won this cycle, but whether you left the party stronger 532 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:56,560 Speaker 4: than you found it. I would happily, happily take a excellent, 533 00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:01,080 Speaker 4: serious candidate that's running for governor loses fifty two to 534 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,320 Speaker 4: forty eight, then one that loses sixty to forty, or 535 00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:08,680 Speaker 4: sixty two to thirty eight or seventy to thirty. That's 536 00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:13,560 Speaker 4: how you start building and rebuilding this party.