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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Become to the program. Glad to have you here. I
(00:04):
got an invitation to do the show next year from
Las Vegas for the Shot show. It's going to start
the day after the inauguration. And yeah, I went to
both Bush inaugurations, got invited to the Trump inaugurations. I
did not go to the Trump inaugurations. I had something
else on the schedule. I think it was in Africa,
so I don't remember the I have it on the
(00:25):
wall though, I have the invitations up there. Let me
walk home in the program. Next guest of the morning,
good to have you here on the show, Jimmy Lenky.
Is my name Barb Kirkmeyer. She's one uncontested last night
her seat back in the state Senate.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Barb Kirkmeyer walking on the show.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Hey, thanks for having me on last night.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Were you at the party up in Windsor? Where did
you watch the election results happened last night? I know
you didn't have much of a contest of your own,
but you were on the ballot.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Where did you watch it all?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I was actually on Channel nine. It's doing commentary with
Senator Byron Pelton and a couple of other folks.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Well, give us the Rundown.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
A lot of folks obviously watching the White House race
Trump versus Old Kamala Harris, and it looked like it
turned out good for our team. A lot of folks
don't necessarily pay attention to who want on those state seats.
What's the Rundown How did we fare? Did we take
any groundback at the state Legislature of the State.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Senate, it's still too close to call at this point.
Like in World County, there are still according to the clerk,
there are still about twenty one thousand ballots that need
to be counted. And I'm thinking tho, it's got to
be down here from the south part of the county
some because our vote totals seem pretty low compared to
the rest of the state. So the clerk has said
(01:48):
that she hopes to be able to finish it up today.
I hope so too, because we're all sitting on pins
and needles. Because Ryan Gonzalez is currently I think twenty
one votes ahead of Mary Young, which would be a
seat that we would flip. And that's House District fifty,
so that's the Evans you know, East Gridley area, and
Dan Wug is currently down by two thousand votes, but again,
(02:12):
I don't know, it just depends where those votes are
in Will County what that can mean for him. And
because I know, like my vote totals are down even
though I won because I basically I only had a
write in opponent, but I'm only at like fifty thousand
and fifty one thousand votes, So there's a lot of
votes that still need to be counted today, and I
(02:34):
think they're probably in those areas. I know for CD
eight it's important, but it's you know, it's just world
County's behind and getting their ballots count for you know,
I don't as part of it's because I think people
will wait till the very end and put them in
on the last day and can't get them all counted
then kind of thing. So that's going on. But it
looks like Ron Weinberg's coming back. Ryan Armagos represented Weinberg
(02:59):
represent Oh my god, coming back Laurie Sander, who was
running in the open seat that Mike Lynch you know,
created when he decided to run for something else other
than the state representative. And she's well ahead, so she
should be fine. I'm just kind of going through the list.
Dusty Johnson who's running who has part of Well County
as well. She's also out through the Eastern Plains. She's
(03:22):
going to be fine, so she'll be returning. That was
the seat that hold Tworf previously held. And then Carlos Baron,
who is from Fort Luton, he's he didn't have an opponent,
so he'll be back as well. For us, you know
all Republicans, and House District forty eight is where Carlos
Baron is from, and that is where Gabe Evans, you know,
(03:42):
obviously didn't come back to run in that seat. So
it's it's all that being said, it's just still there's
a lot of us out there, so we just really
can't stay for sure. But other than the.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Ones I just mentioned, I still love again, I love
Cardi Copps, Tina Harrison, where county there people. I still
just can't figure out how Florida gets twenty six million
votes counted in one night, like in three hours, and
we're still short twenty one thousand votes to go.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Oh we just got an inundated on the day of.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I think everybody's got to go to Florida and figure
out how the heck they do that. Because our France
go to France, they get all their votes kind of
about nine thirty.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
That's an entire nation.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
And yet we have counties across Colorado that are like, oh,
we got a lot of ballots on the election day.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
We don't know how to get them all counted.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Love all these people, but I just can't figure out
why we can't figure out how to get this done.
The volume of it. Other places do it, Entire nations
do it, but we still struggle. Baffles me, Barbara, but
baffles me.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I don't know either, And honestly, Jimmy, I think the
only thing I think of is they are just taking
extra precaution because you know, people's confidence in elections has
just been eroded and it's gotten further. I mean, and
I'm not into the you know, the conspiracy theory kind
of stuff, but it's just it's eroded, and you know,
(05:00):
having things happen like with what you know, our secutary
of state just did you know. I'm not saying, you know,
I'm not saying she should have resigned or go to jail,
but for God's sake, it shouldn't have taken her a
week to apologize or putting, you know, for somebody putting
those out on the internet inadvertently kind of thing. So
no passwords out on the internet. So it just e
(05:21):
wrote confidence. And I think our clerks, especially Republican clerks,
have been under so much stress and kind of you know,
under fire if you will, for the last four years
that they weren't doing their job, that I think they're
just maybe overcompensating. But honestly, I just don't know. I
just know there's still a lot of votes out there
to be counted.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Again, I'm sure there's great explanation, and I trust these people.
I trust Carly Cops. Just I still just can't figure
out the delays. But that's okay, We'll move forward. Let's
let's talk about this Jenna Griswold thing. You're in the
in the state Senate. What are you kind of hearing
on the scuttle butt? I'm kind of sensing that the
Democrats are not going to carry her. Why or on
(06:00):
this topic? It kind of got off the headline because
of the election and the election cycle, but this was
a pretty big This is one of many big blunders
by Jenny Griswald. Are you hearing anything about consequences? Some
people have called for her resignation is she just hoping
it goes away? Are there people that are like turning
the long knives on her and say you've got to
(06:21):
go Because we're about to head to gubernatorial race. There
will be people starting to declare the next several months
for governor, and I'm guessing they would like to see
Jenna Griswald not on that list.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I think you're right. I think this probably hurt her
quite a bit. But I think the Democrats are just
trying to get through it. I don't think they're going
to make a big deal about it other than what
maybe you know, like what's been said already, you know,
by Republicans essentially. But I think what will be interesting
is to see what happens come January because some of
(06:58):
the first meetings that we have down to capital or
what are called Smart Act hearings, and she has to
appear between the Joint Committee, it'll probably be State Affairs.
She'll have to appear in front of them, and I
know that there will be a lot of Republicans that
will sit in on that committee and start asking her
questions and trying to figure out, you know, like what
she was doing. But here's here's the other thing that
(07:20):
Democrats have done in the past. Just in the last
I think it was in twenty three session put into
law in the kind of like annual elections bill that
we seem to have, they put into law that she
can't use money to basically campaign why she's up for election,
you know, like I think we all saw the commercials
you know, that she did in the that was in
(07:42):
twenty three or twenty two. It was in twenty two
that she did while she was up for election, and
it looks like she's using federal and state funds for electioneering,
and so they put it into laws. I mean, that
was the Democrats Senator Fenberg, who was president at the
time of the of the He might have only been
a majority leader, I'm sorry, but one of those, but
(08:02):
he's the one who added that in to the election bill,
and we call it Jenni's Law. And quite frankly, I
took the language and used it in the Joint Budget Committee,
which is for Democrats on that Joint Budget Committee, and
we put it in as a footnote that said, we
want to make sure that it's very clear that the
money that we are putting in here general fund money
cannot be used essentially for your electioneering. So it's that
(08:24):
kind of stuff that happens behind the scene that people
don't see. But I think again, you see that even
the Democrats are upset with her, with the Secretary of
State as well, even though she's also Democrat. So we'll
see what they maybe do behind the scenes. But I
don't know, we'll.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
See, all right.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I got a lot of vote counting today, Barbara Kirkmeyer.
I appreciate you coming on the program this morning. Thank
you very much. Congratulations on your victory as you head
back down to the Gold Dome and fight for freedom
and fight for all that's good in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I appreciate you. Barbara Kirkmeyer.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
All right, ladies, so Joe I got to take a break.
You got to, Barbara, thank you very much. I got
to take this break in indeed, and it's news talk
six hundred k cool. Let me check some emails this hour.
Jimmy Lakey at iHeartMedia dot com. I keep hearing the
ping on my little computer over here, so that means
some of your email. Let me Jimmy Lakey at iHeartMedia
dot com. Jimmy Lakey at iHeartMedia dot Com. I just
(09:17):
posted up at Facebook Facebook dot com slash Jimmy Lakey
fan page. Instantly, I've got dozens and dozens of likes
on this one. I just posted it. It just simply says,
I feel unburdened by what has been anybody else.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Laky six hundred K cool?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I feel unburdened by what has been six hundred kcol
stand by Jen strateg
Become to the program. Glad to have you here. I
(00:04):
got an invitation to do the show next year from
Las Vegas for the Shot show. It's going to start
the day after the inauguration. And yeah, I went to
both Bush inaugurations, got invited to the Trump inaugurations. I
did not go to the Trump inaugurations. I had something
else on the schedule. I think it was in Africa,
so I don't remember the I have it on the
(00:25):
wall though, I have the invitations up there. Let me
walk home in the program. Next guest of the morning,
good to have you here on the show, Jimmy Lenky.
Is my name Barb Kirkmeyer. She's one uncontested last night
her seat back in the state Senate.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Barb Kirkmeyer walking on the show.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Hey, thanks for having me on last night.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Were you at the party up in Windsor? Where did
you watch the election results happened last night? I know
you didn't have much of a contest of your own,
but you were on the ballot.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Where did you watch it all?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I was actually on Channel nine. It's doing commentary with
Senator Byron Pelton and a couple of other folks.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Well, give us the Rundown.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
A lot of folks obviously watching the White House race
Trump versus Old Kamala Harris, and it looked like it
turned out good for our team. A lot of folks
don't necessarily pay attention to who want on those state seats.
What's the Rundown How did we fare? Did we take
any groundback at the state Legislature of the State.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Senate, it's still too close to call at this point.
Like in World County, there are still according to the clerk,
there are still about twenty one thousand ballots that need
to be counted. And I'm thinking tho, it's got to
be down here from the south part of the county
some because our vote totals seem pretty low compared to
the rest of the state. So the clerk has said
(01:48):
that she hopes to be able to finish it up today.
I hope so too, because we're all sitting on pins
and needles. Because Ryan Gonzalez is currently I think twenty
one votes ahead of Mary Young, which would be a
seat that we would flip. And that's House District fifty,
so that's the Evans you know, East Gridley area, and
Dan Wug is currently down by two thousand votes, but again,
(02:12):
I don't know, it just depends where those votes are
in Will County what that can mean for him. And
because I know, like my vote totals are down even
though I won because I basically I only had a
write in opponent, but I'm only at like fifty thousand
and fifty one thousand votes, So there's a lot of
votes that still need to be counted today, and I
(02:34):
think they're probably in those areas. I know for CD
eight it's important, but it's you know, it's just world
County's behind and getting their ballots count for you know,
I don't as part of it's because I think people
will wait till the very end and put them in
on the last day and can't get them all counted
then kind of thing. So that's going on. But it
looks like Ron Weinberg's coming back. Ryan Armagos represented Weinberg
(02:59):
represent Oh my god, coming back Laurie Sander, who was
running in the open seat that Mike Lynch you know,
created when he decided to run for something else other
than the state representative. And she's well ahead, so she
should be fine. I'm just kind of going through the list.
Dusty Johnson who's running who has part of Well County
as well. She's also out through the Eastern Plains. She's
(03:22):
going to be fine, so she'll be returning. That was
the seat that hold Tworf previously held. And then Carlos Baron,
who is from Fort Luton, he's he didn't have an opponent,
so he'll be back as well. For us, you know
all Republicans, and House District forty eight is where Carlos
Baron is from, and that is where Gabe Evans, you know,
(03:42):
obviously didn't come back to run in that seat. So
it's it's all that being said, it's just still there's
a lot of us out there, so we just really
can't stay for sure. But other than the.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Ones I just mentioned, I still love again, I love
Cardi Copps, Tina Harrison, where county there people. I still
just can't figure out how Florida gets twenty six million
votes counted in one night, like in three hours, and
we're still short twenty one thousand votes to go.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Oh we just got an inundated on the day of.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I think everybody's got to go to Florida and figure
out how the heck they do that. Because our France
go to France, they get all their votes kind of
about nine thirty.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
That's an entire nation.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
And yet we have counties across Colorado that are like, oh,
we got a lot of ballots on the election day.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
We don't know how to get them all counted.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Love all these people, but I just can't figure out
why we can't figure out how to get this done.
The volume of it. Other places do it, Entire nations
do it, but we still struggle. Baffles me, Barbara, but
baffles me.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I don't know either, And honestly, Jimmy, I think the
only thing I think of is they are just taking
extra precaution because you know, people's confidence in elections has
just been eroded and it's gotten further. I mean, and
I'm not into the you know, the conspiracy theory kind
of stuff, but it's just it's eroded, and you know,
(05:00):
having things happen like with what you know, our secutary
of state just did you know. I'm not saying, you know,
I'm not saying she should have resigned or go to jail,
but for God's sake, it shouldn't have taken her a
week to apologize or putting, you know, for somebody putting
those out on the internet inadvertently kind of thing. So
no passwords out on the internet. So it just e
(05:21):
wrote confidence. And I think our clerks, especially Republican clerks,
have been under so much stress and kind of you know,
under fire if you will, for the last four years
that they weren't doing their job, that I think they're
just maybe overcompensating. But honestly, I just don't know. I
just know there's still a lot of votes out there
to be counted.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Again, I'm sure there's great explanation, and I trust these people.
I trust Carly Cops. Just I still just can't figure
out the delays. But that's okay, We'll move forward. Let's
let's talk about this Jenna Griswold thing. You're in the
in the state Senate. What are you kind of hearing
on the scuttle butt? I'm kind of sensing that the
Democrats are not going to carry her. Why or on
(06:00):
this topic? It kind of got off the headline because
of the election and the election cycle, but this was
a pretty big This is one of many big blunders
by Jenny Griswald. Are you hearing anything about consequences? Some
people have called for her resignation is she just hoping
it goes away? Are there people that are like turning
the long knives on her and say you've got to
(06:21):
go Because we're about to head to gubernatorial race. There
will be people starting to declare the next several months
for governor, and I'm guessing they would like to see
Jenna Griswald not on that list.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I think you're right. I think this probably hurt her
quite a bit. But I think the Democrats are just
trying to get through it. I don't think they're going
to make a big deal about it other than what
maybe you know, like what's been said already, you know,
by Republicans essentially. But I think what will be interesting
is to see what happens come January because some of
(06:58):
the first meetings that we have down to capital or
what are called Smart Act hearings, and she has to
appear between the Joint Committee, it'll probably be State Affairs.
She'll have to appear in front of them, and I
know that there will be a lot of Republicans that
will sit in on that committee and start asking her
questions and trying to figure out, you know, like what
she was doing. But here's here's the other thing that
(07:20):
Democrats have done in the past. Just in the last
I think it was in twenty three session put into
law in the kind of like annual elections bill that
we seem to have, they put into law that she
can't use money to basically campaign why she's up for election,
you know, like I think we all saw the commercials
you know, that she did in the that was in
(07:42):
twenty three or twenty two. It was in twenty two
that she did while she was up for election, and
it looks like she's using federal and state funds for electioneering,
and so they put it into laws. I mean, that
was the Democrats Senator Fenberg, who was president at the
time of the of the He might have only been
a majority leader, I'm sorry, but one of those, but
(08:02):
he's the one who added that in to the election bill,
and we call it Jenni's Law. And quite frankly, I
took the language and used it in the Joint Budget Committee,
which is for Democrats on that Joint Budget Committee, and
we put it in as a footnote that said, we
want to make sure that it's very clear that the
money that we are putting in here general fund money
cannot be used essentially for your electioneering. So it's that
(08:24):
kind of stuff that happens behind the scene that people
don't see. But I think again, you see that even
the Democrats are upset with her, with the Secretary of
State as well, even though she's also Democrat. So we'll
see what they maybe do behind the scenes. But I
don't know, we'll.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
See, all right.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I got a lot of vote counting today, Barbara Kirkmeyer.
I appreciate you coming on the program this morning. Thank
you very much. Congratulations on your victory as you head
back down to the Gold Dome and fight for freedom
and fight for all that's good in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I appreciate you. Barbara Kirkmeyer.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
All right, ladies, so Joe I got to take a break.
You got to, Barbara, thank you very much. I got
to take this break in indeed, and it's news talk
six hundred k cool. Let me check some emails this hour.
Jimmy Lakey at iHeartMedia dot com. I keep hearing the
ping on my little computer over here, so that means
some of your email. Let me Jimmy Lakey at iHeartMedia
dot com. Jimmy Lakey at iHeartMedia dot Com. I just
(09:17):
posted up at Facebook Facebook dot com slash Jimmy Lakey
fan page. Instantly, I've got dozens and dozens of likes
on this one. I just posted it. It just simply says,
I feel unburdened by what has been anybody else.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Laky six hundred K cool?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I feel unburdened by what has been six hundred kcol
stand by Jen strateg
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