April 17, 2025 • 14 mins
NEW COLORADO GOP CHAIR BRITA HORN TODAY AT 2:30 So I thought we'd be helpful and figure out what issues need to be top priority for Republican candidates in the upcoming election cycles. I have some ideas, as I'm sure you do, but they may not be MY pet topic, as I want the party to focus on issues that resonate with the tons of independents in Colorado. Get your thinking caps on.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On the other end of the phone is new Colorado
chair Woman Britta Horn.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hello Britta, I know, Hello, Hello miss Mandy.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
First of all, congratulations. We haven't had a chance to
chat since you were elected by the Colorado Republican Party
Central Committee to be the chairman of the Colorado GOP.
And boy was I glad with that outcome. So let's
just start there.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Thank you so much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I want to ask you and I and my listeners
got together, we put our heads together in the first
hour to come up with issues that we thought that
the Colorado Republican Party should focus on in the upcoming
election cycle, because we are nothing if not helpful, Britta.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
But I appreciate.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I'd like to.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Ask you about what has surely been a whirlwind since
that election for you personally. What have you been doing
as the brand new chair of the Colorado Republican Party
in the last few weeks.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Oh, my gosh, doing things just like this. I don't
know how many media hits we've had so far, and
I just came off of one just before you, and
that it's just spreading out what talking about. What is
the job? The job is one thing it is to
elect more Republicans. It's also to grow the party, and
it's also to fundraise. And I've been doing all three
of those things in the last one twenty two, twenty
(01:14):
three days and it's been a lot of We have
transitions going on right now. We're trying to find things
where things are where, you know, I think everybody knows
that we're moving the office. I'm going to more regional offices.
And we've been looking at places already and where we
can move the furniture and start hitting the ground running
with field directors. So it's all the above, and it's
(01:36):
been NonStop.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
So, if you know, one of the big issues that
the Republican Party has had over the last few years
has been fundraising. And I had a meeting with someone
who is not necessarily a Republican but a conservative and
and he said to me, he said, look, there's a
lot of money on the sidelines right now in the
conservative side of Colorado that isn't that has not been
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being put in the party. Are you seeing some of
that money perhaps begin to shake loose. Are you seeing
donors that were not happy with the prior leadership beginning
to say, okay, maybe we're onto something.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Here, absolutely, and a lot of new donors. A lot
of people are saying, I'm going to say, of all
the messages I'm getting good, bad, and ugly, the favorite
ones are people going, Okay, I become an independent because
of all this chaos. I'm willing to come back to
the Republican Party, become a Republican and bring money with me.
And that has been the biggest, biggest piece I'm hearing
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from people saying they're bringing money over, They're going to
be new fundraising. People's new donors that we haven't had before.
And I'm looking forward not only to the traditional ones
that around the state that you and I talked about before.
You know, they closed their checkbooks. They were not send
money to Colorado and it went out of state. It
went to Florida that you were talking about earlier. It's like, no,
those need to be to redirected back into Colorado and
(02:54):
let's get to work with it.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Now, I want to ask you about the I think
the most challenging part. I would think your job, and
that is bringing together the factions. And that's the only
way to put it. There are distinct factions in the
Republican Party in Colorado right now, and they're not particularly
friendly to one another. I've seen some less than kind
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things about you already in some of the Facebook groups,
and I'm sure you know what's flying around out there.
What if any progress or what if any actions have
you taken as the chair to begin to mend those fences.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Well, absolutely, I've been putting out the olive branch, you know.
I'm just like, what can we do to work on together?
What can we find things that are together? You're absolutely right,
there's some ugly, nasty things out there, and I didn't
think are still reeling from their books. And the only
way we're going to be able to win them over
is to show some wins. When we start showing the
dollars that we're bringing in, we're showing the changes that
we're bringing in, we're going to be exposing. We just
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still have to show, like I said, what happened in
the past, We're going to have to expose that, and
we're gonna have to say because we want everybody you
know and techno, we need to get our integrity back.
We have to be honest, we have to be transparent,
and that should come across as more wins. So how
we're going to do better, how we're not going to
do the way it was in the past, and that
should bring some people over.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
So I'd like to ask you, and this has been
one of my frustrations with Republicans, not just in Colorado.
This is not a uniquely Colorado problem. But Democrats are
super good at staying on message. And I don't know
if they have meetings once a week, I don't know
what happens with that, but they're incredibly good at staying
on message, and especially in this state where not only
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do Republicans have to run against the Democratic candidate, they
also have to run against a lot of our media. Right,
so you lose the ability to control the narrative because
the media is only going to ask you about things
that you feel they feel are a disadvantage. I've now
watched it happen over and over and over again. I
know you have too. So the only hope for this
is incredibly disciplined messaging.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
What is the Republican message right now?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Who is working on crafting the priorities for the Republican
Party in terms of campaign messages that will resonate not
just with Republicans, but resonate with the far larger number
of independents whose votes we have to win, right.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
And I think it's everybody's correct, you know, crafting out
and we're going to do our share as well, and
it's going to be a lot of candidates have to do.
They're crafting their message. Again, the Republican Colorado Republican Party
is not policy. It is literally a machine to get
the job done. And the machine and the product that
we have to crank out are good Republicans and more
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of them and more people running and growing the party,
and like we just said, fundraising. So when the messaging,
like you said, the two hundred and fifty thousand Republicans
active in Colorado that didn't vote November, we're gonna have
to message to them separately and differently. But you're right,
very focused and very very point on and all say
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the same thing for those two hundred and fifty thousand people,
and it's going to be different than the independent one
hundred thousand independent A are right leaning and have a
message for them. It's going to be we're going to
find the pieces that we all get along with, and
you know, maybe it's not going to be eighty twenty
with with Ronald Reagan, as they all talk about maybe
it's gonna be more sixty forty or seventy thirty. We
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have to find the pieces that we can talk about
so we can stay glued together on those pieces and
get people to vote. We need more voters. We're only
twenty three percent of the state. Yeah, well voters, go ahead.
I'm just saying, here's the way.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
The way I see this, Britta, is really simple is
that we have to sort of drop the Republican blinders.
And this is not a criticism, to be clear, This
is not me saying the Republicans are wrong so they
should drop their blinders. But the reality is, to your point,
we are so outnumbered in this state in terms of
voter registration that it is it is a losing proposition
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to only focus on the Republican voter, like, we have
to craft a message that is going to reach those
independent voters who maybe have not had the best time
since twenty nineteen. I appreciate what you're saying about the
Republican Party being the machinery, but I do think there's
value in helping Republican candidates understand every issue in terms
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of how to articulate that and how to articulate that
a conservative you know, answer or solution would be the
way to go. Because I'm not gonna lie. I've had
candidates on this show for office that when I got done,
I just died inside a little bit because it was
so obvious that they didn't have a handle on certain issues.
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They weren't able to articulately sort of articulate the Republican position.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
And it's painful.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
And so do you think there would be any value
in sort of giving those those white paper sort of backstroke,
you know, back information pieces of information to candidates, And
if so, how do.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
We do that?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I like that. I like what you're I like what
you're I've already voted down while you were talking, So
I like this idea because you're right. It has to
be the issues that are concerning all of us, not
only across America but Colorado. And it's gonna be crime.
Why would aren't we all talking about crime? Why aren't
we all talking about the economy? You know, because there's
like there's pieces that we all are touched by, you know,
we can't we don't talk as much Anymorecus Trump fixed
(08:23):
that for us, or the government did I I'll go six.
So let's find those pieces that still resonate with all
of us at every day living in Colorado. What is it?
And it's gonna be obviously right now, parenting issues. It's
gonna be school issues. I mean that's the topic. It's
gonna be two way, it's gonna be, you know, set
A bill three. We have to be talking about two
A and everybody's and you're right. I'm gonna tell you,
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you know, Mandy is you know inside inso I get
a lot of the text and a lot of people
saying you need to have a statement about this, and
you need to have a statement about that. I already
agree about two A. I already agree about a First
Amendment rights. I already agree with all these parents and
these am trans things that are going on and being
working on those issues at the schools. You don't need
to hear from me. You need to hear from the
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CAID and the party needs to bolster them for it.
But you're exactly right, you all have to be thank you.
We have to just be laser focused that we're talking
all the same things absolutely exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
And here's the thing. Everybody doesn't have time to become
an expert in every issue, especially if it's not an
issue that's primary in their community. But we need to
prepare them to be able to articulate those positions on
every issue, because I know for a fact that the
Democratic Party does this, and they coach their their their
candidates and they you know, work on the message with
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them so they can clearly articulate their positions.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
And it shows sometimes and I realize that I.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
View it anyway as Republicans being more independent minded. Right
our candidates tend to think they have good answers, but
then they fall flat in being able to explain why
they're good answers, So that that would be my thing.
But I'm I'm going to give you my list, Bretta,
and all email this to you because I know you
know you might be driving and I want you to
die one of the things that I would say if
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I were chair, and you can do this or not.
All of the fighting and in fighting needs to be
taken off social media, like it all needs to stop.
And if we have to have some kind of come
to Jesus meeting where people can come in and invent
their spleen and get it over with and.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Just hash it all out. Then let's do that.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
But the infighting on social media accomplishes nothing. It makes
Republicans look really, really bad and really small and petty.
And I'm not saying this just because I feel that way,
and I do. You should see the emails I get
from people about this. They don't realize that other people
are paying attention. So we can fight, but we got
to take it off.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Social media exactly behind closed doors. Disagree, but there's just
still people that have a need. And you know, you
got to remember, they've they've lost power. Yeah, they lost
their seat, and they're still, like you said, reeling and
feeling and I'm already having I mean, I'm already had
I mean trackers, people coming to all their meetings and
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their truckers tracking me of not doing the job. And
they're Republican too. I'm like, oh, good, gravy, I stop. Yeah,
And I'm like, I'm shocked by it. I really am,
because I'm like, really, they don't. They just want to
fight to fight, and that's what they've been doing for
the last two years. And how's that work for them?
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Trust me, I'm on your side on that one for sure.
Now the second point is something I feel really strongly about,
and I think that this is something the parties should
put together almost immediately and distribute to every Republican party,
not just candidates. We need to come up with a coherent,
one sheet page on everything that has happened in Colorado
negatively since twenty nineteen when the Democrats took over total control.
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We need to have statistics on car thefts, on auto
insurance rates, on affordable housing. We need to have every
statistic that shows that Democrats have raised the cost of living,
made us less safe, possibly led to more overdoses with
their life policies. We need to have that data in
front of us. So when we ask voters is your
life better since twenty nineteen than it is now?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
You know, it's a.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Big powerful question, and very few people would say, yeah,
my life is better, all those things are better.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I'd love to see that happen right away.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Well, there you go. I like that too, And you
get me nervous about the negativity because I want to
be you know, you are the one that monitored me
as the happy Warriors. So when you said that that,
I'm like, oh, the stats that are niggative.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, But here's the thing, Britta, you're not doing it.
You're just empowering other people with the information they need
because it is going to take a herculean effort to
get Republicans over the finish line for a whole bunch
of reasons that have nothing to do with you or
a lot of Republicans. But here we are. I'm just
trying to arm them with good information. So when the
media tries to steer them do a topic that doesn't matter,
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they have data to say, wait a minute, I'd rather
talk about this instead, because it's pretty significant. Britta, I
don't envy you, but I'm excited. I've talked to so
many Republicans who are excited about about They feel hopeful
for the first time in a long time, and they're
looking forward to what's going to come out.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
What should people do.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
If they are either a lapsed Republican like me, or
maybe they're an independent who is looking at the landscape
and saying, maybe I want to throw my lot in.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
How do they get involved at the local level?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I mean definitely local level. Go back to your local
party and then we have to do an inventory as
that as well as what does every county party have?
You know, they have a web page, they have a
Facebook page, and they have stand that we need to
get an inventory of that. I am all about everybody
going back to their local and seeing what they can
do to get involved. And if there's so many you know,
obstacles and can't do it or can't find it, then
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go to the cool OJP dot dot org a website
and get involved there. At least get the newsletters, start
getting involved there and start you know, communicating with us
there and seeing if we can turn around and find
the people you need to have and so you can
start getting involved. Because again you and I both know this,
all politics is local. We don't take care of our
school boards and our waterboards and our electric boards and
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our commissions and all the things that go out and
planning commissions. We're not going to get that next level.
We have got to take care of it on the
local level. It's time to take it back.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Amen to that, Britta Horn.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Keep going out there and beating the pavement and hopefully
we're gonna have good news for the Republican Party in
this state again soon. We desperately need to bring back
some balance in the House and the Senate.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I appreciate your time as always, even though I feel
like I did most of the talking and told.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
You how to do your job.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
But I have so much confidence in you that I
just want to give you ideas because I think you'll
actually go Yeah. I'll listen to the good ideas and
implement them, which would would be a nice change.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
And we need listeners. Absolutely, you guys have the good ideas.
Let's use them, all.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Right, Britta, we'll talk to you soon. I'll send you
the rest of our items in an email.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Great, thank you, all right, thanks Britta Horn.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
That's the Colorado chairperson of the Colorado GOP.
On the other end of the phone is new Colorado
chair Woman Britta Horn.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hello Britta, I know, Hello, Hello miss Mandy.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
First of all, congratulations. We haven't had a chance to
chat since you were elected by the Colorado Republican Party
Central Committee to be the chairman of the Colorado GOP.
And boy was I glad with that outcome. So let's
just start there.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Thank you so much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I want to ask you and I and my listeners
got together, we put our heads together in the first
hour to come up with issues that we thought that
the Colorado Republican Party should focus on in the upcoming
election cycle, because we are nothing if not helpful, Britta.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
But I appreciate.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I'd like to.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Ask you about what has surely been a whirlwind since
that election for you personally. What have you been doing
as the brand new chair of the Colorado Republican Party
in the last few weeks.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Oh, my gosh, doing things just like this. I don't
know how many media hits we've had so far, and
I just came off of one just before you, and
that it's just spreading out what talking about. What is
the job? The job is one thing it is to
elect more Republicans. It's also to grow the party, and
it's also to fundraise. And I've been doing all three
of those things in the last one twenty two, twenty
(01:14):
three days and it's been a lot of We have
transitions going on right now. We're trying to find things
where things are where, you know, I think everybody knows
that we're moving the office. I'm going to more regional offices.
And we've been looking at places already and where we
can move the furniture and start hitting the ground running
with field directors. So it's all the above, and it's
(01:36):
been NonStop.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
So, if you know, one of the big issues that
the Republican Party has had over the last few years
has been fundraising. And I had a meeting with someone
who is not necessarily a Republican but a conservative and
and he said to me, he said, look, there's a
lot of money on the sidelines right now in the
conservative side of Colorado that isn't that has not been
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being put in the party. Are you seeing some of
that money perhaps begin to shake loose. Are you seeing
donors that were not happy with the prior leadership beginning
to say, okay, maybe we're onto something.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Here, absolutely, and a lot of new donors. A lot
of people are saying, I'm going to say, of all
the messages I'm getting good, bad, and ugly, the favorite
ones are people going, Okay, I become an independent because
of all this chaos. I'm willing to come back to
the Republican Party, become a Republican and bring money with me.
And that has been the biggest, biggest piece I'm hearing
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from people saying they're bringing money over, They're going to
be new fundraising. People's new donors that we haven't had before.
And I'm looking forward not only to the traditional ones
that around the state that you and I talked about before.
You know, they closed their checkbooks. They were not send
money to Colorado and it went out of state. It
went to Florida that you were talking about earlier. It's like, no,
those need to be to redirected back into Colorado and
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let's get to work with it.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Now, I want to ask you about the I think
the most challenging part. I would think your job, and
that is bringing together the factions. And that's the only
way to put it. There are distinct factions in the
Republican Party in Colorado right now, and they're not particularly
friendly to one another. I've seen some less than kind
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things about you already in some of the Facebook groups,
and I'm sure you know what's flying around out there.
What if any progress or what if any actions have
you taken as the chair to begin to mend those fences.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Well, absolutely, I've been putting out the olive branch, you know.
I'm just like, what can we do to work on together?
What can we find things that are together? You're absolutely right,
there's some ugly, nasty things out there, and I didn't
think are still reeling from their books. And the only
way we're going to be able to win them over
is to show some wins. When we start showing the
dollars that we're bringing in, we're showing the changes that
we're bringing in, we're going to be exposing. We just
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still have to show, like I said, what happened in
the past, We're going to have to expose that, and
we're gonna have to say because we want everybody you
know and techno, we need to get our integrity back.
We have to be honest, we have to be transparent,
and that should come across as more wins. So how
we're going to do better, how we're not going to
do the way it was in the past, and that
should bring some people over.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
So I'd like to ask you, and this has been
one of my frustrations with Republicans, not just in Colorado.
This is not a uniquely Colorado problem. But Democrats are
super good at staying on message. And I don't know
if they have meetings once a week, I don't know
what happens with that, but they're incredibly good at staying
on message, and especially in this state where not only
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do Republicans have to run against the Democratic candidate, they
also have to run against a lot of our media. Right,
so you lose the ability to control the narrative because
the media is only going to ask you about things
that you feel they feel are a disadvantage. I've now
watched it happen over and over and over again. I
know you have too. So the only hope for this
is incredibly disciplined messaging.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
What is the Republican message right now?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Who is working on crafting the priorities for the Republican
Party in terms of campaign messages that will resonate not
just with Republicans, but resonate with the far larger number
of independents whose votes we have to win, right.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
And I think it's everybody's correct, you know, crafting out
and we're going to do our share as well, and
it's going to be a lot of candidates have to do.
They're crafting their message. Again, the Republican Colorado Republican Party
is not policy. It is literally a machine to get
the job done. And the machine and the product that
we have to crank out are good Republicans and more
(05:35):
of them and more people running and growing the party,
and like we just said, fundraising. So when the messaging,
like you said, the two hundred and fifty thousand Republicans
active in Colorado that didn't vote November, we're gonna have
to message to them separately and differently. But you're right,
very focused and very very point on and all say
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the same thing for those two hundred and fifty thousand people,
and it's going to be different than the independent one
hundred thousand independent A are right leaning and have a
message for them. It's going to be we're going to
find the pieces that we all get along with, and
you know, maybe it's not going to be eighty twenty
with with Ronald Reagan, as they all talk about maybe
it's gonna be more sixty forty or seventy thirty. We
(06:16):
have to find the pieces that we can talk about
so we can stay glued together on those pieces and
get people to vote. We need more voters. We're only
twenty three percent of the state. Yeah, well voters, go ahead.
I'm just saying, here's the way.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
The way I see this, Britta, is really simple is
that we have to sort of drop the Republican blinders.
And this is not a criticism, to be clear, This
is not me saying the Republicans are wrong so they
should drop their blinders. But the reality is, to your point,
we are so outnumbered in this state in terms of
voter registration that it is it is a losing proposition
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to only focus on the Republican voter, like, we have
to craft a message that is going to reach those
independent voters who maybe have not had the best time
since twenty nineteen. I appreciate what you're saying about the
Republican Party being the machinery, but I do think there's
value in helping Republican candidates understand every issue in terms
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of how to articulate that and how to articulate that
a conservative you know, answer or solution would be the
way to go. Because I'm not gonna lie. I've had
candidates on this show for office that when I got done,
I just died inside a little bit because it was
so obvious that they didn't have a handle on certain issues.
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They weren't able to articulately sort of articulate the Republican position.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
And it's painful.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
And so do you think there would be any value
in sort of giving those those white paper sort of backstroke,
you know, back information pieces of information to candidates, And
if so, how do.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
We do that?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I like that. I like what you're I like what
you're I've already voted down while you were talking, So
I like this idea because you're right. It has to
be the issues that are concerning all of us, not
only across America but Colorado. And it's gonna be crime.
Why would aren't we all talking about crime? Why aren't
we all talking about the economy? You know, because there's
like there's pieces that we all are touched by, you know,
we can't we don't talk as much Anymorecus Trump fixed
(08:23):
that for us, or the government did I I'll go six.
So let's find those pieces that still resonate with all
of us at every day living in Colorado. What is it?
And it's gonna be obviously right now, parenting issues. It's
gonna be school issues. I mean that's the topic. It's
gonna be two way, it's gonna be, you know, set
A bill three. We have to be talking about two
A and everybody's and you're right. I'm gonna tell you,
(08:45):
you know, Mandy is you know inside inso I get
a lot of the text and a lot of people
saying you need to have a statement about this, and
you need to have a statement about that. I already
agree about two A. I already agree about a First
Amendment rights. I already agree with all these parents and
these am trans things that are going on and being
working on those issues at the schools. You don't need
to hear from me. You need to hear from the
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CAID and the party needs to bolster them for it.
But you're exactly right, you all have to be thank you.
We have to just be laser focused that we're talking
all the same things absolutely exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
And here's the thing. Everybody doesn't have time to become
an expert in every issue, especially if it's not an
issue that's primary in their community. But we need to
prepare them to be able to articulate those positions on
every issue, because I know for a fact that the
Democratic Party does this, and they coach their their their
candidates and they you know, work on the message with
(09:40):
them so they can clearly articulate their positions.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
And it shows sometimes and I realize that I.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
View it anyway as Republicans being more independent minded. Right
our candidates tend to think they have good answers, but
then they fall flat in being able to explain why
they're good answers, So that that would be my thing.
But I'm I'm going to give you my list, Bretta,
and all email this to you because I know you
know you might be driving and I want you to
die one of the things that I would say if
(10:06):
I were chair, and you can do this or not.
All of the fighting and in fighting needs to be
taken off social media, like it all needs to stop.
And if we have to have some kind of come
to Jesus meeting where people can come in and invent
their spleen and get it over with and.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Just hash it all out. Then let's do that.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
But the infighting on social media accomplishes nothing. It makes
Republicans look really, really bad and really small and petty.
And I'm not saying this just because I feel that way,
and I do. You should see the emails I get
from people about this. They don't realize that other people
are paying attention. So we can fight, but we got
to take it off.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Social media exactly behind closed doors. Disagree, but there's just
still people that have a need. And you know, you
got to remember, they've they've lost power. Yeah, they lost
their seat, and they're still, like you said, reeling and
feeling and I'm already having I mean, I'm already had
I mean trackers, people coming to all their meetings and
(11:04):
their truckers tracking me of not doing the job. And
they're Republican too. I'm like, oh, good, gravy, I stop. Yeah,
And I'm like, I'm shocked by it. I really am,
because I'm like, really, they don't. They just want to
fight to fight, and that's what they've been doing for
the last two years. And how's that work for them?
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Trust me, I'm on your side on that one for sure.
Now the second point is something I feel really strongly about,
and I think that this is something the parties should
put together almost immediately and distribute to every Republican party,
not just candidates. We need to come up with a coherent,
one sheet page on everything that has happened in Colorado
negatively since twenty nineteen when the Democrats took over total control.
(11:47):
We need to have statistics on car thefts, on auto
insurance rates, on affordable housing. We need to have every
statistic that shows that Democrats have raised the cost of living,
made us less safe, possibly led to more overdoses with
their life policies. We need to have that data in
front of us. So when we ask voters is your
life better since twenty nineteen than it is now?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
You know, it's a.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Big powerful question, and very few people would say, yeah,
my life is better, all those things are better.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I'd love to see that happen right away.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Well, there you go. I like that too, And you
get me nervous about the negativity because I want to
be you know, you are the one that monitored me
as the happy Warriors. So when you said that that,
I'm like, oh, the stats that are niggative.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, But here's the thing, Britta, you're not doing it.
You're just empowering other people with the information they need
because it is going to take a herculean effort to
get Republicans over the finish line for a whole bunch
of reasons that have nothing to do with you or
a lot of Republicans. But here we are. I'm just
trying to arm them with good information. So when the
media tries to steer them do a topic that doesn't matter,
(12:48):
they have data to say, wait a minute, I'd rather
talk about this instead, because it's pretty significant. Britta, I
don't envy you, but I'm excited. I've talked to so
many Republicans who are excited about about They feel hopeful
for the first time in a long time, and they're
looking forward to what's going to come out.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
What should people do.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
If they are either a lapsed Republican like me, or
maybe they're an independent who is looking at the landscape
and saying, maybe I want to throw my lot in.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
How do they get involved at the local level?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I mean definitely local level. Go back to your local
party and then we have to do an inventory as
that as well as what does every county party have?
You know, they have a web page, they have a
Facebook page, and they have stand that we need to
get an inventory of that. I am all about everybody
going back to their local and seeing what they can
do to get involved. And if there's so many you know,
obstacles and can't do it or can't find it, then
(13:40):
go to the cool OJP dot dot org a website
and get involved there. At least get the newsletters, start
getting involved there and start you know, communicating with us
there and seeing if we can turn around and find
the people you need to have and so you can
start getting involved. Because again you and I both know this,
all politics is local. We don't take care of our
school boards and our waterboards and our electric boards and
(14:02):
our commissions and all the things that go out and
planning commissions. We're not going to get that next level.
We have got to take care of it on the
local level. It's time to take it back.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Amen to that, Britta Horn.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Keep going out there and beating the pavement and hopefully
we're gonna have good news for the Republican Party in
this state again soon. We desperately need to bring back
some balance in the House and the Senate.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I appreciate your time as always, even though I feel
like I did most of the talking and told.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
You how to do your job.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
But I have so much confidence in you that I
just want to give you ideas because I think you'll
actually go Yeah. I'll listen to the good ideas and
implement them, which would would be a nice change.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
And we need listeners. Absolutely, you guys have the good ideas.
Let's use them, all.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Right, Britta, we'll talk to you soon. I'll send you
the rest of our items in an email.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Great, thank you, all right, thanks Britta Horn.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
That's the Colorado chairperson of the Colorado GOP.
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