Fighting for Conservative Principles in Colorado | Ron Hanks, Candidate for Congress CO 3rd District

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[00:00:25] Jenny Beth Martin is the co-founder of Tea Party Patriots. She is an author, a

[00:00:30] filmmaker, and one of Time magazine's most influential people in the world. But

[00:00:35] the title she is most proud of is Mom to Her Boy Girl Twins. She has been at

[00:00:40] the forefront fighting to protect America's core principles for more than

[00:00:44] a decade. Welcome to The Jenny Beth Show. Today Ron Hanks is joining us. He

[00:00:50] is running for Colorado's third congressional district seat, and I am

[00:00:56] looking forward to the conversation with him to learn about why he's running for

[00:00:59] Congress and what he intends to do if he is elected. Ron, thanks so much for

[00:01:03] joining me today. Well good morning Jenny Beth. Thank you for the invite. I

[00:01:07] appreciate it very much. Why are you running for Congress? It is such a

[00:01:13] swamp in Washington DC. I think that people who step up and run are to be

[00:01:19] admired and also to be questioned a little bit about their sanity. Examined

[00:01:23] heavily, yes. I believe you're right. The reason I'm running as you probably

[00:01:28] know, Lauren Boebert shifted from CD3 to CD4 and so as soon as that

[00:01:36] happened I started getting phone calls and they said Hanks we need to keep

[00:01:40] this conservative seat. None of the other people in the race are

[00:01:45] conservative. None of them have a record. I was in the state house here so people

[00:01:50] know I do have a conservative record and they finally they asked would you

[00:01:55] do this? And it's hard to say no as you know Jenny Beth to anybody who's

[00:01:59] in the fight and I thought of Donald Trump he doesn't have to be in

[00:02:04] this fight and yet he continues and I feel he needs a conservative

[00:02:09] Congress that doesn't sandbag him like Paul Ryan or Kevin McCarthy would

[00:02:13] have. So really the mission to me is to hold this seat conservative, find more

[00:02:21] conservatives like the Freedom Caucus types, let's get a speaker that puts

[00:02:26] the Make America Great agenda on the calendar in the legislature. So what are

[00:02:33] your top issues and well first what are your core values? What are the

[00:02:38] values that that you think are important that motivate you to run and

[00:02:43] then let's talk about issues underneath those values. Yeah I appreciate that. You

[00:02:47] know I joined the military right out of high school in 1984 and Ronald Reagan

[00:02:53] was my first commander-in-chief and I retired in November of 2017 so Donald

[00:03:00] Trump was my last commander-in-chief and my values were all built and

[00:03:04] established really before I joined the service through talking around the

[00:03:09] dinner table with parents and grandparents but you know it's always

[00:03:14] been a service to the nation. It was a blessing to serve in the Air Force for

[00:03:20] 32 years and everything that we accomplished. That's the reason I'm

[00:03:26] doing this run, that's the reason I ran for state house and served two

[00:03:31] years was it's an extension of military service and you know Joe

[00:03:36] Biden's put us in a ditch with this open border and as a military intel guy I

[00:03:42] am very concerned that we have terrorist events in our future based off

[00:03:49] of the people that have slipped across the border so border is absolutely the

[00:03:54] first and foremost concern of mine and the district and frankly all

[00:03:59] Americans. Next I would say energy, we have to get American energy

[00:04:04] dominance back and very briefly Jenny Beth when I wasn't working for the Air

[00:04:09] Force I did some fracking up in North Dakota so I have a good sense of the

[00:04:14] energy industry from that perspective and I know blue-collar America can

[00:04:19] bring us back. When Donald Trump gets the White House we can restart that

[00:04:24] Keystone pipeline and start building back our petroleum reserves that as

[00:04:30] you know Joe Biden has drained for political gain and so energy and then

[00:04:36] bring an American manufacturing back things that never should have left

[00:04:40] this continent in the first place should be back here in America.

[00:04:46] Lastly it's agriculture and food supply I see that as a national

[00:04:50] security issue and the water ends up being a big deal out here in Colorado.

[00:04:58] That is something that I don't hear very often from candidates that

[00:05:03] agriculture and food supply are such important issues. Why is that an

[00:05:07] important issue for you? Well I mean look at what we saw since

[00:05:12] COVID with eggs going up to nine bucks a dozen and then all of the

[00:05:18] chicken processing plants burning up and we're sending live hogs to

[00:05:24] China for processing to bring back and that is just a choke point for

[00:05:31] starvation and for at least supply line shortages so I think we've done

[00:05:36] some rather short-sighted things to our food supply and we have to be

[00:05:43] thinking about that given the what's the old adage you're three meals

[00:05:49] away from a revolution it might be six meals but we can nitpick the number

[00:05:55] but we have to keep that constant and even with COVID which was I think

[00:06:00] a plandemic it was impressive and concerning how much our supply

[00:06:08] chain could be influenced by the masks and by the transportation

[00:06:14] blockages and so forth. You mentioned that you did fracking in North Dakota

[00:06:20] was that after you finished the military and before you were a state

[00:06:23] rep or sometime in between before? It was in the about 2013-2014

[00:06:30] time frame I was in the Air Force for 32 years I started off as an

[00:06:36] Arabic linguist and that was all active duty at some point I went and

[00:06:41] went into the reserve and then I commissioned when 9-11 hit given my

[00:06:48] Arabic language background I was fairly sought after and busy but I would

[00:06:55] deploy take orders for nine months to a year and then come back there was

[00:07:01] a period of time where I had an open space and I wanted to experience this

[00:07:08] gold rush of our generation you know it's kind of like the Klondike and the

[00:07:14] Alaska gold rush well it turns out I was probably a generation or two behind

[00:07:19] on my effort and the Air Force called and said Hanks we have a job

[00:07:24] for you in Kazakhstan doing counter drug would you like to do it and I

[00:07:28] said that's about minus 40 at the time working out there hammering iron

[00:07:34] I said yes I believe I would so but the point is I kind of come in and out of

[00:07:39] the Air Force as they had work available. Now why were you an Arabic

[00:07:47] linguist in 1984 before 9-11 happened that seems like you had a lot of

[00:07:56] foresight or maybe some family or how did you become that specialized?

[00:08:01] Well you know I enlisted and I took the aptitude tests and they said I had a

[00:08:08] linguistic ability and after that I was hoping for Russian because obviously

[00:08:13] that was the contest of the of the era but needs of the Air Force we all

[00:08:23] learned that phrase I think probably on our second day in basic training

[00:08:27] needs of the Air Force come first they needed Arabic and I was disappointed

[00:08:32] initially but I mean it has really been a blessing in so many ways that my

[00:08:39] understanding of the Middle East is pretty solid given you know the

[00:08:43] time frame of working from Morocco to Iraq and the the Saudi Peninsula as

[00:08:50] well so I mean I've got a good breadth of knowledge of that and of

[00:08:54] course the things going on in Israel with Hamas and Hezbollah and such.

[00:09:00] And elaborate on that what do you think about the situation in Israel from the

[00:09:05] terrorist group Hamas? Well you know Iran is behind most of this all of

[00:09:12] this and I think the world has been incredibly patient Jenny Beth on the

[00:09:17] whole thing of this Islamic Republic of Iran and frankly the 7th of October I

[00:09:25] think should have worn everybody's patience out and I think I think regime

[00:09:30] change is in order in Iran. We've put up with this for four decades now.

[00:09:37] What are we coming up on? Nearly 50 years of this and you know if they

[00:09:43] weren't there and I'm firmly believe the majority of the Iranian people do

[00:09:48] not want to live under this Islamic Revolution and Republic. If they

[00:09:55] weren't there anymore I think we could have a much more peaceful world when

[00:09:59] Donald Trump gets back into office I think those Abraham Accords could

[00:10:04] could really start rolling again and regain the momentum and that's

[00:10:09] certainly what Iran does not want to see happen under this Islamic Republic

[00:10:14] and I think there need to be discussions if not out in the open

[00:10:19] among western governments about how much longer Iran should stand and be

[00:10:26] able to support this kind of just disgusting terrorism. I mean this is

[00:10:32] this was gruesome. Now talking about the world stage

[00:10:41] we talked about Iran what do you think about the threats from China?

[00:10:47] I'm very concerned. Beyond our food supply. Yeah. Beyond our food supply. Well they've got us

[00:10:52] you know six ways to sunday there with their ability to block trade the way that they can

[00:10:59] infiltrate our equipment and I would go straight to our election machines.

[00:11:06] The laptops are made in China communist China by Chinese workers. I mean that's a problem

[00:11:14] and it's a long discussion. Also our transformers a good number of our high

[00:11:20] percentage of our electrical transformers come from China and we had one that came into

[00:11:26] Colorado that took five years to get it. That's about the waiting list now and it had a little

[00:11:31] blister box on it that they didn't recognize and it's been told to me that they had it

[00:11:38] inspected and it was an add-on a kill switch. I don't know the specifics of whether it was

[00:11:48] cyber where they could kick in and monitor this or what but the bottom line is you know

[00:11:54] we are setting ourselves up to be ruined with our simply through our trade with China

[00:12:01] and then look at all of the Chinese military age males coming across the border.

[00:12:07] The fentanyl coming across it's killing people if we start having 9 11 events my biggest concern

[00:12:14] is we're going to have food poisonings of fentanyl sort of like the we saw up in well

[00:12:22] a better example probably is Chicago the Tylenol scare back in the 80s with the cyanide in the

[00:12:29] Tylenol and then there's been efforts for salmonella and so forth by the Raj Nish

[00:12:36] sect up in Oregon. Those are the types of things I look at and I think we're being

[00:12:42] set up that that could happen at a time of the enemy's choosing and this is all on Joe

[00:12:48] Biden's desk. He's a traitor to me and the article three section three aid and comfort

[00:12:55] to the enemy and he's provided it. He's let them in he's given people that have crossed

[00:13:01] he's given them safe passage money transportation and that's aid and abetting the enemy.

[00:13:09] And then you mentioned the military age people from China coming into the country and you

[00:13:15] talked about the border briefly elaborate on what you think are the problems regarding the

[00:13:21] border and what do you envision the solutions being? Yeah the problems I've been monitoring

[00:13:26] this since I retired from the military at the end of 2017. I've made three separate trips all

[00:13:33] at my own expense driving the roads and talking with the guards it's a big difference

[00:13:38] between now and six years ago when I first started doing this but initially in 2018 they

[00:13:46] were building the wall and the agents were very talkative you could roll the window down

[00:13:51] put your elbow out and talk between the vehicles as you're driving the easement road.

[00:13:56] When I went back in 2021 I was down in Arizona to do the Maricopa audit and to look

[00:14:02] at it and then we brought help on our second trip. I went to the border totally different the

[00:14:09] agents didn't want to talk to you they'd tell you go take all of your questions back to the

[00:14:13] field office to the press representative. This can be fixed Jenny Beth with the stroke of a pen

[00:14:21] and that's why it's imperative to get Donald Trump in the White House he can change policy

[00:14:26] and say we're closing them where they'll remain in Mexico is back and forth agents are now

[00:14:32] empowered and directed to stop immigrants and retain them and then from a legislator's

[00:14:41] perspective what needs to be done after that is look we had all that material on site

[00:14:47] ready to put up and it's gone now so thanks Joe Biden now we get to go replace that but

[00:14:55] let's pay for it let's build it and let's go if somehow we can put 60 billion 200 billion

[00:15:02] towards Ukraine we can surely finish the remaining mileage on our southern border.

[00:15:08] We also need to look at our northern borders and our coasts we got to beef those up as well.

[00:15:14] Absolutely so you mentioned those issues of border energy independence we talked about the

[00:15:22] world stage what are other issues that are important to you and that you are hearing

[00:15:30] when you're talking to voters as you're working to persuade voters? Yeah it is certainly if I

[00:15:37] had four pillars of concern and they're all national security it is border it is energy

[00:15:43] it is manufacturing and it is ag and food supply but as far as good governance

[00:15:51] people want this government under control and you know we haven't had a budget process that's

[00:15:58] worked since 2007 and I think that may be a little bit of a nebulous budgeting process too.

[00:16:06] Look I think we ought to audit the federal reserve right off the top I am fully on board

[00:16:12] with that and then I think we need to have budgets for every executive branch department

[00:16:20] separately not an omnibus spending bill that just throws things in we ought to go from A to Z

[00:16:27] Department of Agriculture, Department of Interior, Department of Veterans Affairs all the way to the

[00:16:31] end of the list and while we're at it we could get rid of a couple of those executive

[00:16:37] branches or blend a couple together let's get rid of Department of Education. One important

[00:16:42] distinction Jenny Beth is I hear people say the money should go back to the states

[00:16:47] I would say no it needs to go back to the people it needs to either be retained by or

[00:16:53] returned to the people because I've been in the state legislature and they'd love to have

[00:16:59] the billions just do a u-turn and come back to their their coffers we we got to make sure

[00:17:06] it stays in the parents hands and pockets because this government's too expensive we

[00:17:12] can't afford it we don't even know what it's spending our money to do.

[00:17:18] You're right about that we're spending so much money and it is absolutely out of control

[00:17:25] and when COVID happened and the numbers increased I think that we're we've come down

[00:17:33] a little but we're definitely not below COVID we're not at the numbers that we were at in 2019

[00:17:39] and we're never gonna I don't want to say we're never going to be there again but it's

[00:17:43] going to take a lot of hard work to rein this government back in and to quit spending

[00:17:49] so much money it's just I think it is obscene how much money our government spends.

[00:17:56] It is and I think we got one shot at it I and I see this as the two phases of victory we have

[00:18:05] to get Donald Trump back in office and then that's good but he has to have a congress

[00:18:12] that doesn't try to run out the clock on him and this is going to be an important four years

[00:18:18] for Trump because it's also his last four we're going to have a process of trying to figure

[00:18:24] out who succeeds him in the Republican leadership role in by 2028 so we have to get Trump in we

[00:18:34] have to get a conservative congress it's not conservative enough we have people that quit on

[00:18:39] us like Ken Buck and Mike Gallagher and of course Kevin McCarthy in December of 23 these

[00:18:46] are not the people we're looking for this old tired establishment carriage is worn out and

[00:18:55] we need a Gideon's army of about 300 conservative Republicans very interesting point here in

[00:19:01] Colorado we don't all of the Republicans have left their district so Doug Lamborn retired

[00:19:11] Ken Buck quit Lauren Boebert shifted so she's an incumbent but kind of you know work in a new

[00:19:18] territory but she's conservative we have a shot at three very solid conservative

[00:19:24] districts in Colorado wouldn't it be nice if we put all pro-Trump people in there there's

[00:19:29] a possibility of a fourth as well but I would like to change the complexion of the

[00:19:35] perception of Colorado as having gone so far to the left we could certainly do that if we have

[00:19:41] three or four pro-Trump Republicans representing the state of Colorado.

[00:19:49] Okay and I want to elaborate on Colorado I do want to say one thing Ken Buck and Mike Gallagher

[00:19:54] quitting I think are much different than um Kevin McCarthy once he was no longer speaker

[00:20:01] I think that at that point it I just I don't want to I don't think you should pour salt

[00:20:09] in somebody's wound and he was wounded at that that point figuratively speaking but also more

[00:20:15] importantly we you can't have two heads of a single house and so stepping aside so that

[00:20:21] Mike Johnson could be the speaker without McCarthy being in there day to day which is

[00:20:27] similar to what happened when Boehner wound up resigning I think that that is the right

[00:20:35] the right way to handle things I would imagine that if he was still in the conference it

[00:20:40] it would create an even more dysfunctional Republican conference than what we have right

[00:20:45] now. You may be very well right on that but the concern I have is just the numbers and

[00:20:52] gap you know yeah and that is absolutely I understand what you're talking about with

[00:20:58] that completely understand with that and in his district was was a safe district so

[00:21:03] I just sort of I don't when I think about when I keep tapping that I apologize

[00:21:08] tapping the microphone there but um when I think about um the ones who quit I think it's

[00:21:16] much different when you're looking at what Ken Buck or Mike Gallagher did not finishing

[00:21:20] out their term than then McCarthy who was forcibly removed as speaker figuratively speaking

[00:21:28] forcibly. Okay now um going back to Colorado you've got the opportunity to have more

[00:21:35] conservative members of Congress what Colorado sure seems deep deep blue so what do you what

[00:21:44] do you what kind of encouragement can you give to people who are not just not from

[00:21:49] Colorado but from other states about how you can have conservative representation and

[00:21:56] and it's not maybe it's not as deep blue as we think or maybe it is but there's still some

[00:22:00] bright red hopes. Well you know Denver rules the roost just due to size and mass there um

[00:22:08] but the outline in your district is massive right I mean you're one congressional district

[00:22:15] and describe your district for the people listening. Yeah it is big it's uh 27 counties

[00:22:23] and it touches the northwest corner whereas square state and it touches the northwest

[00:22:28] corner the southwest corner and it is 50 miles from touching the southeast corner so I've

[00:22:36] in the course of my travels I just about see all three of them uh 27 counties much of it

[00:22:44] is west of the continental divide the western slope so called and but there's a lot there's all

[00:22:51] of southern Colorado there as well so water ends up being a big deal because we've got water

[00:22:56] flowing east west and south and uh you know we've got all kinds of issues and we're the

[00:23:02] point of origin of water uh for all the downstream so that's another big issue that's

[00:23:08] going to be on the radar. One of the most important things for people of Colorado is that

[00:23:15] you know we own the water as it's here and we need to not give up our rights to a federal

[00:23:20] government that is working to land grab uh with this 30 by 30 agenda and all these

[00:23:27] monuments that are coming up uh where the Dolores monument on the western side

[00:23:34] they are trying to lock up grazing land but also uranium and vanadium mining areas that's our

[00:23:41] the majority of our uh uranium and vanadium comes from that area it's all land grabs

[00:23:47] and so that's what we're trying to fight in a district this big they're trying to grab it from

[00:23:52] all over. Um I want you to go back to Colorado in just a second but hold on yes ma'am it's

[00:24:01] you're talking about things that make a lot of sense to the people who live out west

[00:24:05] but the people who live in the east coast don't quite understand these things when you talk about

[00:24:10] a monument you're not talking about a statue in the middle of a park you're actually talking

[00:24:14] about basically um it's almost a national park right it's not designated as a park but it's

[00:24:22] it is treated very similarly to what a national park is treated it when you're talking about

[00:24:28] the monument like that right? Yes and I appreciate you making that distinction and uh

[00:24:34] clarity for folks uh yeah national monument uh in this case they don't know how much they want

[00:24:40] they just know they want to grab it and the they I'm referring to is the federal government

[00:24:47] and frankly the globalist uh whole purpose of this um the you know the the world agenda

[00:24:56] uh Dolores monument is somewhere in the neighborhood of 600,000 to 1.4 million acres

[00:25:05] we've got grassland out of the district I was just looking at old maps where they're trying

[00:25:09] to add another 600,000 acres of grassland down in the San Luis Valley which touches

[00:25:16] uh the Rio Grande goes through and it touches New Mexico they're looking at some kind of a

[00:25:23] land grab but they don't even know what they want it whether it's a conservation area whether it's

[00:25:28] a national wildlife you know they've got all these different terminologies for it

[00:25:33] and what they do is they come in with this grandiose non-governmental organization that has

[00:25:39] shiny signs and sign up sheets and you know how great they're going to be for the community

[00:25:46] and oh your place looks torn down and worn out but if we make this a monument uh it will thrive

[00:25:54] and uh people aren't buying it but I can tell you from the outside looking in it with all

[00:26:01] the shiny pamphlets it looks compelling but the fact is it makes grazing harder it makes

[00:26:09] hunting harder it makes recreation harder and uh you know nobody can make a gate like the US

[00:26:16] government they can decide that they want to close a road and they'll have a cast iron

[00:26:24] gate that you can't cut the lock shoot the lock even if it's your mining claim for instance

[00:26:29] you can't get to it because they're they build them right that's our federal government

[00:26:34] now it isn't um land of many uses and for the people it's lock it up and watch it burn or

[00:26:43] keep it under our controls so nobody else can use it except those we deem worthy and frankly

[00:26:50] the problem we have is the people they deem worthy ain't us you know it's a bigger global

[00:26:56] scheme so okay now going back because I completely interrupted you were talking about

[00:27:03] Colorado and you said that Denver controls most of Colorado so keep going I'm just trying to

[00:27:09] refresh your memory there yes ma'am just by population and politics uh you know it's it's

[00:27:15] left it's gotten more left I think as the tech boom came in that seems to be kind of the

[00:27:20] precursor for big change um but but the other districts uh outside of that the rural areas are

[00:27:29] still very rural we have several counties in this state that have under a thousand people

[00:27:35] living in them they are considered frontier uh counties and uh you know those remain conservative

[00:27:43] because there's the traditional way of life of farming and ranching and of course the

[00:27:50] the hunting in Colorado is first class um you know that there's as we this country progresses

[00:27:58] there's fewer and fewer hunters but uh you know as a land management process the hunting is has

[00:28:04] been a very effective way to maintain the balance of in nature so um yeah it's very conservative

[00:28:13] and so I think people should take a little bit of heart and I think this is going to be a

[00:28:19] watershed election uh Jenny Beth I I firmly believe as a military intel guy that's done a

[00:28:26] lot of analysis and briefing uh this one feels like our last election in the sense that

[00:28:33] this government doesn't feel like it's serving the people I don't even think it's by the people

[00:28:39] I think this is really a a face card for a puppet uh and the this regime is a purely

[00:28:49] a the face of a much larger globalist effort and whether you believe that or not we can at least

[00:28:57] agree that uh it's not serving the interests of the people and it needs to be replaced

[00:29:03] if we don't replace it in this election I think they have the ability to uh suspend all of them

[00:29:09] in the future you know I guess a final point I'd make is it's funny how many foreign nationals

[00:29:16] I've met you know that used to live under communism have come to this country become

[00:29:21] American citizens and say what's happening to this country I saw this in Poland when I left

[00:29:28] communist Poland or you know any place else and they know better probably than the average

[00:29:37] uh American-born citizen the steps and the processes I think we're seeing them right now

[00:29:42] yeah I think that we this election is pivotal I don't I don't think that we won't have elections

[00:29:52] again I I think we still will have elections again but I think that the next four and a half

[00:29:58] years in our country we've got massive just real issues that if we don't get a handle of

[00:30:05] them and we don't get the right solutions in place now we're going to be suffering the

[00:30:09] consequences of them for years and years and years to come in ways we can't even imagine

[00:30:16] and I think that what you're talking about with people who've been who are here in America and

[00:30:21] they escaped from communism or socialism they understand where we're headed communist countries

[00:30:28] socialist countries they don't thrive the same way that America has thrived in the past and we

[00:30:34] have to make sure that we are thriving and that each American family has the opportunity to do so

[00:30:40] as well yeah I totally agree with you and I think the we may have elections you may be right

[00:30:50] about that but they're going to look like Venezuela's or some uh you know Arab chic them

[00:30:57] where it's uh hey we win 98 to two again you know it's uh those are and I think we've we've

[00:31:04] got to get our elections fixed because both sides of the aisle uh Republican Democrat have concerns

[00:31:10] about it and that's the one way to walk ourselves back from a civil war is for all of us to have

[00:31:17] confidence in our election results yeah that's exactly right and I think that um we're we're

[00:31:24] recording this in the last week in May I think that um I read over the weekend that

[00:31:28] Hillary Clinton was out again saying that if Trump was elected we would have no chance

[00:31:32] of having more elections in this country so you have both sides of the aisle saying something that

[00:31:38] is devastating if it were to happen but the fact of the matter is whether Democrats want to

[00:31:46] admit it or not before 2020 if they you know they want to pretend like this didn't happen

[00:31:51] whatever but before 2020 they had problems and they had doubts in the outcome of elections

[00:31:57] Republicans now have problems and doubts in the outcome of elections and we have to restore that

[00:32:03] faith in the outcome of the election regardless of who wins I mean I care about who wins but

[00:32:08] we have to restore that faith in order to maintain stability and to maintain the peaceful

[00:32:14] transfer of power in our country and for it to be a country um with the consent of the

[00:32:20] governed we we have to to restore that faith because if we don't have it we're not

[00:32:26] we can't trust that the people who are governing us actually have our consent and it's a real

[00:32:31] problem that must be addressed yeah I completely agree and when I was elected in 2020 I believe

[00:32:38] Donald Trump was also elected but that uh turned out differently um it became my focus I did not

[00:32:46] know I would be focusing on election integrity but we are in a problem right now with what we

[00:32:52] have and it is it has to have both a state solution and a federal solution but bottom line

[00:32:59] I think we need to zero out our voter rolls and start over they're over inflated judicial

[00:33:04] watch has proven that they had a settlement even here in Colorado to because we have

[00:33:09] more eligible voters than actual residents in some some counties um but we need to get rid of

[00:33:17] the the old voter rolls start over use photo ids and now after this border incursion

[00:33:25] Jenny Beth I believe we're going to need to show proof of citizenship and uh I think that's

[00:33:30] going to be huge and and let's get rid of mail-in ballots we went from 30 mail-in pre-covid

[00:33:38] to over 70 post-covid there's a no chain of custody in that process and uh you know there's

[00:33:46] just a dozen issues with our elections that ought to be what the common American would agree

[00:33:52] to even if the parties want to sit here and throw knives at each other this is where the

[00:33:57] American people can really transcend political parties in my opinion that is absolutely correct

[00:34:05] and we you are right we need proof of citizenship I would say you need the proof

[00:34:09] of citizenship to register to vote um and then and then just proof of proof of voter id to vote

[00:34:18] and I I see that because most people aren't going to be going to vote with their with

[00:34:23] their passport or their driver I mean not their driver's license but their birth certificate

[00:34:27] so but they carry around their driver's license all the time so proof of citizenship

[00:34:32] to register to vote and then once you're registered voter voter id and I um was at

[00:34:38] the press conference several weeks ago with speaker Mike Johnson and congressman Chip Roy

[00:34:43] and Senator Mike Lee rolling out the SAVE Act which is Safeguarding America's uh voter

[00:34:50] eligibility act and I think it's just critical that we do that but it's not just me who

[00:34:56] thinks it's critical to do this 86 percent of Americans agree on this issue 86 percent including

[00:35:03] over 80 percent of Democrats this is a cross cross-party issue it's it's by part it's not

[00:35:11] even bipartisan it's just an American issue and Americans understand that right yeah it's

[00:35:17] interesting isn't it to see in 2020 all the um role changes where the Democrats who Kamala

[00:35:25] Harris included in 2016 there's testimony or video of her in the Senate talking about

[00:35:32] these election systems being hacked uh and then in 2020 when they win it's the most secure in

[00:35:39] history and that's a lie it's an absolute lie but uh it's served their political purpose and

[00:35:46] I think once the American people understand that the parties aren't going to work this as well

[00:35:53] as the citizens do then I think we we can uh we can advance the cause of pure and honest elections

[00:36:04] absolutely so I have two more questions for you the first one is this what would be the first

[00:36:09] thing you do or for a series of things that you would do when you get to Washington if

[00:36:14] you're elected okay it all comes down to electing a conservative speaker because we have

[00:36:22] to find the man or woman that will take on that role that will schedule this uh

[00:36:30] make America great agenda and uh we'll start passing budgets for the each individual department

[00:36:39] we'll talk we're going to have to work with Trump uh President Trump very quickly to figure

[00:36:45] out which departments we can eliminate downsize freeze hold in place whatever but those would be

[00:36:53] the things let's get a speaker in there and then let's start working budgets one thing I'd

[00:36:58] like to see on our budgeting process and frankly the legislative process is one issue per

[00:37:04] bill and with a citizen summary page and an expiration date on every single bill this Congress

[00:37:12] in my estimation ought to be spending as much or more time determining whether old bills need

[00:37:20] to be renewed or rejected that should become the schedule not all this new legislation

[00:37:27] that everybody wants to put their name on and a beautiful funny acronym and all that

[00:37:31] let's get this government smaller we don't even know what it spends right now so

[00:37:37] this Congress should be spending time tearing it down figuring out where all this money went to

[00:37:46] those are very good things to work on and I'm glad that that is what you would be working on

[00:37:50] all right the very last question is this who is your favorite founding father

[00:37:56] well I guess it's always Jefferson because uh been to Monticello a few times and uh I

[00:38:02] appreciate uh God what a what a breadth of knowledge and interest he had and I

[00:38:10] and what a writer so I guess it would be him but you know uh we were just talking about

[00:38:16] John Adams interaction with Thomas Jefferson last night and wondering why there was any

[00:38:23] friction you know we're looking at uh in some ways I feel like the people that we're dealing

[00:38:28] with now are refounding this nation and you know now we know firsthand kind of the interplay

[00:38:35] and interrelational uh issues but you wonder why those great men back 250 years ago had any

[00:38:45] kind of interpersonal problems because they're all so monumental you know yes that is true but

[00:38:53] they also are are men yeah and we understand the nature of of men and sometimes that is to

[00:39:00] bicker among ourselves about things that later don't even seem very important yeah true very

[00:39:05] true um well thank you so much for joining us now if people want to get in follow your

[00:39:12] campaign get involved where should they go how can they learn a little bit more about you

[00:39:16] sure I'd be grateful if they did uh best place to find anything out about me is

[00:39:22] hanksforcolorado.com and it's hanks for colorado.com um I put up a lot of reports like a

[00:39:33] terror report of my assessment as a military guy about the threats were under taking you

[00:39:40] know data from other experts I've gone to the border I've written reports on it there's a

[00:39:46] lot of material on there that kind of a little bit larger than the average campaign and I'd invite

[00:39:53] people to take a look at that and uh I'm grateful for the time on your show and grateful

[00:39:57] for the things that you've done I think we've crossed paths a few times I'm not sure our

[00:40:02] paths ever bumped but we were within a few feet of each other so it's good to have the

[00:40:07] time on here and thank you for it well thank you so much thanks for stepping up to

[00:40:12] run I wish you luck and I hope that everyone goes and checks out your website at hanksforcolorado.com

[00:40:19] thanks so much for joining me today Ron thank you ma'am thank you very much the Jenny Beth

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