Reclaiming America: Immigration, Spending, and Government Reform | Dave Williams, Chairman CO GOP

[00:00:00] We have $35 trillion in that we have a hundred plus trillion dollars on funded liabilities.

[00:00:05] This is unsustainable and the politicians know it, but they don't care because right now

[00:00:11] them and their buddies are the ones benefiting off your backs.

[00:00:14] And if we're going to get serious about saving the Republic then we really got to get a handle on that

[00:00:20] and start kicking out these bombs.

[00:00:22] Keeping our Republic is online and it requires patriots with great passion, dedication, and eternal vigilance

[00:00:29] to preserve our freedoms.

[00:00:31] Jenny Beth Martin is the co-founder of Tea Party Patriots.

[00:00:34] She's an author, a filmmaker, and one of time magazines most influential people in the world.

[00:00:40] But the title she is most proud of is Ma, to her boy girl twins.

[00:00:45] She has been at the forefront, fighting to protect America's core principles for more than a decade.

[00:00:51] Welcome to the Jenny Beth Show.

[00:00:53] Today, the Colorado Republican Party Chairman Dave Williams is joining us.

[00:00:58] He is running for Congress from Colorado's fifth congressional district.

[00:01:02] Dave, thanks so much for joining us today.

[00:01:04] Thank you for having me, Jenny Beth.

[00:01:06] So you're running for Congress. Why are you stepping up to run for Congress?

[00:01:11] It is a swamp in Washington, DC. Why do you want to go there?

[00:01:14] Yeah, it's not something I necessarily look forward to but it's something that needs to be done.

[00:01:19] Like many of your listeners and viewers, I'm a pissed off Republican.

[00:01:22] I'm tired of the hypocrites in our party, both parties,

[00:01:26] but especially the Republican Party where they say one thing,

[00:01:29] but then they do another when they think no one's looking or paying attention.

[00:01:33] There is a very real uniparty.

[00:01:35] Washington DC is broke and it's not just a cliche, it's not just a catchphrase by some of the champion Patriots that are in DC right now.

[00:01:43] It's absolutely true.

[00:01:45] If we don't step up and start putting good people in there with integrity,

[00:01:49] we're going to fight for limited government, the Constitution.

[00:01:53] And of course, the American first policies that we need to get this country back on track.

[00:01:58] Then we're going to continue to lose.

[00:02:00] One great race to look at is what happened in Texas yesterday between Tony Gonzalez and Brandon Herrera.

[00:02:06] Razor thin margin right there.

[00:02:09] The Brandon Herrera almost pulled it out by less than 500 votes.

[00:02:13] Imagine if a little bit more resources came in.

[00:02:17] Imagine if we had more Patriots piling in, we could have completely flipped that district and had someone who was actually going to fight for the American people rather than the special interests.

[00:02:27] That's why I'm running because if I don't run, if other Patriots don't run then we're going to continue to be controlled by the swamp.

[00:02:33] So when you see Uniparty, what do you mean?

[00:02:37] And also sometimes people talk about rhinos, when you hear that, what do you think that means?

[00:02:43] For sure. The Uniparty is simply the controlling class of politicians in Washington DC, whether they're Republican or Democrat, they're two sides of the same claim.

[00:02:53] And that's the problem that we're facing right now in this country is we have folks that are interested in keeping the status quo.

[00:03:00] And so when someone says rhino for instance, Republican and A-mail only, they don't care about limiting government.

[00:03:06] What they care about is feathering their own nest. What they care about is play cating to the special interests and letting them take more of your money and more of your freedom.

[00:03:15] It's it's it's crazy to think that congressman for example can enrich themselves by helping those who are continually destroying our country.

[00:03:24] If you don't believe me, just look at what the globalists are trying to do, especially when it comes to immigration.

[00:03:29] That's a big deal. Perfect example of the Uniparty. You have you have an establishment class in the Republican party that wants to allow for unchecked immigration.

[00:03:38] They want to allow for open borders because they want cheap labor coming into this country and then on the same are in the opposite side, you have Democrats who want a new voting class.

[00:03:48] So that's why nothing gets done on immigration because you have two political parties, at least the establishment, at the establishment leadership level who encourage this stuff because it helps whatever their agenda may be which isn't a good one for the American people.

[00:04:01] No, it is not a good one for the American people at all. When it comes to immigration, what would you like to see happen?

[00:04:09] Well, I mean we look we need to strengthen that we need to strengthen the border, we need to secure it, we need to we need to increase law enforcement and immigration enforcement.

[00:04:20] We need to deport the illegals that we have here now and we certainly need to define sanctuary cities, but I'd go a step further on two other solution points.

[00:04:29] We start prosecuting the sanctuary city politicians who create these policies that attract criminals into our country.

[00:04:36] So it's not just that we're defending sanctuary cities, but we're allowing victims of illegal immigration to actually sue those politicians or request for some sort of criminal prosecution.

[00:04:50] Step one, step two is we need to stop the money flow that illegals do end up in other countries that their home country's rather.

[00:05:02] And what I mean by that is many of the illegal aliens that come here they come here for work and they send the money back to their home country for their family or friends or whatever.

[00:05:11] Best thing we can do is require proof of citizenship or legal residency before you can actually send that money back to your origin or your country of origin.

[00:05:22] The biggest perpetrator this is Wells Fargo, but there are other institutions that will allow for that type of behavior.

[00:05:30] Stop the money flow and you'll see a decrease in people wanting to come here because they can't actually benefit from the from the broken economy that we're facing.

[00:05:41] That's interesting I haven't heard that particular take or very often haven't heard that about stopping the money flow back back out.

[00:05:51] What are other issues that are concerning you when you mentioned limited government and America first what are what are the issues under under those broad.

[00:06:03] Sure, it's a great question aside from immigration which is our number one issue we have a real problem with government spending and and that's causing the inflation we're saying now people can't pay their mortgage they can't make ends meet.

[00:06:17] And in these are good people that play by the rules and just want to do right by their family and their community but they're getting a raw deal from from the government.

[00:06:27] The best thing we can do is cut the size and scope of government and unleash free enterprise by stopping stopping the out of control spending but also cutting down on the burden some regulations that's stifle on a patient and stopping the chronic apple is in that occurs in this country there are so many corporations.

[00:06:46] That use government to block out competition to block out anyone from being able to get ahead so that they can maintain their monopolies and that's just not.

[00:06:58] Not the thing we should be doing we should be creating a system that is is shared everyone and allows for people to rise or fall based on their own efforts.

[00:07:11] When it comes to government I'm cutting government spending or cutting taxes what do you think is more important and why.

[00:07:20] Well, I mean you got to do both you really it's it's yeah we can't you can't do one without the other because if you if you cut taxes.

[00:07:29] But you keep the spending going then you you're just simply causing more inflation you're you're printing money to keep up with your spending habits and that's not that's not good because it's ultimately a hidden tax.

[00:07:41] Any time the government creates more dollars it weakens your purchasing power so you can't do that.

[00:07:48] And if you if you don't cut the spending but you keep the tax on level where it is then you're going to have a surplus that doesn't benefit the American people and more likely than not the bureaucrats and elected officials are still going to spend it anyway.

[00:08:01] So they really go hand in hand.

[00:08:03] We have 35 trillion dollars in that we have a hundred plus trillion dollars on funded liabilities.

[00:08:09] And this is unsustainable and the politicians know it but they don't care because right now them and their buddies are the ones benefiting off your backs what really bugs me.

[00:08:20] Is that we have politicians that are more interested in the trust funds of these corporate millionaire and billionaires instead of your kids college.

[00:08:28] We can't have that type of leadership and that's why I'm running and if and if we're going to get serious about saving the republic.

[00:08:35] Then we really got to get a handle on that and start kicking out these bombs everyone seems to be okay with their congressmen but when you step back and look at the collective group of those politicians no one's happy with it.

[00:08:51] Congress has historic levels of low trust and there's a reason for it so.

[00:08:58] You know your listeners and your viewers have to start paying attention at their individual congressmen and ask the simple question are they a part of the problem and chances are they very are likely a part of that problem.

[00:09:09] Yeah and oftentimes you just mentioned that people are okay with their own congressmen but they're upset with the problems as a whole.

[00:09:17] Well a lot of times what happens is they stack these votes to a congressman can.

[00:09:23] Can vote the way his constituent wants 95% of the time and then 5% of the time he's not but then he can go back or maybe it's 80% and say well I'm with you 80% of the time that that's more than what you could get with just about anybody else.

[00:09:41] And the the it's just so frustrating it's one of the things that I've learned.

[00:09:48] Over the years especially when there's a larger margin than what we're dealing with right now in congress then.

[00:09:54] Some will take a hit on a vote and be off with their constituents on certain votes and then other times.

[00:10:02] It'll be a different group of people who are doing that so it's how they kind of work together as a uniparty and bills get passed and they just sort of take turns with taking the vote that their constituents wouldn't want so it appears that they're okay with their constituents and then they wind up getting reelected it's.

[00:10:20] It's almost like a game it seems to me too many people who are in congress.

[00:10:25] Rather than looking out for what is best for their constituents all the time.

[00:10:31] Yeah, look that's a real problem it really is these guys work together to provide political cover for each other and you know it's it's not just in congress it's also your political parties right I'm sort of an anomaly because I'm chairman of the Colorado Republican Party.

[00:10:46] But I'm not a normal I'm not your normal political party chairman.

[00:10:52] I made it my mission to ensure that the party no longer be used as some sort of political cover or organization that carried water for failing politician.

[00:11:02] You know, the problem even goes a little bit deeper than that.

[00:11:08] I have a real soft spot for constituents and voters who just don't know any better you know they're getting tricked they're getting fooled by these politicians mainly because they can afford to necessarily pay attention because they're working the raising families.

[00:11:22] They're trying to you know better themselves or their community and then when it comes around to election time they start to kind of pay attention to research as much as they can on top of everything else they're doing.

[00:11:34] And politicians know sort of the cycle so what they do is they raise a lot of money from their friends that they helped enrich at our expense.

[00:11:44] To help engage in this deceptive marketing campaign where they say they're conservative and so when you have incumbents especially when they're able to raise millions of dollars to mass market to folks saying how Republican they are how conservative they are.

[00:12:00] And they're essentially lying so that you keep them in power and you don't know you just simply don't know they say they care about a board are they say they care about immigration or they care about ending abortion or you know it's protecting the second amendment.

[00:12:14] They put it on slick mailers, they put it on TV, they put it in text messages or emails and so it sounds good.

[00:12:22] And they know what the American people want so they say it and then they get reelected and they do the opposite and that's another reason why you see that.

[00:12:30] And when challengers come around and say hey wait a minute this person voted this way which is a big problem.

[00:12:37] You know those challengers are oftentimes met with resistance from other people in the political class they're met with a lack of resources are funding.

[00:12:48] And the grassroots who you know they don't make billions of dollars off the taxpayers so they're not able to cut you know $6600 checks they're cutting like a hundred dollar checks and you can add more donors or more support from the grassroots base but that's hard to overcome.

[00:13:06] So a lot of machine that's dumping millions of dollars into and to any race.

[00:13:10] Again great examples that Texas race with toning ands all is 10 to one Brandon Herrera was outspent 10 million dollars went into that race to protect toning ands alls.

[00:13:22] And as a result you get potentially two more years we don't know what's going to happen in the general election but assuming he wins that's another two years of the status quo for that district and that's a hardbreaker.

[00:13:38] And a minute ago when we were talking about cutting taxes versus cutting spending you said that we need to do both and I agree with you that we need to do both.

[00:13:48] What we saw under President Trump and it also happened under President Reagan especially when you cut taxes you grow the economy so instead of the pie being you know this big it becomes this big and you may.

[00:14:05] Your slice of the pie winds and being a much you get a lot more because the economy has grown but.

[00:14:12] But the debt is a real problem and the overspending is a massive problem and it puts a burden on us it's putting a burden on our children and sadly it's even putting a board a burden on our our grandchildren and my my kids are only 21 so putting a burden on my future grandchildren is just obscene to me.

[00:14:33] It's absolutely wrong and I think it's very good to talk about wanting to do both and as far as I know we did see a balance budget in the 90s when Clinton was was President and new geengrich was speaker of the house.

[00:14:47] And we've seen the economy grow through tax cuts.

[00:14:50] We've seen it not go through tax increases, but what we have not seen is both cutting spending and cutting taxes and I think that if we did that we would see an economy flourish the likes of which we've never seen in our lifetimes.

[00:15:06] We would it's not such a irresponsible it's a moral it's a moral that we're bankrupting.

[00:15:12] Not only ourselves but our our children and their children again you can't really do one without the other and expect to shrink government the reason why you don't see it is because if you do actually cut spending and cut taxes.

[00:15:26] There's going to be a decrease in political power for the politicians and for the bureaucrats and that's at the heart of the problem.

[00:15:33] I'm a Christian I believe in scripture and one thing that comes to mind when I talk about this is the love of money it's the root of all evil.

[00:15:44] There are too many people that are feeding at the government trough and enriching themselves and they don't care because it's not their money it's your money but they have the power and the access to it.

[00:15:55] I served in the state legislature here in Colorado for six years and I guess sure you all the problems that we face come back to that.

[00:16:03] That single principle that's scriptural principle where it says the love of money is a real all evil these people do not care about anything other than enriching themselves most of them there are some great patriots and good people.

[00:16:15] In Congress and across the country but they are not the majority and until we get rid of those people we're going to continue to see them engage in generational theft.

[00:16:25] That's really what it comes down to they are stealing from your children's children and they do not care because they enjoy the the hedonism and the passing pleasure of now.

[00:16:36] And we can't tolerate that the more we tolerate that the more we're going to lose and that's my message to most Republican voters is to at least be skeptical.

[00:16:45] Ask yourself what do you have to gain if I believe the politician who's telling me what they want to tell me it's sort of a follow the money skepticism that we need more of.

[00:16:56] And if we if we can at least ask about questions and be a little bit more skeptical of the candidates and the politicians that come around and tell us what we want to hear we will be better off.

[00:17:06] But we really do need to start asking ourselves this question hey wait a minute my politician I might like them but I keep seeing an increase in debt I keep seeing increase in spending I keep seeing open borders I keep seeing funding for.

[00:17:21] For foreign powers that don't even like us are corrupt like Ukraine or I mean my god I you know that there's terrorist.

[00:17:30] And I mean I ran I mean I ran I mean I ran I mean from from receiving American dollars I mean that's how corrupt the system has become and you have to ask yourself wait a minute why is that happening even though I keep electing a good person.

[00:17:44] Maybe maybe you are maybe you elected someone great like Ted Cruz right but Ted Cruz ain't in the majority there's not 51 Ted Cruz is in the United States Senate unfortunately.

[00:17:55] You know so it starts with with what you're doing locally and I would encourage people to get engaged because if you if you don't get engaged.

[00:18:04] Then you're going to be subjugated to those who are.

[00:18:10] What is your background what is I know that you're the chairman of the Republican party in Colorado but what do you do professionally what's your family like and how did you become the chairman of the party.

[00:18:24] Well that lots of impact there sure I I first got started in politics back in 2008 I just wanted to be a part of something greater and contribute to my community so I got into my local county party.

[00:18:38] That seemed like the natural thing to do and I did that and I quickly discovered there were a lot of Republicans in name only and so I got more engaged in issues that I cared about such as lowering taxes or can it's I cared about we're actually going to advance the Republican conservative principles that we all care about.

[00:18:57] Very happy to have been a part of.

[00:19:01] Tea party efforts of course when the initial thing came out.

[00:19:06] Man back in 2010 the backlash to Obama it's all coming back to me.

[00:19:10] All wonderful stuff that kind of helped usher me in to this and then at one point.

[00:19:16] Good friend of mine said hey you should run for.

[00:19:20] For office and I first I said no I don't want to do that I didn't have an interest but the opportunity came up a number of people asked me to get engaged.

[00:19:29] I prayed about it with my wife and we we decided to pull the trigger I got elected 2016 which was a great year for for Republicans if you remember and so that's when I really cut my teeth and got in there.

[00:19:42] But then again I saw I saw an even closer look at the problems we have not only from from Democrats but our own party.

[00:19:51] And then I did that for six years and then I was asked to run for for party chairman because our party at suffered devastating losses to Democrats for three successive election cycles with 2022 being worse.

[00:20:07] And the reason it was the worst is because we nominated and put forward moderate so called moderate Republicans who just weren't appealing they didn't care about the issues that most people cared about they ran on their own week.

[00:20:20] Messaging that didn't even build a contrast against Democrats.

[00:20:25] And so they lost they got devastated.

[00:20:28] They're trippy told there's probably no reason why you would have a conservative first Tea Party type person in this position had it not been for the Republican party failing miserably.

[00:20:39] And the and the members of that party giving me a chance.

[00:20:44] And so I ran and one and we're running on a message of conservatism and grassroots activism.

[00:20:52] And we're telling folks that look if we're going to win we have to do you know three simple things the first we have to actually mean what we say and then go do it.

[00:21:02] Number two we have to build a contrast against the Democrats we can't simply hide our heads or rather stick our heads in the sand because the press or the pundits or the consultants are telling us to do something different.

[00:21:15] And then number three we have to you know throw a punch we only have to say what how we're different from the Democrats but we actually you know have to go on offense.

[00:21:25] We have to go on the attack.

[00:21:27] Big reason why Republicans lose is because they're afraid to actually engage with their counterparts.

[00:21:33] They don't want to go toe to toe because they've been conditioned by the press that if you go toe to toe.

[00:21:38] It's going to go back for you you're going to get bad headlines if you say anything bad about the about the Democrats are left.

[00:21:45] abortion grade issue to another one to talk about where you have Republicans who are just afraid to talk about the simple truth that.

[00:21:54] That life is precious and we should protect it and that the Democrats are so out of touch and extreme on this issue.

[00:22:00] They don't do that they allow they allow Democrats to attack us and say that where the ones were out of touch or that where the ones.

[00:22:07] Who you know a lot of harm others or punish people for miscarriages which is completely wrong and false instead what we should be saying is that there's no baby that can escape this the scalpel of the Democrat.

[00:22:20] That it could be it could be so the first trimester all the way to the very end or even after birth Democrats will still kill that baby most Americans do not believe in that type of.

[00:22:32] Agenda they don't agree with taxpayer funded abortion they don't agree with sex selection abortion and agree with aborting a child because they have Down syndrome.

[00:22:41] If we talked about those things and a compelling and assertive way will beat them on that issue but Republicans don't do that.

[00:22:48] And that's the type of change and reform that I started instituting in the Colorado Republican Party and I've made a lot of enemies for doing it.

[00:22:58] Aside from politics I came through the world of small business specifically manufacturing and I did that for about 10 years and then COVID hit and kind of shut the industry down and the owners that I had worked for decided to retire and I decided to just kind of do.

[00:23:15] At the time I was still in the legislature so I just did that full time now I'm devoted to being chairman of the party and that's how I earn my living at the moment and I have three kids and then another on the way.

[00:23:30] Congratulations when you did manufacturing what were the kind of things that you were doing for that company.

[00:23:36] Sure we did a lot in the sort of the telecommunication space.

[00:23:44] One of our biggest clients was a big satellite company and what we did is we helped manufacture the component parts for their cable or satellite box.

[00:23:56] It wasn't glamorous stuff but we were working with suppliers not only internationally but also domestically to try and you know give the customer the best price and the best service while still making a profit again it.

[00:24:10] It wasn't sexy work but it paid the bills and was on a sliving and we were happy to help.

[00:24:17] Certainly create jobs with our community and other parts of the country.

[00:24:21] Yeah I wanted to just see something it is sexy work and it is clamors and I think that it is something that I worked in a paper mill.

[00:24:30] Supporting the computer systems in a paper mill when I got out of college and I had to wear a hard had a case.

[00:24:38] Crafting goggles ear plugs, steel toe shoes you know you name it I've had to have those supplies and then I worked for the home depot.

[00:24:48] Supporting their import department with computers the so I understood how imports and the supply chain works when it comes in internationally.

[00:25:00] These are important jobs and I think that it is much sexier and much more glamorous to be dependent on yourself and to be able to provide for your family.

[00:25:11] Then for the government to create such owners regulations that make it impossible or nearly impossible for manufacturing to even happen in this country anymore.

[00:25:23] To come in and say that wages so much higher than what in turn out what companies are doing in foreign countries where there are none of the regulations that OSHA and the EPA put on companies.

[00:25:39] There aren't the same kind of minimal wage standards so you've got people who are basically working it what we would consider slave wages and it's impossible for American companies to compete with that.

[00:25:52] And I think that acting and I'm not saying that you're doing this but I'm very defensive with the people who have had those kind of manufacturing jobs.

[00:26:01] They're important they help make America a great country it made us self-sufficient and independent.

[00:26:08] And right now I don't think that we are and people who are willing to do jobs like that and willing to go and work in a factory working manufacturing working a distribution center and get their hands dirty.

[00:26:20] And I appreciate that you did that and that you had small business owners who were able to do that before COVID crushed them.

[00:26:33] Yeah and I'll go ahead and walk back a little bit yeah I said COVID really was government mandated shutdowns as a result of a of a year reaction to COVID really that's really really what happened there.

[00:26:48] And it wasn't just my industry that was affected it was you know a whole whole various set of industries that were crushed by these politicians who really didn't want to help anyone they just wanted to virtue signal like they were they were doing something great and so they destroyed all these lives.

[00:27:06] Still all this money redistributed to all their friends and now they want us to pat him on the back.

[00:27:11] I mean that's again another great example of why Patriots across this country need to rise up and either run against these failed politicians or help someone who will.

[00:27:20] We don't do that then we're going to have another situation where that happens like I guarantee you that that.

[00:27:26] That experience that the American people sell is is going to happen again if we don't if we don't prevent it by getting good people in office because they got away with it.

[00:27:38] I hate to say it but they got away with this massive wealth transfer they got away with these lockdowns and these violations are rights and they got away with harming your children in schools.

[00:27:49] I mean there's so many different ways that that event changed America and for the worst.

[00:27:57] So if we're not vigilant then we're not going to be able to keep the Republic like Benjamin Franklin you know what you told us all those all those years ago.

[00:28:07] Yeah and I think that a lot of the politicians I saw that the politicians who were fighting for reopening that most of the ones who are the loudest about it in the loudest early about it were ones who own their own business or have been involved in.

[00:28:26] And they heavily involved in making a business run prior to going to Washington DC the ones who were attorneys or worked in think tanks or have just spent their whole life either working for government or running for office or whatever it might be their ambitions were always to be a politician.

[00:28:45] They've never had to make payroll they've never had to figure out how they're going to have enough income to pay the employees who they have and make sure everything balances.

[00:28:55] They just tax more print more money and they think money just grows on trees or comes from printing presses rather than understanding the work that goes into creating wealth.

[00:29:08] And I think for them it was really easy to just make decisions over just going to shut things down and we can move some money around here or there like it's.

[00:29:17] I don't even know like some sort of shell game and everything will be okay it's not okay and businesses are still suffering from it and you're right people do need to rise up especially if you've been negatively impacted by this.

[00:29:31] And since signals to the politicians who were not opening in more in favor of mandates whether it was mask on kids not putting opening schools.

[00:29:42] The the locking down of of companies are saying some people are essential others or not all of that we need to be saying absolutely not and that kind of response to a virus can never happen again.

[00:29:58] Yeah I couldn't agree more the you know the the problem in government is that they they have all the guns right they the government is force.

[00:30:07] At the at the very basic element of a government is forced and so when you have a bunch of bureaucrats elected officials who are able to use that force in order to take your money.

[00:30:17] They don't care I mean they they'll just they'll shut everything down because they're in charge and they have the power to do that and so they don't lose pay checks I mean I one of the most heartbreaking things I experienced when I was in the state legislature was getting many.

[00:30:32] Many constituents coming to me saying hey I need my unemployment because my industry was shut down I don't have a job right now and the government's not even moving quickly enough to get me.

[00:30:43] The money that I need in order to pay my bills or my mortgage or put food on the table.

[00:30:48] I can't begin to tell you how many phone calls and emails that I had a personally intervened on to ensure that these people got some sort of relief as a result of the government shut down.

[00:30:59] But you know ultimately that's that's the problem you have politicians who have no sympathy for our bureaucrats with no sympathy for for any average American worker or anyone paying taxes because they don't produce they only take and and you know you really want to balance the budget and Congress or you where you want to.

[00:31:21] You know have good policies in place start taking away the incentive for them to get paid to do nothing right I mean that's that's a big reason why the status quo remains.

[00:31:31] What it is because it's always easier to do nothing for these guys.

[00:31:36] Because they get paid they still get to go to their junkets they still get to go to their cocktail parties they still get the adoration the all the praise for being elected and surrounded in that swamp bubble.

[00:31:50] You got to start taking away those incentives and that will certainly help but yeah if you if you want good representation that won't allow for that type of behavior anymore then you got to start throwing the current the current elected officials out and replacing them with folks who believe the way we do.

[00:32:08] That is absolutely correct so tell me this if you get elected what would be the first thing you would do when you got it to Washington DC.

[00:32:18] Oh my god that's a great you know I feel like there are so many leaks in the ship that you just got to plug as many of them as you can at once.

[00:32:26] So it's a tough question but I think I still think the number one issue right now is immigration.

[00:32:32] I mean there don't let anyone fool you there is a great replacement theory that is playing out right now right there are folks that want these people to come into our country illegally.

[00:32:41] Not only for for a new voting block not only for a new population to come in but they also want cheap labor.

[00:32:49] They also want to justify increases within their own political power or the taking of your taxpayer dollars so that they can redistribute it and unchecked illegal immigration is one way to do that.

[00:33:02] So I think that's our number one issue really do got to get a handle on because if we don't have secure borders we don't have a country.

[00:33:08] And I I'm terrified to think what kind of country I'm leaving my my children and what they're going to have to walk into if I don't do something now.

[00:33:20] The next you know issue that I think is as paramount is sort of a tie between government out of control spending versus government corruption there are congressmen who get wealthier when they go into public office.

[00:33:36] And that's that's the craziest thing that ever heard of it was always always the understanding that if you committed yourself to public service you weren't making money.

[00:33:45] Right you weren't supposed to get rich off the taxpayers but that's exactly what's happening right now.

[00:33:50] You have congressmen that that use private data that was collected pop through public means and and then they go and they engage in cider trading.

[00:34:02] I mean these guy you should look at the returns they make they you know it's it's crazy to think that they gave up a life of of Wall Street speculation to become a congressman for how well they're doing.

[00:34:15] And I say that for essentially of course because they're not special they're just they have access to information that one else has but they they're not they're not being prosecuted because of the very very position and power that they hold.

[00:34:30] We can't begin to solve these issues if we have corrupt leaders because they're not incentivized or motivated.

[00:34:38] To want to correct the problems because they themselves are benefiting from those problems so you know all these issues are important but until you get good.

[00:34:48] Leaders of moral character that never going to be solved so I think accountability and transparency within the system to cut down on the corruption.

[00:34:58] Is this high on that list you know one of the things that I would tell your listeners and your viewers is that I need your help.

[00:35:06] I need your support you may not be able to vote for me, but I can vote for you each and every day that I'm in congress.

[00:35:13] And that's important to understand because my goal isn't to make friends.

[00:35:18] I'm sure I'll make some along the way, but that's not my goal my goal isn't to be wind and dined my goal isn't to actually.

[00:35:24] The do what you would normally see a politician do I because I believe I work for you.

[00:35:30] I believe I work for the American people I work for the constituency that I would represent and my goal is to go around the country and start kicking out bad politicians.

[00:35:40] I mean that's a big priority goal from man. I'm not afraid to say it if you're a terrible congressman and you're screwing over the American people.

[00:35:50] I'm going to help find a challenger and get you out because I can't do this alone.

[00:35:54] Imagine if we had 51 Ted Cruz is in the United States Senate what that would do to this country.

[00:36:01] We would see a whole wholesale change in how this country operates likewise in the United States House of Representatives.

[00:36:08] We need politicians and congressmen who are willing to stand up to these failed leaders, these corrupt leaders, and say no more.

[00:36:16] And if you can't work for the American people I'm going to expose you and at least give those people a choice and electing new leadership.

[00:36:24] So those are probably the three issues that I'd be looking at is getting a handle on the border.

[00:36:31] You said you need people support how can they support you?

[00:36:35] Oh yeah of course please visit my website we have an election June 25th I'm running against a globalist establishment swamp creature who's a paid lobbyist and supported Nikki Ali over Donald Trump.

[00:36:51] And that election June 25th with mail and ballots starting next week.

[00:36:57] So I need to raise about another $75,000 so that we can get our Trump endorsement and endorse by Donald Trump.

[00:37:05] And many other great organizations like the House Freedom Caucus and the National Rifle Association.

[00:37:10] So it's a very competitive race.

[00:37:12] We're in the driver's seat but we need to overcome the millions of dollars that are being spent to stop us from winning right now.

[00:37:19] So you got to visit my website at Dave for Colorado.com.

[00:37:23] That's Dave DAVE EFORCELLORADO.com.

[00:37:29] And donate to us because we had a raise about $75,000 to help get more text messages, more digital ads out, more mail pieces out.

[00:37:38] Everything that we can do to round out our marketing campaign because there is a chance that very much like in other places around the country.

[00:37:47] The establishment is going to just dump enough money in to try and drown us out.

[00:37:51] But we have the people on our side, we have great people supporting us like President Trump who are making it very hard on them to steal this election.

[00:37:59] So help us out, visit my website Dave for Colorado.com and ship in whatever you can.

[00:38:05] We can't do this without you.

[00:38:07] Very good Dave and then my very last question for you is this, who is your favorite founding father?

[00:38:14] That's always a tough question because there's a lot of them are great founding fathers for different reasons.

[00:38:23] I think the most obvious answer to me is George Washington and it seems like sort of a cop out because there are other good people like Benjamin Rush for example or

[00:38:34] Some of them are escaping me for you.

[00:38:36] You want to know some great founding fathers go to the wall builders website and start reading about them.

[00:38:42] Dave Barton does a great job at talking about those individuals, but George Washington in particular is someone who is a person we should emulate because this is an individual that could have become the new king of America if you wanted to.

[00:38:57] That's how popular and how powerful he had become but he willingly gave up his power so that it would be an example to future leaders.

[00:39:06] And so he could go back to just living an normal private life as much as he could anyway.

[00:39:12] I mean, that's unprecedented in world history where you have power but you willingly give it up so that others could lead.

[00:39:20] I mean, that's there's no greater example of the type of leadership we desperately need in this country now.

[00:39:26] Well Dave, thank you so much for joining us today.

[00:39:29] I hope that people go and visit your website at Dave for Colorado dot com and I wish you luck over the next few weeks is your your running into the home stretch for the primary and also good luck to your wife with your fourth baby on the way.

[00:39:43] Thank you so much Jenny Beth and thank you for having me.

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