Denver mayor Mike Johnston warns there will be 'tough times ahead,' announcing furloughs and layoffs amid a $50 million budget shortfall this year.
Dan tears apart the mayor's slavish devotion to leftist orthodoxy on giving a home to any and all homeless and illegal aliens around the world, providing sanctuary in Denver to anyone who wants a free ride as a freeloader.
Dan tears apart the mayor's slavish devotion to leftist orthodoxy on giving a home to any and all homeless and illegal aliens around the world, providing sanctuary in Denver to anyone who wants a free ride as a freeloader.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Caples and welcome to today's online podcast
edition of The Dan Caplis Show. Please be sure to
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look around, this is a great time to be alive.
I some apologies to Hamilton right to you. Remember that
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song I wish I could sing one say.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Look around and look around?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
What a wonderful time to be alive right now?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
But it is.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I mean, you're getting tired of winning yet Look what's
happening in California. Trump is clearly winning, which means America's winning,
and the left just can't give it up. So we'll
have some of this sound just because it's so much fun.
I don't want anybody to get hurt, obviously, but every
day this lunacy goes on, with the Democrats lining up
behind the riders and the rest of America lining up
(00:49):
behind Trump and law and order and actually enforcing our laws. Yeah,
that that's a good day for America and certainly a
very good day for President Trump. I know that not
all the polls are the same right now, Ryan, but
he's really he's really spiking in in a couple of them.
I mean, his numbers are good across the board, but
he's really I thought I saw him up around fifty five,
fifty six percent.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
This is such a losing hill for Gavin Newsom. He's
coming out with these videos. He's thinking he can position himself,
posture himself against Trump and that'll gain him some traction
the Democratic Party. This after he tried to moderate on
issues like trans girls and female sports. Doesn't know where
to go politically. He's such a chameleon and trying to
insinuate that these riots are Trump's fault instead of coming
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out this is where Democrats are so weak, Dan, It's
the perception of them, it's the reality of them. They
are weak on crime, they don't mind these riots, they
aren't committed to stopping them. And Gavin Newsom instead of
talking in those terms, it's like Trump is sending in
the military.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
We don't want that.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Let me respectfully disagree here in this sense, Okay, and
again I put this in the category of great for America, right,
because if Gavin Newsom is going to be the Democrats nominee,
then whether it's JD. Mart go. Whichever of the group
can can start measuring for the hot til break now.
But here's the point. I think it's a really smart
move by Newsome within the Democratic Party, right because what
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do they got? They got nothing? Right, at least he
has a platform right now. Now he's saying things that
just make him look silly to most of America and
a lot of Democrats, but compared to all these other Democrats,
at least he's got a platform and at least he's
out there. So I think this is great for him
within the Democratic Party, and I think it'll be great
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for the GOP nominee for president if he's their nominee.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Let me pain in a scenario for a guy that
you and I both respect, politically disagree with but think
he'd be strong and dangerous, and that is Josh Shapiro,
governor Pennsylvania. What if Dan he came out in a
fetterman like way and said, look, whatever's happening in Los Angeles,
whoever's fault it is, he can't even give himself that
cover say it will not be happening in Pittsburgh. It
will not be happening in Philadelphia. We will not tolerate
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violence against our police officer officers. What if a Democrat
governor like Josh Shapiro came out and said something.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Like that, Yeah, you're right, it'd be brilliant. But here's
the problem. His hands are tied right now because he's
in a party where a lot of the people in
power don't like Jewish people. Right or he would have
been he would have been the nominee when or at
least on a ticket with Whitmer after they pulled the
coup on Biden. So that's his problem. So if he
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was to come out right now and say something smart
like that, right, well, all of a sudden, you know,
he's already got this big problem with the big faction
of the leadership of his party that doesn't like Jewish people,
and now all of a sudden he's gone against you know,
the Democratic Party quote mainstream support for illegal immigrants overall elsewell,
second to abortion right the Democratic Party right now lives
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for abortion up to the moment of delivery. And second
to support folks here illegally who want to go out
and commit other crimes. That's what they live for. And
the Maryland man, but I guess he falls into the
second category three or three, I'm one, three, eight, two, five,
five and men in girl showers. That's the act of
a party, right there. Not a party I'd want to
go to, and a lot of people are leaving that party,
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didn't I hear? Was it Caldera or was it you?
Somebody was talking about Demo registration being down. Maybe it
was Michael Brown as a great show in the mornings. Yeah,
on six pot thirty kis w and Denver, somebody who's
saying Demo registration is down in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
That would be one point of encouragement for us. Yes, well,
aren't there a.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Lot of points of encouragement in Colorado right now?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I mean, in evidence, there's a lot of anecdotal evidence
that would suggest that people that are truly in the
middle should be a gas where the Democrats are leading us.
But it doesn't seem to be connecting.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Well, right because of what I said earlier. Right as
as a former Democrat, I know these things, which is,
you got so many Democrats repulsed by the Democratic Party
right now, but they can't even imagine voting for Republicans.
So the challenge of the Republicans is not beating the Democrats.
That the challenge of the Republicans. Is is convincing enough
Democrats and Democrat leaning voters that it's different. Now, it's
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a different GOP. You know, I'm she is. You are
a candidate you can support in good conscience because we're
not losing these races on principles or ideas or facts
or logic or morality. We're losing these races, particularly the
closer ones, on the stereotype of the GOP, which is
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largely false, very outdated. But you know, God, understand that
there are so many good people who just grew up Democrat,
right they're born into a family of Democrats. And if
you're born into a family of Democrats like I was,
and wonderful people of deep principle and different ideas on
different subjects. But but the view of the Republican Party,
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and this particularly goes back twenty thirty forty years, so
very negative and so deeply branded into the minds of
so many good, smart people. That's what we got to beat.
And then that is a different critter, Ryan than sitting
here and saying, you know, we gotta win these races
on this issue and that issue, and there's truth in
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all of that, but you gotta beat the stereotype. And
when you beat the stereotype, do you play pinball? Do
you ever play pinball?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah? But not with the who.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Do you ever play a game called xenon?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Okay? So you know, when you beat the stereotype, it's
like you're getting those eight X points because you beat
the stereotype all of a sudden, you're not just picking
up a vote, You're taking a vote away from them,
and you may very well be taking a family member
of the voter who just flipped for you away from them. Selling.
That's where it's at. That's where it's at is defying
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the stereotype and overcoming the stereotype, which leads to the
logical question, how does one do that? So I'd love
to hear from our incredibly diverse and talented audience three
or three someone three, two, five, five, text d an five, seven,
seven through nine. My guess is Ryan has a thought,
But how do GOP candidates overcome the stereotype? Because, yeah,
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your Democrat opponent, you got to deal with that, but
your biggest opponent is the negative stereotype of the GOP.
What do you do about that? Mister Funk, I shouldn't
have done that.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
That was pretty severe.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Yeah, just caused five crashes.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Oh my lord. Yeah. It's difficult, Dan, because there are
a few outlets, this being one of them, I show
that procedures and Denver being another. But we're in the
distinct minority of platforms that as fou as conservative views
and are friendly to conservative opinions, Whereas I think a
lot of the local media in Denver has a filter
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on and has a lot of the eyeballs on them watching,
and there are certain stories that don't get the coverage,
like the Aurora apartment takeover by Trendy Aragua. That's a
key example where Kyle Clark ignored the story despite Cindy
Rameiro reaching out directly to him personally. He ignored it
because it was not a convenient story for the narrative
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he wanted to advance. That would be one example, right.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
And if we zero in on and I'm sorry to
be obsessed with this, but I do think it's the
secret sauce. It's the key to the GOP winning races.
People think they have no chance to race when if
you're focused on defeating the stereotype. Defeating the stereotype, there
are certain things I think you do as a candidate,
and to your point, Ryan, one of those is you
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do everything humanly possible to go all those places and
to get on that air. All right, let's do a
sit down. Is there any question you have? And then
just be sure to record the whole thing yourself in
case they edit it dishonestly. But you go do that,
You go in front of every major Democrat group out there.
There are all sorts of creative things you do to
try to overcome the stereotype, because that is what we're
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losing to. Not always right, there are certain issues that
sometimes take over a race. I gets that are certain personalities,
but so often we end up losing to the stereotype.
So I'd love your thoughts. So, how do conservative candidates
overcome the negative stereotype of the GOP? And I know
that question may be offensive to you because you're sitting
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there thinking, wait a second, there's no negative stereotype of
the GOP, and there certainly shouldn't be one because I
do and we do all these good things. So no,
that's nonsense. But I'm just telling you the reality, growing
up a Democrat, having been a Democrat, there is and
it's very very unfair and it's very untrue and it's
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very outdated, but it is as real. It is as
real as that brick wall over there, and we ignore it. Well,
we're going to get smashed against that wall. You're on
the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Who is that our guide again?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Brian Wilson, founder and primary songwriter for The Beach Boys eighty.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Two transformational kind of music.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Oh, big time? Yeah, define the sixties in a lot
of ways. And this song was Caroline No, which I
picked out because your daughter's name is Caroline for that.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Yeah, and I haven't everybody listening who is fortunate enough
to work with one of their kids knows. It's just
one of the great joys in life. So we're lucky
to have her at our firm right now.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
And kind of work is she doing there, Dan.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Oh, absolutely brilliant work. I don't go to trial without her,
I mean really wow. Yeah, she has been. She's been
working with me on trial since she was like fourteen,
thirteen or fourteen. She just does a great mind for
that stuff. Yeah, I do not go to trial without her.
So she's preparing now for a big one. We have
coming up. That's right, yeah, three or three someone three
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eight two five five text or Dan, your tattoo should
be a cyber truck. It is a smart texter. Yeah,
cyber truck.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
On.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Hold though they're they're making up right, as predicted. We
predicted it here, everybody predicted it, but they are making up.
What do you think? What form will the big public
reconciliation come in?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Elon will attend the two hundred and fiftieth Celebration of
our Armed Forces, the parade that Donald Trump is throwing,
and they'll make knights there. That's my prediction.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Okay, okay. Interesting and tonight there's all this controversy. I
put it in quotes because it's you know, fake news
in the left, but of Trump, you know, taking control
as he should of the Kennedy Center programming and things
like that. Did you see him? He's there today, red carpet.
How do you say that? I've never seen the show
lame as lame A's around.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah you got it? Okay, okay, thank you, la, Miss
Lams Short.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Have you ever seen it?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I have.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I've refused to go every single time because I hear
it's sad. Well, it is sad and you know, Jean Valjehn,
Hugh Jackman. Yeah, if I'm going out, you know what
I mean? If I'm going out right, I want to
be happy.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Wait, Amy has it like insistent this one.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
She is so well informed and cultured and everything else.
It's a wonderful thing and it's wonderful for our kids.
But I want to be happy. So if I'm going
out to do something fun, I want it to be fun.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
So why would you go to something that is miserable?
Speaker 5 (12:23):
In the name Kelly, I've seen it nine times, nine
man in four different cities.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
What do you think of Hugh Jackman?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Wasn't he in the movie?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah? Yeah, he did pretty good, made fun of his singing.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Does it have a does it have a spoiler alert? Now?
Because I may say it some day? Does it have
a happy ending? M? Yes and no? Well no, So
why would you go?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
How many times?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Feeling so good? Let's go? Be said?
Speaker 5 (12:51):
The music is phenomenal And I saw the original Broadway
cast which it was fun in New York with my dad,
and I've also seen it twice in Chicago four times
in law.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
You're hooked, It's like us in Taylor Swift my dog
twice here. Yeah, did you see that Denver guy getting
busted or at least a restraining order for stalking Taylor Swift?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
It was not anybody we know, No, No, it wasn't Dan.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
We have had excellent GOP candidates in the past and
still ended up with the likes of Polist Coker. Who's Cocher?
Anybody heard of a cocher An office around here? Polis, Cocher, Frow, Patterson,
et cetera. The voters here have not suffered enough pain
for how they voted. Steve is right. We have had
some great GOP candidates and you're right, no, they lost
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and and obviously it's not going to be easy. But
I'm just saying, yeah, a great candidate is not enough
in and of itself. You know, other things need to happen.
And when you think of some of the great candidates,
and I would put my now law partner John Keller
certainly among that group of great candidates. I look at
all those races, there's simply nothing any of them could
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have done to win that race period in retrospect. Now
that's clear. But you cannot step in the same river twice.
You know who said that Ryan doesn't know that that,
which is really odd. Nice. Yeah, yeah, who was that?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I've heard of it.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah, it's an ancient Native American saying you cannot step
in the same river twice. You know when I use
that to great effect. I was covering Rodney King and
I was covering it for a national audience at that time,
and we were talking about the trial. I remember I
was sitting in the NBC studios and one of the
anchors had asked about had asked about the trial. Well,
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there was this first trial and then this and that,
and then I pulled out this line. Well you cannot say.
I pulled out this line and said, you know, Native
Americans have a saying you cannot step in the same
river twice. You cannot try the same case twice. And
they just went, whoa, that's deep.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
It was a great moment.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
It was a really great moment. That was a really
great moment.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah, you know the other great moment, and feel free
to turn off your radio, but I'm having fun right
now at the other great moment was and I didn't
know what was happened at the time they sent me
the tape, but Jesse Jackson when he was really big,
really hot. Jesse was on with the Big LA anchor
and NBC anchor in La and they were doing an
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interview on set and it was during Rodney King, and
the interview was about Rodney King. And then the anchor
said to Reverend Jackson. He said, sorry, Reverend, I have
to interrupt. I understand that that that we have a
special bulletin from Dan Kaplis. Look, God, Jesse Jackson's face.
(15:57):
I think I still have that come up. I'm going
to find that it's on a tape somewhere.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I'm going to find alive, hope, alive man capitalist.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Yeah, it was just oh man, life's funny, isn't it.
Glad you're here. You may not be, but I'm really
glad you're here. Three or three someone three A two
five five the number text d an five seven seven
three nine if you missed it earlier, humbly, I laid
out the way to save Denver, and a big part
of that is actually solving the homeless problem, which is
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so easy to do and it's such a great fix
for everybody. So I laid that out a bit earlier.
I'll touch on it when we come back, but I
want to play this story because Denver, even if you
never come here right if you're happening to listen in
the Rocky Mountain region right now, it's really important to
you because what happens in Denver doesn't stay in Denver,
and is Denver continues in kind of this subtle and
(16:48):
sometimes not so subtle doom loop. It's going to be
bad for everybody. So I want to play this CBS
story about this really dangerous financial situation Denver's in and
then talk in concrete terms about the fix. And we'll
do much more than that as well. But Ryan, in
these few seconds, we have hopefully not in life, but
(17:09):
in this segment. Yeah, wow, what what do you think
Denver's going to look like in ten years? Oh? Man?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I still think there's a bottoming out that needs to happen.
I believe we're in the process of that politically, and
it will not turn around until at least part of
the state. I think the Republicans need to get back
at least one of the branches of the General Assembly
to get some traction. Until then, we're going to run
rough shot off the grails and off the cliff to
the left.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah, well, we know one thing for sure, right Denver
is going to have a Republican mayor. And we know
another thing for sure is they won't call themselves republican,
they won't have an R. But they're going to be
a conservative mayor who pursues he or she of conservative
Republican principles. That will happen. I think it's going to
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happen sooner than later. It has to happen. You're on
the den Capitol Shop.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
What is your favorite features? Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Such a loaded question. It probably is the one I'm
going to say for last here coming up, and it's
God only knows bro that is so good? That sounds
by Brian Wilson.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Yeah. For me, it's probably Little Gto Yeah, just because
it ties into a degrimative moment.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
My young child picked another song about a car, Little
Deuce Coop there for you, But I guessed wrong because
you you prefer the other one. But that's that's a
good choice, wouldn't it be nice? It is probably right
up there too.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I've got a question, how can we never play their
music when these people are alive?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I play this kind of stuff all the time.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
You got to die to get on this show. That's
people are dying to get on this show.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
That's good clause I fake news is a little bit true,
but it's a little bit false.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I do play a lot of this stuff from time
to time when it fits some of our topics.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
No, that's true, and truly nobody has ever been better
at that. Hey, I want to play this CBS four
story out of Denver. It's just about how serious that
the financial problems of Denver are right now and how
much they threaten, and the point being, they're only going
to get worse, right because once Johnston committed Denver to
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this insane and unsustainable and bad for everybody, promise to
everyone in the world, come to Denver and we will
get you a home.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
We will get you a home. We will get you
a home.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
At that point, then it's just a matter of time
before the city runs out of money. Right, you cannot
sustain that. So you see fewer people on the street,
but homelessness is increasing, right because of course people are
going to come to where the mayra's promise to get
you a home using taxpayer dollars. And so we're in
this doom loop and now we're seeing friends and neighbors
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being laid off by the city services, COT, etc. And
it's only going to get worse. So I want to
play this story not to curse the darkness, but as
I talked about earlier in the show, so there is
a solution, and it's simple and it's straightforward and it
will work, and it starts with a solution to homelessness.
But Johnston in the left would have no interest in
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this because like everything else, they want to use homelessness
to their own advantage.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
When you see that you have less money, you have
to balance the budget to make it work. That's what
every business in the city does. It's what every family
in the city does. That's what this government should do.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
And why do you have less money. You don't have
less money. You have less money to spend on the
citizens of Denver because you've decided to invite the entire
world to come here and get a home a taxpayer expense.
That's why you have less money.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
There's Mayor announcing major cuts, furloughs, and potential layoffs for
city workers today as a city looks to cut its
general budget by twelve percent.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
That's more than what we saw during the pandemic when
it was slashed by ten percent. Mayor Mike Johnson, also
indicating there is more pain ahead is the city faces
massive revenue gaps this year and next year.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
So you think that'll be his bumper sticker for his
next race? More pain ahead should be. I mean, if
it's going to be an honest campaign, it should be.
But yeah, and the thing we have to remember as
I let this story roll out, the thing we have
to remember is what Johnston is doing is bad for
everybody except for Mike Johnston's political ambitions. Because he believes
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he just gets people off the streets, he can claim victory,
et cetera, while the city spirals down and then it
doesn't botom out till after he's gone. But here's the point.
Like almost everything the left does, it's horrible for the
people they claim to want to help. In this example,
the homeless. How is warehousing the homeless. You're not attacking
the root cause problems. They're just going to get dumped
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back onto the street. At some point those problems will
even be worse. How does that help them at all?
And obviously it's very bad for the city. It's like
the left's approach to illegal immigration. They obviously don't care
a bit. I was going to say a different word,
they don't care a bit about illegal immigrants as humans,
or they wouldn't pursue the policies that they do, which
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lead to so much harm for so many people here illegally.
And here's the drop of the mic proof is if
these lefties cured at all about illegal immigrants as humans,
then they would not be devoted to the protection of
people here illegally or are committing other crimes, because often
those crimes are committed against whom other people here illegally.
So now the Left just doesn't care about these people
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they claim to want to help. They are using them
and hurting the rest of us. In the meantime.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
You're investigator Brian Moss has been working on these budget
issues for weeks.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
Yeah, Brian joins us live in Denver tonight, So Brian,
how deep is this hole?
Speaker 8 (22:48):
Denver is definitely behind the eight ball here. The whole
is pretty deep, according to The Mirror, due to stagnan
revenue growth for the city and increasing costs of running
city government.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
The Mirror increasing. Yeah, I mean it comes back almost
always to Johnston spending all this money on providing quote,
housing for the homeless. And listen, I'm a Christian, I'm
a Catholic. I believe as Archbishop Shep Hugh used to say,
that we will be judged on how we help the poor.
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I believe that to my core. I don't claim to
be doing it all what I should, but I believe
it to my core. But the point there isn't that
society government then bankrupts itself and undermines the rest of
the citizenry doing things for the poor that are bad
for the poor and bad for everybody else in the meantime.
And that's what we have going on right now. And
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by the way, this commitment to the poor, I believe
for all of us needs to start personally. And I
renew my challenge to Mike Johnston and Jared Polis and
Michael Bennett and John Hickenlooper, open the checkbook, show us
the money you're spending out of your docket to help
these poor, to help the newcomers, et cetera. I don't
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think they're going to take me up on that.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
Said today that for the remainder of twenty twenty five,
the city is facing a fifty million dollars gap in revenues.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
That's the magic number, right, So Ryan three guesses fifty
million dollar gap in revenue. So now you have all
these good people being laid off, services cut, et cetera.
What do you think Mike Johnston is spending now putting
the homeless up in hotels?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
It is like pouring water in a bucket full of holes.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yeah, but think of the magic number fifty million O
O zero has So we've got this fifty million revenue shortfall,
and what's he spending now? Keeping this insane and by
the way, destructive to the homeless. Ultimately promise we.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Will get you a home. We will get you a home.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Yeah, fifty to seventy five million. Now, if the truth is,
if Johnston is telling you they're spending fifty to seventy
five million, you can probably double that.
Speaker 8 (24:58):
And for twenty twenty six, a two hundred million dollar
projected deficit for the city of Denver, and with that,
an immediate hiring freeze for the city started today and
the city workers will start taking furlough days in June.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
So you know what you can conclude from that is
the number that Johnston is actually spending on warehousing the
homeless is at least fifty to seventy five million, but
likely much higher. And you just heard it projected deficit
two hundred million last year. You can bet that number
is going up and up and up. We know it.
We know homelessness is increasing because people are coming here
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to take advantage of Johnston's promise.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Too, we will get you a home. Yeah. The truth
is this is hard, and this is going to be hard.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
The first to feel the budget squeeze, city workers will
have to take between two and seven furlough days off,
depending on how much they make. What are you going
to cut?
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Oh well, I'm going to first take the most furloughs
of any employee in the city. I mean our senior
appointees will I'll take seven furloughs. I'll writ a check
back to the city for those days, and then I'm
gonna look at every single dollar we spend in the
Mayor's office, in terms of travel, in terms of food,
in terms of contracts. So we'll look at all those
where were doing the same thing. Ever the department does.
How are we gonna make cuts? And we'll start with
all those discressionary spending. So we'll start that tomorrow city.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Yeah, check back with him, right what two months? Three months?
See you see how that's going bringing.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
Free starts now and layoffs said the mayor are inevitable. Well,
there's been much criticism of how much Johnston has spent
on homelessness and if that's contributed to this budget pinch.
The mayor batted that away, saying that's been an investment
in city growth.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
So he doesn't deny he spent it, and he doesn't
deny it's the Roy Mee go on to deny it
in this piece. But that's not believable. But it's an investment.
What's it an investment in? It's an investment in what
his political future in appealing to some big money people
on the left, what's it an investment in? It's certainly
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not good for these homeless people who you are not
You are not attacking the root cause we.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Do not have any encampments in our city center. We
don't have any large encampments anywhere in the city. If
you are running a business in the city or have
a home in the city, that is a transformational change
that makes you more likely to do business here or
live here.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
But it's completely unsustainable. That's the point. We're getting people
laid off, we're having city services cut, and it's only
going to get worse because more and more homeless are
coming here. Why because Johnston will get you a home.
It is not sustainable. You can have a sugar high, right,
you can go out right now. Any of us could
do certain things in our life to create this just
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amazing environment for what period of time. Maybe it's a day,
maybe it's a week, maybe it's a month. But you
know what they say about bankruptcy, it comes very slowly
and then all at once.
Speaker 8 (27:57):
Along the same lines, he was hopeful, but revitalizing downtown,
we'll bring back visitors willing to spend money and buff
up the city's bottom line.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
We have to do two things.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
As I said, you have flattening revenue, you have increasing costs.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
You have to do two things.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
You have to both drive increases in your revenue to
recover and you have to drive reductions in your costs
to make those two lines meeting.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah, but he's not willing to do the big things
that are necessary to do that right because they violate
leftist orthodoxy. And one is you've got to crack down
on this drug culture. I mean you trace you trace
the bottoming out of the Sixteenth Street mall. You can
trace it right back to legalization of marijuana and all
these permissive attitudes of the left on drug use and
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public drug use, et cetera. The left will not crack
down on that right because their far left ideology comes first.
And you can put all the perfume on the pig
you want to put on it, but it's still.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Yeah, Brian Wilson, right, you got it, gone.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Eighty two. He was suffering under the throes of dementia
and he had been placed in a conservatorship. I don't
know how cognitively aware he was toward the end, but
a genius during his life.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
That is so hard. Yeah, Hey, pigs get fat, hogs
get voted out right, you see that. Yeah, David Hogg,
the vice chair of the DNC. They're going to hold
a new vote because get this Democratic National Committee. There
are gender requirements. So it's it's not just merit based.
(29:37):
I mean, you have to have so many people of
a certain gender. So there's been this decision that when
Hogg was elected, those gender requirements are violated. So they're
having a new election. Now, doesn't that just tell you
everything you need to know about how easy the Democrats
should be to beat?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Right?
Speaker 1 (29:53):
I mean, there's supposed to be an American political party.
What could be more anti what America stands for? More
and die what Doctor King lived for? Then saying oh no,
this election not merit based. It depends on your plumbing.
I mean, it's that's how crazy they've become. But I
think they're using it to try to send old Hog
(30:16):
out to the meat packing plant. Three h three seOne
three eight two five five useless information because we're coming
up on the end of the show and we have
some potentially important news to talk about, too early to tell.
In fact, we just cut the promo about twenty minutes
ago for tomorrow, and the promo I cut was is
the US getting ready to mount a surgical strike to
(30:38):
take out Iron's nukes? Or are these preparations we see
happening part of a piece through strength maneuver. And you know,
we obviously see a personnel, non military personnel being moved
out of the Mid East, et cetera. And when President
Trump was asked about it tonight at the Kennedy center.
He just said, you know, you'll have to wait and see,
(31:00):
so or is it Ryan as some are speculating now
in Israeli strike that is expected soon.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Those are some of the reports I'm seeing. Like you said, Dan,
nothing's been confirmed, but something's happening because we are evacuating
personnel out of that region, right.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
And you know, hey, blessed are the peacemakers. And there
are different ways to make peace, and you always hope
to be able to make peace without any form of violence,
and you're most likely to do that through two things,
through prayer and strength. And then you know, when it's
impossible to make peace that way, then you have to
you have to stand up to the Hitler's of the world,
and you have to do it in the most surgical
(31:36):
way possible. Obviously, what you have in the Iatolis in
Iran is is you have a version of Hitler, right,
and you have an extraordinarily dangerous version of Hitler, and
you have a regime that's holding its own people hostage
while preparing. I don't think there's any doubt to commit
the next Holocaust, and so nobody can expect Israel to
(31:57):
just stand down and allow that to happen, and President
Trump has made it clear to Iran, Okay, we can
do this the easy way or the hard way around now,
at least publicly defying him. And I don't think anybody
would expect President Trump to just sit back endlessly and
take that defiance. So yeah, something is brewing right now.
I hope that it is a piece through strength maneuver.
(32:20):
But in the end, we've talked about it on air
for how many years now twenty years. Iran can't have nukes,
This regime can't have nukes. It's that simple. And so
we'll see. We'll see if the appearance of a pending
strike is meant to force iron to do a deal
which will not allow it to enrich in country, or
(32:43):
if there's actually going to be a strike. So we
will follow that together. Texter is Dan grateful to DPD
handling the protests yesterday. Besides the Capitol, it looks like
DPD stop protesters from shutting down I two five and Broadway.
Also look like they stop protesters trying to shut down
I twenty five in a area that from Alexa, you
(33:03):
know why that is so telling. Thank you, Alexa. First,
DPD allowed to do what the officers want to do
is it's going to do the right thing. But you've
got political control now over DPD. So what's so telling
about that yesterday, Ryan, is that clearly Mike Johnston decided
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that was going to happen, decided he was going to
allow law enforcement to do what law enforcement always wants
to do, which is enforce the law. No doubt in
my mind that Mike Johnston made that decision to actually
let law enforcement enforce the law real quickly.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
What do you remember the press conference at sixteenth Street
where the guy was yelling at Johnston and the sign
greatest performance ever maintain the sign language through the person
yelling and spraying out Yeah. Then Chief Ron Thomas and
his facial expression through all of.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
That classic, classic great moment, and we should have that
signer on. He was awesome. But no, I think Johnston
he did the math. He looked at it and said, no,
it's going to be very bad for Mike Johnston in
the left if the protesters are allowed to do the
things are being allowed to do in LA. So I
think he allowed the police to do what the police
would always want to do and do. So well, Ryan,
(34:15):
thank you, Kelly, You're the best. Please join us tomorrow
on the Dan Kapla Show.
This is Dan Caples and welcome to today's online podcast
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look around, this is a great time to be alive.
I some apologies to Hamilton right to you. Remember that
(00:21):
song I wish I could sing one say.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Look around and look around?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
What a wonderful time to be alive right now?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
But it is.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I mean, you're getting tired of winning yet Look what's
happening in California. Trump is clearly winning, which means America's winning,
and the left just can't give it up. So we'll
have some of this sound just because it's so much fun.
I don't want anybody to get hurt, obviously, but every
day this lunacy goes on, with the Democrats lining up
behind the riders and the rest of America lining up
(00:49):
behind Trump and law and order and actually enforcing our laws. Yeah,
that that's a good day for America and certainly a
very good day for President Trump. I know that not
all the polls are the same right now, Ryan, but
he's really he's really spiking in in a couple of them.
I mean, his numbers are good across the board, but
he's really I thought I saw him up around fifty five,
fifty six percent.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
This is such a losing hill for Gavin Newsom. He's
coming out with these videos. He's thinking he can position himself,
posture himself against Trump and that'll gain him some traction
the Democratic Party. This after he tried to moderate on
issues like trans girls and female sports. Doesn't know where
to go politically. He's such a chameleon and trying to
insinuate that these riots are Trump's fault instead of coming
(01:31):
out this is where Democrats are so weak, Dan, It's
the perception of them, it's the reality of them. They
are weak on crime, they don't mind these riots, they
aren't committed to stopping them. And Gavin Newsom instead of
talking in those terms, it's like Trump is sending in
the military.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
We don't want that.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Let me respectfully disagree here in this sense, Okay, and
again I put this in the category of great for America, right,
because if Gavin Newsom is going to be the Democrats nominee,
then whether it's JD. Mart go. Whichever of the group
can can start measuring for the hot til break now.
But here's the point. I think it's a really smart
move by Newsome within the Democratic Party, right because what
(02:12):
do they got? They got nothing? Right, at least he
has a platform right now. Now he's saying things that
just make him look silly to most of America and
a lot of Democrats, but compared to all these other Democrats,
at least he's got a platform and at least he's
out there. So I think this is great for him
within the Democratic Party, and I think it'll be great
(02:33):
for the GOP nominee for president if he's their nominee.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Let me pain in a scenario for a guy that
you and I both respect, politically disagree with but think
he'd be strong and dangerous, and that is Josh Shapiro,
governor Pennsylvania. What if Dan he came out in a
fetterman like way and said, look, whatever's happening in Los Angeles,
whoever's fault it is, he can't even give himself that
cover say it will not be happening in Pittsburgh. It
will not be happening in Philadelphia. We will not tolerate
(02:58):
violence against our police officer officers. What if a Democrat
governor like Josh Shapiro came out and said something.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Like that, Yeah, you're right, it'd be brilliant. But here's
the problem. His hands are tied right now because he's
in a party where a lot of the people in
power don't like Jewish people. Right or he would have
been he would have been the nominee when or at
least on a ticket with Whitmer after they pulled the
coup on Biden. So that's his problem. So if he
(03:24):
was to come out right now and say something smart
like that, right, well, all of a sudden, you know,
he's already got this big problem with the big faction
of the leadership of his party that doesn't like Jewish people,
and now all of a sudden he's gone against you know,
the Democratic Party quote mainstream support for illegal immigrants overall elsewell,
second to abortion right the Democratic Party right now lives
(03:47):
for abortion up to the moment of delivery. And second
to support folks here illegally who want to go out
and commit other crimes. That's what they live for. And
the Maryland man, but I guess he falls into the
second category three or three, I'm one, three, eight, two, five,
five and men in girl showers. That's the act of
a party, right there. Not a party I'd want to
go to, and a lot of people are leaving that party,
(04:10):
didn't I hear? Was it Caldera or was it you?
Somebody was talking about Demo registration being down. Maybe it
was Michael Brown as a great show in the mornings. Yeah,
on six pot thirty kis w and Denver, somebody who's
saying Demo registration is down in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
That would be one point of encouragement for us. Yes, well,
aren't there a.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Lot of points of encouragement in Colorado right now?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I mean, in evidence, there's a lot of anecdotal evidence
that would suggest that people that are truly in the
middle should be a gas where the Democrats are leading us.
But it doesn't seem to be connecting.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Well, right because of what I said earlier. Right as
as a former Democrat, I know these things, which is,
you got so many Democrats repulsed by the Democratic Party
right now, but they can't even imagine voting for Republicans.
So the challenge of the Republicans is not beating the Democrats.
That the challenge of the Republicans. Is is convincing enough
Democrats and Democrat leaning voters that it's different. Now, it's
(05:07):
a different GOP. You know, I'm she is. You are
a candidate you can support in good conscience because we're
not losing these races on principles or ideas or facts
or logic or morality. We're losing these races, particularly the
closer ones, on the stereotype of the GOP, which is
(05:30):
largely false, very outdated. But you know, God, understand that
there are so many good people who just grew up Democrat,
right they're born into a family of Democrats. And if
you're born into a family of Democrats like I was,
and wonderful people of deep principle and different ideas on
different subjects. But but the view of the Republican Party,
(05:53):
and this particularly goes back twenty thirty forty years, so
very negative and so deeply branded into the minds of
so many good, smart people. That's what we got to beat.
And then that is a different critter, Ryan than sitting
here and saying, you know, we gotta win these races
on this issue and that issue, and there's truth in
(06:14):
all of that, but you gotta beat the stereotype. And
when you beat the stereotype, do you play pinball? Do
you ever play pinball?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah? But not with the who.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Do you ever play a game called xenon?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Okay? So you know, when you beat the stereotype, it's
like you're getting those eight X points because you beat
the stereotype all of a sudden, you're not just picking
up a vote, You're taking a vote away from them,
and you may very well be taking a family member
of the voter who just flipped for you away from them. Selling.
That's where it's at. That's where it's at is defying
(06:46):
the stereotype and overcoming the stereotype, which leads to the
logical question, how does one do that? So I'd love
to hear from our incredibly diverse and talented audience three
or three someone three, two, five, five, text d an five, seven,
seven through nine. My guess is Ryan has a thought,
But how do GOP candidates overcome the stereotype? Because, yeah,
(07:09):
your Democrat opponent, you got to deal with that, but
your biggest opponent is the negative stereotype of the GOP.
What do you do about that? Mister Funk, I shouldn't
have done that.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
That was pretty severe.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Yeah, just caused five crashes.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Oh my lord. Yeah. It's difficult, Dan, because there are
a few outlets, this being one of them, I show
that procedures and Denver being another. But we're in the
distinct minority of platforms that as fou as conservative views
and are friendly to conservative opinions, Whereas I think a
lot of the local media in Denver has a filter
(07:46):
on and has a lot of the eyeballs on them watching,
and there are certain stories that don't get the coverage,
like the Aurora apartment takeover by Trendy Aragua. That's a
key example where Kyle Clark ignored the story despite Cindy
Rameiro reaching out directly to him personally. He ignored it
because it was not a convenient story for the narrative
(08:07):
he wanted to advance. That would be one example, right.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
And if we zero in on and I'm sorry to
be obsessed with this, but I do think it's the
secret sauce. It's the key to the GOP winning races.
People think they have no chance to race when if
you're focused on defeating the stereotype. Defeating the stereotype, there
are certain things I think you do as a candidate,
and to your point, Ryan, one of those is you
(08:31):
do everything humanly possible to go all those places and
to get on that air. All right, let's do a
sit down. Is there any question you have? And then
just be sure to record the whole thing yourself in
case they edit it dishonestly. But you go do that,
You go in front of every major Democrat group out there.
There are all sorts of creative things you do to
try to overcome the stereotype, because that is what we're
(08:55):
losing to. Not always right, there are certain issues that
sometimes take over a race. I gets that are certain personalities,
but so often we end up losing to the stereotype.
So I'd love your thoughts. So, how do conservative candidates
overcome the negative stereotype of the GOP? And I know
that question may be offensive to you because you're sitting
(09:16):
there thinking, wait a second, there's no negative stereotype of
the GOP, and there certainly shouldn't be one because I
do and we do all these good things. So no,
that's nonsense. But I'm just telling you the reality, growing
up a Democrat, having been a Democrat, there is and
it's very very unfair and it's very untrue and it's
(09:40):
very outdated, but it is as real. It is as
real as that brick wall over there, and we ignore it. Well,
we're going to get smashed against that wall. You're on
the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
And now back to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Who is that our guide again?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Brian Wilson, founder and primary songwriter for The Beach Boys eighty.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Two transformational kind of music.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Oh, big time? Yeah, define the sixties in a lot
of ways. And this song was Caroline No, which I
picked out because your daughter's name is Caroline for that.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Yeah, and I haven't everybody listening who is fortunate enough
to work with one of their kids knows. It's just
one of the great joys in life. So we're lucky
to have her at our firm right now.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
And kind of work is she doing there, Dan.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Oh, absolutely brilliant work. I don't go to trial without her,
I mean really wow. Yeah, she has been. She's been
working with me on trial since she was like fourteen,
thirteen or fourteen. She just does a great mind for
that stuff. Yeah, I do not go to trial without her.
So she's preparing now for a big one. We have
coming up. That's right, yeah, three or three someone three
(10:48):
eight two five five text or Dan, your tattoo should
be a cyber truck. It is a smart texter. Yeah,
cyber truck.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
On.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Hold though they're they're making up right, as predicted. We
predicted it here, everybody predicted it, but they are making up.
What do you think? What form will the big public
reconciliation come in?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Elon will attend the two hundred and fiftieth Celebration of
our Armed Forces, the parade that Donald Trump is throwing,
and they'll make knights there. That's my prediction.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Okay, okay. Interesting and tonight there's all this controversy. I
put it in quotes because it's you know, fake news
in the left, but of Trump, you know, taking control
as he should of the Kennedy Center programming and things
like that. Did you see him? He's there today, red carpet.
How do you say that? I've never seen the show
lame as lame A's around.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah you got it? Okay, okay, thank you, la, Miss
Lams Short.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Have you ever seen it?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I have.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I've refused to go every single time because I hear
it's sad. Well, it is sad and you know, Jean Valjehn,
Hugh Jackman. Yeah, if I'm going out, you know what
I mean? If I'm going out right, I want to
be happy.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Wait, Amy has it like insistent this one.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
She is so well informed and cultured and everything else.
It's a wonderful thing and it's wonderful for our kids.
But I want to be happy. So if I'm going
out to do something fun, I want it to be fun.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
So why would you go to something that is miserable?
Speaker 5 (12:23):
In the name Kelly, I've seen it nine times, nine
man in four different cities.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
What do you think of Hugh Jackman?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Wasn't he in the movie?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah? Yeah, he did pretty good, made fun of his singing.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Does it have a does it have a spoiler alert? Now?
Because I may say it some day? Does it have
a happy ending? M? Yes and no? Well no, So
why would you go?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
How many times?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Feeling so good? Let's go? Be said?
Speaker 5 (12:51):
The music is phenomenal And I saw the original Broadway
cast which it was fun in New York with my dad,
and I've also seen it twice in Chicago four times
in law.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
You're hooked, It's like us in Taylor Swift my dog
twice here. Yeah, did you see that Denver guy getting
busted or at least a restraining order for stalking Taylor Swift?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
It was not anybody we know, No, No, it wasn't Dan.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
We have had excellent GOP candidates in the past and
still ended up with the likes of Polist Coker. Who's Cocher?
Anybody heard of a cocher An office around here? Polis, Cocher, Frow, Patterson,
et cetera. The voters here have not suffered enough pain
for how they voted. Steve is right. We have had
some great GOP candidates and you're right, no, they lost
(13:48):
and and obviously it's not going to be easy. But
I'm just saying, yeah, a great candidate is not enough
in and of itself. You know, other things need to happen.
And when you think of some of the great candidates,
and I would put my now law partner John Keller
certainly among that group of great candidates. I look at
all those races, there's simply nothing any of them could
(14:09):
have done to win that race period in retrospect. Now
that's clear. But you cannot step in the same river twice.
You know who said that Ryan doesn't know that that,
which is really odd. Nice. Yeah, yeah, who was that?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I've heard of it.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah, it's an ancient Native American saying you cannot step
in the same river twice. You know when I use
that to great effect. I was covering Rodney King and
I was covering it for a national audience at that time,
and we were talking about the trial. I remember I
was sitting in the NBC studios and one of the
anchors had asked about had asked about the trial. Well,
(14:49):
there was this first trial and then this and that,
and then I pulled out this line. Well you cannot say.
I pulled out this line and said, you know, Native
Americans have a saying you cannot step in the same
river twice. You cannot try the same case twice. And
they just went, whoa, that's deep.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
It was a great moment.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
It was a really great moment. That was a really
great moment.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah, you know the other great moment, and feel free
to turn off your radio, but I'm having fun right
now at the other great moment was and I didn't
know what was happened at the time they sent me
the tape, but Jesse Jackson when he was really big,
really hot. Jesse was on with the Big LA anchor
and NBC anchor in La and they were doing an
(15:37):
interview on set and it was during Rodney King, and
the interview was about Rodney King. And then the anchor
said to Reverend Jackson. He said, sorry, Reverend, I have
to interrupt. I understand that that that we have a
special bulletin from Dan Kaplis. Look, God, Jesse Jackson's face.
(15:57):
I think I still have that come up. I'm going
to find that it's on a tape somewhere.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I'm going to find alive, hope, alive man capitalist.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Yeah, it was just oh man, life's funny, isn't it.
Glad you're here. You may not be, but I'm really
glad you're here. Three or three someone three A two
five five the number text d an five seven seven
three nine if you missed it earlier, humbly, I laid
out the way to save Denver, and a big part
of that is actually solving the homeless problem, which is
(16:27):
so easy to do and it's such a great fix
for everybody. So I laid that out a bit earlier.
I'll touch on it when we come back, but I
want to play this story because Denver, even if you
never come here right if you're happening to listen in
the Rocky Mountain region right now, it's really important to
you because what happens in Denver doesn't stay in Denver,
and is Denver continues in kind of this subtle and
(16:48):
sometimes not so subtle doom loop. It's going to be
bad for everybody. So I want to play this CBS
story about this really dangerous financial situation Denver's in and
then talk in concrete terms about the fix. And we'll
do much more than that as well. But Ryan, in
these few seconds, we have hopefully not in life, but
(17:09):
in this segment. Yeah, wow, what what do you think
Denver's going to look like in ten years? Oh? Man?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I still think there's a bottoming out that needs to happen.
I believe we're in the process of that politically, and
it will not turn around until at least part of
the state. I think the Republicans need to get back
at least one of the branches of the General Assembly
to get some traction. Until then, we're going to run
rough shot off the grails and off the cliff to
the left.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah, well, we know one thing for sure, right Denver
is going to have a Republican mayor. And we know
another thing for sure is they won't call themselves republican,
they won't have an R. But they're going to be
a conservative mayor who pursues he or she of conservative
Republican principles. That will happen. I think it's going to
(17:56):
happen sooner than later. It has to happen. You're on
the den Capitol Shop.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
What is your favorite features? Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Such a loaded question. It probably is the one I'm
going to say for last here coming up, and it's
God only knows bro that is so good? That sounds
by Brian Wilson.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Yeah. For me, it's probably Little Gto Yeah, just because
it ties into a degrimative moment.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
My young child picked another song about a car, Little
Deuce Coop there for you, But I guessed wrong because
you you prefer the other one. But that's that's a
good choice, wouldn't it be nice? It is probably right
up there too.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I've got a question, how can we never play their
music when these people are alive?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I play this kind of stuff all the time.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
You got to die to get on this show. That's
people are dying to get on this show.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
That's good clause I fake news is a little bit true,
but it's a little bit false.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I do play a lot of this stuff from time
to time when it fits some of our topics.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
No, that's true, and truly nobody has ever been better
at that. Hey, I want to play this CBS four
story out of Denver. It's just about how serious that
the financial problems of Denver are right now and how
much they threaten, and the point being, they're only going
to get worse, right because once Johnston committed Denver to
(19:17):
this insane and unsustainable and bad for everybody, promise to
everyone in the world, come to Denver and we will
get you a home.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
We will get you a home. We will get you
a home.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
At that point, then it's just a matter of time
before the city runs out of money. Right, you cannot
sustain that. So you see fewer people on the street,
but homelessness is increasing, right because of course people are
going to come to where the mayra's promise to get
you a home using taxpayer dollars. And so we're in
this doom loop and now we're seeing friends and neighbors
(19:50):
being laid off by the city services, COT, etc. And
it's only going to get worse. So I want to
play this story not to curse the darkness, but as
I talked about earlier in the show, so there is
a solution, and it's simple and it's straightforward and it
will work, and it starts with a solution to homelessness.
But Johnston in the left would have no interest in
(20:11):
this because like everything else, they want to use homelessness
to their own advantage.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
When you see that you have less money, you have
to balance the budget to make it work. That's what
every business in the city does. It's what every family
in the city does. That's what this government should do.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
And why do you have less money. You don't have
less money. You have less money to spend on the
citizens of Denver because you've decided to invite the entire
world to come here and get a home a taxpayer expense.
That's why you have less money.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
There's Mayor announcing major cuts, furloughs, and potential layoffs for
city workers today as a city looks to cut its
general budget by twelve percent.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
That's more than what we saw during the pandemic when
it was slashed by ten percent. Mayor Mike Johnson, also
indicating there is more pain ahead is the city faces
massive revenue gaps this year and next year.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
So you think that'll be his bumper sticker for his
next race? More pain ahead should be. I mean, if
it's going to be an honest campaign, it should be.
But yeah, and the thing we have to remember as
I let this story roll out, the thing we have
to remember is what Johnston is doing is bad for
everybody except for Mike Johnston's political ambitions. Because he believes
(21:27):
he just gets people off the streets, he can claim victory,
et cetera, while the city spirals down and then it
doesn't botom out till after he's gone. But here's the point.
Like almost everything the left does, it's horrible for the
people they claim to want to help. In this example,
the homeless. How is warehousing the homeless. You're not attacking
the root cause problems. They're just going to get dumped
(21:48):
back onto the street. At some point those problems will
even be worse. How does that help them at all?
And obviously it's very bad for the city. It's like
the left's approach to illegal immigration. They obviously don't care
a bit. I was going to say a different word,
they don't care a bit about illegal immigrants as humans,
or they wouldn't pursue the policies that they do, which
(22:11):
lead to so much harm for so many people here illegally.
And here's the drop of the mic proof is if
these lefties cured at all about illegal immigrants as humans,
then they would not be devoted to the protection of
people here illegally or are committing other crimes, because often
those crimes are committed against whom other people here illegally.
So now the Left just doesn't care about these people
(22:34):
they claim to want to help. They are using them
and hurting the rest of us. In the meantime.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
You're investigator Brian Moss has been working on these budget
issues for weeks.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
Yeah, Brian joins us live in Denver tonight, So Brian,
how deep is this hole?
Speaker 8 (22:48):
Denver is definitely behind the eight ball here. The whole
is pretty deep, according to The Mirror, due to stagnan
revenue growth for the city and increasing costs of running
city government.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
The Mirror increasing. Yeah, I mean it comes back almost
always to Johnston spending all this money on providing quote,
housing for the homeless. And listen, I'm a Christian, I'm
a Catholic. I believe as Archbishop Shep Hugh used to say,
that we will be judged on how we help the poor.
(23:20):
I believe that to my core. I don't claim to
be doing it all what I should, but I believe
it to my core. But the point there isn't that
society government then bankrupts itself and undermines the rest of
the citizenry doing things for the poor that are bad
for the poor and bad for everybody else in the meantime.
And that's what we have going on right now. And
(23:42):
by the way, this commitment to the poor, I believe
for all of us needs to start personally. And I
renew my challenge to Mike Johnston and Jared Polis and
Michael Bennett and John Hickenlooper, open the checkbook, show us
the money you're spending out of your docket to help
these poor, to help the newcomers, et cetera. I don't
(24:05):
think they're going to take me up on that.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
Said today that for the remainder of twenty twenty five,
the city is facing a fifty million dollars gap in revenues.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
That's the magic number, right, So Ryan three guesses fifty
million dollar gap in revenue. So now you have all
these good people being laid off, services cut, et cetera.
What do you think Mike Johnston is spending now putting
the homeless up in hotels?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
It is like pouring water in a bucket full of holes.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yeah, but think of the magic number fifty million O
O zero has So we've got this fifty million revenue shortfall,
and what's he spending now? Keeping this insane and by
the way, destructive to the homeless. Ultimately promise we.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Will get you a home. We will get you a home.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Yeah, fifty to seventy five million. Now, if the truth is,
if Johnston is telling you they're spending fifty to seventy
five million, you can probably double that.
Speaker 8 (24:58):
And for twenty twenty six, a two hundred million dollar
projected deficit for the city of Denver, and with that,
an immediate hiring freeze for the city started today and
the city workers will start taking furlough days in June.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
So you know what you can conclude from that is
the number that Johnston is actually spending on warehousing the
homeless is at least fifty to seventy five million, but
likely much higher. And you just heard it projected deficit
two hundred million last year. You can bet that number
is going up and up and up. We know it.
We know homelessness is increasing because people are coming here
(25:36):
to take advantage of Johnston's promise.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Too, we will get you a home. Yeah. The truth
is this is hard, and this is going to be hard.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
The first to feel the budget squeeze, city workers will
have to take between two and seven furlough days off,
depending on how much they make. What are you going
to cut?
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Oh well, I'm going to first take the most furloughs
of any employee in the city. I mean our senior
appointees will I'll take seven furloughs. I'll writ a check
back to the city for those days, and then I'm
gonna look at every single dollar we spend in the
Mayor's office, in terms of travel, in terms of food,
in terms of contracts. So we'll look at all those
where were doing the same thing. Ever the department does.
How are we gonna make cuts? And we'll start with
all those discressionary spending. So we'll start that tomorrow city.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Yeah, check back with him, right what two months? Three months?
See you see how that's going bringing.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
Free starts now and layoffs said the mayor are inevitable. Well,
there's been much criticism of how much Johnston has spent
on homelessness and if that's contributed to this budget pinch.
The mayor batted that away, saying that's been an investment
in city growth.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
So he doesn't deny he spent it, and he doesn't
deny it's the Roy Mee go on to deny it
in this piece. But that's not believable. But it's an investment.
What's it an investment in? It's an investment in what
his political future in appealing to some big money people
on the left, what's it an investment in? It's certainly
(27:04):
not good for these homeless people who you are not
You are not attacking the root cause we.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Do not have any encampments in our city center. We
don't have any large encampments anywhere in the city. If
you are running a business in the city or have
a home in the city, that is a transformational change
that makes you more likely to do business here or
live here.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
But it's completely unsustainable. That's the point. We're getting people
laid off, we're having city services cut, and it's only
going to get worse because more and more homeless are
coming here. Why because Johnston will get you a home.
It is not sustainable. You can have a sugar high, right,
you can go out right now. Any of us could
do certain things in our life to create this just
(27:45):
amazing environment for what period of time. Maybe it's a day,
maybe it's a week, maybe it's a month. But you
know what they say about bankruptcy, it comes very slowly
and then all at once.
Speaker 8 (27:57):
Along the same lines, he was hopeful, but revitalizing downtown,
we'll bring back visitors willing to spend money and buff
up the city's bottom line.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
We have to do two things.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
As I said, you have flattening revenue, you have increasing costs.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
You have to do two things.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
You have to both drive increases in your revenue to
recover and you have to drive reductions in your costs
to make those two lines meeting.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah, but he's not willing to do the big things
that are necessary to do that right because they violate
leftist orthodoxy. And one is you've got to crack down
on this drug culture. I mean you trace you trace
the bottoming out of the Sixteenth Street mall. You can
trace it right back to legalization of marijuana and all
these permissive attitudes of the left on drug use and
(28:41):
public drug use, et cetera. The left will not crack
down on that right because their far left ideology comes first.
And you can put all the perfume on the pig
you want to put on it, but it's still.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Yeah, Brian Wilson, right, you got it, gone.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Eighty two. He was suffering under the throes of dementia
and he had been placed in a conservatorship. I don't
know how cognitively aware he was toward the end, but
a genius during his life.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
That is so hard. Yeah, Hey, pigs get fat, hogs
get voted out right, you see that. Yeah, David Hogg,
the vice chair of the DNC. They're going to hold
a new vote because get this Democratic National Committee. There
are gender requirements. So it's it's not just merit based.
(29:37):
I mean, you have to have so many people of
a certain gender. So there's been this decision that when
Hogg was elected, those gender requirements are violated. So they're
having a new election. Now, doesn't that just tell you
everything you need to know about how easy the Democrats
should be to beat?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Right?
Speaker 1 (29:53):
I mean, there's supposed to be an American political party.
What could be more anti what America stands for? More
and die what Doctor King lived for? Then saying oh no,
this election not merit based. It depends on your plumbing.
I mean, it's that's how crazy they've become. But I
think they're using it to try to send old Hog
(30:16):
out to the meat packing plant. Three h three seOne
three eight two five five useless information because we're coming
up on the end of the show and we have
some potentially important news to talk about, too early to tell.
In fact, we just cut the promo about twenty minutes
ago for tomorrow, and the promo I cut was is
the US getting ready to mount a surgical strike to
(30:38):
take out Iron's nukes? Or are these preparations we see
happening part of a piece through strength maneuver. And you know,
we obviously see a personnel, non military personnel being moved
out of the Mid East, et cetera. And when President
Trump was asked about it tonight at the Kennedy center.
He just said, you know, you'll have to wait and see,
(31:00):
so or is it Ryan as some are speculating now
in Israeli strike that is expected soon.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Those are some of the reports I'm seeing. Like you said, Dan,
nothing's been confirmed, but something's happening because we are evacuating
personnel out of that region, right.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
And you know, hey, blessed are the peacemakers. And there
are different ways to make peace, and you always hope
to be able to make peace without any form of violence,
and you're most likely to do that through two things,
through prayer and strength. And then you know, when it's
impossible to make peace that way, then you have to
you have to stand up to the Hitler's of the world,
and you have to do it in the most surgical
(31:36):
way possible. Obviously, what you have in the Iatolis in
Iran is is you have a version of Hitler, right,
and you have an extraordinarily dangerous version of Hitler, and
you have a regime that's holding its own people hostage
while preparing. I don't think there's any doubt to commit
the next Holocaust, and so nobody can expect Israel to
(31:57):
just stand down and allow that to happen, and President
Trump has made it clear to Iran, Okay, we can
do this the easy way or the hard way around now,
at least publicly defying him. And I don't think anybody
would expect President Trump to just sit back endlessly and
take that defiance. So yeah, something is brewing right now.
I hope that it is a piece through strength maneuver.
(32:20):
But in the end, we've talked about it on air
for how many years now twenty years. Iran can't have nukes,
This regime can't have nukes. It's that simple. And so
we'll see. We'll see if the appearance of a pending
strike is meant to force iron to do a deal
which will not allow it to enrich in country, or
(32:43):
if there's actually going to be a strike. So we
will follow that together. Texter is Dan grateful to DPD
handling the protests yesterday. Besides the Capitol, it looks like
DPD stop protesters from shutting down I two five and Broadway.
Also look like they stop protesters trying to shut down
I twenty five in a area that from Alexa, you
(33:03):
know why that is so telling. Thank you, Alexa. First,
DPD allowed to do what the officers want to do
is it's going to do the right thing. But you've
got political control now over DPD. So what's so telling
about that yesterday, Ryan, is that clearly Mike Johnston decided
(33:24):
that was going to happen, decided he was going to
allow law enforcement to do what law enforcement always wants
to do, which is enforce the law. No doubt in
my mind that Mike Johnston made that decision to actually
let law enforcement enforce the law real quickly.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
What do you remember the press conference at sixteenth Street
where the guy was yelling at Johnston and the sign
greatest performance ever maintain the sign language through the person
yelling and spraying out Yeah. Then Chief Ron Thomas and
his facial expression through all of.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
That classic, classic great moment, and we should have that
signer on. He was awesome. But no, I think Johnston
he did the math. He looked at it and said, no,
it's going to be very bad for Mike Johnston in
the left if the protesters are allowed to do the
things are being allowed to do in LA. So I
think he allowed the police to do what the police
would always want to do and do. So well, Ryan,
(34:15):
thank you, Kelly, You're the best. Please join us tomorrow
on the Dan Kapla Show.
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