 Welcome Long Mott. This is your live election coverage here at Long Mott Public Media. This is brought to you by Abbott and Wallace Distilling, home of this beautiful canned cocktail, the Amaro Spritz. Oh, it's very much worth your time and I'm not doing this show without having a drink. How you doing? You all right? You're not freaked out or anything about any of this. All right. Good for you. You shouldn't be. We're going to kind of follow the shit here. If you saw the disclaimer, oh my God, let me just give you a little extra information about the disclaimer. May I? Thank you. I don't know why we need a disclaimer, frankly, in modern America because everybody mostly curses. You know what I'm saying? Everybody knows the F word. I don't know if you know that. So whatever, send your kids to bed or like, are you forcing your children to watch political coverage? I'm not sure what's happening with you. I think if you have a kid who's interested in the local elections at this level, that kid is exhibiting a level of maturity that is beyond anyone associated with this show. Okay. So maybe just relax or whatever. And by the way, I don't know who we're editing for in the world at this point. I don't know if you've watched TikTok or have ever met someone in their teens or preteens. They know all the curse words and actually are like, wonderful at utilizing them. You know, I love hanging out with younger people, especially kind of like in their 20s and whatnot. That's like a prime age for discovering and utilizing curse words. But when I was 13, I knew the F word. You did too. And it wouldn't have necessarily scarred me to hear fucking Jay Leno or whatever say it. What are you, what are we doing? Like on the radio, we still like edit songs and stuff. Like what, what is the point of that? Whatever, whatever. That's really not what we're here to talk about. I suppose it's important. A lot of our communities are having an election tonight. Look at this numbers are starting to come in already. So we've got a few amendments to talk about. We got a proposition to talk about. And we can get on to that soon. No is actually a really solid answer for these actually. We'll get into why here in just a little while. These are not the final results, of course. There are a lot of places around us having elections, and they're all in alphabetical order here. We, we, we aren't going to give much of a fuck about any of them except our own town. Long muck all around. And of course, none of the numbers are here for this yet. But it looks like we can click a button to see a map. So I may just do a full on election map situation soon. But with fucking 68,000 votes against 78 may not pass. This early in the process. And we can look at the map for that later if we get interested. Looks like 119 is also a no and 120 is also a no right now. We hope that sort of keeps going. Although 119 looks pretty, I don't know, that's pretty much a dead heat at this point. There's very few votes counted right here. And looks like the auto update. That's fucking sick. That means I don't have to like refresh the page or whatever. Nobody's fully reported on it yet. So 119 is something we're going to really be watching through this broadcast because it's about marijuana. And I'm very much about marijuana as well. Yeah, it looks like our Vada is having an election. Boy, here's the thought. We want everybody in the mayor position. What are we doing? We got council member, council member, council member. Lots of council members available. We don't know who can't give it to the mayor looks like. But every single council member in Aurora should be a new council member. That leadership has been really failing in our Vada. And what I mean is they're not holding the police accountable. They're police in our Vada are murderers. By the way, they murdered Elijah McLean. So that review is in about that particular community. And we hope they pull it together and get some new people in charge. So that, you know, their community might survive. That'd be great, wouldn't it? Wonderful. So let's see. Oh, let me just speak very briefly about the importance of voting. Oh my God, what a boring topic. Fuck yourself. This is what we're doing. You tune out and shit, right? It's important to vote because like, even if you don't get what you're looking for out of the election and get this, you basically never do. Voting is sort of I think of it as like buying my right to complain. You know, if I voted, I tried and it's, you know, move the dial in a decent direction or whatever. And so if it goes the other way, I can be like, fuck, I tried. What are you going to do? That's like the gift of voting at the national level, of course, at the at the community level. It's important because your vote actually matters. You know, not trying to say your vote doesn't matter at the national level. But I don't think I have to say that. And part of the fun is like, here's another thought about voting. Whatever the voting age is, that should be the drinking age. If you're voting at 18, that person deserves an alcoholic beverage. That's my opinion. Because nothing makes me want to drink more than voting for like president or something like that. And it's really wrong of us to force our young people to vote without giving them like the escapism that we all use to feel better about it. I mean, God damn it, I voted for Clinton. Can you imagine? I voted for Clinton against Trump, of course. My God, what a fucking losing choice. Both of those were. And I felt like it was maybe the right moral thing to choose, you know, a murder over rapist or whatever. Well, I mean, whatever. Hillary's husband's a complete rapist, too. Well, what are you gonna do? What are you gonna do with bad choices all over? That's why we need to fucking have the drinking age the same as the voting age. That's just an opinion. I hope you voted. And I hope you got a drink now. If you don't have a drink, I hope you got like a nice doobie rolled up or something. We're gonna spend some time tonight talking about this shit. Okay, let's talk about the amendment and the two propositions. And actually, it's that's sort of already interesting. Amendment 78. Now, if I voted no on that, and here's why. Amendment 78 wants all money that comes into the state to not be dispersed by the the way we're doing it now, but rather by open committee. And another way to say that is any federal funding, or disaster relief, or anything like that would have to flow through like an open committee. And what that's going to mean is like a pit stop for lobbyists. I don't think that seems smart at this point. So that's fucking 78. What a mess. And then I think 120 and 119 are complete. There's a reason they're numbered this way. Because 119 is to increase weed taxes, which is already of course, hugely taxed. If they were to bump it up, I think they're planning on bumping it to like, I don't know, 25% or something in just the next couple years. Whereas weed taxes, whereas alcohol taxes are like a 3% or something, right? So they're just trying to ring us out with the weed stuff. But like, why? Why? Oh, let's look at 120. Because the rich mother fuckers want to pay less for their property taxes and bolder and what have you, right? They want to pay less, but they have to sort of replace that money. So like, they're talking about taking $1.3 billion out of the budget by lowering their taxes. Well, they have to make that back. And who they always try and make their money back on the back of all the middle class in the low class, what do they buy? Well, goddamn, they smoke joints and shit like that. And they just couldn't be happier to try and make their money back from you. Classic story in America. Let's see. No numbers clicking in yet for these local candidates. We don't really expect that for the next, you know, golly, we may not see it during this show. We'll see. Oh, we'll see. But as for right now, it looks like no is trending very strongly. This is closer than looks, I think this seems definitive. That seems like we're going to go a certain direction as well. But you know, it's roughly 200,000 votes and we'll have a lot more than that. But the one that may pass is 119 because people love to tax marijuana. Most of the like conservative pundits or whatever that were in favor of passing marijuana legislation, it was to tax it, of course, because like Jesus is totally against marijuana unless you tax it properly. That's the lesson, of course. Just give him my opinion, of course, I'm not a journalist, right? I'm just a locally unelected artist. But yeah, I'm not like an Anderson Cooper type or something like that. That and I'm totally not a CIA asset. And God damn it, let's not get too much into it. But you know, whatever Anderson Cooper is in one of the most wealthy, secretive American families in American history, and also had an internship with the CIA at one point. I don't know if you know about CIA, if you ever seen any of those movies, but oh, people just quit and stay quit all the time with the CIA. Once you're a spy or whatever, like you eventually like stop being a spy. I don't know if you know. So like I'm sure Anderson Cooper is not currently affiliated in any way with the CIA. That's the real takeaway. Because even though it looks so much like Anderson Cooper is totally a CIA asset, trying to control the national dialogue. I'm sure that's not true. I'm so sure that's not true. But now the information is out there. Of course, it's all public information. And so is Operation Mockingbird, which is the CIA putting CIA assets into American news media. I'm sure that's not happening anymore. We could just relax and let it go. It's a pleasure to report on this bullshit for you, friends. And we'll probably give a few more little notes about those amendments as they come through. What else have we got here? We have some like national level news we could dig on what time is it? We're still getting there. We have, oh my God, my friend, and of course, local candidate has shown up here in the building. Let me see. Let's try and set up a little bit of a clip here. I'll throw to a video here in just a little while. And then we can kind of start hanging out and see how you're doing before we start digesting all these goddamn numbers. I came here to digest numbers. And I gotta tell you, I've had a couple drinks and I'm wicked blazed, so things ought to go well. Sergio, let's see if we can throw to a clip of getting to know some of these candidates for the last time. We always want to provide space for these folks. Some of them, of course, will not win, right? We only have a few sleets. But we want to make sure all the ideas that we had come through the system do get heard. And so I'd love if we could sort of throw to a clip and see if we could hear from some of the candidates that ran in our election trying to help us in our beautiful city. Here's that now. Hi, I'm Talis Salmatian, and I'm running for city council to be an advocate for local businesses, entrepreneurs, and the people who work tirelessly to make these businesses great. I started my first company in 2004. Since then, I've earned an MBA. I've taught business at the University of Colorado here in Boulder, published a book on business and have helped dozens of businesses through my mentorship, and through my involvement in Energize Colorado. I believe small and growing businesses are the engine of our local economy. Loma has a lot of great things going for it. We've got great nonprofits like the R Center. We've got super fast internet thanks to next light. And we've got higher education in front range community college. And the generosity of our community members never ceases to amaze me. Being someone who's action minded, I didn't want to wait until I was elected to start making positive change in our community. Right now, I'm working with front range community colleges, advanced manufacturing programs and the R Center to offer skills training to those who want to learn new skills for tomorrow's jobs. The more people who gain new skills like advanced manufacturing, the more businesses will provide good jobs in our community, whether it's manufacturing in terms of breweries or electronics. I see production as an important component in providing a wide range of good jobs to our community. I'm a big advocate for finding market solutions to our attainable housing shortage. So members of our community who want to buy have an opportunity to do so. Best way for people to grow wealth is through home ownership. I believe adding more stock of attainable housing would reduce stress on our housing market. Additionally, when we allow people to live and own property in the community that they work businesses thrive. Staff turnover decreases as well as pollution and congestion. At the same time, productivity and quality of life improved dramatically. On the topic of quality of life, I believe that people are happier when they have access to open spaces and nature. I believe that is critical that we protect our environment. And that means we take outdoor spaces and conservation seriously. Well, I know many city employees and elected officials would agree with that statement. The fact that there are no permits or guidelines for great water usage and the lack of a serious effort to make long, more bike friendly shows me that there is either blockers preventing this from happening or there's lack of motivation to implement change. My experience in business and entrepreneurship has taught me the best way to accomplish something is to iterate. The first approach, they may not work, but the key is finding new solutions and not stopping until a solution is found. Finally, to reiterate, when I'm elected, I'm committing to helping businesses thrive in Longmont, finding market solutions for workforce attainable housing, supporting education and rescaling programs and prioritizing conservation, protecting of our outdoor and green spaces. I'm committed to working with you and my fellow elected officials in government to find these solutions. Vote for me. Tell us on November 2nd. Thank you. Hi, I'm Sean McCoy. I'm a Longmont native. I attended Central Elementary, Longspeak, Jr. High and graduated from Longmont High School in 1984. I have an undergraduate degree in political science, a master's in education, and I'm only a pesky dissertation away from a doctorate in education from University of Northern Colorado. I've been married to my wife, Marine O'Brien McCoy, for 29 years. We have two beautiful adult daughters, Claire, who graduated from Silver Creek in 2014 and Molly in 2018. I was a Longmont City Council member from 2007 to 2011. I fought for many issues throughout my term, including affordable housing, as well as the right for the public to speak at council meetings at both the beginning of the meeting and at the end, which had been taken away two years earlier. I've been on multiple boards and commissions prior to serving as a Longmont City Council member. Those were Longmont Housing and Human Services Commission, Longmont Planning and Zoning Commission, Longmont Police Standards Board and Boulder County Open Space Commission. While on council, I continue to serve to the following boards and commission. Longmont Museum Board, Art and Public Places Commission, Golf Course Advisory Board, Airport Advisory Board, Boulder County Consortium of Cities, Parks and Oakman Space Advisory Board, Sister Cities Association, and again to the Longmont Housing and Human Services Commission, as well as the Longmont Youth Council. And yes, I actually attended those boards regularly as my responsibility as a council member. I've earned a bronze level certification from the National League of Cities for the professional development courses I took while attending conferences that the community of Longmont sent me to so I could learn more about new and innovative ideas that I could bring back to Longmont to serve the community better. I believe that every current member who is serving as a council member should have achieved at least this level even during the pandemic. The opportunities were there. After my council term, I served on the Historic Preservation Commission, Boulder Valley School District Accountability Committee, and on the Colorado State Future Business Leaders of America Board of Directors representing District 2 for high school business programs in St. Green Valley, Boulder Valley, Westminster and the Denver Metro area. And I continue to raise my family in one of the best places in the world, Longmont, Colorado. I learned my dedication to Longmont from my father, Tom McCoy, who served for 22 and a half years on Longmont City Council. From him, I learned that serving on council is a calling and isn't a stepping stone for future higher political offices as I feel that many in this race are using it for. I currently teach U.S. government, U.S. history, and economics at Monarch High School. And believe as a teacher, I am in a unique position close to the heartbeat of our community. There are a few professions that put a person as close to the community as teaching does. That is just one more reason I feel I'm uniquely qualified to serve as one of our NICS Longmont City Council members in this community. Our community has been challenged in ways this generation has rarely seen before as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Shortly after I was voted on to City Council in 2007, our city was plunged into the Great Recession in 2008. I stood up to be counted on then and I am here now to be counted on again. My children are growing and my family is always at my side and standing behind me as pillars of strong support. I believe I would bring to the council a strong grasp of the serious issues concerning Longmont residents, including transportation, surrounding light rail, and how to make it happen sooner than later for Longmont. I want to do something meaningful around the issues of affordable housing and homelessness in our great community. Please see my webpage for specific details. I want to make a serious impact on tackling climate change through aggressively pursuing solar gardening at all city buildings and our public schools. And I know with all my heart that I will make a positive difference in this community. I'm not running against anybody in this race, but more importantly for Longmont. I'm asking you for your vote. Please vote for me, Sean P. McCoy, for one of the Longmont City Council at large seats. Please go to mccoyforlongmont.com for more information about my platform and to support and donate to my campaign. Thank you. They show a disclaimer and the disclaimer is like, oh he curses a lot or whatever and the Sergio is very sweet Sergio is running things back there. It was very sweet to put in the disclaimer like, intended for mature audiences, which I think might be wrong branding somehow. I'm here with Talas Samamati and he's running for City Council. He's one of the cancer we're going to be talking about today. This motherfucker has been running all over town, meeting everybody, talking business. Your first time runner for politics. It is. Because you're the same age as me. We are almost the exact same age. And yet somehow my beard looks like I peaked into the Ark of the Coven at the end of an Indiana Jones movie and he looks like he just came out of like a just for men's ad this motherfucker. Thank you for coming by. Thank you. I mean just because you're going gray I mean your friend Anderson Cooper did and didn't hurt his career. No of course it didn't. How did he do it? How did he get into such a very influential position? None of us know for sure but some of us have theories. Talas you're a clever guy. Try to be. Yeah if you if the CIA wanted to like recruit you to be like an undercover asset. It kind of did when I was in high school. Let's talk about this. If you would like to talk about it you can. I've never been approached by the CIA, the Illuminati or the Masons. Nobody wants me in their club. Funny story so after during my senior year Marine Intelligence reached out because I spoke French, Farsi, a little bit of Arabic. Oh. So those languages are quite useful in the areas that they were kind of meddling in. Of course of course. So they were like so son you want to be a spy. Basically. Jesus Christ he said basically. Well but I decided to go to college instead so. I think that was a great decision. I very much respect that decision. This is your first time running for politics and you really do seem like you have a heart for public service no matter what happens in the election. Thanks. Yeah I mean it's something that I kind of dove into head first. Something that I've been passionate about and I saw this as an opportunity for me to give back and we'll let the voters decide. But yeah I'm humbly offering my services. It was really beautiful to watch you move through this process because I felt like you really helped control the conversation that we had as far as this election was concerned. There are some people that mostly reacted to questions but there were a lot of a few candidates I would say that like helped direct to a more important topic and what not. I felt like you were good for that. Oh thank you. I appreciate it. No I respect it a lot man and thanks for coming on. And thanks for sitting next to me while I drink this beautiful Amaro spritz from Abbott and Wallace Distilling. Oh my god are you drinking one? You asshole you should. People kind of got done voting a while ago. We'll start getting those numbers in soon. Very early. It's super early and frankly by the end of this broadcast we still all know the fucking answer. But these numbers tend to move around a lot especially early on in the process. That's what I was trying to point to about this 119 situation. We definitely shouldn't pass 119. We're taxing weed plenty. You know what I'm saying? If we tax it by the way if we fax if we fucking tax weed too much it encourages a black market. Correct. That's not what we're trying to do. You know what I mean? Of course most of the weed I smoke is gift weed. You know what I mean? So fuck you or whatever. But every once in a while I buy from the store and I'll pay you some taxes about it. You put the kids in school or whatever. Well as long as people have the freedoms to grow themselves within reason I think it's a good idea. I agree actually. And one of the reasons following Longmont City Council is so important is because we actually have some of the best cannabis laws in the country and therefore in the world. And that's due to local activism and local people paying attention. And if we didn't have that I mean the reason I got involved in Longmont politics is because they were trying to pass this thing one of these kind of things that said if you have any grow in your house legal whatever that police can just stop in don't need a warrant to come into your house and search it and inspect your grow. Do you know that? Yeah that's kind of pretty invasive. It's complete abuse and attacking on the Fourth Amendment for your search and seizure. There's no reason to assume that a law-abiding citizen is breaking the law. If they have six plants or whatever the fuck it is like it was obviously just something to fuck with people and like sort of arrest more people for non-problems if you have a handgun or something now you're fucked. We fought that or whatever and the city council was totally going to fucking pass it. That's why it's so important to know what's happening and put people in charge that like have a modern-day understanding of these issues. Education voters is super important and I wish the city had resource page where they had all the debates. I was visiting the city office to turn in my periodic financial disclosure reports and Michelle who is one of the people who work there, everyone there is super helpful. She was saying that she was getting a lot of calls from people saying why aren't you guys engaging with people and showing that the base and the other resources like the ones you provide. I think that it's important that's why I did it. I put it all up on my website talus.com slash issues. So I'm going to see too late, right? Yeah, it's too late to get more votes but it's not too late to communicate with the public, good ideas. You know what I mean? It's never really too late for that. One of the beauties of local politics is that you can sort of pressurize local people to make good decisions whereas at the national level there's so much money in the system that just doesn't matter if you call them or whatever. Would you ever consider running for Senate? I mean national level Senate? I mean if you sure I mean I have to, I mean haven't even won one election yet so I think that that's, although I mean who wouldn't want to? I mean I'm sure there are some people who wouldn't. It's actually a way better gig and here's why. They set their own rules of course in the national level Senate and how they did it was. If you serve, I believe it's fucking one term, you get paid the rest of your goddamn life and it's like 120 grand a year. So I've even considered doing that as an art project. What's it cost? Six years? Fuck. Six years, whatever. I just wasted like six if you've been watching my life so like if I got into Senate or whatever I'd be very pleased of course because I'd be making a hundred grand the rest of my life and you know what I can do in this city with a hundred fucking grand? Whatever I'm doing now I'm doing with get this, zero fucking dollars. Plus health insurance to the government? Yes! I'd love to scam the government on our behalf for the arts. You know what I mean? Plus if you get lucky you only have to serve what six months out of the year? Yeah! No it's basically a job you don't show up for and that's considered activism. You know? Thank you dude for coming on. You're such a fucking delight. As we move forward tonight we'll be fucking rooting for you. I publicly endorsed this dude for city council. I think he's a great character. Not that it matters for you to know that now but you might as well know. I like him he's my friend so like I want him to win. You know what I'm talking about? We got a lot of good people running we can't really fuck it up as far as our votes are concerned. There's no like there's nobody running for city council being like you know what we need downtown is more Confederate statues. We don't have that person running you know? And if we did goddamn we would have kicked their dicks in months ago at this point. Yeah I can see myself working with pretty much any of those people who were on those panels. Yes good of course because like if you win you'll have to work with them and like we don't necessarily want to elect a bunch of people that agree. We want to like mostly people that have like ideas in the right direction but sort of disagree with each other. That's how you actually get to better ideas. Absolutely diversity. I agree. Yeah diversity of ideas, diversity of backgrounds. It's all very important leadership. I agree man. Before I let you go let's talk briefly about your outfit because when I was texting Talus earlier yeah come on by man we'll have you on the thing whatever. I was like don't show up and look more fuckable than me right? That's a super fair request from a host. He shows up with this beautiful tweed jacket and show with his white shirt. God damn it! If he had one more button undone I think I'd be pissed. I could never have shined you Andy. That's right. Thank you Talus what a great guest on this show. Thank you very much for coming on man. If you want to I so appreciate you. Our friends in the control room are going to line up another couple videos that we can watch sort of like letting people kind of get an idea for the other candidates that were running whatnot but I think we actually just saw a video of you talking. So it's like we're like here's this guy talking and then we came back was like Jesus he's right here! I wasn't wearing the same thing. No good thing you weren't and like all I really did I looked in a mirror I said your name a few times and all of a sudden you look here. No that's a curious candy man. Well that's no but he's a certain kind of candy man look at his beautiful outfit. Alright I'm going to throw it to the new set of videos with Sergio in there thank you Sergio. Thanks everyone. I'm Joan Peck councilwoman one of the three candidates running to be the mayor of Longmont. Thank you to Longmont Public Media for giving me the opportunity to tell you a little about myself. I grew up in New Arizona on the San Luis Mexico border. I'm the seventh child of twelve. There was always a lot of work to do but time for fun too. Having eight brothers made playing baseball a must. We spent a lot of time with friends on both sides of the border. My father was a carpenter and learned Spanish from his peers. They brought culture and music into our home. My mother was an elementary school cafeteria manager at a time when the schools made breakfast and lunch in the school kitchens. In 1971 I drove to Boulder Colorado from Flagstaff, Arizona after graduating from Northern Arizona University. My degree was in computer science but my heart wasn't skiing. I'm seeking the mayoral seat in the upcoming election to continue my work on the projects and values that our residents expect. There are so many immediate challenges for the city. I want to address three of the ones I have been working on and will continue to work on as your mayor. For the six years that I've been on council, one of my passions and work has been on getting our fast tracks trained to Longmont. We are now in an unprecedented time when the transit options and dollars we need can become a reality. As mayor I can join the meetings and discussions that only the mayors are invited to. Climate change is real. Protecting the health and welfare of our residents, our air and water will be my priority as your mayor. The affordability of housing will be met with the inclusionary housing ordinance this council has adopted. It'll take time and the ordinance needs to be reviewed often to make sure our housing goals are met. There are many issues the city is faced with. As mayor I will be at the table with the other mayors in the county and the metro area to discuss ideas and solutions. For a detailed description of my work so far on council please visit my website at joanpeckforlongmontmayor.com I'm asking for your support in my bid for mayor of Longmont. Thank you. Hello citizens of Longmont my name is Jeremy Johnson. I am running for one of the at-large city councilmen's seat and this year's upcoming election. I am originally from Andalusia, Alabama. I moved to Longmont almost 10 years ago. I married, have a wife and three wonderful children. I own an insurance and financial business here in Longmont. I am a decorated disabled veteran of the United States Army. Two tours in Iraq but the reason why I am reaching out for your support in this year's election to become your next city councilman is because I feel like the people of Longmont needs that strong voice. Some of my personal beliefs leads me to believe that I can be that strong voice for you guys. It's a lot of issues that we all face here in the city of Longmont that we take to council and take to mayor but I don't want those issues just to be the issues that we see. I want those issues to be the issues of the public. I want the public to come to the city council and voice their opinion and that opinion becomes into actions. So, with that being said, get out, voice your opinion and let's make a difference. In making a difference, we look at different issues. The first issue I will conversate about here is education. With education comes a lot of different issues. Right now the big issue is around diversity. So if you think about education and you think about diversity, you say how does that go together? Well, education can be diversified. We have students who thrive in the now education system. We have students that don't thrive in the education system. So we need to look at the education system and get more in tune to creating an education system that meets our students' needs. We have to invest in our youth. Our youth is going to be the next generation that's going to be sitting in positions to make our community stronger. The next issue that's very important to me is small businesses. Small business in the city of Longmont has always been the life of this community. We have to find a way as Longmont, as the citizens, as business owners, to bring that life back to Longmont. Small businesses in Longmont create so many opportunities. One, it generates a lot of tax dollars. Secondly, it brings jobs to Longmont. Those jobs in Longmont will have more people in the community spending money in the community and enjoying the city of Longmont as a whole. Third issue is affordable and attainable homes. We need to spend the same amount of energy in affordable homes as we do in attainable homes. If we put more energy in one and not the other, we're leaving somebody out in the cold. That's not what we want in the city of Longmont. So, please support me. Reach out. I have a social media page on Facebook. It's Jeremy Johnson for City Council. Post any questions there. Reach out. Let me know how I can support you guys and get your support in this upcoming election. Thanks a lot. It's intended for mature audiences. Grow up! Here, I brought another person running for City Council. He's already on City Council, by the way. This is our friend Aaron Rodrigos. Well, only guaranteed for, you know, another six days. Right. So, yeah. Yeah. And we wave a fond farewell to Brian Bagley, who will be mayor for another, like, six hours or some or wave him a fond farewell via cam. Farewell, Mayor Bagley. You delightful character, you. Supposed to show up to my thing, too. He's a good man. Boy, I'll tell you what, he gave us... That's interesting. That's a great beverage. What's that, I wonder? Well, god damn it, that's a drink from our friends over at Abbott and Wallace Distilling. That's the Caribbean Queen and I'm drinking a Miss Fondant. Caribbean Queen! He sings! It was worth it just to sing that. Dude, thank you so much. I know that you're having, like, an election party right down the street. Absolutely. Just down the way. Just down the way. Thank you for stopping in to say hello. It's absolutely my pleasure. I don't know, it's my pleasure as well. So, let's talk a little bit about some of these extra items. This amendment 78, 19 and 120. Sure. I was telling them fucking no on everything. Well, I got, you know, also no votes on this, three items as well. So, I can't say that I'm too far off base with you, at least on those. I think they were deceptive, generally speaking. I fucking agree. So, I felt very much like 119 is connected to 120. 120 is about lowering property taxes for people. It's like a billion dollars' worth of income for us. Yes, but specifically multi-family housing. So, you're looking at mostly corporate overlords there. Not necessarily, you know, if you're a homeowner, it's not your property taxes that are going to get lowered. So, I didn't even digest that part of the bill. See, it's even fucking worse than I thought. It's yes, of course, for Big Daddy or whatever. It's not necessarily for you. And I think when they want to lower their taxes, they want to like make that back in the budget, of course. And 119 is, I think, how they're trying to fucking snake that out. Well, should that pass, I highly doubt they're going to be lowering anybody's rental rates? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Boy, that's fine. That's why we like him on City Council. He's got a great brain. That seems true. They're not going to pass along the savings, you know what I mean? Very doubtful, yeah, very doubtful. Seems doubtful, doesn't it? Yeah, they just want to like, they want to take those like, I don't know, lower-income people that are the renters, like myself and whatnot, they want to like charge you in some other way to make that money back. And how they're doing that is with 119 raising the weed taxes. Because I'll bet you if you're a minimum wage worker in America, ooh, I'll bet you you need a joint every once in a while. Sure. And I think that also folks have to take a look at, do we really want to go back to the same black market we have before legalization? I would argue that's probably not a wise idea. That's just exactly what we were saying a minute ago. Yes, it encourages the black market. And also if you really want to put some money into education, put it into education, not into extracurricular activities, because we've been cutting extracurricular activities and many programs in public education for many years based on the fact that in Colorado, historically, we don't fund them well. So why would we create a new tax and give all that money not to public education, but instead to extracurricular activities that are largely run through private corporations? My God, what a great character. I'm so pleased you came by. That is great insight. And of course, we wouldn't dare provide that before the election or whatever. But that's kind of where my mind is at as well. I didn't have nearly the information set that you do, but goddamn, none of us expect that really, do we? Well, who knows? I just like to do homework. People call me a policy wonk if you will. I may not be the most bagly-ish of the candidates as far as, you know, he is a character, right? And he's kind of, you know, I may not be that colorful of a character. Well, I'm sure you guys don't necessarily agree on politics or whatever. I love Brian as a man. I think he's a fucking fabulous guy. We had a great time. We always get along when we hang out. But we're on different parts of the political spectrum. You know what I mean? I feel it's very important to get along with people on the opposite side of the political spectrum, at least to have some civic discourse, civil discourse, in the sense that you got to know where they're coming from to even argue against it. That's right. If you don't know where they're coming from, how are you going to argue against it? That's right. So I agree with that. I think one of the key things to bring into an argument is, or debate or whatever, is the idea that the other person might be right. And if you can imagine that, if you can ask questions like, what would make that right? Then you get a way more useful conversation going rather than, you think that, I think this. Well, yeah. Not like, you're a fascist. Well, you're a socialist. So it doesn't matter because we need to work together and figure out something that works for the people of the city of Longmont, at least. You know, I don't have to necessarily run the gamut of state legislature or obviously Washington, D.C. That's a whole different hoi-po-loi there. You've been great for our city, and you've been serving as mayor pro-tem for a while now. Two years, two years. For two years. And that's like vice mayor. Yes, quintessentially. And it really depends on who the mayor is based on your workload. And I think that two years ago when Brian was re-elected, he made it very clear that he was intending to take some more personal time. And so that has put a little bit, shifted a little bit more responsibility to me over the last two years, which I was very happy to take on. I hopefully performed with some dignity. I think you did. And I really respect your mentality of there's more workload to pick up and volunteering to be part of that instead of being like, I don't know, fuck it. I just like to vote no on everything. Well, I'll say that there's been much made in this election specifically about certain factions and quote unquote kabals and things like that. And if that was so true, I don't think I would be getting as much support as I do because I have not voted necessarily consistently one side or the other. I think that my votes have been a little bit more independent in certain ways that may not have been to the liking of everybody, but I'm always open and transparent about why I vote the way I do. And I think that has garnered me the support that I've gotten so far at least. Yeah, I think like society is realizing that a straight ticket politician that always votes, and I don't know, whatever the national politics it would be the corporate Democrats, it's actually problematic if you never are willing to see another side of an issue or change your mind. Changing your mind when new information comes to light is like the definition of nobility for me and a politician especially. But for everyone, I really appreciate the work you've done in our community. I'm really thankful for it. Well, thank you. I appreciate that. Well, and I endorse this character, of course, before the election. Unfortunately. Yeah, sure. It may not have helped. In hindsight. Well, one month's number one fucking stoner says I should be in. Perfect. You know, and it's public information, it's public record that I did actually receive a campaign contribution from Native roots, so. Good. That's good news because that's a local business. But a lot of our local, like weed distributor companies, they don't get the same like love that other businesses do from conservative characters, what have you. They'll tell you all day, like we've got to protect small businesses or whatever. But if you sell weed, they want to tax your dick. Well, they'll be equally happy to take contributions from liquor stores. Right. But for some reason, you know, the dispensary is persona non grata, if you will. So I think that we can have honest conversations about cannabis and cannabis policy without saying that we're all a bunch of crazy dead heads or anything. You know what I mean? I don't know. That's right. Well, it's not like we're trying to regulate other things that definitely cause deaths. All right. We can fucking skip over that conversation. But just historically, how many motherfuckers have died from cannabis? Zero. Because it's impossible to kill yourself with this shit. How many people have died from like religion? Oh, basically like, I don't know, a third of deaths or whatever through history. A third of deaths. That's interesting. Some people get struck by lightning, but a lot of them always get beheaded by somebody who believes in an invisible person. You know what I'm talking about? Through history, it's a big problem. But we're not exactly trying to regulate that shit. We don't even tax churches at all. Fucking Joel Osteen in Texas, he got millions in PPP loans. You know? Because oh, what a struggling business Joel has. You know what I mean? In full disclosure, I worked for a televangelical group for a while. I was a professional Christian for years. I wouldn't say I was a professional. I was a professional singer for Christians. That was mine. I was like a worship leader in a church in Texas. And I actually quit for religious reasons for theological reasons. But then I left my religion or whatever. But whatever, we're not talking about that. Thank you for coming on my stupid show. Here we are watching the elections come in. Here's one of the people who were kind of like me personally rooting for this character. I really like him. Everybody in our election is a good person. We're not going to like there are no Nazis running or whatever, you know? So we have a lot of good options and that's what I've been trying to emphasize this whole time. But like, the people I prefer have been on this show. That's what we're up to. Well, some of us like jokes. Some people like jokes. I like jokes. God damn it! Don't you like jokes? Erin, thank you so much for coming on the show. I so appreciate it, sir. And good luck tonight. And either way, I'm sure that we'll have another drink soon down at Cheabot or wherever. Well, I tell you what, I'll still be here even if I lose. So that's right. That's right. That's the beautiful thing about a lot of people running for council right now. It's like, they're going to be in our community and they're they're dedicated to helping us in power or out of power. They're going to be here for us. I really think it's beautiful. So, after your home, put your hands together for our friend Erin. And then I'm going to like pitch it to some more content that Sergio is going to put up. It's just like that. It's just fucking beautiful. Look at this. Hello, my fellow Longmont Tonians. My name is Greg Harris. I'm running to become the next mayor of Longmont. Many people have asked me why I'm running. I've lived in Longmont for over 50 years. And I'm tired of watching things be done the same old way. It's time for a change. I want to improve the lives of the people of Longmont. When you improve the lives of others, you improve your life as well. We all know Longmont will grow. Businesses want to come to Longmont. To meet this need, we must support the construction of the middle class apartments and houses for those employed in Longmont. Affordable housing is important, but also, is the middle class workforce. Attainable housing, homes in the price range for people who earn between 80 and 120 percent of the median area income. This is a huge barrier for prospective Longmont employees. People in that price range have no housing, inventory, or development. We have to be as focused on workforce attainable housing as we are in affordable housing. This would reduce our carbon footprint immensely. Many Longmont workers have long drives to get to work. This increases training costs, and this city is not able to stop growing. But we can't focus on housing for the poor. People need to get in and out of town. Day and night, we commute bumper to bumper on the highway. Longmont has grown by 10,000 people in the last 10 years. The highways have not. Without addressing our infrastructure, our current growth is unsustainable. It will increase our vehicle emissions, especially during community hours with congested traffic. Longmont has many roads that go north and south. But east and west, we only have highway 66 and 119. In 1957, the fences on highway 66 will move back to expand into a four-lane highway. But it never happened. Then we were taxed for a train from the south, but it was never built and we didn't get our money back. I oppose all excessive policies, codes, regulations, and any fees attached to new construction since they would add to the cost for consumers. If it is necessary to fund some city programs, that money should come from the general funds. Longmont has an inclusionary housing ordinance and I oppose any expansion of that ordinance. If we focus on the needs of the growing workforce, workers will spend less time commuting, and this gives employers better training opportunities. I also oppose any increases in water rates, connection fees, or tap fees, and all efforts to limit residential growth. We must support all efforts to substantially increase the number of homes built in Longmont. I hear a lot of complaints at the city council meetings about getting the police to do this or that. I think all these things are possible. To make this happen, I support increasing the budget for public safety and oppose any effort to defund the police. As mayor, I will do what needs to be done to keep Longmont businesses open. The city and state should not decide which businesses should close and which should stay open. I think the recent action by the Boulder County government requiring masks everywhere was excessive government overreach. Longmont has discussed community and developer interaction for years. It needs to move beyond discussion and engage in positive actions. I support the economic development recommendations of the Longmont Economic Development Partnership. As mayor, I will lead the city council and city agencies and expediting project development. To do that, I will require a quarterly progress report from the city manager and agencies responsible for project approval. A recent example of government overreach is the proposed healthy beverage ordinance. Being considered by the city council, good intentions do not justify government overreach. City council should not micromanage restaurants and those in government should trust parents to make decisions for their kids. I think this proposed ordinance is a waste of time and energy. There are so many more important things for our local government to be spending their time on. I ask for you to vote for Harris for mayor. It's a vote for middle-class housing, infrastructure, improvements, economic development, and public safety. You trust in parents, not government, to make the right choices for their children. Thank you. Hello, I'm Tim Waters and I'm applying for the job of mayor. If you're a registered voter living in Longmont, then you'll soon be asked to decide who you'd like to hire to fill this position. You're going to make this decision at one of the most challenging and critical times in Longmont's 150-year history. So think about this as a job interview because I'm going to do my best to persuade you that I'm your best applicant to lead Longmont into the post-pandemic future. Some of you may know that I currently represent Ward 1, the east side of Longmont on city council. Experience as a city council member certainly helps prepare one for the job of mayor. This said, serving as a city council member is only one dimension of what your most qualified applicants should bring to this selection process. You might be wondering what are the kinds of leadership experience beyond serving on city council I would bring to the job. For the record, I was a career educator. Highlights of my 44-plus-year career include seven years, a superintendent of the Greeley Evans School District followed by 19 years as president and CEO of one of America's leading education research, development and service companies. I'm the lead city council member on two major initiatives. A visioning project referred to as Building STEAM which is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics in formation of Longmont's Child Care and Early Learning Coalition. The Building STEAM project produced a robust and exciting vision of what could be developed west of Martin in north of Boston. Our Child Care and Early Learning Coalition is dedicated to rebuilding an industry that's just been decimated by the pandemic in its critical to our economic recovery. If we're going to fully recover from the ravages of the pandemic, we must ensure that mothers and fathers of preschool-aged children have high-quality programs in which to place them. So mom and or dad can get back into the workforce. Along with child care, we need housing for which families can qualify and afford. Availability of affordable quality and accessible child care and housing are necessary to attract and retain the kind of talent we want to see in Longmont workplaces. You can read my positions and policies on a variety of issues including Longmont's carbon footprint and how to reduce it, pandemic recovery on my website, timwatersformair.com. It's likely you'll hear other applicants for this job say similar things to what you are hearing from me say in this interview. The difference between me and the others is my record for actually leading and getting things done. So if you're a North Main Street business owner, let's work together to do on North Main what downtown businesses have done south of 9th to 1st. If you want a quiet disguise over the airport, and see the airport developed as an engine of economic growth and a generator of high-end jobs in the aviation sector, let's work together to turn Vansbury on airport into the western United States hub of research development and manufacturing of green, quiet, electrified aviation. Other communities are positioning themselves to do just this. If you're a parent of children who want to complete their entire education without ever having to leave Longmont, then hire me to partner with Front Range Community College and leaders in Colorado's four-year higher education institutions to establish a satellite campus in the building steam area. If you're an artist who believes you deserve a venue in which to perform, a venue that inspires younger generations to pursue careers in the arts, a venue that attracts audiences and generates revenues from outside our community because our venue competes with best in class performing arts venues in the Front Range then hire me. And let's work together and with the community to make this a Longmont reality. If you're frustrated with RTD and how Longmont has been dismissed by them and want to see real progress on a regional transportation solution, then hire me to work with other elected officials to either secure commitments in funding from RTD or pivot to other creative options for transporting Longmoners from our town to your destinations. I could go on, but you get the point as you consider applicants for this job. One of us brings the kind of experience Longmont needs. One of us is tested, proven and effective. If you hire me for this job, this is what you get in your next mayor. Someone who listens to your aspirations, your concerns, and your suggestions, I want to continue hearing from you because it's how I learn. Clarity on where I stand on the issues of importance to you in the community, transparency on how I arrive at my positions, accountability for every public or private comment, decision or action I take, and leadership in a moment when leadership may matter more than ever. So now it's up to you to select the applicant who you think best qualified to lead Longmont into the post pandemic future. The stakes have never been higher. This may be the most important hiring decision you ever make and you hire me by voting for Tim Waters. What if the first thrill of your day is your ride to work? With land speeds faster than a Boeing 747 and no air drag to slow your speed, you could fasten your seat belt in Fort Collins at 7.20 a.m. and arrive in Denver at 7.29 a.m. just nine minutes later with plenty of time to pick up a muffin and latte before you leisurely stroll through the front doors at work. Hi, I'm Diane Christ. I'm a candidate at large for Longmont City Council and I have vital information you need to hear. In 2017 the Colorado Department of Transportation submitted a plan to a global hyperloop challenge outlining a north-south route along our front range. Here is a diagram of that original plan. The route included spurs to Fort Collins, Longmont Boulder and an east-west leg out the I-70 corridor for Denver to Vale. The route is planned far enough east to include transportation to DIA. CDOT's proposal was compelling and Colorado was awarded status as one of four first routes to be built in the country. The other three winning routes were Chicago, Miami and Dallas thrusting Colorado in the limelight as a significant player on the national stage. Now here is something important I need to call to your attention. In the past four years the route map has changed and no longer includes a connection to Longmont Boulder. This is the updated route map. As citizens of Longmont we need to be very concerned about this change. The Hyperloop will be the single biggest leap forward in transportation of this century. Not having a connection to the Hyperloop would be the equivalent of the railroad bypassing our town. It would kill our city. Let me tell you a little bit more about the Hyperloop. Using magnetic levitation pods travel through a sealed above-ground tube at a speed of 700 miles per hour. Sometimes called space travel on the ground the experience is described as one of floating quickly to one's destination. Small capacity pods between four and 28 passengers make it easy to go direct to one's destination without having to stop at other stations along your trip. A video of the first human Hyperloop test can be viewed on my website chrisferlongmontcounsel.com under the question what does it feel like to ride the Hyperloop. This video also explains the mechanics and technology involved in this high-speed transportation innovation. Why is the Hyperloop important to my family and me? A way to have our cars and clean air too this transportation solution is the answer to most of the problems Longmont is currently facing. Local traffic would once again become local cutting out much of the pass through congestion in town. By greatly expanding the viable commuting area families could live where they can afford to live putting much less pressure on developers and city government to create affordable and attainable housing situations. City council can focus on creating walking neighborhoods that would bring back our village feel and insulate our small businesses. And as an extra perk the Hyperloop will improve our air quality by reducing highway emissions by as much as one-third. And Longmont isn't at about time we planned a lasting solution to the problems we keep discussing but never really solve. Three different companies are currently perfecting this technology and a race they say will be ready for use in the next nine years. One competitor Swiss pod recently announced plans to build a test facility in Pueblo where they will add a thousand jobs in the deep tech and high tech fields. As a business growth consultant I lament the fact that neither our city council nor technology business sector acted to attract Swiss pod to build their facility in Longmont. These are exactly the types of high paid high skill technology interests in which Longmont excels. So how do we make this work Longmont? CDOT plans to build the Hyperloop with private investment funds. E470 was built in much the same way and has operated in the black. Longmont's involvement will be to partner on a local station without any increase or new taxes. Longmont already has funds earmarked for transportation. The big decision for you Longmont is electing council members who are willing to take us there. CDOT reports Colorado grew 50% in the last 20 years and will grow another 50% in the additional 20 years ahead of us. It's time for bold solutions. My name is Diane Christ and I am running for Longmont City Council at large. I appreciate your support on November 2nd. We're still looking through these election numbers we're not going to get all of them of course as we sit here. Right now the mayoral race that's this. Here's Joan Peck here. She's got 40.5% of the vote right now. Mr. Tim Waters has 40.31% and that's what you might call very fucking close. Now honestly only fucking a little under 6000 votes are counted at this point so it's not exactly representative of how these numbers are going to turn out and it's good to keep that in mind as we move forward here. All these numbers are going to move around a whole lot. Here's our friend Talas. He's right here. Here's our friend Aaron. He's right here. We just had him. Here's Shakita our other friend who won't be able to join us tonight. She's doing very well in the election as well. Technically she has the most oh let's see Aaron looks like he has the most votes right now and Shakita looks like she has the second most. So my guess is what we're going to end up seeing as these numbers sort of level out these that we're looking at now don't count basically it's just sort of an idea of where things are at. We got almost 10,000 votes here. We got a little under 100,000 people in Longmont. We can expect 60,000 votes maybe. If we got more than that it would be a real magic trick and I hope everybody voted I hope you did but if you didn't you know whatever you know go fuck yourself. I think what we're going to end up seeing is Talus versus Shakita. I think Aaron may just win his seat back that would be great and I think we'll end up seeing Talus versus Shakita sort of battling it out. But Sean McCoy also doing very well he's a former city council member. He currently has 20% of the vote. I actually met him not so long ago. He's fucking wonderful. Oh a note from the producers let's see what this is. Yes. Looks like the next information drops going to be in about 20 minutes so we're going to hang on until we get a little bit more voter information and then we will whatever give up for the day. Oh look at our friend Marcia Martin here. She's running for Longmont city council. She's running against no one as you can tell here and right now she has 100% of the vote. Wow! That's really impressive. You almost never see that in politics. You almost never see fucking 100% of the vote at this stage in the election. Very impressive to our friend Marcia Martin who's running against no one. Everyone voted for her. That's really good. Really impressive. No protest votes I guess in that race. It's amazing we had so many people running for these at large. Seats. But nobody running for Ward 2 against Marcia. Marcia's great. Oh you know I hope she gets elected. What a great character. I think honestly I think the smart money is on Marcia. You know because like currently right now she's got 100% of the vote. It's a pretty good bet. Joan Pegg versus Tim Waters here. That looks like it's coming out. Ah boy dead heat right now. And we'll see that again at 8.30. Let's talk a little bit about voting and patriotism or whatever. God damn it you can tune out any time. It's my opinion that the reason you want to vote for a politician is you think that they are going to help change society in a way that is helpful. Right. I think what's the best way to say this. Modern American patriotism is Stockholm syndrome unless it is geared toward change for the better. Because people of course in America now have been largely taken advantage of by a system someone else built. It's obviously sort of a rat race and an abusive thing that's been set up for you. So if you consider yourself about a huge patriot and whatnot you're really sort of in favor of your own enslavement at this point. If your patriotism isn't based on becoming the beautiful thing that America really could become and of course you know our political documents our living documents that are meant to be edited over time. I think like if whatever Thomas Jefferson shows up now he looks at our laws and he goes you motherfuckers didn't change this at all. We went to like incredible trouble to make it to where you could change this shit as you move forward. They'll maybe be surprised that we haven't changed as much as we should. I think it's important to vote and I think it's important to try and move society forward. I guess this may be called being a progressive. But I'd rather be a progressive than a regressive. Boy what a beautiful drink. Well it's a Miss Collins you know from Abbott and Wallace Distilling. Oh these beverages and loose banter are brought to you by Abbott and Wallace Distilling. What a beautiful company. Our friend John over there dropped off some cocktails for me just before we went on because you know I'm not going to do this without having drinks. Let's check in and see how our amendments and shit are going. We want no on all this shit. Okay so here's amendment 78 looks like we're getting I don't know it's still early but this is 800,000 votes so far and it's I don't know. 57% of people saying no on this. That's encouraging. I think that'll probably go that way frankly. And 120 looks like it's going to be a no as well by kind of the same margin. Obviously people are kind of voting the same way on that at this point. We'll see a little discrepancy here because this is only 54% of the vote going no against 119. I've warned you that that might happen because there's an inherent bias against cannabis and there are people that think we legalized cannabis not because it was a first amendment activity to control your own consciousness but because it was another tax revenue source. That's how we talked the conservatives into it basically. So their whole plan of course is to tax it to an extent that reinvigorates the black market and then they can illegalize it again and call us all criminals. So I expect to see a pretty contentious vote here. And I know looking at it may not seem like it's that big a difference at this point but I don't know that's pretty close to me. 42 and 57% are a little further out versus 45 and 54 right now for the cannabis issue. I still think we'll in general say no to that but we've only got like one county reporting on that so far. So those numbers are all going to move around quite a bit. Just good to keep an eye on as we move through and have this conversation good. Nothing's moving yet. We're still waiting here. Around 8.30 we'll start seeing a difference. That's in roughly 14 minutes. I'm drinking a drink having an amazing time. Lot of interesting things happen in the world actually right now. Oh national level news. Let's zoom out for just a second. Jeff Bezos I don't know if you've heard of him. He's the most wealthy man in America. Owner of Amazon and a well documented workforce abuser. Jeff Bezos just lost a government contract related to space shit to Elon Musk. Oh one billionaire built and beat another one out of a contract. Bummer. You would think like they would be like Jeff Bezos you lost the contract probably didn't give us as good a deal or whatever as Elon Musk and I think this is regarding moving arms around the world at faster speed by going into outer space. I think that's what this is about. But instead of letting there be a loser in the marketplace like I don't know if you've heard of capitalism but there's supposed to be winners and losers in the marketplace. But if you're a billionaire there's no way to fucking lose. To put that into context Bezos lost a contract with us. We were going to pay him dollars whatever to move missiles and fucking Elon Musk got that contract. Right. Don't worry. Oh my god don't worry. Jeff Bezos is going to be just fine because we're still going to find a way to pay him our money. Don't you know I noticed that you were worried that Jeff Bezos wasn't going to take all our money. You should relax. Okay. People are watching out for him. The Senate is preparing a 10 billion dollar bailout in which they force NASA to award Jeff Bezos two contracts for his work. 10 billion dollars. Do you know the World Health Organization says it costs about six billion dollars to solve world hunger. Recently they kind of like tweeted Elon Musk I think and they were like you know two percent of your wealth which is like six fucking billion dollars would solve world hunger. And the American government must also know that number but they would rather hand out 10 billion to Jeff Bezos who makes his employees piss in a bag because they're not allowed to take breaks. That's where we're at in America just sort of an interesting note at the national level. They will fucking shut this government down if Jeff doesn't get his tax write off. Old Uncle Joe has been fighting the fucking fight of keeping the government open. How is he doing it? How is he doing it? Well he's following the traditional pattern of course for corporate Democrats which is posture, posture, posture give in because like they're owned by exactly the same people as Mitch McConnell and all that but they have to posture differently. It's the same message with different hashtags. You know what I mean? The conservatives are like we're like please we're normal Americans please help us and the conservatives tweet back no hashtag freedom. And then the Democrats text back no hashtag BLM hashtag equality. Because there's no catchy phrase for go fuck yourself but that's what they really mean of course. Speaking of go fuck yourself the NYPD has been protesting lately because they were asked to all get vaccinated. Makes sense of course because they're dealing face to face with a lot of the public and if they're doing that of course the police department becomes like a mass spreader of a disease at some point because they're literally pulling over random people and breathing their air and breathing on them right? Makes sense but the NYPD actually was protesting vaccination requirements that have been put upon them. They were chanting a phrase and the phrase was we will not comply but what do they say when they like I don't know pull a teenager out of a car who happens to be from a race other than mine all of a sudden the idea of like do not comply with aggressive authority acting outside of their scope that apparently doesn't count at all all we heard from police officers over the last few years is oh if you would just obey we wouldn't have to murder you you know what I mean? Just for the sake of your own safety and the safety of people you should comply with police but when police are asked basically the same thing why don't you comply to protect people? They go fuck you my job is not to protect people that's why we're going to see more BLM protests soon because society has not moved on this issue in the way that they ought to no real police reform took place we look forward to seeing what Longmont does matter of fact because Longmont is a great leader in this area let's talk about it Longmont has a program called the Core Team now that is what happens what's the best way to explain the core team instead of sending police with guns and handcuffs to solve all of our problems in the community now we have another two shifts of officers what they has a cop it has an EMT and it has a clinical therapist in the car together so they show up somebody calls the police on some homeless person in the park now they have more options than just sending police being like what are you breaking the law or not let's arrest them or whatever in Boulder they would show up and at gunpoint take their blankets and tell them to fuck off out of town that's what happens in Boulder not in Longmont we send a different team with different skills and different resources because sometimes those people look at the cops called on them what they really need is someone to help them find better resources for physical or mental health so that's what we're doing in Longmont when you hear people talking about defund the police this is largely the kind of program they're actually talking about because it's tough to carry around a sign that says reallocate police funding to better reflect the actual needs of the community you know that's not as easy as defund the police but honestly do our fucking police need SWAT vehicles and shit to solve our local problems I'm not sure you only want to give your cops SWAT team bullshit if you're going to be fending off the public right and I know all my conservative friends agree with me when I say we can't give our oppressors more tools to oppress us that's not the right answer that's I think where the argument for guns comes from is you're going to have to maybe defend yourself against an oppressive state now it's supposed to be with a well-regulated militia whatever a different conversation but like an interesting note right I think if we do increase the budget for Longmont Public Safety we ought to be focused on things like the core team and not like boy I wish we had more tanks to fuck protesters up with or whatever you know what I mean I guarantee like these people let's look at the Aurora race here we are we'll find that real quickly yeah here in the Aurora race for many city council members I don't think the people that were already in power in Aurora I'm not sure they're that concerned with changing how they work with the police luckily in Longmont we have a different thing going we can honestly we can be really proud of what we've got in Longmont more note from the producer thank you very much beautiful I was going to pretend to take notes this whole time 8 p.m. and midnight okay after 8 p.m. the next information drop will be midnight okay so if you are following the elections here here's the website to go to result.enr.clarityelections.com that seems to be a great resource that's adding up great for us we're actually watching a couple different websites I guess election.boco.solutions is this other one that we're looking at and for some reason this one seems to maybe update a little faster so like we'll get another dump of information hopefully at 8.30 and these numbers will shift a little bit and then the next one will be midnight and like by morning we'll know but guess who's not going to stay on your TV for fucking hours me because like pretty soon I'm not going to be stoned anymore and I'm going to I'm going to lose interest in this you know I think that's super fair to lose interest in something over this period of time and that's what that's what's going to happen you know luckily I've got these cocktails from Evan Wallace to Stilling here in Longmont Colorado not to be missed not to be missed and this is how we're getting through the election today you should have seen what I was drinking during the Trump election during Trump and Clinton I was hanging out with my friend Tim Osteck and we spent election night in my living room smoking weed and and drinking beers and we just kept saying to each other boy it's getting darker outside I'm glad we're not in that kind of situation locally any one of these people could win and it's not going to be bad news Shikita looks like she's still doing very well she got 21% of the vote here Erin's just slightly out in front of her yeah well all these numbers are going to move around a whole lot but I expect we'll see those two people pretty seriously in numbers in Talus as well that is a a prediction from someone who is an avowed public idiot so let's just keep that in context here a few more minutes till the next information drop we love that here's a thought because we'll be at national level politics again soon and so often the main emotional context of an election is fear right you're afraid people are going to like raise taxes on the one thing you don't need them to raise taxes you're afraid that the rich motherfuckers are going to totally take over the world again they're not going to take over the world they've already done what they're going to do they're going to do maybe a little more but they're actually building a metaverse to own that they can actually own and of course they'll find a way to own outer space as well so don't worry about them it's easy to be fearful right in one of these situations it's easy to associate elections with bad news and fearful outcomes but I want to send you a little love note my friend here's what I found I am unable to process fear when I am processing gratitude so when I really focus my attention and think about how grateful I am that we're not where we used to be and that I believe we're moving toward a positive space when I fill myself with gratitude in that way it's sort of like forces fear to temporarily evaporate so whenever we talk about politics remember to balance yourself and not be a victim of emotional manipulation which of course happens mostly at the national level in politics people will try and manipulate you and usually through fear there were a few points during this election where people tried to manipulate me and I gotta tell you it's not impossible to manipulate me like I said I'm kind of an idiot and emotionally vulnerable in some ways so at some point during the selection people started showing up in my world trying to sort of activate me against some of these politicians um trying to get me to publicly be like fuck them they're this asshole whatever and I've nearly avoided it of course because I call you know a few of my close people and I was like this is what I heard I'm pissed help me not react you know what I mean god damn it it's even happening at the local level they try and manipulate us and it wasn't the politicians doing it it was their followers of course um let's see if our numbers have moved at all this is probably close and Lilton Longmont here we go things are moving a little bit not quite oh my god you know who's doing very well Marsha Martin she's kicking dicks in in this election look out mother fucker she got a hundred percent of the vote look at this look at this look at this you never see that you never see that so early in the election she's running against no one she's the only person to vote for but she's fucking killing it she's killing it nobody's riding in like Snoopy here what the fuck ever salty the song but president nixon none of that shit nobody's putting that in and Longmont I want to thank you for not riding me in that's been an issue in previous elections a little bit annoying and it doesn't make the politicians trust me so I'm glad that you're not doing that at least on this website I hate it when I show up in these numbers it's embarrassing and makes me look like an asshole and god damn it that's my job making me look like an asshole is my fucking job ooh avid Wallace Distilling what a fucking high-quality company providing entertainment to me while I tell you all about these numbers looks like they're moving just a little bit boy you know this mayoral race is actually it's gonna be really fucking close it's gonna be really fucking close I got to interview Tim Waters on my show Boulder County tonight I didn't have a chance to talk to Joan Peck but she's been in council a long time we kind of know what to expect from her she's a good character we're not gonna it's not a big fuck up if she gets elected or anything you know none of these people are super bad news I got to interview Tim Harris oh I'm sorry I got to interview Tim Waters and Greg Harris Tim Waters is a pretty progressive character lifelong Democrat as far as I'm aware Joan Peck I think is sort of the same way very progressive character if not progressive liberal sure and then Greg Harris is you know the more conservative candidate frankly good guy we like Greg I got to have a nice chat with him on my show he's in favor of capitalism he thinks like the answers for us are in that area and I think basically these other two candidates would kind of disagree that their balances more the answer between socialism and capitalism personally and just tell you where I'm coming from total democratic socialist I think we should vote about how we help each other matter of fact I think all of politics is about how we help each other and in Longmont boy I want to fucking point at this in Longmont the real truth is we love each other in this community we are a tight-knit community we have a long history of showing affection to each other and helping each other when we're in need and so whenever we vote it is ideally an outcome of that truth and when we vote about what to do with our politics or with our amendments or propositions or whatever that ideally and I think it is and it is an outcome of the love that we really have for each other and it's a very hopeful thing I love Longmont very much or I swear to God I wouldn't spend my time this way God damn is it boring I would never fucking spend my time this way if I wasn't in love with you all right we should be getting a little information dump anytime and my drinks you know I gotta tell you my drinks run a little low so like you know I hope they hurry or I'm gonna literally have to walk over to the refrigerator very quickly and pop a fresh bow because I'm goddamnit I'm not gonna have no drinks during this shit remember when we talked about Anderson Cooper maybe being a CIA operative that may be true but I've been dead whatever may not be true I'm an idiot did we do we say that out loud it's true um but you know who else might be in the CIA oh yes please what who else might be in the CIA is Alex Jones hear me out this is a maybe a too far out idea ooh look at that a little note from the producers thank you very much oh un bruski perfect Alex Jones a famous person who affects the national dialogue at this point right um I here here's personal opinion golly I think the CIA works in America and I think that's the kind of shit they do is trying to affect the national dialogue and I believe Alex Jones is Bill Hicks look up the name Bill Hicks he's a a wonderful comedian kind of from like the 90s who had wonderful like almost like a George Carlin level commentary about the government and whatnot and then like he died of cancer unfortunately and I hate to talk about this if it bothers his family and whatnot Bill Hicks is a great American and a wonderful artist all artists their first amendment activists but Bill Hicks was a really important one but it makes sense to me watching his career and then watching Alex Jones rise sort of after Bill Hicks's death they have the same teeth like they have the same moles like I don't know man it's not fucking nothing all right it's not nothing it's not nothing um also I believe that fucking Epstein is not dead huh I feel like when we see the pictures of his dead body his ear is a different shape it's a different shape on the dead body than it is with the live guy that's weird that's weird he knew everybody he had the dirt on fucking everybody and now his buddy miss Maxwell is the one holding the bag and they're not giving her anything they're not cutting a plea deal with her or anything you're gonna hang her out for everything um amazing uh and like whatever it's amazing maybe the Clintons killed him you know but like it seems like maybe they didn't those are some things to look up if you're interested in politics you're probably interested in how people are fucking you over and that's those are some little clues as to what might be them oh my god Anderson Cooper is totally not in the CIA Alex Jones definitely is not Bill Hicks doing a CIA operation and Epstein's totally dead as a door now there is that help that give me out of trouble I'm sure it does let's look for these numbers you're moving a little bit they're not really moving yet it probably takes a while to get it loaded in whatever yeah see all right look at this this is amendment 78 right that's what we said would not pass and then here's prof 120 we said we probably wouldn't see that pass and then we said 119 might be a little bit more of a contentious issue that's actually a little closer here 45 and 54 versus 42 and 57 I think we'll see more separation soon with this I think we'll see the no come out further and on 120 we'll see that no come out further as well but this I think will be a little more contentious that makes sense to me and all these numbers will move some fucking day because eventually more than a couple thousand people are going to vote yeah there's only less than 10,000 votes so far I hope mine is counted and make sure I'm not missing this okay yeah cool I got a lady friend trying to make sure I don't miss her this evening and I already miss her so we're doing pretty well in the election so far John Peck versus Tim Waters that's what it's going to come down to in the mayoral race and ideally on my next episode of Boulder County tonight we will talk to the winner of that mayoral election I've already talked to Tim who said he'd come on right if he wins the election I haven't heard back from Joan but like you know some politicians don't exactly want to sit next to like the most crass stoner guy in their community and I think that's fair patriotism without progress is Stockholm syndrome in America that's true that's a million percent true is that how percents work how many zeros in percents two? Christ well a hundred percent then I'm sorry for the math mistake what else do we have any more news we have a bunch of news oh god let's let's zoom out for just a second because I know I've been like talking about heavy political shit this whole time let me just relax you with an interesting note may I while we wait for these numbers to sort of shift the Heimlich maneuver you've heard of it of course did you know that the Heimlich maneuver is relatively new in our society? guess when the Heimlich maneuver was discovered what did you guess? that's wrong you're an idiot it was invented in 1972 isn't that seem weird does it seem like it's older knowledge than that somehow my whole life I was born in 85 right so my whole life the Heimlich maneuver has been like standard in the world it was like how you save people's lives or whatever everyone knows the Heimlich maneuver but Dr. Heimlich himself only died in like 2016 isn't that amazing? it's really recent like Dr. Heimlich might have seen that first fantastic four movie does that put in a weird perspective? and it's a weird name for a thing like the Heimlich maneuver sounds like something his bar friends made up you know what I mean Heimlich must have been so cool he's like at some bar in 1972 his friends drinking beer just like this you know like pops a peanut or whatever what are you eating at the bar in 1972? peanuts he fucking eats a peanut and Heimlich confidently strides over and just walks by and the guy's like and the guy coughs up the peanut and eventually like the crowd settles after the intense thing that just happened Heimlich you know what was that amazing move you did you just saved our friends life and Heimlich's like whatever it's just something I made up or whatever that's him smoking a cigarette in 1972 yeah I'm in a public place and I'm smoking this cigarette because I'm so fucking cool leather jacket imagine me in a leather jacket I'm fucking Heimlich I'm the baddest bitch in town whatever I don't even care they're like yeah that's what we'll call it from now on we're gonna call it the Heimlich maneuver what an amazing thing you know Jimmy Heimlich or whatever this guy's name is it was invented in 1972 wow Heimlich you're so cool we're gonna call this the Heimlich maneuver that and that sexual thing we're not even talking about on this show that's the second Heimlich maneuver um it's weird to think about that you know like Batman 66 TV show Batman he didn't know the Heimlich maneuver if Commissioner Gordon uh it takes a big bite of shrimp or something and gets it lodged Batman 66 doesn't necessarily know how to solve that problem Spock from Star Trek doesn't know how to solve that problem you know that's not nothing that's weird don't you think that's weird but when did Spock then you relax Batman 66 for sure has no idea what to do if you start choking if there's like a high schooler in the room and Batman 66 is in the room the high schooler probably knows better how to save the choking person's life if that doesn't bother you maybe you're just more advanced than I am in lots of ways which we'd expect of course um oh yeah we're still kind of waiting on new numbers um but luckily my date is not ready to hang out yet so we have more time do we have new numbers let's look alright let me try and refresh what I'm doing here we might have new numbers let's see that would be really great oh the other website are these new that look the same my ship might not be updating at the same rate as the rest of the world but you know honestly for years for like 2 years now I felt like my whole life is trying to watch some progress bar fill up and it has not been filling up it's been frozen in one spot if we get that weird beach ball of death when you're on your Mac or whatever my whole career has felt like that for like 2 years we've got 0 counties reporting so far we've got about 10,000 votes counted and it looks like Talis here is at 11% um Jeremy Johnson sitting at 9.8% we've got Diane Christ who I didn't have a chance to talk to on the show but she's at 15% Sean McCoy is at 20% we've got Shakita Yarborough she's got 21% Aaron Rodriguez still sitting at 21.8% Aaron's out in front I guess you'd kind of expect that if you're looking for comfort voters um the comfort voters are going to vote for people that have already been in council or are currently in council so you're going to see a lot of votes from McCoy and Rodriguez McCoy served in like 2014 Rodriguez has been in the game for a little while now in one term let me look at this other one I'll refresh this little guy yeah it's not moving at all 21% for Aaron oh yeah okay alright so the numbers have moved around a little bit in the mayoral race let's look at this John Peck she's sitting right at 39% and Tim Waters has come out in front with 41% Gregory Harris is still at 19% um I think we're going to have a somewhat close race between Peck and Waters I expect that to kind of go back and forth through the evening in the morning you'll be able to see what happened here right now it looks like Tim might be slightly pulling out in front and of those people just so you know I endorsed Tim Waters not because I think these other people are bad people of course but just because like whatever my personal ethos my personal philosophy resonated more with Mr. Waters but like I say honestly it's a nail-biter between people that are not going to be bad for our community you know what I mean so it's not that bad a problem here and it'll be fun to just watch what happens here 39.5 versus 41.2 right now um all these numbers I think city council numbers are going to move around a lot more frankly because at this point we've got 8,000 votes for mayor and we've got 14,000 for city council so what that tells me is you may have literally had more people voting about city council than mayor um that I think is what we're looking at Ben Marsha Martin Kicken Dixon you're the fucking vote god damn it you never see that she's a fantastic politician we actually talked to her on my show what would it have been episode 7 or 6 or something like that you can look up boulder county tonight or you can look it up on long mount public media wherever they're at and um you'll see my interview with Marsha Martin for a while for one term and she's rerunning for her seat nobody ran against her so of course she's doing very well numerically in the election and good for her good for her she seemed nice she put up with my bullshit when I was interviewing her god damn it this nice lady I knew she wasn't running against anyone so we sort of played a little loose in the interview with her and um we voted for that race because of course she's not running against anyone so literally you don't need to necessarily fill in a dot about it she's got a hundred percent of the votes by the way and they're counting 2300 votes for her which if she was against everybody else she'd still be in third place even if she was running for one of the open seats so she actually does very well she's actually a great lady I had a great time chatting with her um but yeah all these numbers are going to move around a whole lot uh so don't get too attached to a story here see if these websites are reporting it the same way uh because it would be really well here's this the aurora stuff we're sort of passively interested in aurora we don't want anybody to get reelected in aurora we need fresh people there uh hopefully that's something that's on the minds of aurora voters their police officers or murderers so we need a city council that's willing to hold them accountable yeah it looks like basically the same shit happening here we've got the same numbers on both sides which is great god damn I'm so glad you tuned in for us here we're coming up on kind of two hours worth of this and that seems like plenty right uh but the numbers are what they are I hope we said enough nice shit about everybody I love everybody that's run um boy let's underline this long month please hear this running for politics fucking sucks it fucking sucks running for politics is like running through a stockyard you're gonna step in a bunch of shit and you're really gonna get through it that's why I wanted to talk that's why I wanted to talk to our friend Aaron and our friend Talis um cause they're young guys they're my age I'm in my 30s and um I think those guys represent the youngest people running in this race at this point and um I find that to be a very hopeful thing but everyone running for city council at this point they are our neighbors they are our neighbors who are trying to help they are trying to serve this community being on city council it fucking sucks it's hard work pays like shit half the community hates you immediately uh because whatever patch they think you have on your arm your own supporters may not stay your supporters because they think you should be doing more radical things what not being uh sensible trying to find uh the better ideas without holding on too tightly all those things are true of long map city council there's not like um there's not enough power invested in that job uh for narcissists to really run for it everyone running for city council are our neighbors they are our friends trying to serve us and I hope that if you run into someone who's in uh city council or mayor I hope you recognize that they are actually servants of our community and in a way that you are not willing to serve I'm not willing to serve I don't want this job this job fucking sucks I like my job where you like uh do drugs and say mother fucker or whatever as much as you want I don't want this job and I care about society of course a lot of my art is to affect society but I'm I recognize I'm completely unelectable but like I just wanted to point that out because we really have a lot of wonderful folks running and they all deserve your respect uh for now I'm not sure these numbers are going to move much more in the next hour or two the next information dump will be about midnight um so if you're interested in this shit do tune in for that but I think that basically is our election coverage for this show thank you for tuning in um I wish there was more information to give you sooner but that's how these election shows go uh eventually you have to sign off and know that uh you don't have the full answer it's been great chatting with you uh if you're interested in uh watching the election uh I think it'll be really great to watch the race between Joe Peck uh Joan Peck and Tim Waters that might end up being sort of a nail biter even though it's it looks like it's spreading out right now it looks like it's spreading out in Tim's direction uh and either one of those would be great I voted for Tim uh but if he wasn't in the race I totally would have voted for Joan so everything's going great everything's going great long month you know be be be cool everything's fine right don't forget to root for the best outcome don't forget to release how we are currently running things um modern patriotism is based on growth a lot of us have discovered therapy and help with um mental health in in a way that a lot of our previous generations didn't um and so be sure to protect yourself and to emotionally wound up about any of this okay our local public servants are genuinely good people I've met a lot of these people I know a lot of people that are currently in power in long month and none of them are motherfuckers that's just how it is so I hope that you can recognize that uh and I hope that uh whoever we have winning this election I hope they recognize uh that this community is full of love and we're a hopeful community so one thing we can say congratulations to Marsha Martin goddamn Marsha Martin she's kicking dicks good for her what a the the most impressive candidate we've ever seen in an election it's so early god damn they must have been counting these votes uh for you know uh mirror hours you know and uh Marsha Martin's got 100% of the votes in her race what an amazing accomplishment I'll be running for uh town fool uh in the next six months and uh there don't seem to be anybody running against me for that so I expect similar results thank you very much for tuning in uh to this broadcast we hope you've enjoyed it we got to talk to some of the candidates we got to have some drinks we got to talk about like national level problems and local issues Boulder County tonight for more uh in-depth interviews with these politicians and uh oh classic timeless comedy for me of course uh but Longmont Public Media actually did a bunch of great journalism in this area so be sure to check out their website as well Longmont Public Media or look them up on YouTube they have a lot of community content there um and also if you would like to get involved in local um content creation that can help our community not only be educated but fall in deeper love with each other you need to come talk to us over at Longmont Public Media our friend Sergio here who runs the place uh he cares about your first amendment rights and as an American you owe us your ideas if you don't publicize your ideas if you don't put into the public space your best ideas we will not progress as quickly as we need to in this country so I hope you bring your best ideas and even those of you who of course I disagree with I hope you bring your best ideas it's my belief of course that there's no reason to stomp out speech the best way to combat speech you disagree with is with more speech hope you remember that uh I hope you remember that modern patriotism in America is based on progress and if it's not it's Stockholm syndrome um all Longmont I love you very much I've been here since 2009 you are a beautiful community an inspiring community I know you and so I can speak to it you are the place I chose to live and I've been here since 2009 I don't regret it for a minute um I'm so thankful for our community I'm so thankful for the people that want to serve us through politics um thank you for the piece that you offer in our community all of us build what has become our Longmont culture and the only reason we're not called Loveland is because the name was already taken alright you're wonderful Longmont thank you for tuning in uh god damn it we'll probably not see you again I'll probably never fucking do this again someone will because someone of course loves you this way and god damn it sleep so well have a drink twist up a J uh live your best life and lean into your freedoms see you soon Longmont best of luck