Jared Polis
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74 appearances
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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Sadly, there's not as many elected Democrats anymore.
You got it here. Well, that's part of the problem. There's too many of them, and you guys got to edit it a little bit. Cut them down a little. By the way, how great it would be if the folks here were the governing coalition of our country and how proud we would be as a nation. Thank you. to create prosperity and peace in the world. Um, someday, someday you'll be back.
We could argue about a couple of things, you know, there's still, there's 15 or 16 of them. So, uh, that was, uh, we need EPA reform. My goodness. So EPA, did you say we might be on the same page, but we need NEPA reform too. I mean, these are things where, We hope the Trump administration gets it right. We'll get to that. We will. So there's too many. Okay. And they're all good.
They're all wonderful. I look through them. I mean, we can go through them, but integrity, character, and virtue matter. That might be sort of a sad wish. as opposed to kind of a value, because to the voters, they don't. Now, this is important, because this is a value. Every person has dignity, quality, and worth. Truth is important.
I think you can combine that with no one's entitled to their own facts. So, I mean, look, somehow Martin Luther did 95 theses, but generally speaking, in marketing and in politics, you've got to get it to three or four to kind of resonate. And I think there's ways to kind of, without sacrificing the value piece...
kind of get this down to the three or four that you can put on a little card, and you can put on a sign, and that can mean something to people. But I'm excited by them all. Free and functioning markets deliver prosperity. I mean, absolutely. And I think that's been forgotten.
I just heard a tale in the last discussion, the danger of the tariffs and taxes on shutting down transactions between two people who are inherently better off because they make a transaction.
We got rid of 208 old executive orders. So I had been working on this. By the way, you know, the proper way is you work on things and you plan them. You don't just go by the seat of your pants. So it took us about six months to figure out. You know, we were going to repeal these 208 orders.
And then, unfortunately, because of the timing, it was during, after the election, people, you know, then thought somehow we got the idea from Doge. But I say, no, no, they got the idea from us. Okay. We started earlier. But, yeah, as an executive, I can get rid, and I got rid of executive orders dated back to 1920 that were still in effect in our state, vast majority over the last 10, 20 years.
So that was exciting. And I've challenged our legislature to do the same. to go through our rules, because again, unlike certain other executives, I don't think I have the power to single-handedly nullify laws.
So I challenge our legislature to go back and look at all of the laws that require different rules, because sometimes an executive is required by law to do rules, and go back and eliminate some of that as well.
It's like get government out of the way. The market and the price of housing is a function of supply and demand. The fact that demand is high in Colorado is wonderful. People want to live there. You want to live there. It's great. You all move out there. But we have artificial government-imposed constraints on supply.
That is a single reason why a home would cost a lot more than its replacement value, which they do. Average home price in Denver is about $600,000, which is high. I mean, it's not California high, but it's high.
And so we have basically allowed more housing to be built, whether it's townhomes, whether it's multifamily housing, the kinds of inherently more affordable housing, which ironically is often the most difficult kind of housing to get past your local planning board. The single-family homes they let you build, but the more affordable kinds of homes are actually harder to approve.
So we've made a lot of progress in that. We continue that work.
When I became governor, our income tax rate was 4.63%. We cut it at the ballot box to 4.5%. We cut it at the ballot box to 4.4%. And then we cut it through the legislature to 4.25%. So that's our income tax debt. Okay. And...
No, this is where we say, I like this. Every person has dignity, quality, and worth. That needs to stay there. I mean, we value everybody based on the content of their character, their contributions, and who they are. There's good and bad people of all kinds.
Well, none of us had the context going in because this was, until it was elevated by the president and the governor, it was an obscure thing going on with Maine. So we didn't really know what was going on at the time. But apparently it has to do with following the guidance around women's sports.
I mean, women's sports are, you know, obviously something like in any sports we want to prevent cheating. I mean, everybody wants to prevent cheating in sports, you know, and of course, uh, steroids, hormones, they can all be used for cheating and that has no place in sports. And, um, and of course, you know, at the same time we want people to be able to participate.
It's a really, it's a little, so, you know, my, um, We have discussions about our dinner table. I have a 10-year-old daughter and a 13-year-old son, and we were talking about this. Where's the line? How do you make sure that you don't have boys cheating to play in girls' sports? My daughter said, I don't understand. We beat the boys. Yeah.
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