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Now, I want to bring a woman that I am fingers crossed, am hoping is going to make it through the fray to become the next chairwoman of the Colorado GOP.
Bretta Horne. Welcome back to the show.
Thanks for having me, Mandy, I appreciate it.
Now, Britta, you're no stranger to Republican politics. Okay, you've had your you know, your little your little bruises here and there. We are now in next level stupidity and we are now in a situation and I'm not going to ask you to confirm or deny what I'm saying here.
This is my opinion.
We now have leadership that has learned to do what democrats do, and that is to try and use the courts to keep people.
Out of office that they don't like.
You got served at IHOP and I don't mean pancakes.
Tell me about that.
Yeah, we wish it was the seven to ten blueberry kit pancakes. No, not at all. No, I got ambush and ambushed my opponent. That to serve us, serve me one of many in this lawsuit, the latest of the what the cabal is doing, what David's team is doing to minimize their voice, to come create chaos, and to do everything they can to keep their brain.
And ultimately this is about a move by Eli Bremmer and Todd Watkins and several other people to hold a meeting, reach a quorum, and vote to go in a different direction. All Republicans showed up to do this, And so what grounds are they suing Breddy?
You hurt their feelings?
Well, there's like so many levels and you're like, I mean, I don't want to get down into the weeds about it. But then there was a tro to stop us from doing it. Then we found out we could do it. It was okay. Then we did it, and then there was a countersuit, like I said with Eli Bremmer about you know, reinstating it, and then that got thrown out for all number of reasons of an opinion of a a judge and now they're appealing that, and then in
the meantime they're doing this lawsuit. It's, you know, in essence, because of all the money and the ces and the attorneys's that the Republican Party, the current Republican Party has occurred occurred. They want us now to all pay for it.
Oh my god.
Ah, Okay, Brittan, Now that we've talked about that, we'll have to wait till that works this way through the courts, wasting a ton of money in the process, money that could be spent planning for the next election.
But here we are.
Instead, I'd rather talk about the and I know you're not officially out yet. Can we talk about the plan that's not officially out yet? Even though it's not out yet?
Oh sure, yeah, I mean yeah, I thought it was going to be and I gave it to you. I had a time. It's fine. Yeah, we'll get up, yes, as soon as we can.
So first of all, I just want to say I've never gotten a more thorough document from any candidate from anywhere about what you'd like to see happen with the Republican Party. And I was cheering as I read it. It's just one great idea after or another, none of which has to do with suing other Republicans, none of which has to do with putting out hate field videos. What are the things that you want to put into action if you're made chairwoman of the Colorado Republican Party.
I truly appreciate that and thank you very much for it. So it is an action plan for the first one hundred days as the next Colorado GOP chair. And you know it's going to we have to start with unifying, you know, unifying the party. We have to make sure we're taking care of everybody. Everybody and we can use said the word we just use all the time, the big ten. We have so many different variations of Republicans and we like it that way. We want to be independent,
but we all definitely have things we agree with. We want less government, you know, the less taxes are more freedom, so let's work with those. So we need to unify the party and we need to strengthen the county parties. Two years ago, there were so many new party chairs.
They had no idea what they were doing manby, and it chilled because that's all they did is doing this infighting instead instead of working on you know, electing Republicans that you know locally, growing the party locally, having more events than the one wink to day dinner. You have to do more than that, and you also have the fundraise and have fun. The newer generation Republicans they're sick
of this. I mean also young Republicans. They're all supporting me because they're like, they're the new future and we need to hand this over to them. But they want to have fun too. Why we're doing this and protecting our conservative values and going on, I mean, I mean, you want to have those at the beginning. And I really wanted this one to be the first one because this is how we get unified. This is how we get integrity, This is how we get character of who
we are. We need to audit the books. We need to tell the party what's going on. We need to do a third party audit, and now what's going on with the financials of the GOP because not having put that transparency causes all this havoc and we're seeing it every day. People are angry and angrier.
Greta, I think that I just called you, Greta. Sorry about that. My waitress at a restaurant last night was Greta Rita.
One of the things that I think would.
Be important is to put all expenditures online. Everything that the party spends money on. Any Republicans should be able to go and see, oh, they spent X amount of dollars on office supplies, they spend X Every aspect of the budget should be online.
Because I don't have any confidence.
Although I'm not a registered Republican right now, I left the party when Dave Williams become chairman because I knew what he was capable of, and.
I was right.
I'd love to come back, but I want some certainty that if I'm giving money, it's going to be spent wisely.
Absolutely, and you're absolutely right. That's a great tool to do that with. And there's a lot When I was county treasurer, I saw a lot of the bigger counties. Thank you that every day you know what's going on in every county. Why wouldn't we know what's going on in the county party?
Well, let me ask you this, and this is something that I think is really important for the next leader. I am sick to death of Republicans getting caught flat footed on some idiotic social issue that isn't important to most voters in Colorado, but the news media drives an agenda and then they drive the conversation and the Republicans follow them off of a cliff.
It's happened over and over again.
What issues do you think that the Republican Party should be focused like a laser on for the next few election cycles.
I think for Colorado, we obviously the rule of law. I mean we could go you know, what's we're going on right now? We're having this type of lawfair going against each other and all the lawfair going on in Colorado. We have what's going on in the capitol. I think all the issues, we're staying with, the gun issues, we're staying with the lotto. You know, I'm still as a rancher's wife, egg issues, fire, She's made roof issues. Obviously, water issues. We definitely have to work on those things.
But now even down to education, I think education is super important to all of us. I mean, you see had every day we all think you're seeing with your daughter in school, where you're going to put her and we're going to you know, she's going to get a good education and not worry about the politics of the of the teacher. So I think those pieces, and I would also say the economy. I mean I've taught. I was still shocked. You know. We talked about all the
egg stuff. The other day. We paid sixty eight cents for an egg, and then I was like, going to Costco, Go to Costco. I went to Costco on the way home yesterday after all the meetings. There were no eggs. Yeah, they were out. I was just like, that's affecting all of us. So economy is definitely somewhere that we can really get along with and agree with and start working lots from the county level all the way to the state.
So, Britter, what is going to happen when the state Assembly happens?
These lawsuits are out there?
How do you plan on addressing the crowd that is going to be very friendly to Dave Williams.
He has managed to stack.
The deck quite nicely and is working to disqualify some well voters who may have been there to vote for someone different. How do you address that crowd and ask them for your vote?
Well, I think we're definitely looking at the numbers and we're really tracking them. We're tracking by making phone calls to every one of every advice and secretary of the smaller counties and including the bonus members and the larger counties. We're definitely making sure we're tracking in our numbers. We're in the margins. This is going to go really well
as long as you're still more Humanicans. We have to plan for all those different shenanigans that can happen, and my voice is going to be we have to figure out how to unite, how to collaborate, and how to focus on winning elections instead of fighting each other. And it's going to have all those different levels. And you're right when you said earlier when I was listening listening in you know, this is the soul of the party.
We're fighting for the shall of the party. Do we want to still continue to be this ugly, nasty, vindictive? How many more words would you like could use, you know, attacking other Republicans because we think differently, or we're not drinking the kool aid and we're not taking the purity test, and it's all that's set up anyway. It's like, when do we stop that. I have never manny, I'm looking at the people who are saying it not only do they have an ugly inside there, it's their continence is
an ugly on the outside. And like what cave kid? Right? You know, who has the right as adults and aged adults to say such ugly things about each other?
It's interesting to me.
And we're talking about the Rhino watch crowd, and I'll let you have the final word. What's interesting to me is who made them the decider? And when you just and they just randomly decide to move the goalposts on what makes you the wrong kind of Republican? And I don't understand why they've been given so much power. And I'm genuinely curious about why who decided that they were going to have so much power within this group of Republicans?
And it's unfortunate that they do. Brit what's next? What's the next step here? When is the State Assembly? When will we find out?
Well, what do you understand? We should be thirty one days from this. So we heard you you know, social media that it's March twenty ninth, council Rock Rock Church. But we haven't seen anything. We haven't seen the call yet, so we're still waiting and we're still I'm just working
it every day, more interviews later. Today, we're still making the phone calls and I wanted to say what you were having that call yesterday, the interview of yesterday, I had over six endorsements popping up my phone why we were doing the interview.
It was fantastic.
Everybody's going they're done with this, yeah, and I'm getting some bigger calls and I can't wait, wait, God talk about it yet. But they're getting the very calls because they're set up too, and we need to all be set up with this because you're right, who is the arbitrator? They're anonymous man. Yeah, that's why they get rid of it, and we need to change that too.
Brena Horne is my guest.
Brett.
I appreciate you making time for me today. Maybe you and I can go to ihop and we can actually have a nice breakfast were served by someone else. I appreciate your time today, Britta. We'll talk to you again soon.
Thanks again,