Jared Polis’s Wolves Are Moving In on Denver

On June 25, 2024, Deb Flora, Helen Raleigh, Dave Wilson, Mike Buck, and Susan Kochevar joined the show. Flora details her border visit experiences and seven-point plan to secure America, criticizing Washington dysfunction and advocating for finishing the wall, defunding sanctuary cities, and designating cartels as terrorist organizations Raleigh explains how her Wall Street Journal op-ed on Polis’s wolf policy became a viral sensation and uses it to. Border Security and Congressional Leadership Start listening at 15:27 – Hour 1 Deb Flora, candidate for Colorado’s 4th Congressional District, outlines her comprehensive plan to address the nation’s most pressing challenges. Flora, who served as director of public policy and created the documentary “Whose Children Are They?,” emphasizes the need for principled leadership in Washington. She describes her firsthand experience visiting the southern border, where she spoke with Border Patrol, ICE, and DEA agents about the crisis. Flora calls for finishing the border wall, defunding sanctuary cities, restoring stay-in-Mexico policies, and designating drug cartels as narco-terrorist military organizations. Flora criticizes the dysfunction in Congress, noting that the first two years of the Trump administration were “squandered” despite Republican control of both chambers. She stresses the importance of rebuilding coalitions within the party to achieve meaningful legislative victories on border security and government accountability. “When I was down at the border last year, many of the people who are coming across our border are not from Mexico. In fact, that is the smallest group of people. Border Patrol would refer to the ‘stans’: Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Russia, and China.” Deb Flora, CD4 Congressional Candidate Governor Polis’s Wolf Policy Draws National Attention Start listening at 31:48 – Hour 1 Helen Raleigh, senior contributor at The Federalist and author of Confucius Never Said, Backlash, and The Broken Welcome Mat, explains how her Wall Street Journal op-ed on Colorado’s wolf reintroduction became one of the weekend’s most-read pieces. The article criticizes Governor Jared Polis’s conservation policies, particularly the narrow 2020 ballot measure that released wolves west of the Continental Divide against the wishes of rural voters most affected by the decision. Raleigh reports that wolves have already been spotted in Larimer County near Fort Collins, spreading panic among residents. When Polis responded to her article on Twitter at 6 a.m. with what she characterizes as a “condescending” message suggesting critics simply put up fences, Raleigh argues this exemplifies how liberal elites make policy decisions that affect ordinary people while remaining insulated from consequences. The discussion extends to immigration reform, where Raleigh advocates for comprehensive legal immigration changes including reformed asylum laws modeled on Australia’s approach, which reduced illegal immigration by 90 percent by refusing to accept asylum claims from anyone who arrived illegally by boat. “This article is not about attacking wolves or wolverines. Sometimes we can focus on the most mundane and absurd aspect of public policy and demonstrate the absurdity, because it doesn’t matter how they deal with illegal immigration or wolverines, the methodology is always the same: they are insulated from the conse...