Freedom 560, Stacia Kuhn, October 23, 2014

Station:   KLZ, 560 AM

Show:      Freedom 560

Guests:    Kuhn

Link:        http://grrc.podomatic.com/profile?p=1

Date:       October 23, 2014

Topics:    Brittany Pettersen, Principles of Liberty Scorecard, Attorney, Rising Costs, Healthcare, Housing, Education, Education Candidate, Special Interests, Teachers Unions, Education Committee, Sex Education Bill, Freedom of Opportunity, Government Hindrance to Business, Bob Beauprez, Jill Repella, Excess Onerous Unreasonable Regulations, Bureaucracy, Business Personal Propery Tax, Edcucational Excellence, War on Women, Taking Away Birth Control, Abortion, 13 Year-Old Rape Victim, Planned Parenthood, Radical Conservatives Jefferson Country (JeffCo) School Board, Constitutional Rights, Second Amendment Rights, Private Property Rights, Fracking Bans, Local Control, Religious Liberties, Gay Marriage, Personal Liberties

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[The following represents notes taken during this broadcasted interview.  All portions, except where identified as transcribed sections, are paraphrased from the questions and responses between the host and the guest.]

HOST KEN CLARK:

  • Welcome.  Describe district

GOP CANDIDATE FOR HOUSE DISTRICT 28, GRADUATE OF LEADERSHIP OF THE ROCKIES, STACIA KUHN:

  • Like a j
  • All in Lakewood
  • Bell Mar
  • 6th on the North
  • Simms on the west
  • Garrison on the east

CLARK:

  • Who’s your opponent?

KUHN:

  • Incumbent Dem
  • Brittany Pettersen

CLARK:

  • Principles of Liberty scorecard — 1 to 100, with 50,000 data points that are factored in… Britteny is a yes person for Obama, Bloomberg and the Dem agenda
  • Tell me about your campaign — high tech energy production, manufacturing

KUHN:

  • Reason I’m running
    • I’m a 1st timer
    • Attorney by profession — had practice for11 years
    • I researched Britteny Petterson, and realized what  a “ball player” she is
      • She keeps her head down
      • She votes as they tell her to vote
  • I’ve seen that Lakewood people are struggling
    • Costs rising
      • Food & groceries
      • Energy
      • Healthcare
      • Gas
      • Housing
      • Education
  • We need a more thoughtful representative who thinks about how these laws affect us

CLARK:

  • Down at the capitol in session, I watch the fireworks, the sausage making, she doesn’t do anything except vote.  What is she known for

KUHN:

  • She likes to fashion herself as “an education candidate”
  • Her fundraising is from special interests and teachers unions
  • Her own mailer says that her qualifications include:
    • Jeffco graduate
    • At risk youth, who was “saved” by her teachers
  • On education committee, she is described as one of the most disinterested committee members ever witnessed on the ed committee

CLARK:

  • Funny that her qualification is that she graduated from high school

KUHN:

  • I’ve got her tri-fold mailer here in front of me
  • Pictures of her childhood
    • She had to raise herself and her brothers
    • She remembers where she came from

CLARK:

  • Where did she fall on the Sex education bill — that was horrific for the state of Colorado  — I mean not one Dem voted against it.  So I know she voted for it!
  • [commercial break]
  • What will you stand for in the legislature

KUHN:

  • One of the pillars of my platform is “freedom of Opportunity”
    • Where People and BUSINESSES an achieve their goals
    • Strong biz climate means strong stable jobs for people at all income levels

CLARK:

  • Biggest hinderance to biz, is Government getting in my way

KUHN:

  • Absolutely
  • And what we need to do, as BB and Jill Repella have said, is a complete audit of our regulations
    • Biz people run afoul of regulations inadvertently
    • If they were clearer, simpler, and fewer, it wouldn’t cost biz so much in tax and legal advice to comply

CLARK:

  • Anecdote:  Ken’s friend built a commercial building and inspector wouldn’t give a Certificate of Occupancy because of one dead shrub

KUHN:

  • I know what these people are going through
  • Just to split a piece of land between 2 sisters they inherited from their parents will cost pver $25,000 in fees, etc.
  • Those kind of excess and onerous, unreasonable regulations we need to take a another look at
    • I realize that land use is determined at local level
    • But it’s the theory of bureaucracy that we’re fighting

CLARK:

  • Biz Personal Propery tax is STATE law– that’s the biggest biz crusher we have in Colorado

KUHN:

  • Hinderance to bringing back manufacturing to CO is the worth of their machinery/equipment — large, and expensive
  • So they have high personal property taxes
  • Over and over and over again
  • Trying to take another look at laws and regs, and streamlining them, and getting rid of the ones that are ideologically driven… that’s what I’d like to focus on
  • I’d like to focus on edcucational excellence
    • Bringing back decisions to the local level

CLARK:

  • Have you been hit by negative attacks? Like are you a purveyor of the War on Women?

KUHN:

  • Oh, yeah
  • I want to (according to them):
    • I want to take away birth control
    • I want to deny abortion to a 13 year old that’s been raped
    • And I want to defund Planned parenthood
  • Interesting seeing as how I’ve never been in office, never run before
    • They data mined my Facebook page
  • Education
    • Authority and accountability should rest with local school boards
    • So to them, somehow I’m in cahoots with this radical conservative Jeffco school board, and  I want to take money away from the classroom

CLARK:

  • They’re doing that to all the canidates. They don’t care who or what you are, if you’re an R, they are out to destroy you.  They’ll lie and cheat…You, Neville, laura woods. They’ll paint you into a corner.  It’s insane!

KUHN:

  • People warned me, if they can’t find a skeleton in your closet.
  • They’ll make something up
  • And that’s exactly what they’ve done

CLARK:

  • Amazing.  It’s all based on lies cheating stealing and deceit.. so what’s your messaging to overcome that?

KUHN:

  • Phone calls
  • Knocking on doors
  • Couple of mailers out
  • Active on Facebook, getting our message out that way, as well
  • Meet and greets, trying to meet as many people as I can

CLARK:

  • It’s tough, right?  You have a job and a family…. I’ve seen it with many friends
  • Aside from Education and Regulation, what else

KUHN:

  • Preservation of Personal liberties and the protection of our Constitutional rights
    • We’ve seen an erosion in the past couple years
    • In Colorado
    • The natural rights that are enshrined in the Constitution
  • In 2013, they passed the most restrictive gun laws in the country that do nothing to reduce crime, yet turn law-abiding gun-owners into criminals
  • I’m concerned with:
    • Second amendment rights
    • Private property rights
      • Individualized fracking bans
      • Trying to institute on a city-wide and county-wide basis
        • Normally I’m a defender of local control
        • But a patchwork of regs, is not the way to go
          • They don’t have the expertise on a local level
          • They are affecting people’s personal property rights
        • We have to be careful that we are not abridging our religious liberties as well
          • Like with gay marriage — dangerous waters
          • I want to make sure that we are protecting our personal liberties

CLARK:

  • Unfortuantely we’ve already jumped off that bridge.
  • Contact info.

KUHN:

  • www.votestaciakuhn.com
  • Week and a half / two weeks before the election, any assistance is appreciated
    • Volunteers
    • Donations