
74 June 9th, 2023
Season 31 Episode 23 | 27m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
Topical experts discuss the latest in Colorado Politics.
Host Kyle Dyer Panelist Patty Calhoun Eric Sondermann Jesse Paul Summer Nettles Topics • Mike Johnston & New Leadership • Marshall Fire Findings • Protest for executive order to ban guns • Bill gives Colorado schools option to participate in a mental health screenings
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74 June 9th, 2023
Season 31 Episode 23 | 27m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
Host Kyle Dyer Panelist Patty Calhoun Eric Sondermann Jesse Paul Summer Nettles Topics • Mike Johnston & New Leadership • Marshall Fire Findings • Protest for executive order to ban guns • Bill gives Colorado schools option to participate in a mental health screenings
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>>> HELLO, I'M KYLE DYER AND WELCOME TO COLORADO INSIDE OUT ON THIS FRIDAY, JUNE 9TH.
THIS IS AN EXCITING WEEK.
YEMI WAS SWORN IN.
DENVER VOTERS DECIDED TO ELECT MIKE JOHNSTON AT THE CITY'S 46th MAYOR.
LET'S GET TO INTRODUCE YOU TO THE PANEL.
PATTY CALHOUN, FOUNDER AND EDITOR OF WESTWORD.
ERIC SONDERMANN, COLUMNIST, DENVER AND COLORADO SPRINGS GAZETTE, AND COLORADO POLITICS.
JESSE PAUL, REPORTER AND EDITOR, THE COLORADO SUN.
SUMMER NETTLES, CHIEF INSPIRATION OFFICER, GREATER PURPOSE MEDIA.
THANK YOU, ALL.
LET'S START BY TALKING ABOUT THE NEW LEADERSHIP IN DENVER.
ON MONDAY, JULY 17TH THAT IS THE DAY MIKE JOHNSTON IS OFFICIALLY SWORN IN.
PATTY IN HIS COMMENT PUBLISHED HE PROMISED GENUINE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
>> IT WAS INTERESTING THAT IS WHAT HE FOCUSED ON.
WE PUBLISHED BOTH PIECES OF KELLY AND MIKE.
HE FOCUSED HOW COMMUNITIES WEREN'T VISITED.
HE VISITED THE NEIGHBORHOODS DURING HIS CAMPAIGN.
HE PROMISED HE WOULD DO THAT THE FIRST 78 DAYS IN THE OFFICE.
NOW WE SEE THAT MIKE JOHNSTON IS GOING TO AT LEAST GO OUT AND DO THAT.
HE MADE SOME SIGNIFICANT PROMISES FOR THOSE FIRST 78 DAYS, 100 DAYS.
WE WILL SEE A LOT MORE IN THE SIX WEEKS BEFORE HE IS SWORN IN.
HE WILL START WITH HIS CABINET.
HE WILL DECIDE WHAT DIRECTIONS HE WANTS TO GO.
IT IS AN EXCITING TIME FOR DENVER.
PEOPLE ARE READY FOR NEW DIRECTION AND CHANGE.
>> WE ARE EXCITED FOR SOMETHING NEW.
WILL WE KNOW THIS TIME NEXT WEEK?
IT CAME IN PRETTY EASILY ON TUESDAY NIGHT.
>> ACTUALLY, I THINK WE KNEW -- PATTY AND I WERE TALKING ABOUT I THINK WE KNEW THE FIRST BATCH OF VOTES.
THE COUNT WAS UP BY FOUR POINTS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
YOU KNEW THE NUMBER WOULD GROW WITH EACH SUCCESS OF GROWING.
IF KELLY BROUGH WAS GOING TO BE IN THE CASE HE NEEDED A GOOD TURNOUT.
THIS WAS A DECISIVE WIN FOR MIKE JOHNSTON.
IT WAS MORE THAN 10 POINTS AT THE END OF THE DAY.
I DON'T THINK IT WAS MUCH OF A SURPRISE IN THE CLOSING WEEKS.
THE SIZE OF A MARGIN MIGHT HAVE BEEN A BIT OF A SURPRISE.
A MINDSET TRANSITION FROM BEING A CANDIDATE TO BEING A MUCH MORE SOBER CHIEF EXECUTIVE.
HE NOW NEEDS TO BECOME THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE WITH THE CITY THAT IS STRUGGLING.
>> THAT IS INTERESTING.
YOU WERE AT THE ROUGH CAMPAIGN TUESDAY NIGHT?
>> IT WAS AN INTERESTING EXPERIENCE OVER THERE.
WE KIND OF KNEW FROM THE BEGINNING TALKING TO KELLY BROUGH BEFORE THE RESULTS WERE COMING IN.
SHE WAS PREPARING WHAT THE OUTCOME WAS GOING TO BE.
VERY MUTED THE ENTIRE TIME.
I THINK YOUR POINT IS A GREAT ONE, ERIC.
MIKE JOHNSTON HASN'T BEEN IN THE OFFICE FOR ALMOST A DECADE.
IT HAS BEEN QUITE A WHILE.
I'M FASCINATED TO SEE WHO ENDS UP IN HIS CABINET.
WHETHER ANY OF HIS ENDORSERS END UP IN HIS ADMINISTRATION WILL BE FASCINATING TO WATCH.
I AGREE, THIS IS A TOTAL CHANGE IN DENVER.
WE TALKED TO A TON OF VOTERS ON ELECTION DAY WHO WEREN'T HAPPY.
FOLKS WERE LEANING TOWARDS MIKE JOHNSTON BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T FEEL KELLY BROUGH.
THEY WANTED A NEW FRESH FACE.
KELLY BROUGH HAS BEEN AROUND IN DENVER POLITICS FOR A LONG TIME.
A LOT OF VOTERS DECIDED WHO HAD A LITTLE BIT MORE OF THAT BLANK SLATE.
>> SUMMER?
>> FACE-OFF AGAINST SOMEONE IN THE COMMUNITY.
SOMEONE WHO ADVANCE PROPOSITION 123 AND DEDICATED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
YEAH, I MEAN, I THINK IF EXON WAS GIVING YOU MONEY INSTEAD OF LINKIN.
I THINK AGE WAS A FACTOR.
48 TO 59, THAT TENURE CHANGES THE WAY YOU CONNECT WITH PEOPLE.
UNFORTUNATELY, KELLY COULDN'T BRIDGE THAT GAP.
SHE HOLDS HERSELF A BIT APART EVEN IN HER EFFORT TO RELATE.
HER HISTORY STILL DOESN'T GRAB YOU THE SAME WAY THAT JOHNSTON COULD IN PERSON.
>> THAT'S WHERE I THINK MONEY MADE MORE OF A DIFFERENCE IN THE MAYOR'S RACE.
YOU SAW SOME OF THOSE RACES MAYBE COULD HAVE PULLED IT OUT.
I THINK IT MADE A DIFFERENCE IN SOME OF THE OTHER RACES.
WE WERE GOING TO HAVE TWO PROGRESSIVES OPPOSED TO ONE.
SIX NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS.
>> I WOULD LIKE TO SAY IS THE PRAGMATISM AND PROGRESSTISM ANGLE.
EFFORT TO CREATE LIKE A NEW SQUAD, LIKE A DENVER SQUAD.
DENVER DOESN'T REALLY WANT A SQUAD.
DENVER WANTS HOMELESSNESS TO END.
DENVER WANTS THERE TO BE AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
DENVER WANTS DPS TO STOP ARGUING.
DENVER DOESN'T NEED YOU TO BE LIKE THE CAPE.
WE NEED YOU TO BE THE AVENGER.
BE PART OF THE GROUP THAT WILL GET STUFF DONE.
THINK ABOUT THE PROGRESSIVE THAT WE PUT ON CITY COUNCIL.
I DON'T THINK THEY ARE PROGRESSIVE AS THEY ARE PRAGMATIC.
THEY SERVED ROLES OF NEED AND SEE WHERE THAT NEED HASN'T BEEN SERVED.
>> I WILL HOPE THAT ALL THE CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE PRAGMATIC WHEN YOU HAVE A CITY TO RUN.
I THOUGHT KELLY BROUGH WAS VERY PERSONABLE IN HER CAMPAIGNING, IN HER ADS.
SHE WAS DEFINITELY USING HER PUBLIC STORY.
I THINK IT WASN'T SO MUCH A POLITICAL SHE WAS IDENTIFIED WITH THE POWERS AT BE IN DENVER FROM HICKENLOOPER WITH THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
>> ULTIMATE IT WAS RACE ABOUT MONEY.
JOHNSTON HAD NO END OF MONEY.
SECONDLY, IN THE CITY THAT HAD ELIMINATED IN THE FIRST ROUND THE MORE OUT THERE PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES.
IT WAS A CHOICE TWO VARIOUS ESTABLISHMENT TYPES THERE PICKED THE ONE THREE DEGREES MORE PROGRESSIVE AS OPPOSED TO THREE DEGREES LESS.
WHATEVER THE TOTAL COMPLEX OF THIS NEW COUNCIL, THE BIG NEWS OF THE NIGHT WAS THE OVERWHELMING DEFEAT.
IF YOU GET TO BEAT BY FIVE POINTS OR SIX POINTS YOU CAN TALK ABOUT MONEY.
WHEN YOU DON'T SEE 40%.
IT IS NOT ABOUT MONEY, IT IS SOMETHING DEEPER.
CANDY TURNED HERSELF INTO A CELEBRITY.
SHE WAS ALWAYS OUT THERE WAVING A GOLF CLUB.
>> IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE PROGRESSIVES GIVEN WHAT THE RESULTS WERE.
A LOT OF VERY PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES WHO WE THOUGHT WOULD DO A LOT BETTER IN THESE RACES DID NOT.
LOOKING AT LEGISLATURES I WONDER WHAT THAT LOOKS FOR THE NEXT ELECTION CYCLE.
IT COULD SHIFT THE TRAJECTORY.
>> AURORA, COLORADO, HAS THEIR ELECTION FOR MAYOR.
THIS WEEK AFTER 18 MONTHS BOULDER FIRE INVESTIGATOR THE MARSHALL FIRE THAT BURNED MORE THAN 1,000 HOMES IN DECEMBER OF 2021.
THEY ARE SAYING THERE WERE TWO FIRES THAT CAUSED ALL THAT DIRECTION.
>> INDEED THEY DID.
I THINK WE NEED TO CHANGE OUR TERMINATION.
IT IS NO LONGER THE MARSHALL FIRE, IT IS THE MARSHALL FIRES.
THERE WERE TWO FIRES THAT MERGED INTO THIS INCREDIBLE SUPER FIRE THAT DECIMATED LOUISVILLE AND SUPERIOR AND PLENTY OTHER PARTS UP TO OUR NORTH.
XCEL, JESSE COMMENTED OFF AIR.
THEIR STOCK TANKED.
WHEN IT WAS ANNOUNCED THEY WERE NOT GOING TO PURSUE CRIMINAL CHARGES THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY DIDN'T FIND COUPLE IBILITY THEIR STOCK WENT BACK UP.
THAT IS ALL SOME WHAT UNDER THE BRIDGE.
THAT IS PROBABLY A BAD METAPHOR.
THESE ARE LIVES THAT WERE INCREDIBLY DISRUPTIVE.
>> AN EMOTIONAL DAY.
THE PEOPLE WHO LOST SO MUCH HEARING NO CRIMINAL.
>> I'M SURE FOLKS ARE DISAPPOINTED BY THAT.
THE EXPLANATION FROM THE INVESTIGATORS WAS A SOUND ONE.
IT WAS A REIGNITION OF A FIRE.
THE SIX DAY OLD FIRE HAPPENED IN DIFFERENT WEATHER CONDITIONS.
100 MILES PER HOUR WINDS WHO COULD HAVE EXPECTED THAT?
ALL THE EFFORTS TO SMOTHER THE FIRE.
WHILE THERE AREN'T CRIMINAL CHARGES FROM XCEL.
THERE WILL PROBABLY BE CIVIL ONES.
CAME BACK UP AFTER GOING DOWN.
THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES.
XCEL YOU CANNOT PASS THE COST ALONG TO CONSUMERS.
>> XCEL HAS BEEN IN THE NEWS A LOT THIS YEAR.
>> AS CANDIDATES LOOK FOR ISSUES TO GALVANIZE THEIR CAMPAIGN.
XCEL IS GOING TO EXCEL AT BEING THAT NUGGET.
A LOT OF POTENTIAL CANDIDATES SAY WHEN I GET ELECTED I'M NOT GOING TO LET THIS ENERGY COMPANY HOLD US HOSTAGE ANYMORE WHILE THEY FAIL AT THEIR JOB.
>> HOW THEY LISTED THINGS.
WE ALL LEARNED ABOUT THE 12 TRIBES WHO KNEW THEY WERE UP THERE.
IT WAS ALL FINE.
IT HAS RESPARKED.
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT HAD GIVEN THEM THE OKAY.
I THINK THEY WILL BE ALL RIGHT BECAUSE OF THE SEAL OF APPROVAL.
THEY ARE GOING TO SUFFERING FOR A WHILE.
WE WILL CONTINUE TO SUFFER EVEN IF THEY CAN'T PAST THOSE COSTS ON.
THEY ARE PASSING PLENTY OF OTHER COSTS ON.
LOOK RIGHT NOW IN NEW YORK.
IS ANYONE TALKING ABOUT THE PEOPLE IN CANADA WHO LOST THEIR HOMES AND WHAT THOSE FIRES HAVE DONE.
IT IS INTERESTING WHAT WE FOCUS ON RATHER THAN THE POINT.
>> YOU ARE RIGHT, PATTY, 5,000 WOMEN GATHERED TO SIGN AN EXECUTIVE ORDER TO BAN GUNS.
JESSE HE TOLD THEM ON DAY ONE THAT WASN'T GOING TO HAPPEN.
>> I THINK THAT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN THE POINT.
IT WAS A LOT TO GET MEDIA ATTENTION.
SAID THAT THE ORGANIZERS HAD PEOPLE SHOW UP.
THERE WAS DISAPPOINTMENT WHO CAME TO THE EVENT.
AS SOMEONE WHO COVERS GUN BILLS IT IS SOMETHING I FOCUSED ON THROUGHOUT THINK CAREER.
THERE IS FRUSTRATION ON THE GROUP.
THEY FEEL THIS IS GOING TO HURT THE MESSAGING WHICH IS COMMON SENSE GUN CONTROL OR GUN REGULARLATIONS.
NOW YOU HAVE A GROUP THAT WENT OUT AND SAID WE ARE TRYING TO TAKE YOUR GUNS.
THAT COULD MAKE THINGS MORE DIFFICULT.
IT WILL BE INTERESTING HOW THE CAPITOL RESPONDS NEXT YEAR IF THEY SEE MORE GUN REGULATION.
THE GOVERNOR KEPT ARMS DISTANCE.
HE WASN'T THERE ALL WEEK.
HE DOESN'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS.
HE WANTED NOT TO BE TIED TO IT AT ALL.
>> YOU THINK IT WAS PLANNED?
>> 100%.
>> SUMMER?
>> THE INTERESTING DYNAMIC THAT GAVIN ACKNOWLEDGE THE RALLIES AND THE ISSUE.
AND KIND OF MENTIONED GOING HARD IN THE PAINT IN CALIFORNIA ON LEGISLATION THAT POLIS ALREADY SIGNED INTO LAW.
YOU HAVE INCREASING GUN OWNERSHIP AGE FROM 18 TO 21.
HE ALREADY SIGNED THAT BILL.
WE HAVE A WAITING PERIOD OF THREE DAYS.
THOSE TWO ISSUES ARE GETTING PUSHED BACK FROM GUN ADVOCATES.
YOU HAVE THE THREE DAY WAITING PERIOD.
YOU HAVE THE STRONGER RED FLAG LAW HERE IN COLORADO.
I'M GLAD YOU FEEL SEEN BY NEWSOME.
WE CAME TO PROTEST.
I GUESS IT IS FINE.
YOU GOT THE PRESS COVERAGE THAT YOU NEEDED.
WHEN WE TALK ABOUT GUN REGULATION AND GUN CONTROL WE ARE MISSING THE MINORITY ASPECT.
ENCOURAGING FOLKS TO ARM THEMSELVES.
BECAUSE PEOPLE GOT SHOT BY LOCAL POLICE.
IN AURORA, THERE IS GOING TO BE A RALLY FOR THAT.
WHAT WE ARE ALSO MISSING FOLKS ARE JUST AS CAUTIOUS OF CIVILIANS AS THOSE PROTECTORS.
THAT IS GOING TO COME TO HEAD EVENTUALLY.
>> HE SAID I WANT TO BAN GUNS.
I THINK THIS GROUP DOES FEEL HURT.
>> THIS GROUP GOT EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANTED.
ATTENTION.
ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS LOOK AT COLORADO'S PROGRESS ON GUNS.
THERE WAS NO WAY THAT POLIS WAS GOING TO BE ABLE TO ISSUE AN EXECUTIVE ORDER THE WAY THEY WANTED.
THEY WANTED ATTENTION.
MINORITIES WERE HEARD.
MINORITY WOMEN WHO WANTED TO USE THE POWER OF WHITE WOMEN.
THEY THOUTH IT WOULD BRING MORE PEOPLE TO THE CAPITOL.
YOU WOULD SEE AN END TO A REPORT FIVE MINUTES TO SIX DENVER TIME ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE RALLY OF THE SIT IN THIS IS HAPPENING HERE.
THEY GOT THE ATTENTION THEY WANTED.
I DON'T THINK THEY EXPECTED POLIS TO ISSUE ANYTHING BEYOND WHAT HE DID WHICH IS WHAT IS WHY WE CAN'T DO IT.
THEY GOT THE ATTENTION AND IT WILL CONTINUE.
>> THERE WILL BE OTHER RALLIES IN OTHER STATES.
>> THIS WAS ABOUT THEATRICS.
I THINK IT WAS BAD THEATRICS.
STARTING PIECE OF THEATRICS THERE WERE 5,000 PEOPLE.
ON A HIGH POINT ON DAY ONE THERE WERE 800 TO 1,000.
THE NOTION THAT JARED POLIS HAD ANY ABILITY TO DO WHAT THEY WANTED TO DO WAS PART OF THE THEATRICS.
AS TO -- IT IS EASY WHEN YOU ARE THE GOVERNOR OF LEFT LEANING, VERY BLUE CALIFORNIA TO STAND UP AND SAY WE NEED A INSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
LAST I LOOKED THE AMENDMENT REQUIRED MAJORITY IN THE HOUSE, IN THE SENATE AND PASSAGE BY THREE QUARTERS OF THE STATE LEGISLATURES IN THE COUNTRY.
THAT IS 38 OUT OF 50 STATE LEGISLATURES.
IT IS THEATRIC KAL NOTION THAT IS EVER IN THE CARDS.
THIS IS GOING TO BE INCREMENT THING.
>> GOVERNOR POLIS SIGNED FIVE GUN BILLS INTO LAWS MOST RECENTLY AND BAN GHOST GUNS ACROSS THE STATE.
HE HAD THIS WEEK TO SIGN OR VETO OR DO NOTHING WITH THE BILLS THAT WERE PASSED DURING THE 2023 COLORADO LEGISLATION.
YOUR THOUGHTS HOW THIS ENDED UP THIS WEEK.
>> WE HAD THE VETO ON AFFORDABILITY BILL THAT HAD PASSED.
APARTMENT BUILDINGS THAT WERE BEING SOLD.
HE VETOED THE TICKETING ONE.
PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO END THE SCALPING.
LET'S HOPE THEY GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD.
BUYING SO MANY OF THE TICKETS FOR CONCERTS.
IT IS AN INJUSTICE.
NOT JUST MUSIC FANS BUT SPORTS FANS.
>> YOU ARE RIGHT.
>> THIS IS A GOVERNOR -- A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR OF A DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATURE OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS FOUND HIS VETO PEN.
I THINK IT IS APPROACHING DOUBLE DIGITS.
IF IT DIDN'T HIT DOUBLE DIGITS WE CAN ARGUE ABOUT EACH INDIVIDUAL VETO.
IT IS EASY TO VETO REPUBLICAN BILLS OR VISE VERSA.
THIS IS A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR HOLDING DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATURES.
OR IF THEY HAVE A SILLY IDEA AND GOOD FOR HIM.
>> IT IS TEN VETOES IS THE MOST THE GOVERNOR HAS DONE.
IT IS MORE THAN HICKENLOOPER DID IN A SINGLE YEAR.
IT WAS NOTABLE HOW MANY BILLS HE REJECTED.
I SPOKE TO THE GOVERNOR ABOUT THIS.
WAS THIS SOME RECOGNITION THAT YOU DIDN'T GET A LONG WITH THE LAWMAKERS, WHAT HAPPENED?
HE SAID WE LOOK AT EVERY BILL BUT BEHIND THE SCENES THERE WAS MORE TENSION BETWEEN THE FIRST FLOOR OF THE CAPITOL AND THE SECOND.
I THINK IT WAS REFLECTIVE WE PREVIEW THIS IN THE COLORADO SENATE.
HE HAS SIGNED MORE VETOES THAN HE EVER SIGNED.
YOU CAN SEE MORE VETOES IF THEY DECIDE LET'S JUST MAKE HIM MAKE THESE TOUGH DECISIONS.
>> YOU HAVE A BREAK NOW FROM THE LEGISLATURE.
>> YES, I DO.
>> LET'S TALK ABOUT THE GOOD AND THE BAD OF THIS WEEK.
LET'S START WITH THE POSITIVE.
>> POSITIVE?
>> NO NEGATIVE.
THANK YOU FOR KEEPING ME STRAIGHT.
>> I WANT TO TALK ABOUT KELLY BROUGH LOSS TO DENVER IF SHE IS NOT CONTINUING TO BE OUT THERE.
SHE IS AN INTERESTING WOMAN.
HER WORK IN THE CITY HALL AND WORKING WITH NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS WAS EXTRAORDINARY.
WE DON'T WANT TO LOSE HER.
>> SHE CARES.
>> DITTO, PATTY.
NOW AFTER THE AFTERMATH THE FAIR ELECTIONS FUND DIDN'T EXACTLY FAIR ALL THAT WELL IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS.
WE ENDED UP WITH THE TWO BEST FUNDED CANDIDATES THAT DIDN'T REQUIRE TAXPAYER SUPPORT.
MIKE JOHNSTON GROUPS WERE QUITE ADEQUATE TO THE CAUSE.
THIS WHOLE NOTION IS VERY COMPLICATED NOTION BUT THE MORE WE TRY TO CLAMP DOWN ON WHAT PEOPLE CAN CONTRIBUTE DIRECTLY TO CAMPAIGNS THE MORE WE PUT ON THESE EXPENDITURE GROUPS IT GOES AROUND THE BACK DOOR INSTEAD OF THE FRONT DOOR.
IT IS ALL BOGUS.
>> TURNOUT WAS SUPER LOW.
ONLY 31% CAST BALLOTS.
MUCH LOWER 35 WHO CAST VOTES.
IT DIDN'T HAPPEN.
>> WHAT IS GOING ON PEOPLE?
>> I THINK THE FAIR ELECTION FUND DID FAIR WELL UNFORTUNATELY.
IT DIDN'T CREATE THE EQUITY THAT WE WERE HOPING TO SEE.
I DON'T THINK IT WAS STEWARDED VERY WELL.
THIS IS A LARGE FUND FOR VOTERS.
IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE SOME ACCOUNTABILITY.
>> LET'S GET SOME POSITIVE.
>> WE HAVE SEEN SOME MANY GREAT PEOPLE SIT AT THIS TABLE AND TALK ABOUT THINGS.
WONDERFUL COMMENTATOR HERE.
SHE IS GOING TO THE GENERAL SERVICES.
WE WILL MISS HER.
>> WE WILL MISS HER.
>> I THINK WE NEGLECTED IT.
THERE IS A POLICE OFFICER BY THE NAME OF JEFF WHO WAS INVOLVED IN A HEROIC RESCUE OF HIS PARTNER.
HE RECEIVED THE MEDAL OF VALOR WHICH IS THE HIGHEST HONOR TO PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS FOR HEROISM AND BRAVERY AND SERVICE.
CONGRATULATES TO MR. FARMER.
>> WHAT EXACTLY CAUSED THE PAIN AND ANGUISH.
THE OUTCOME MAY NOT BE WHAT THEY HOPE FOR.
TO HAVE SOME KIND OF CLOSER WILL HELP SOME PEOPLE SLEEP AT NIGHT.
>> LET'S HOPE.
>> I'M 92 DAYS AWAY FROM MY WEDDING.
I'M SO HAPPY WHEN WE ARE DONE.
>> CONGRATULATIONS.
>> THANK YOU.
>> I WOULD LIKE TO END BY RECOGNIZING THE MAYORAL CANDIDATES.
TO THE GENUINE SENSITIVITY SHOWN BY -- HIS OWN PERSONAL LOSS ON THURSDAY.
TO THE WOMEN WHO CAME TOGETHER OUT OF CONCERN AND LOVE FOR THEIR COMMUNITIES.
I GOT TO SAY IT.
DENVER NUGGETS.
COLORADO WE CAN DO GOOD WHEN WE STICK TOGETHER AND WORK TOGETHER.
THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING TOGETHER AND WORKING THIS WEEK ON COLORADO INSIDE OUT.
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I'M KYLE DYER I'LL SEE YOU NEXT HERE ON PBS12.
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