The Get More Smarter Podcast - A Weekly Show About Colorado Politics

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This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, The Colorado Republican Party elects arguably their least electorally successful member to be their chair, there is a conspiracy theorist chairing the congressional redistricting commission, we discuss whether he believes maps exist, it’s actually infrastructure week for the first time in at least 5 years, we legislate with crayons once again, and we explain to Lauren Boebert who the anti-fascists in 1930’s Germany were fighting.

Links

• 4 of the 5 candidates running to lead the Colorado GOP are still casting doubt on the 2020 election results (The Colorado Sun, 3/17/21)
• Kristi Burton Brown elected as next Colorado GOP chair, vows to bring “a new generation of leadership” (The Colorado Sun, 3/27/21)
• "Danny Moore is an election rigging conspiracy theorist, and the chair of the 12-person commission that will redraw Colorado's Congressional Districts." (Twitter, @nexton9news, 3/29/21)
• Joe Biden’s coming infrastructure push, explained (Vox, 3/29/21)
• Good Interview on Modern Monetary Theory (The.Ink, 3/30/21)
• The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy by Stephanie Kelton
• Once Again, Hammers Do Not Kill More People Than Guns (Colorado Pols, 3/29/21)
• NYT Trump Biden Geography Quiz (The New York Times)
• U.S. Church Membership Falls Below Majority for First Time (Gallup, 3/29/21)
• POLITICO Playbook: Chuck Schumer’s 51-vote gambit (Politico, 3/29/21)
• Inside the Koch-Backed Effort to Block the Largest Election-Reform Bill in Half a Century (The New Yorker, 3/29/21)

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Producer: Ethan Black
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder

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Senator John Hickenlooper updates us on life in the US Senate, the COVID relief bill, his thoughts on the filibuster, and whether he'll take Jason to Area 51 as part of his new role as Chair of the Space and Science Subcommittee.

*Note: Our interview with Senator Hickenlooper ended before news of the shooting at the Boulder King Soopers appeared on social media, which is why we don't mention it in the interview. On Monday evening, Senator Hickenlooper tweeted :

"They were just grocery shopping.

I can't imagine what the families of these Coloradans are experiencing. My heart goes out to them.

We don't know all the details yet, but we DO know our country has a horrific problem with gun violence. We need federal action. Now."

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This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Republicans keep trying to make it harder to vote while admitting it is because they’re worried they’ll keep losing if everyone can vote, Democrats are good now, and your bank account probably is too, we visit the State Capitol for another edition of Legislating with Crayons, AND because she won’t stop saying and doing awful things, we have another issue of the Boebert Report. 

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We’re a year into the pandemic! Democrats in Congress passed a $1.9 trillion dollar aid package that never, ever would have happened without Georgia, Arizona, and Colorado doing our jobs. We get to revisit one of our favorite segments about our second least-favorite congressperson from Colorado. Trump sucks. Things get real at the state legislature. Finally, we round it all out with our very favorite segment about our seventh favorite congressperson from Colorado.

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This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the CPAC conference was a lot of things, but “conservative” wasn’t one of them. Despite absolutely no evidence of election fraud, Colorado Republicans are bringing a bunch of bills to make it harder to vote. The Colorado legislature is back in session after a COVID break. Finally, Lauren Boebert continues to embarrass Colorado on many different national stages.

Articles

• Lauren Boebert: Alt-Facts Word Salad At CPAC (Colorado Pols, 2/28/21)
• Colorado GOP Won’t Be Out-Crazied by National Republicans (Colorado Pols, 2/25/21)
• Help Wanted: Colorado GOP seeks a leader after years of election losses (Denver Post, 2/27/21)
• Investigate, Please: Boebert Reimbursement Scandal Deepens (Colorado Pols, 2/23/21)
• Boebert Deserved Even More Than $22,260 for Mileage, Says Former Campaign Manager (Colorado Pols, 2/24/21)
• Boebert Calls Bullcrap On Colorado’s Public Lands (Colorado Pols, 2/24/21)
• Boebert Ridicule Intensifies After Especially Stupid Tweet (Colorado Pols, 2/20/21)
• The Vile Inanity Of Lauren Boebert (Colorado Pols, 2/25/21)
• Ohio is first state to sue Census Bureau over delay in data (AP News, 2/25/21)
• Poll: 57% Of Colorado Republicans Win The Darwin Award (Colorado Pols, 2/26/21)

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This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Impeachment 2 Trumplectric Trumpaloo, we keep apologizing to the rest of the country for Lauren Boebert’s very existence, and the first serious contender to take her out announces. Since we seem to have avoided an *actual* civil war, the GOP is entering into one of their very own. We go back to 2009 and discuss whether or not Democrats have learned any lessons about governing on the federal level, we preview the 2021 legislative session, and yes, it is already time to talk about the 2022 election.

Colorado Impeachment Managers

• “Donald Trump Incited Violence to Maintain Power, and People Died”: The Democrats Arguing the Case Against Trump Will Bring Their Own Experience to Bear (Vanity Fair, 2/5/21)

The Boebert Report

• Boebert Mileage Reimbursement Scandal Gets Official Complaint (Colorado Pols, 2/4/21)
• Like We Said, Lauren Boebert’s Mileage Maths Don’t Add Up (Colorado Pols, 2/4/21)
• Rep. Lauren Boebert’s mileage reimbursement “raises red flags,” ethics experts say (Denver Post, 2/2/21)
• What We Know About Lauren Boebert’s Campaign Payments To Herself For Driving 38,000 Miles (Colorado Public Radio, 2/7/21)
• Lauren Boebert is Only Pretending to Carry a Gun (Colorado Pols, 2/1/21)
• Donovan Officially Announces Campaign Against Boebert (Colorado Pols, 2/4/21)

National GOP Infighting

• Cheney says she will not resign and GOP shouldn't embrace Trump (CNN, 2/7/21)
• It’s Still Donald Trump’s Party (Colorado Pols, 2/5/21)

• Look Out: Democrats Might Actually Act Like A Majority (Colorado Pols, 2/2/21)
• Inside Bidenworld’s plan to punish the GOP for opposing Covid relief (Politico, 2/8/21)

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Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder

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This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast,  it may be 2021 but it sure FEELS like 2020??? The Boebert Report turned out to be a pretty prescient segment, Michael Bennet introduces a big big bill in the US Senate, but why? We’re still saying "WHAT THE BUCK?!" as a large portion of his congressional district wants to leave Colorado and join Wyoming, despite the lies and the spin, the economy is still suffering (but not for the reasons right wingers are telling us) and we interview Speaker of the House Alec Garnett about the status of the Colorado Legislature. 

Links

• President Biden Makes a Joke (Aaron Rupar, Twitter)
• Meet Some Of The 4,600 Colorado Republicans Who Quit The Party After The US Capitol Riot (CPR News, 1/27/21)
• How Do Republicans Solve Their Qaucus Problem? (Colorado Pols, 1/27/21)
• Does a Party Lose for Doing Too Much or Too Little? (Seth Masket, Mischiefs of Faction, 1/26/20)
• Campaign Kicks Off To Give Wyoming Weld-Sized Package (1/22/21)
• Science Messes Up GOP Talking Points (Again) (Colorado Pols, 1/25/21)

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This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, welcome to 2021! Things aren’t any better! The legislature is not convening this week due to the continuing coronavirus pandemic. We bring to you our latest edition of the Boebert Report entitled “We Tried To Warn You.”  We continue to ask ourselves a recurring question, What The Buck?! as the Colorado Republican Party Chairman continues his descent into madness and we talk accountability, consequences, and silver linings from the nearly successful overthrow of the US Government.

Sign ProgressNow's petition calling for Lauren Boebert's resignation: http://bit.ly/ResignBoebert

Listen to our interview with Congressman Jason Crow. (that was initially supposed to be a part of this episode) : https://getmoresmarter.com/2021/01/12/exclusive-rep-jason-crow-on-the-capitol-mob/

Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder

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In this exclusive interview, Congressman Jason Crow recounts his experience on January 6, 2021 when a violent mob stormed the US Capitol to try and overturn the 2020 presidential election. We also discuss impeachment, Lauren Boebert, and his decisive leadership in a moment of crisis.

That’s it for this episode! If you loved watching and/or listening to it as much as we loved recording it, you can thank us by subscribing to the pod wherever you listen, following us over on New Old Twitter AKA Bluesky, subscribing to our shiny new channel on YouTube, smashing that subscribe button on our Substack, and sharing this episode with your friends, your enemies, and your 8th favorite Member of Congress from Colorado! THANK YOU so much for listening, and we’ll see you next time!

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2020 is finally almost over (thank G-d) and maybe the 2020 election will come to an end sometime too. The 2022 election cycle has already started, there’s yet another scam to try to recall Governor Polis, again, for the third time? Finally, we interview outgoing Speaker of the House KC Becker, after her final-final legislative session, most likely. 

Hosts: Jason Bane | Ian Silverii
Producer: Ethan Black
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder

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