Michael Bennet vs. Phil Weiser for Colorado Governor and Standing up for All of [10:11-15:12]

will be the first. If you thought about the first five days on the job, right, first five business days, what would you see as those things that you would want to do right out of the box? I would say first of all governor that I represent a state Colorado that's a blue state that's drowning in red tape and I think in the first five days that we can cut a bunch of red tape to try to make it a little bit easier for small business to succeed in Colorado. We've recently seen 25 percent of the restaurants close in Denver because they weren't able to handle a whole bunch of changes to law that some of which were really well intentioned but didn't add up for small business. I think that would be an important beginning and then I hope that we are going to be the first five days would be the start of bringing back together the civic infrastructure of our state to be able to really make some huge choices that we have to make about how to build housing, how to make childcare affordable for people. I mean the list is long but that work will start in the first five days. I think about that as the American dream and whether it's possible for the citizens of Kentucky or Colorado and you get the opportunity to love this job because you get to get up and fight for it every day. I think the other challenge that faces America is a level of division so how as governor would you try to bring people together? First of all what could be more worth fighting for than the American dream and that is what is at risk in our country and governor. I know you have been talking about that. I mean look I blame Trump for all kinds of things but getting elected is not one of those things. You know he got elected twice the American people took four years off in the middle and they sent him back. I think there's a huge there was a huge failure of national Democrats to demonstrate to the American people that we had a compelling view about how to deal with their economic distress and the fact that they believe and most Americans now believe that their kids are going to live a worse life than they lived. That's not the American dream. That's the opposite of the American dream and so we have to I think move past the rhetoric of division as you said into a place where we're actually trying to figure out how to solve some fundamental issues. I've said Colorado no working person should have to spend more than 30% of their income on housing just as an example and when I meet with young people as I did this weekend governor and I say to them at the end after they go through the litany of all the things they can't afford. I say to them what do you think would make the biggest difference in trying to change any of this and they say if we treated this country like it was one nation under God that would make the difference. Indivisible. Exactly. Wow Senator one question I'd like to put in as well is that you talk about affordability in trying to keep Colorado's kids in Colorado and then the next thing that we keep hearing from young professionals is is healthcare. How are you going to help make that affordable and then the next thing they ask about is access. Housing is the number one issue. Healthcare is the number two issue and it's amazing isn't it that Kentucky and Colorado is different as they are that those are the two the things that people talk about and in Colorado I've got people that are that young population that stayed thanks to the Affordable Care Act on their families insurance for an extra year when they're 26 but now they're saying to me what am I supposed to do Michael take two or three jobs to pay for the insurance that I'm getting and that insurance has become much more expensive and the deductible is now $10,000 and people in my state this weekend were saying to me I can't even go out and mountain bike here anymore for fear that something's going to happen to me that's the whole point of living in Colorado so I've said two things about this one we should have a true public option in Colorado so families want to have that instead of the traditional insurance they ought to be able to have it and two that everybody ought to be able to buy into the state employees health care system because it's just unfair for people to to be in the situation they're in today so most of our listeners are scattered around the country why should they care about a primary in Colorado and if they do why are you the candidate thank you thank you governor I think they should care about a primary in Colorado because they should care about every single race in this country I meant what I said earlier I think the battle