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Michael Bennet vs. Phil Weiser for Colorado Governor and Standing up for All of [37:16-42:18]

and there's really really unconstitutional there's a reason that no other president had attempted to claim this sweeping authority that literally as claimed had no limits at all and would basically rewrite the constitution the constitution says the power to tax the paradigm post tariffs it's in the legislative branch a current president wants to take all power away from legislative branch the Supreme Court said you can't do that that's an important statement with the president having broke the law and the tariffs declared invalid the question that will now go to the local court the trial court should say is what happens next and the president will need to offer a plan for how to remedy the harm how to fix this illegal conduct we will obviously be fighting for our citizens to be remediated to have essentially the type of repair that needs to happen because people have been paying too much money on account of these illegal tariffs and businesses have been harmed and disrupted I've heard from a number of them Colorado that this has been a major challenge for them so our job now is to make sure that it's right for people that's the next step fighting for that at the trial court it had ironic that president trump once talked about wanting to cut every American at check for tariffs and now he might have to irony can be pretty ironic sometimes so tell our listeners that are outside of Colorado why they should be interested in this race and why you're the right candidate and I want to start with something I've learned from you Josh Shapiro and other state AGs which is if we do not elect Democrats across the nation who walk the walk of showing up really listening to people and fighting for them than our parties in trouble we need to make sure that authentically committed public servants you know how to get stuff done are the ones winning up and down the ballot I've gone to every county in my state I've worked on the opioid crisis set up a framework that's making a credible difference fentanyl deaths in Colorado last year on record went down by 31 percent I've worked on the youth mental health crisis how we protect air water standing up for consumers I've been doing the work in the right way that's the sort of leadership we need you can learn more about me at fill for calado dot com and that's the sort of spirit that I come to public service with which for me is something I learned naturally because I am a first generation American my mom and my grandmother both survived the Holocaust and were liberated by us army soldiers in the six armored division on April 18th 1945 and my family the difference between my mom being liberated and my being here's attorney general is one generation where I've lived the American dream of freedom and opportunity I want that for everybody I believe in making government work for people be honored to keep serving and anyone here looking for candidates to adopt and support take a look wow as before we let you go we do like our audience to not only hear about your ideas but to get to know you a little bit and I think they just did through that powerful answer um but let me what is the very first thing if somebody's visiting calorado for the first time that they should do you ask me to pick between my kids of course one thing is is hiking no you can't I can't do this I love calorado through and through and there's so much to do here in every part of our state depending on what you prefer and how well the nuggets are playing you know there might be a nuggets game to watch there might be a hike there might be skiing there might be the great sand dunes there might be incredible rafting there could be fishing you can be here for weeks and weeks and just enjoy our beautiful state I recommend you check it out this is like when someone asks me the governor of Kentucky with my favorite bourbon is but I will tell you my favorite child is the dog she doesn't talk back um we we uh we we didn't have a dog until the pandemic and now we're totally hooked and our dog has an Instagram account the people's pooch so you can follow Zeke you can see him in his fill wiser for governor dog bandana uh we are dog people now we we refuse to get witty her own account because no one would look at ours though fill what is your secret superpower what is the one thing that you're really good at that nobody knows about well people who watch me know this my energy level is I don't know how to explain this but it's it's more than the normal human true I am able to go go go because I feed off people and so I constantly are energized and that
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