In this episode of The Jenny Beth Show, Colorado Republican Party Chairman and congressional candidate Dave Williams joins host Jenny Beth Martin for an in-depth discussion on pressing political issues. Williams shares his motivations for running for Congress, emphasizing the need to combat political corruption, enforce immigration laws, and reduce government spending. He highlights the concept of the "uni party" and the challenges of fighting against entrenched political interests in both major parties. Williams also discusses his background in manufacturing, the impact of government shutdowns on small businesses, and the importance of grassroots activism in reclaiming American values. Tune in to hear Williams' passionate call for Patriots to rise up and take action to preserve the republic.
In this episode of The Jenny Beth Show, Colorado Republican Party Chairman and congressional candidate Dave Williams joins host Jenny Beth Martin for an in-depth discussion on pressing political issues. Williams shares his motivations for running for Congress, emphasizing the need to combat political corruption, enforce immigration laws, and reduce government spending. He highlights the concept of the "uni party" and the challenges of fighting against entrenched political interests in both major parties. Williams also discusses his background in manufacturing, the impact of government shutdowns on small businesses, and the importance of grassroots activism in reclaiming American values. Tune in to hear Williams' passionate call for Patriots to rise up and take action to preserve the republic.
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David Williams (00:00):
We have $35 trillion in debt. We have a hundred plus trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities. This is unsustainable and the politicians know it, but they don't care because right now, them and their buddies are the ones benefiting off your backs. And if we're going to get serious about saving the republic, then we really got to get a handle on that and start kicking out these bums.
Narrator (00:21):
Keeping our republic is on the line and it requires Patriots with great passion, dedication, and eternal vigilance to preserve our freedoms. Jenny Beth Martin is the co-founder of Tea Party Patriots. She's an author of filmmaker and one of time magazine's most influential people in the world, but the title she is most proud of is Mom To Her Boy, girl Twins. She has been at the forefront fighting to protect America's core principles for more than a decade. Welcome to the Jenny Beth Show
Jenny Beth Martin (00:53):
Today, the Colorado Republican Party Chairman Dave Williams is joining us. He is running for Congress from Colorado's fifth congressional district. Dave, thanks so much for joining us today.
David Williams (01:05):
Thank you for having me. Jenny Beth,
Jenny Beth Martin (01:07):
So you're running for Congress. Why are you stepping up to run for Congress? It is a swamp in Washington DC Why do you want to go there?
David Williams (01:15):
Yeah, it's not something I necessarily look forward to, but it's something that needs to be done. Like many of your listeners and viewers, I'm a pissed off Republican. I'm tired of the hypocrites in our party, both parties, but especially the Republican party where they say one thing but then they do another when they think no one's looking or paying attention. There is a very real uni party. Washington DC is broken. It's not just a cliche, it's not just a catchphrase by some of the champion patriots that are in DC right now. It's absolute truth, and if we don't step up and start putting good people in there with integrity, we're going to fight for limited government, the constitution, and of course the American first policies that we need to get this country back on track. Then we're going to continue to lose. I mean one great race to look at is what happened in Texas yesterday between Tony Gonzalez and Brandon Herrera. Razor thin margin right there. Brandon Herrera almost pulled it out by less than 500 votes. Imagine if a little bit more resources came in. Imagine if we had more Patriots piling in. We could have completely flipped that district and had someone who was actually going to fight for the American people rather than the special interest. That's why I'm running because if I don't run, if other patriots don't run, then we're going to continue to be controlled by the swamp.
Jenny Beth Martin (02:34):
So when you say uni party, what do you mean? And also sometimes people talk about rhinos when you hear that, what do you think that that means?
David Williams (02:42):
For sure, the uni party is simply the controlling class of politicians in Washington dc whether they're Republican or Democrat, they're two sides of the same coin, and that's the problem that we're facing right now in this country is we have folks that are interested in keeping the status quo. And so when someone says Rhino, for instance, Republican in name only, they don't care about limiting government. What they care about is feathering their own nest. What they care about is placating to the special interest in letting them take more of your money and more of your freedom. It, it's crazy to think that congressmen, for example, can enrich themselves by helping those who are continually destroying our country. If you don't believe me, just look at what the globalists are trying to do, especially when it comes to immigration. That's a big deal. Perfect example of the uni party. You have an establishment class in the Republican party that wants to allow for unchecked immigration. They want to allow for open borders because they want cheap labor coming into this country. And then on the same or in the opposite side, you have Democrats who want a new voting class of folks. That's why nothing gets done on immigration because you have two political parties, at least the establishment at the establishment leadership level who encourage this stuff because it helps whatever their agenda may be, which isn't a good one for the American people.
Jenny Beth Martin (04:01):
No, it is not a good one for the American people at all. When it comes to immigration, what would you like to see happen?
David Williams (04:09):
Well, I mean look, we need to strengthen that. We need to strengthen the border. We need to secure it. We need to increase law enforcement and immigration enforcement. We need to deport the illegals that we have here now, and we certainly need to defund sanctuary cities. But I'd go a step further on two other solution points. One, we start prosecuting the sanctuary city politicians who create these policies that attract criminals into our country. So it's not just that we're defunding sanctuary cities, but we're allowing victims of illegal immigration to actually sue those politicians or requests for some sort of criminal prosecution. I think that's step one. Step two is we need to stop the money flow that illegals do into other countries, their home countries rather. And what I mean by that is many of the illegal aliens that come here, they come here for work and they send the money back to their home country for their family or friends or whatever. Best thing we can do is require proof of citizenship or legal residency before you can actually send that money back to your origin or your country of origin. And the biggest perpetrator of this is Wells Fargo, but there are other money institutions that will allow for that type of behavior, stop the money flow, and you'll see a decrease in people wanting to come here. They can't actually benefit from the broken economy that we're facing.
Jenny Beth Martin (05:41):
That's interesting. I haven't heard that particular take or very often I haven't heard that about stopping the money flu back out. What are other issues that are concerning you when you mentioned limited government and America first, what are the issues under those broad strokes?
David Williams (06:03):
Sure, it's a great question. Aside from immigration, which is our number one issue, we have a real problem with government spending and that's causing the inflation that we're seeing now. People can't pay their mortgage, they can't make ends meet, and these are good people that play by the rules and just want to do right by their family and their community, but they're getting a raw deal from the government. The best thing we can do is cut the size and scope of government and unleash free enterprise by stopping the out of control spending, but also cutting down on the burdensome regulations that stifle innovation and stopping the crony capitalism that occurs in this country. There are so many corporations that use government to block out competition, to block out anyone from being able to get ahead so that they can maintain their monopolies and that's just not the thing we should be doing. We should be creating a system that is fair to everyone and allows for people to rise or fall based on their own efforts.
Jenny Beth Martin (07:11):
When it comes to cutting government spending or cutting taxes, what do you think is more important and why?
David Williams (07:20):
Well, I mean you got to do both. You can't do one without the other because if you cut taxes but you keep the spending going, then you're just simply causing more inflation. You're printing money to keep up with your spending habits, and that's not good because it's ultimately a hidden tax. Anytime the government creates more dollars, it weakens your purchasing power. So you can't do that, and if you don't cut the spending but you keep the taxing level where it is, then you're going to have a surplus that doesn't benefit the American people and more likely than not, the bureaucrats and the elected officials are still going to spend it anyway. So they really go hand in hand. We have $35 trillion in debt. We have a hundred plus trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities. This is unsustainable, and the politicians know it, but they don't care because right now them and their buddies are the ones benefiting off your backs.
David Williams (08:18):
What really bugs me is that we have politicians that are more interested in the trust funds of these corporate millionaire and billionaires instead of your kid's college fund. We can't have that type of leadership, and that's why I'm running, and if we're going to get serious about saving the republic, then we really got to get a handle on that and start kicking out these bums. Everyone seems to be okay with their congressman, but when you step back and look at the collective group of those politicians, no one's happy with it. Congress has historic levels of low trust and there's a reason for it. So your listeners and your reviewers have to start paying attention at their individual congressmen and ask the simple question, are they a part of the problem? And chances are they very are likely a part of that problem.
Jenny Beth Martin (09:09):
Yeah, and oftentimes you just mentioned that people are okay with their own congressmen, but they're upset with the problems as a whole. Well, a lot of times what happens is they stack these votes so a congressman can vote the way his constituent wants 95% of the time, and then 5% of the time he's not. But then he can go back or maybe it's 80% and say, well, I am with you 80% of the time. That's more than what you could get with just about anybody else, and it's just so frustrating. It's one of the things that I've learned over the years, especially when there's a larger margin than what we're dealing with right now in Congress. Then some will take a hit on a vote and be off with their constituents on certain votes, and then other times it'll be a different group of people who are doing that. So it's how they kind of work together as a uni party and bills get passed and they just sort of take turns with taking the vote that their constituents wouldn't want, so it appears that they're okay with their constituents and then they wind up getting reelected. It's almost like a game. It seems to me to many people who are in Congress rather than looking out for what is best for their constituents all the time.
David Williams (10:31):
Yeah, look, that's a real problem. It really is. These guys work together to provide political cover for each other, and it's not just in Congress, it's also your political parties, right? I'm sort of an anomaly because I'm chairman of the Colorado Republican Party publican, but I'm not your normal political party chairman. I made it my mission to ensure that the party no longer be used as some sort of political cover or organization that carried water for a failing politician. The problem even goes a little bit deeper than that. I have a real soft spot for constituents and voters who just don't know any better. They're getting tricked. They're getting fooled by these politicians mainly because they can't afford to necessarily pay attention because they're working, they're raising families, they're trying to better themselves or their community, and then when it comes around to election time, they start to kind of pay attention to research as much as they can on top of everything else they're doing and politicians know sort of the cycle.
David Williams (11:35):
So what they do is they raise a lot of money from their friends that they helped enrich at our expense to help engage in this deceptive marketing campaign where they say they're conservative. And so when you have incumbents, especially when they're able to raise millions dollars to mass market to folks saying how Republican they are or how conservative they are, they're essentially lying so that you keep them in power and you don't know, you just simply don't know. They say they care about, they say they care about immigration or they care about ending abortion or protecting the second Amendment. They put it on slick mailers, they put it on tv, they put it in text messages or emails, and so it sounds good, and they know what the American people want, so they say it and then they get reelected and they do the opposite.
David Williams (12:28):
And that's another reason why you see that. And when challengers come around and say, Hey, wait a minute, this person voted this way, which is a big problem, those challengers are oftentimes met with resistance from other people in the political class. They're met with a lack of resources are funding and the grassroots who they don't make billions of dollars off the taxpayers so they're not able to cut $6,600 checks. They're cutting like a hundred dollars checks and you can have more donors or more support from the grassroots base, but that's hard to overcome any sort of machine that's dumping millions of dollars into any race. Again, great examples that Texas race with Tony Gonzalez, 10 to one, Brandon Herrera was outspent $10 million went into that race to protect Tony Gonzalez, and as a result, he gets potentially two more years. We don't know what's going to happen in the general election, but assuming he wins, that's another two years of the status quo for that district, and that's a heartbreaker.
Jenny Beth Martin (13:38):
A minute ago when we were talking about cutting taxes versus cutting spending, you said that we need to do both, and I agree with you that we need to do both. What we saw under President Trump, and it also happened under President Reagan especially, is when you cut taxes, you grow the economy. So instead of the pie being this big, it becomes this big and you may, your slice of the pie winds up being a much, you get a lot more because the economy has grown, but the debt is a real problem and the overspending is a massive problem and it puts a burden on us. It's putting a burden on our children and sadly it's even putting a burden on our grandchildren and my kids are only 21, so putting a burden on my future grandchildren is just obscene to me. It's absolutely wrong, and I think it's very good to talk about wanting to do both. And as far as I know, we did see a balance budget in the nineties when Clinton was president and New Gingrich was speaker of the house, and we've seen the economy grow through tax cuts. We've seen it not go through tax increases, but what we have not seen is both cutting spending and cutting taxes, and I think that if we did that, we would see an economy flourish, the likes of which we've never seen in our lifetimes.
David Williams (15:06):
We would, and it's, it's not just irresponsible, it's immoral. It's immoral that we're bankrupting not only ourselves but our children, their children and their children. Again, you can't really do one without the other and expect to shrink government. The reason why you don't see it is because if you do actually cut spending and cut taxes, there's going to be a decrease in political power for the politicians and for the bureaucrats, and that's at the heart of the problem. I'm a Christian, I believe in scripture, and one thing that comes to mind when I talk about this is the love of money. It's the root of all evil that are too many people that are feeding at the government trough enriching themselves and they don't care because it's not their money, it's your money, but they have the power and the access to it. I served in the state legislature here in Colorado for six years and I assure you all the problems that we face come back to that single principle, that scriptural principle where it says the love of money is the root of all evil.
David Williams (16:07):
These people do not care about anything other than enriching themselves. Most of them. There are some great patriots and good people in Congress and across the country, but they are not the majority. And until we get rid of those people, we're going to continue to see them engage in generational theft. That's really what it comes down to. They are stealing from your children's, children's children and they do not care because they enjoy the hedonism and the passing pleasure of now, and we can't tolerate that. The more we tolerate that, the more we're going to lose. And that's my message to most Republican voters is to at least be skeptical. Ask yourself, what do you have to gain? If I believe the politician who's telling me what they want to tell me, it's sort of a follow of the money skepticism that we need more of, and if we can at least ask more questions and be a little bit more skeptical of the candidates and the politicians that come around and tell us what we want to hear, we will be better off.
David Williams (17:07):
But we really do need to start asking ourselves this question, Hey, wait a minute, my politician, I might like 'em, but I keep seeing an increase in debt. I keep seeing increase in spending, I keep seeing open borders. I keep seeing funding for foreign powers that don't even like us or are corrupt like Ukraine or oh my God, there's terrorist countries like Iran. I mean Iran's not even immune from receiving American dollars. I mean, that's how corrupt the system has become and you have to ask yourself, wait a minute, why is that happening? Even though I keep electing a good person and maybe you elected someone great like Ted Cruz, right? But Ted Cruz ain't in the majority. There's not 51 Ted Cruzs in the United States Senate unfortunately. So it starts with what you're doing locally and I would encourage people to get engaged. If you don't get engaged, then you're going to going to be subjugated to those who are.
Jenny Beth Martin (18:10):
What is your background? I know that you're the chairman of the Republican party in Colorado, but what do you do professionally? What's your family and how did you become the chairman of the party?
David Williams (18:24):
Well, lot to unpack there. Sure. I first got started in politics back in 2008. I just wanted to be a part of something greater and contribute to my community. So I got into my local county party that seemed like the natural thing to do, and I did that and I quickly discovered there were a lot of Republicans in name only, and so I got more engaged in issues that I cared about such as lowering taxes or candidates I cared about who were actually going to advance the Republican conservative principles that we all care about. Very happy to have been a part of Tea party efforts. Of course, when the initial thing came out, oh man, back in 2010, the backlash to Obama, it's all coming back to me. All wonderful stuff that kind of helped usher me in to this. And then at one point a good friend of mine said, Hey, you should run for office.
David Williams (19:20):
And at first I said, no, I don't want to do that. I didn't have an interest, but the opportunity came up. A number of people asked me to get engaged. I prayed about it with my wife and we decided to pull the trigger. I got elected 2016, which was a great year for Republicans, if you remember. And so that's when I really cut my teeth and got in there. But then again, I saw an even closer look at the problems we have, not only from Democrats but our own party. Then I did that for six years and then I was asked to run for party chairman because our party had suffered devastating losses to Democrats for three successive election cycles with 2022 being worse. And the reason it was the worst is because we nominated and put forward moderate, so-called moderate Republicans who just weren't appealing.
David Williams (20:14):
They didn't care about the issues that most people cared about. They ran on their own weak messaging that didn't even build a contrast against Democrats. And so they lost, they got devastated. They're truth be told, there's probably no reason why you would have a conservative America first tea party type person in this position had it not been for the Republican party failing miserably and the members of that party giving me a chance. And so I ran, I won, and we're running on a message of conservatism and grassroots activism and we're telling folks that, look, if we're going to win, we have to do three simple things. First, we have to actually mean what we say and then go do it. Number two, we have to build a contrast against the Democrats. We can't simply hide our heads or rather stick our heads in the sand because the press or the pundits or the consultants are telling us to do something different.
David Williams (21:14):
And then number three, we have to throw a punch. We not only have to say how we're different from the Democrats, but we actually have to go on offense. We have to go on the attack. Big reason why Republicans lose is because they're afraid to actually engage with their counterparts. They don't want to go toe to toe because they've been conditioned by the press that if you go toe to toe, it's going to go bad for you. You're going to get bad headlines if you say anything bad about the Democrats or the left abortion. Great issue to another one to talk about where you have Republicans who are just afraid to talk about the simple truth that life is precious and we should protect it, and that the Democrats are so out of touch and extreme on this issue. They don't do that. They allow Democrats to attack us and say that we're the ones who are out of touch or that we're the ones who want to harm mothers or punish people for miscarriages, which is completely wrong and false.
David Williams (22:13):
Instead, what we should be saying is that there's no baby that can escape the scalpel of the Democrat, that it could be first trimester all the way to the very end or even after birth, Democrats will still kill that baby. Most Americans do not believe in that type of agenda. They don't agree with taxpayer funded abortion. They don't agree with sex selection, abortion. They don't agree with aborting a child because they have down syndrome. If we talked about those things in a compelling and assertive way, we will beat them on that issue, but Republicans don't do that, and that's the type of change in reform that I've started instituting in the Colorado Republican party and I've made a lot of enemies for doing it. Aside from politics, I came through the world of small business, specifically manufacturing, and I did that for about 10 years and then covid hit and kind of shut the industry down and the owners that I had worked for decided to retire, and I decided to just kind of do. At the time I was still in the legislature, so I just did that full time. Now I'm devoted to being chairman of the party, and that's how I earned my living at the moment. And I have three kids and then another on the way.
Jenny Beth Martin (23:29):
Oh, congratulations. When you did manufacturing, what were the kind of things that you were doing for that company?
David Williams (23:36):
Sure. We did a lot in the telecommunication space. One of our biggest clients was a big satellite company, and what we did is we helped manufacture the component parts for their cable or satellite box. It wasn't glamorous stuff, but we were working with suppliers not only internationally but also domestically to try and give the customer the best price and the best service while still making a profit. Again, it wasn't sexy work, but it paid the bills and was an honest living, and we were happy to help certainly create jobs within our community and other parts of the country.
Jenny Beth Martin (24:20):
Yeah, I want to just say something. It is sexy work and it is glamorous, and I think that it is something that I worked in a paper mill supporting the computer systems in a paper mill when I got out of college and I had to wear hard hat occasionally, safety goggles, ear plugs, steel toed shoes, you name it. I've had to have those supplies. And then I worked for the Home Depot supporting their import department with computer systems. So I understood how imports and the supply chain works when it comes in internationally. These are important jobs and I think that it is much sexier and much more glamorous to be dependent on yourself and to be able to provide for your family than for the government to create such onus regulations than make it impossible or nearly impossible for manufacturing to even happen in this country anymore.
Jenny Beth Martin (25:23):
To come in and set wages so much higher than what companies are doing in foreign countries where there are none of the regulations that OSHA and the EPA put on companies, there aren't the same kind of minimum wage standards. So you've got people who are basically working at what we would consider slave wages, and it's impossible for American companies to compete with that. And I think that acting, and I'm not saying that you're doing this, but I'm very defensive of the people who have had those kind of manufacturing jobs. They're important. They help make America a great country. It made us self-sufficient and independent. And right now, I don't think that we are and people who are willing to do jobs like that and willing to go and work in a factory, work in manufacturing, work in a distribution center and get their hands dirty are helping keep America going. And I appreciate the fact that you did that and that you had small business owners who were able to do that before Covid crushed them.
David Williams (26:33):
And I'll go ahead and walk back a little bit. I said Covid, really, it was government mandated shutdowns as a result, overreaction to Covid. Really, really that's what happened there. And it wasn't just my industry that was affected. It was a whole various set of industries that were crushed by these politicians who really didn't want to help anyone. They just wanted a virtue signal. They were doing something great, and so they destroyed all these lives, stole all this money, redistributed it to all their friends, and now they want us to pat 'em on the back. I mean, that's again, another great example of why Patriots cross this country need to rise up and either run against these failed politicians or help someone who will. We don't do that. Then we're going to have another situation where that happens. I guarantee you that that experience that the American people sell is going to happen again if we don't prevent it by getting good people in office because they got away with it. I hate to say it, but they got away with this massive wealth transfer. They got away with these lockdowns and these violations or rights and they got away with harming your children in schools. I mean, there's so many different ways that that event changed America and for the worst. So if we're not vigilant, then we're not going to be able to keep the republic like Benjamin Franklin told us all those years ago,
Jenny Beth Martin (28:08):
And I think that a lot of the politicians I saw that the politicians who were fighting for reopening that most of the ones who were the loudest about it and the loudest early about it were ones who owned their own business or have been involved in heavily involved in making a business run prior to going to Washington dc. The ones who were attorneys or worked in think tanks or have just spent their whole life either working for government or running for office or whatever it might be, their ambitions were always to be a politician. They've never had to make payroll. They've never had to figure out how they're going to have enough income to pay the employees who they have and to make sure everything balances. They just tax more, print more money, and they think money just grows on trees or comes from printing presses rather than understanding the work that goes into creating wealth.
Jenny Beth Martin (29:08):
And I think for them it was really easy to just make decisions, oh, we're just going to shut things down and we can move some money around here or there. I don't even know some sort of shell game and everything will be okay. It's not okay and businesses are still suffering from it. And you're right, people do need to rise up, especially if you've been negatively impacted by this and send signals to the politicians who were not opening and were in favor of mandates, whether it was mask on kids, not opening schools, the locking down of companies of saying, some people are essential, others are not. All of that, we need to be saying absolutely not. And that kind of response to a virus can never happen again.
David Williams (29:58):
Yeah, I couldn't agree more. The problem in government is that they have all the guns, right? The government is forced at the very basic element of it. Government is forced. And so when you have a bunch of bureaucrats and elected officials who are able to use that force in order to take your money, they don't care. I mean, they'll shut everything down because they're in charge and they have the power to do that, and so they don't lose paychecks. I mean, one of the most heartbreaking things I experienced when I was in the state legislature was getting many constituents coming to me saying, Hey, I need my unemployment because my industry was shut down. I don't have a job right now, and the government's not even moving quickly enough to get me the money that I need in order to pay my bills or my mortgage or put food on the table.
David Williams (30:48):
I can't begin to tell you how many phone calls and emails that I had to personally intervene on to ensure that these people got some sort of relief as a result of the government shutdown. But ultimately that's the problem. You have politicians who have no sympathy or bureaucrats who have no sympathy for any average American worker or anyone paying taxes because they don't produce. They only take, and you really want to balance the budget in Congress or you want to have good policies in place start taking away the incentive for them to get paid to do nothing, right? I mean, that's a big reason why the status quo remains what it is because it's always easier to do nothing for these guys because they get paid. They still get to go to their junkets, they still get to go to their cocktail parties, they still get the adoration, all the praise for being elected and surrounded in that swamp bubble. You got to start taking away those incentives and that will certainly help. But yeah, if you want good representation that won't allow for that type of behavior anymore, then you got to start throwing the current elected officials out and replacing them with folks who believe the way we do
Jenny Beth Martin (32:09):
That is absolutely correct. So tell me this, if you get elected, what would be the first thing you would do when you got it to Washington dc?
David Williams (32:18):
Oh my God, that's a great question. I feel like there are so many leaks in the ship that you just got to plug as many of them as you can at once. So it, it's a tough question, but I still think the number one issue right now is immigration. I mean, don't let anyone fool you. There is a great replacement theory that is playing out right now. There are folks that want these people to come into our country illegally, not only for a new voting block, not only for a new population to come in, but they also want cheap labor. They also want to justify increases within their own political power or the taking of your taxpayer dollars so that they can redistribute it and unchecked illegal immigration is one way to do that. So I think that's our number one issue we really do got to get a handle on because if we don't have secure borders, we don't have a country, and I am terrified to think what kind of country I'm leaving my children and what they're going to have to walk into if I don't do something.
David Williams (33:18):
Now, the next issue that I think is paramount is sort of a tie between government out of control spending versus government corruption. There are congressmen who get wealthier when they go into public office, and that's the craziest thing that I ever heard of. It was always the understanding that if you committed yourself to public service, you weren't making money, you weren't supposed to get rich off the taxpayers, but that's exactly what's happening right now. You have congressmen that use private data that was collected through public means, and then they go and they engage insider trading. I mean, these guys, I mean, you should look at the returns they make. It's crazy to think that they gave up a life of Wall Street speculation to become a congressman for how well they're doing. And I say that facetiously of course, because they're not special. They're just, they have access to information that no one else has, but they're not being prosecuted because of the very, very position and power that they hold.
David Williams (34:30):
We can't begin to solve these issues if we have corrupt leaders because they're not incentivized or motivated to want to correct the problems because they themselves are benefiting from those problems. So all these issues are important, but until you get good leaders of moral character, they're never going to be solved. So I think accountability and transparency within the system to cut down on the corruption is high on that list. One of the things that I would tell your listeners and your viewers is that I need your help. I need your support. You may not be able to vote for me, but I can vote for you each and every day that I'm in Congress. And that's important to understand because my goal isn't to make friends. I'm sure I'll make some along the way, but that's not my goal. My goal isn't to be whined and dined.
David Williams (35:22):
My goal isn't to actually do what you would normally see a politician do because I believe I work for you. I believe I work for the American people. I work for the constituency that I would represent, and my goal is to go around the country and start kicking out bad politicians. I mean, that's a big priority goal for me, and I'm not afraid to say it. If you're a terrible congressman and you're screwing over the American people, I'm going to help find a challenger and get you out because I can't do this alone. Imagine if we had 51 Ted Cruzs in the United States Senate, what that would do to this country, we would see a wholesale change in how this country operates. Likewise, in the United States House of Representatives, we need politicians and congressmen who are willing to stand up to these failed leaders, these corrupt leaders, and say No more. And if you can't work for the American people, I'm going to expose you and at least give those people a choice in electing new leadership. So those are probably the three issues that I'd be looking at is getting a handle on the border. So
Jenny Beth Martin (36:31):
You said you need people's support. How can they support you?
David Williams (36:35):
Oh yeah, of course. Please visit my website. We have an election June 25th. I'm running against a globalist establishment swamp creature who's a paid lobbyist and supported Nikki Ailey over Donald Trump, and that election is June 25th with mail-in ballots starting next week. So I need to raise about another $75,000 so that we can get our Trump endorsed, and we've been endorsed by Donald Trump and many other great organizations like the House Freedom Caucus and the National Rifle Association. So it's a very competitive race. We are in the driver's seat, but we need to overcome the millions of dollars that are being spent to stop us from winning right now. So you got to visit my website@daveforcolorado.com. That's Dave D-A-V-E-F-O-R-C-O-L-O-R-A-D o.com and donate to us because we had to raise about $75,000 to help get more text messages, more digital ads out, more mail pieces out, everything that we can do to round out our marketing campaign because there is a chance that very much like in other places around the country, the establishment's going to just dump enough money in to try and drown us out. But we have the people on our side, we have great people supporting us like President Trump who are making it very hard on them to steal this election. So help us out. Visit my website, Dave for colorado.com and ship in whatever you can. We can't do this without you.
Jenny Beth Martin (38:07):
Very good, Dave. And then my very last question for you is this. Who is your favorite founding father?
David Williams (38:15):
That's always a tough question because there's a lot of 'em are great founding fathers for different reasons. I think the most obvious answer to me is George Washington and it seems like sort of a cop out because there are other good people like Benjamin Rush for example, or some of 'em are escaping me for You want to know some great founding fathers? Go to the Wall builders website and start reading about them. David Barden does a great job at talking about those individuals. But George Washington in particular is someone who is a person we should emulate because this is an individual that could have become the new King of America if he wanted to. That's how popular and how powerful he had become. But he willingly gave up his power so that it would be an example to future leaders, and so he could go back to just living a normal private life as much as he could anyway. I mean that's unprecedented in world history where you have power, but you willingly give it up so that others could lead. I mean, there's no greater example of the type of leadership we desperately need in this country now.
Jenny Beth Martin (39:26):
Well, Dave, thank you so much for joining us today. I hope that people go and visit your website@daveforcolorado.com, and I wish you luck over the next few weeks as you're running into the home stretch for the primary and also good luck to your wife with your fourth baby on the way.
David Williams (39:43):
Thank you so much, Jenny Beth, and thank you for having me.
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