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Gabe Evans: “46% of Coloradans actually returned a Republican ballot in…”

Featuring: Gabe Evans, Republican | U.S. Representative, Colorado's 8th Congressional District

August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall

Published August 17, 2023 | Video Starts at 27:23

But if you actually look at who. Returned ballots, the Democrats just won a lot of very close races. 46% of Coloradans actually returned a Republican ballot in 2022. So the Greeley House district, out of the tens of thousands of people who voted up there, the Democrats won that seat by 299 votes. (27:23–27:30)

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Asserts that 46% of voters in Colorado returned a Republican ballot in 2022.

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“I was actually a staffer down at the state capitol almost 20 years ago.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 06:45-06:50
“They [Democrats] were able to get a lot of this stuff passed [with 46 votes].”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 08:07-08:08
“They [Democrats] used Rule 14 and Rule 16 to shut us up.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 08:07-16:03
“They [Democrats] made abortion so easy to get in Colorado that now not. There's really nowhere else for them to go there.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 08:07-15:30
“Colorado's number one state in the nation for auto theft.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 09:31-09:35
“We're the number two state in the nation for property crimes.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 09:34-09:37
“We've moved up from number 27 to number 16 relative to the other states for violent crime.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 09:43-09:50
“In 2021, Denver actually beat San Francisco [in homicides].”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 09:49-09:53
“Denver almost had double the homicide rate of San Francisco [per capita in 2021].”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 10:04-10:11
“One party in Colorado rules everything [by super majority margins].”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 11:32-11:35
“Republicans in Colorado are at a century-long low point.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 12:20-12:29
“We have 19 Republicans in the state House to 46 Democrats.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 12:29-12:33
“We have 12 Republicans in the state Senate to 23 Democrats.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 12:32-12:37
“We have zero statewide office holders [who are Republicans].”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 12:36-12:40
“We saw the Democrats push more big government, more spending, more regulation, and more tax on freedom.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 13:24-13:38
“They had five big bills that came after guns.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 13:45-13:48
“Colorado already had some of the most pro-abortion laws anywhere in the country.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 15:15-15:22
“This year, dead in their sights was crisis pregnancy centers.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 15:29-15:34
“The state wanted to take all that [local control] away from the local level, take that away from the city of Brighton, take that away from…”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 16:38-16:49
“We were able to stop the land grab bill.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 17:48-17:51
“Property taxes in the state of Colorado are based on three things.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 18:14-18:19
“The value for that tax purpose was determined on June 30, 2022.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 19:38-19:44
“June 30, 2022 was really the top of that bubble.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 20:09-20:14
“The Republican solution was very simple. It was a seven-page bill.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 20:34-20:41
“The Colorado Taxpayer Bill of Rights says that any time that government wants to raise taxes, it has to go to a vote of the people on the…”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 21:47-21:52
“The state government can only spend money based on an equation that incorporates population growth times inflation.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 22:11-22:22
“Government in Colorado has already grown about 57%, even when you adjust it for population times inflation.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 22:32-22:42
“The state budget was about $15 billion [in 2005].”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 22:42-22:48
“Last year, the state passed a 40, 41, 41 or 43, I can't remember, that was over 40 billion dollar budget.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 22:55-23:05
“This year, the Democrats forced through a 38.5 billion dollar budget.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 23:04-23:10
“Last year was somewhere around $4 billion that was refunded out [due to the Taxpayer Bill of Rights].”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 23:49-23:55
“This year it's forecasted to be about the same, about $4 billion [in refunds].”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 23:54-23:59
“Proposition HH allows them to keep all of your taxpayer Bill of Rights mandated refunds.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 25:52-26:05
“If Proposition HH passes this fall, the first year that it goes into effect, the state will be allowed to keep about $130 million that…”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 25:53-26:05
“In 10 years the state could keep about 1.3, about $1.3 billion [annually].”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 26:14-26:24
“In 30 years, the state can keep an additional $17 billion annually that should have been refunded back to the folks.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 26:23-26:34
“The Greeley House district, out of the tens of thousands of people who voted up there, the Democrats won that seat by 299 votes.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 27:30-27:38
“If the Republicans had gotten there was about 15,000 additional votes properly distributed through a lot of these very close races, instead…”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 27:55-28:08
“46% of Coloradans who voted Republican want smaller governance, more fiscal restraints, more freedom, less regulatory burden.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 28:13-28:25
“Economic forecasts say that in the next three or four years, there's about $10 billion that should be refunded back to the citizens.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 29:09-29:18
“They're driving out insurance companies from the state of Colorado.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 32:09-32:13
“If you drive a Kia or a Hyundai, there's certain makes, models and years of those vehicles where you cannot get insurance for it near the…”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 32:13-32:22
“Government doesn't give anybody anything for free. It all comes from taxes.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 42:42-42:47
“We haven't won an election, you know, a big election in Colorado since 2014.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 44:53-44:58
“One side spent $6 for every $1 the other side sent in this last election.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 46:35-46:41
“We have a Communist Party in the state of Colorado.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 48:21-48:27
“27% of Coloradans are registered Democrats, 24% are registered Republicans, and 48% are registered unaffiliated.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 49:43-49:52
“46 of the folks down at the state Capitol that want more big government and more higher taxes and don't really care about the integrity of…”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 50:45-50:53
“The state House Republicans, all 19 of us, we walked out to at the end of this year.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 54:03-54:08
“In Colorado, unlike other states, a quorum is a simple majority.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 54:17-54:22
“46% of Coloradans who we also represent, that we also speak for do not have a voice in the state House because they keep using Rule 14 and…”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 54:45-54:54
“Oregon has a higher quorum requirement than we do in Colorado.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 55:05-55:10
“It unfortunately doesn't slow the works much here in Colorado.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 56:37-56:41
“We have to have leaders. We have to have folks that all come together that understand the times.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 1:01:30-1:01:37
“It is not loving to have your neighbor be overtaxed, overregulated, having all of their money being siphoned off to the government.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 1:02:09-1:02:26
“Public safety [is] fall[ing] apart.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 1:02:18-1:02:18
“They can't get an education for their kids.”
August 6 Brighton, Colorado, HD48 State Rep. Gabe Evans Town Hall | Uploaded August 17, 2023 | 1:02:23-1:02:26