Oct 1, 2026 · 57 min · 15 segments
Colorado’s wildlife future is heading to the ballot, with hunting and fishing at stake. Colorado has become a major battleground in the national debate over hunting, fishing, wildlife management, and…
Um, so, you know, big doings, obviously a little backstory for the audience that maybe just be tuning in for the first time there were rumblings, um, amongst a lot of other efforts and States, uh, earlier, uh, this year.
And then all of a sudden, here we are, all the signatures verified and gathered on the ballot for November 3rd.
Let's start off with you giving us kind of the boots on the ground temperature right now.
It's been costly to get it on the ballot, obviously, but some people stepped up to fund that.
Was it a silver bullet for this kind of you know, effort against us when it comes to ballot box biology, which is sort of sweeping the nation.
So the animal rights groups, what's very clear is that they are using this now to bypass all the apparatus that we built on Capitol Hill, that we built in the state houses, the legislatures, because they don't really give a damn about who's the governor, who's in the legislature, who's on Capitol Hill.
This is direct democracy, right? Let's get it on the ballot with emotional pleas You know, get the language written in such a way that almost everybody says, well, sure, that sounds reasonable.
It's just clear that now the opposition strategy on scale is going to be ballot box biology.
And what I went to Brett just to say, explain to me exactly how this would be some kind of a significant help, because I'm all in if you could explain it.
Um, so, you know, big doings, obviously a little backstory for the audience that maybe just be tuning in for the first time there were rumblings, um, amongst a lot of other efforts and States, uh, earlier, uh, this year.
And then all of a sudden, here we are, all the signatures verified and gathered on the ballot for November 3rd.
Let's start off with you giving us kind of the boots on the ground temperature right now.
It's been costly to get it on the ballot, obviously, but some people stepped up to fund that.
Was it a silver bullet for this kind of you know, effort against us when it comes to ballot box biology, which is sort of sweeping the nation.
So the animal rights groups, what's very clear is that they are using this now to bypass all the apparatus that we built on Capitol Hill, that we built in the state houses, the legislatures, because they don't really give a damn about who's the governor, who's in the legislature, who's on Capitol Hill.
This is direct democracy, right? Let's get it on the ballot with emotional pleas You know, get the language written in such a way that almost everybody says, well, sure, that sounds reasonable.
It's just clear that now the opposition strategy on scale is going to be ballot box biology.
And what I went to Brett just to say, explain to me exactly how this would be some kind of a significant help, because I'm all in if you could explain it.
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