Straight Talk With Kim & Carolyn

Kim and Carolyn are joined by Rep. Cheryl Acton (UT-38) to discuss her online subscriptions bill, medical visitation rights, and other legislation. - https://www.votecherylacton.com/

Kim and Carolyn talk to Rep. Walt Brooks (UT-75) about legislation he's working on including a bill to restrict the use and enforcement of vaccine passports by businesses.  Newcomer Rep. Katy Hall (UT-11) joined Kim and Carolyn to speak about her proposed legislation that restricts the use of ranked-choice voting (RCV) in municipal elections.  https://www.waltbrooks.com/Vote Katy Hall

Multiple rounds of voting and McCarthy can’t secure the US House speakership, an attempt to oust Ronna Romney McDaniels. Salt Lake County GOP Chair Chris Null joins Kim and Carolyn to discuss the fight for the heart of the Party. https://slcogop.com/

Since Paris Hilton visited the Utah legislature advocating for reform of adolescent residential treatment centers, Utah regulators have been swift to sanction and shut down. But does the broad-brush vilification have unintended consequences of pushing girls onto the street and into the sex traficking industry? https://www.havenwoodacademy.org/https://natsap.org/

Rep. Ken Ivory (UT-39) joins Kim and Carolyn to talk about a plethora of plans the Democrats and the far left have to transform life in Utah. Will Rocky Mountain Power be able to provide electricity to Utah after 2026? Is the federal government intent on taking over millions more acres of public land? Will Biden invoke a Climate Emergency declaration?  https://www.voteivory.com/https://www.facebook.com/VoteKenIvory

Failed liberal policies, waste, fraud and abuse have prolonged human suffering in our capital city. Kim gives a brief history lesson on the failure of Utah to effectively address homelessness resulting in a revolving door for addicts and the mentally ill. Then, Kim and Carolyn are joined by Dawn Armstrong who is a stalwart advocate for homeless youth.

Utah computer scientist Jiri Navratil joins Kim and Carolyn to discuss ranked-choice voting (RCV) and Instant Runoff Voting (IRV). His curiosity led him to run analyses on a number of Utah municpal races that incorporated RCV in 2021 and discovered several shocking statistics. Navratil has published an academic paper about it. https://bit.ly/UtahRCVElections

Clinical and Community psychologist and author Jacob Hess joins Kim and Carolyn to discuss recent studies indicating antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications join with Alzheimer’s and COVID-19 pharmaceutical research misinformation, exacerbating waning trust in the FDA. Hess sheds light on why mental health medications have not been the promised cure and offers real solutions for alleviating symptoms of depression. https://publicsquaremag.org/author/jhess/https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0080K3KTA/https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B083LFZBD7/

Michael Jolley recently moved his family to Georgia but he's still active in Utah politics by hilariously pointing out contradictions, inaccuracies, and flat-out lies peddled by leftist journalists and politicos. Our favorite Salt Lake Tribune garbageman, Bryan Schott, was a Jolley target after Schott (wrongly) identified a symbol painted a high school rock monument as being associated with violent right-wing militia groups in a recent article. Jolley has also spent time researching US senate candidate (and former presidential hopeful) Evan McMullin and shares his fascinating (and disturbing) discoveries. https://twitter.com/utjolley https://ciamcmullin.com/

Kim and Carolyn discuss two developments in Salt Lake County. First, the county council voted to hire a social media "Brand Manager" at an unbudgeted annual cost to taxpayers of between $160k and $220k. Second, the Salt Lake County Library system is asking for a whopping 30 percent hike in tax revenues.

Kim and Carolyn revisit a targeted conservative high school club instructed to remove USA from their official name and promote socialism.  Back with reinforcement from the Alliance Defending Freedom, Turning Point (USA) at Copper Hills High School president Matt Parkinson and attorney Matthew Hoffman give an update on their efforts to have Jordan School District respect their freedom of speech.   Kim and Carolyn also discuss problems with the same district's proposal to impose a 23% tax increase. https://www.instagram.com/tpusa_at_copper_hills_high/https://adflegal.org/https://adflegal.org/biography/mathew-hoffmannhttps://stopthejsdtaxhike.nationbuilder.com/

Kim and Carolyn speak with W. Clark Aposhian, president of the Utah Shooting Sports Council about some stories out of Deleware and Missouri where ATF or local law enforcement is trying to get citizens to divulge information about firearms they own. Clark explains the privacy safeguards in place in Utah. Kim and Carolyn also spoke with Sen. Kirk Cullimore who is a practicing attorney and serves on the state Senate Judicial Confirmation Committee. Kirk explains the way Supreme Court nominations take place in Utah and some of the potential deficiencies with this process.    https://utahshootingsportscouncil.org/https://www.facebook.com/gunradioutahhttps://www.facebook.com/VoteKirkCullimore/

Rep. Robert Spendlove (Utah House district 49) joins Kim and Carolyn to discuss how inflation affects, well, everything from households, businesses, and government organizations.  - https://spendloveforutah.com/

Jake Oaks of Liberty United joins Kim and Carolyn to discuss the recent FreedomFest conference in Las Vegas. He also describes his own journey to becoming an activist focused on the US Constitution.  Rusty Cannon, president of the Utah Taxpayers Association, joins Kim and Carolyn to discuss the incredible NINETY tax increases being proposed across the state of Utah. He explains what concerned residents need to do.   https://www.freedomfest.com/https://utahtaxpayers.org/https://unitingliberty.com/https://www.facebook.com/groups/libertyunite

Shortages of different kinds of food and energy are beginning to happen across the country and the world. What is being done here in Utah to protect access to these valuable resources?   Puite County councilman Darin Bushman joins Kim and Carolyn to talk about plans to create an "agri-park" for direct producer-to-consumer processing of meat products, bypassing the "big four" meat processing companies, some of which are owned by large foreign entities.   The co-chair of the Utah Legislature Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Interim Committee, Carl Albrecht, talked with Kim and Carolyn about the state's energy policies, what kind of energy resources are available inside of Utah, and what challenges we can expect to deal with in the near future.   https://house.utleg.gov/rep/ALBRECR/https://le.utah.gov/committee/committee.jsp?year=2022&com=INTPUTCarl Albrecht on FacebookDarin Bushman on Facebook

In 2020, SB174 was passed by the Utah legislature and signed into law by the governor. This legislation outlined a trigger law that would make elective abortion illegal in Utah if and when the US Supreme Court overturned its 1973 ruling on Roe v. Wade. Well, that happened and Rep. Karianne Lisonbee, the floor sponsor of the bill, has gotten more than an earful from Utahns and people outside of Utah about it.  https://karianne.org/https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/static/sb0174.html

US Senator Mike Lee joins Kim and Carolyn on the eve of the Utah primary election to discuss recent United States Supreme Court rulings, the country's glaring ignorance of basic civics, and his favorite libertarian Rush lyrics.  https://leeforsenate.com/https://www.centerstreet.com/titles/mike-lee/saving-nine/9781546002208/

Kim and Carolyn are joined by Connie Peterson of Armed Women of America to discuss Salt Lake City's recent gun buyback event.  Goud Maragani is running for Salt Lake County Clerk and has done considerable work already on the issue of election integrity.  - https://armedwomen.org/ - https://utahgunexchange.com/ - https://goud4clerk.com/ - https://slcogop.com/slcogop-election-integrity-report/

Barbara Ehardt is the Idaho legislator who passed the first legislation in the nation to protect women in sports. She was a college and youth basketball coach for many years and has significant experience in the area. She has since been working with many states around the nation who have been passing similar bills and she gives Kim and Carolyn an update on her work nationwide and the progress of the lawsuit filed immediately after the passage of her bill. In Utah, recently, two families filed lawsuits against the state for HB 11, Protecting Women in Sports. Kera Birkeland is the sponsor of HB 11 and talks to Kim and Carolyn about her background and the latest news.  Kim and Carolyn also discuss the Utah Debate Commission and their inappropriate social media content.

Carolyn Phippen, Sheldon Stewart, and Kim DelGrosso handily won their convention races but because of Utah's lame provision for signature gathering, we've all been forced into dealing with primary races for these elected offices. Kim, Carolyn, and some guy named Kurk Evans talk to these candidates officially endorsed by the Salt Lake County Republican Party about their races. https://www.carolynforutahhouse.com/https://sheldon4u.com/https://www.kimdelgrosso.com/