By Erik Maulbetsch | Colorado Times Recorder
As the legislative session comes down to its final days, one freshman Republican has harsh words for her Democratic colleagues. State Rep. Rebecca Keltie (R-Colorado Springs) in a Sunday evening interview on a libertarian podcast called her fellow legislators evil, soulless, and corrupt, before saying she thinks Colorado needs to be burned to the ground so Republicans can rise from the ashes.
“I’ve never seen a group of people that are so … for lack of a better term, evil. I feel it when I come in there. I pray as soon as I enter the building. As soon as I enter that room, I pray. While I’m in there, I’m praying. I’ve never prayed so much in my life. … I went in there with an open mind of respect,” said Keltie.
“I have lost — for almost all of them, except for maybe a few — all respect. Like, I can’t even look at them in the face. It’s very difficult for me to think that, you know, they even have a soul. I’m not even sure they even have a soul, and their eyes are just … I don’t know.
“I know it sounds weird, but I’m telling you, these people are corrupt. And the amount of money that they’re going through, it’s like you get ‘Oh, it’s a fiscal note of zero — no, it’s going to cost millions of dollars!’ But they cheat and they scheme and they scam and your money — your money in Colorado, every penny you give the state — is not safe in the hands of these people; it’s just not. We’re paying for hippy camps. We’re paying for hundreds of brand-new vehicles that they don’t need. I gave them $70 million of cuts they could make. That’s what I kind of I do in the civilian world. I go through contracts, I look at every word. That’s what I do, and I’m like, ‘Here you go, silver platter, $70 million with the cuts just from me,’ and they just [said], ‘No thanks’ and just threw it to the side. It’s a shame.
“I hate to say this, but it’s almost like the state of Colorado needs to be burned to the ground and built from the top up. I hate to say that, but from the ashes of the fire will rise a Phoenix. And that Phoenix is gonna be us. We are gonna be that Phoenix, but until we take it all the way down and we get these sons of guns out of there — I almost said a bad word. Anyways, get them out of there. I’m not sure what else we can do.”