Centennial, Colorado
Rick Rome is a civil engineer with 30 years of experience and president of Liberty Toastmasters South in the Denver metro area. A dedicated advocate for constitutional principles and civic engagement, he ran for Centennial City Council in 2023.
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Rick Rome is a civil engineer with over 30 years of professional experience, specializing in water resources and infrastructure. He is currently president of Liberty Toastmasters South, having previously served as president of Liberty Toastmasters Denver. Through these organizations, he helps members develop communication and leadership skills while articulating principles of individual liberty and constitutional governance.
Rome's civic involvement extends beyond Toastmasters. He served on the Arapahoe County Republican Party Executive Committee and ran for Centennial City Council in 2023. His engineering background informs his perspectives on issues ranging from Colorado water policy to federal infrastructure mandates and property rights.
A thoughtful analyst of political philosophy and founding principles, Rome frequently discusses the connections between faith, liberty, and America's constitutional heritage. He draws on historical examples from the Mayflower Compact to the Declaration of Independence to illuminate contemporary policy debates.
Rome is one of the Kim Monson Show's most frequent guests, appearing approximately 50 times since October 2019. His contributions span topics including constitutional rights, civic engagement, free speech, property rights, and the philosophical foundations of American liberty. He is known for connecting abstract principles to practical policy implications with clarity and conviction.
June 18, 2026
Civic Engagement & Grassroots
Liberty Toastmasters on engaged citizenship, Karen Gordey on Lakewood's zoning fight, Priscilla Rahn on Excalibur Classical Academy, Pat Miller's run for State Senate, and a Communist Manifesto book review. June 18, 2026.
“And if we're actually serving one another, that is probably the best engagement that we can do to protect our liberty and protect our freedoms.”
May 21, 2026
Civic Engagement & Grassroots
Karen Gordey on Lakewood civic engagement, Liberty Toastmasters on civic virtue, Stephen Varela on Colorado GOP, Paula Sarlls on Memorial Day. May 21, 2026.
“The blessings of liberty abound with everything that we have, and a lot of it has been acquired without the discipline to secure it ourselves. We've forgotten that fundamental lesson of what it takes to secure that blessing of liberty.”
April 30, 2026
Colorado Politics & Policy
Gauri Seshadri, Jay Davidson, Dave Evans, Karen Gordey, and Karen Levine on the Kim Monson Show for April 30, 2026.
“We talk in our club specifically about things that the larger Toastmaster program really frowns upon. Religion, politics, all of those wonderful things that bring families and communities together.”
April 23, 2026
Colorado Politics & Policy
Liberty Toastmasters Day on peace through strength, Xcel's smart meter ultimatum, the PUC sunset, and homeownership under siege. April 23, 2026.
“I've come to the realization that the source of peace is the same as our source of strength. And it comes from wisdom, clarity of purpose.”
March 20, 2026
Civic Engagement & Grassroots
Liberty Toastmasters debates natural rights. Cherry Creek SD faces $20M scandal. Lakewood citizens fight upzoning. March 20, 2026.
“If it involves an involuntary taking a good, a service, I have to see a doctor. Well, no, you have a right to pursue health care and health services, but you don't have a right to take someone else's skill, knowledge, and ability. That's an involuntary taking. That is a want. It is not a need. It is not a right.”
December 18, 2025
Civic Engagement & Grassroots
“It really is a binary choice that we're faced with in the Christmas holiday and that choice, that discernment.”
November 13, 2025
Civic Engagement & Grassroots
“They will climb the highest mountains because they believe in a cause and they have passion for it.”
September 25, 2025
Ballot Measures & TABOR
Scott Powell on America's revolutionary founding. Liberty Toastmasters explores God-given rights. Cherry Creek School Board.
“We're talking about this notion of the life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, those God-given rights, and in my mind, it's really evolved as I've developed my thoughts through this process of speaking that that's almost like a public policy holy trinity.”
August 28, 2025
Civic Engagement & Grassroots
“But like I said, for the first time, I'm hopeful that we have a generational opportunity to redefine the nature of the words that used to, that have become so meaningless to us, racist, homophobe, bigot, Democrat, Republican, and independent.”
July 24, 2025
Colorado Politics & Policy
Liberty Toastmasters explores property rights while Kurt Gerwitz examines AI cults on July 24, 2025.
“It robs us of our dignity by stripping away those hard-earned assets that we work so hard to achieve.”
March 21, 2025
Colorado Politics & Policy
“And I think the solution is accountability.”
February 28, 2025
Colorado Politics & Policy
“We were given a gift in this country, and that gift is not the rights that are inalienable by God. We were given the gift of a country that acknowledged that those rights were inalienable by God and saw fit to enshrine it in the Constitution.”
January 30, 2025
Colorado Politics & Policy
General Joe Arbuckle details Trump executive orders eliminating DEI from the military and restoring readiness. January 30, 2025.
“The one thing that we can always change, always have the courage to change, is our own perspective. And if we're truly going to be seeking the truth and the wisdom that gets us past the propaganda and the factoids, we have to make that change in our perspective.”
October 31, 2024
Ballot Measures & TABOR
Kim Monson celebrates Liberty Toastmasters' 15th anniversary. Wendy Warner exposes Denver tax hikes. October 31, 2024.
“The challenge is to bring that out into the world and bring those skill sets that we practice every single meeting.”
June 27, 2024
Liberty Toastmasters on the Kim Monson Show discussing the Declaration of Independence and Jay Davidson on tax equity.
“Part of that preparation comes in getting right with our spirit, getting right in our hearts, and being right with each other so that we can make that pledge of sacred honor.”
April 26, 2024
Colorado Politics & Policy
Election integrity, Second Amendment rights, and conservative strategy with Jody Hice, Nephi Cole, and Allen Thomas. April 26, 2024.
“No system has ever done more to end poverty, and that's through food supplies, through controlling disease. We've extended lifestyles or life cycles, lifetimes, and it's for a very simple reason: it's about dignity.”
April 25, 2024
Colorado Politics & Policy
Liberty Toastmasters explore capitalism's moral case with Kim Monson. Karen Levine and Lorne Levy discuss housing and mortgages. April 25, 2024.
“No system has done more to defeat poverty. If you had to be poor in the world, anywhere in the world, the United States is where people come.”
March 21, 2024
Civic Engagement & Grassroots
Pam Long exposes Colorado bills targeting open records. Joe Andujo on border security. Liberty Toastmasters analyze Bill of Rights. March 21, 2024.
“There's two top ten lists that I really love. The first one is the Ten Commandments. When you have Moses up on the mountain, I can almost visualize him carving into stone those ten rules that help people to live a good life and a godly life. Then when I think about the founding fathers, the Bill of Rights, the ten rules that help a government be an honest and fair government.”
February 12, 2024
Ballot Measures & TABOR
Liberty Toastmasters debates taxation while attorney John Case defends Tina Peters. Kurt Gerwitz analyzes Bidenomics. February 12, 2024.
“The politicians and the clowns have turned it into a game of three-card Monty. So we have a show game where they put some little marble of a welfare program. We're going to put them in competition with the veterans for health services. And all of this is going on domestically while we're funding foreign wars, the Ukraine slush funds.”
January 25, 2024
Civic Engagement & Grassroots
Liberty Toastmasters explores property rights via the Declaration of Independence. Mike Triem questions college value. January 25, 2024.
“Honestly, Kim, I don't know what the solution is. It's not going to be political. It's going to have to come from the heart and it's going to have to come from some sort of divine inspiration.”
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