Even before the erotic email blast, there were signs that all was not going as planned in Colorado's recall elections.
It started with promise. In March, Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper signed into law a sweeping gun control package that mandated background checks for all private and online gun sales, increased fees for firearm purchases, and banned magazines that contained more than 15 rounds of ammunition. (Existing magazines were grandfathered under the law.) The measures, which received no Republican votes in the historically gun-happy legislature, sent the state’s conservative activists into a frenzy. They quickly prepared a legal challenge with backing from the National Rifle Association—and then they developed a plan to get even. Within days, they'd started gathering signatures to recall four Democratic legislators who had helped push the reforms through, including state Senate president John Morse.
But that was easier said than done. An effort by a group called the San Juan Freedom Defense Committee to recall state Rep. Mike McLachlan, who represents a sprawling district on the New Mexico border, failed when opponents failed to produce the necessary 10,586 signatures. (In Colorado, a recall is triggered when 25 percent of the most recent electorate signs on.) The planned recall campaign against state Sen. Evie Hudak fell apart, too.
(CNN) — Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado on Thursday set the date for recall elections for two state senators, marking the first recall effort in the state’s history.
ReplyDeleteOn September 10, voters in two districts will have the chance to re-elect or oust their incumbent Democratic state representatives who are being targeted for supporting tougher gun laws in Colorado.
http://fox6now.com/2013/07/19/colorado-sets-recall-elections-for-two-pro-gun-control-lawmakers/
But what of the other recall votes that are going ahead? But here's the thing: Slave states are the hardest to win over to freedom, and Colorado is becoming a slave state, thanks to all the refugees from California. (Why a person would want to turn his new home into the hell hole that his old home was is a question for another day.) But most of America remains free.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Colorado is fast becoming a "hell hole." You sure have a flare for the dramatic.
DeleteDuh. Poll after poll have shown large public support for all these measures, nationwide. When these measures come up for public vote, they invariably pass, despite the conservative leanings (or buy-offs) of their representatives in Congress. So it makes sense that the extremists would fail to get enough signatures for a recall on these issues.
ReplyDeleteYou missed the part about how two recalls are going ahead, I take it.
DeleteThey went for four recalls and two of them are proceeding (which is two more recalls than before they banned magazines and criminalized private transfers).
Delete"I don't know why coach pulled me from the mound. I got half the batters out!" says Baldr.
You guys say two recalls are going ahead, but isn't it more like tow ATTEMPTS at recall are going ahead?
DeleteNo, there are two recall votes going ahead.
DeleteThey passed the point where the recall elections will happen.
DeleteNo, the recall has happened. Now they are facing a election again. Get replaced or retain their office. Its now an election. Both sides can run for that office.
Delete"DENVER (AP) — Colorado voters ousted two state lawmakers Tuesday in first-ever recall elections that came in reaction to the Democrats' support for tougher gun laws in the aftermath of last year's mass shootings in Aurora and Newtown, Conn.
ReplyDeleteSenate President John Morse of Colorado Springs and Sen. Angela Giron of Pueblo lost their jobs as lawmakers in an election seen as a national measure of popular support for gun legislation. They were replaced by two gun-rights Republicans."
Mother Jones is wrong again, the people have spoken. I wonder how Mayor Bloomberg feels about all that money he spent there....