Tuesday, October 8, 2013

New Recall Effort in Colorado Targets State Senator Evie Hudak

Sen. Evie Hudak
A renewed and spirited effort is underway to recall Sen. Evie Hudak, a Democrat from Westminster, less than six months after an initial effort faltered.
Organizers from within Senate District 19 were certified by the secretary of state late Friday to begin gathering signatures to have a recall placed on the ballot. The group, "Recall Hudak, too," must gather about 18,900 valid signatures within 60 days, and on its website the group even has a running ticker that counts down to the deadline.
"She has infringed upon our constitutional right to keep and bear arms. She has voted to make all citizens less safe and to drive hundreds of jobs from Colorado," reads an excerpt of the petition language e-mailed by Mike McAlpine, a spokesmanfor the group.
"A small group is seeking to undo the will of voters, who re-elected me to the Senate last November. Unable to defeat me then, they are now attempting a political power grab using a low-voter-turnout, no-mail-ballot recall election strategy," Hudak said in a statement, alluding to a Denver District Court judge's ruling on a constitutional matter that in turn nullified mail ballots in the recalls of Morse and Giron.
You remember the controversy earlier this year when Sen. Hudak spoke the truth at a hearing about gun rights and all the gun nuts freaked out. Here it is from Wikipedia:
In March, 2013, while in a legislative hearing about concealed carry firearms on college campuses, rape survivor Amanda Collins discussed how, when attacked by convicted rapist and murderer James Biela, she wished she had a firearm to defend herself. Hudak responded: "I just want to say, statistics are not on your side, even if you had had a gun. You said that you were a martial arts student, I mean person, experience in tae kwon do, and yet because this individual was so large and was able to overcome you even with your skills, and chances are that if you had had a gun, then he would have been able to get it from you and possibly use it against you..."

30 comments:

  1. So to you it's okay for a woman to be rapped so long as she douse not have a gun pulled on her, also it was not just a bunch of people it was the woman who was rapped who got angry. The other two people being recalled thought they could win, well guess what. They lost and big time, so will she, even her own people turned on her for the comment.

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    1. Of course it's not "okay for a woman to be raped." But women arming themselves is not the answer.

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    2. And what is the answer? And don't tell me, "For men to stop raping." That catchphrase is one of the lamest cop outs for a solution that I've heard.

      And why is arming oneself a legitimate option for protecting your friend from being assaulted on the job, but not a legitimate option for women to prevent being raped along with pepper spray, batons, tazers, whistles, and martial arts (all but the last two already illegal in NY)?

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    3. Uh yes it is, that's why even the FBI and DOJ have shown the higher gun sales go the lower crime goes. Women have bin allowed to carry guns since before they could even vote, yet here you are claiming they should not be. She was in school grounds in a "Safe Zone" when she was attacked So that shows you're retarded laws don't work, and that;s why you can't use the FBI to show a year where gun laws were passed and the crime dropping the year after.

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    4. The reason a gun might be appropriate for my friend is because his work brings him daily into high-danger places. Perhaps some women have a similar situation and carrying a gun might be right for them. But for the most part, women, and anyone else for that matter, can avoid high risk places and especially avoid high risk people. This only takes common sense and prudence, not firepower.

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    5. Ah, so try to avoid getting raped is your solution. That and close your eyes and think of England.

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    6. Common sense and prudence? That sounds like telling a woman not to wear a short skirt and to stay at home in the evening. Of course, when the rapist breaks into her home, she then has to run out into the street, right?

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    7. She was on school grounds in a "Safe Zone" would you tell me where that was a "high risk" area? How about she lowers risk of being rapped y being able to carry a gun, seeing as how officers were not where they should have bin. She was 50ft from campus police car, right next to the campus station, when she was attacked.

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    8. Greg, Common sense and prudence would be sufficient for you too. But, you feel the need to carry a gun everywhere you go. That's the stupidest decision you could make because the chances of your needing the gun in an emergency are lower than the chances that you'll one day misuse your weapon. What the fuck is wrong with you, man? Are you that paranoid and insecure? Are you that psychologically inadequate?

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    9. The typical response of the gun control freak: Make allegations about a person's mental health, while ignoring the reasoning that the person has offered repeatedly.

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  2. Another traitor set to be expelled from office. Politicians, are you learning your lesson?

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    1. The first recall effort which followed the "rape" remarks failed. Why do you think this one will work?

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    2. There's really no way to tell if it will work this time until the signatures are turned in. Perhaps the website will give us periodic updates like the ones we got to enjoy when someone started a petition to have Piers Morgan deported. That sort of took on a life of its own.
      Perhaps the first failure was due to an ineffective system of collecting signatures.

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    3. The organizers decided to focus on the other two traitors first. Now this one gets their full attention.

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    4. Traitor? That's funny coming from a lying fuck head hillbilly like you. A lying fuck head hillbilly who promotes lawlessness and death. You are the traitor, lying fuck head hillbilly. Now go kill a child, your favorite thing to do.

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  3. So, pulling a gun on a guy is liable to end with him taking it and shooting you, but kicking him in the balls and trying to fight him off is good and acceptable and won't result in a escalation of force. You don't have to lie back and think of England unless you were thinking of using a gun.

    Nice.

    It was tone deaf enough of the senator to say that in the heat of the moment, but your defense of her, with the benefit of hindsight, is inexcusable.

    It's interesting that you think your friend's job would justify him carrying and that he could be capable of defending himself with a gun, but that women are incapable of doing so against rapists.

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    1. Meleanie Hain's case is one example of what I'm saying. Except for rare cases, a woman arming herself is not protection against attack. Same goes for you, by the way. But since you live in a fantasy world, having the gun makes you feel better.

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    2. Ah, yes! Because the gun she did not have on her did not protect her from being snuck up on and shot in the back of the head by her police officer husband who used his own weapon.

      That proves nothing except that you will grasp at anything, including cases that have no relation except for the victim being female, to justify your position.

      Or maybe the female part is the only thing you care about and you want to disarm all women, and half of men. Hey! There's a way for you to take your famous 10% which turned into the famous 50% and turn it into the "famous 75%"!

      As for your comments about me, yes, my gun does not prevent my being attacked. It does give me a more effective tool than my fists for repelling an attack, though.

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    3. You mean gun laws make you feel better please show us all using the FBI's website a year gun laws were passed and then when crime started to drop the year after. Funny how the FBI shows gun sales going up one year then the next year have a drop in crime. You live in a fantasy world where gun laws actually work, and we all know it's true so do you, that's why you can't and wont prove it using a UNbiased source and why you left your FaceBook blogs because people ketp proving you wrong over and over again.

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    4. "It does give me a more effective tool than my fists for repelling an attack, though."

      What attack? There is no attack, except in your fevered imagination.

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    5. Now you're just getting lame, Mikey. I don't claim that I'm under attack frequently or that an attack on me is likely; I just say that carrying a weapon for self defense gives me a useful tool in the event that an attack occurs.

      You, on the other hand, are the one saying that women shouldn't carry because 1) they might be attacked, and 2) the attacker might get their gun from them.

      Your jibes about fevered imaginations fall flat on their faces when one looks at the even more unlikely scenarios you propose as reasons for disqualifying classes of people.

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    6. It's not lame to point out that guns do more harm than good. And that in most cases, having a gun is a liability because the chances of needing it some day to save yourself are way lower than the chances that it will one day be misused. That makes you either stupid or paranoid. Sorry, but there it is.

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    7. Ah, losing on one tactic so you shift to another. Nice.

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    8. Even if that were true, Mike, what's wrong will letting people make that choice for themselves? Gun misuse can be mitigated with "common sense and prudence" as well.

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    9. I'm not opposed to people deciding to own and carry guns if they want to. I would require that they be qualified, which about half of them are not right now.

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    10. Mikeb, the fact that you make up numbers without any supporting evidence shows why you must never win.

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  4. "A small group is seeking to undo the will of voters, who re-elected me to the Senate last November."

    " Hudak won the seat in 2012 by about 580 votes with a third-party candidate on the ballot."

    Yep, it was a landslide victory. I wonder if the recently EX Senators from Colorado made similar comments not so long ago...

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  5. What a capital B. I suppose she is opposed to the women of the Colorado State Police carrying guns that will statistically be taken away from them by the big strong bad guy.

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  6. Mikeb, why haven't you commented on her weight and skin color? You've also made no bovine references to her.

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  7. Take away all guns from men. Allow only women to have guns. Since men commit most of the crime, problem solved.

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