Friday, November 29, 2013
Evie Hudak Resigns in an Heroic and Strategic Maneuver
I suppose the gun-rights fanatics will call this a victory, which in their warped and vindictive way I suppose it is. One person was harmed. The Controversial Colorado gun laws remain in force and the Democrats get to replace Hudak. That's what I call a pretty weak victory.
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Mike, your link to a video took me to a weather report. Senator Hudak sort of shot herself in the foot (pun intended) when noy only voted for the same gun control legislation that led to the demise of Senators Morse and Giron, she sort of painted a target on herself in her patronizing demeanor and treatment of a rape survivor who testified before her.
ReplyDeleteAs for whether she was harmed, that depends on your definition. She'll likely be able to find work somewhere, perhaps as one of former Mayor Bloomberg's minions. For your cause's sake a position where she wont be required to actually speak without a script.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7htbCb15r88
There are 35 of them. Three have paid a price, but the laws are still there. Besides, she wasn't patronizing in that famous hearing. She was stating a simple fact. Guns don't guarantee rape prevention. More often than not they do more harm than good, so to suggest that women need them to ward off the rapists is absurd.
DeleteThose absurd laws won't last long, given the mood of Colorado voters. And Hudak was being patronizing, but that's the gun control style.
ReplyDelete"The mood of Colorado voters" means what exactly, small pockets of extremists that successfully attacked 3 out of 35 legislators? As usual, you're doing that self-aggrandizing exaggerating again. Gun-rights fanatics like you are a tiny minority.
DeleteMike, since you like to fashion this debate as a Democratic/Republican issue, then it would be more accurate to portray it as 3 out of 20.
DeleteYou're right about that - the point remains though.
DeleteIf it's a "tiny minority", why did she have to resign?
DeleteBecause although they're a tiny minority they are well financed and extremely fanatical and perhaps more numerous in her little area. The laws are state-wide.
DeleteIf the gun rights fanatics were as many as you say, the recalls would have been for 15 out or 20 or something like that. Right?
No, recalls take lots of work. And the Colorado Senate has a Democratic majority of one vote, so flipping control won't take much. This creature resigned to save her party's majority.
DeleteThese recalls were about politics, not guns, since the gun laws are still on the books. They targeted politicians. Why didn't they target recinding the gun laws?
DeleteWhy didn't they target recinding the gun laws?
DeleteMy guess is that an initiative petition trigger something that gets included in the next regular election, where a recall triggers a special election. So a recall has a more immediate and long term change if its successful.
Changing the power balance in the Senate also throws in the potential for the law to be repealed in the next legislative session.
Well funded? The last two recalls had 6:1 spending advantage in your favor.
DeleteAs far as your 15/20 comment- recalls are a big deal. How many people have ever been recalled for supporting gun rights? The Dems would not have poured so much money and effort into these if they weren't a big deal. You make it sound like seats are always going back and forth via recalls and it all balances out in the end.
As I said, it's about politics and changing the votes, not recinding gun laws.
Delete"As I said, it's about politics and changing the votes, not recinding gun laws."
DeleteAnon, In order for the laws to be repealed, the votes have to be there, so you would need to get the votes first. If the mythically high percentage of those backing "reasonable" gun laws were really there, she could have easily watched the gun lobby fritter away its money and image on the lost cause. Though in Hudack's case it might have been a bit more iffy since she won her last regular election by less that 600 votes.
But, there had been a precedent set with the first two now former Senators. There is also the possibility that the patronizing demeanor she showed in the video I posted also showed up when dealing with other issues besides gun legislation and that contributed to those who lined up to sign the recall petition.
In Hudak's case, her resignation allowed her party to maintain its majority of a single seat, though that raises the possibility of perhaps one or two jumping ship on a vote.
Plus, next year, I believe there are eight Democrats coming up for reelection.
You really are susceptible to bullshit. You really think getting majority vote is ALL about gun laws. How naive.
DeleteThe pro gun style is to lie and not care about the 33,000 gunshot deaths a year
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