Posted on 08/30/2013 5:25:08 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
While most Americans will be chillin’ out, maxin’ and relaxin’ this Labor Day weekend, dedicated patriots in Colorado are hard at work preparing for a groundbreaking special election day with nationwide repercussions. George Washington would be proud.
On September 10, Democratic legislator and state Senate President John Morse of Colorado Springs faces a citizen recall for his sellout to New York anti-gun special interests, for his betrayal of transparency and accountability to constituents, and for his destructive economic policies that are driving thousands of jobs away. Also up for recall: Democratic legislator Angela Giron of Pueblo.
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May all those sellout POLs be removed from office.
Nice token move, but CO still has a collectivist governor.
I shall be watching this with extreme interest.
Well the token move ain’t over till it’s over, and may the Guv suffer the desired fate in his next election, so “THE PEOPLE” can get back to the business of raising families and earning a living without having to constantly concern themselves with what government is doing to the State, and doing to them. It was one of the reasons for representative government.
Hickenlooper just came out in support of the two gun grabbers. RECALL the governor!
Viva Colorado Patriots!
Maybe not. I suspect ol' George would have been in favor of a bit more condign action.
* Hickenlooper just came out in support of the two gun grabbers. RECALL the governor! *
Toss out the traitors who went along with this anti-gun nonsense
“Nice token move”
There is nothing “token” about this move. It is a pure constitutional one and another small step in taking back our country. Every one of these moves is important. The liberals love incrementalism, they have taken over our country in a series of small moves that collectively have added up to seriously undermining our country. Time to fight fire with fire and use that same incrementalism to accomplish our own ends, not theirs.
I wish the recall effort every success, but it's an up hill battle. Both of those POSs were elected by a majority of the voters in their districts. Unless one or both of the following happen they'll be re-elected. First, enough of the people who voted for them in the first place weren't aware of their anti-gun stance and care enough about it to change their vote on the recall elecion or second, most of the democratic base will be too busy playing scratch off lotto tickets, drinking beer, heating frozen entrees bought with their EBT cards and screwing out crack babies to go and vote. I suppose it hinges on whether or not more Bloomturd money is going to be used to transport the indolent to the polls. IF the turnout is light, and if the progun side gets its base off their collective asses, then it can work.
Sadly progun citizens aren't all that energetic. Example: about 20 years ago I was in charge of getting a pro-gun rally on a Saturday in jan just before the Ga legislature went in session. Our pro-gun group had about about 3000 members. Every one was called and about 500 promised to show up. We ran radio ads and a newpaper ad (but not in the Atlanta Fishwrapper) We got sympathetic talk radio hosts to at least mention in passing what was going to happen. Well the day came and 140 people showed up. Pathetic. This is in the Atlanta metro area with about 2+ million in easy driving distance. Contrast this with Concord Ma when Col Francis Smith took his troops to confiscate the colonists arms. About 2000 colonists eventually showed up either by walking or horseback sniping the British forces all the wah back to Boston. The Brits have abotu 250 casualties. This 2000 out of a population of about 230,000 in ALL of MA. They risked their lives and all the modern crew had to rsik was a few hours out of theri saturday mornings. Poeple today just don't get it.
Slight correction - I was in charge of the advertising and phone tree. The rally was run by someone else in the organization
And the recall petitions had more signatures than the number of votes in the original election.
I don't think your analysis holds water.
/johnny
whatever
Some would rather focus on the negative, and predict failure. That just supports the left. I refuse to play that game.
/johnny
I would love to see it successful, but it isn’t the slam dunk that some people around here seem to think it is.
Morse won by a squeaker in a generally conservative district. The Libertarian candidate siphoned off twice as many votes as the Republican lost by.
The Libertarians did not make the recall ballot.
Giron ain't looking too good either.
tells you something about dissatisfaction with Republicans doesn't it.
Yes it does, but then bad results like this happen.
“Example: about 20 years ago I was in charge of getting a pro-gun rally....”
I think it would be a mistake to equate the conditions 20 years ago with today. The issues are more clear cut, and then there’s the internet. I hope that’s the situation anyway. The Colorado recall, if successful will be a game changer.
“The Libertarian candidate siphoned off twice as many votes as the Republican lost by.”
Splinter groups, the Conservatives nightmare. They are every bit as much a problem to “our side,” as the Radical Liberals are to the RATS. They need to work within the two-party system to elect real Conservatives instead of pi$$ing away their vote for some “principle” that at the end of the day doesn’t mean anything in the context of getting the right people elected. I just don’t know how these people can leave the polls feeling that they’ve made a positive contribution to their country.
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