Posted on 09/08/2019 10:18:18 AM PDT by real saxophonist
DENVER– On July 8, the group “Dismiss Polis” began collecting signatures to recall Colorado Governor Jared Polis.
That recall effort officially failed on Friday when the group was unable to come up with enough signatures to force a special election.
Governor Polis released the following statement Friday morning:
“After all that fuss, I was pleasantly surprised that they didn’t turn in a single signature on the recall. I hope the remaining misguided efforts against others see the same results as Tom Sullivan’s did before. Recalls should not be used for partisan gamesmanship.
He also added an update on his upcoming schedule:
“Yesterday I was in Rifle, last week I was in Ignacio, Cortez, and Durango, and next week I’ll be in Trinidad and Lamar. Across the state, people are so excited that kids everywhere are able to attend kindergarten free of charge, and that for the first time in history, health insurance rates are going down more than 18% next year. Mom and pop stores across the state are already benefiting from our tax cut that reduced taxes for 144,000 small and medium-sized businesses across our state.
Polis says now that the recall effort is over, he can focus his full attention on his campaign promises:
“Now that this sideshow is over, I will continue to focus my full attention on building upon our bipartisan success with kindergarten and saving money on health care. For my nine months in office I’ve held regular meetings with Republican and Democratic legislative leadership, and after the remaining recall efforts fail I plan on inviting both sides to a joint bipartisan leadership meeting to discuss how together we can improve our schools, reduce our traffic, and save people even more money on health care. Let’s see what amazing things we can do for Colorado, together.”
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Self-righteous bastard, ain’t he?
If this had succeeded, and it never really had a chance, who were the Republicans going to run?
The Republican party better come up with someone with the name recognition and chops to run against polesmoker on his record.
On a happier note, we get to vote against the national popular vote nonsense that he signed.
That is a lot of signatures needed and only 2 months in the middle of the summer. I just looked it up and it is based on 25% of the votes cast for that office. Even if they got the signatures, he would not have been recalled based on the stated reasons.
Governor Jared Polis should be recalled because he supported and signed:
1) SB 19-042, enacting and joining Colorado into an interstate compact to elect the president of the
United States by national popular vote;
2) SB 19-181, reforming the regulation of the oil and gas industry in Colorado despite the voters’ defeat
of Proposition 112’s drilling regulations;
3) HB 19-1032, mandating comprehensive human sexuality education and appropriating one million
dollars annually in grant funds for its dissemination; and
4) HB 19-1177, creating the ability for a family or household member to petition the court for a
temporary extreme risk protection order to prohibit an individual from possessing a firearm.
You may not have liked these items, but they are not fixable offenses.
Fireable offenses.
They had my signature. But they may not have my income to tax much longer. I’m back to seriously considering relocating.
I signed it at 5280 Armory.
Ping!
Bummer
In June 2019, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, an event widely considered a watershed moment in the modern LGBTQ rights movement, Queerty named Polis one of the Pride50 "trailblazing individuals who actively ensure society remains moving towards equality, acceptance and dignity for all queer people"
Polis (center) standing between two men.
But, the law abiding American gun owner is a piece of trash.
These punks are all about, “Inclusiveness,” unless it’s having to do with us.
Colorado was the first state to put into law that marriage was between a man and a woman. The gay mafia took revenge against us.
Well, that's the official story, anyway.
The reality is that the only way to know he was gay pre-election was via word of mouth. The MSM shilled for him by not mentioning he was gay.
His opponents in the Primary & General elections didn't dare mention it or even hint at it, because that would have brought down a tsunami of outrage on their heads from the MSM. It would have been, "How DARE you bring that up?!?! What on earth does that have to do with anything?? You're obviously a hate filled homophobic Nazi who wants to put gays in concentration camps!" And so on.
But the moment the returns came in, the "g"-word, the one that must never be mentioned, suddenly was in every single sentence (coupled with "openly") that was uttered by the enraptured MSM, along with "historical" in every third sentence. They all went gaga over gaygay.
I imagine a lot of voters the day after were going, "Huh? Whut?"
Organizers just didn’t work hard enough. People will sign damn near any petition, you just have to ask.
“I figured this would happen, but I sure signed it.”
Me too. The problem was not enough exposure and places to sign it.
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