Posted on 09/10/2013 10:30:10 PM PDT by Zakeet
State Senate President John Morse became the first Colorado lawmaker to be recalled by his constituents in the state’s 137-year history around 9 p.m. Tuesday night.
Less than an hour later, Sen. Angela Giron, also facing a recall due to her support of gun control legislation this year, became the second.
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Morse conceded just after 9 p.m.
“It has been an honor to represent the eleventh senate district and to serve as the Colorado state [senate] president,” he told more than 150 supporters at the Wyndham Garden Hotel downtown.
“Robert F. Kennedy once said, ‘it is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.’ Our last [legislative] session was phenomenal, and the next session will be even better.
“The loss of this seat for the next 16 months is purely symbolic.”
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Earlier Tuesday, Anthony Garcia, one of the citizen activists who started the recall process, reflected that his side has scored a victory of sorts, regardless of the final results.
“I feel like we’ve already won,” Garcia said. “We did something no one thought we could do. We did it without much money, without much support. We did it with the will of the people.”
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how does this work?
will there be another election(s) to fill vacancies?
or are there already ‘new’ senators that came with the recall?
If the CO dems have a brain in their heads, they'll treat Bloomberg like the herpes virus.
You're entirely correct, The KG9 Kid, but that's a mighty large if. I predict representatives of the Democratic [sic] party will conclude they just didn't spend enough foreign, east coast, and California dollars.
This change will only last until Amnesty in 2014; then Colorado will be Bluer than Blue.....as will most of the Southwest.
Doomberg lost millions.
Americans TWO Anti American Democrat psychopaths ZERO.
BTTT!!!
I hope like Hell chickenpooper gets his due next! The coward couldn’t even let a convicted murdered be put to death. He kicked that can down the road for the next governor to do it. What a coward!
Great points!
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