Bad news: Colorado Democrat defeated in recall election over gun control not taking it well

Hot Air ^ | 9/12/2013 | Allahpundit

[Signalman]

Via the Corner. Tuesday night, expecting a close race, I couldn’t believe that she lost by 12 points. Now, after watching her for the first time, I can’t believe she lost by only 12 points.

She’s got one argument here — “voter suppression,” ripped straight from the DNC’s talking points memo, which is completely destroyed by her own now-famous admission a few weeks ago that if Bloomberg and his anti-gun group couldn’t buy her a victory in this race, “they might as well fold it up.” They did their best for her; as Erika noted earlier, gun-grabbers outspent gun-rights supporters overwhelmingly. If that kind of money can’t get gun-control fans to drive to the polls, in a state where there was a horrendous mass shooting barely more than a year ago, maybe the votes simply aren’t there.

Sean Trende considers, then largely dismisses, the idea that the lack of mail-in ballots doomed the Democrats:

If Giron’s eager to blame the results on something other than support for gun rights, though, she could always blame it on a backlash to her and John Morse’s personal jackassery:

As it turns out, Morse and Giron sealed their fates on March 4, the day that the anti-gun bills were heard in Senate committees. At Morse’s instruction, only 90 minutes of testimony per side were allowed on each of the gun bills. As a result, hundreds of Colorado citizens were prevented from testifying even briefly. Many of them had driven hours to come to the Capitol, traveling from all over the state.

That same day, 30 Sheriffs came to testify. They too were shut out, with only a single Sheriff allowed to testify on any given bill. So while one Sheriff testified, others stood up with him in support…

When Morse shut that down, and Chairperson Giron went along, they crossed the double-red line of Colorado government. Had the seven gun control bills (one of which I testified in favor) been heard on March 4-6, instead of being rammed through committees on March 4, the recall might never have happened. It’s one thing to lose; it’s another to thing to lose when you didn’t even have the opportunity to present your reasoning. While the gun control bills were before the Senate in March, President Morse urged his caucus to stop reading emails, to stop reading letters from constituents, to stop listening to voicemails, to vote for the gun bills and ignore the constituents. Giron, presciently following this strategy, had allowed citizens to raise Second Amendment concerns at a single town hall meeting, and thereafter refused to discuss the issue at public fora.

They did their best to deny their opponents a voice — let’s call that “voter suppression” — so their opponents spoke on Tuesday night. Game over.

Exit question: What are we to make of the fact that CNN’s Brooke Baldwin is as impatient with Giron’s spinning here as gun-rights fans are?

[beaversmom]

That was great. :)

[justiceseeker93]

Giron is teed off that routine mail-in voting was disallowed in Colorado by court order. The real reason that she, and most other Democrats led by DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, enthusiastically endorse the mail-in system is that it enables many more opportunities for organized fraud and cheating which work to the 'Rats advantage. What was really suppressed was the fraudulent and illegal vote. Tougher to steal an election when most voters have to come to a polling place in order to vote.

She concludes her interview by talking about voters who were allegedly disenfranchised because they were hospitalized. I don't know it for a fact, but one would think that such voters can vote by absentee ballot if their medical disability is documented.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks justiceseeker93.

[American Constitutionalist]

The reporter kept asking “ What happened “ and what happened was their commie , feminist, liberal progressive agenda got stop abruptly and they can’t take it.

[Lancey Howard]

“Dude, I think it might be best for us to never piss Cartman off again.”

[Lancey Howard]

She concludes her interview by talking about voters who were allegedly disenfranchised because they were hospitalized. I don't know it for a fact, but one would think that such voters can vote by absentee ballot if their medical disability is documented.

None of Giron's opponent's voters were hospitalized? Only hers?

Giron’s argumant doesn’t make sense on the face of it. Did her opponent’s voters cast their ballots under different rules than her voters? Or, were the rules the same for all voters? These are the obvious questions I expected that anchor to ask Giron immediately but she never did.

[Impy]

The little rat lady is mad she got smoked by a double digit margin? That sounds like good news to me. If she cried then it’s great news.

[sheik yerbouty]

She needs an enema to clear her head..