Shocking email: Dems threaten Colo. sheriffs’ salaries over gun control

Bizpac Review ^ | 3/10/13 | Michael Dorstewitz

[Nachum]

The Colorado gun debate is heating up. Companies are threatening to move, rape victims are ridiculed for testifying in committee hearings that they desire guns for self-protection, and potential victims are instructed to rely on rape whistles and call boxes.

Now the state’s sheriffs have entered the fray, expressing support for the Second Amendment, and according to El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa, the officers are getting some blowback from the Democratic Party.

In an interview Saturday morning with Jeff Crank on 740 AM KVOR radio, Maketa said 30 Colorado sheriffs went to the state capitol to speak out against restrictive gun control legislation.

[JayAr36]

The “Despicable Party” strikes again!

[Carry_Okie]

he sheriff said he was “absolutely outraged by that. Number one, the salary bill for elected officials is a mandate of the legislature.

A sheriff should be paid by the county he serves, not by the state.

[Jet Jaguar]

Agreed.

[Carry_Okie]

I was looking at the state senate districts. Only 7 of these encompass all of the rural areas in Colorado, or 20% (there are 35 senators in Colorado, each from a single member district). The other 28 districts are in the Pueblo-Colorado Springs-Denver-Boulder-Fort Collins corridor.

You can thank the Supreme Court for that.