Posted on 08/24/2022 2:09:56 PM PDT by cotton1706
The recall effort kicks off a flurry of legal questions, namely whether the recall will be focused on Priola’s current state Senate district or the one he will begin representing in January
Agroup of Republicans on Wednesday initiated a recall against Colorado state Sen. Kevin Priola, two days after the Henderson lawmaker announced he was leaving the GOP to become a Democrat.
The recall effort, backed by a deep-pocketed conservative nonprofit, kicks off a flurry of legal questions, namely whether the recall will be focused on Priola’s current state Senate district or the one he will begin representing in January. Priola was drawn into a much more Republican district during last year’s once-in-a-decade redistricting process.
The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office was investigating this week how the recall will play out. It’s possible the situation could end up before a judge.
The first step in a recall process is submitting a petition to the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office. The petition has to be accepted before the recall’s organizers can begin collecting signatures to try to force a special recall election.
About 18,000 signatures from voters in Priola’s district — again, it’s unclear if it’s his old or new district — would be needed to force the special election. The signatures would have to be collected 60 days after the petition is approved.
Priola represents Senate District 25 now, but come January he will represent Senate District 13, because of last year’s redistricting process. (While the 60-day signature gathering period won’t be over before the new year, the recall election will likely have to take place in 2023.)
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We are happy to have moved out of Colorado in 1993.
The state is a mishap, enough said.
Californicated, for sure.
This is a guy who gave struggled to get aboard the Titanic as is was sinking.
Well, at least he is slightly more honest than Lizard Cheney, Adam Kinstinker etc.
“Well, at least he is slightly more honest than Lizard Cheney, Adam Kinstinker etc.”
Only a little. He’s always been an assistant Democrat.
If the Republicans do this, then they had damned well better vet the people they get to collect signatures.
Remember what happened in Michigan? Five Republican candidates for governor in Michigan — including top-tier contenders James Craig and Perry Johnson — failed to qualify for the August primary after the Board of State Canvassers rejected their nominating petitions because of alleged "rampant signature fraud."
This was either leftist infiltration or gross incompetence of who was hiring these signature collectors. I say it's the former.
It’s really terrible what’s happening to CO. I would have loved to have seen it in its heyday. I even thought about moving there. The mountains are so beautiful. It’s a shame really.
Ya think? /s
The clues as to how this will turn out are clear from the article:
1. Uncertainty about which voters’ signatures are needed.
2. Corrupt Democrat S.O.S. “was investigating” and “will decide” whether to accept the recall petition.
As to #1, whichever signatures are submitted will be the wrong ones. As to #2, perhaps some internal (Democrat) polling will determine the “acceptability” of the petition. If it looks bad for this scumbag, which it will since his new district is more R-leaning than the one he was elected in, then.... petition DENIED. “No standing.”
This guy isn’t even a RINO, he’s already an outright liberal Democrat and he’s far from the only CO state Senator who is liberal scum despite calling himself a Republican (we have a lot of that here in PA too).
He did not have to face the voters this year because his seat is not up until 2024, otherwise he would already have lost. It looks like he is not planning to face the voters ever again, and is just giving them the finger for the next 2 years before he rides off into the sunset of his political career.
Strangely, this guy was a solid conservative once upon a time — in his first term about a decade ago. Either he’s afraid of being outed as a faggot or is a secret child molester or something blackmailable, or he’s been bought off with liberal $$$$. Or maybe he just wants to be “Media Queen For a Day” for his “courageous” action.
We need a Constitutional Ammedndment for recall of Senators, either by the people, or the State Legislature.
Lizard Cheney should be the first traitor expelled from the Republican party and denied a penny of GOP funds forever.
Liz Chaney openly on record stated she will support the Democrat party.
Sad what has happened to a beautiful state. I remember fifty years ago the most popular bumper sticker was....
“DON’T CALIFORNICATE COLORADO!”
Well, it has been, and they are moving in on New Mexico.
That will never happen. The only thing senators will do voting wise for themselves is a pay raise. They will never vote to possibly lose their job outside of elections. Plus getting 2/3rds will definitely never happen.
And Arizona, Idaho and Utah. Even Montana isn’t immuned.
Arizona has already reached the tipping point. November will tell us a lot: whether massive Democrat vote fraud is forever cemented via the elections of veteran fraudsters (Hobbs, Fontes) as Governor and Secretary of State, and the state legislature is precarious as well.
Montana will flip before Utah (despite the Salt Lake City area’s best efforts to go “deep blue”) or Idaho. In the meantime, especially in Idaho, RINO squishes have pretty much full control of the Republican party as so often happens in allegedly “solid Republican” states — Democrat politicians simply call themselves Republicans and quite frequently succeed in getting elected to state offices.
Don’t forget the biggest western prize of all — Texas. If the trickle of rural Hispanic voters towards the GOP which we first saw in 2020 proves to be temporary, Texas will be lost quickly. With the large metro areas in Texas having already flipped and increasingly accelerating towards the Democrats, rural Hispanics are needed by the GOP to counterbalance that effect. But whether it will be enough — if it even continues much longer at all — remains to be seen.
IF this recall is handled correctly, the punch down will ensure this troll never runs for anything so much as dogcatcher again.
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