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Democratic State Senator Quits in Backlash Over Colorado Gun Vote |
2013-11-28 |
DENVER — A populist backlash against Colorado’s new gun-control laws claimed its third political casualty on Wednesday as a Democratic state senator resigned her seat rather than face a recall vote that could have cost her party control of the chamber. For Democrats in this swing state, the resignation of the senator, Evie Hudak, was a sign of the growing political cost of their votes last winter to expand background checks and limit the size of ammunition magazines — measures once hailed as breakthrough victories in the effort to respond to mass shootings. In September, two prominent gun-control supporters were ousted in recall elections, reducing the Democrats’ edge in the State Senate to one seat. Ms. Hudak, who represents the suburbs northwest of Denver, would have been the third to face a recall vote, and she and state Democrats acknowledged that neither she nor the party’s 18-17 majority was likely to survive it. |
Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
#10 Recall the appointee. |
Posted by: OldSpook 2013-11-28 20:36 |
#9 Well, to me this looks like a damn win. |
Posted by: Shipman 2013-11-28 19:15 |
#8 Find some more Democratic state senators to recall, and force them all to resign... |
Posted by: Steve White 2013-11-28 13:47 |
#7 Nothing in this article conveys just how nasty the anti-recall shock troops were, the personal attacks on volunteers, the intimidation and lies funded by out of state deep pockets. This is not democracy. It's one step shy of open revolution. That's what it took to unseat one of these apparatchiks, and even after all that the machine stays in power. |
Posted by: Iblis 2013-11-28 13:23 |
#6 I kicked a few bucks to her recall campaign, even though I live in SoCal. I'm sad that she was able to resign and save the Denver/Boulder Dem hegemony and not get her ugly arrogant mug rubbed in a successful recall. |
Posted by: Frank G 2013-11-28 13:01 |
#5 Be advised communist moonbats, the people |
Posted by: Besoeker 2013-11-28 11:57 |
#4 She walks away, so the Democrats get to appoint another Democrat. That's wrong, she should walk away, And the PEOPLE select another representative, NOT the Democrats get to select. |
Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-11-28 11:51 |
#3 If there are complaints about election cheating, who investigates? |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-11-28 11:49 |
#2 next election sweep the trash out |
Posted by: Frank G 2013-11-28 11:47 |
#1 Ms. HudakÂ’s decision averts another potentially humiliating recall vote and allows a panel of county Democrats to choose her temporary successor, ensuring that Republicans cannot immediately take control of the Senate and force vulnerable Democrats into uncomfortable votes to repeal the gun laws or new regulations on rural electricity providers. Power! Screw representative government. How Donkish. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-11-28 11:38 |