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-Land of the Free
Grass Roots and Voters: Ready, Aim, FIRED!
2013-09-11
In a historic recall election [Democrat] Colorado Senate President John Morse was booted from office, capping the end of a long and passionate fight over gun rights in Colorado. [Democrat] Colorado State Senator Angela Giron has also been recalled for her gun control votes. Giron and Morse are the first Senators in Colorado history to be recalled. Both Giron and Morse have officially conceded. Both areas formerly represented by Giron and Morse are deep blue (Obama carried them by nearly 20%).

The Morse recall results are a swift kick in their proverbial nuts. A reminder to legislators that getting elected office doesn't give you a free pass to do whatever your progressive paymasters demand of you. And, as the Morse recall demonstrates, it's ultimately the voters who control a politician's fate, despite the attentions and intentions of the fat walleted few.
For those of you unfamiliar, Colorado Senate went Dem by 1 vote last cycle. the Dems then went hard left and railroaded in bad gun control and other hard left agenda items -- mainly with Morse as President using his powers to stop opposing testimony, as well as using parliamentary tricks to severely restrict or eliminate any debate and (opposition) amendments. The "fat walleted" they are mainly talking about New York City Mayor Bloomberg, who poured millions into defending these two from recall via a bunch of front groups..
Posted by:OldSpook

#13   "Ganja and guns rights? Hard to figure Colorado voters."

What's hard to follow? Sounds like people don't want to be told what to do.

This has been a problem for Libertarians. Gun owners and dopers are strange, uneasy bedfellows.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2013-09-11 11:54  

#12  Like the Fat Lady says, it ain't over until it's over. Expect lawsuits to be filed today for all kinds of reasons, some of them possibly legitimate, but don't bet on it. Unfortunately, I live four blocks too far north to aid in this defenestration. Still, it's good to see.

I've given up on the Trunks. Time for the Tea Party to step out on its own and elect its own representatives, senators, governors, mayors, and every other elected official. I think it's time to have some pretty strict ground-rules on what it means to belong to the Tea Party, as far as elections are concerned -- a party platform that we all can agree on, but not something quite as insane as the Libertarians, or as of now, the trunks.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2013-09-11 10:52  

#11  "Ganja and guns rights? Hard to figure Colorado voters."

What's hard to follow? Sounds like people don't want to be told what to do.
Posted by: Iblis   2013-09-11 09:56  

#10  Ganja and guns rights? Hard to figure Colorado voters.
Posted by: JohnQC   2013-09-11 09:43  

#9  These people need to be taken out of there on a rail.
Posted by: newc   2013-09-11 09:36  

#8  FnA Colorado!
Posted by: swksvolFF   2013-09-11 09:07  

#7  Pueblo was interesting since it was a democratic stronghold.

There's a lot of old blue collar Donks who are still old blue collar Donks and not the Progressive/neo-Marxists. They buy into old American fundamentals, but are still in the involuntary twitch mode when it comes to the voting booth. Reagan picked them up when the Urban Coastie types sent the nation and economy to the toilet in the late 70s and got their cognizant attention. Unfortunately, the RNC in the Beltway Blend Party ("we're just like them") have obstructed the ability of the Trunks as a whole to give them the opportunity again to cross the line at the voting booth.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-09-11 09:06  

#6  Pueblo was interesting since it was a democratic stronghold. Big victory. The Springs was closer than I thought it would be, but it is a magnet for Californi expats.
Posted by: bman   2013-09-11 08:55  

#5  Dems still have a 1 seat advantage in the CO Senate. More work to do in 2014.

Morse was term limited. He was not eligible to run for reelection in 2014. Still, millions in outside money came into the state to try and help him. Bloomberg and Eli Broad both dug deep. Dems saw this as a national referendum on their gun grabbing ways -- and they were right.
Posted by: Iblis   2013-09-11 08:41  

#4  Big losers here are all the "we're gonna kill the NRA" types like Bloomberg. Bloomie can keep flipping his wallet open, but lots of the other outside money groups are smarting on the backside this morning...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2013-09-11 08:03  

#3  'bout friggin time. Hit em where they hurt - their phoney baloney jobs. Who ya gonna hire as an influential lobbyist? Someone that was historically defenestrated by the voters?
Posted by: Frank G   2013-09-11 07:41  

#2  Oh, one other thing: this means the 2 GOP challengers will take the recalled Senators seats immediately. I think this flips the Colorado senate from Dem to GOP control. No more lefty rubber stamp. I just hope the GOP uses the same strong arm tactics if necessary to undo the leftist agenda legislation passed in the same manner by the Dems, forcing a Hickenlooper veto, marking him as a clear lefty for the next election cycle.
Posted by: OldSpook   2013-09-11 03:18  

#1  Army of grass-roots #2A Davids in Colorado defeated deep-pocketed Bloomberg/Biden/Brady gun-grabbing Goliaths. YES! #CORecall

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) September 11, 2013
Posted by: OldSpook   2013-09-11 03:07  

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