Posted on 05/01/2013 3:31:07 PM PDT by beaversmom
With the frequency of flailing attacks left-wing Colorado Pols has been throwing out lately against the impending recall campaigns of Democratic Senators Hudak and Morse and Representative McLachlan, you might begin to wonder if they doth protest too much.
(Note to Michele Bachmann — it’s not “protestest too much“)
It makes you wonder if some on the left have polled the issue and are beginning to worry that a low-turnout recall election is more than just a minor annoyance.
Should any of the petition drives succeed, a recall election would likely be very low turnout, which would favor the highly motivated voter — something that gun rights supporters pretty much personify.
Of all the targets worrying about the recall drives, we’re betting Senate President John Morse is the one most concerned. There are a couple of reasons for this:
The threshold for signatures is the lowest in his district of all the recalls, as the threshold is 25% of the votes cast in the politician’s last election. For Morse, that was the the low turnout, off-year of 2010. Morse’s Colorado Springs district is compact enough that gathering the signatures is considerably easier than, say, the rural Southwest Colorado district of Rep. Mike McLachlan. As Senate President, Morse has more responsibilities at the Capitol than other targets. That means the drainage of time and treasure that combating a recall campaign takes will do greater damage regardless of whether Morse survives. Should be interesting to see how much per diem Morse claims for the days he’s playing politics to defend his seat.
At the outset of the recall campaigns, Colorado Pols and liberals wrote them off as hopeless exercises in futility.
With the amount of ink spilled on the recalls recently, it seems safe to say the left is starting to take the possibility of losing their Senate President before next session starts pretty seriously.
If I were on Facebook, I would sarcastically post the following to the State Senators:
“What is the concern, he has NOTHING to worry about, since 90% of the public supports more gun control.”
Thanks for the ping, beaversmom.
They should be worried. If we don’t get them on the re-calls, we’ll get them out next election.
Heck yeah. Ninety ten is a landslide.
“Heck yeah. Ninety ten is a landslide”
Yep, in fact, if either of them put ONE DIME into trying to win the recall it will prove that the 90/10 number is phoney (as if we don’t already know that).
If I were a County Sheriff in Colorado, I would place my deputies as “Poll Watchers” at every election site in my jurisdiction. If I didn’t have enough deputies, I would find volunteers and deputize them. There would be a closely watched election in MY county.
Having lived in Colorado, there USED to be (and I’m sure there still are) lots of good, God fearing, Gun toters who will do their best to vote the demodummies out. Let’s get behind them and show our support.
Does anyone have a link so I can donate to the recall campaigns?
Money is needed now to expand the campaign Here is a link, if you can help. https://www.basicfreedomdefensefund.org/?q=node/33
Link at post #27 and thank you for helping us to take Colorado back!
Thanks CO Doug.
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