Posted on 06/05/2013 7:46:00 PM PDT by Red Steel
Senator speaks up about recall efforts Signatures to recall state Sen. Angela Giron are due on Monday.
PUEBLO, Colo. - Signatures to recall state Sen. Angela Giron are due on Monday.
It all stems from her vote on gun legislation. The group backing the effort needed to collect more than 11,000 signatures. Group members have said they have more than that.
"I believe if I had voted the other way I would have had a lot more people upset with me, because I really do believe I voted my district," said Giron.
For the past several weeks, Giron has been the center of controversy. Today she was surrounded by supporters during her monthly coffee community meetings.
The topic that always seems to push buttons on both sides is gun legislation.
Giron voted in favor of the new gun laws, which include limiting gun magazines to 15 rounds and expanding background checks.
"I've said into a couple of crowds, ‘I support the Second Amendment. I don't think this has an infringement on it,’" said Giron.
Others don't agree. Signs asking for her recall are popping up around town and outside gun shops.
Giron has a message for those who signed the petition.
"I'm just hoping they have the information and the facts or that they knew them before they went there," said Giron.
The recall efforts are being lead by Pueblo Freedom and Rights. The group says it has close to their goal, 14,000. They need 11,285.
The state then has 15 business days to verify the signatures.
If someone decides they didn't want to sign the recall after all, they would go to the county clerk, sign an affidavit and there name would be removed from the petition.
If Giron is recalled, she could still run again in 2014.
They got the required number of signatures so now they are padding their numbers.
KRDO news video at link.
If someone decides they didn’t want to sign the recall after all, they would go to the county clerk, sign an affidavit and there name would be removed from the petition.
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Interesting that this is included.
Ping!
What you said Giron a few months ago that you all are in the minority ...meaning that I don't have to listen to you.
Yesterday, the Pueblo Chieftain reported significant out of state money flowing in to aid embattled State Senator Angela Giron as she fights a grassroots recall effort prompted by her support of radically left-leaning gun control legislation signed into law this year by Democratica Governor Hickenlooper.
They reported she has raised 6 times the amount the group supporting the recall has raised, but she will lose in the recall.
You coloradans are doing a great job recalling these gun-grabbing Nazis.
I just read that article from the Chieftain. I’ll post what the paper excerpted here. ;-)
“Tuesday, June 4, 2013 4:00 am
By PETER ROPER | proper@chieftain.com
State Sen. Angela Giron’s campaign to fend off a recall election got substantial financial help in recent weeks — $71,000 in contributions, with the bulk coming from Denver and Washington, D.C., political donor committees.
Giron, a Pueblo Democrat, is the target of a recall drive by Pueblo-area gun rights supporters and Republicans. Her defense campaign, called Puebloans for Angela, received a $35,000 contribution from the Sixteen Thirty Fund in Washington; a $20,000 contribution from a Denver organization called Citizens for Integrity; and a $15,000 contribution from a Denver group called Mainstream Colorado.
Small individual contributions brought the total to $71,000 as of May 23, according to reports filed with the Colorado Secretary of State’s office. “
-end snip-
BUMP!
That is exactly why you have to go.
You coloradans are doing a great job recalling these gun-grabbing Nazis.
So $70,000 of the $71,000 that she's 'raised' came from the exact three groups that made large contributions to Morse's defense.
>> received a $35,000 contribution from the Sixteen Thirty Fund
I also note that the Sixteen Thirty Fund is a 501(c)4 organization. I’m guessing the I.R.S. didn’t scrutinize them like they did all the Tea Party groups...
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