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Ding dong the wicked witch is dead!! Good job allllllll!!!
That is good news. How is the vacancy filled?
awwwwwwwww
would have better to recall her, now they will appoint another dem. i guess once an ugly ass cunt face, always an ugly ass cunt face.
She's too afraid of an actual recall. This is the best way to keep dems in office. Hopefully the next dem does two things. One, realize they're place is a fragile appointment and can be removed. And two, that we vote them out during the election.Quote:
Originally Posted by lowbeyond
Okay, 3 down... Let's hope her replacement is somewhat better (but not counting on it). So can we go after Nicholson now? I know most of Conifer will jump on that.
it's quite a good play for them--avoids the embarassment of another recall, and they get to appoint another D and keep the balance of power
She's resigning because she knows she will lose a recall vote and this way a Dem can keep her seat and keep the State Senate in their favor.
Well, that's a bummer. I was hoping she would fight it and lose.
We all knew this was coming if we got enough votes. This is still a good day. In their worst case scenario the recall and/or resignation of 3 senators was never in the plans. Colorado has had its own mini-1996 referendum on gun control. They have to know this was a bad idea and we are seeing it with how they are talking now. Don't push it too much though. We are 3 for 3. They are worried about 2014 and let them. If we go for another recall it will have minimal reward against the chance of a large loss for us if the recall failed. Let them stew in their own stupidity, make more mistakes and throw the bums out in the next election. We won more than expected, enjoy it.
I did not expect her to resign before the recall petition was even certified.
outstanding! Good work guys!
Hand picked by the DemsQuote:
Originally Posted by Holger Danske
She was likely coerced by the party. To risky to proceed with election, and lose balance of power right before midterms. Rumor has it that she made a deal With Moron Carroll about who replaces her on committees she was on, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by spqrzilla
This is great news! Still wish the fat cow would try to push her luck. Maybe now this stupid fat bitch can get on the Michelle Obama diet. Good god she is fucking ugly.
"According to our most current information, signatures will continue to be gathered! If enough signatures are gathered, they can be applied towards whomever they appoint as Hudak's replacement! If this happens, they will loose their seat this time next year as opposed to in 2016. KEEP THE MOMENTUM GOING, COLORADO!"
She isn't resigning, she's lying and the local fishwrap is spreading the lie. This is just another tactic in their arsenal of dirty tricks.
I'll be out there on Saturday encouraging people to sign the petition.
Link to resignation letter:
http://localtvkdvr.files.wordpress.c...ion-letter.pdf
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Originally Posted by brokenscout
Yeah just saw that on the 5280 Armory Facebook page. Hope that is true, this recall is not just about the person but rejection of a parties political agenda.
Fucking cunt. This is NOT good news.
Ruled by Dem committee.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChunkyMonkey
Just taking out the trash
Exactly!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave
Keep the signatures coming!!! The total amount of dissatisfied citizens in here district during this recall leave a strong message that they are representing the people, not their ideological ideas.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Please stop celebrating...don't underestimate these people. This is a power play, pure and simple.
She waited until the last minute, causing the recall efforts to spend thousands and thousands of dollars for the possibility of nothing, just to vacate her seat to a committee of Dems. This is not victory in the slightest.
There's hope, from others in this thread, that the recall can still be directed at her seat. However, this news will cause problems within the recall effort if more people falsely claim victory. If the recall doesn't have enough signatures by now, it will be extremely difficult to get the remainder. And that's even if they are no longer worthless, which is a possibility and another hurdle.
Thank you Deus.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeusExMachina
We haven't won the war, we're winning the battle of hearts and minds though. People are seeing the vast differences between the left and the right, people are becoming disgusted with the tactics of the left.
If you look at the sign carriers from the right we're smiling and happy, the left is frowning and surly. People notice that we're having fun and the leftists are becoming more angry and desparate. The left gives us the finger from their cars, other people in other cars see this and what they really notice is that we don't return a finger, we smile and wave. :)
Keep on truckin'!!, we can win this on the streets and in the polls.
Of course it's good news. Not the best outcome and I agree it's not over but it is good news. Yes, continue the recall sig collection effort and, yes, it would have been better to bring it to a vote. But having Hudak out of the senate is a good thing no matter how you slice it. Remember...there was still a vote to be had and it is possible it may not have been in our favor. Hudak is now out (it appears) and she can't harm the state from her senate position any longer.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeusExMachina
Having Hudak replaced by a committee of Democrats is no change at best and bad news at worst. Instead of one elected person there will be several appointed individuals that collectively have one vote, but are just as dangerous as they may be immutable until the next election.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bailey Guns
This is the best outcome we could have expected. There is no way the Democrats are going to give up their absolute power in state government until the election in 2014.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeusExMachina
The democrats will appoint a single person to replace her. There won't be a "collective committee".
And the money spent recalling her wasn't wasted. She should've been ousted if for no other reason than the awful things she said during the gun bill hearings. Democrats spent money, too, and what do they have to show for it? Another senator basically thrown out against her will.
I see this as a great reward to the people that worked hard and contributed to her forced resignation. It's also good for the state. Again...it isn't the best possible outcome but it certainly isn't the worst, either.
ETA: Besides... Everyone knew her resigning was certain if the signature quota was reached because there was zero chance the dems would risk losing control of the senate. If that's not a victory, but it's a near-certain outcome (for obvious reasons), then why even bother?
The best outcome we could have expected was a forced recall and another election. This is Hudak falling on her sword (if she didn't outlaw them) at the command of the liberals, so another liberal can take over.Quote:
Originally Posted by merl
Translated into English, since I'm having to guess at what you actually wrote: still a Democrat in that seat who will vote like a Democrat. Just like there would have been anyway. But with the added factor of, most of the bastards won't go near another gun grab, since they know what's waiting for them if they do.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeusExMachina
The Democrats are scared. See above comments about how they've acted at the petition sites.
Remember that March Monday at the Capitol? Remember how the Democrats and their witnesses were acting? I do, clearly.
They had the votes. They knew that they had the votes and the results of that day's proceedings were pretty much fore-ordained. But beyond the arogance was pure fear: I had a brief moment with Bad Check Rhonda outside the House Chamber. She saw my RMGO sticker, and looked down and away like my dogs do when I catch them up on the kitchen counter, and then she scurried away like the vile little rat that she is.
Ditto outside the Old Supreme Court chamber where the Senate committee was meeting. The pro-gun crowd was cheerful and jovial, even though most of us knew how the day would end. The green-ribbon-wearing people, OTOH, same fear and submissiveness body language. Mark Kelly punked just like Bad Check Rhonda did. Come on, space cowboy: you're a no-shit astronaut and I'm a middle-aged fat guy. Why are you so afraid of me?
The bastards knew that they would win that day. But they also knew that the war didn't end with Hickenloser's signatures on the bills.
So you can sit and insist that we haven't won anything and that we'll all lose. Enjoy yourself. The three most arrogant of our enemies had their pride and then their falls. And the rest of us need to just keep it going into the Republican caucuses and primaries. It's those caucuses where this will be won or lost.
Our guys punked the hell out of those bastards, and they know it. There ain't a Democrat alive who can spin this as a gun-control victory, and they know it.
If you expected it to come to that you're pretty naive.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeusExMachina
I still don't get where you think they're going to fill her seat with a committee.
No, that is the best possible outcome. It was not a reasonable expectation though. They are not going to give up another chance at amendment 66, an update to Colorado obamacare, whatever else comes upQuote:
Originally Posted by DeusExMachina
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Actually, the best possible outcome we can expect is she resigns then the recall petition counts against whoever they replace her with and they get booted. I do not know the law and rules though, it'll come out over the next little bit if the petition is against the seat or the person.
This isn't really a victory for gun owners...Quote:
Originally Posted by ChunkyMonkey
they wasted a lot of money as well. She found out that her own don't even like her. maybe she will become a hoarding cat lady and never set foot outside until the day she ends up on the show "heavy", or they make a documentary about her "the ugly fat ass politician that quit"
I don't think we're likely to hear too many democrats utter the words "gun control" in the Colorado legislature before Nov of next year.
I am going to go out on a limb and say that there was some outside money (Bloomberg?) that cut her a nice check to just resign. Sounds like she took the deal and now the dems can pick who they want to fill her seat.
The BIG NEWS though, is that some of you are indicating that the recall can count toward her seat and there can still be an election. If this is true, this is HUGE news. I doubt this though and am thinking it is just wishful thinking. Does anyone have confirmation if this is true or not? Would love to see the senate flip so we can get started next year on repealing all these laws from last year.
How so? They're scared, and they should be- they saw Morse and Giron (Pueblo isn't that right leaning, last time I checked) get ousted, and Hudak did this in lieu of being ousted, so one would think the next in line to fill her slot will see that such is possible and that they better tread softly. Watch, if someone were to bring up ideas of repealing the gun-control legislation that went into effect this year, the dems in the state legislature might think twice. They probably won't vote how we would ideally want, but they may have a moment of pause, and to me, that's a small victory in and of itself.Quote:
Originally Posted by buckshotbarlow
"Someday, this war will be over, and you will have to ask yourself honestly, what side did you pick and what did you do to help?"