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Walked down and thanked the petitioner team. Did a little sign holding this morning at 80th and Wadsworth. Petitioners on both sides, King Soopers and Safeway.
90% positive, thumbs up, horns and smiles.Every time I looked at the signature area someone was signing. They have a laptop out there so they can make sure the signee is legit.
Was down there again for a while. WAY more recall people than evie people.
Guess who showed up, the police were there the whole time I was there. There were at least 2 marked units parking and patrolling and I saw at least one unmarked (lightbar across the top of the windshield is a giveaway). Naturally the opposition (the few that were there) were on their best behavior. I'm hoping I'll see/hear something that will bring my opinion back to pro-police but we'll see, my outburst above was an emotional release after weeks of hearing of the abuses heaped on the petitioners and no action being taken against the abusers.
The opposition staged a flashmob at noon or so, it was pathetic, like 8 people out of an expected 150 people. They "danced" or something, when I think of dancing I think of Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth.
The wind is chlly, getting my coat and going back.
Gun Rights Across America (GRAA) shared on Facebook earlier that Greg Brophy was at the recall headquarters for a bit this morning. Good for him.
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"When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." -Frederic Bastiat
"I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin."
― Russell Kirk, Author of The Conservative Mind
Yeah he spoke those words like a true tough guy.....as he pedaled away on his bike.Originally Posted by ZERO THEORY
Police were gone when I got back, they were watching for trouble during the flash mob.
If I can judge by the number of "thumbs up", waves, horn honking, etc. versus "the finger" and "thumbs down" evie is out of there, compiled from southbound and northbound traffic.
The leftists stayed out of our way and didn't harass anyone, nor where there any shenanigans in the parking lots as far as I know.
Tom Tancredo came by and said hello to everyone who was there, stopped and chatted for a bit too.
Good for him! It's reassuring to see positive support from some politicians. It gives me a teensy bit of faith that not ALL politicians are full up to their ears of bullsh*t.
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"When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." -Frederic Bastiat
"I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin."
― Russell Kirk, Author of The Conservative Mind
When I turned in my petition sheet to the notary today she didn't give me any numbers, but she did say it's looking fine and made a comment about extra nails in the coffin. I was in a team of 4 doing door to door and we split into 2 groups. We were all followed from the office and had lots of pictures taken of us. They didn't give us a ticket so I'm not sure how to order prints. The other 2 in our team said the police showed up and asked them if the antis were keeping their distance and if all was ok.
Glad to hear the police were doing their job. As far as photos go... I hope they get published somewhere. I'd like to see the faces of the people in the trenches, standing up for the 2nd Amendment, getting the job done. Nice work!
Lessons cost money. Good ones cost lots. -Tony Beets
Opinion piece from the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
Pundits don’t understand Colorado, can’t explain its drift to the right
By Rick Wagner
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
There’s much consternation among the national keyboard-tapping class who stare moodily westward through their smog-filled skies and wonder what happened to Colorado’s leftward drift.
Some confusion comes from an essential misunderstanding of Coloradans. Many of the people who write about us think spending a ski holiday in Vail for their daughter’s winter break from Brown University qualifies them as sages on Colorado values. Like a romance-novel character, we’re complicated and misunderstood.
Alarms have sounded since the recalls of two state senators over their gun-control votes and the crushing defeat of Amendment 66. That is the rejected tax measure, with its liberal valentine of higher and progressive tax rates, unaccountable spending and centralization of education responsibilities in Denver.
Democrats, who hold the state Senate by only one vote, now have to contend with a recall effort to remove Westminster Sen. Evie Hudak for the same reasons the first two senators were recalled. The difference is, Denver-area Democrats are trying to disrupt the signature-gathering portion of the effort rather than just wait for a recall and then outspend everyone.
In Hudak’s district, the signature gathering is made difficult by the high number of signatures required, since her re-election took place during a presidential year when more votes are typically cast than in off-year elections. That vote determines the number of signatures necessary for a recall petition.
Also, Democrats are much less confident in defeating the effort at the ballot box after two successful recalls.
Furthermore, the outspending piece in recent elections was not as productive for Democrats as in the past. Supporters of Amendment 66 outspent opponents 500 to 1, with a $10 million campaign financed largely by out-of-state oligarchs. But the supporters were never really in the fight. Bell rang — instant knockout.
In other troubling news, school board races in Denver, Jefferson and Douglas counties, which were closely watched and heavily funded by unions and other progressive organizations, were swept by conservative reform slates.
Don’t let all of this make you believe money doesn’t matter a lot in elections. With so many voters already in hardened positions on issues and candidates, the slippery 15 percent to 20 percent who haven’t made up their minds or paid the slightest bit of attention to anything but still may vote, are the group everyone’s looking for at the polls.
Money, enthusiasm and ignorance are the real operational watchwords of political campaigns.
One locates voters apathetic or uninformed on issues and then uses money to lobby them — usually by advertising frightening non-realities or convincing class-warfare messages.
The reason big money didn’t work in some of Colorado’s latest races was because voters were already well educated on the issues and enthusiastic to make a difference on a topic they understood and wanted changed.
Nervous Nellies for the 2014 election are Gov. John Hickenlooper and U.S. Sen. Mark Udall.
Hickenlooper is the most vulnerable, despite what Front Range newspapers would have you believe. His support is seldom above 51 percent in polls, and now, thanks to his missteps on guns, the death penalty and Amendment 66, he is in some trouble. According to a Quinnipiac University poll published by the National Journal, his approval rating is an anemic 48 percent, with a plurality of voters thinking he does not deserve re-election.
This has forced him into the dangerous area of supporting fracking to try and win back some centrist support, but this makes it tough with environmental-group members, who spend a lot of time making sure their electric cars don’t catch fire.
Udall, also up for re-election, should be concerned about being among senators referred to by The Wall Street Journal as the “Obamacare Dozen,” who helped drag the legislation across the finish line on Christmas Eve four years ago.
He has $4 million already in his war chest and, like Hickenlooper, hasn’t been presented with a strong contender from Republicans yet. Both men are likely nervous but not yet threatened.
That could still change. So, I predict in the next few months we’ll see our governor guzzling more fracking fluid and thoughtfully visiting drilling rigs. He’ll probably be accompanied by Udall in bib overalls and a Stetson. They don’t get us either.
Rick Wagner writes more on politics at his blog, The War on Wrong.
A huge Thank You to all those involved in the recall and to the petitioners. I truly do pray you get the numbers needed.
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