Hudak Resigning

[DeusExMachina]

Hand picked by the Dems

Ruled by Dem committee.

[rockhound]

Just taking out the trash

[MarkCO]

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.

Exactly!

[Blowby]

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.

[Mazin]

Happy Thanksgiving!

[DeusExMachina]

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.

[roberth]

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.

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.

[Bailey Guns]

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.

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.

[DeusExMachina]

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.

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.

[merl]

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.

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.