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Democratic state Sen. Evie Hudak has resigned her seat to forestall a recall effort launched by constituents who sought to oust her for her support of gun-control laws passed in the legislature this spring.
The senator made the announcement in a letter to Democratic leadership Wednesday. She did not attend a news conference scheduled for 10:30 a.m. at the Arvada Library that was scheduled to make her decision public.
"By resigning I am protecting these important new laws for the good of Colorado and ensuring that we can continue looking forward," Hudak wrote in her resignation letter in regard to her gun votes.
Hudak's move ends the recall process, as now a Democratic vacancy committee can appoint someone to fill her seat until 2014.
This is from a post on another pro-gun albeit Democratic forum. I'm pretty sure the evaluation of the situation in CO is close to correct.
The Colorado Senate is now Dem controlled by a margin of only 1 vote.
If Hudak lost the recall (which pro control folks keep saying is no risk at all, "the NRA is dead" etc. etc.) it would have A GOP majority.
By resigning before they file the recall petitions the local Dems can name her successor and prevent any further recall efforts in her district. But it does nothing to address the obvious issue of the new, obviously less than popular gun laws.
Governor Hickenlooper has been backing away from the gun laws since Morse and Giron got ousted and has made some comments about "revisiting some of the restrictions to determine if they will actually reduce violence". He's up for re-election next year and his polling numbers were below 50% last time I saw them anywhere.
Once again we have the phenomenon of "More people support gun control" but they don't ever seem to ever show up and actually vote that way. Seems to be a case of more hot air than substance.
AlanM
There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men. - RAH
Four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo - use in that order.
If you aren't part of the solution, then you obviously weren't properly dissolved.
The Colorado recall just proves that citizens don't realize the power they have for change. The recall effort was started by two guys who were fed up with being pushed around and decided to get involved.
True, and they were in a position to be able to spend the time to do it. Virginia's process is court-based, so there are potentially large expenses to be paid (by whom, it is unclear).
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And if Bruce Dickinson wants more cowbell, we should probably give him more cowbell!
GeneFrenkle wrote:True, and they were in a position to be able to spend the time to do it. Virginia's process is court-based, so there are potentially large expenses to be paid (by whom, it is unclear).
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Seeing as who we've got coming in as the new gov, we should probably get that process figured out
