Yep! And they got their butts kicked!
COLORADO SPRINGS — Two Colorado Democrats who provided crucial support for a slate of tough new gun-control laws were voted out of office on Tuesday in a recall vote widely seen as a test of popular support for gun restrictions after mass shootings in a Colorado movie theater and a Connecticut elementary school.
Do you notice how the New York Slimes (Motto: All the news that fits our views) had to work the two mass shootings in?
The election, which came five months after the United States Senate defeated several gun restrictions, handed another loss to gun-control supporters. It also gave moderate lawmakers across the country a warning about the political risks of voting for tougher gun laws.
There is a Second Amendment in the Constitution. Some of us think it’s important. The Founders certainly did.
The recall elections ousted two Democratic state senators, John Morse and Angela Giron, and replaced them with Republicans. Both defeats were painful for Democrats – Mr. Morse’s because he had been Senate president, and Ms. Giron’s because she represented a heavily Democratic, working-class slice of southern Colorado.
Did you get that? “she represented a heavily Democratic, working-class slice of southern Colorado”. There are even some Dimocrats who believe in the Second Amendment.
In an emotional concession speech, Mr. Morse called the loss of his seat “purely symbolic” and defended the record of the last legislative session as “phenomenal.”
And that’s why you lost your seat.
“We made Colorado safer from gun violence,” he said afterward, as his supporters trickled away from a hotel ballroom here in his district. “If it cost me my political career, that’s a small price to pay.”
Summary: Bullshit and sour grapes. You did not make Colorado safer from gun violence, but your loss has made it safer from liberals like yourself who want to take guns away from law abiding citizens.
For advocates on both sides, the stakes in Tuesday’s elections were far bigger than the fates of two state politicians. As money and national attention poured into Colorado, a state of hunters that has been stained by two mass shootings, the races became a symbol of the nation’s bitter fight over gun control, with one side bolstered by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York and the other by the National Rifle Association.
While both sides campaigned vigorously, knocking on doors, holding rallies and driving voters to the polls, gun-control advocates far outspent their opponents. A range of philanthropists, liberal political groups, unions and activists raised a total of $3 million to defend Mr. Morse and Ms. Giron. Mr. Bloomberg personally gave $350,000.
They outspent the people in favor of the Second Amendment and they lost big time. Since this is the New York Slimes (Motto: All the news that fits our views), they don’t give the percentages so we don’t know just how bad they lost, but the Denver Post does. Giron, who lives in a heavily Dimocrat district lost 56% to 43.9%. In other words, she was clobbered. Morse, on the other hand, only lost by 50.9% to 49.0%. I’m glad that Bloomberg wasted $350K, but for him that’s just a small percentage of his wealth.
It was not enough to help Mr. Morse overcome the conservative outrage that erupted this winter as Colorado’s Democratic-controlled statehouse passed several gun laws over near-unanimous opposition from Republicans and Second Amendment advocates. Among other things, the new laws require background checks for private gun sales and limit ammunition magazines to 15 rounds.
Mr. Morse’s hand was on the tiller during much of that debate. A former police chief, he said he found himself in a position of not just rounding up votes, but actually explaining the mechanics of guns to fellow Democrats. He brought a magazine to show his colleagues how it worked. In an emotional speech in March, as the debate reached its peak, Mr. Morse stood on the Senate floor and spoke of gun violence and “cleansing a sickness from our souls.”
We had uninfoprmed Dimocrats in the statehouse voting emotion rather than fact. With liberals emotions always trump facts.
Ya done good Colorado voters. I hope you are this energized when your gun grabbing governor runs for reelection and you throw him out as well. Also remember all of the other Dimocrats who voted against the Second Amendment and defeat them in the next general election.