Gun control supporters facing recall bids in Colo

[gthaustex]

Certain lawmakers in Colorado are being targeted for recall campaigns in Colorado after supporting gun control legislation there....

A handful of Democratic state lawmakers in Colorado face recall petition efforts in what looks to be the first wave of fallout over legislative votes to limit gun rights. In an era in which recall efforts are booming, from governor's offices down to town councils and school boards, the Colorado efforts will serve as the first test of gun-rights groups' ability to punish elected officials who expanded gun control laws after last year's Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn., shooting massacres.

In Colorado, gun-rights activists wasted no time seeking recalls to oust state Senate President John Morse and three other Democratic lawmakers. The targeted lawmakers weren't necessarily the main advocates for ratcheting back gun rights, but all come from districts with enough Republicans to give opponents hope they can boot out the Democrats and replace them with lawmakers friendlier to guns. Colorado is the only state outside the East Coast to have adopted significant statewide gun controls this year.

It will be interesting to see if their efforts gain enough traction to get a recall ballot declared, and then to see if a recall actually takes place.

http://news.yahoo.com/gun-control-suppo ... 22039.html

[ELB]

Good.

[jmra]

Good.

[RoyGBiv]

Unfortunately the recall efforts failed to garner enough signatures and two of the four targeted representatives have been spared. The main focus is on the Senate President, Morse... I am deeply saddened to see such a lackluster recall result thus far.

from the same linked article a bit further down..

Two of four recall efforts in Colorado already have evaporated from lack of support.

[Dadtodabone]

Unfortunately the recall efforts failed to garner enough signatures and two of the four targeted representatives have been spared. The main focus is on the Senate President, Morse... I am deeply saddened to see such a lackluster recall result thus far.

from the same linked article a bit further down..

Two of four recall efforts in Colorado already have evaporated from lack of support.

Perhaps the 2 escapees actually represented the majority of their constituents?

The targeted lawmakers weren't necessarily the main advocates for ratcheting back gun rights, but all come from districts with enough Republicans to give opponents hope they can boot out the Democrats and replace them with lawmakers friendlier to guns.

Not all "Republicans" support our 2A rights.

[gthaustex]

Apparently the recall supporters were able to get double the required number of signatures to force a recall election for the Colorado Senate President John Morse.

KDVR reports the group turned in over 16,000 signatures, more than double the 7,178 valid signatures needed, to the Colorado Secretary of State's office in the effort to recall Colorado Senate President John Morse.

Morse tells KDVR he is going to fight the recall effort.

“We’ll go through these signatures with a fine-toothed comb,” Morse told the station. “And we’ll file some protests with the Secretary of State’s office because we know a lot of these signatures were gathered based on misinformation and lies.”

/sarcasm
Of course there must be some foul-play....they couldn't possibly have that many people annoyed at the latest gun control measures in Colorado. Must be some type of fraud....
/sarcasm off

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06 ... latestnews