Thread: Colorado Senate President Faces Recall In Voter Backlash Over Gun Grab

Colorado Senate President Faces Recall In Voter Backlash Over Gun Grab

June 3, 2013 by Ben Bullard

PHOTOS.COM

Two Colorado legislators who supported the State’s trio of new gun control laws in March are now fighting to keep their seats, as residents warm to the growing nationwide push to recall lawmakers whose in-office actions don’t reflect what voters thought they were getting at election time.
State Senate President John Morse, a Democrat, is the highest-profile target of voter backlash against the gun-control legislation, which passed March 20. Recall supporters have been compiling petitions in Colorado Springs, collecting signatures at gun stores and in high-traffic public places like libraries and grocery stores.
Morse told FOX News he’s already resigned himself to the fact that the petitions are there in adequate number to force a recall vote, but he protests that he’s been targeted not only by irate Colorado residents, but also by the national gun lobby — especially the National Rifle Association.
“That’s what’s going on here. They want to take out the Senate president,” he said. In a separate CNN interview, he elaborated: “It was a grassroots effort for a little while, but when that didn’t take at all, it was clear they were getting money from outside. And I wasn’t the least bit surprised the NRA was behind it.”
Recall organizers originally targeted four State legislators, including Morse, but two of those efforts have already stalled. That, in part, is why the NRA has thrown its support behind a single campaign to hold a recall vote for a high-profile Senator like Morse.
Recall leaders don’t dispute it, saying the effort is intended, in part, to remove out-of-touch Legislators from office — but also to send a message that voters have recourse when their voices aren’t heeded.
“It’s as much about saying Colorado is angry as it is about getting one guy out,” explained Anthony Garcia, who’s organizing the Morse recall effort. “Legislators need to know when citizens are outraged that they can’t ignore the people.”
For his part, Morse is campaigning as though it’s election season, urging voters not to sign the petitions. He’s getting outside support, too, in the form of a $20,000 contribution from America Votes, a nationwide progressive group.
In the meantime, guns and ammo keep flying off Colorado gun stores’ shelves. During the fiscal quarter when the Legislature took up and passed gun control, there were more than 146,000 background checks for gun sales in the State. A year earlier, there had been only 69,000.
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Anti-Gun State Senator Being Ousted By 16,000 Colorado Citizens

AUTHOR Warner Todd Huston
JUNE 3, 2013 4:51PM PST

The anti-gun Senate President of the Colorado legislature, Democrat John Morse, is facing a recall effort that has already garnered 16 thousand signatures.

Morse was an enthusiastic backer of all the anti-gun bills that coursed through Colorado’s benighted legislature in those post Sandy Hook months when various left-wingers were trying to gut the Second Amendment all across the nation.

Morse was responsible for helping to shepherd through some of the strictest gun control legislation in the country.

Opponents of Morse report that they have turned in twice the number of recall signatures that they need to start the process to throw Morse out of the Senate.

Of the recall effort, Bill Adaska, a retired engineer from Denver who volunteered to gather recall signatures, said, “This shot will be heard around the world. This is the race, right here, that’s going to show Washington and Chicago that when you come after our guns, we’re going to take you out.

Colorado’s new anti-gun legislation included a ban on ammunition feeding devices and magazines that hold more than 15 rounds as well as background checks on all gun sales, even those between private citizens who aren’t selling their firearms as a business.

Morse championed these measures, but was also pushing an even worse measure that would have held gun owners liable in cases of damage done with their firearms. Morse was forced to abandon this measure when he couldn’t get enough support in the Senate.



The recall may be somewhat symbolic as Morse only has a year left in his term. He is term-limited from running again.

(See also: Colorado Faces Boycott From Hunters, Magpul Poised To Leave – Response To Gun Control)

The Secretary of State has 15 days to verify the signatures. The soonest date for the recall is October.

If Morse is recalled he will be the first Colorado State legislator to be recalled.

Efforts are also underway to recall, Angela Giron of Pueblo, another Democrat Senator. Two other efforts have failed, however.

The gun issue has been a hot one in Colorado, for sure. Recently 8 of the state’s 10 sheriffs filed a lawsuit to have the strict gun laws overturned.

So, would YOU sign such a recall petition in your state if such an effort was started?

http://www.mrconservative.com/2013/0...-state-senate/

Gun Owners... you need to BOYCOTT Colorado Businesses; Colorado Products and anything that has to do with Colorado until they get this Repealed .. 90 Million Gun Owners Boycotting these anti-gun states will get peoples attention FAST