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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCO Gov, seems to have something on his mind..
This is him, back in March..
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1684512070001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAAB_wnNRk~,WN9MweAQd_td0WdYChlxOiyDQsJXaTMM&bclid=0&bctid=2203483299001
This is him today..
http://www.9news.com/news/article/354734/164/After-recalls-Governor-John-Hickenlooper-softens-talk-on-gun-control
I wonder what has happened to cause him to seem distressed? You know, it would be nice if they thought of the consequences of unpopular legislation before passing it.
Some of us learned from 1994, and some of us did not.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)a couple of good people. Or maybe drinking fracking fluid will cause distress.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)the trash.
gtar100
(4,192 posts)by two repugs have been played yet again. They think it's about guns and constitutional protection and their God given right to carry but it's not about the guns. It's about right wing, sociopathic republicans weaseling their way back into power so they can rig the rules in their favor at a terrible consequence to the rest of us in the form of pollution, unsafe foods, low paying jobs, no representation in the courts, privatization of all our commons, less and less money for public education, and endless corruption after corruption.
Fucking idiots could have lobbied against the bills if they felt so strongly but how could repugs pass up such an opportunity.
The gun nuts got played again.
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madamesilverspurs
(15,809 posts)After Columbine and then Aurora, the people of Colorado overwhelmingly approved of the legislation. It was unpopular only among those for whom the second amendment is the only part of the Constitution that matters.
virginia mountainman
(5,046 posts)At the polls?
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=7767089
http://proudblackvoter.blogspot.com/2011/10/rachel-maddow-voter-suppression-in.html
Yes dear, it is real.
But I guess the second is more sacred than the right to vote.
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)Only one poster even mentions these recalls beforehand in the Colorado forums:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1041&sort=time
and none in the Activism forum:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1011&sort=time
Four posters discussed this in the Gun Control Reform Activism group-
and the most active one got it wildly wrong:
NRA-backed recall of Colorado Democrat shaping up to be a bust
www.democraticunderground.com/12624589
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017144268
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12624589#post6
Aside from some strongly-worded posts here, it seems Coloradan DUers did jack shit
to turn out voters.
virginia mountainman
(5,046 posts)..They called them names, and made fun of them for being idiots among other things...
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)when I tried to link to the Washington Times (wasserman-schultz) article the first time I tried to access it.
The second time I tried it wouldn't load and said "Error on Page."
Hmmmm.....
I was able to access the other two sites...
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)Remember there are a lot of hill billies in Virginia who have never been out of their front yard. That's the limit of their world. They think that if they go across the street they will fall off the earth.
virginia mountainman
(5,046 posts)I lived for a time, in Alamosa, than for a while down near Antonito.
BTW, Bigotry is bad....
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)Thats the problem we have too many Southern rednecks moving here.
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Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)Call one of them pro-rape and they run crying for the alert button. Hypocrites and cowards.
billh58
(6,635 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)We now have a right wing nut job state legislature ... oh, if only Democrats had learned to be anti-union, anti-gay rights, anti-abortion ... if only we democrats had learned our lessons
Interestingly (following the Sandy Hook gun massacre of children), our extreme right wing nut job governor opted NOT to further loosen Michigan gun laws
B Calm
(28,762 posts)virginia mountainman
(5,046 posts)etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)We are guilty of complacency
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Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Which district do you live in again?