Guess Senator Angela Giron’s bag man didn’t hand out enough cash to the pro-Giron forces. This afternoon the Secretary of State’s office certified that the Giron recall would be going forward, declaring 12,648 signatures valid.
Scoops The Denver Post‘s Kurtis Lee:
The Colorado secretary of state’s office announced Monday that organizers submitted more than enough valid signatures for a recall election of Democratic Sen. Angela Giron, making the Pueblo lawmaker the second Democrat in less than a week now faced with a fall election that could lead to their ouster from office for backing stricter gun laws.
Organizers with Pueblo Freedom and Rights submitted more than 13,500 signatures to the secretary of state’s office and had 12,648 verified Monday. They needed about 11,300 verified for a recall election and outpaced that figure by about 1,300.
Especially shocking about this news is Pueblo Freedom and Rights is an entirely volunteer group, made up of political neophytes, making this one of the top success stories of grassroots action in a very long time.
The signature validity rate was a little under 95%, surely one of the highest in Colorado history.
Senator Giron comes from a heavily Democratic district, but one in which gun rights are taken very seriously. Boulder or Aspen, it’s not. During the legislative session, Giron held a townhall meeting in a space for 250 and 750 people showed up to express their anger with her anti-gun votes.
Making matters worse for her is that her local paper, the Pueblo Chieftain, is no fan of her, nor her gun votes.
Giron better get her act together fast. And no, Angela, 12,648 of your constituents did not sign the petition to recall you because of racism. Better come up with a better message quickly.
I made a mistake in my previous post – I called them politicans but have should have called them idiots!
Don't these politicans have any common sense. Criminals will always have a way to get guns or they will use other methods to subdue their prey. Did they not read their history books about the wars the US fought in; they did not win with words, the infinftry won with guns and that is why we have such freedom in this country. We need a much smaller government at all levels and one that has some common sense.
The rest were diverse maybe?
enforce existing laws and quit using excuses for trying to get guns confiscated…
Not a criminal, but an idiot
How strange it is, when you think of Colo. you think of hunting and guns. They are going after the wrong people.
Nice logic fail Diane. He said criminals want gun control. He did not say ONLY criminals want gun control. He did not say that those who want gun control are criminals. 2 squared is always 4, but the square root of 4 is not always 2.
how can a group lead the recall with 23%?
I'm pretty sure she was responding to the previous comment that criminals want gun control, because she does as well. But the fact of the matter is criminals will kill people one way or another and all these bills are doing are preventing and hindering those who wish to protect themselves from owning a gun
No, you're not a criminal because you want gun control, you're just ignorant of the facts and willing to listen to someone's emotional argument that "if there were no guns, there wouldn't be any bad people." Surely you are not that foolish! That's like saying the Muslims won't carry out Jihad if we all burn our Bibles.
What race card is she pulling lol the majority of pueblo is hispanic haha what an idiot.
im sure dianne was just kidding about being a criminal what she meant was criminals dont obey gun control laws and if a criminal can unarm the good guys they have the upper hand
Just saying
Racism, the first resort of a scoundrel.
Gun control is against our constitution. Want gun control? Go live in a country that allows it.
Hard to pat your self on the back while you are being kicked in your backside.
It's comforting to see that many Democrats from her heavily-Democrat district signed the petition – Nice to see that some Dems have enough common sense to see that their basic rights are threatened by this woman. The People have had enough…
Amen! Proud of Pueblo!
Democrats led the recall and not Republicans. Something like 23% of the signers to the petition were Democrats.
Oops—playing the race card didn't work this time– maybe a good omen for the future?
Dianne Harper – what do you mean when you say you want "gun control?" You want it to be illegal for criminals to buy guns? It already is. You want it to be illegal for criminals to possess, own, or use guns against innocent people? It already is. So what do you mean?
Dianne, you are right on two parts if you say you are a criminal, you probably are, so that makes you a democrat also, on more strike and you are outta here!
Yo mr criminal go back to prison and hopefully some one there will show you why not to wish for gun control dip shit
I'm a criminal? I want gun control.
It's all about sucking up to the president for their "political careers".
She's been playing the race card for the past couple of weeks. I can hardly wait to see what she comes up with next!
Maybe these malicious actors need to do the People's work, not what criminals want (gun control).
Maybe these idiots need to do the peoples work, not what Washington wants.
She isn't Tom Lloyd. The President of the State Senate also faces a recall election.
Bet she isn't patting herself on the back anymore.