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Colorado Governor Goes Far Left
in Nationwide Appeal to
Gun-Grabbers
By Michael Schaus
Sep 02, 2013
It never fails.
Paint a Democrat into a corner (or let him
do it to himself) and his true colors will start to show. The
“moderate” and
“reasonable” Democrat Governor of New-New-York (AKA: Colorado) has
finally come
out forcefully against the recall elections of some anti-gun members of
the
State Legislature. The two Democrat State Senators are facing recall
attempts
after they supported the recent slew of gun-control measures that were
ultimately signed into law by Governor John Hickenlooper.
“These recall
elections cost a small fortune and do nothing
to improve democracy or representative government,” Hickenlooper wrote
in a
letter distributed by the Democrat National Committee. Nothing like
preaching
to the choir: Democrats have long complained about the cost of running
government unless that cost is accrued as a consequence of Obamacare,
Medicare,
Medicaid, social security, food stamps, TANF, unemployment, Public
Sector Labor
Unions, etc.. Heaven forbid government be forced to fund legitimate
functions of
representative governance.
The assertion
seemed to be that we should be outraged
government is expected to fund an electoral process requested by a
petition of
the people. Those pesky citizens: Demanding that their representatives
actually
represent their interests. Such concerns are obviously trivial, and not
worthy
of political action. After all, it’s not as if concerns over citizen
representation was responsible for 13 colonies demanding independence
back in
the 1770’s. . . Right?
The Colorado
Governor went on to suggest that the elections
are merely attempts by a radical few to “intimidate and punish a select
number
of Democratic legislators for daring to vote their conscience”. Well. .
. I
guess facing the discord of a gun owning public certainly could be
intimidating. Oh, and let’s not forget that more people signed the
petition to
recall John Morse (one of the two State Senators who are currently
facing
recall) than originally voted him into office. Is the Colorado Governor
really
suggesting that legislators should be free from reprimand as long as
they feel
that they voted “their conscience”?
For the rest of
this article and more, go to Townhall
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