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There’s been some confusion in the last few days as recall efforts against freshman Rep. Rochelle Galindo of Greeley have 
Word from Dem HQ is that one petition was submitted, and approved for circulation. Their deadline for getting 5,696 valid signatures is 6/3/19. Your local progressive groups will be letting you know how to donate to fight the recall effort. For now, you can donate to support Rochelle Galindo to fight the recall in HD50 by donating at http://standwithrochelle.com/
Since these clowns plan to run as many as 20 more recalls against various state legislators, there will be an ActBlue page with a generic "fight the recalls" donation link.
Can't there be a substantial effort to have three, four, or even FIVE groups petitioning for recall? Seems to me, the more, the merrier — and the less chance of getting 5696 valid signatures on any one.
They're eating each other…. the evangelist gay-haters against the oil and gas promoters and the gunheads. There is some overlap, of course, and both of them hate and fear all immigrants.
My read on it is that the "Recall Polis" folks know that their cause is hopeless, so they will end up supporting and working for the lesser recall efforts. Frankly, I don't see how even the Recall Galindo effort can succeed – They have to get 5, 696 valid signatures from her district 50, which is Dave Young's old district, including some of the poorer parts of Greeley and the university housing. It consists of 10,762 Democrats to 9,465 Republicans and 15,317 unaffiliated.
The recall folks started collecting petition signatures this morning. They'll be telling the usual lies: "Galindo supports mandatory homosexual sex education of young children." "Galindo's vote for SB181 will mean that 250,000 jobs will be lost in Greeley alone." "Galindo voted for the National Popular Vote bill, to take away the electoral votes of Colorado voters". They'll find or make up more as they go
Recallers can probably get the signatures to put it on the ballot in an expensive special election; the Neville group, at least, boasts of having $375,000 in "pledged donations". But I don't think that any of these groups can actually win a recall election. Meanwhile, Democrats and progressives need to be spreading the word on social media: DECLINE TO SIGN!! and contributing at http://standwithrochelle.com/
They won recall elections in 2013. What is the difference this time?
1. Universal mail in ballots in Colorado will help with GOTV. That was a huge issue in Pueblo in 2013 when mail in ballots were new. There were all kinds of delaying and stalling tactics, abetted by Gessler as Sec State, to lower mail in ballot delivery.
2. Ms. Griswold, as Sec State, is not going to put up with shenanigans from these clowns. Signatures are going to be closely verified, as Republicans are of course the kings of voter fraud.
3. Voter opinion in Colorado is not on the recallers' side, either on the gun issue, or on the oil and gas health and safety issue, which is the one they're pretty much trying to hammer Rochelle Galindo on.
4. These guys are all racist, sexist, and homophobic. They also do not beleive that election law applies to them. They will screw up, again and again, on social media, in petition gathering, in finance.
5. Dems and progressives are awake and aware, and organized into thousands of local grassroots groups that can mobilize and be out in the streets or in offices in a day. And there are many more of us than of them. The crazy RWNJ crowd has never been able to crack 35% of Colorado voters.
That's enough to put a recall petition on the ballot in, say, Greeley's District 50, but still not enough, in my opinion, to win the special election with decent GOTV. And statewide? or in blue areas where they're ambitiously trying to recall all Dems who voted for SB181? No freaking way.
I wonder if there will also be a Trump factor.
So given 181 provides for local control, the Trumpers should be A-OK with the legislation, right?
If Trump is for it, shouldn't we be against it?
I believe at some point (IIRC) after this interview the O&G boys mansplained to him the error of his ways and he took a different position.
Overall, there are three groups targeting Galindo:
Citizens who want to Kill Our Wives and Kids.
This group is pretty self-explanatory and advocates the use of AR 15s and low-yield nuclear weapons to maintain amity within the family. Opposes Galindo because she actually seems against killing wives and kids.
Citizens Consisting of that Old Lady Who Really Gets Off Talking About Fisting.
Opposes Galindo because she believes in sex education and threw up when the Old Lady got really graphic in her Fisting Spiel.
So did I.
Oil and gas folks who fear 181 went too far.
It's a lot saner than Stalinist 112, but then, so was the Spanish Inquisition. The key is that a number of compromise amendments were added to the original bill. Seriously, does anybody know how Galindo voted on the ameliorating amendments? If she supported them, she can be said to have at least tried to protect her voters from the NIMBY hordes.
The industry will never love 181, nor should it. But it can live with it, at least outside the longmont and Fort Collins areas.
The Death lovers and Fisting Describers are solid reasons to vote for Galindo. If she supported the 181 compromise, she deserves the support of all thinking Coloradans.
I know, I know, that's not enough. As Adlai Stevenson said, she needs a majority.
But it's a damn good start.
A local rich guy, Steve Wells, has already pledged $100,000 for the recall with local OandG outfits supposedly pledging $225,000 more, sayeth Greeley Tribune. That is about three times what Galindo spent to win the seat.
Talk about your grass-roots efforts, huh?
Wonder why we don't hear suggestions that Trump be stoned as an adulterer per Leviticus 20:10. Maybe the professed Christian values are just a smoke screen from people who are willing to use whatever means possible to spread their intolerance and Religious bigotry. This smacks of Christian Shara Law.
A wise observation, Roger. The whoremonger hypocrites often read only the anti-gay portions of the old testament. The bans on adulery and fornication kind of get lost in the scuffle. At least as they affect men. They are still useful for shaming women who cavort with men outside of marriage. But not the men, so go figure. Christian Sharia indeed, for Rev. Swaggert and company.