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March 03, 2018 10:36 AM UTC
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Now, about the other chamber….
Assuming Grantham and Co. Take no action against Handsy Tate and the Stache, the Democrats in SD 27 may want to go the recall route.
Recall?
Why?
If the Senate decides to remove the douche weasels, great.
If not- the voters can. And the opponents can run on why to vote for them, and why to vote against the douche weasels.
That's 2 1/2 years out for Handsy Tate. (I don't recall when Stache is up.) Why not put SD 27 in play now rather than wait until 2020?
Remember how the GOP flipped 2 Dem seats with recalls on policy issues on which they had a disagreement? This is a more compelling reason.
Although I suppose there is the possibility that Tate would do an Eve Hudak move, resign and let Cole Wist take his place.
'Stache's term ends in 2020, when he's term-limited. He needs to be out of there sooner than that.
Whether Baumgardner "goes early" or not will depend on, I think, what Al and Jean White want to do. They've both held that seat, as Republicans, and both served with integrity, honesty, and transparency.
Baumgardner might resign if he negotiates appt. Of his wife
The Stache is married? Has she commented on the Employers Council report? Standing by her man despite the fake news and scurrilous allegations?
Yes, but I doubt either is interested at this point. The Republican Party has changed so much, the Whites probably don't fit any more. Remember, Republicans in Grand County paid nut-case David Clarke $10,000 to keynote Constitution Week in Grand Lake in 2016.
ok… I'm sold.
What's take to recall Tate?
That is the challenging part…..
https://ballotpedia.org/Laws_governing_recall_in_Colorado
Signatures totaling 25% of the total number of valid votes cast in 2016 in SD 27. 87,965 votes cast so 21,991 signatures.
That's a big number but I recall when that other Republican perv in Arapahoe County, Tracy Baker, was recalled as county clerk, there wasn't challenging getting those signatures.
And the gun nuts had no problem getting sufficient signatures to recall John Morse and Angela Giron.
The threshold was lower because turnout was lower in 2010.
First, it will take finding out what the voters in the District think. If a majority aren't offended by their Senator (as they SHOULD be), it may not be worth the push to go after signatures. I'm not good with statistics, but someone should be able to tell you how many people would provide a reliable sampling — 300-400 would be my uninformed guess.
Then, it will take the money to organize and carry out an effort to get valid signatures.
And then, there needs to be sufficient interest in getting a viable candidate and campaign organization going.
I second what JiD said, but offer the following considerations for a recall, as well:
1. The emotional intensity behind recalling sexual harassers is nowhere near as intense as that felt by gun fanciers who imagine that Dems are coming to "take their guns away". It's sad, but true. Most of us have lived with low-level sexual harassment all our lives – it's part of the landscape. Especially if it's mostly verbal, not overt ass-grabbing. We roll our eyes, try to smile or feel flattered, pass it off as "flirting", and move on.
The #metoo and #timesup movements have brought some of that into sharp relief, and I do think that harassed people are more likely to report and HR departments to follow through on consequences now; but is it enough to warrant the push for a recall? I, personally, think not.
If there was financial corruption, as well, as there was with Sheriff Maketa, that's a different story.
2. You're not going to have deep-pocket donors backing a recall, as the Giron and Morse recalls had. Half a million from the Kochs, thousands from NRA and NAGR PACS, Magpul, etc. Eventually, when it was clear that it was a political move to grab Republican power and to discredit Giron's work in bringing voter access to Colorado, Dems such as Bloomberg and various lefty PACS committed equal finances to the anti-recall effort.
If anyone wants back-up links for this, I'll provide them. Too much work this a.m.
Friday's excellent work in the Colorado House should remind everyone, it's not about what's easy or what's difficult, it's about creating and preserving a workplace that is free from sexual harassment and assault. What the House did was not easy, and what is needed in the Senate will not be easy. Grantham, time to do the difficult stuff.
Retaliation is what made Lebsock different. Another dirty Democrat who no one should miss.
Ohhhh, Fluffy . . .
. . . you abandoned your support for Lebsock once he became a Republican?!?
His retaliation was known since January, even as you were bleating about due process for him. You still defended Steve Lebsock (R-Thornton) while his "manifesto" disgusting as it was distributed to every house member. Now that his former party (Dem) and the majority of his new party (Republican) threw him under the bus ( literally from what he says), you, his stauncest defender do it too?