“We’ve known since 2014 the national union was involved,” Atwell said. “It’s unfortunate that the Jeffco voters were unaware of it until now.”
“If this town is just about baseball, and they’re going to recall the board based just upon that and not everything else that this district has done, then I guess I’m in the wrong place.”
As odd as it may seem, a Hudak loss could have been a political gift to Hickenlooper.
Colorado’s constitution gives people the ability to hold recall elections for political reasons. For entirely understandable reasons, Democrats wish to suppress such voting. There’s nothing inherently wrong with the Democrats’ position here; it’s just not very, well, democratic.
Obviously the Colorado recalls were largely about Democrats’ support for legislation restricting the right to keep and bear arms. But those who limit the discussion to that point fail to draw the broader lessons from the recall.
District 11 voters will decide Sept. 10 whether Colorado Springs needs rule-by-proxy of New York’s controlling mayor.
