Tactical
By Mitch Berg
A Colorado Democrat Senator, faced with imminent humiliation at the polls for supporting Colorado’s wave of New-York-style gun regulations, jumped before she was pushed.
It wasn’t cowardice per se – more like Democrats manipulating the rules to stay in power:
Under Colorado law, Hudak’s successor will be a member of her own party.
Hudak’s replacement would serve in the upcoming legislative session but would have to run for the seat in November 2014 to keep it.
Hudak had done more than just infuriate the pro-rights crowd:
Conventional wisdom said Hudak couldn’t survive a recall: She had won re-election in 2012 by less than 600 votes, and her inartful questioning of a rape victim during a hearing on one gun bill had made her a national target of Second Amendment activists.
It wasn’t “inartful questioning” – Hudak’s thuggish, insensitive and ignorant grilling of rape victim Amanda Collins was factually-vacant enough to have come straight from Heather Martens’ lips – but I have to believe even Martens wouldn’t be stupid enough to have done what Hudak did. It even earned the scorn of the famously liberal Denver Post (although Hudak’s non-apology apology to Collins, arrogant and condescending enough to deserve being put on T-shirts by Second Amendment rights activists, didn’t earn specific condemnation).
In her resignation speech, Hudak said one of her key goals in resigning was to protect the gun-control legislation she and her fellow orcs passed last session.
Finishing off that seat is another item on the to-do list for second amendment human rights activists for next fall.
We’ve got a few of those in Minnesota. Hopefully the GOP in Albert Lea has a candidate rarin’ to go to oust Shannon Savick…
