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purplechoe
09-13-2013, 08:38 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfBINLwP9Hk


9/12/13 - Colorado state Sen. Angela Giron (D-Pueblo) joined CNN's Brooke Baldwin on Thursday to discuss the Tuesday recall election which resulted in her ouster due to her support of strict new gun laws. She said that the only reason why she lost her recall challenge to a Republican plumber was a concerted GOP campaign of "voter suppression." "We know what really happened here," Giron said. "What this story really is about, it's about voter suppression."

"When Colorado has voted by mail — 70% of Coloradans vote by mail — and we didn't have access to that mail ballot," she said before Baldwin cut her off.

"Let's just not go there," Baldwin interjected. "Let's get to the meat of the story."

"That is the meat of the story," Giron insisted.

Baldwin said that Giron's campaign was backed by well-funded anti-gun groups but still lost. "What happened?" she asked.

"The people that are in support of very common sense gun legislation weren't able to get to the polls," Giron asserted. "We didn't even know what the rules of the game were. This is the United States of America. We didn't know what the rules of the game were a week out from the election; where to vote, how to vote, how to get a ballot in the mail."

She later insisted that the "results would have been different" if mail-in ballots had been allowed in this recall election.

mosquitobite
09-13-2013, 08:55 PM
Bwhahaha! Dems love their dead people! How dare we suppress them!

Tywysog Cymru
09-13-2013, 09:21 PM
They just can't deal with the fact that even when their side is able to outspend ours, they still can't win when the people vote.

purplechoe
09-14-2013, 12:40 PM
I love the last part when Brook asks her if she'll run again for office in the next election. This lady is a political amateur...

Acala
09-14-2013, 02:42 PM
It doesn't matter what she says. A harsh lesson was delivered and politicians will not forget it. This was a huge win for gun owners. Not only did we beat back any federal gun legislation in spite of an all-out, no holds barred campaign by the gun grabbers, but in one of the few states where there were legislative setbacks, the offending politicians got their asses handed to them. WooHooo!