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(116,301 posts) Sat Apr 6, 2019, 07:29 AM Apr 2019

Petition for recalling Greeley Democrat is approved; signature collection to begin

The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office has approved a recall petition for state Rep. Rochelle Galindo, allowing her critics to begin collecting signatures as they try to remove her from office.

The state agency approved a petition by Mary Achziger and Karen Kornins on Thursday. Galindo’s political opponents will now have until June 3 to collect 5,696 signatures in House District 50. That number is 25 percent of the total votes cast in Galindo’s 2018 election.

If they are able to reach that number, Galindo’s name will be placed on a ballot. It’s not clear yet when the recall election would occur, though the fall of 2019 is one possibility.

“The voters of House District 50 are not going to be intimidated by millionaires and special interests cutting six-figure checks to political operatives engaging in the divisive Washington-style politics Coloradans consistently reject,” Galindo said in a statement Thursday.

Read more: https://www.denverpost.com/2019/04/04/recall-rochelle-galindo-greeley-colorado/

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Sunday's Denver Post editorials discuss these gop/oil/ religion crackpot shenanigans. Democrats_win Apr 2019 #1

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1. Sunday's Denver Post editorials discuss these gop/oil/ religion crackpot shenanigans.

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Mon Apr 8, 2019, 12:56 PM

Apr 2019

In the "perspective" section, one writer, "Silverii" said, " Show me a recall effort of Colorado Democrats and I’ll show you a bigot" He really does a good job of attacking this recall shenanigan. (Including the nut job religious guy behind it, that the GOP wants to fund!)

https://www.denverpost.com/2019/04/08/silverii-the-bigots-behind-colorado-recall-efforts/

John Caldera also chimes in in favor of the recall. Surprise--the man who wanted to be on the RTD board in order to destroy the RTD, would want to destroy the government of Colorado.

The overall editorial from the Post (which I couldn't find online) was that SB 181, after recent changes was a good bill. Those who are behind this recall were "just as bad" as the anti-frackers who want all oil to stay in the ground. There's that "both sides do it" nonsense. The recall gang are a bunch of terrible bigots while the anti-fracking people just want to save us from global catastrophe. They are NOT the same!

BTW, SB 181, which gives local governments more say in oil extraction within their boundaries, is a pretty big deal. If you've watched fracking issues nationwide, local areas have been screwed by the fact that they have no say when it comes to oil extraction. The oil companies hide behind state laws to screw the locals. Now that has changed in Colorado.

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