Appearing on CNN, Angela Giron, a Colorado Democrat state Senator who was one of two state pols recalled for supporting gun-grabbing anti-Second Amendment legislation, joined Debbie Wasserman Schultz in blaming her recall on voter suppression.
https://twitter.com/Korzin/status/378226167800553472
Angela Giron just made a complete fool of her self on @cnn she blamed the citizens of Colorado for being easily confused.
— dan (@MKE_DT) September 12, 2013
Here’s video of Giron’s meltdown. Giron got more pushback from CNN’s Brooke Baldwin than she wanted, and it showed:
Partial transcript:
Giron: What this story really is about, it’s about voter suppression. When Colorado has voted by mail — 70 percent of Coloradans vote by mail — and we didn’t have access to that mail ballot, I mean, I —
Host: Forgive me, but I’m going to cut you off right there because if we talk voter suppression, I’ve read reports about a lack of popularity on your behalf, let’s just not go there. Let’s get to the meat of the story, which is this gun control stance…
Giron: That is the meat of the story!
Host: … That you and your, uh, let’s talk though about the stance that you and your colleague, the head of the Senate, a former police officer, have taken. And here you have mega mega cash from Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Mayor Bloomberg, versus this grassroots effort. What happened?
Giron: I’m telling you what happened is that you had only 30,000 of the voters who in the last election, um, off-year election, was 45,000. And so the people that are in support of very common sense gun legislation weren’t able to get to the polls. They vote by ballot and they have been doing that for 25 years. I mean, we have to call it for what it is. When I was talking to people at the doors and in their homes it was that, “Oh, this what this is about, because you want universal background checks so you voted for that, and because you’re limiting magazines to 15? I don’t see anything wrong with that, I don’t see any infringement on the Second Amendment.” So, people didn’t know what it was about. There was voter confusion. We didn’t even know what the rules of the game were, this is the United States of America, we didn’t even know what the rules of the game were a week out from the election. Where to vote, how to vote, were you going to get a ballot in the mail? Um, and, so it was just that confusion led to the voices of people in Pueblo County and El Paso County not having their voices heard and yet they’re going to have to pay for this election, the most expensive in the history of these two counties.
Giron still either doesn’t get it or has to force herself to pretend not to get it.
The reasons Angela Giron lost are as simple as ABC: Arrogance, bitterness, and contempt for her constituents. #CORecall #2A
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) September 12, 2013
Keep it up, Democrats, and 2014 will be a great year … for the Republicans.
Updates:
Angela Giron said she lost her job in the CO State Senate because of voter suppression. Period. Who lives there and voted in recall elex?
— Brooke Baldwin (@BrookeBCNN) September 12, 2013
@BrookeBCNN Majority of turnout in her district was Democrat, by a large margin. And she still lost. Voter suppression not even believable.
— CO Peak Politics (@COpeakpolitics) September 12, 2013
@TwitchyTeam No wonder she was recalled. Nothing like calling the people of CO. stupid.
— Chrissee Stokes (@twnty9forevr) September 12, 2013
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional tweets as well as a partial transcript of the above video.
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