Recall campaign in Colorado

Let us hope this works

Have at 'um, and I wish you luck! If any gun shows are still going on they are an excellent place to collect signatures.

Try collecting signatures around sporting goods stores, Walmart and local gun stores (as well as gun shows as the previous poster suggested). Make flyers and pamphlets with the information and where to sign the petition and hand these out throughout the towns and shopping areas.

I suggest keeping this thread open until the petitions are collected and the recount is underway, and/or a follow-up to this thread.

Good Luck

People are more pissed off than at any time I can remember. I really hope NOBama and uncle fester take another run at more gun control. Perhaps then the pissed off and fed up attitudes will stick around until the 2014 elections.

NOBAMA is too stupid to know he just ruined the Democratic Party and turned control of the Senate over to the GOP for now and likely after the 2014 election.

Here's hoping they get them.

Good luck Colorado. Hope that you are able to make examples out of these losers.

I'm wishing you the best, wish I could help, I "used" to fish and hunt in Colorado all the time not to mention skiing.

The petition for recalling Giron is going pretty well right now. As of last weekend, we had just over half of the signatures we need to force the recall. The local Dems must be getting nervous, because there was an article in the local paper yesterday that quoted the county clerk and some other local politicians (all Dems, of course) saying that the recall election would cost the city/county over $250,000. Given the budget problems we have, I'd imagine that news was meant to scare off some folks who might be sitting on the fence right now. Personally, I'm cautiously optimistic that the recall will happen, but this is a VERY heavily Dem area, and for the most part Giron hasn't pissed off many people besides gun owners/2nd Amendment supporters, so collecting the other half of the signatures is going to be tough. One interesting note - the local Walmarts won't let us circulate petitions in front of their stores, apparently they've taken some heat in the past from people complaining about petition gatherers being a little too aggressive. And since it's private property, it's their call, of course. Fortunately the K-Mart and lots of other places are OK with us being there. I'll try and keep this thread updated as more news develops.

Get as many people active as you can, invite others around your LGS to help spread the word. Find as many CO forums and post on them as well. Even ad websites like craigslist, etc. should have a post.

Good luck.

Gonna run 'em out.....

To call CO citizens, talk to your local sporting goods stores, gun shops, friends and everyone else you can get to the signatures in place. We must remove these anti-freedom tyrants from office. It can be done. The recall is a great way to send notice to the other states that the people are not jumping on the disarmament bandwagon and that politicians that usurp any of the Bill of Rights are on a one-way express ticket out of town. Get the word out folks, lets get this done!

Good luck and godspeed Coloradoans.
I surely hope it is successful.

There should be press releases to conservative media outlets as well as other Pro-gun forums and organizations. I think rt (Russia Today) might be interested as well as World Net Daily www.wnd.com , Conservative News http://cnsnews.com/, also Drudge Report, Free Republic, maybe even Fox News.

Again Good Luck

For the folks in CO, don't forget to write your local papers, post on local messageboards and so forth. We may not have big dollars, but that doesn't mean that the word can't get out. CO was one of the first states to start the latest round of anti-gun nonsense, it would be quite fitting if we could get those citizens' freedoms restored there first. Next, NY, CA and so forth.

Don't you guys have a huge Cabela's in Grand Junction? I imagine they would be happy to help.

Remember that signatures are the only thing that matters, not the reason why they are signing. So logically if one can find other reasons why someone should be removed it would stand to reason that you could appeal to a larger market..

In other words, find something else besides guns, in the event that someone does not feel strongly about firearms you can make them feel strongly about something else.

I found some information on how to do press releases. This might be of help for the recall campaign in Colorado as well as other pro-gun rights activist campaigns. You can also use a distribution service to distribute the press releases for your group.

To date, what pro-gun forums, gun rights organizations (NRA,GOA), news outlets and conservative bloggers have been contacted? This sounds like maybe something Sean Hannity or one of the other conservative broadcasters might be interested in.

I'll bet the interest in this recall is real high (besides the pro-gun community). Hopefully some spokespeople of this could offer to do radio interviews or something of the like. We need to get the message out. Like others have said, once this succeeds, the other states are next for recalls. I think there is a lot riding on this.

Press Release Information

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I've forwarded some of your suggestions on to the folks that are heading up the recall - thanks for the ideas. One thing I need to point out is that we're actually dealing with a fairly small market, since only people who live in the district that Giron represents can sign the petition. That's unfortunate, because we have lots of folks from outside the district that do business here and would love to sign the petitions, but we have to turn them away. We've pretty well saturated all the local media, I think, now it's just a matter of time.

cologuy said:

I've forwarded some of your suggestions on to the folks that are heading up the recall - thanks for the ideas. One thing I need to point out is that we're actually dealing with a fairly small market, since only people who live in the district that Giron represents can sign the petition. That's unfortunate, because we have lots of folks from outside the district that do business here and would love to sign the petitions, but we have to turn them away. We've pretty well saturated all the local media, I think, now it's just a matter of time.

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Even though this is a local thing. It resonates with other firearms owners in other states as well. Recalling politicians for whatever purpose (especially this one), is a story that has interest on the national scene as well. This is the strongest message to send to other politicians who might be considering voting for anti-gun legislation.

Good Luck in all your efforts

Right on! We need to send a message that restricting our natural rights to self-protection under arms is not something that any state or federal official can get away with. The citizens of CO are no less than those of CA, NY or TX. A harsh message of rebuke to one, is a message to all.

signatures must be from correct district

You can't sign at Grand Junction for a recall 240 miles away. Those wouldn't count.... and they create false impression of success.

Except for the guy in Durango, those are front range politiicans.

I can't participate by signing, but you guys have my moral support. Godspeed, and good luck.