In my travels around the petition sites I witnessed an encouraging diversity of folks who were rallying against the attempt to recall Evie Hudak.
Of the petition collectors and those staffing the recall tables -- an amazing singleness of type.
One is loath to stereotype ... but my gosh, the camo attire, the whiteness, the maleness, the belligerence, the motorcycles, the gun emblems, the gun flags, the gun accouterments ... these gun radicals are a very tight, insular fringe in American politics.
Now, I suspect that they got a lot of signatures from run-of-the-mill Repuglicans that will always vote against a Democrat or sign anything anti-Democrat, but the organizers of the recall were definitely of the extreme Tea Party variety.
If people don't think there is a rather scary group of very reactionary right-wingers out there willing to do almost anything to get their way, well, they should have seen what you and I saw in Arvada and Westminster over the last couple of months.
Already I am thankful in some ways that Sen. Hudak resigned -- she clearly had the best interests of her constituents in mind. If they had got the required amount of signatures, it would have been a very nasty, brutal, negative, dirty recall campaign. We do not have to go through that -- another commendation to Hudak for saving us from that (and keeping the state senate in Democratic control).
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