Avoiding Recall: Colorado’s “You Don’t Need a Gun to Prevent Rape” Evie Hudak Resigns

Town Hall – by Katie Pavlich

After seeing two of her Colorado colleagues recalled over anti-gun votes, Democratic State Senator Evie Hudak, will submit her resignation.

 Hudak will hold a news conference Wednesday morning at the Arvada Library.  

“By resigning I am protecting these important new laws for the good of Colorado and ensuring that we can continue looking forward,” Hudak wrote in her resignation letter in regard to her gun votes, which led to the recall effort.

Proponents of the recall have until early next week to submit about 18,900 valid signatures to the secretary of state’s office. If enough signatures are valid, Hudak would be the third Colorado lawmaker to face a recall election this year because of her support for tougher gun laws.

Earlier this year, Colorado State Senator Angela Giron and Senate President John Morse, both from blue districts, were recalled and replaced with Republicans. Hudak was likely pressured into her resignation. If she had lost her recall election (which was likely), Democrats in Colorado would lose a majority in the legislature. Now, Democrats will be able to appoint Hudak’s replacement, further ignoring constituents while allowing Democrats to avoid the consequences for anti-gun votes.

As a reminder, Hudak is the woman who told rape survivor Amanda Collins back in March during a hearing about concealed carry on campus that a gun wouldn’t have helped her when she was attacked and lectured her by saying, “statistics are not on your side.” Collins was raped at gun point in a gun free zone in 2007 while walking to her car at the University of Nevada-Reno. Due the University’s no weapons policy, Collins was in possession of her concealed carry permit at the time of the attack, but not her firearm. Her assailant went on to rape two more women and killed one of them, Brianna Denison, who was just 20-years-old.


You can learn more about Amanda’s story here.

UPDATE: Compass Colorado, the group helping to lead recall efforts, has released a statement.

“This is yet another indicator that the tides are changing in Colorado politics,” Executive Director of Compass Colorado Kelly Maher said in a statement. “Coloradans are sick of the extreme Democrats trying to control their lives. These “progressives” have overreached so far on so many issues that Colorado families are now ready for a new vision.”

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4 thoughts on “Avoiding Recall: Colorado’s “You Don’t Need a Gun to Prevent Rape” Evie Hudak Resigns

  1. ““Coloradans are sick of the extreme Democrats trying to control their lives.” They better be sick of Republicans too, because both parties are just as much to blame. Enough of the bipartisan politics. Put in an independent or third party candidate and you won’t have a damn problem. Until then, you will just get another treasonous bastard in office.

    By the way, Colorado people better get their act together and make hell for the foreign insurgents/elitist bastards invading the Denver Airport and trying to implement their new Capitol and NWO center or their gun problems will be the least of their worries.

    1. NC, you are so right about what is going on at the Denver Airport,
      I listened to Doug Hagman’s program Tuesday night, with
      Steve Quayle and Greg Evensen.

      They claim to have information that the Federal Government is
      moving to federalize all of the law enforcement agencies in
      Colorado within the next 3 weeks.

      Doesn’t sound too good for any of us!

      1. Yeah, I listened to that show too, and I live in CO Rockies in the summer months. Lot’s of firearms in those rural areas. It won’t go well for them. Lot;s of people would be packing their gear up and heading to CO if the word got out that the feds were on the loose out there. I already have my gear there, just a sittin and waiting for me.

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