Will any of these proposals receive a vote or even a hearing in the Senate? Not a chance—not while Mitch McConnell runs that chamber and Cory Gardner does his bidding.
The NRA and its allies have spent $4 million to keep Gardner in office. He votes accordingly, embracing their far-right agenda lock, stock and barrel.
That’s unconscionable. It’s one of a thousand reasons Cory Gardner must go.
The good news: Gardner is on his way out. He trails even a generic Democrat by double digits.
But it will take more than a generic Democrat to defeat the gun lobby. Colorado’s next senator must bring the courage of our convictions to this cause.
This is an area where John Hickenlooper and I differ. Watch this
video.
Confronted by critics at a meeting of county sheriffs, Hickenlooper blamed his staff for committing him to sign a ban on high-capacity magazines (a law that cost three Democratic senators their seats). Hickenlooper then told the sheriffs he never expected the bill to pass—and suggested he might not have signed it if he’d known it would cause so much “commotion.”
I’ll be blunt: I’ve never seen a governor blame a staffer for forcing his hand or backpedal so quickly. It’s a bewildering performance, and it makes you wonder whether he’d wobble even more in Washington.
Let’s not take that risk. Let’s replace Cory Gardner with a progressive champion.
Andrew Romanoff
