When Sen. Evie Hudak went grocery shopping a week ago Saturday she saw a woman with a big sign saying “Recall Hudak,” and so she approached her.
“I walked up to see who it was, to see if I recognized here, which I didn’t,” the Westminster Democrat said. “She said, ‘Would you like to sign a petition to recall Evie Hudak?’ I kind of laughed and said, ‘I am Evie Hudak.’”
The woman look shocked, Hudak said.
Hudak is one of four Democratic lawmakers whom Second Amendment activists are trying to oust from office because of their votes over gun legislation this session. Recall attempts also are underway against Senate President John Morse of Colorado Springs, Sen. Angela Giron of Pueblo and Rep. Mike McLachlan of Durango.
To force an election, recall organizers have to collect petition signatures based on 25 percent of the total vote in the last election in that district. In Hudak’s case, that’s nearly 19,000 signatures in two months, a nearly impossible task, according to the state’s best known gun-rights advocate, Dudley Brown with Rocky Mountain Gun Owners.
ColoradoPols on Saturday reported that recall supporters near a Safeway didn’t look too busy.