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Just heard a report on KOA that the fucking moron in charge apologized to the county sheriffs for signing the gun bills without reading them!!! Please tell me there is a viable candidate to kick his egotistical, megalomaniacal ass out of office.

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He just wants to look softer on gun control so that he will get some stupid swing voters who don't pay attention to his real politics.

He is a dem.  He signed them.  He knew what he was doing.  

1)  He either lacks the backbone to tell Bloomburg to keep his dick out of CO
2)  He believes in gun control but wants to get reelected.

I don't care which, neither has any business being reelected.  2-faced piece of shit.

Where does our governor now stand on the gun control laws he signed in 2013?

9 News reached out to me for this story, but I was on the road back from the conference, so I wasn't able to respond in time for their story.

The County Sheriffs of Colorado extended the offer to the governor to come address the gathering of sheriffs at our summer conference. This portion of the event was open to the press and was attended by both the Aspen daily newspapers and a press outlet from Grand Junction.

The governor spent about an hour with us. He made remarks then invited questions from the sheriffs. Rather than beat around the bush, Sheriff John Cooke posed the first question about the gun control measures. Sheriff Cooke framed his question around statements that Governor Hickenlooper made at an event in Weld County about being a better listener. His question was simple and direct- why didn't you listen to the Colorado Sheriffs when we attempted to share our concerns about this legislation with you? The governor extended an apology for not being a better listener during this time. He told us things were very busy for him.

I wasn't taking notes, but my recollection was that he didn't apologize for his actions, but apologized for not listening and claimed he really didn't understand the issue until afterwards.

When Sheriff Cooke pressed him about why he supported the legislation without fully understanding it, the governor explained that one of his staff members made a public commitment that he would sign it, so he was obligated to keep the promise of this staff member. I found it shocking that the Colorado governor felt more beholdened to honoring the promise of a staff member over honoring his duty to represent the citizens of Colorado.

In finishing his response to Sheriff Cooke's questions, the governor claimed that he was unaware of the opposition of the Colorado Sheriffs until days AFTER he signed the bills. The governor explained he knew of the position of the Denver Police Chief, supporting the magazine ban bill and the governor used that as his justification for believing that law enforcement officials supported the bills.

He essentially staked his apology on a claim not knowing of our position and concerns until after he signed the bills.

I hadn't planned on asking a follow up to that same topic until I heard that part of his response. So I followed up by reiterating to the governor the extensive press coverage about our opposition and the fact that somewhere around 40 Colorado Sheriffs showed up at the Capitol building to testify in opposition while only one or two police chiefs testified in favor of them. I further explained that our association president had sent a letter to the governor's office expressing our concerns and requesting a meeting. I also told him that I had personally hand delivered a letter expressing my concerns to his office in the Capitol. Given these facts, I simply found it incomprehensible that he claimed he didn't know of our opposition.

I have to tell you that I was utterly flabbergasted at the response he made. From about 10 feet away, the governor looked me in the eye and snapped "I've already apologized, what the f*** else do you want?" Now, I'm a big boy and won't pretend for a moment that it's not language that's foreign to me- but I found that type of attitude and response to be well below the dignity of the office of governor. This was a sitting governor, in a public meeting, responding to another elected official.

From what I've seen, you won't find any reports of that exchange from any of the reporters who attended. That's a shame because I believe it's newsworthy for the voters to know the attitude and demeanor of their governor during this public event.

The important thing to know is that our governor does not apologize for his support of the gun control bills, rather he incredulously denies understanding the bills and blames his staff for committing his support- obliging him to sign the bills.

ALLEGATION: Hickenlooper Refuses To Meet With Sheriffs After Their Opposition To Gun Grab
Published on March 11, 2013 by ColoradoPeakPolitics
UPDATE: A Hickenlooper spokesperson has responded to the allegations that Hickenlooper has refused to meet with Sheriffs.  See tweet below.  Pending review sounds like the gubernatorial version of postpone indefinitely, but we’re glad Hick and his people have changed their minds, as we predicted they would.

The tweet from Brandon Rittiman:
Brandon Rittiman        ? @BrandonRittiman
Follow Spox for @hickforco: "We have not 'refused' to meet with the sheriffs." Says request in letter to meet is pending review. @COpeakpolitics1:46 PM - 11 Mar 2013
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Democrats have clearly had their fill of the Colorado Sheriffs. The Sheriffs publicly pummeled the gun control caucus in testimony before the State Senate last week.

Every major paper in the state aired some version of this picture.



Sheriffs have also played an oversized role in publicly targeting gun controllers, on TV and the radio:




And Mayor Bloomberg’s gun control lackeys are none-too-pleased.

Our sources tell us that Governor Hickenlooper refused a meeting with the Sheriffs last week. Rewind: John Hickenlooper, Mr. Why Can’t We All Get Along, refused to meet with Sheriffs.

Hickenlooper is starting to take this stuff personal. First an attack on protesters, and now this.

This won’t last long. Governor Hickenlooper will have to eventually face the Sherrif’s posse. It, however, says a lot about how personally he is taking all this that he wouldn’t meet in the first place.

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Nice, maybe we can fire a 4th. Works for me and he is helping us too. And he knows we are pissed, I told him so to his face while inserting myself in front of him at the state fair special legislators deal. I had to take the hand shake. "How about those recalls governor, I guess the citizens are not fond of tyranny. Oh and I started the recalls." Just what I said and I promise he heard it from lots of folks. I am in the blue shirt, always a party.....

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There is an article in te Denver post abou Hick and the sheriffs. He didn't know that these laws would cause so much controversy..... Hmmm.

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http://www.redstate.com/2014/06/17/governor-hickenlooper-half-ass-apologies/

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Dropped it on the FB page for greater effect (it gets a lot more daily traffic) but we're looking at putting an article up on the main page in the real near future.  We've got Castle Rock open carry up for special election in August and this unbelievable garbage going on right now.  If we can't get folks motivated to get off the damned couch now, I don't know if we ever will!