A Comeback For Ex-Rep. J. Paul Brown?

As the Durango Herald's Brandon Mathis reports:

At the start of a scenic, half-day tour of Colorado’s 59th House District, La Plata County sheep and cattle rancher J. Paul Brown addressed a crowd of about 40 people at Christina’s Grill & Bar on Saturday morning to announce his plans to retake the House seat he lost by two percentage points in 2012 to Durango attorney Mike McLachlan…

While Brown, a Republican, said he is not yet ready to propose specific legislation, he did say he had a long list of issues and possible bills.

We're surprised to see former Rep. J. Paul Brown, elected in the "Republican wave" of 2010 and ousted two years later in a close race, making another run at his former House District 59 seat. We say that despite the obvious incentive for a Republican to take on Rep. Mike McLachlan next year, a closely divided swing seat admittedly made more attractive to the GOP after this year's gun safety legislation slugfest. Rep. McLachlan is the Democrat who sponsored the compromise amendment to the magazine limit bill that raised the maximum number of rounds from 10 to 15. Needless to say McLachlan gets no love from the gun lobby for that gesture, though an attempt to recall him this year failed to obtain the necessary signatures.

With that in mind, Democrats are without a doubt very happy to see former Rep. Brown is game for a rematch. Brown's single term in the Colorado General Assembly marked him as an intellectually uncurious lawmaker, more interested in rambling on about disconnected tangents and conspiracy theories in legislative debates than even helping fellow Republicans pass bills. Brown was the only legislator of either party to vote against a bill improving services for homeless youth. Brown famously remarked after a vote against health insurance for children, "if I’m wrong, I guess, take me out behind the barn and give me a whipping." The following election, HD-59 voters did so.

Perhaps 2014 will be better for southwest Colorado's most politically active sheep rancher, but we don't see it today.

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Hudak recall organizers “could not be more thankful” to Dudley Brown

(Promoted by Colorado Pols)

Yesterday, Fox 31 Denver reported that GOP Chairman Ryan Call doesn't support the latest recall effort against Democratic Senator Evie Hudak, saying the recall could "undermine" Republican efforts to win elections next year.

But Fox 31 didn't report who is backing the Hudak recall effort. That would be Dudley Brown, Director of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, according to the RMGO website as well as Laura Waters and Mike McAlpine, who are apparently leading the petition-gathering effort.

On Peter Boyles' KNUS morning show today, Waters and McAlpine thanked Brown for his in-kind support. They also said they did not vote for Ryan Call when he ran for GOP State Chair:

Laura Waters: I want to say a big shout out to Dudley Brown and the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners.

Boyles: Oh, he's our guy. We love Dudley.

Waters: Those guys have come alongside us. They are helping us by mobilizing their members and getting the message out that we need volunteers. And we could not be more thankful to Dudley and his group…

Mike McAlpine: I gotta echo what Laura says. Nobody is as tall as man who stands on principle, and that's Dudley Brown. He is a rock star….

Boyles: By the way, who voted for Ryan Call to become the head of the GOP?

McAlpine: I'm looking around the room, no one is raising their hand, Peter.

Boyles: And what about you [to Waters]? Nobody's hand is up.

McAlpine: [laughing]

Boyles: How did this guy get this gig?

Listen here: Waters and McAlpine on KNUS 710 AM Peter Boyles Oct 08 2013

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Dudley Brown Spikes The Ball

I am all for it. I have had multiple background checks, and I insisted that any gun I sold transfered to the new buyer via a background check YEARS before this legislation…

Here is where they f'ed up: First, the fee. Now in and by itself, no biggie, pass it on to the buyer, but – the legislation – the one requiring the check, not the fee, mandated that FFL's were required -by law- to not charge more that $10 for the service. Well, the background check is 10 bucks itself, so, in effect, they required gun dealers (who buy the way make very little profit per gun) to net zero on a transaction that is 3rd party and hold full responsibility for the paperwork for 20 years.

Now, who cares, right? Its gun money fuckem. Well, they are not REQUIRED to accept private sale transactions. They don't have to do it. And they don't. They make $35 bucks transfering uzi's bought off gunbroker 20x a day. Why would they bother. 

More importantly – why the hell would the Dems write in such an absurd stipulation to a bill that otherwise seems so "common sense"? Well, from my perspective there could be 2 reasons. One, they are so fucking stupid that the expect those money hungry gun nuts to transfer guns for free, or, that making the process so financially unfeasible it will halt the flow private transactions with violating some gun nuts perceived "rights"

I tend to believe its the latter. No offense its better than being fucking stupid, right?

Wherever you are, any town, any place in CO – Call your gun shop. Call ALL your gun shops.  Ask them how many private guns sales they have done. My county has done 0. Thats none. Yet the newpapers still have guns for sale, and they seem to sell, or they just remove the ad after a few days, or something.

Now the law has brought the private gun trade underground, the exact opposite of its intent, and far, far worse for the general population than before, because guns "with no papers" are now a hot commodity, and worth more. Lots more. And now more people want them. Lots more. 

All over regulating the profit for the service they required. Note again this in not the background check fee bill, we are talking HB-1229.  Is there another service in CO that the government dictates how much you can charge for it? Just wondering…..

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Derren brown

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