IN RE: Recall of Colorado State Senators
FOR YOUR ANALYSIS AND CONSIDERATION:
PERSONAL COMMENTARY AND REMARKS:
The recall of two Colorado senior State Senators was no small task as you can imagine. The fact one of the senators was President of the Senate makes this event all the more significant. Below is an email letter from one of the volunteers who worked tirelessly the past weeks to bring some responsibility and order back into the representative process. Notice the commitment in his words. Notice the annoyance directed at the elite political establishment that somehow pervades the mind-set once a citizen crosses over and becomes an elected official. Our entire representative form of government is founded on the principle of “citizen legislators” and “citizen servant leaders” not professional office holders who choose, on their own, to reshape a city, county, state, or even our Nation into something the Founders never, ever intended. Times change, but the principles and integrity placed into motion by a group of men meeting is sweltering hot Philadelphia over 235-years ago do not!
One significant aspect of what occurred in Colorado is the boiling-over dissatisfaction with the actions of a state government gone rogue, no longer responsive to the needs and will of the people. The same is in vogue with the national government, and sprinkled throughout our country are mirror images of this disregard, this abuse of power, this ignoring and disregard of founding principles never, ever intended to be by people who gave every measure of their life to establish this unique and exceptional experiment in a Republic, versus a dictatorial or oligarchy types of government many public office holders seem to prefer and endorse today. Exceptionalism does not imply Americans are better than others, but it does mean the foundations of our Nation are unique among all other nations of the earth; that our government is “people-led”, not led by Kings or Queens or Dictators who have no need to be answerable to the people. Exceptionalism is not bragging but a term describing a level of freedom acknowledging inalienable rights not granted to any other people in the world at that time, and even still today.
The folks of northern Colorado are similar to the people you will find in rural Arizona; be it northern or southern, southeastern or southwestern Arizona. Rural Arizona communities teach a form of preparedness and self-reliance no longer taught in metropolitan cities. The people in rural Colorado and rural Arizona are less reliant on government involvement in their affairs, and for this the political left, the radical/Marxist ideologues, despise these folks. The recall of these two state senators goes deeper and is more pervasive than conventional left-Democrat party loyalist media adherents would have you believe or want you to discover. The conservative populist in Colorado (and Arizona, and quickly growing across the Nation) wants government (including State) to leave them alone; to not interfere in their daily lives, businesses, nor hamper their right for personal success – another founding principle given to us as a gift by the likes of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Hancock, John Witherspoon, and the other 32-Signers of the Constitution. Did you catch what I just wrote? Out of 55-members of the Constitutional Convention, only 39-members actually signed that hallowed document! The remaining loyalists to this new experiment in Republic form of government did not sign until clear provisions were stated to guard against the usurping of State sovereignty from an all-intrusive and centralized federal government. Great concern was rampant among the Founders that if federal powers and a central government were not clearly limited a government might emerge that would first envelop and then annul the rights of the States-and INDIVIDUALS.
The recall of the two Colorado State Senators was not a temper-tantrum by citizens fed-up with not being listened to or properly represented. The recall was an example of Colorado citizens taking back their government which had slipped into what the Founders feared could happen one day, but those same astute men made provisions for correction by the citizens; from WE THE PEOPLE! We just witnessed one of those provisions for correction. Other states have citizens meeting studying similar corrections. Congratulations, Colorado, for demonstrating the Constitution is still viable and a guiding light, that the ink placed to parchment so very many years ago is still very much readable and still holds impact for both those who want to ignore the principles and heritage given to us, and to those who believe and are willing to defend those principles and our heritage.
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