Colorado state Sen. Angela Giron becomes 2nd lawmaker to lose recall over gun laws support [View all]
DENVER (AP) — Voters ousted two Colorado Democratic lawmakers Tuesday in the state's first ever legislative recall launched over their support for stricter gun laws after last year's mass shootings.
Senate President John Morse and Sen. Angela Giron both lost their jobs in an election seen as a national measure of popular support for gun legislation.
Morse faced a tough election in the Republican stronghold of Colorado Springs, where he won re-election by just a few hundred votes in 2010. He lost by 343 votes, with 51 percent of voters backing the recall.
"We as the Democratic party will continue to fight," Morse told supporters in Colorado Springs as he conceded the race.
Republican Bernie Herpin, a former Colorado Springs city councilman, will replace him.
Giron lost by a bigger margin in a largely blue-collar district that favors Democrats, with 56 percent of voters voting to recall her. She tried to encourage her supporters, telling them the defeat will ultimately make them stronger.
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