{"id":2103,"date":"2013-07-30T22:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/07\/30\/one-of-pro-gun-extremist-behind-reca\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:22:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:22:37","slug":"one-of-pro-gun-extremist-behind-reca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2103","title":{"rendered":"One Of The Pro-Gun Extremists Behind The Recall? Not Quite"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12992,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.denverpost.com\\\/breakingnews\\\/ci_22956287\\\/gun-related-recall-efforts-colorado-carry-risks&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.denverpost.com\\\/breakingnews\\\/ci_22956287\\\/gun-related-recall-efforts-colorado-carry-risks&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12993,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/coloradopeakpolitics.com\\\/2013\\\/07\\\/29\\\/flushing-the-bs-a-plumber-from-pueblo-not-nra-behind-giron-recall&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250915070346\\\/https:\\\/\\\/coloradopeakpolitics.com\\\/2013\\\/07\\\/29\\\/flushing-the-bs-a-plumber-from-pueblo-not-nra-behind-giron-recall\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 15:48:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 15:48:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12994,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blogs.denverpost.com\\\/thespot\\\/2013\\\/07\\\/29\\\/dudley-brown-recall-election\\\/98956&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blogs.denverpost.com\\\/thespot\\\/2013\\\/07\\\/29\\\/dudley-brown-recall-election\\\/98956\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11962,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/gazette.com\\\/recall-backers-explain-their-motivation\\\/article\\\/1504039&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/gazette.com\\\/recall-backers-explain-their-motivation\\\/article\\\/1504039&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12995,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/coloradopeakpolitics.com\\\/2013\\\/07\\\/30\\\/recall-ads-hit-tv-gun-group-finally-joins-the-fight-morse-avoids-guns-in-ad&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/coloradopeakpolitics.com\\\/2013\\\/07\\\/30\\\/recall-ads-hit-tv-gun-group-finally-joins-the-fight-morse-avoids-guns-in-ad\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12996,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=-1VSSlquqNI&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nGiven that the gun prohibitionists don&#8217;t know astroturf from the real grassroots, it is not surprising that the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence is proclaiming Dudley Brown as &#8220;one of the pro-gun extremists behind the recall of CO State Senate President John Morse.&#8221; The Dudley Brown in question is the head of the National Association for Gun Rights and the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/csgV-Misleading-Post.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/csgV-Misleading-Post.png\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nOne of the men behind the recall of Morse and Giron? Not quite.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/breakingnews\/ci_22956287\/gun-related-recall-efforts-colorado-carry-risks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From the Denver Post in April<\/a> when talk of a recall first surfaced:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>Dudley Brown, director of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, thinks the time and money would be better spent taking out Democrats in swing districts in the 2014 election.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nFrom the Colorado politics website, <a href=\"http:\/\/coloradopeakpolitics.com\/2013\/07\/29\/flushing-the-bs-a-plumber-from-pueblo-not-nra-behind-giron-recall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorado Peak Politics, which posted this yesterday:<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>Neither the NRA nor Rocky Mountain Gun Owners did diddly squat to get the recalls on the ballot. These recalls, and most especially the Giron effort, were grassroots at their most raw.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;From the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.denverpost.com\/thespot\/2013\/07\/29\/dudley-brown-recall-election\/98956\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Denver Post&#8217;s The Spot blog<\/a> which said this of Brown yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>In April, as two recall efforts were already underway and there was talk of recalling Gov. John Hickenlooper and other Democrats, Brown said he wasn\u2019t so sure recalling the politicians was the best strategy. He told The Denver Post then he thought the money would be better spent taking out Democrats in swing districts in the 2014 election. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/gazette.com\/recall-backers-explain-their-motivation\/article\/1504039\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Gazette of Colorado Springs<\/a> in a feature on the grassroots organizers behind the recalls:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>The four men behind the Colorado State Senate recalls on Friday laughed sardonically at the suggestion that outside interests &#8211; namely the GOP and NRA &#8211; are driving their campaigns to unseat four Democratic lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think some people clamored for some help at the beginning,&#8221; said Victor Head, who led the successful campaign to force a recall election of Sen. Angela Giron, D-Pueblo. &#8220;They said &#8216;where&#8217;s the heavy hitters, where is the big interest in this, this has national implications&#8217; and they never showed up.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;Have Dudley Brown and NAGR finally stepped up for the recall fight? <a href=\"http:\/\/coloradopeakpolitics.com\/2013\/07\/30\/recall-ads-hit-tv-gun-group-finally-joins-the-fight-morse-avoids-guns-in-ad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yes, they have as of late yesterday<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.denverpost.com\/thespot\/2013\/07\/29\/dudley-brown-recall-election\/98956\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">when they began<\/a> running <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-1VSSlquqNI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 30 second spot seen here<\/a> in the Colorado Springs TV market.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad to see Dudley Brown finally step up to the plate. However, to call him one of the people behind the recall is to totally diminish the hard work done on the ground by the actual grassroots activists like Victor Head of Pueblo, Tim Knight of Durango, Anthony Garcia of Brighton and Grand Junction attorney Erik Groves who organized the Basic Freedom Defense Fund.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that the gun prohibitionists don&#8217;t know astroturf from the real grassroots, it is not surprising that the Coalition&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1313,2863,2138,1685],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-astroturfing","tag-colorado-recall-election","tag-csgv","tag-grassroots-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9369,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions\/9369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}