Posted April 18, 2019 12:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Anna Stonehouse/The Aspen Times via AP

Right now, John Hickenlooper wants to be president. He’s one of a whole lot of Democrats who have entered the race. At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if my cat entered the race, the field has gotten so crowded.

Hickenlooper, though, is touting his accomplishments on gun control to set himself apart from the pack. Unlike most others, he can actually cite accomplishments beyond introducing bills that won’t go anywhere. After all, following the theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado in 2013, he signed several gun control bills into law.

What he’s not talking about, though, is something that NBC News of all people opted to look into. Hickenlooper isn’t talking about the backlash that followed.

Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper bills himself as the experienced, consensus-building Democrat in the 2020 presidential race, one who has successfully tackled divisive issues like gun control.

But his signature achievement as governor — a package of gun bills passed in 2013 — was undertaken without any Republican support and exacted great political cost on state Democrats, several of whom were recalled or resigned under threat of being removed from office.Hickenlooper has since expressed serious misgivings about how …Read the Rest

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