Editor:

In the article in the June 12 Colorado Statesman, “Woods, Zenzinger plan for ’16 rematch,” you say that I resigned “to avoid a looming recall election.” This is not accurate, because the petitions had not been turned in, and there is no way of knowing whether the recall election would have occurred.The correct thing to say would be “to avoid the potential of a recall election.” This might seem like a small distinction to you, but it is important to me that the public know I resigned without knowing whether or not there would be a recall election. You give the recall petitioners too much of the benefit of the doubt by saying the election was “looming.”

Furthermore, you say that the resignation was over my “positions on gun-control legislation.” If guns were the real reason, they should have gone after the Senate sponsors of the gun bills and Sen. Matt Jones, who voted with me and Sen. Angela Giron in favor of the bills in the Senate State Affairs Committee, but they didn’t. The REAL reason was that I had been reelected by 584 votes. If you read the reasons in the recall petition, you’ll see that there were a number of things mentioned besides my position on guns (mostly nonsensical stuff, frankly). The petition carriers tried to convince people to sign by citing a number of my political positions, such as being pro-choice (which they characterized as my being a “baby killer”).

Also, you should not call the Common Core State Standards “federal standards” because they are not federally mandated — states created the CCSS voluntarily and decided to adopt them voluntarily. The federal government had nothing to do with it.

Former state Sen. Evie HudakArvada