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Stunning Audio: Colorado Dem Senator Tells Colleague to ‘Flip a Coin’ to Decide Vote on Unread Amendment to $1 Billion Education Bill

Mar. 22, 2013 3:27pm Jason Howerton

While lawmakers debated a bill that would overhaul the way education is funded in Colorado and result in $1 billion in new taxes, state Sen. Evie Hudak (D-Westmister) suggested that they “finish it up real fast in two minutes” without thoroughly discussing a proposed amendment. She also told Sen. Owen Hill (R-Colorado Springs) to “flip a coin” when he asked how he could possibly vote on a major amendment he hadn’t read.

“I’m going to take a quick straw poll,” Hudak said. “How many want to finish it up real fast in two minutes, raise your hand.”

“How can I vote on it if we can’t have a little more discussion on it,” Hill replied.

“Take your best shot,” Hudak shot back.

When the roll was called, Hill again stated that he couldn’t vote on something that the legislature hadn’t read and discussed more thoroughly.

“Here’s a coin you can flip,” Hudak said.

“I didn’t knock on 20,000 doors to flip a coin,” Hill added.

“You’ll pass for now, here’s a coin if you want to flip it,” she said condescendingly.

“Unbelievable,” a stunned Hill muttered.

“The 2012 cycle is Senator Hudak’s last election, as she is term limited and will not have to stand for reelection. She is certainly acting like it,” Revealing Politics notes.

Listen to the audio via Revealing Politics below:

The Colorado Springs Gazette has more details on the school financing overhaul bill in question:

A complete overhaul of the way Colorado has funded schools for two decades would likely bring more money to all but one El Paso County school district.

But the complicated school finance reform hinges on voters approving an estimated $1 billion in additional taxes — an anticipated November ballot question that has not been introduced.

The extra money would be used to increase funding for early childhood education, special education, extended school days for at-risk schools, gifted and talented programs and teacher performance and evaluation.

Sen. Mike Johnston, D-Denver, said he authored the 174-page bill to ensure that students in Colorado have access to the resources they need regardless of who they are or where they live.

You may recall, Hudak is the same Colorado senator that told rape survivor Amanda Collins that a gun wouldn’t have helped her against her rapist because “statistics are not on your side.”

“You said that you were a martial arts student, I mean person, experienced in taekwondo, and yet because this individual was so large, was able to overcome you even with your skills, and chances are that if you had had a gun, then he would have been able to get that from you and possibly use it against you,” Hudak said.

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The_Fifth_Column
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:03pm
People of Colorado……….Are you paying attention at all? A One Billion Dollar tax increase for the leftist agenda. I’d say you wont be getting many of those tax dollars from gun and ammunition sales or hunting licences and hunting supplies. Any company that has anything at all to do with anything firearms related is bailing out of Colorado Pronto. Keep it up Colorado……You’ll look just like Detroit in short order.

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- disgustedCOnative
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:12pm
  All too soon when I become a criminal by transferring my mags from Wyoming when they need replaced.
  
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- desert buckeye
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:50pm
  Let’s just cut to the chase and secede already. I want to get away from these liberal commies. They are literally insane!…not to mention un-American.
  
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- michael48
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:35pm
  Kolorado kissing cousins to Kali-fornica….dem-wits gone wild….
  
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- JacquesChirac
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 7:18pm
  WTF happened to Colorado? It has become the playground for Boulder politics. What a disgrace. So happy I got to relocate out of that state not too long ago…
  
  Wow…the next edition of Atlas Shrugged needs to find a new home for Gault’s Gulch…
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 8:51pm
  JACQUE…this should explain everything.
  http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_11437650
  
  An influx of illegals and Californians.
  
  I believe Pat Buchanan (yes I know..all of a sudden all the lefties collectively gasped and cried..”racist”) said it best when he said “when the rest of the country starts looking like California, they start voting like California”. Take from that what you will but it appears he has some validity to his statement.
  
  Furthermore, these are today’s Democrats we’re talking about, they don’t believe there’s a debt crisis remember?
  
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- scarletworm
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 11:06pm
  We have been overrun here in CO. It is like we, Conservatives, are invisible to these corrupt Democrats. I am shocked…and I didn’t think anything could shock me anymore with regard to politics. This is the same woman that told the rape victim that “statistics” weren’t on her side and a gun wouldn’t have helped protect her. I have called her office…but she has no intention of defending the Constitution. There are too many billionaires in CO buying up our elections. HELP!!!
  
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- dmerwin
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 2:02am
  She is one scary bitch.
  
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- sasquatch08
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 3:30am
  People here didn’t start paying attention until it all hit the fan a month or so ago with “gun control”.
  
  I honestly think this state will flip back to Republican next year, if not, I’m getting the hell out of here.
  
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- Bum thrower
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 8:21am
  Who keeps voting for these leftist wacko’s?? Geez people….vote EVERY DEMOCRAT out of office before they bankrupt the county and take ALL your assets!!! “For the Children”…
  
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- CygnusX1
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 6:10pm
  The problem is that over the last twenty years we have been overrun by Californians that chose to escape the cesspool they created. But they can’t help themselves, they are liberals after all and they will not change. They can not be reasoned with.
  
  There used to be a sign in a field facing the East bound lanes of I-70 in Western Colorado that said “Don’t Kalifornicate Colorado!” It was a bit controversial in the area. Obviously it did not deter the invaders.
  
  There is nothing that conservative minded Coloradoans can really do, other that what my wife and I did which was to go to the caucuses, including being delegates for our area at the state caucus.
  This of course in the end really did nothing. Believe what you will, whether it was voter apathy or outright election fraud, this state is now thoroughly controled by liberals and Communists.
  
  Even one of my local city councilman proudly told me he was a “Socialist” which I feel is no different than a Communist.
  
  At this point there is nothing that can really be done, short of a taking violent action, which is not going to happen. Voting in my opinion is nearly a moot point.
  
  In the case of this douche politician stating that they should just flip a coin, I feel that at the minimum she should be impeached for dereliction of duty. But again that is not going to happen.
  
  This is a lost cause and as far as I am concerned, the only thing that will change the course of the state and for the country is to rise up a
  
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- USATrucker
  Posted on March 24, 2013 at 10:58am
  @sasquatch08
  I’m with you! This state is beautiul, but the politics is beginning to outway any pros I can think of for staying here. Wyoming’s a short drive and I hear the snowboarding in Jackson Hole is really good.
  
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The0bserver
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:03pm
OK, I’ll be the first to say it, the 19th Amendment was a big mistake.

Hadek

QED

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- The_Fifth_Column
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:10pm
  No comment…….My wife is is the house, and she believes in the Second Amendment as strongly as I do!
  
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- Bluebonnet
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:38pm
  That ungrateful, Hudak, user of her state, is what’s called after Lincoln’s assassination, YOU’RE MUDD.
  
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Modern_Cicero
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:54pm
That’s how most Democrats and moderate Republicans roll. We have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it. “We trust our leadership.” How’s that working for ya?

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- Bluebonnet
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:29pm
  COLORADO, what’s wrong with you people? Are you going to let this state Sen. Evie Hudak (D) tell you to flip a coin to make decisions for your state???? You people are unbelievable.
  
  This is the same person, Hudak, who told some rape victim a gun wouldn’t have helped her. In private she probably said: (just lay back and enjoy it) Who the hell voted for that idiot?
  Yep, just flip a coin to decide on state business, tails, yes; heads no! A hell of a way to vote.
  (and yes, I’m pizzed off we let people like this woman get away with idiocy and still vote for her)
  
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disgustedCOnative
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:53pm
It’s due to PERA….union pensions. what a
surprise

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moreteaplease
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:49pm
Typical, snooty liberal. “Do things my way or do nothing”. She must have had a hot dog eating contest she had to get to.

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OUT THE REGRESSIVES
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:48pm
Ms. Hudak is a fine example of a Big Socialist jackwagon.
BOYCOTT COLORADO until we get these Kalifornicators out of office here.

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- mecanic
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:46pm
  good luck brother and semper fi.
  
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- tajloc
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 10:36am
  Please “OUT THE REGRESSIVES” and others. Do not boycott us yet. The Western Slope is ready to secede. There are movements out here to impeach some of these people. We were sandbagged last year by Tancredo wnd others. We are fighting RINOs. Our sheriffs will not comply. Watch “Red Dawn” again. Gault’s Gulch is here.
  BUT Romans 8:28
  
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GuruMeditation
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:34pm
These pathetic fools don’t deserve the money they make.

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- KILLACOMMIE4MOMMY
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:50pm
  Remember VOTERS, when it comes time to vote flip a coin. HEADS, REPUBLICAN. TAILS, REPUBLICAN.
  
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steve-in-pa
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:22pm
Her opponent in the next election will have an awesome soundbite for their campaign. Liberals say they are for their constituents, but once they get elected they tend to focus (like a laser) on enlarging their bank accounts while becoming slaves to their ever growing egos. In this computer age all representatives should have an online poll so their constituents can vote on upcoming laws and agenda (vote only once, not like electing a democrat president). They say they represent us… but do they really, I say we get to vote on it.

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- naughtycal
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:38pm
  This should outrage every tax payer in the nation not just in Colo. This non-representative would take more time reading the contract for the purchase of a 40,000 dollar car for her kid than a contract spending 1,000,000,000 dollars from the tax payers.
  This is a wake up call people.
  
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- 2ndOpinion
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:40pm
  Steve-In-PA
  
  Rading the article, you would notice she’s term limited and will not be in the next election cycle.
  
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- HI_Don
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:44pm
  You need to read the story. She is term limited and won’t have an opponent next election. That is why she is unaccountable now.
  Now, it is possible she will do what most useless politicians will do when they can’t run for reelection at the current office – run for a different office. In that case you may be right and I do hope her constituents hold her feet to the fire over this. In fact it would be nice in a perfect world if she was called out by a NEWS crew (do we have those anymore) on camera to explain herself on why she thinks raising taxes and education are trivial matters.
  
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- steve-in-pa
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:47pm
  Oops, I read the first paragraph and then I saw it went to what the video stated verbatim so I played the video and did not finish reading the whole article. I still think we should be able to vote on our representative’s secure websites. Then when 60% plus voters said we did not want 0care they would listen knowing they might not get re-elected if they vote against the populous, I bet Dhalkemper (the rep we booted because of her vote for 0care) might have voted against it if she knew she would be ousted by voting for 0care.
  
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woodyee
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:08pm
I wonder what was in that amendment that had to be “um, passed first ,so we can see what’s in it.”

Hill ought be be kicked out of office, not termed out, and her pension revoked. Did the bill ever see the light of day?

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- viskase900
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:16pm
  I think you misread which person said what. Unless you support voting by coin flip Hill was the one wanting to actually read the bill first and Hudak was the one wanting to flip the coin.
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:25pm
  You’re right, and I sit corrected. Thank you very much for pointing it out, Viskase! ;-)
  
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- naughtycal
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:32pm
  May they should slip that in some pro-gun control legislation.
  
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galaxie_man
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:00pm
I’d be happy if the dems in the CT state legislature would use that method to decide their votes on gun control. At least I’d have a 50/50 shot at not having my 2nd Amendment rights infringed.

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- Caniac Steve
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:12pm
  the “progressive agenda marching on and we, the people are sitting back and letting them get away with it at the local,county & state level which emboldens them in both houses of Congress..then we wonder why things are huh ?
  
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- SublimeOne
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 7:07pm
  Not really. That would flip the coin until they the desired outcome!
  
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:00pm
Another reason I will never live in Denver again, full of very stupid people, although Hadek is just a really good representation of them.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:48pm
  DARMOK , After hearing Hudak I am surprised that you guys have not made a run on Denver by now.
  
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- celestialfire
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:05pm
  hudak, sounds familiar go figure http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/05/colorado-dem-to-rape-survivor-a-gun-wouldnt-have-helped-you-against-rapist-because-statistics-are-not-on-your-side/
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:50pm
  She is one of the recall efforts going on, she only won by 633 votes, so she may be gone real soon.
  
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- Airport-bum
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 11:07pm
  I think that the dems are drunk on power right now. It’s time that we sober them up.
  
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Thighmaster
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:59pm
Let’s not act like 1 Billion dollar$ is a lot of money….

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Hotaman
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:58pm
ABC was “Always Buy Colorado”
ABC is now “Always Boycott Colorado”

Sad what has happened to a once great state.

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:57pm
Once more we see the elitist mindset of a politician who does not care for anything but more taxes and more useless government expansion.

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cast
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:57pm
“Flip a coin” Really? Senator Hudak is not up for reelection so she dosn’t care. Another reason why we need term limits for everyone. Colorado you’re going to hell in a handbasket .

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- tharpdevenport
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 12:05am
  I’d like to ad, even with term limits, if a person has run out of terms, on their last term they are not up for re-election, so they can STILL do that. More than just term limits are needed.
  
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- tajloc
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 10:37am
  Term limitws are not the answer. Just vote them out. Term Limits are just a way to not have to argue or vote. We must be diligent.
  
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ULII02
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:53pm
I wonder who’s pocket Hudak picked to offer up a coin? Not her’s, I’m sure!

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DILLIGAF-26
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:50pm
The voters have spoken I guess.

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Cavallo
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:50pm
And we pay these people over one hundred thousand a year for this! Not to mention all the graff, insider trading, and favors that go on under the table.

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- Cavallo
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:03pm
  Ah, wait, state senator.. never mind.. they make diddly (if you don’t count the graff).
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:50pm
Evie has the mentality of your typical Jerry Springer audience member,low intelligence and no business being a politician. She just reinforces the stereotype that all politicians are s c u m b a g s. It sounds like Colorado has been infected with the vermin progressives from Commiefornia so getting that tax shouldn’t be a problem for the freaks.

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- tajloc
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 10:40am
  The urbans and Califreaks have invaded. Here on the Western Slope we are fed up with it.
  
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Exidor
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:49pm
Idiocracy in action.

I’d flip her something…..

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Sargeking
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:45pm
This is the abject government the California invaders elected in Colorado. That’s the only way to explain their downfall. I hope this Dem cancer doesn’t spread but they are moving the nation downward ever faster than the day before. If the good people remaining can’t turn this tide around they will have to leave. I’m very leery of people coming to Florida. I would like to see impact fees for any who want to relocate here, such as ten million dollars for a driver license or a hundred million dollars to register to vote. That may seem harsh but I’m also trying to survive the Lib onslaught.

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South Philly Boy
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:41pm
Stupid Is as Stupid Does

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RightUnite
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:38pm
She’s a special kind if stupid, ain’t she?? Dayum!!

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RaydocX
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:36pm
So it’s not just firearms, Colordo legislators have contempt for their constituents in all areas if there’s a D after their name…

Wake up in the Rockies, people… if you apply the tax, more people will leave… revenues will fall for all taxes, and you won’t hit the 1 Billion mark for this, much less the other area…

for the state with the most per capita advanced degrees you are cetainly letting your legislators make dumb… even unconstitutional decisions. there’s a cool think called a recall… you should look into it…

in the meantime we’ll take our vacation dollars elsewhere.

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JGraham III
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:31pm
This is the type of arrogance the founders disdained when cautioning the young Republic against having political parties. But for my Christian faith, I would be strongly in favor of bringing back tarring and feathering such public “servants” as this witch.

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- MistyMountainGranny
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:57pm
  Yes, our “public servants” have forgotten who they are and that We the People put them there to represent US. Any public servant passing bills without reading them should be impeached. That simple. We need to stop calling them mayor, govenor, senator, congressman, or president. They have forgotten they are public servants and they need reminded. When they can show us they have our best interests in their actions they will then and only then will have earned the respect of their titles given them by WE THE PEOPLE
  
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- pissantno.10
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:23pm
  the bill has a part in it that the delivers her a 10 lb bag of bon bons every day for as long as she lives.
  
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- Baerlin
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 9:10am
  Calling people out for being fools has nothing to do with being against our faith. These people have chosen a path that leads them away from God. We know where their end lies. Their hearts and minds have decided that they will not listen to reason. Call them out. Tell them they are fools and liars. They will shriek and yell back that you are intolerant and racist. As Jesus said, “Shake the dust off your feet and walk away.”
  
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