1. Senator Angela Giron was appointed to the Colorado State Senate in August, 2010.
12 Facts About Angela Giron
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Angela Giron replaced Senator Abel Tapia, who resigned to become the director of the Colorado Lottery.
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Angela Giron was re-elected later in 2010 and in 2012.
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Angela Giron served as a congressional aide to US Senators Ken Salazar and Michael Bennet.
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On June 10,2013, some constituents of Angela Giron turned in 13,466 signatures to recall her from political office, passing the threshold of 11,285 signatures needed to trigger a recall election.
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The recall election took place on September 10,2013, and Angela Giron was recalled by a margin of 56 percent to 43.9 percent, making her the second politician in Colorado state history to lose a recall election; John Morse, recalled on the same day, was the first.
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Senator Angela Giron made unsubstantiated claims after her surprising loss that her opponents had engaged in "voter suppression" to oust her from office.
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Angela Giron was favored by many to win the election, and her 12-point defeat was a substantial surprise.
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Colorado's largest newspaper, The Denver Post, whose editorial board has supported the gun control measures championed by Senator Angela Giron, took issue with the Senator's accusations.
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Angela Giron considered running for the Democratic nomination for Secretary of State in the 2014 elections, but she decided against it.
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Angela Giron has a daughter, Melanie, and a son-in-law, Adam; she is married to Steve Nawrocki, a former Pueblo City Councilman.
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Angela Giron spoke at the Latina Youth Conference in Wyoming in 2017.