Andy Shank, a volunteer helping to gather signatures to recall state Senate President John Morse, watches Dana Beasley sign a petition at the corner of West Uintah and North 19th streets in Colorado Springs on Thursday. Morse, a Democrat representing Senate District 11, is term-limited in 2014. “I don’t like what went on in the legislature in Denver, ” Beasley said. (Joe Amon, The Denver Post)
EL PASO COUNTY — It’s rare to find a Democrat representing Senate District 11, especially in a part of the state where most of the surrounding Senate districts are Republican strongholds.
Even more rare — if not unprecedented — is a Democrat who not only won the seat, but then turned around and won re-election four years later.
But that’s exactly what John Morse did, in 2006 and 2010
