March 06, 2013 10:05 AM UTC

Oops Or Racist Dog Whistle? You Decide

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• by: Colorado Pols

A fundraising email we received from the Colorado Senate Conservatives Fund this morning via Sen. Owen Hill seeks to cash in on Sen. Evie Hudak's recent gaffe in testimony regarding concealed weapons on college campuses. Most of what's in here is boilerplate versions of the arguments in favor of concealed weapons on campus, sprinkled with condemnation for Sen. Hudak's statement, further elaborated here, that the "statistics are not on your side" in regards to women successfully defending themselves with a gun.

Let me be bold to state: this is a TRUE War on Women…

Whether our 2nd amendment rights or an amendment on religious freedom within the civil unions bill, the views of Colorado Senate Democrats rest firmly out of touch with Coloradans. The worst part, as seen above, they simply do not care they don’t reflect the state they purport to represent.
 
I am more convinced than ever; we need to change the composition of our State Senate. Will you join me in contributing $20 or more to the Colorado Senate Conservatives Fund?

What struck about this fundraising email, however, wasn't so much the text but the graphic banner at the top:

So the message is from "a woman's perspective," and it's all about women being able to defend themselves.

Makes you wonder what the young black man is doing in the banner, doesn't it?

Now we imagine it's possible that this graphic was made to be used in a number of such "from my perspective" Senate Conservatives Fund appeals, and some of them would not be from "a woman's perspective." Who knows? Perhaps one of them will be from "a young black man's perspective." Probably not, though, since the whole controversy over the bill in question has revolved around womens' need to pack heat "defend themselves."

Until we get that fundraising email, this looks rather bad for the Senate Conservatives Fund.