Colorado Democrats on Tuesday appointed a replacement for Evie Hudak, the state senator who last month decided to resign rather than face a recall election to preserve the party’s single-seat majority, the Denver Post reported.
A Democratic vacancy committee appointed Rachel Zenzinger, a city councilwoman from Arvada, Colo., to fill Hudak’s seat, according to the Post.
In a letter explaining her decision to leave office, Hudak wrote that her resignation would protect gun control legislation that sparked a recall movement against her and other state legislators who voted for those laws. Hudak also told TPM in an interview that she suspected the recall movement was a power grab by Republicans looking to regain a majority in the legislature.