Owens Appoints John Suthers as Attorney General
Governor Bill Owens today appointed U.S. Attorney John Suthers to be Attorney General of Colorado. Suthers, who lost to Ken Salazar for Attorney General in 1998, will go from being our top federal cop to our top state cop. Why would Suthers want the job? Perhaps because he has further political ambitions. It's more common for a state Attorney General to get elected to Congress than it is a U.S. Attorney.
U.S. Attorneys are appointed by the President. President Bush will name a replacement for Suthers. He can choose a career prosecutor from within the office or one of his stalwart political supporters.
I suspect it will be the latter. The bottom line of today's news is that beginning in 2005, both of Colorado's key prosecution agencies will be in the hands of Republicans.
Comments
Submitted by Elevated Voices - The Colorado Attorney General Race (not verified) on Mon, 2006-08-14 09:53.
[...] Executive Director of the Colorado prison system. He became Attorney General in 2004 when Gov. Owens appointed him to succeed Ken Salazar when Salazar was elected U.S. Senator. O’Brien a [...]
