I keep hearing from backers of opponents of Jena Griswold, the current Secretary of State, that she is not qualified to be AG, but no specifics. From the right, her weight gain is ridiculed, though I did not think the qualifications to be an AG were to be skinny and young, though young she is...I. What Griswold brings to the AG table is what none of her opponents have: administrative talents to run a large government regulatory and enforcement agency and the knowledge and ability to bring to justice and accountability those who would undermine elections and harm integrity as she did in the Tina Peters case..While her Secretary of State's office has as many as 200 employees engaged in a variety of regulatory and service functions, including Griswold being the chief elections official for the state, , the AG office has about 300 plus attorneys (400 supportive staff) and among them is a whole division on courtroom litigators. I am not sure how many AGs in the past have ever argued cases in a courtroom themselves as their main, or even part-time, jobs. She has a national record on protecting voting integrity and is skilled at handling national media. The AG in the next two years will also face continued attempts by Trump to control Colorado elections and federalize the vote count. Her background and experience, and demonstrated effectiveness, are appropriate to the position and top any I see in her opponents
I have been following how she has operated in my frequent blog postings on the subject of local and Tina Peters-type election deniers in county clerk positions, including my own. I am a former elections official myself in Denver (and before that, as a director of a consumer affairs office with concurrent powers with the AG's office and function, just multi-county wide instead of statewide).) I am also a small business owner, and I have frequently had to file reports with her office. Even that function has gone smoothly.
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