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Boulder DA Stan Garnett mulling run against Suthers for state attorney general
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| News Date | Sunday, March 28, 2010 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Colorado attorney general's decision earlier this week to join a national lawsuit that attempts to block recently passed federal health care legislation has gotten Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett thinking about mounting a run for the seat.
"It appears to me to be a blatantly partisan act and pointless," Garnett said Friday of Attorney General John Suthers' decision to join a dozen other states in challenging the health care bill. "I think it's a mistake and a misuse of the office of attorney general."
Suthers, who is Republican, and a list of mostly Republican attorneys general claim that a provision in the new law requiring most Americans to purchase insurance is unconstitutional.
Garnett, a Democrat,
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said Suthers' decision "embroils" Colorado in a lawsuit challenging decades of case law concerning states' rights and the extent of federal power that was long ago settled.
"When it comes to making policy statements, it's important that prosecutors speak freely," he said. "But when you go to court, it's also essential that be done for reasons that are not partisan. (Suthers) is the attorney general for Colorado -- he's not the attorney general for the Republican Party in Colorado."
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