For Colorado voters wanting a Secretary of State who will rise above petty politics and do the job without turning it into a catfight, the Colorado Springs Gazette has endorsed Pam Anderson in the Republican primary.
It’s a foregone conclusion the conservative newspaper would also endorse Anderson over the sitting petty Secretary of State, Democrat Jena Griswold.
Many of our readers will insist on supporting Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters and want her desperately to vanquish the divisive Griswold administration and silence Jena’s publicity machine for good.
But the Secretary of State’s office should perform in a nonpartisan manner. And let’s be honest, neither Griswold or Tina Peters fit that bill.
Replacing one partisan hack with another political operative, albeit one from the Republican Party, is just not the solution Colorado needs to get its top election office back on track.
Anderson is eminently qualified, as the Gazette points out:
Among the planks in her platform in the secretary of state’s race, she would push to regulate “ballot harvesting,” so voters can clearly see how ballots are collected by interest groups. She wants to expand post-election audits across the state. She strongly opposes HR1 and other bills in Congress that strip states of their ability to keep elections local. And she wants to increase resources for training and certifying local election officials.
In other words, under Anderson, competence and technical expertise would be back in vogue at the Secretary of State’s Office — and politics would out. What a stark contrast she would provide to Griswold on next fall’s ballot. What a clear choice for voters.
Click here to read the entire endorsement.