THE WESTERNER

Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.

Friday, January 08, 2010

Salazar won't run for Colo. governor

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Thursday he won't run for Colorado governor in 2010 and instead threw his support behind Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper for the job. Mr. Salazar, considered the strongest of Colorado's potential Democratic candidates, said he wanted to continue to implement his agenda at Interior, notably his work on public lands and the clean-energy economy. The jostling over the gubernatorial race came a day after Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter Jr. stunned the state's political establishment by announcing he would not seek a second term. Mr. Ritter had no strong primary challengers and had been expected to win the nomination easily...read more

1 comment:

Maggie said...: Ritter needs to resign. I've been a Colorado democrat all my life, and I can not remember a more bumbling politician than this man. He needs to Resign now. I wanted Salazar to step up, but I'd be happy with a Ritter resignation too.; 9:22 AM